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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for going climbing after taking some time off for an injury. Hopefully all that moping around with ice packs has healed me, because not climbing is a bummer. The weekend is also for video games, because you can’t climb all the time—that is, apparently, how you get injured I played some Overwatch…

Bungie Says Massive Destiny 2 Puzzle Was Inspired By Cult Horror Film Cube

In its weekly blog post, Bungie described what went into making Destiny 2’s recent Corridors of Time puzzle, including drawing inspiration from a 1997 Canadian cult horror film about people trapped in a giant labyrinth full of death traps, Cube “The puzzle seemed to fit well with the idea of the Corridors of Time, with…

Lil Yachty, Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa’s Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Song Is Kind Of Great

Remember when the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer came out and it was set to “Gangsta’s Paradise” for some stupid reason? The official movie theme, “Speed Me Up” from Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, and Sueco the Child, fits so much better, and its video is pretty cool, too. I am something…

City of Lights. Paris Beaugrenelle, France. By Arnab. 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

Be Well, My Big Hairy Friend

Sina Pahlevani is a 3D artist from Malaysia. You can see more of Sina’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Suspended Hearthstone Player Blitzchung Doesn’t Regret Speaking Out About Hong Kong

Last October, Hearthstone pro Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai decided, during an official stream of the Asia-Pacific Grandmasters, to shoot his shot. “Liberate Hong Kong,” he said while wearing a gas mask. “Revolution of our age!” He wound up getting suspended by Blizzard. Now, in 2020, he says that if he could go back to that…

Witness The Most Excruciating Round Of Street Fighter V Ever

Fighting game competition is tense no matter the circumstances, but one recent moment from a local New York City tournament takes the cake as perhaps the most agonizing round of Street Fighter V I’ve seen since the game’s release. Capcom Cup champion Derek “iDom” Ruffin and fighting game legend Sanford “Santhrax” Kelly met in the…

There’s A New Official Mobile Tetris

EA and Popcap’s popular Tetris Blitz is shutting down in April, but do not fret. There is another. Available today on iOS and Android, the simply named Tetris is as straightforward a block-dropping puzzle game as you can get. At least for now. Created by game company N3twork as part of a multi-year partnership with…

Code Turns Super Monkey Ball PC Into Super Monkey Cube

Rolling a monkey in a ball through a series of twisting, maze-like courses is a challenge, sure, but what about a monkey trapped in a cube? How about a pyramid, or a spiky star? All three alternative monkey enclosures are available now in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD on Steam, unlocked via the super-secret…

Track: California Dreamin’ (Cover) | Artist: Japanese Breakfast | Album: N/A 

Hotel Gracery Shinjuku. Tokyo, 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

In Mythgard, Monsters Still Roam The Earth

Mythgard is a digital card game that, like most other digital card games, employs a ton of third-party artists to bring the cards to life. What’s cool about it outside the game itself is that, unlike most video games on any platform, the artists responsible are credited within the game. Here’s a selection of some…

Dishonored Has Been Ported To The Tabletop

Dishonored: The Roleplaying Game will be out this Summer and sees the first-person stealth game turned into a tabletop RPG. Modiphius Entertainment is behind the game, which is based on their 2d20 System from Star Trek Adventures and Conan (Modiphius has also done RPGs of Elder Scrolls, Homeworld, and Fallout). Interestingly, Modiphius say they’ve hired a…

Paradox Is Quietly Testing A Strategy Game Subscription Service

If there’s one thing about Paradox Interactive’s big PC strategy games, it’s that they’re nearly always fantastic. And if there are two things, it’s that they quickly become bogged down with hundreds of dollars worth of DLC that looks absolutely daunting to any potential new players. Take, for example, Europa Universalis IV, which is very…

Valve Is ‘Confident’ Half-Life: Alyx Won’t Be Delayed

Improbably, a new Half-Life game is coming out in just a couple of months. To celebrate, Valve hosted an AMA on Reddit today, audaciously claiming, among other things, that the game won’t be delayed and confirming a truth we already knew in our hearts: all Half-Life games must have at least one train. Given that…

Apex Legends Players Are Trying To Figure Out Lights In The Game’s Sky

During an Apex Legends match yesterday, a player spotted a tiny trio of lights in the game’s sky. Now, players are theorizing about what this sighting means for the game’s upcoming season. “Something is coming, but what else than season 4?” wrote user Chuzeeee on the game’s lore subreddit. Attached was a video in which…

A Tribute To Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aimé Kicks Off With A Terrific String Quartet

Former longtime president of Nintendo America Reggie Fils-Aimé received lifetime achievement honors at the New York Video Game Critics Circle award ceremony in Manhattan last night. He delivered a classy acceptance speech which followed a couple of moments Nintendo fans may enjoy seeing. Fils-Aimé’s acceptance speech was preceded by a video highlighting the ex-executive’s career,…

This Video Game Parody Of Hudson Yards Is Super Funny, Oh God We’re Going To Die

Comedian Conner O’Malley, who you might have previously seen screaming about Howard Shultz or hosting talk shows from a lake, is back with a new video game-themed parody of New York City rich-people compound Hudson Yards that’s both funny and soul crushing and has already aged me five years. The video opens with a PS1-style…

Epic Will Punish Fortnite Opponents Who Signal Each Other

Earlier this week, Fortnite released new rules to attempt to curb cheating in competitive play. The new guidelines relate to a player behavior called “signaling,” which means communicating with opponents. Fortnite doesn’t allow for voice chat between opponents, so players use other means to communicate, like jumping or swinging their pickaxe. On the surface, these…

Faust Is Back In Guilty Gear And The ‘Vore’ Jokes Are Flying

Arc System Works has been slowly revealing the playable cast for the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive. Last weekend’s installment of the annual—and aptly-named—Frosty Faustings tournament series hosted to a brand new trailer for Faust, a longstanding figure in the Guilty Gear franchise who’s returning in Strive with an updated look and a penchant for devouring…