Ignore A Party To Pet Dogs In This Video Game

You blink. You rub your eyes. You look around. “Oh crap,” you realize, “I’m at a party.” Pet The Pup At The Party is a game even the most mildly introverted among us can identify with. You’re at a party (a procedurally generated party that seems to take place in an infinite apartment, no less),…

A Sci-Fi Adventure Made With Stunning Pencil Art

Sci-fi adventure game Original Journey entices with its hand-drawn pencil art of alien mutant egg creatures. And luckily, they feel as good to bombard with cannons as they do to look at. In Original Journey, out today on Steam, you are a young member of an endangered species who, despite being late to one of…

Sonic Mania Has Some Cool Secrets And Cheats

Some might joke that the biggest surprise about Sonic Mania is that it was a good Sonic game. The game does have actual secrets, though, and they’re really fun. Sonic Mania looks like it stepped right out of my childhood, that it has cheat codes and secrets only ups the nostalgia factor. For example, if…

Matterfall Is A Metroid-Contra Which Requires Incredible Dexterity

I love complicated action games in general, though I have a particular soft spot for ones that make my hands hurt. I am pleased to announce that Resogun and Super Stardust HD developers Housemarque’s latest game, Matterfall, takes a seat beside God Hand at the roundtable of games which might cause carpal tunnel. In the…

Here’s The Nintendo Switch Game Fans Are Warning People Not To Buy

For the past few days, a Nintendo Switch game has started to gain notoriety as the worst release on the platform. Any time people post about this game online, they warn others not to buy it. So I picked it up. Troll and I is a port of a game for Playstation 4, Xbox One…

Pewdiepie Says He’s Going To Stop Making Nazi Jokes After Charlottesville

Earlier this year, YouTube’s biggest star sparked controversy after Disney severed ties with him over jokes about Jewish people and Nazis. At the time, Felix ‘Pewdiepie’ Kjellberg apologized but continued to make many Nazi references in defiance to the outrage. Months later, Kjellberg says he has a different perspective about those jokes and says he’s…

Hearthstone Pro Gets Instantly Wrecked By New Card

Hearthstone’s new Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is out, and that means that on top of being able to play with fresh strategies, we get to partake in another more underappreciated pleasure: watching pro players fail to play around new cards. One recent shining example comes from Johnnie “Ratsmah” Lee, one of North America’s…

A Brief @!#?ing History Of Swearing In Video Games

In December of 1999, at the tender age of eleven, I received Donkey Kong 64. It was a birthday gift from my parents and even came with a shiny yellow controller, though sadly not the limited edition banana one. Regardless, I popped it in my N64 (after inserting the expansion pack, of course) and snapped…

Nine Tips For Women (And Anyone Else) Attending Their First Fighting Game Tournament

Are you are a woman who wants to compete in a fighting game event, but you don’t know where to start? Maybe you’re worried you don’t know enough or aren’t good enough. (Probably not true.) Or maybe you just want to know what these events are like ahead of time. Which ones should you try…

Wrapping My Nintendo Switch In Wood

Back in June I made my PlayStation 4 look old and classywith a wooden cover by a company called Toast. It was fast and easy. Doing the same thing to my Nintendo Switch took a little more doing. Toast makes covers out of actual wood veneer for all sorts of devices, from smartphones (we can…

Super Smash Bros. Combo Contest Was Full Of Incredible Trick Plays

Super Smash Con, a combination tournament and convention focused on the Super Smash Bros. fighting game series, kicked off this weekend’s festivities with a ridiculous show of skill known simply as the Combo Contest. Inspired by the NBA’s Dunk Contest, this exhibition invites some of the most creative Super Smash Bros. players to showcase the…

Deadly Premonition Creator’s Next Game Is A Slice-Of-Life Cat RPG

Not just a brand of cat food, The Good Life is Deadly Premonition creator Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro’s upcoming mystery slice-of-life cat role-playing game. It will be the debut game of White Owls, Swery’s new studio. The Good Lifeis set in rural England’s “Rainy Woods,” where a New York photographer named Naomi is struggling to pay…

We Asked New Yorkers If Mario Is Human

I went out on the streets of New York City to ask the people a question that has burned game-likers’ brains since the announcement of the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey: is Mario a human? I promise I’m getting a haircut really soon, by the way.

Nintendo Switch Bending Problems Are Still A Thing

Earlier this year, there were English language reports of the Nintendo Switch warping and bending. Now, there are similar reports from Japan. In the spring, NeoGAF noticed the issue, as did Twitter and Reddit users. This was just one of the early hardware problems, and with all those issues, it’s still hard to say how…

Just A 127-Hit Combo In Dragon Ball FighterZ

Dragon Ball FighterZ lookskiller. Case in point: this clip of Goku unleashing a 127-hit combo on Cell. As EventHubs points out, this is the first 100-plus combo we’ve seen from the game. The clipwas originally uploaded by YouTuber NGI. Dragon Ball FighterZ will be released next year.

3,000 People Lined Up In Tokyo For 105 Nintendo Switch Consoles

Earlier this month in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro, around 3,000 people lined up at a retailer for a chance to buy one of 105 Switch consoles. As Game Memo and Science Plus report, the line was recently featured on Japanese morning show Tokudane. As with other Switch sales in Japan, people lined up to get a raffle…

Shinjuku At Night. Tokyo, Japan. By Scott Bartley. 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!