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Tencent Plans To Buy Funcom, Like It Needs To Own More Game Companies

The world’s largest gaming company is looking to get even bigger. Already a shareholder in Riot Games, Epic, Supercell, Ubisoft, Paradox and Frontier, Chinese corporation Tencent announces plans to acquire full ownership of Norweigian developer Funcom, makers of Conan Exiles, Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, and The Secret World. Tencent, already the largest shareholder in…

Track: Open Your Eyes | Artist: Alex Metric & Steve Angello feat Ian Brown | Album: Open Your Eyes 

Meat Eater. Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. By Bobby Vu | Official Site | Instagram 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

Game Boy x Overwatch

Rakan Khamash is an artist at Blizzard. You can see more of Rakan’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Xbox Players Are Digging Out Their Old 360s To Get Around Microsoft’s Gamertag Restrictions

Last year Microsoft shrunk the character limit for Gamertags from 15 down to 12, but recently players discovered that limit doesn’t apply on Xbox 360. In a post shared yesterday on Reddit, user Talers-Username pointed out that when you go to change your Gamertag using the Xbox 360 interface it lets you make on up…

I Level Boosted A New World Of Warcraft Character And It Felt Empty

Rather than leveling up a vulpera, which is a new character race introduced in last week’sVisions of N’Zoth update for World of Warcraft, I used a character boost I’d gotten with my preorder of the upcoming Shadowlands expansion. That gave me instant access to a fully-leveled fox critter. So now I’ve got a level 120…

Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions Brings Dramatic Anime Soccer To PC And Consoles

Yōichi Takahashi’s Captain Tsubasa manga and anime have been transforming the sport of association football into a cinematic spectacle since 1981. Now we’re finally getting a proper video game adaptation of the series, courtesy of Bandai Namco’s Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions for the PlayStation 4, PC, and Switch. Japan’s had plenty of Captain…

Track: Pretty Old Man | Artist: No Buses | Album: Boys Missed The Bus

Miyajima. Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. By Justin Weegar. 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

I’m Batwoman

Max Elmberg Sjöholm is an artist at Starbreeze. You can see more of Max’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Temtem Is A Pokémon Clone That Looks Pretty Cool

Temtem is an MMO out this week that, in many and very obvious ways, is trying to be the kind of Pokémon game people have wanted for years but have never actually gotten. I mean, just look at this: And this! So, yes, Pokémon. Only you fight with two monsters at once instead of one,…

Joker Cosplay Has Something To Smile About

This is Mary & Feinobi’s take on Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, with the suit made bespoke by Toph Cosplay/Art and photos by FOTO Roman Čierny

A Droid On A Mission

This week on (the first!) Snapshots, we have a Deathclaw chilling on a roof, a sad turtle, Batman going to heaven, a tiny little droid on a mission and more! I really love the Uncharted 4 screenshot. It doesn’t even look like it’s from Uncharted, instead, it looks like a screen from an indie horror…

Destiny 2‘s Wild Corridors Of Time Puzzle Ends With Lackluster Reward

Destiny 2 players have spent the last week trying to crack a complex maze and earlier this morning the final pieces fell into place. Unfortunately, the reward waiting for them, an exotic weapon already publicized by Bungie, wasn’t what many had been hoping for. It all began when Bungie dropped a mysterious new quest into…

Another Big Game, Dying Light 2, Has Been Delayed

Dying Light 2 has been delayed until…sometime in the future. Originally planned for a Spring 2020 release the game now has no release date. It is yet another big game that has been delayed in recent weeks. In a letter announcing the delay, Techland CEO Paweł Marchewka explained the game needed more development time and…

The Week In Games: Here’s Your Re Mind(er) About Kingdom Hearts III DLC

This week one of the biggest releases is not actually a game, but instead some DLC for a game. The first big DLC is coming out this week for Kingdom Hearts 3. Recently, we showed a friend who has almost zero knowledge of Kingdom Hearts some footage and trailers of Kingdom Hearts III. Her reaction…

Hiroshima Castle. Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. By Scott Bartley. 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

Netflix Just Picked Up 21 Studio Ghibli Movies, But Not In North America Or Japan

The good news is that Netflix just got the rights to stream pretty much every major Studio Ghibli release, from Totoro to Princess Mononoke to Ponyo. The bad news is that, if you’re in North America or Japan, that news doesn’t apply to you. Ghibli’s homeland has its own rights deals, and in North America…

The Revolution Will Be Telegrammed

Simon Gocal is an artist at Massive, the studio behind games like The Division and World In Conflict You can see more of Simon’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Remembering The Witcher’s Terrible Phone Game, For Some Reason

The Witcher series has produced some pretty good games! Let’s not kid ourselves, though, and pretend every Witcher game has been an all-time great. Because that would mean you, like me, had forgotten all about The Witcher: Crimson Trail, released all the way back in 2007. It was a phone game developed by a third-party…