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…

GTA Online Boss Visits His Crew In Real Life If They’re Loyal

GTA Online has a giant community with thousands of crews who work together in-game. One crew, Hillbilly Agenda, has a leader who will personally visit anyone in his group IRL, provided they’ve been in the crew long enough. Hillbilly Agenda is a crew of about 30 players, many who live in Tennessee. The crew is…

Mod Turns Mirror’s Edge Into A Multiplayer Racing Game

The original Mirror’s Edge is still so good, but the solo experience can only give you so much after all these years. So why not try something new, like online multiplayer racing? This modturns a first-person platformer into a racing game, pitting players against each other in a dash to the finish line. Think the…

Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris‘s Campaign Has Some Good Moments But Is Mostly Tedious

Today, Bungie released a brand new expansion to Destiny 2, a video game in which players are trapped forever in an infinite simulation. And if you wanted something revelatory, you might need to recalibrate your expectations. Curse of Osiris, the first of two announced expansion packs for Destiny 2, opens up Mercury as a patrol…

Star Control’s Creators Call On Stardock To Stop Selling The Original Games

The space fighter series Star Control is at the center of a new dispute over who owns the franchise, and what that means for the future of the series. In a recent series of posts, Star Control creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III have called on the publisher Stardock, which purchased some of the…

Riot’s Whiny Esports Ad Gets The Response It Deserves

Desus Nice and The Kid Mero just tackled esports on their comedy talk show, thanks to Riot’s latest masturbatory advertisement showcasing League of Legends pro players. Riot’s video, which juxtaposes clips of notable esports haters like Colin Cowherd with emotional esports moments like Faker crying, argues that people should take esports seriously. Mero doesn’t buy…

Marvel vs. Capcom Pulls Attention From Ugly Characters With Ugly Select Screen

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite showed up to today’s release party with a lopsided character select screen. Infinite’s latest update bolstered the playable cast to include Winter Soldier, Black Widow, and Venom earlier today. They join previous fighters Black Panther, Sigma, and Monster Hunter to comprise the game’s first roster expansion. Those familiar with the two…

Stealth RPG Seven Tries To Mash Up Thief And Diablo, But It Doesn’t Work

I’ve had my eye on Seven: The Days Long Gone since the moment I heard the words “isometric open-world stealth RPG from ex-Witcher developers.” It sounded like a game made just for me. Unfortunately, while Seven has a cool setting and some fun ideas, the glue that holds it all together is sloppily applied. Seven…