Eager to check out crazy, over-the-top fight scenes with imaginative weapons? Well, RWBY Volume 3 certainly has that, as well as a healthy helping of sadness and despair. [Note: This review contains spoilers for this and the previous two seasons of RWBY. For a more non-spoiler look at the series, check out our review of…
Old and New. Tokyo, Japan. By Ty Givens. 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!
There’s having it your way and then there’s this. Japanese site RocketNews, the folks who once ordered a Whopper with a thousand pieces of bacon, a burger with a thousand slices of cheese, and one with a hundred slices of grilled onion, have returned to order yet another ridiculous Burger King burger. This: This time,…
Devil’s Third Online, the online shooter version of Devil’s Third, is going into beta, Famitsu reports. In case you missed Kotaku’s review of the Wii U game, you can read it here.
Alright. You know the drill. A new anime season means new anime—42 for this winter season to be precise. With so many, it can be hard to know what to watch, and that’s why we’ve put together this guide. I have spent the past few weeks getting fully caught up on all of the winter…
If you own an arcade with claw games, this guy is the last person you want to see. In China, Chen Zhitong has nabbed thousands of plush toys thanks to his claw game skills. According to Net Easeand ShanghaiIst, rooms of his house are now filled with his arcade spoils. Chen says he doesn’t spend…
Here’s what happens when you stop pre-ordering games, I guess. According to Hachima, Marvelous has delayed its PS Vita game Uppers due to a lack of pre-orders. On the official Uppers dev blog, game creator Kenichiro Takaki stated this about the delay: “The number one reason is that the number of pre-orders didn’t stretch as…
Kiyomizu-dera. Kyoto, Japan. By Simon Chartier 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’ll be happy to know it won’t follow the Sword Art Online in-game rule that if you die in the virtual world, you die in real life. Phew. Dubbed “Sword Art Online The Beginning Project,” this IBM-sponsored concept is based on the popular virtual world anime in which people play a game by the same…
You know what’s popular in Japan? Minecraft. You know what else is popular? Dragon Quest. Dragon Quest Builders is what happens when you mix the two. Broken down to its essence, Dragon Quest Builders is Minecraft, but with direction. In Minecraft you are basically dropped into a world and sent off to do whatever you…
And this time, it looks like he’s coming to New York. Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. The follow up to 2013’s HK (short for “Hentai Kamen” or “Masked Pervert”) is slated to hit Japanese theaters this May. It’s getting released by a major Japanese studio (Toei) and is based on…
Itsukushima Shrine. Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. By Evany De Jesus. 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!
We’ve seen how facial hair turned Street Fighter character Ryu into “Hot Ryu.” And now, in the most recent Dragon Ball Super episode, let’s see how beards do the same for Vegeta and Goku. [Image via SoulOfAngel] Of course, Vegeta had a mustache in Dragon Ball GT (above), but this time, he and Goku are…
This is not a Gamera figure. It’s a Gamera dessert. You can eat this. Shoya Okamoto is a student at Otemae College of Confectionery in Japan, and he created this Gamera out of sweet bean paste, with food coloring mixed in to achieve the proper hues. [Photo: aiiida308] [Photo: aiiida308] [Photo: aiiida308] The dessert weighs…
For the past month or so, cosplayers have been uploading photos to Twitter, asking illustrators to turn their photos into 2D illustrations. Previously, Kotaku published a series of photos that were turned into illustrations. The key difference here is, as mentioned above, cosplayers have been requesting these drawings, using the Twitter hashtag #絵師さんにイラスト化してほしい画像をレイヤーが垂れ流す (loosely translated,…
Silicon Studio, the folks behind Bravely Default and Bravely Second, are teaming up with Mistwalker to co-develop a new title. Details about the game, the title, and the release will be announced at a later date.
Waiting for the Train. Gifu Prefecture, Japan. By Taylor Stockton. 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!
Some of the big sellers will not surprise you. Some of them might. In the latest Weekly Famitsu, the magazine looks back at the last two years of PS4 hardware and software sales. As of February 7, 2016, here are the biggest selling games in Japan, based on Famitsu’s retail sales data: 20. Watch Dogs:…
This week, talk show host Conan O’Brien visited South Korea and decided to make a cameo on Korean television. In one part, the best part, he played a talking fish. Conan didn’t only appear in one episode, but two episodes this week (Happy Ending One More Time airs twice weekly). In episode nine, he was…
The PlayStation 4 launched in Japan on February 22, 2014. With the console’s two year anniversary coming up in Japan, let’s see how the PS4 is doing in the country where the PlayStation was born. In the latest Weekly Famitsu, an article features monthly PS4 sales data, letting us track the console’s progress over the…
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