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Final Fantasy XIV Director Plays Final Fantasy XIV, Gets Mobbed By Fans

Yesterday at E3 in Los Angeles, I went to Square Enix’s booth for an interview with Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida and found him in the middle of a session of his own game. As it turns out, he had been chatting with fans during his interview breaks. And getting mobbed. As his team…

Command & Conquer Rivals Isn’t What Fans Wanted, But It’s Fun

Yes, the new Command & Conquer game EA announced at E3 2018 is a free-to-play online only mobile game. This news is disappointing for fans of the classic RTS franchise who were hoping to get a brand new, fully-fledged PC C&C game. Even if the new mobile game, Command & Conquer Rivals, contains references and…

Jump Force Is An Anime Fighting Game For Beginners

When Bandai Namco revealed Jump Force, a crossover fighting game pitting Dragon Ball villain Frieza against Naruto himself, manga fans went berserk. It wasn’t that the headlining manga stars looked like they were plucked from the pages of Shonen Jump They don’t. In Jump Force, they appear as living action figures pummeling the crap out…

Mother Buys Weekly Manga In Memory Of Her Deceased Son

On March 11, 2011, Yuko Tanno lost her son in the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The city she calls home, Natori in Miyagi Prefecture, was ravaged. In memory of her son, she has continued to buy Weekly Shonen Jump each Monday. According to Asahi, Tanno’s son Kota loved manga. He’d buy the latest Jump and…

Inazuma Eleven: Balance Of Ares has been delayed to fall 2018 in Japan. It’s slated for PS4, Switch, iOS and Android. A Western release date has not yet been announced.

Crayon Shin-chan’s new voice has been selected! Long-time voice actress Yumiko Kobayashi will be bringing Shinnosuke to life starting July 6. Earlier this month, voice actress Akiko Yajima announced she was leaving the role, which she had held since the anime debuted in 1992.

Falling With Style. Siquijor Island, Philippines. By Martin Tan. 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! 

Minecraft: Story Mode is being turned into a 5-episode interactive Netflix series. Telltale confirmed that it will arrive on the streaming platform this fall and be similar to Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout, with occasional prompts to make choices for the characters. Telltale is also making a Stranger Things game.

Monster Hunter: World is adding the massive Behemoth from Final Fantasy XIV as a special monster later this summer. Fingers cross for a solid fight and armor worth strutting around in at high ranks.

Man And His Anime Hug Pillow Graduate From College

Graduating from school is a big moment in any student’s or hug pillow’s life. While this is making the rounds on Japanese websites, it was originally spotted by Twitter user Amanojaku Respecter, who was watching the Cal Poly Pomona commencement: Let’s see how this all went down. The two make their entrance. Both are congratulated…

Huge Chewbacca-Themed Statue In Japan

Is this the biggest Chewbacca-themed statue in the world? Today in Nagoya, a tall Chewie was unveiled. This is for Solo’s Japanese release The statue, however, is always up, but not decked out like Chewbacca. Called Nana-chan ningyou (“Nana-chan doll”), this is a huge mannequin located in front of Nagoya’s Meitetsu Department Store Since 1973,…

When Anime And Photoshop Meet The Real World

There’s something oddly haunting about putting anime characters in real-world environments. A few years back, a 4chan thread featured a slew of Photoshops showing anime characters added into real-world locations. The images ended up on numerous Japanese websites. However, most of the photos were made by the MS Insanity collective on VK.com, which is akin…

Four Arrested In Japan For Running Illicit Video Game Bars [Update]

The proprietors of four video game bars have been arrested for allegedly violating Japanese copyright law. According to Yomiuri Shimbun, these arrests are being called the first of their kind in Japan. Update June 13 – 7:30am: An earlier version of this story said there had only been one arrest. There have been four, and…

Two Paths. Tokyo, Japan. By Fahnon | Instagram 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! 

Bury Me In Yakuza Games

Two Yakuza games came out in 2017,we’ve already had one in 2018, and now another is coming. Here’s the E3 trailer for Yakuza Kiwami 2, the remake of the second game in the series, which was originally released in 2006. It’s the only Yakuza game I haven’t played, so I am very down for this.…

PS4 Fortnite Accounts Are Blocked On The Nintendo Switch

Fortnite players who had an Epic account on PS4 and have tried to play the new Nintendo Switch version of the game are reporting that they’ve run into a problem: they’re not allowed to use the same account. That’s right, if you have played the game on PlayStation 4—even just once—that’s enough to have got…

Remember, The Witcher’s Ciri Has Probably Been To Cyberpunk 2077

Anyone who has played the Witcher 3 will know that there’s a passage in the game where… …characters visit other worlds. While Geralt had to tread around an alien desert, Ciri got to go somewhere much cooler. Itwas basically accepted as fact by fans (including Kotaku.com’s Kirk Hamilton) back in 2015 (remember, Cyberpunk was first…

Soundtracks Are Very Important For E3 Trailers

What an age we live in, where the humble Farming Simulator series gets a lavish E3 cinematic trailer. Big approval for the soundtrack choice, everyone involved.

Nike’s PlayStation Sneakers Are Back [Update]

Nike’s original and super-limited 2006 release of some PlayStation-branded AF1s became something of a cult classic, so this week they’re bringing them back. Update June 12 – Added official images from Nike. I always thought they looked like clown shoes myself, and they’re not a patch on Nike’s other PlayStation effort for 2018, the light-up…

Splatoon 2‘s Octo Expansion DLC will be available tomorrow evening, June 13, Nintendo said at E3 today. The expansion lets you play as an Octoling in multiplayer, but first, you have to make your way through a series of tricky single-player challenge levels. It’s $19.99.