Here Are Overwatch‘s Halloween Skins, Available Now

Overwatch just dropped some spooky-scary Halloween skins that will be available for the next three weeks, starting right now. The new “Overwatch Halloween Terror” seasonal event offers the gorgeous skins, along with some themed profile icons, victory poses, sprays emotes and highlight intros, inside glowing jack-o’-lantern loot boxes. Over 100 seasonal items are now available.…

Girls Fight With Their Butts And Boobs In This Wretched New Anime

When you see a truly awful commercial product, do you ever try to picture the businessmen who made it happen? Who was the suit, on the 11th floor of some glassy, gilded skyscraper, who bypassed several security officers, took an elevator to a sterile meeting room, sat down with his well-groomed colleagues and assistants and…

Aragami Is A Stealth Game That Lets Players Control The Shadows

Lince Works’ new stealth game Aragami is fun but ultimately too clunky of an experience. We slice and dice in this Kotaku Plays! I really wanted to like Aragami, which is out now across all major platforms and operating systems. Stealth games are basically giant puzzle games and I’ve always loved hiding behind a corner…

Twitch Is Playing An Unreleased Pokémon Hack That Took Eight Years To Make

Not only is Twitch Plays Pokémon still going in 2016, this time around it’s working its way through a very cool game that nobody else can play yet. Pokémon Prism is a ROM hack that uses the original Game Boy aesthetic to render modern Pokémon creatures and features. Meaning: not only can you see some recent…

The Saddest Story In World Of Warcraft: Legion

Legion is a rich and rewarding expansion pack for followers of Warcraft lore, but with a plot revolving around a demonic force attempting to wipe out all life on the planet, not every storyline is going to have a happy ending. This is the unhappiest of them all. Spoilers for World of Warcraft: Legion follow.…

Hand-Made Bastion Figure Actually Transforms

For reasons unknown, there are no Overwatch action figures. I want there to be Overwatch action figures. Especially Bastion ones that transform like this hand-made effort. Made by master Korean craftsman Truxton, it’s 100% wood, fully posable and 100% transformable at scale, which is testament as much to Blizzard’s character design (they didn’t cut any…

Goldberg Returning To Pro Wrestling To Face Brock Lesnar, Because Of A Video Game

The tail wagging the WWE this fall appears to be the people who just put out the new WWE 2K17 video game. How else to explain why the wrestling company’s top draw, Brock Lesnar, is getting lined up to face 49-year-old, long-retired wrestler Bill Goldberg next month? WWE isn’t exactly acknowledging that Lesnar-Goldberg II is…

Brotherhood Is My Favorite Assassin’s Creed

On the most recent episode of our podcast, Kotaku Splitscreen, I declared Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood to be the best Assassin’s Creed You can listen to my reasoning in the clip above or just read these extremely true bullet points: Great location Great protagonist Great missions, especially the crucifixion one in the Colosseum Great integration of…

One Of Call Of Duty‘s Greatest Heroes Died Today

Today marks the passing of one of Call of Duty’s finest soldiers. After valiantly fighting his way through nearly three entire Modern Warfare games, one Task Force 141 didn’t make it back from the October 11, 2016 mission to assassinate terrorist leader Vladimir Makarov. Spoilers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 follow. Surely someone…

It’s not a new game announcement, but it sure is pretty. The Bravely Default Twitter celebrates the fourth anniversary of the charming RPG series with a piece of equally charmingart.

“Die For One Piece,” Says Creator Eiichiro Oda

One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has a crazy work schedule. He barely sleeps. Most of his day is spent doing the manga, so if you are going to work with him, he wants you to be willing to die for it. In an One Piece Gold interview uploaded by 2ch, former One Piece manga editor…

No Sneaking Past This Excellent Dishonored 2 Cosplay

This is Empress Emily Kaldwin from Dishonored 2, by Isilmarille. Photos by kmitenkova

Leap. Indian Ocean off the coast of Busselton, Western Australia. By Charlez Chong. 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! 

Boom Boom Satellites Singer Michiyuki Kawashima Has Died 

Michiyuki Kawashima, who sang and played guitar for Boom Boom Satellites, passed away on October 9. He was 47 years old. According to the band’s official Facebook page, Kawashima died of a brain tumor. The wake and funeral will be private, but there will be a farewell event for fans at a later date. In…