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Ever find something made just for you? This is Arcadia Legends, a community-made remix album from OverClocked ReMix. It takes song from my favorite game, Skies of Arcadia, and turns them into absolute fire. The above track, To the Horizon, incorporates themes from all of the games nations and is simply a delight. Be sure…

Tim’s got a Japanese copy of Dragon Quest Builders 2 and we’re checking out Dragon Quest Builder 2 on Switch! LIVE. Come join us in the chat as Tim translates live and I struggle to keep up with my extremely basic Japanese.

Hitman: Blood Money and Hitman: Absolution are getting remastered in 4K and ported to PS4 and Xbox One as part of an HD Enhanced Collection. Out digitally on January 11 for $60, the games will run at 60 fps, have improved textures and lighting, and updated controls. 

Nintendo Officially Shoots Down Bowsette

Here’s the first heartbreak of 2019: Nintendo has officially made Bowsette non-canon. Last year, Nintendo announced that the Switch version of Super Mario Bros. U would feature a new item, the Super Crown, that turns Toadette into a Princess Peach-esque character called Peachette. Fans ran wild with this idea, imagining it on other Mario characters.…

Writer Nicholas Lund has penned an in-depth look at all of the birds and the experience of birding in Red Dead Redemption 2 for the National Audubon Society. Give it a read if you want to be an expert on all of the different types of loons in New Hanover.

Welcome To Apocalypseburg Is The Biggest Lego Movie Set Yet

The first Lego Movie introduced us to Bricksburg, an idyllic cityscape where everything was awesome. Arriving on January 16 ahead of next month’s sequel, the $300, 3,178 piece “Welcome to Apocalypseburg” set is awesome in a darker, grittier sort of way. Lady Liberty, or her shattered remains, serves as the centerpiece to the most impressive…

A Live-Action One Piece Movie Might Look Like This

This isn’t a trailer for a One Piece movie trailer, but if a made-in-Japan version ever gets greenlit, it could like this. Earlier week, Oricon posted this Indeed job recruit spot with actor Takumi Saitoh as Luffy, model Rika Izumi as Nami, comedian Daigo Yamamoto as Usopp, actor Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Zoro and actor Yosuke…

Marina Bay Sands. Singapore. By Andy Go | Facebook 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! 

Bethesda and Behaviour Interactive announced today they reached an agreement in the case over whether the latter ripped off Fallout Shelter in the creation of the Westworld mobile game Bethesda had filed a lawsuit in June 2018 claiming parts of the code for its game had been copied. That litigation is now over.

GTA Online‘s Expensive New Car Doesn’t Handle Well

The latest expensive sports car added to GTA Online via a recent update is the Itali GTO, a car inspired by the sleek, fast Ferrari. But unlike those Italian supercars, the Itali has a quirk: it’s really bouncy and hard to control. After spending nearly $2 million in in-game currency on the Itali GTO, some…

Arcade Culture Takes Center Stage In Netflix’s Newest Anime Offering

Over the holidays, Netflix added animated series Hi Score Girl to their streaming lineup. The anime, based on the manga of the same name by Rensuke Oshikiri, is set in Japan during the arcade boom of the 1990s. Hi Score Girl is a slice-of-life comedy focused on the budding love triangle between three childhood friends,…

Player Discovers That The Legend Of Zelda Has A ‘Minus World’ Too

There’s an infamous, hidden level in the original Super Mario Bros. called World -1 that is glitched and impossible to complete. Dubbed Minus World, it was never meant to be played, instead serving as a hidden depository for data in the game that exists outside of the main path. Super Mario Bros. isn’t the only…

The Capital Wasteland Project, a mod remaking Fallout 3 inside Fallout 4, has been un-canceled. The project’s lead developer had previously given up on it after Bethesda told him he couldn’t re-use audio from the third game. The team has now decided to re-record all of the dialogue themselves.

Rainbow Six Siege Exploit Sends Rival Players Into Polygon Hell

Usually when people think of cheating in a shooter they imagine someone using an aimbot to magically hit opponents from through walls. Recently, Rainbow Six Siege players stumbled across a much more bizarre form of exploit, one that basically sends their characters on a virtual acid trip. Basically, Rainbow Six Siege players are making it…

A Bunch Of Former Top Hearthstone Designers Are Making A Marvel Game

Former Hearthstone director Ben Brode and a group of his colleagues left Blizzard last year, and although they yet haven’t announced what they’re making next, today they dropped some big news: It’s a Marvel game. Second Dinner, a new indie studio founded by Brode, former Hearthstone executive producer Hamilton Chu, and several other ex-Blizzard employees,…

Japan Hasn’t Given Up On The Mini-Disc Just Yet

The Mini-Disc never caught on in the U.S. But during the 1990s, the format did in its native Japan, where MD isn’t yet dead. Launching in 1991, MD was the coolest format. It was like a compact disc, but smaller (hence, Mini-Disc). Unlike CDs, it didn’t skip. You could also chuck Mini-Discs in your bag…

Close to the Tracks. By Aaron Baggett | Official Site 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! 

If you missed the first part of my Skies of Arcadia playthrough, it’s now available on YouTube. This is my favorite game of all time and I’ll be streaming it throughout early 2019!

It Took Three Years To Make This Pocket-Sized Wii

While not quite as elegant as the Switch, the PiiWii is one of the more sleek and practical solutions for playing Wii and GameCube games on a handheld ever modded. And it only took its creator three years to complete it. Shank Mods, who you might remember as the guy who decided to stick the…

Kieron Gillen’s New Comic Is About The ‘Sad Mess’ Of RPGs

Kieron Gillen will never forget the time that he was a female Soviet air bomber in WWII and an airplane turned his character into “soup.” Gillen was playing in Night Witches, an “intensely serious” tabletop RPG about Soviet women air bombers in World War II. His character, a surly type who had escaped Leningrad, landed…