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How Romance Works in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey not only gives players the option to play as Alexios or Kassandra, but also, the option to romance certain characters throughout your travels. We dove in to these new dialogue options, which are highlighted with little hearts next to them, to show you how they work. We’ve already compared how scenes play…

Visit Tokyo’s Best Arcades

While Japan has lots of excellent arcades, Tokyo is home to the country’s best. If you are visiting the city and like video games, these are the arcades you must check out. Club Sega Club Sega is a solid arcade experience with no fuss. There are locations in Akihabara, Ikebukuro, Shinjuku and Meguro. All of…

Monolith Soft, the folks behind Xenoblade, is hiring for a new RPG project. The studio is looking for a large number of positions to be filled, including programmers, planners, technical artists, designers and management.

Dragon Ball Makes For Good Touchdown Celebrations

Darren Fells and David Njoku of the Celevand Browns recently did a Dragon Ball Fusion inspired touchdown celebration. They are not alone. Here’s how that celebration compares to the original Fells and Njoku have been planning this for months A day later, indoor pro team Green Bay Blizzard did their own Fusion celebration Dragon Ball…

Climbing A Tree. Central Park Zoo, NYC, USA. By Ramón Avendaño Arechavala. 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! 

More Telltale Employees Laid Off As Studio Continues Its Collapse

After Telltale laid off roughly 90% of its staff on September 21, the studio said the remaining 25 employees would proceed with finishing work on Minecraft: Story Mode, an interactive show for Netflix. Today, a narrative designer who was one of those remaining employees stated on social media that she and other members of that…

Bungie has detailed a bunch more changes coming to Destiny 2: Forsaken in October. Among other things: an increase to the Malfeasance quest drop rate, reduced Sleeper ammo in Gambit, a Scout rifle PvE damage buff, map names for discovered Lost Sectors, tracking for up to three pursuits, and no prestige Last Wish raid.

Reynald landed a high-flying Dragon Ball FighterZ combo at Wednesday Night Fights last night, finishing it with a huge Android 16 dunk from off-screen. Gotenks’ model actually disappeared for a split-second before being plowed into the ground due to some unknown bug. Fighting games!

Sea of Thieves‘ New Volcanic Region Is Difficult And Hilarious

Rare’s online pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves launched into some rough waters, feeling more like a beta than full game. Since then, the developers have worked to make the seas more treacherous and exciting. Last week’s Forsaken Shores content adds an entirely new region packed with dangerous volcanoes and difficult quests. It’s the perfect…

The Story Of Chiller, One Very Messed Up Video Game

The old parental and Congressional outrage about video games was always pretty stupid. The belief that video games represented some phantasmagoric nadir for youth culture, the idea that you could encrypt Satanism into a Super Nintendo, none of that held up. Night Trap was a blasé Scream send-up with worse politics, Splatterhouse never rendered anything…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Female Crews Sing Different Sea Shanties

Sea shanties have been a part of the Assassin’s Creed series ever since Black Flag. These lively songs breathe life into lengthy ocean voyages. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gives you a ship to sail around ancient Greece and a variety of crews. One small detail helps bring their songs to life. Most of the crews you’ll…

Last month, Bandai Namco revealed that Yu-Gi-Oh’s Yugi Moto will fight alongside Dragon Ball’s Goku and Light from Death Note in upcoming fighting game Jump Force. Today, we saw what Yugi’s fighting style looks like, and it looks bonkers. Yugi can summon monsters—yes, like dragons—to fight on his behalf. The real question: Can he spear…

The Games That Inspire Coheed And Cambria’s Sci-Fi Saga

Claudio Sanchez is a rock star. His band, Coheed and Cambria, has millions of fans across the world. His cascading mane of heavy metal hair is the envy of other musicians and prides of lions alike. The secret to Sanchez’s success: being a giant nerd. Some bands tell stories with their music. Then there’s Coheed…

Game Developers Say They’re Preparing For PSN Name Changes

As PlayStation users across the world wonder whether they’ll ever get to change their names from (or to) xx_gokusephiroth420_xx, the option now seems closer than ever. Developers of multiplayer games tell Kotaku that they’re preparing for PlayStation Network name changes to finally come soon. Three people at three different game studios, speaking anonymously because they…

Rare Character Matchup Punctuates Dominican Street Fighter V Tournament

No matter how many players pick up fighting games as a competitive endeavor, there are always going to be certain character matchups that barely ever come up in tournaments, let alone in the later stages of a major event. Last weekend, Fighting Fest showcased one such matchup during its Street Fighter V finals, a battle…

Low-Spec Version Of PUBG Released In Thailand

It’s called PUBG Project Thai and went into closed beta testing last month. This low-spec version of PUBG is currently Thailand-only. Here are the recommended specs: And the minimum ones: A PUBG Corp spokesperson told Inven (via tipster Sang), “The low spec version is a separate project developed for Thai players only. It was primarily…

Hollywood Is Making A Live-Action Mega Man Movie

Capcom has announced that a live-action Mega Man film is going to written and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman of Paranormal Activity 3 and 4 fame. Chernin Entertainment (Planet of the Apes series) is producing the picture along with Masi Oka, who produced the Hollywood Death Note adaptation and previously starred in Heroes…

Shiraito Falls near Mt. Fuji. Shizuoka, Japan. By Joey Elam. 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! 

Report: New Nintendo Switch Model Coming In 2019

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nintendo will be introducing a new version of its popular Switch console next year. The report says that the move comes as Nintendo hopes to boost sales momentum of the Switch, which has dropped off since its meteoric launch. It’s claimed that this new model would “likely share…

My New Alarm Wakes Me Up With Mini Games And It Works, But At What Cost

I’ve been having trouble waking up on time recently, so I downloaded a new alarm for my phone that makes me play a mini game before it turns off. It’s the best and worst decision I have ever made. I have no idea why I don’t have any energy right now, but I’ve been sleeping…