Japanese Role-Playing Game Trend: Big Sister Characters

Have you noticed? Some of the biggest recent Japanese role-playing games feature older sister type characters instead of predominately kid sister ones popular in years past. Big sister characters aren’t necessarily related to the protagonists, but they are often surrogate older sisters, even if they are portrayed as fetching or become a romantic interest. A…

Danny DeVito Fans React To Detective Pikachu Announcement 

When it was originally announced that a Great Detective Pikachu movie got the greenlight, fans thought Danny DeVito would be the perfect choice for the character. Hollywood, however, had someone else in mind. See? DeVito is perfect! As just announced, Ryan Reynolds will play Detective Pikachu when production starts in London early next year. Some…

The Best-Selling Manga Of 2017 In Japan 

As the year begins to wind down, now is a good time to see which are the best-selling manga in Japan during this year. I bet One Piece did pretty well! Oricon, which tracks chart rankings, is listing sales numbers for the time period between December 5, 2016 and November 27, 2017. Here at the…

The Boat. Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. By Daniel Lim. 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! 

Here’s A Custom Satoru Iwata Amiibo

Artist GandaKris, kinda famous for her work customising Amiibo and turning them into cool and new figures Nintendo would never actually release, has set aside the fictional for a moment to commemorate Nintendo’s former President Satoru Iwata This is just lovely. The box art by @SethHay is especially nice. Today would have been Iwata’s 58th…

Ryan Reynolds Will Play Pikachu In A Live-Action Pokémon Movie

Remember how weird it seemed last year that a live-action Hollywood movie based on Detective Pikachu was getting made? Welcome to 2017, where Ryan Reynolds is in the movie. As Pikachu. THR report that Reynolds has signed on for a starring role in the project, which begins filming in London early next year. And by…

Welcome To The Age Of $170 Video Game Art Books

Because I run our video game concept art feature, I sometimes get sent art books to take a look at. Yesterday was the first time I barely got one through the front door. This is The Art And Design Of Final Fantasy XV, a new release from Cook & Becker, a company better known for…

Heather is trying to get to the top of the mountain in Getting Over It right now on Twitch It should be easy, right?

WWE 2K18 Looks Gnarly On The Switch

If you’re the kind of person who watches WWE matches on 75% speed, WWE 2K18’s Switch version may be for you. For others, not so much. Released today, the game has fans beggingfor a framerate patch. WWE 2K18 is about 23 gigs on the Switch. That’s 10 gigs bigger than Zelda: Breath of the Wild.…

Elex Is The Biggest Trashfire I’ve Played All Year, But I Still Love It

Elex is a terribly constructed video game full of glitches, lag, eye-sores, and confusing mechanics. I would not recommend most people go through the pain of playing this RPG. And yet, despite all of this, I am obsessed with Elex. I can’t stop playing it. In a year of incredible releases, Elex manages to be…

Quiz: Which Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Villager Are You?

The villagers in Animal Crossing are pretty much the best part. Although Pocket Camp only has a select few, some of them are the best of the series’ weird and lovable animals. Which one are you?

Shadow of War‘s New Online Mode Makes It Clear: They Want You To Play This Game Forever

Five of my orcs died in Shadow of War yesterday. I callously dropped them, one by one, into the game’s new online fight pits. They didn’t make it out. Rash Skull Bow, a feral marksman with little skulls for shoulder pads, got killed in 20 seconds after Ghash The Bloated struck him in the stomach…

After Two Years Minecraft Finally Gets A New World Record

Ender Dragon is Minecraft’s final boss, a serpentine collection of dark blocks that launches fireballs at the player. Minecraft speedrunners have long struggled with it, but this week speedrunners finally discovered how to bypass the Dragon altogether. It’s already led to a world record. Part of what makes the fight against the Ender Dragon time…

Crappy Games Keep Trying To Steal PUBG‘s Name On Steam

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds? That’s old hat. These days, I’m all about, um, *checks list* PlayerUnkn1wn: Friendly Fire, PlayerUnkn4wn: Zombie, and Battle Pixel’s Survival Over the past few months, a handful of games with names suspiciously similar to PUBG have made it onto Steam, seemingly undeterred by silly things like Valve’s strenuous approval process (lol) or trademark…

High-Level Destiny 2 Activities Are Now Locked Behind DLC

If there’s one thing that Destiny players love, it’s being locked out of content until they pay money. Curse of Osiris is happy to deliver, gating off many of Destiny 2‘s high-level activities to anyone who hasn’t bought the new expansion. Curse of Osiris, which came out Tuesday, raises the caps on Destiny 2 character…