Manga Artist Creates A Relaxing Work Chair

Who needs a desk when you can work from an easy chair? That seems to be the logic behind this manga-artist created workstation. Yoshimi Sato created this set-up after some trial and error, which the artist says, “It pretty much turned into a dentist [office].” Looks comfy! Not sure how conducive it is to work,…

Nintendo’s Thoughtful Reply To A Blind Fan

Fifth grader Hibiki Sakai sent Nintendo a letter, thanking the company for its Rhythm Heaven games. Hibiki is blind, and these music titles are the only games he’s really able to play. Nintendo replied to his letter in a most thoughtful way. Hibiki’s father uploaded the letter to Twitter. “I can’t see, but I felt…

Japan’s Biggest Indie Game Event Hits Kyoto

This past weekend, BitSummit got underway in Kyoto. Each year, the event gets bigger and bigger, and this year’s appeared to be the biggest yet! The show has come so far from the first year—which was held in a tiny auditorium and with participants setting up on card tables. Now big name game developers like…

Sunrise at Angkor Wat. Siem Reap, Cambodia. By Sash Ollik. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Every single assassin you see here is either Rick Boer or his wife Dominique

A Giant MMO Made Entirely Inside Minecraft

This is Wynncraft, a gorgeous fantasy MMO that you can play on a Minecraft server. It’s a full and proper MMO: Wynncraft has everything from quests to levelling to guilds to bosses, and takes place on an enormous map that’s around 4000 x 5500 blocks in size (you can view a zoomable map of the…

The Legend Of Zelda: Mechanized Combat Armored Division

Reader Khris Ramirez, who last year made those awesome Pokemon x Gundam models, is back with a new one based on Zelda It combines an SD Neo Zeong model kit with a Nendoroid Link, then paints the whole thing in a very appropriate Hylian colour scheme. You can see more of Khris’ work at his…

SpongeBob Speedrunner Won’t Rest Until Battle For Bikini Bottom Gets The Respect It Deserves

You’ve probably never given any of the SpongeBob games a second thought, but one speedrunner is playing thousands of hours of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom in order to change that. Released in 2003, the game arrived a year after the first Ratchet and Clank and was several more removed from the glory days…

How A Man Born Without Eyes Plays Video Games

Toby Ott is 27 years old. He’s been playing video games since he was five, when he first tried out Mortal Kombat in an arcade. Which sounds like a fairly common gaming past, until you learn that Toby has bilateral anophthalmia, a rare condition which means he was born without eyeballs. While this obviously presents…

The Week In Games: A Rime For All Seasons

It’s been nearly four years since the game that looked like if Wind Waker had a baby with Ico was announced. How time flies! Development woes and the mounting pressure of creating a game that keeps getting described in terms of two all time greats aside, Rime (or RiME if you’re so inclined) remains as…

Reigning League Champs SKT Scrape Past Challengers To Win Mid-Season Invitational

SKT T1 has long been the most dominant force in League of Legends, winning three Worlds championships. Given the results of today’s Mid-Season Invitational finals, it doesn’t look like that’s changing anytime soon, as SKT T1 beat G2 for the MSI title, 3-1. The South Korean team as the top seed from their region, after…

Injustice 2 Comeback “Worse Than Golden State Blowing A 3-1 Lead”

It can often seem like you’re out of your league in online games like Injustice 2. With their back against the wall and a sliver of health left, Flash player Honey Bee CMNDR looked all but out of it, until they flipped the switch and ran it all the way back on a very unsuspecting…

DIY Modders Are Using 3DS Cases To Carry Their Nintendo Switches Around

If you have a Nintendo Switch you probably love it. Just the right size and weight with a screen that’s sharp and bright, one of the only issues is keeping it safe. Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo put his in a sock, but there are other solutions out there, including retrofitting 3DS pouches using a bunch…

Overwatch Player Drops Genji’s Dragon Blade Ultimate Within 15 Seconds Of The Match Starting

Dragon Blade is Genji’s ultimate. It grants the cyborg ninja 1.17 swings per second, 120 damage per swing, an eight meter per second movement speed and lasts just six seconds. Player KingFluffy was able to fill up the ultimate meter in scarcely twice that time to unleash a brutal onslaught that left the other team…

Price Of WoW Tokens Jumps To All Time High Following Destiny 2 Reveal

The in-game value of WoW Tokens jumped to a record high this past week after Activision announced that Destiny 2 would be available on PC exclusively through Blizzard’s game client. The news meant a lot of things. PC players would be able to chat with Destiny 2 players while in a Hearthstone or Heroes of…

Smash Pro Wins Tournament Just In Time To Make His Flight

Yesterday’s single-day Greninja Saga Super Smash Bros. For Wii U tournament ran late, leaving one pro in a predicament after qualifying for the finals. Elliot Bastien “Ally” Carroza-Oyarce was leaving on a jet plane at 11:45 p.m., and the tournament kept going later and later. Ally had scheduled his flight in advance, as any savvy…