Tips For Playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a big, brilliant game full of secrets to uncover. It’s a blast to explore on your own. But you might need a little nudging. UPDATE (3/15/17): Now that Breath of the Wild has been out for a couple of weeks, we’ve updated this post with some…

With The New Stunt Update, GTA Online’s Racing Is More Incredible Than Ever 

Rockstar recently added 20 stunt races to GTA Online, and they are bonkers. It helps that the new races focus on the most absurd vehicles, and together, these new tracks and stunt cars allow GTA Online to push the boundaries of what the player can experience. Rockstar primarily made use of three vehicles that the…

You Should Play These Games About Political Resistance

Beautiful platformers stand side by side with state surveillance simulators in ResistJam. Focused on projects that “resist oppressive authoritarianism in all its forms,” it’s full of great games. All of them are this week’s Indie Pick. There’s just shy of 220 games in ResistJam’s collection. The jam lasted for one week, allowing designers to make…

Capcom Bundles Six Remastered Disney Afternoon Classics

Capcom is giving six NES games based on some of Disney’s finest television animation work HD makeovers in The Disney Afternoon Collection for Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4, featuring Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, DuckTales and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Some of the finest licensed 2D platformers in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s came…

How To Play Switch On TV If You’re Worried About The Dock Scratching Your Screen

Between reports of screen scratches and concern over blocking the heat vents on the back of the tablet, some folks worry that docking for TV play isn’t the best thing for the Nintendo Switch. Good news for them—all it takes to bypass the dock is a simple USB-C extension cable. While folks like me were…

Trove‘s Blocky MMO Battles Come To Consoles

Trion Worlds brings free-to-play voxel-based MMO Trove to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this week, giving console players a taste of what it’s like to slay skeletons while wearing a hippopotamus mask and a top hat. It’s kind of fun, really. While I really dug the stylized look of Trove back when it came out…

Twitter Users Troll The Ghost In The Shell Hollywood Movie

As part of the promotion for the upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell, a new “I am Major” website was launched that allowed folks to upload their own photos and enter their own text. It’s damn perfect troll fodder. As pointed out by Japanese site IT Media, here’s some of what ensued:

Seven Years Later, Pokémon Player Finally Maxes Out Pokéwalker

For over seven years, Japanese Twitter user Suica has been carrying around the Pokéwalker pedometer that was bundled with Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. And now, Suica has discovered its secret felicitations. When Suica’s Pokéwalker hit 9,999,999 steps, a message reading “Congratulations!!” (おめでとう!！or omedetou!!) appeared on the pedometers tiny screen. An in-game message also appeared, stating,…

Sangenjaya at Night. Tokyo, Japan. By Matt Laycock. 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!

Is That You, Rick Grimes?

This is migrimes615 with some excellent Walking Dead cosplay, from the outfit to the hair to the distant look in his eyes that says “this drawn-out television series has run aground please send help”.

Someone Has Found All 900 Korok Seeds In Zelda

There is a reward for picking up every single Korok seed in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It is…something. Korok seeds are little items hidden all around Zelda’s map, and can be exchanged with the lovely Hestu for increased inventory space. There are 900 of them in the game. xFateAwaitsx is the…

Meet the Street Fighter Pro Who Intentionally Picks Underrated Characters

When Xian placed first in Street Fighter V in the Capcom Pro Tour’s Final Round 20 tournament, his fans were happy but confused. Xian had won the tournament by playing as Ibuki the entire time, a shocking departure from his typical pick, F.A.N.G. Xian’s wins as Ibuki, in contrast to the “low-tier” characters he tends…

Streets Of Rogue Is A Roguelike You Can Talk, Bribe, Or Smash Your Way Through

I thought I was done with roguelikes, but Streets of Rogue pulled me back in. The game sprinkles gobs of Deus Ex DNA into the mix, resulting in a series of procedurally generated sandboxes where just about anything can happen. It’s fantastic. Streets of Rogue takes the top-down roguelike antics of games like Binding of…

Unreleased Primal Rage II Can Now Be Played By Everyone

Primal Rage II, a video game cancelled over 20 years ago, was never released. But if you want to enjoy it now, in The Year Of Our Lord 2017, knock yourself out, because there’s a build available and playable via an emulator. Having resurfaced in an arcade a few years back, a dump of the…

Zelda’s Sword Breakage Is Some Bullshit

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a damn good video game, but still. Here is a bad thing about it: I don’t like that for the first 10-20 hours of the game its weapons disintegrate just by looking at them. Like most other aspects of the game, the way you own and…

Seven Cool Games From PAX East To Watch Out For

At last weekend’s PAX East, Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez and I had the chance to check out a ton of games in various stages of development. Several showed promise and we’re excited to follow them as they move closer to release. Overall, pink and purple platformers and action RPGs dominated the floor, reminiscent of indie success…

Smash Bros. Community Raises Over $23,000 For Sick Player’s Hospital Bills

On February 19th, 2017, Nicholas “Ministry” McGuire went into cardiac arrest at the Swedish Super Smash Bros. tournament Beast7. Now, the Smash community at large has banded together to raise over $23,000 for his estimated $200,000 hospital bill. During a match, McGuire collapsed onto the floor when an artificial valve in his heart, which he…