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Monster Hunter Is A Perfect Crossover Game For Dragalia Lost

Mobile role-playing games love their crossovers, and Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost is no exception. It’sfiddled about with Fire Emblemand messed around with Mega Man. Today the free-to-play action RPG launches its most appropriate crossover yet. The Dragalia Lost x Monster Hunter event combines a game about collecting dragons with a game about hunting them. The Mega…

Mod Adds Mario 64 Dungeon To Ocarina Of Time

N64 modder Kaze Emanuar is back with another mashup, this time taking the Hazy Maze Cave level from Super Mario 64 and recreating it in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a completely new dungeon. Spotted by GamingReinvented (via NintendoLife), it has giant rolling boulders, spike traps, and fish hanging out in little…

Cuphead Fan Makes Awesome Stop-Motion Tribute

A fan spent four months working on this Cuphead stop-motion animated short and it’s fantastic. Running just over a minute and a half, the video shows Cuphead and Mugman making a mess of things in the Devil’s Casino after placing some bad bets. Creator Davy Productions said they fell in love with the bullet hell…

Track: Broken Boy (Audio) ft. Iggy Pop | Artist: Cage The Elephant | Album: Social Cues 

Hirosaki Castle. Hirosaki, Aomori. By Jimmy Williams. 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

Get ‘Em, Grave Boys

Mike “Daarken” Lim is a freelance artist who has done work for companies like Valve, Bethesda, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight and Riot. You can see more of Mike’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Deadstock 1986 Super Mario Bros. Slippers Are A Modern Masterpiece

Imagine, it’s 1986, you’re a grown-ass adult living in Japan and after a hard day’s salaryman/womanning you get home to your apartment, kick your shoes off at the door and slip on these beautiful babies. Now take that thought and throw it in the trash, because these slippers are so beautiful they deserved the treatment…

Unreal Engine Is Going To The Super Bowl

It’s not just the 49ers and Chiefs who will be turning out next week in Miami for Super Bowl LIV. The Unreal Engine, of all things, is also going to be there, powering a bunch of the graphics that will be shown during Fox Sports’ broadcast. While we’re all familiar with Unreal for its use…

Destiny 2 Taken Offline After Players Lose Currency, Materials [Update]

Bungie has taken Destiny 2 offline entirely (at time of posting it remains unplayable) after an issue emerged with a hotfix released earlier today where players began losing their “Glimmer, Bright Dust, Infusion Materials, and/or other types of game currencies”. The studio released a short statement this morning, saying the game had been taken offline…

Temtem Takes The Pokémon Formula Online, But Doesn’t Do Much With It

The first time I met Temtem’s monster-bequeathing hot dad science lad Professor Konstantinos, I immediately began calling him Professor Oak. Just now, I had to look up his real name for the purposes of writing this piece. What I’m saying is, Temtem is a whole, whole lot like Pokémon That is not a bad thing,…

New Liquid CPU Cooler Plays Animated GIFs, Because Why Not

PC hardware maker NZXT has just announced the latest additions to its line of liquid CPU coolers, the Kraken X-3 and Z-3. The X-3 has a bright LED ring and rotates so the logo can be repositioned. The Z-3 comes with a 2.36-inch, 24-bit color LCD screen capable of displaying images, computer data, or animated…

What Are Your Most Embarrassing Voice Chat Mistakes?

If you play multiplayer games, you probably use voice chat. Voice chat is the devil’s work for so many reasons, but it’s especially bad if you forget to turn it off when you’re done. I was playing The Darwin Project yesterday, a battle royale where voice chat plays a big role in the game’s strategy…

Here’s February 2020’s Xbox Live Games With Gold

February’s Xbox Live Games with Gold is a mix of racing, horror, and multiplayer. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. February’s Games with Goldare: Xbox One TT Isle of Man (February 1-29) Call of Cthulhu (February 16-March 15) Xbox 360 (compatible with Xbox One) Fable…

Nintendo Explains How Pokémon Home Will Work

Today Nintendo announced that its cloud storage program for Pokémon, Pokémon Home, will have a paid and free version. The free version has a paltry max capacity of 30 Pokémon, while the paid version will let you store up to 6,000 at $3 a month or $16 a year. The service, set to launch in…

Save Your Eyes And Turn Your Virtual Boy Headset Into A Regular Console

Retro console modders iFixRetro recently undertook the thankless task of rehabbing an old, beat-up Virtual Boy and transforming it into a painless console they could sit on a shelf and play games on their TV with. Who doesn’t wish they could go back and play Virtual Boy Wario Land without burring their face in Nintendo’s…

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The Battle Of Moria

Justin Gerard is an artist who has worked for everyone from Disney to Blizzard to Riot to Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Justin’s stuff at his personal siteand ArtStation page

Armed Robber Steals Over $130,000 Worth Of GameStop Merchandise

Frederick Lopez Jr., 28, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of robbing four GameStop stores at gunpoint in 2018. The news was announced today in a press release from the US Attorney’s Office (via Polygon), and says Lopez’s arrest came as a result of a joint investigation by both…

Animal Crossing Fans Are So Desperate For News That They’re Analyzing Obscure Stickers [Update]

Earlier today, fans spotted some Animal Crossing: New Horizons decals for the Switch on the Japanese HMV store website. Eager fans are now pouring over them trying to figure out which new characters will be in the game. The images were first shared by the Animal Crossing World fansite Twitter account, garnering thousands of likes…

NBA 2K Players Are Paying Their Respects To Kobe Bryant

The NBA 2K community has, as you’d expect given his impact on both the series and basketball itself, been deeply affected by Kobe Bryant’s death yesterday, with players (and the developers) spending the last 24 hours finding ways to pay their respects. 2K Director of Digital Marketing Ronnie Singh, the public face of the series,…