Doom PC Adds Vulkan Support, Making A Fast Game Even Faster

Earlier this year Nvidia showed off its new GTX 1080 card by running Bethesda’s Doom with the super-speedy Vulkan API instead of OpenGL, resulting in frame rates approaching 200 with all the bells and whistles. Today Bethesda makes Doom Vulkan support official. Vulkanis basically the next-generation OpenGL application programming interface, boasting higher performance, better CPU…

Pokémon Go Is Missing Features Promised In The First Trailer

When Pokémon Go was announced last September, the amazing trailer promised a game more ambitious than what launched last week. Here’s that trailer, which has been watched a whopping 28 million times: The Pokémon Go that just launched delivers on the basic premise of going into the world and catching pokémon . What’s missing are…

FTC Slams Warner Bros. For ‘Failing To Adequately Disclose’ Sponsored Gameplay Videos

The Federal Trade Commission came out hard against Warner Bros. today, banning the game publisher from misrepresenting sponsored content as part of a settlement that will force WB to offer clearer disclosure practices in their marketing campaigns. Under new rules laid out by the FTC today, Warner Bros. will have to monitor the YouTubers who…

Pokémon Go Fan Trolls Westboro Baptist Church, Church Fires Back

It is 2016, and at least one religious institution hasn’t let go of the idea that Pokémon is somehow sinful. What a time to be alive. Late last week, a certain Pokémon started making headlines… For the two of you that don’t play Pokémon Go, what this picture is relaying is that Westboro Baptist Church…

Robot Samurai

Georgi Simeonov was one of the main artists responsible for the look of ADAM, that incredible short film that was put together recently on the Unity Engine In a blog post over on Unity’s site, Simeonov—who has worked on games like Brink and Batman: Arkham Origins—outlines the design work and processes that went into creating…

Speedrunner Crushes Super Mario World Without Using A Single Power-Up

There were some remarkable speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2016, but this might be the most impressive: Rezephos blazing through Super Mario World without getting a single mushroom, fire flower, cape, star, or Yoshi. You can watch the astounding run here (starts at 7:50): Those shell jumping tricks are just out of this world.…

Team Mystic Is The Pokémon Go Faction Of Choice

Over the weekend we asked Pokémon Go players which of the game’s three factions they were backing—Team Instinct, Team Mystic or Team Valor. With more than 100,000 responses recorded the big blue bird of Team Mystic reigns supreme. I’ve been watching results since the poll opened on Saturday evening, and the results have been pretty…

Sailor Moon Cosplay Works Well With Figure Skating

This isEvgenia Medvedeva. She’s a 16-year-old champion Russian figure skater. And she totally loves Sailor Moon. She not only watches the anime, but recently did a special Sailor Moon themed skate program: Which made news in Japan: Medvedeva is also studying Japanese and can apparently sing the Sailor Moon theme in its original language. HerInstagram…

One Piece Creator Appears on Japanese TV, Doesn’t Show His Face

Can you blame him? I’m sure if you created the best-selling manga in Japanese history, you might enjoy keeping your privacy. In the past, Oda has been photographed for Japanese magazines, and googling him, turns up a fistful of photos. Most of them, however, are not recent. Japanese TV program Densetsu no Shunkan wanted to…

The Gantz CG Anime Continues To Look Great

Nice work. This keeps looking very, very promising. Previously, we got a short glimpse of the upcoming Gantz:O. Now, we get a longer one, and damn, it’s difficult not to get excited. The movie is based on the Osaka chapters, and it will hit Japanese theaters on October 14. No word yet on an international…

Yakushima. Kagoshima, Japan. By Kenneth Choy. 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!

Nobody Stop This Awesome Mask Cosplay

This is Simon Fontaine (The Mask) and Michele Paul (Tina) at the Montreal Comiccon, which went down in Canada over the weekend. We see a lot of guns and swords and rocket launchers in cosplay. What we don’t see is enough dancing, especially when it goes to the trouble of recreating the entire routine from…

$300 Statue Of Metal Gear Solid V’s Venom Snake Includes Cute Puppy

I can see your pores, Snake. Being a statue, and not an action figure, this won’t be coming with interchangeable hands and weapons and accessories. Though you can take his scarf off, and the detail on some of his gear is crazy. It’s made by Gecco, the same people behind the Quiet statue from earlier…

A Humble Final Fantasy Cosplay Request

Less Cloud cosplay, more Frans/Balthiers/Judges, please. Final Fantasy XII was the best. Cosplay by Giulietta Zawazdki, photo by Laughing Orc

When Over 2000 People Turn Up To Play Pokémon Go

I know, Pokémon Go is popular right now, but even taking its massive launch into account I haven’t seen anything quite like these events that went down in Australia over the weekend. The Pokémon Go Walk in Sydney, hastily advertised on Facebook in the wake of the game’s launch, was intended by PAX Australia’s Guy…

 Pokémon Go’s Global Launch “Paused”

As wild as the game’s initial reception has been, Pokémon Go’s launch hasn’t been without its problems. So the release of the game in places that aren’t the US, Australia or New Zealand is on hold while the developers sort things out. In an interview with Business Insider, Niantic CEO John Hanke says that while…