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Twitch Star Shroud Moves To Mixer

While it’s possible to split hairs all day over which metrics definitively determine whether someone is the top streamer on Twitch, there’s no denying that Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek is one of the platform’s biggest stars. Or, he was. Now he’s moving to Mixer. Grzesiek has a Twitch follower count of over seven million and a…

I Deleted An Endless Service Game And I Am Finally Free, Like My Hard Drive

Earlier this week, I finally deleted Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 from my hard drive, a video game that I had spent the better part of a year lying to myself about getting into. I played several hours at launch, not really feeling it but not really hating it. I checked in every now and…

Ubisoft Delays Watch Dogs Legion, Other Games

Ahead of an earnings call this morning, Ubisoft announced that Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Gods & Monsters would be delayed from their initial early 2020 windows until the next fiscal year, which runs from spring 2020 until spring 2021. According to a press release, the changes are to “allow additional development time.” The…

Ubisoft Sues Creators Of Popular Rainbow Six Siege Cheat Service

Rainbow Six Siege publisher Ubisoft is suing 12 operators behind big-business cheat-making service MizuSoft, which advertises its “near clean detection record.” Ubisoft is demanding that MizuSoft take its service offline and seeking restitution, which could total up to $25,000 for each violation. As first reported by Polygon, the cheating software, pitched to “cheaters who do…

Sources: The Last of Us 2 Delayed To Spring [UPDATE: Confirmed]

The PS4 sequel to The Last of Us will no longer be out in February, sources tell Kotaku. Publisher Sony has delayed The Last Of Us Part II to this spring, just a month after announcing a release date of February 21, 2020. The news isn’t official yet, and Sony didn’t respond to a request…

Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers now has a Japanese release date and a brand new trailer. The musou take on Persona drops in Japan on February 20, 2020, for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. It also looks slick as heck, as you might expect from a Persona 5 spin-off.

Track: Uneventful Days | Artist: Beck | Album: Hyperspace 

Hideo Kojima Asked Conan O’Brien If He Wanted To Be In Death Stranding [Update]

Move over Geoff Keighley. When visiting Kojima Productions, Conan O’Brien had his face scanned for a Death Stranding cameo. After going through the game creator’s toy collection, watching a Death Stranding trailer, and wondering what was wrong with Hideo Kojima, Conan had his face scanned as he made a variety of typical expressions. The result…

Tokyo Burger King Is Crawling With Zombies. Literally

The Burger King in Tokyo’s Shibuya is infested with zombies—or, at least, people paid to look like zombies. To celebrate Halloween, this Burger King has been turned into what the fast-food chain is calling the “Shibuya Ghost Store.” Inside, there are people dressed as zombies, a new “No Whopper After Life” slogan, and a white-bunned…

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Kirill Barybin is an artist at Karakter, a design studio in Berlin that’s worked on stuff like Horizon Zero Dawn You can see more of Kirill’s art at his personal site and ArtStation page

Facing Burnout, Stress, And Health Issues, Top Twitch Streamers Are Taking Extended Breaks

Last year during E3, streaming megastar Tyler “Ninja” Blevins took two days off from his regular schedule. A blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things. It cost him 40,000 paying subscribers. This seemed to issue a grim warning to other streamers: Take time off at your own peril. Recently, though, it’s begun…

Battlefield V Is Going Back To The Pacific

Next week, Battlefield V is heading to the Pacific with two new maps, two new factions and loads of new vehicles and weapons. It also, somehow, is going to be the first time you can play as the USA in this game. The Pacific is the focus of Battlefield V’s Chapter 5, and when it…

Mario Maker 2 Glitch Lets You Use 3D World Items In Other Game Styles

Super Mario Maker 2 is an endlessly creative game, but things get even crazier when players incorporate glitches into their levels. The latest Mario Maker glitch that players have discovered allows creators to use every item in the game in every style, even if they’re exclusive to the Super Mario 3D World variant. The key…

World Of Warcraft’s Cataclysm-Causing Dragon Is Coming To Heroes Of The Storm

Deathwing the Destroyer is the massive black dragon whose escape from his underground prison shattered World of Warcraft’s Azeroth, his fiery rage forever changing the face of the planet. Fans of Blizzard’s online battle arena game Heroes of the Storm have been clamoring for Deathwing’s addition to the game’s all-star lineup for years. Now he’s…

After Leaving A Game For A While, Sometimes It’s Best To Just Start Over

After finishing The Outer Worlds, a dense role-playing game, I did what any sensible person would do and returned to playing Divinity: Original Sin 2, a much longer and denser role-playing game. After a moment of contemplating whether or not to pick up my old save or start a new one, I made the choice…

Bethesda Is Now Selling $100 Annual Subscriptions For Exclusive Fallout 76 Features

There’s never a dull moment in the world of Fallout 76, the online multiplayer game of post-apocalyptic survival and adventuring. Last week, publisher Bethesda announced that the game’s much-requested addition of computer-controlled characters was delayed until next year. Today, the publisher said that it will be selling premium subscriptions that will provide players with access…

Track: I Feel For You [Acoustic Demo] | Artist: Prince | Album: I Feel For You [Acoustic Demo] (single)

Kenrokuen Garden. Kanazawa, Japan. By Suman Kugadasan 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!

Old Arcade Games Had Just The Most Beautiful Typography

Hey, so we’re going to look at something different tonight in Fine Art. We’re not looking at environments, or characters, or weapons, or user interfaces, or animation, or any of the other stuff we normally feature. Instead, we’re looking at typography Read-Only Memory have released a book called Arcade Game Typography, which they describe as…