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Wake Up Call. Tribalj, Croatia. By Eduard Tucaković | 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

Evangelion Unit-01

Lok Du is an artist from China with one hell of a dramatic flair for Evangelion. You can see more of Lok’s stuff at his ArtStation page

The Excellent Game Of Thrones Board Game Is Coming To PC

Game of Thrones, which is maybe one of the best board games of the last decade, has long been a mainstay among my crew for its balance, ruthlessness and hilarity. And it’s now going to try and bring all of that to PC. Publisher Asmodee Digital announced the game today, and in promising news the…

One Week Later, The Bugsnax Song Is Still Looping In My Brain

I’ve had the theme song from Bugsnax stuck in my head since last Thursday’s PlayStation 5 reveal. Its name is never far from my lips and is often the answer I give to completely unrelated questions. My brain’s default resting state has been set to Bugsnax. Is that bad? It doesn’t feel bad. A percentage…

Horizon Forbidden West Heading To PS5 In 2021

Horizon Forbidden West will launch on PlayStation 5 in 2021, according to an announcement made today by game director Mathijs de Jonge. “With the additional power of the PlayStation 5, we can make the world even more detailed, more vibrant, and more immersive,” de Jonge said. “With the PS5’s SSD, there will be virtually no…

That All-Black Pikachu Probably Wasn’t Hinting At Anything

In addition to the surprise reveal of New Pokémon Snap, this morning’s Pokémon broadcast also included an intriguing cameo from an all-black Pikachu plush, which hung out in the background while company president Tsunekazu Ishihara presented on stream. But don’t get too excited; it seems this was just an opportunity for Ishihara to show off…

Pokémon Sword And Shield’s New DLC Finally Lets Pokémon Follow You Around

Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor DLC adds a big new area to explore and a bunch more Pokémon to discover, but by far one of the coolest things in it is a new feature that lets you hang out with your favorite Pokémon out in the wild. Once you hit a certain point…

How’s It Going?: Morning Edition

Welcome to Wednesday—we’re halfway there!—and welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been up since 5am covering the new Fortnite season, because it is my job to get up at such ungodly hours to play video games. I’ve always wanted to be a morning person, but I can never quite pull it off with…

Pokémon Gets A New Puzzle Game And A Toothbrushing App

In non-Pokémon Snap news, this morning’s YouTube presentation from The Pokémon Company also revealed free-to-start puzzle game Pokémon Café Mix and Pokémon Smile, a mobile app meant to help children brush their teeth. Launching on June 23 on Switch, iOS, and Android, Pokémon Café Mixis a match puzzle game in which players complete orders in…

They’re Finally Making A New Pokémon Snap

During a special YouTube presentation this morning, The Pokémon Company announced a new version of classic Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap in development for Nintendo Switch. Released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999, Pokémon Snap is a photo safari spinoff of the monster-collecting RPG series in which players are tasked with snapping pictures of pocket…

Fortnite Season 3 Floods The Map, Adds Aquaman

Fortnite’s Season 3 is here, at long last, and things look different. The map is flooded, a giant shark keeps landing on me, and there are more NPCs to fight. As suspected, the battle royale island is now largely covered in water. While the landmarks seem much the same, many of them are now islands.…

Human Toad Is Freaky And Terrifying

Artist Miguel Vasquez is a genius at taking beloved video game and cartoon characters and turning them into nightmare fuel. His latest? Toad from Super Mario Vasquez uses a 2D image of each character as a reference but then gives them realistic human eyes. He also takes inspiration from movie make-up effects artists like Rick…

Game Center. Tokyo, Japan. By Aleksa Djordjevic. 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

Bloody Nice Day For A Stroll

Kerstin Evans is art director at Drop Bear Bytes, the team working on Broken Roads, an isometric RPG set in a post-apocalyptic Australia You can see more of Kerstin’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Red Dead Online Update Removes Modded KKK From The Game

For a little while now modders had been taking advantage of a vulnerability in Rockstar’s Red Dead Online that allowed them to spawn members of the Ku Klux Klan, who are normally only present in the offline singleplayer component. That loophole has now been closed. As Polygon reports, Red Dead players had been complaining about…

Former Evo Champion Banned From Multiple Fighting Game Events After Racist Tweet

After posting a tweet that both mocked the Black Lives Matter movement and peddled in racist tropes, former Evo champion Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez has been banned from several fighting game events. This includes an indefinite suspension from Capcom-related tournaments. Ramirez has always been known as something of a heel in the fighting game community,…

Avengers Game Twitter Assembles, Then Deletes Extremely Bad Tweet About Defaced Statue

Today, the official Avengers video game Twitter account posted a short video featuring a monument of Captain America and said that the area around it had been “defaced.” It’s the kind of atrociously poor timing that, itself, deserves some kind of historical monument. Right now, all across the nation, cities and states are making plans…

Fake Crowds Added To Actual Football Matches, Looks Like Some FIFA 96 Shit

Spain’s La Liga, which has resumed its season after March’s Covid-19 lockdown, is like every other major sports league returning to action playing in front of empty seats. So to try and add a little atmosphere for the folks watching at home, they’ve added artificial video game-style crowds, and they are terrible. The league teamed…

PAX West Is The Latest Gaming Event To Go Online Due To Covid-19

This year’s PAX West and PAX Australia gaming conventions are cancelled and will be replaced by PAX Online, a series of live-streamed shows, panel discussions, and video game demos taking place from September 12-20, the show’s organizers announced today. PAX conventions are typically a chance for people to meet up in person, checkout demos for…

Steam Game Festival Lets You Try Out Upcoming Games

It is mid-June. We are now deep into what would have been E3 season, if E3 existed on another planet that wasn’t plunging deeper and deeper into turmoil with every passing second. But hey, digital events are fun. On that note, the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition, which Valve rescheduled from last week while remaining…