How Kirby Games Are Made

Shinya Kumazaki seems to have a fun job. He is the chief creator at HAL Laboratory and gets to dream up major Kirby games. I interviewed him over e-mail recently, trying to satisfy my growing fascination with a series that, at the clip of about two releases a year, somehow manages to be rich in…

Huge Japanese Food Portion Sizes

There’s a stereotype that only American food is jumbo-sized. That stereotype is wrong Japan also has its own super-sized helpings—known as oomori (大盛り) or “large serving.” On 2ch, Japan’s largest web forum, images of “mega oomori” and meals were “baku oomori” (爆盛り or “bursting large serving”) uploaded online. Here’s a look at those, along with…

Seize The Day. Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brasil. By Aline Cherubim. 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! 

Road To Guandong is a new road trip game in the style of Jalopy. Set in ‘90s China, it tells the story of recent art school graduate Sunny, who suddenly has to take over the family restaurant after her parents’ death. In the game, Sunny and her aunt will road trip through Guangdong, China, make…

Dawn Patrol

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Every Battlefield Map, Ranked According To Size

DICE senior designer Niklas Åstrand has been sharing some Battlefield facts on Twitter recently, capping them off with a chart comparing the size of every multiplayer map from the series, from the original all the way through to Battlefield V Halvoy is obviously top, as it’s a Battle Royale map, so it doesn’t really count.…

Ni No Kuni Movie Gets Its First Trailer

Announced back in February, we’ve just got our first proper look at the upcoming Ni No Kuni animated film. Studio Ghibli may not be working on it, having only helped out on the first game in the series, but that trademark look is still very much apparent here. In no small part because former Studio…

15 Years Later, There’s New Footage Of The Biggest Street Fighter Moment Ever

This year will mark the 15th anniversary of the legendary 2004 Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike matchup between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong—dubbed EVO Moment 37, or the “Daigo Parry”—and just in time, there’s some brand new footage of the legendary matchup, thanks to EVO’s Mark Julio. In the newly-unearthed footage, you can see the…

Pathway Is An Indiana Jones-Inspired Tactics Game That’s Hard To Put Down

The year is 1936. Nazis are sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East excavating tombs and pillaging archaeological dig sites for mysterious artifacts. The only way to stop them is through a choose-your-own-adventure-style strategy game where death comes swiftly and often. While upcoming game Pathway doesn’t nail things perfectly, its juicy pixel animations and…

Report: Activision Blizzard Wants To Know How Its Employees’ Pregnancies Are Going

A story published by the Washington Post Tuesday night revealed that game publisher Activision Blizzard has been offering third-party fertility and pregnancy tracking services to its employees—and then receiving their anonymized data back in return. Ovia Health offers a suite of wellness apps for family planning, allowing users to input their personal information to keep…

Moschino Is Releasing A Sims-Inspired Fashion Line And WTF At These Photos

The Sims 4 is collaborating with fashion giant Moschino for a line of Sims-inspired IRL clothing, and the photos they released for it are bugging me out. Ever since irreverent fashion designer Jeremy Scott took over Moschino in 2013, it’s become a wonderland of bright colors, bold graphic prints, and the word “Moschino” in all…

The Good And Bad Of Fortnite‘s New Respawn System

Fortnite’s reboot vans are here, and now I have even more time to yell “please get over here!” at my teammates. Last week, Epic announced reboot vans for Fortnite. The vans let teammates in the popular battle royale game respawn each other. They were added to the game today, appearing at points of interest around…

Every Punch-Out!! Opponent, Ranked

I’ll make a deal with you, Nintendo: I will promise to buy any console that you release, if you will promise to release a new Punch-Out!! game on it. This post originally appeared 1/4/16. We’re bumping it today for the game’s release on the Nintendo Switch From a critical standpoint, there are games far superior…

New Street Fighter V Glitch Lets Chun-Li Float Off Into Space

A newly-discovered Street Fighter V glitch gives series mainstay Chun-Li the ability to float upwards and off the screen, putting her, for the most part, out of harm’s way. The best part? It’s super easy to pull off with just a few button presses. The first known appearance of the glitch happened during a competitor’s…

Hyperbolic Tweet About Game Difficulty Turns Into Wonderful Internet Joke [UPDATE]

When you love something a lot, it can sometimes turn into a kind of passion that is overwhelming to other people. When you express that on the internet, it becomes fodder for jokes. Now, one man’s passion for not cheating in video games has become grist for the internet joke mill. The debate about whether…