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Games Done Quick Is Holding A Speedrun Marathon For Coronavrius Relief

This year’s Summer Games Done Quick charity event has been pushed back to August due to covid-19 concerns, but you can’t keep a good group of speedrunners down. Starting today and running through Sunday, Corona Relief Done Quick is an online speedrunning marathon benefitting global response organization Direct Relief. Sounds like the perfect way to…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for needing to cut my hair, something I’ve been doing for years but which never leaving the house has caused me to put off until it’s actually going to be a pain to do. The weekend is also for playing video games. Fortnite’s season getting extended gives me more time to catch…

Kirby’s Art Book Is Beautiful, Just Like Kirby

I wouldn’t say what the world needs now is a 272-page book of Kirby artwork, but it certainly can’t hurt. Published by Viz Media in English earlier this week, the Kirby Art & Style Collection is a $30 hardbound tome filled with official art, concept art, box art, and sketches spanning 25 years of Kirby…

Track: Miss Misery | Artist: Elliott Smith | Album: Good Will Hunting (OST)

Cyberpunk Crepes. Dontonbori, Osaka. By Justin Weegar | 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

A Well-Spent Youth

Shabeer MV is a 3D artist from India. You can see more of Shabeer’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Valorant Tournaments Will Have To Turn Off Blood

In a recent blog post detailing their plans for Valorant esports, Riot esports director Whalen “Magus” Rozelle provided a long list of guidelines community organizers will need to follow in their competitions. These include restrictions on event sponsors and a requirement to disable in-game blood. Valorant, despite its fantasy elements, is still very much a…

Selena Gomez Suing Game For $10 Million For Stealing Her Likeness

Selena Gomez has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the companies responsible for Clothes Forever – Styling Game, a phone game that will, by its own account, “allow you to live out all your fantasies and become the fashionista you were born to be!” In reality, it’s a cheap dress-up game that, like most mobile…

Final Fantasy VII Devs Wanted Sephiroth To Feel Like Jaws

Like many things in Final Fantasy VII, the main antagonist Sephiroth is an iconic part of gaming history. He’s a striking, menacing presence throughout the classic roleplaying game. Much of Sephiroth’s reputation has to do with the way the developers took cues from an entirely different piece of media: Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller, Jaws During…

Fallout 76’s NPCs Don’t Care About Getting Nuked

This week’s Fallout 76 Wastelanders update added human non-player characters to the game for the first time. Naturally, one of the first things players tried to do was nuke them. Players have been finding all sorts of curious new details in the game thanks to its burgeoning populace, from the return of pizza rolls to…

Destiny 2 Is Getting Its Own Version Of The Olympics

Destiny 2 is getting a new limited-time event called Guardian Games next week. The event will have players try to out-compete one another for the honor of having their guardian class represented in the Tower for the rest of the year. The Guardian Games were teased in this season’s roadmap but didn’t have an exact…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Should I Ask Out The Worker At Cheesecake Factory?

Hello, all you sexy angels of the Abyss, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column that can help you manage your relationships in real life AND in Animal Crossing We may be under self-isolation and social distancing, but just because life is on pause doesn’t mean that love is too. Sometimes love…

Gamescom 2020 Won’t Happen In Germany, Goes Digital

Gamescom, one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world, won’t be happening in Germany this year. Gamescom 2020 is canceled, its organizers announced today, but a digital version of the event is in the works. “It’s official: unfortunately, gamescom will under no circumstances take place on site in Cologne this year,” the German Games…

How To Lose Friends And Alienate Villagers

The heart of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the friendships you build with your animal neighbors, each with their own quirks, aesthetics, and personality traits. So when Tom Nook announced that the humble island of Bussy Beach had its very first visitor at our brand new campsite, I was ecstatic. I rushed to the campgrounds,…

How’s It Going?: Improvement Edition

It’s Thursday! It’s very pretty outside where I live, which seems like a cruel joke. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I didn’t get the chance to reply to the comments on yesterday’s thread, but I wanted to share here how much I appreciate them. You all are staying so strong through so much,…

Track: Zettai Zetsumei | Artist: Tokyo Jihen | Album: Ultra C

Crysis Remaster Appears To Be Coming To Major Platforms, Including Switch [Update]

It was there and then it was not there, as multiple people spotted a teaser image on the website for the first-person-shooter Crysis this morning. That teaser promises that a Crysis Remastered will be released for PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch. Update: It’s official and coming out this summer. The main image hyping the…

Report: Sony Is Making Fewer PS5s This Year Due To Its Price And Not Covid-19

Sources tell Bloomberg that this year, Sony will be producing a lower number of PlayStation 5 consoles. The cause, reportedly, isn’t due to the novel coronavirus covid-19 pandemic, but rather, the hardware’s high price at launch. The console’s technical specs are expected to be reflected in the pricing, Bloomberg added, and there has been speculation…

Looking Out. Taiwan. By Jeremy Lim | Official Site 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

Nathan Drake’s Misadventure

Samuel Smith is an artist at The SPA Studios, creators of Netflix’s Klaus movie. You can see more of Smith’s stuff at his ArtStation page