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Akihabara. Tokyo, Japan. By Brian Ashcraft. 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!

Target Spotted

Vinicius Menezes is an artist from Brazil who has worked for companies like Fantasy Flight. You can see more of Menezes’ stuff at his ArtStation page and personal site

Uh, Civilization VI Has A Battle Royale Mode Now

While this might sound like a very late April Fool’s joke, it’s not. Turn-based strategy juggernaut Civilization VI now has its very own battle royale mode, called Red Death Instead of just slapping some new rules into the existing game, Red Death is a custom multiplayer scenario that has new factions, characters and new-ish units.…

A New Bomb Trick Is Blowing Up Breath Of The Wild Speedrunning

The act of finishing a video game as quickly as possible, or speedrunning, is an iterative process that evolves quickly with the contributions of a large community. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has seen numerous updates to its speedrunning strategies in just two years, and the latest technique has the potential to…

GameStop announced todaythat it will be closing 180-200 “underperforming” stores globally before the end of 2019, while then adding “a much larger tranche of closures [is] over the coming 12 to 24 months”.

Apple Arcade’s Upcoming Game Lineup Is Pretty Impressive

Apple’s Arcade service launches on September 19, granting subscribers access to more than 100 games for $4.99 a month. The lineup of new and exclusive games coming to the service includes new Rayman, Pac-Man, Shantae, Steven Universe, and ChuChu Rocket games, as well as a new Square Enix RPG from the creators of Bravely Default.…

The YouTuber Playing Through Every Version Of Minecraft Is Finally Back At It

Five years ago, one YouTuber began a Minecraft Let’s Play unlike any other, one that spanned all the different versions of the game and examined how it changed over time. After a nearly three-year hiatus, it’s coming back, with a nifty trailer. YouTuber Zisteau said in his very first episode of his Minecraft Let’s Play…

My Totally Reasonable Gaming Plan For The Next Few Months

Lots of games coming up. Got to think this through strategically. Gears 5? Finish that campaign this week. Then move to Destiny 2. Still haven’t cleared that game’s original campaign but don’t want to skip ahead. I’ve got two weeks or so to catch up. Probably won’t catch up but will get close. Somehow juggle…

The Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro Has 20 SNK Games Built In

Earlier this month SNK announced the Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro, a fight stick with a design based on the Neo Geo CD’s Controller Pad stick. Turns out it’s not only a joystick but also a standalone retro console that can be hooked directly to a television to play 20 built-in SNK fighting games. The…

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Off-World Palaeontology

Yury Ostapchuk is a concept artist from Ukraine who works at Plarium, the Vikings: War of Clans guys. You can see more of Yury’s work at his ArtStation page

If Found is a game where you uncover the story by erasing the main character’s diary. It’s a neat-looking mechanic that sounds like it’ll be paired with some fascinating subject matter. First and foremost: a black hole that’s about to destroy the earth. “Erase her diary, uncover secrets, meet a diverse cast of characters, go…

CAVE have announced that four of the company’s classic SHMUP games are coming back to iPhones and iPads as 64-bit titles, after their older 32-bit releases were killed off with iOS11.

Why Super Meat Boy Forever Is Taking Forever

Super Meat Boy designer Tommy Refenes knew that the name Forever was cursed territory in video games. Originally, he wanted to give the sequel to his pioneering tough-as-nails indie platformer a different title: Super Meat Boy ∞, pronounced “Super Meat Boy Infinity.” He decided, though, that it’d have been too confusing. “I took the curse…

Nike’s New League Of Legends Gear Sucks

Welcome, everyone, to my strange little wheelhouse, where one of my biggest passions in life (video games) is currently intersecting with a smaller one, collecting sports jerseys The news I’m pinning this on: On Sunday, Nike announced that it had signed a deal to make every single team’s competitive outfits for the next League of…

Here’s To Five Years Of Not Knowing How I Feel About Destiny

Five years ago, I thought we were all a bunch of suckers. Destiny, the new game from the makers of Halo, was an absolute mess, and I didn’t understand why anyone would play it. But people did, and what’s more, they found something compelling in the inexplicable sci-fi shooter. Across five years, numerous expansions, a…

Monkey Pukes On Developer During Sea of Thieves Livestream

Today some Sea of Thieves developers did a livestream to discuss the game’s new store and purchasable pets. They were joined on stream by a monkey. The monkey threw up on a developer. For most of the stream, Antonio the spider monkey seemed content to sit on people’s shoulders and eat mealworms thrown to him…

The Scariest Thing In P.T. Was Following You All Along

This summer marked the fifth anniversary of P.T., 2014’s landmark “Playable Teaser” for Silent Hills, an exciting but ultimately doomed reboot of the Silent HIll franchise led by Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo Del Toro. It became an obsession for streamers and data-minersalike, its allure only increasing after Konami removed P.T. from the PlayStation…

A Series Of Sweet Luigi And Gooigi Comics Comes To A Touching Close

When I first saw Gooigi, a puzzle-solving Luigi clone made of goo who first appeared in the 3DS remaster of Luigi’s Mansion and will also be in Luigi’s Mansion 3, I had a few questions about him. Namely: Is this a fetish thing? Perhaps I was being a little too adult and cynical at the…

Somebody Forgot To Update NBA 2K20’s Taskbar Icon

Annual sports video games can often seem like barely updated versions of the previous year’s installment. That’s certainly the case with the PC version of NBA 2K20, which shows up on the Windows taskbar as NBA 2K19. NBA 2K20 is under fire from fans for many reasons. Its microtransactions are atrocious. Its long loading times…