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Hackers Get Pokémon Running On A PS4

Ever wanted to play Pokémon on your PlayStation 4? You can’t. But at least you can watch someone else do it? Using an exploit involving the PS4’s web browser, the fail0verflowhacking team figured out how to crack open Sony’s console and install a full version of Linux, which they demonstrated this week by using it…

What Goes Into Making Fallout 4’s Impressive Atomic Explosions

Ever notice Fallout 4’s awesome mushroom clouds? They look damn convincing! Here’s how Bethesda did it. Simonschreibt dives into the technical details that go into producing a mushroom cloud in Fallout 4, and it’s a fascinating watch: Basically, in order to nail the motion of an explosion, the textures of the mushroom cloud are moved…

Only a few weeks after Just Cause 3 was released, it appears the modding team behind Just Cause 2’s spectacular multiplayer mod have already cracked the sequel. There’s no indication when the rest of us might be playing Just Cause 3 with friends and strangers, but hopefully it’s not far off!

Final Fantasy IX Is Coming To PC And Phones

Final Fantasy IX, one of the best Final Fantasy games, is coming to PC and smartphones at some point in 2016, Square Enix announced today in Japan. Square didn’t announce a western release but it’s safe to say one will follow, given that every other Final Fantasy mobile and PC port has made it to…

Clever Mario Maker Levels Contain Dialogue And JRPG Menus

People are making all kinds of stages in Super Mario Maker. There are brutally hard stages, traditional stages, clever stages, and others. These are clever ones. The interesting thing these two stages have in common is their use of comments. Nintendo intends for comments to be exactly that: comments on a level. But with some…

Inside a Cave. Jahrom, Iran. By Aria Khosh Sirat. 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!

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I’ve Found The Perfect Competitive Online Game For Me

Years of Puzzle Quest, Candy Crush Saga and Bejeweled have all been preparing me for this moment. Now is my time to dominate. To stand over the battered and broken gems of my enemies in Force of Elements. Just released on Steam Early Access from developer Wicked Fun, Force of Elements could easily be mistaken…

Kirk Hamilton’s Top 10 Games Of 2015

My 2015 was a little bit like Luke’s: I never felt like I had a shortage of cool things to play at any given moment, but when I sat down to pick my top ten, I wasn’t overwhelmed by my options. In past years, I’ve always wound up listing more than ten games. (Those lists:…

The Revolt 2 Gaming PC Wears Its Graphics Card Like A Pretty Hat

Every part of your gaming PC is precious, working in harmony with other parts to make your games smooth and pretty. But the graphics card is the crown jewel, so iBuyPower’s small form factor Revolt 2 puts it in the appropriate spot. Doesn’t it look pretty? Normally we get a side view of our graphics…

Valve Apologizes For Steam’s Christmas Malfunction, Says It Affected 34,000 Users

Valve has finally apologized for last week’s Steam Christmas disaster, explaining in a lengthy statement today that the issues stemmed from a Denial of Service attack and wound up exposing the information of around 34,000 users. Valve said they’re still working to identify the affected users and will contact them once the process is complete.…

Someone’s Building Mario Maker For PC

That might look like Super Mario Maker—but it’s not. It’s Super Mario ReMaker, a fan-made project that hopes to bring Nintendo’s creation tool over to the PC with a bunch of new additions. Nintendo is a company in the business of selling its own hardware. They haven’t released Super Mario Maker for 3DS, let alone…

Phantasy Star Online 2 Is Still MIA In The West, But Hey Look Anime

Nearly four years ago, Sega announced Phantasy Star Online 2 for western release. That still hasn’t happened. But at least we’re getting the anime? Sentai Filmworks, a North American anime distributor, announced last night that they’ve licensed the animated version of Sega’s wayward MMORPG and that it’ll be out next year. Meanwhile, Sega still won’t…

Grim Fandango, Dragon Age: Origins Headline January’s PS Plus Lineup

Sony’s finally announced its PlayStation Plus lineup for next month, and it’s coming with some pretty great games. Though these games are often touted as “free,” remember that PlayStation Plus is a subscription service that you pay for every month. Here are the games coming next Tuesday: PlayStation 4 Grim Fandango Remastered Hardware: Rivals PlayStation…

When the Oculus Rift finally ships next year, it’ll come with a free copy of the impressive VR platformer, Lucky’s Tale. It remains one of the better VR demos I’ve played—the ability to look around the world with the headset while controlling the character was neat—but it remains to be seen how great of a…

Mike Tyson’s Hoverboard Knockout

Ohhhh. So that’s what really happened to Mike Tyson, huh? (Via ryrycomedy)

Exactly The New Amplitude I Was Hoping For

The new Amplitude isn’t an evolution of the track-mixing music gameplay that made the original and its predecessor, Frequency, so popular with rhythm game fans. It’s almost exactly the same, and that’s perfect. In 2003 I played a game on my PlayStation 2 that involved flying a ship over colorful bands of light representing the…

Suikoden II is $5 right now ($2.50 for PlayStation Plus members) on PSN, in case you’re interested in checking out one of the greatest games of all time

Artist Meiura-Venn drew a pretty cool mash-up of Papyrus and Sans from Undertale and Dark Souls’ Solitaire and Siegmeyer. Pretty sure Papyrus is saying “You can’t spell ‘prepared’ without several letters from his name.” Here’s some more Papyrus and Sans with another Dark Souls boss, Nito. To contact the author of this post, write to:…

There’s a PC Hiding Inside This Huge Star Destroyer

What looks like a Venator-class Star Destroyer replica at first is in fact an incredibly well-made case for a gaming PC. We have to take a closer look to see all the hardware, hidden by modder Sander van der Velden, functioning as the engines and other parts of the massive ship. The frame was made…