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Rio Skywalker is a Korean comics and storyboard artist. You can see more of Rio’s stuff at his ArtStationand Instagrampages.

Donald Trump Buys The Death Note For $10 Trillion In Latest One-Shot

Tsugumi Ohba’s latest one-shot sees President Donald Trump enter into a bidding war for the magical murder notebook at the center of the franchise.

Destiny 2’s New Sundial Boss Is A Pleasant Surprise

Today’s weekly reset in Destiny 2 brought a new villain to Osiris’ Sundial, and it’s a refreshing departure from the usual grind. Season of Dawn’s battle pass activity The Sundial has been rotating between three Psion Flayer bosses since it debuted back in December. Today, it got a new boss: Inotam, Oblivion’s Triune. After the…

Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Is Leaving The Company

Dan Houser, who along with his brother Sam founded Rockstar and has been one of the most important figures in video games over the last 20 years, will be leaving the company next month. Having been on a break since 2019, news of his departure (his last day will be March 11) was made official…

Another Super Smash Bros. Melee Major Bans Infamous Ice Climbers Technique

Super Smash Bros. competitors have very specific ideas as to how they believe their games should be played. You’ve probably heard some of them before: no items, specific time limits and stages, and so on. Then there’s “wobbling,” which is a high-level Super Smash Bros. Melee technique used by Ice Climbers players; it’s been controversial…

Rockstar Finally Promises To Stop Red Dead Online’s Animals From Randomly Disappearing

The fields and forests of Red Dead Online are supposed to be filled with various different animals. But for months now players have been loading up the game and finding the world devoid of critters. Developer Rockstar has finally noticed the problem and is promising a fix. It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly this problem…

Apex Legends Season 4 Brings A New Character And Shakes Up The Map

Apex Legends’ Season 4 is now live. There’s a new character and weapon, changes to the map, and lots of tweaks. After some dramatic misdirection regarding which new Legend would be added to the game, robot assassin Revenant is the newest playable character. His passive, called Stalker, lets him crouch-walk faster and climb higher than…

Fallout 76 Finally Coming To Steam In April Alongside New Wastelanders Expansion

Fallout 76 lands on Steam on April 7, the same day as the game’s Wastelanders expansion, Bethesda announced in a press release today. The game’s arrival on Steam and the new update have both been in the works for a while. Bethesda announced the apocalyptic MMO would eventually come to Steam last March after initially…

Pretzel Pop-Tarts Aren’t Nearly As Bad As They Sound

Here at Snacktaku, we’re big fans of Kellogg’s popular line of filled cardboard breakfast rectangles. We have tried and tested many varieties—basic, peanut butter, soda-flavored, Jolly Rancher—and we’ve come through only slightly scathed. Now Kellogg’s is making the tops of Pop-Tarts caramel-colored and sprinkling them with salt. Fine. We’ll bite. Pretzel Pop-Tarts is Kellogg’s taking…

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Red Panda at Canberra National Zoo. Australia. By Ramón Avendaño Arechavala. 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

Our Favorite Cosplay From PAX South 2020

After the briefest of layoffs for the holiday period, 2020’s cosplay calendar is already up and running with PAX South, which was held in San Antonio a couple weeks back. Our photographer Mineralblu was there taking shots and video of the show, the best of which you can see below. And as usual, you’ll find…

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Kevin Gnutzmans is a freelance artist based in Brazil who works in both indie games and card games. You can see more of Kevin’s stuff at his ArtStation page

WarCraft 3’s Remaster Is So Unpopular Blizzard Is Offering Instant Refunds [Update: Blizzard Responds]

So loud has uproar among fans been, and so damning the shortfalls of the project, that Blizzard has begun offering instant refunds to anyone who bought WarCraft 3: Reforged Normally refunds have to go through a process of actually finding out what was wrong with your purchase, and won’t apply if you’ve had the game…

How Twitch Encourages Fans To Obsess Over Streamers’ Viewership Numbers

Sit in any sizable streamer’s Twitch chat for long enough, and the topic of numbers is bound to come up. Why isn’t viewership what it used to be? Why has the streamer plateaued? Why aren’t they as big as [insert bigger streamer here]? After a while, it starts to wear on some streamers. Cory “King…

Mandalorian Cosplay Is A Complicated Profession

Or not, really, it just involves a lot of hard work and some very nice photos. That’s Jessica Nigri under the suit, while photos are by Martin Wong

The Wii U Games That Still Need To Come To Switch

With Platinum Games bringing The Wonderful 101 to Switch via a Kickstarter campaign, that’s one more former Wii U exclusive that’s being moved to Nintendo’s newer, much more successful console. As of now, there are a few major games still stuck on the Wii U, but only a few that will likely end up on…

A Hectic Management Sim About Sanitizing The Nightly News

In Not For Broadcast, a new left wing government comes to power, with the threat of police crackdowns looming on the horizon. My job is to make it all palatable for the masses by seamlessly packaging the changes together with celebrity scandals and mind-numbing ads. While Not For Broadcast flounders as a political parable, its…

Why Platinum Games Wants Another Shot At The Wonderful 101

Platinum Games is hoping to crowdfund The Wonderful 101 to the Nintendo Switch—and maybe even Steam and PS4. That could mean the quirky 2013 Wii U action-strategy game gets introduced to a whole new generation. It could also result in a nicer, gentler Hideki Kamiya on Twitter. Temporarily, at least! “We weren’t originally aiming to…