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TurboGrafx-16 Mini Delayed Due To Coronavirus

The TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine Minis were scheduled for release on March 19. However, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the miniature consoles will be delayed. The TurboGrafx-16 Mini is packed with nearly 50 games, including Dracula X, Bonk’s Revenge, Gradius and more. Konami announced that the coronavirus outbreak has interrupted production in China, which in…

Waiting At Kyushu Jangara. Tokyo, Japan. By Joe Gerace/wikipoem.org 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 

Sharp Corners

Richard Méril is an illustrator and storyboard artist from France. You can see more of Richard’s stuff at his Behance and ArtStation pages.

Twitch Streamer Suspended After Accidentally Firing Real Gun At His Monitor

A professional Call of Duty streamer who brandished a gun on stream and accidentally fired a round into his desk has been suspended from Twitch and dropped from his esports organization. Last night, during a livestream from inside his home, Call of Duty trickshot specialist and former FaZe Clan member Carl Riemer pulled out a…

Microsoft, Bungie Enact Work-From-Home Policies In Response To Coronavirus [Update: Nintendo, Too]

The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has hit the video game industry in a major way, most notably resulting in the postponement of the Game Developers Conference last week. As a response to the virus spreading to Washington’s King County, Microsoft and Bungie, both of which have offices in the area, have decided to enact work-from-home…

EA Went Digging Through Old 90s Tapes Trying To Remaster Command & Conquer’s Cutscenes

The team behind the upcoming Command & Conquer remaster have posted a video that’s partly about the process behind cleaning up the 1995 original’s cutscenes. Mostly, though, it’s a fascinating look inside the archives at loads of dusty old tapes that are crammed with bonafide video game history. You’ll find the video below, in which…

Hacker Discovers That God Of War Villain Gives You Secret Middle Finger

Sometimes, you’ve just gotta flip somebody off, even if they can’t see you. Maybe they cut you off in traffic. Maybe they took your spot in the parking lot. Maybe they did a third thing involving a car. Or, as is the case 99 percent of the time, perhaps they pushed you off a cliff.…

Ubisoft Is Massively Reworking Ghost Recon Breakpoint

In as extreme a case of eating crow as you’ll see from a big game publisher, Ubisoft said today that they are cancelling Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s planned second raid, reducing its aggravating always-online requirement, and will soon release an update that lets players deactivate its despised loot system. It’s all in service of trying to…

The Last Of Us Is Getting An HBO TV Show

Craig Mazin, writer behind the wonderful miniseries Chernobyl, is apparently teaming up with The Last of Us game director Neil Druckmann to adapt the PlayStation zombie thriller into a TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will focus on the events of the first game, though The Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s “the…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend Keeps Ghosting Me

Hello, all you ambulatory wildebeests of self-pollution, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column that’s the FAQ for the game of love. This week, it’s all about what happens after the relationship ends. How do you handle your ex moving on while you’re still hoping to get her back? What do you…

The Outer Worlds’ Font Size Is About To Get Even Bigger

Yesterday the developers at Obsidian announced that even though The Outer Worlds came out nearly five months ago, they’re still hard at work on improving its font sizes This is great news since the original text in The Outer Worlds was too damn small, and while Obsidian added a large font option shortly after release,…

Track: Ch-Check It Out | Artist: Beastie Boys | Album: Some Old Bullshit

A Snowy Morning. Kyoto, Japan. By Michael Kilcoyne 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 

Parked Out Front

Henry Wong is an artist and illustrator based in London who has worked for companies like Netflix and Axis (a studio responsible for, amongst other things, that amazing Blizzard anime from 2018). You can see more of Henry’s stuff at his ArtStation page

FIFA Pro Loses After Game Disallows Goal That Clearly Went In

Penalty shootouts are cruel at the best of times, but I’ve never seen anything like this. This is Giuseppe Guastella, a FIFA player so good he plays for the esports branch of the LA Galaxy, taking what would be the final shot in a shootout. As you, and everyone else with eyes can see, the…

Animal Crossing Player Becoming “Bellionaire” Selling Turnips

Animal Crossing speedrunner BrianMp16 is on the cusp of joining the 1% (in Nintendo terms, at least), as he’s about to get enough bells to buy a model of the town post office, the most expensive item available to purchase in the game. Its cost? A paltry 999,999,999 bells. As BrianMp16 wrote on Reddit (via…

Legend Of Zelda Keycaps For Heroic Keyboards

All keyboards have letters. Most have numbers and arrows. A keyboard sporting GMK Hero, an upcoming keycap set inspired by The Legend of Zelda, can have all of those plus hearts, shields, swords, ocarinas, bombs, and hookshots. It’s like having a hero’s arsenal at your fingertips. Designed by Geekhack heroes mkljfox44 and ogWalker, the GMK…

Through The Clouds. Tokyo, Japan. By Peter Sheerin 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 

A New Adventure Awaits

Quentin Mabille is an artist from France. You can see more of Quentin’s stuff at his ArtStation page and Patreon

Researchers Are Using A Video Game To Fight Coronavirus

With COVID-19, aka coronavirus, continuing to spread at an alarming rate, researchers of all stripes are racing to get a handle on it. This includes a team at the University of Washington in Seattle, who’ve taken a novel approach: a video game. The game, first released in 2008, is called Foldit. In it, players fold…