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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.…

Destiny 2 Players Can No Longer Show Off Some Of Their Favorite Stats [Update]

Today, Bungie improved the emblems Destiny 2 players use to express themselves to offer more customization options, but in the process wiped out some of players’ most coveted stats. Destiny 2 recieved a massive update today alongside the start of Season of the Worthy. It changed a lot of things, ranging from how the quest…

First-Person Mario Lets You Shoot Goombas In The Dang Face

As part of Nintendo’s forced MAR10 holiday (March 10, Mario, get it?), developer Sean Noonan has released a beautiful rendition of Super Mario Bros. as a first-person shooter. Sure, the gun only shoots plungers, but I have to imagine Mario would take some satisfaction from being able to blow away hordes of Goombas. Noonan, a…

Your Old Neopets May Still Be Alive, And Very Hungry

You’re sitting there, minding your own business, when the thought hits you. You wait for it to pass, but it lingers, forcing its way to the front of your mind. You try desperately to ignore it, but the guilt swallows you, occupying all of your thoughts. There’s no escaping it, the truth. You abandoned your…

This Month’s Rerelease Of Doom 64 Will Include A New Chapter

Doom 64, an original Doom game released exclusively on the Nintendo 64 in 1997, is often overlooked when discussing the history of the series. Perhaps that will change on March 20, when a Doom 64 port, complete with a new epilogue chapter, lands on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Doom 64 was…

Sony Says It Has No Plans To Release PlayStation Games At The Same Time On PC

PlayStation 4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC, as we reported in January, but Sony isn’t pulling an Xbox with its approach console and PC gaming, the head of PlayStation game development said today. Or at least, if they are, they’re not announcing it yet. “And to maybe put a few minds at…

Fan-Made Browser Game Lets You Plan Out Your Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island

Animal Crossing: New Horizons will give players more options and freedom to customize their island than any previous game in the series. Thanks to a browser game called Happy Island Designer, eager fans can get a head start on planning out their new village before New Horizons even comes out. Created by Github user Eugeneration,…

2K Will Make NFL Games Again For The First Time In 16 Years

2K Games announced a deal with the NFL today to release a number of new football games in the coming years, with the first slated to launch sometime next year. It’s not at all clear what these new NFL games will consist of. “The games will be non-simulation football game experiences,” 2K stated in its…

Track: Hanabi | Artist: Aiko | Album: Hanabi 

Japanese Garden. Boulogne-Billancourt, France. By Leonis Notes | 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 

Haha, Yeah, I’ve Seen That

Maryanne is an artist from Sydney, currently based in San Francisco. You can see more of Maryanne’s stuff at her site

Our Favorite Photos From Cosplay’s All-Star Weekend

It’s kinda fitting that the NBA’s All-Star Weekend was held in Chicago this year, because a couple weeks later it was also the setting for C2E2, one of the biggest cons of the year and a show that’s kinda become its own unofficial All-Star Weekend for cosplay. Taking place Feb 28-Mar 1, C2E2 hosted the…

FIFA Team Can Be Trained By Putting A Chip In Your Shoe

A new collaboration between Adidas, EA and Google has resulted in a rather quaint old video game idea being resurrected for the 2020s: the concept of using a small piece of electronics to track your real-world exercise and have it reflected in a game. Only instead of it being for the Nintendo DS, it’s for…

Play Super Bernie World, Bop MAGA Goombas

The game’s title kinda sums it up, really. Super Bernie World is a free, rad platformer where you “Run and jump your way across 11 states and the District of Columbia as Bernie and free the USA from the clutches of four Republicans in their castle lairs”. Super Mario World, basically, only with MAGA hat…