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Fallout 76 Leads To Surge Of Interest In The State Of West Virginia

West Virginia is not just a fantastical dystopian hellscape depicted in the trailer for Fallout 76. It’s a real place in the real dystopian nation of America! Thanks to Fallout 76, the state is now seeing interest from actual tourists. The new online survival extension of Bethesda’s wasteland-roaming mega-series is set in West Virginia. Ever…

The Weirdest Things We Found at E3 2018

For those of us who didn’t get a chance to visit Los Angeles for this year’s Electronic 3 Two-Zero-One-Eight, Tim and our wonderful video team on the West Coast have been hard at work providing us with an inside look. That also means a peek at all of the weird stuff E3 has to offer,…

Nintendo’s Two-Switch Combo Is A Neat Digital Magic Trick

At an E3 where Nintendo and its partners largely played it safe with big Smash Bros. and Pokémon sequels, the company tucked a clever new Switch development in a trailer for a new Mario Party. Blink and you’d miss it: the sight of two Nintendo Switch screens connected into one oddly-shaped game board. On the…

Today, the World Health Organization added “gaming disorder” to its classification of diseases. It’s apparently recognized by an impaired control over gaming, an allegedly addictive behavior. Psychologists have led a backlashagainst the classification, arguing that it could stigmatize gamers based on controversial studies.

Last Night’s HQ Trivia Was Kind Of A Mess

John Mayer joined regular host Scott Rogowsky on HQ last night for a special Father’s Day game. Things got a little wild. Over one million players tuned in to Sunday’s HQ, a live trivia game show app, for a shot at the $25,000 prize and to see musician John Mayer just kind of shoot the…

Jurassic World Evolution Is A Clumsy But Fun Park Builder

Movie tie-ins are a gamble that usually ends with a lackluster game. For every Spider-Man 2, there’s a dozen games that are clunky and not worth your time. Jurassic World Evolution falls somewhere in between. It’s not the most detailed park-building sim, but if you embrace some of its clumsiness, you’ll find yourself lost in…

I Love Monster Hunter Even More After Teaching It To My Girlfriend

My girlfriend recently bought a PlayStation 4 and a copy of Monster Hunter: World. We’ve been spending a lot of time in the game together, and helping her learn the ins and outs of hunting has turned me into something of a coach. It’s been an exciting new way to experience one of my favorite…

With E3 now open to the public, the show has a lot more things in it for people to buy. The most conspicuous were all the carboard boxes people carried around. These boxes contained mysterious amounts of loot and were all the rage. Plenty of comparisons and contrasts to be drawn about that. 

Pokémon Go Will Finally Get A ‘Friends’ Feature And Trading

Two years after release, publisher Niantic finally announced that trading and friends lists will be coming to Pokémon Go. It’s a feature players sorely missed from the main Pokémon series, which has traditionally let two players exchange Pokémon. Back in July, 2016, Niantic CEO John Hanke told Business Insider that “it’s kind of a core element.”…

Japanese Cosplayer Doesn’t Want To Hide Her Plastic Surgery

Cosplayer Meiji will be the first one to say she used to look very different. It’s not something she wants to hide. “If you make a [side-by-side] comparison like this, I became a totally different person,” Meiji wrote on Twitter. According to her, she worked hard to eliminate complexes she had about her looks and…

Nintendo Switch RPG Octopath Traveler Won’t Have DLC Because It’s ‘A Finished Product’

Octopath Traveler, the Nintendo Switch exclusive from the team behind Bravely Default, will not have any DLC. Why? Because it’s already a complete game, says Square Enix. In an interview with Dengeki Online, Square Enix producer Masashi Takahashi said that it should take about fifty to sixty hours to complete the main story. “It took…

Panic Buying In Osaka After Today’s Earthquake

This morning, Osaka was rocked by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake. There have been at least three casualties, including a 9-year-old girl who was killed while walking to school, and according to The Guardian, hundreds of people were injured in the quake. Below are clips of Osaka and Kyoto when the earthquake hit In Osaka Prefecture and…

Johana Hikiyama Matsuri. Nanto-shi, Toyama, Japan. By Judd Abramson. 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!   

World Cup Fever Update: A Soccer Game That Used To Be A Half-Life Mod

Around 15 years ago, there was a Half-Life mod released called International Online Soccer, which turned Valve’s classic shooter into a football game. Now, just in time for the 2018 World Cup, it’s back. Ten years since its last update, the project is now a standalone (and almost entirely re-written for Valve’s Source Engine) entity…

Magic Commentator Opens A Black Lotus During Broadcast (Sort Of)

Rich Hagon, the shining light of the Magic: The Gathering coverage desk, pulled a black Lotus out of a bag on-air at Grand Prix Las Vegas this weekend. It was not the $5,000+ card; it was a Hot Wheels car. There’s nothing I love more than a good goofy gag, and everyone here plays their…

Today is Father’s Day, and there’s a special new God of War trailer to mark the occasion. It’s full of soaring music that tugs at the heart strings, but it also spoils one of the more moving moments in the game.

There Are Some Obscure Mechanics In Dark Souls

Dark Souls is a game that’s celebrated for its oblique narrative and skillful combat, but it also has some complicated and obscure mechanics that don’t make much sense. Now someone is finally explaining them all in a useful video format. The first two episodes of “Dark Souls Dissected” are an investigation into the more subtle…

I Love This Disaster Film Made With Cities: Skylines

An intrepid filmmaker going by the name of TDB Games has created a rousing 24-minute movie called “Yoko” about the destruction of a small city. It’s very good. It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of a good Cities: Skylines cinematic flythrough, but it’s rare that I see a creator attempt to do something…

The Creator Of Assassin’s Creed Thinks The Film’s Version Of The Animus Is Cool

The 2016 Assassin’s Creed film is not good. However, it does have a really cool take on the series’s memory-reliving technology called the Animus. Even Patrice Désilets, the creative lead on the first three Assassin’s Creed games before leaving Ubisoft in 2010, liked it. In an interview conducted by YouTuber Loomer, Désilets reveals that he…

Arc System Works is publishing a Kill la Kill video game developed by APLUS that is expected to be released in 2019. While the official site is light on details, more information will be released at Anime Expo 2018, which is July 5-8.