The Box Boy Sequel Makes An Already Great Game Even Better

One of the things I love about Nintendo is how they occasionally, with little to no fanfare, release inexpensive first-party titles on the Japanese eShop—especially as the newest of these titles is Box Boy: One More Box, the sequel to one of last year’s best games Like the original Box Boy, One More Box is…

Fuzoku Emaki Parade. Tsumago, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. By Neil Savage. 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!

When A Final Fantasy Artist (And Neil Gaiman) Did Sci-Fi David Bowie

I know Mike already wrote a piece on the sad passing of David Bowie, but for tonight’s Fine Art I wanted to talk about/show something as well, one of the cooler times the great man’s work intersected with both video games and comics. In 2004, an unlikely pairing saw comics superstar Neil Gaiman and renowned…

Octonauts Cosplay!

It’s the best, because Octonauts is the best. Cosplay by pineappleundies

Valve Changed The Winter Steam Sale, Says Everybody Wins

As big and important as Steam is, we rarely get any kind of official word from Valve on how it’s doing or how it works. Today, that changed, if only a little. The company accidentally (?) posted a developer message to a public Steam page (grabbed by SteamDB), and it claims that Valve’s decision to…

Relive The Days Of 90s Game Magazines

The way we read about video games has changed a lot over the last couple of decades, a rigid previews-features-reviews magazine format giving way to…whatever the hell the internet decides to write about at any given second. For the most part this has been an improvement, but there will always be those misty-eyed for the…

The Banner Saga Is Just Fine On Console

It’s been two years since The Banner Saga was released on PC and mobile. This week, it’s out on PS4 and Xbox One, and if you haven’t played it yet, there aren’t many surprises in store: this is a good game that’s…still good. I wrote about the PC version at launch, praising the game’s visuals…

Palmer Luckey Does Not Screw Around With His Gaming PC

Palmer Luckey is currently slapping together a new gaming rig he thinks people might find “interesting.” He is not wrong. In a recent Reddit AMA, the ceaselessly enthusiastic boy king of VR discussed the innards of his latest gaming PC, and it really is something: “I am currently working on a new PC that people…

A Trip Back Through BioShock’s Fantastic Opening Level

If you played BioShock, you remember the opening level of the game. Who could forget it? In a cool new video, ex-Irrational designer Bill Gardner sits down with IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey to play through “Welcome to Rapture,” the iconic opening level from the first BioShock. They chat while they play, hitting topics that range from…

Video Game Erroneously Blocked Player Named Muhammad Khan For Being On Government List

Muhammad Zakir Khan wanted to check out the beta for the MOBA-inspired Paragon from Epic Games, but when he tried to register an account, he was blocked because his name was apparently on the US government’s “Specially Designated Nationals list.” It’s been fixed, but the hell happened? Here’s what showed up when Khan tried to…

The Video Game That Changed How I Saw David Bowie

I was familiar with the work of David Bowie from a young age, but I didn’t fall in love with the man and his work until 1999. That was when I played Omikron: The Nomad Soul, a video game that changed the way I felt about David Bowie entirely. David Bowie succumbed to cancer on…

Rainbow Six Player Gets Abandoned By Team, Still Kicks Everyone’s Ass

Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical team-based shooter where lone wolf tactics are often punishable by swift, well-deserved death. But what happens when all your teammates leave a match and you have no choice but to go it alone? For most, it’s certain doom. For one player, it was an opportunity. Ben St-Lo was abandoned…

That Dragon, Cancer Knocked Me On My Ass

I’ve been wondering when a game would make me cry, and that changed over the weekend. A few games have made me teary eyed, but that’s about it. That Dragon, Cancer not only made me weep, but I had to stop playing it a few times. I’m going to talk about some of the events…

One of the World’s Best Speedrunners Can’t Speedrun Anymore

Narcissa Wright used to be the fastest Zelda: Ocarina of Time player. Her best run was nearly perfect, the stuff of, well, legends. Cut to now: Wright has developed hand problems and can’t speedrun. She’s also decided to undergo hormone replacement therapy. Her life is fraught with change, and some of her viewers aren’t taking…

A Childhood Tale of Pokémon Heartbreak

This is a story about losing your innocence, and getting your heart torn out in the worst kind of way. Also, Pokémon. Once upon a time, there was a contest held by Blockbuster—you know, the old video rental company? The rules were simple. Entrants take the best picture they can manage in Pokémon Snap, they…

Watch One Man Break The Hell Out Of Secret of Mana

There are few things more satisfying than watching someone tear apart one of your favorite childhood video games. Thanks to glitches, tricks, and the power of using two controllers at once, speedrunner Yagamoth blazed through the classic Square RPG Secret of Mana in under two hours at Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 last week. If…