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NCSoft Is A Great Game Company For Working Parents 

If you have small children, you might wish your company did more to help. You might wish it was like South Korea’s NCSoft As reported on Korean site Pitch One, via tipster Sang, NCSoft has a pre-school called “Smiling Peanut” that is located at the first and second floors of the company’s headquarters. Smiling Peanut…

Ghostbuster Hamburgers Are Just As Ridiculous As You’d Hope

Once again, Japan is raising the bar with hamburgers. This time, it’s turned its skills to Ghostbusters. Entabe reports that J.S. Burgers Cafe is rolling out Ghostbusters themed food at its restaurants. There’s the G.B. Burger (above), which comes with burgers slathered in black olive and anchovy paste, “bloody hot ketchup,” and cream on black…

Report: Nintendo Is Researching VR

From the sound of it, add Nintendo to the list of companies that are interested in VR. Japanese Twitter user NStyles was at today’s Nintendo shareholders meeting in Kyoto and live-tweeted what was apparently said. Keep in mind that Nintendo has yet to release an official transcript, so Kotaku hasn’t yet been able to confirm.…

1000 Yen Viewpoint at Lake Motosuko. Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. By Neub Detat. 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!

You Can Buy Warcraft Branded Beer In China

Of course you can. Sadly, the beer does not taste like Orc. Tsingtao Beer has teamed up with Legendary Pictures to release Warcraft emblazoned beer to help promote the film. Over on the Collectors Society, forum member Revat was apparently in China recently and snapped a photo (above) of this special Warcraft beer set. Here’s…

Keiji Yamagishi, the composer of the Ninja Gaiden series, announced on Twitter that he’s “working on a new project related to Ninja Gaiden” and that he’ll be “able to share more news in July.”

Overwatch Has Conquered South Korea (For Now)

For years (literally, years), League of Legends has been the most played game at South Korea net cafes. That has finally changed. As reportedlast week, League of Legends and Overwatch have been duking it out for the country’s weekly top spot. Now tipster Sang points out, Overwatch has finally claimed the weekly most-played game, ending…

Inside a High-Quality Japanese Figurine Factory 

This is a rarity. These days, most anime figures are produced in China. Good Smile Company, however, has a factory in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, producing high-quality collectibles. Let’s take a look inside. Recently, Japanese TV show Gacchiri Monday visited the factory, which opened in late 2014. Besides shaping the figures, everything is done by hand…

View from Roppongi Tower. Tokyo, Japan. By Erick Fernandez. 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!

This CG Hamburger Looks Delicious [Update]

This burger might not be real, but my hunger is. Update – June 28 12:30am: An earlier version of this story linked a Nico Nico uploader who claimed to have created this work. It seems that is not true. Instead, it was created by the folks at Primitiva, a VFX and animation company in Santiago,…

PlayStation 1’s Most Unusual Japanese Box Art

The PlayStation 1 got an array of games. Some were good, some were bad and some had odd box art. “Odd,” however, isn’t a bad thing at all. Considering how video game box art can sometimes feel similar, you have to applaud the bold graphic design choices that were made. They don’t always work, but…

With E3 over, now is as good a time for another friendly reminder that Capcom’s Deep Down is still M.I.A. The last time the game’s website was updated was December 25, 2014, and the last activity on its official Twitter was a retweet from March 23, 2015.

There’s a new Professor Layton in development, reports Famitsu. The game, which is apparently part of the mainline series, doesn’t seem as though it will star Layton as its protagonist. Details are scant and more will be revealed next month at the Level-5 Vision event in Japan.

Wow, Terra Formars, This Animation Looks Bad

With thebrutal schedules animators are faced with, it’s not surprising that sometimes less than stellar work slips through. However, even by those subpar standards, the last episode of Terra Formars Revenge featured some truly awful animation. Via anime site Yaraon Blog, here are the bits in question. (While the show has had spotty parts, keep…

Level-5 is working on a new entry in its soccer-themed RPG Inazuma Eleven, Famitsu reports. The game will feature a new protagonist and is set on an island in the shape of the Japanese character イ (which is written as “i” in Roman letters). More will be revealed next month at the Level-5 Vision event.

Tuna Sign. Tsukiji Market, Tokyo, Japan. By Hannes Bohn 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!

The Ring VR Shows Japanese Horror Isn’t Easy

After seeing Japanese horror movie Sadako vs. Kayako, Twitter user Tatsunoru decided to make a Sadako VR prototype, starring, well, Sadako from the horror classic The Ring (above). In the demo, Sadako dials the phone, climbs out of the well and through the television, and then kills her victim. It’s easier said than done because…

Sounds like Daigo Umehara thinks Street Fighter V needs an arcade release in Japan. Event Hubs reported he wondered if the game will still be played next year. Umehara added that the lack of an arcade release was a problem for Japanese gamers.

For a Japanese Prank, This Is Pretty Good

It’s such a simple idea: Famous Japanese people unknowingly walking, running and falling into holes. Above, that’s Olympic silver medalist judoka Shinichi Shinohara. These days, he appears on Japanese variety shows and in television commercials. Recently, he was told to show up in Attack on Titan make-up to shoot an ad. Then, this happened: Of…

The live-action Tokyo Ghoul movie has its lead actors: Masataka Kubota will play Tokyo Ghoul protagonist Ken Kaneki and Fumika Shimizu will play Touka Kirishima. The Tokyo Ghoul is slated to open in summer 2017 in Japan.