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Coronavirus Has Broken Some Of NBA 2K20’s Simulation

The entire NBA season has been suspended until further notice, in a move that’s so unprecedented that NBA 2K20 just doesn’t know how to handle it. The game has a feature called Start Today in its MyLeague mode, which lets you begin a career based on the current standings and stats of the NBA and…

Professor Calls Student’s Idea To Teach Class On Twitch ‘Terrible,’ Does It Anyway

NYU Game Center professor and independent developer Robert Yang never thought teaching a class on Twitch would be a good idea, but only once he was in the thick of things did the enormity of the task dawn on him. “Oh hello, Amber,” he said to a student who’d identified herself in chat. “And hello,…

Speedrunners Can’t Stop Playing The Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo

The Final Fantasy VII Remake demo has only been out for a week, but already speedrunners have played through it dozens of times trying to master it as if it were a standalone game. The demo, which went live last Monday, runs barely an hour, only showing off the first mission of what promises to…

My Little Pony-Inspired 2D Fighting Game Will Leave Early Access April 2

Them’s Fightin’ Herds began in 2011 as a fan-made fighting game called My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic. The project was shut down by Hasbro’s lawyers in 2013, only to return in 2015 with a new name and original characters designed by My Little Pony series creator Lauren Faust. On April 2, the four-legged fighter…

Borderlands 3 Patch Will Rebalance Late-Game Areas For New Characters

Most of the Borderlands 3 hotfixes have focused on adjusting characters and weapons, but the next update will also pay attention to balancing late-game areas. “We found that new players were consistently entering certain areas over-leveled for the content they were playing,” wrote Gearbox in the company’s latest Borderlands 3 blog. “This occasionally trivialized those…

The Prince Of Persia Is Coming To For Honor

Ubisoft’s medieval fighter For Honor is getting a new limited-time mode featuring the Prince of Persia, starting today. The new game mode, called Ruler of Time, is a variation on Dominion, the game’s traditional capture-the-zone mode. Ruler of Time features a tornado that whips around the map and occasionally spawns the Prince of Persia, the…

As Naughty Dog Crunches On The Last Of Us II, Developers Wonder How Much Longer This Approach Can Last

Some developers at Naughty Dog continue to ask themselves a question that has haunted the studio for years: Is it worth it?

Track: Colors | Artist: Utada Hikaru | Album: Best of Utada Hikaru

View Down the Ben Franklin Parkway to Center City. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By Kyle Kreiger | 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 

NBA Player Finds Out Season Suspended While Playing On Twitch

Phoenix Suns all-star Devin Booker is pretty much every basketball fan tonight, with his “what the fuck is goin on, bro” response to news the NBA’s season has been suspended. Earlier this evening, the league took the decision to suspend the 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz centre Rudy Gobert tested positive for…

Never Running From A Real Fight

Paul Medalla is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from the Philippines. You can see more of Paul’s stuff at his Instagram and ArtStation pages.

Gears Of War Turned Into A Magic-Style Card Game

Later this year, Steamforged will be releasing Gears of War: The Card Game, which is…a Gears of War card game, whose underlying engine has been created by Magic: The Gathering designer Tyler Bielman. Interestingly it’s a “story-driven campaign style game”, where the actions and results of a previous game determine which cards you can use…

Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft Respond To The News Of E3’s Cancellation

Earlier today, the Entertainment Software Association said it will cancel the video game trade show E3 this year amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19, aka coronavirus. Since the announcement, major game publishers have said they still plan to share news about upcoming games, but in a different format. Despite Sony pulling out of…

How A Shovel Knight NPC Gets Made

The nuts and bolts of how games are made is often lost on players. Yacht Club Games published an excellent blog yesterday that shows what it takes to flesh out the world of Shovel Knight. Forget playable characters; even obscure NPCs go through a rigorous process of conceptualization and design before being added to the…

E3 2020 Cancelled

The biggest trade show in video games is skipping a year. E3 2020, which was planned to take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center this June, is cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus that is currently spreading across the globe, the organizers of the conference said today. “After careful consultation with our…

Track: Shoryuken Doesn’t Come Out | Artist: The Lethal Weapons | Album: Shoryuken Doesn’t Come Out

BitSummit, the annual indie game event held in Kyoto, will not be held this May 9 and 10 due to coronavirus COVID-19 concerns. “Our plans are to continue working on the next edition of BitSummit,” organizers write, “and we will share more information about our plans in the coming weeks.”

The Outer World. Ayacucho, Peru. By Manuel Huertas | 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 

Not Great, Not Terrible

Jens Claessens is a freelance artist from Belgium who has worked on games like Borderlands 3 You can see more of Jens’ stuff at his ArtStation page

Black Mesa, As Told By Steam Reviews

If you trace Black Mesa, the Half-Life fan remake to end all fan remakes, back to its origin as a mega-mod that rose from the ashes of two similar mods in 2005, it’s been in development for somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 years. Now, the labor of undying love for headcrabs is finally done.…