Japan’s Infamous Halloween Trains

In years past, the “Halloween train” was a carriage taken over by costume-wearing foreigners, who turned it into an impromptu space for merrymaking and boozing. Tokyo’s Halloween train even sparked protests! My, how things have changed. When riding the Midosuji Line in Osaka in late September of last year, I saw an advertisement that, no…

DJ Hello Kitty Opens With “Motherf**kers”

Sanrio Puroland, the Hello Kitty and friends theme park in Tokyo, has been holding Halloween celebrations. DJ Hello Kitty got things started with a big “Motherfuckers, go!” DJ Hello Kitty is an officially licensed Sanrio character that debuted back in 2010. Since then, DJ Hello Kitty has been appearing in clubs all over the world…

Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel. Tokyo, Japan. By Patrick Lehrmann | Flickr 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! 

One Twitch Streamer Is Fighting Racism With A Chicken Emote

Good plans are born after hours, days, or even months of meticulous planning, but the best plans emerge from dumb jokes. One day, Twitch streamer Xmiramira was doing her thing when a rando came into chat spewing what she remembered as “racist crap.” “Oh,” Xmiramira said in reply, “a wild cock has appeared.” Now her…

Fallout 76 Bug Accidentally Deletes Entire 50GB Beta

The Fallout 76 beta starts on PC tonight, but an 11th hour bug in Bethesda’s launcher has had unusually severe repercussions for some affected users. Earlier this evening, Bethesda tweeted: Don’t click any buttons? Weird. Turns out the “issue” wasn’t your average freeze. It was a bug where clicking any button on the launch client…

Happy Halloween

Sweet dreams. This animated take on artist Will Burke’s nightmarish Garfield sketches was done by artist and animator Lumpy There’s more coming!

This is Yukeshiro with some League of Legends/K-Pop cosplay. All photos by Sarenka z Aparatem

Twitch’s New Karaoke Game Is Missing Some Of The Things I Love About Karaoke

I don’t just like karaoke; I love it. On average, I go out and sing at least twice a week, sometimes three times a week. Singing in bars in front of people helps me conquer my ever-present fear of doing literally anything in front of people. It’s a strange sort of therapy. Twitch and Harmonix’s…

Smash Bros. Fan Creates 8-Player GameCube Controller Adapter

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a little over a month away, and many die hard fans are set on playing it with a GameCube controller. The retro hardware’s hold on Smash Bros. players’ imagination is so intense Nintendo’s even started manufacturing them again. But the game features up to eight player local multiplayer, so one…

EVE Online‘s Constant Wars Are Driving Away New Players

EVE Online is a game that thrives on war. Players love to clash with each other, attempt to wrest control of territory from one another, and expand their influence in the game’s universe. These wars fuel the spectacle that surrounds EVE, drawing all eyes towards the game when an insane battle occurs. But some wars…

What We Absolutely Loved About Castlevania Season Two

The first season of Netflix’s Castlevania animated series was pretty good, if a bit rushed due to a four-episode length. The second season expands with more episodes, more characters, and some amazing fight scenes. Staff writer Heather Alexandra and senior reporter Mike Fahey sat down to talk about how much they loved the new season.…

Transistor Sings On The Switch

I loved Transistor when I first played it on PC, but I struggled with some aspects of the game. The combat system, while interesting and creative, was sometimes tedious to control. On the Switch, the game feels more cohesive. In Transistor, you play as Red, a singer who has lost her voice. Plus, her boyfriend…

Red Dead Redemption 2 Defiantly Bucks Open-World Trends

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Red Dead Redemption 2 are both big open-world games, and they both came out in October of 2018. Both involve a hero on a horse riding around and murdering lots of people. The similarities end there. AC Odyssey is very much of its time. It’s an embodiment of the open-world game…

You’re Just Not Scary Anymore, Cthulhu 

I wanted to be frightened of Cyanide Studio’s new Lovecraftian horror game, but the scariest thing about Call of Cthulhu is the sloppy stealth action segments that try to add tension to an otherwise casual adventure game. Back in 1981, when Chaosium first published the tabletop role-playing game on which Call of Cthulhu is based,…