How Much Japanese Game Developers Make

Curious? A recent poll of nearly two thousand Japanese game developers reveals the average salaries for various jobs within the industry. Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association carried out the poll, which can be read here in full here (via Cheesemeister). A total of 1,808 individuals replied to this average 2015 salary question. Note that not all…

Life-Sized Anime Figures Sure Are Expensive

This is Mumei from the anime Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Okay, it’s not actually Mumei, but a life-sized statue. An extremely expensive one, at that. Measuring around 5.5 feet tall and weighing a whopping 103.6 pounds, the statue is priced at 2,500,000 yen (US$24,988). Only ten of these will be produced, and those in…

Pokémon Go Stampedes in Taiwan 

Damn. This is not scene from a disaster movie. These are apparently Pokémon Go players in Taiwan. The above and below images come via Taiwan’s Eastern Broadcasting Company. They are incredible. As startling as they are, wait until you see one of these stampedes in motion. As Time and That’s Mag points out, the above…

Dotonbori. Osaka, Japan. By Kris Labang. 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!

Slim PS4 Apparently Unboxed Before Sony Can Even Announce It

On September 7, Sony is expected to announce two new models of the PlayStation 4. They should only bother announcing one, because the Slim looks like it’s already well and truly out there Having apparently turned up on an auction site over the weekend, British YouTuber ZRZhas now seemingly got his hands on an entire…

Welcome To The 21st Century, Evie Frye

Russian cosplayer Milligan Vick—who we’ve featured before—is the perfect Evie Fry in this shoot, nailing everything about the last Assassin’s Creed game, from the costume to the location. You can see more of her work here

Pokémon Go team leader cosplay by Maki Roll’s Chop Shop, Lua Suicide & Byndo Gehk. Photo by Henry Riggs

Pokémon Go’s Team Leaders Now Actually Do Something

Pokémon Go’s Team Leadershaven’t been doing much leading thus far. That’s about to change, with the game’s latest update introducing something called “Implemented Pokémon Appraisal”. Now, every time you go into battle at a gym, Candela or Blanche will tell you about your opponent’s attack and defence capabilities, and will recommend which of your Pokémon…

Those are some tasty-lookin’ Pokémon burgers. They’re from Down N’ Out burgers in Sydney (via Kotaku AU).

What video game castle level in the year 2016 would be complete without a Dark Souls reference? Overwatch’s new Eichenwalde map contains a pretty obvious homage. Good thing Blizzard just put sitting emotes in the game, too. Here’s the full thing, clearly an overt reference to Dark Souls’ checkpoints, courtesy of alcatrazcgp: If you want…

Dragon Age Cosplay Is Better With Dogs

Jason & Cheryl Isenberg went through one hell of an ordeal when they first took up cosplay. Now that things are on the mend, they’ve decided to expand their crew: meet Fable, their three year-old Boxer who, having been “helping” with their cosplay for years, is now allowed in on the fun. This Dragon Age…

Designing A Better Pokémon Go

Like many of us, Wendy Borg has a few issues with Pokémon Go’s user interface and menu design. Unlike us, she went ahead and did something about it. A professional UI/UX designer, she’s gone in and redesigned almost the entire game (on paper), adding functionality where it’s needed, cleaning things up and just generally making…

Overwatch’s New Map Is Easy To Defend, Hard To Attack

Overwatch’s new map, Eichenwalde, is now live on the game’s public test server. It’s set in a village next to a big ol’ German castle. The map, however, is smaller than it looks. I’ve played a handful of matches on Eichenwalde now, and I’ve found it to be a briskly paced payload map that favors…

These Are Your 2016 Pokémon World Champions

Each year the very best Pokémon video and trading card game players meet at the World Championships to determine who the top trainers are, and each year the Masters (oldest) Division looks really awkward on stage. This year did not disappoint. I am so used to working on the weekends that I completely missed this…

The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3‘s Source Code

This is a story about Doom 3’s source code and how beautiful it is. Yes, beautiful. Allow me to explain. After releasing my video game Dyad I took a little break. I read some books and watched some movies I’d put off for too long. I was working on the European version of Dyad, but…

Overwatch’s First Big Tournament Gives Out $100,000 In Prize Money

Overwatch’s first major international tournament was held over the weekend in Cologne, Germany. Hosted at Gamescom, Europe’s largest games trade show, the ESL Overwatch Atlanta Showdown saw competition from eight pro teams. With a prize pool of $100,000 in the balance, professional players busted out their best Tracers and most bad ass Genjis and fought…

Damn Shame This X-Men Series Got Canned

Joel Furtado is an artist and animator from Canada who has worked on games like Halo 4, Star Wars Kinect and the Need for Speed series. He also created and started on Danger Room Protocols, an animated web series based on 90’s X-Men designs that used a very cool video game look. Sadly, this was…