Razer Phone Review: The Right Way To Make A Gaming Phone

Previous attempts at creating a gaming-centric smartphone include phones with slide-out game controllers, a cross between a Sony PlayStation Portable and a phone and the Nokia N-Gage. For its first gaming phone, Razer went with a powerful black rectangle with a stunning display and outstanding speakers. Smart move. Rather than creating a frankensteinian hybrid of…

NBA 2K18 Is Taking Down Custom Shirts Depicting Real Brands, To Players’ Dismay

NBA 2K18‘s custom shirt storefront is flooded with shirts with that look like designs from Supreme or soccer player jerseys. 2K has been removing shirts containing copyrighted material, and some players are not happy about seeing them go. In NBA 2K18, players can create custom shirts in myCareer mode, which can then be voted on…

People Are Spending Millions Of Dollars On Fake Money To Buy Fake Cats

CryptoKitties lets you exchange a made-up thing called Ethereum for fake cats. Naturally it’s the next big thing in the super convoluted world of cryptocurrencies, where people spend a lot of time cooking up fancy new names for pyramid schemes. Like people who hoarded Beanie Babies back in the day, digital collectors are gathering and…

A Game About Cooking Eggs And Dealing With The Devil

Hell is a game about cooking eggs. Drop an egg into the pan and watch it sizzle before cracking another egg. But be careful: one wrong move will send you down a road full of demons, pirated DVDs, a Ruger pistol, and the devil himself. It’s bizarre, and it’s this week’s indie pick. Hell is…

Overpowered New Gun Dominates Destiny 2 PvP [UPDATE]

With the launch of Curse of Osiris, there’s plenty of new stuff in Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space resisting the urge to spend money to change the colors of their helmets. There’s also a gun that’s just about wrecking everyone. Meet Prometheus Lens, a brand new exotic that has…

Coming to Injustice 2 December 12, The Atom speaks to the tiny fighter inside all of us by becoming the tiny fighter inside his opponents. How’d he get through Bane’s face mask? Love finds a way. Check out the gameplay trailer on YouTube for more of The Atom’s size-shifting shenanigans.

Pokémon Go Gets 50 New Monsters And An Intense Weather System

Niantic has begun its roll out of the third generation of monsters in Pokémon Go with fifty critters from the Hoenn region, and more slated to come later in the year. More surprisingly, though, is that Pokémon Go is about to require going out into the rain and snow to capture every monster thanks to…

Portal Gets Its Own Bridge Building Game

Portal has gone all over the place, from the darkest depths of Aperture Science to outer space, briefly. Next stop: the open road. Or some bridges, anyway. Because why not? I guess? Bridge Constructor: Portal is a collaboration between Bridge Constructor developer ClockStone Software and Valve. In it, you’ll solve puzzles that involve trucks crossing abyssal…

Japanese Gaming’s Incredible Comeback Story 

With Puyo Puyo’s release in 1991, Masamitsu Itani became one of the most successful game company presidents in Japan. Then everything went bust. But just as Itani lost everything, he didn’t lose his will to keep making games. According to AOL News Japan, Itani said he wanted to make a game that sold. While Kazunari…

Mt. Chocorua in White Mountain National Forest. New Hampshire, USA. By Brian Harvey. 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! 

Korea Is Coming To Civilization VI

One of the new factions coming to Civ VI alongside the big new expansion will be Korea, a welcome return since they were so cool in Civ V Queen Seondeok is one of the nine new leaders in the expansion, and as we can probably expect with most of the new guys, has abilities tied…

Spice, Flow, Nowhere To Go

Rostyslav Zagornov is an artist based in London who has done work across both video games and film. You can see more of Zagornov’s work at his ArtStation page. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…