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Exploring the Plum Blossoms. Osaka, Japan. By Malou Tibayan 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

Eli Roth Will Try And Direct A Borderlands Movie

Earlier tonight, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford tweeted that Eli Roth would be directing the attempt to make a Borderlands movie, which was quietly announced last year. He then quickly deleted the tweet. Here it is: Guess he announced it too early, hence the swift deletion. It’s hard to get excited about video game movie announcements since…

Isometric Cities Are The Best Cities

Plarium Global is a mobile games studio whose art department in Kharkiv is responsible for loads of pretty environments and cool character design. I know loads of mobile strategy games are scammy trash, but there’s something about the isometric art style so many games use use that just gets me wishing more titles on other…

Wolcen Is A Diablo Clone With Big Potential And Bigger Bugs

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, an action role-playing game for PC in the style of Diablo that’s been making waves on Steam recently, has a lot going for it. There’s the gargantuan skill tree whose rings you can physically rotate to create near-limitless build possibilities. Eye-catching graphics that put it in league with upcoming genre megaliths…

Homeworld Studio Is Working On A First-Person Game

Homeworld 3 and Deserts of Kharak developers Blackbird Interactive have a new first-person game coming called Hardspace: Shipbreaker, which despite their pedigree (and the game’s art style) isn’t actually set in the Homeworld universe. Though it still looks very cool. You play as a shipbreaker (those with long memories might remember that Shipbreakers was the…

Mandalorian Cosplay Beats The Shit Outta Some Stuntmen

In this short Legend of Micah video, four professional stuntmen decide to dress up like they’re in The Mandalorian and just absolutely go to town on each other. Before we get into it, some credits! Ben Aycrigg is Mando, while the bounty hunters are Billy Matt Thompson, Pat Chu and Jorge Longoria. The blasters and…

Borderlands 3 Players Use Tricks To Farm For Awesome New Sniper Rifle

The ultimate reward for completing the latest seasonal event in Borderlands 3 is a special sniper rifle called the Wedding Invitation. The game limits every character to just one of these legendary weapons, however, so players are taking some drastic measures to find the version with the best stats and bonuses before the event ends…

Fallout 76 Players Keep Crashing Servers To Duplicate The Game’s Strongest Armor [Update]

Fallout 76’s Strangler Heart Power Armor is very strong and it’s supposed to be incredibly hard to get, but thanks to the game’s latest duplication exploit, more players than ever are running around in it. While Fallout 76 has been plagued by duplication glitches of one sort or another for most of its existence, the…

Sony Backs Out Of PAX East Over Coronavirus Concerns

PlayStation is pulling out of PAX East due to “increasing concerns” related to the illness colloquially known as the coronavirus, it said on the PlayStation blog today. Sony’s booth was slated to feature major upcoming games like The Last of Us Part II, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Doom Eternal. The show, which has drawn…

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Tournament Moment Is Perfect Chaos

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is probably the most anime fighting game being played at major competitions apart from Dragon Ball FighterZ, and the latter only beats it out because it’s literally based on an anime series. The latest BlazBlue is a wild game that produces incredible tournament moments on a regular basis. The latest of…

Latest No Man’s Sky Update Lets Players Grow Living Spaceships

The first free No Man’s Sky update of 2020 is here, giving players an all-new way to explore the universe. The “Living Ship” update gives players the ability to discover, nurture, and eventually fly their own procedurally generated living vessels, navigating the spaceways inside unique sentient creatures. It doesn’t get much more sci-fi than that.…

Grand Theft Auto IV Returns To Steam Next Month Without Online Multiplayer

Removed from sale on Steam in January due to an issue with Microsoft’s now-defunct Games for Windows Live service, Grand Theft Auto IV returns to the service on March 19 as Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition. The new version of the game includes the core game and Episodes From Liberty City but no longer…

Chin Up, Geralt

Aleksandr Pushai is an artist based in Spain. You can see more of Pushai’s stuff at his ArtStation page

EVE Online Shooter Canceled, EVE Online Shooter Announced

The King is dead. Long live the King! Last week, EVE Online developers CCP said that Project Nova, their long-in-development shooter based on the same universe as their famous space MMO, was being thrown in the bin. “This decision was taken because Project Nova’s gameplay experience as presented at EVE Vegas ’18 would not have…

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Info Drought Is Nearly Over

The next Nintendo Direct is scheduled for this coming Thursday, February 20, and will focus exclusively on the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons. That sound you just heard is Animal Crossing fans around the world letting out a collective sigh of relief. Nintendo has been slow on releasing official news about Animal Crossing: New Horizons…

Besiege Is Now ‘Out’ After 5 Years In Early Access

I’ll be honest, I thought Besiege—the construction/puzzle game that was one of the stars of 2015—was already out. Nope! It’s actually spent the last five years in Early Access, and only now is it out. The release of 1.0 brings the game’s single-player campaign to a close, along with introducing some new fancy new blocks…

Warface Squeezes Crytek’s Demanding CryEngine Into The Switch

The free-to-play and ridiculously named competitive shooter Warface is the first CryEngine game to grace the Nintendo Switch. How’d the developers cram a CryEngine V-powered game onto Nintendo’s modest hardware? By modifying the hell out of it and limiting it to 720p docked and 540p handheld. Developed by My.Games in-house studio Allods Team, the folks…

Track: The Lost Day (Remastered 2004) | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: Ambient 4: On Land

Walchensee. Kochel, Bavaria, Germany. By Roman Reiff. 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

Tough Day At The Office

Louyang Zhang is an illustrator, comics and concept artist from China. You can see more of Zhang’s stuff at their ArtStation page.