Street Fighter V Update Makes Losing Matches More Embarrassing

Losing in Street Fighter V is now very, very embarrassing. Last night’s Street Fighter V update added Street Fighter III’s suit-clad human-muscle Urien and a Versus CPU mode, but the game’s new environmental stage KOs are the real… kicker. SFV patch 1.06’s new stage KOs are just vicious. Your limp, defeated corpse no longer just…

Well Of Course Destiny Players Have Already Found Rise of Iron Cheese

Destiny, a video game about the eternal war between the players and developers of Destiny, has always been full of cheese. Over the past two years, Destiny’s community has discovered all sorts of ways to manipulate the game and get new gear as quickly as possible. Rise of Iron is no exception. This week’s new…

Forza Horizon 3 Runs Fine On PC

Forza Horizon 3 marks the series’ PC debut as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program. I’ve been playing the PC version since yesterday, and so far nothing horrible has happened. In fact, almost everything is fine. It’s sad that a PC port of a game that’s traditionally been a console exclusive had me primed…

Nintendo’s Big Fall Wii U Game Briefly Went On Sale Two Weeks Early

Some shocked Wii U owners spread the word this morning that Paper Mario Color Splash, the only remaining big Nintendo-published Wii U game of 2016, was playable today despite it not technically going on sale until October 7. It’s common these days for retail copies of games to find their way to gamers’ consoles prior…

Star Wars: Uprising Is Coming To An End

Last year around this time, mobile developer Kabam and Disney released Star Wars: Uprising, a “dull Diablo clone” set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. It’s shutting down in November. As of yesterday, folks still playing Uprising for whatever reason can no longer make in-game purchases, and they’ve got…

There’s a new Witcher 3 patch/”hot-fix” today for consoles. Just hit. Looks like they want to get in on the shortening load-times thing, too. We can all agree that infinite loading screens are a tad too long, yeah?

D is For Destiny, A Children’s Book About Grinding In Space

Destiny, a time-consuming video game which parents can play to avoid parenting, now has an official children’s book. It’s called D Is for Destiny, and yes, it really is official: it’s the product of a team of Bungie’s artists and writers, who got together to make something that parents who love being tormented by engrams…

Ten Letdowns for Foreigners Visiting Japan

Have you ever been to Japan? If so, maybe you had a swell time. Maybe you had an awful time. Let’s see if any of your complaints match up to this poll. Back in 2014*, respected newspaper Nikkei asked one hundred foreigners visiting Japan to name what they found disappointing about their trip. With the…

At This Japanese Bar, You Drink And Play In A Ball Pit

As a kid, I remember the Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pit being fun. A new bar called Ball Pool Bar Dive in Osaka recreates that experience for boozy adults. Earlier this year, a pop-up ball pit bar opened in San Francisco for two days. This new ball pit bar in Osaka, however, isn’t a pop-up…

Marugame Castle. Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. By Wilhelm Donko. 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!

Oculus Rift Founder Palmer Luckey Funding Trump Shitposters [UPDATE]

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus Rift, has been keeping busy since he sold the company to Facebook in 2014. One thing he’s done to pass the time, as reported by The Daily Beast, is to financially back (and be named Vice President of) a non-profit dedicated to alt-right meme shitposts. UPDATE – 9/23, 10:30…

If Nintendo Won’t Make A New Advance Wars, These Guys Will

Since developers Intelligent Systems are too busy these days on Fire Emblem (and other stuff) to make any more of their brilliant Advance Wars games, a team of Japanese developers have decided to do their work for them, announcing a new PC title that is Advance Wars in everything but name. Tiny Metal, billed as…