Final Fantasy XV‘s Trailers Gave Away Way Too Much

At E3 earlier this year, I asked Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata if he was worried that Square Enix had showed too much of the game. There had been two different demos and tons of footage, I pointed out, which was leading fans to worry that there were few surprises left. Here’s what he…

Old Arcade Machines On The Factory Floor

Every dusty old arcade cabinet sitting in the corner of a pub or rotting in a warehouse somewhere was once shiny and brand new, assembled by workers on factory floors just like these. The Arcade Blogger has compiled a collection of old photos and videos of these production runs, showing how companies like Nintendo, Atari…

Forza Horizon 3‘s Snow Driving Is Almost Too Real

During my first ten minutes in Forza Horizon 3‘s wintry Blizzard Mountain expansion pack, I found myself in a snowstorm so thick I pulled over to wait it out. It was only a few seconds before I remembered that I was an immortal super driver with an army of tree-devouring vehicles at my command, but…

Dishonored 2’s New Game Plus Lets Players Combine Corvo And Emily’s Abilities

Dishonored 2 is adding a New Game Plus Mode as part of its latest free game update. The mode won’t just let you play a new game with your old powers. It will let you play with every power there is. Game Update 1 is the first of two major free updates. It releases today…

Four Years Later, The Wii U Hasn’t Gotten Any Big Price Drops

The Wii U is in an odd spot. It never found the audience Nintendo was hoping for, and after two or three years it was already being phased out in favor of the Switch. Despite that, it’s yet to receive a significant price drop, even as the more-successful PlayStation 4 and Xbox One take detours…

Valkyria Revolution Is Coming West

If you’ve been jonesing for a new Valkyria Chronicles game, you’ll be able to get your fix pretty soon: Valkyria Revolution is coming to North America and Europe this spring. It’ll be on PS4, Xbox One, and—believe it or not—Vita. Valkyria Revolution, which comes out January in Japan, is more of a spinoff than a…

Age Of Empires II Is Getting Another Brand New Expansion

Maybe it’s because Age of Empires II is still hugely popular, maybe it’s because Bill Gates wants it done, either way there’s going to be another brand new, original expansion to 1999’s Age of Kings released on the PC soon. This will be the third new expansion released for the HD version of the game…

It’s Christmas In Final Fantasy‘s Midgar, Atop The Plate At Least

The shadow of the Shinra Corporation Headquarters is much less oppressive now that Second Life’s long-running Final Fantasy VII role-playing sim is lit with holiday cheer. But do the residents of Midgar’s slums know it’s Christmas? One of the first places I visited in Second Life when I first logged in back in 2007 was…

Modern Warfare Now Has Female Soldiers

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was first released in 2007, there weren’t any female soldier models in the game’s multiplayer. Now, in the game’s 2016 edition, there is. Raven, developers of Modern Warfare Remastered, have added the characters—which include new voice acting—as part of a free December update to the remade shooter, which includes…

Japan’s Most Intense Rock, Paper, Scissors Competition 

Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and crying. Since 2010, members of idol group AKB48 and its sister groups have duked it out in paper-rock-scissors competitions or “janken taikai” in Japanese. “Janken” means paper-rock-scissors (“taikai” means “tournament”), and while I played this growing…

Japan Has Vegeta Refrigerators 

Because you store vegetables in fridges, and you can make a pun, I guess. This is what the Vegeta fridge ads typically look like, and they’ve been around for a while without an overt Dragon Ball nods. They have been “Vegeta” as in “vegetables” and not as in Super Saiyan. But now, no doubt, Toshiba…

Winter In Greece. Evia Island, Greece. By Elias Grammatikakis. 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! 

Ghana’s Mortal Kombat Movie Looks Amazing

Remember that Predator movie that came out of Ghana’s Kumawood scene a few years back? Now there’s a flick based on Mortal Kombat That’s one hell of a trailer. There are drones! And martial arts! Even some pretty good costumes. Before you start wondering what the fuck is going on here, know that Kumawood movies…

From a recent Reddit AMA with Justin Kurzel, director of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie.