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Pokémon Art Made From Rubik’s Cubes

To make this Pokémon art, you need lots and lots of Rubik’s Cubes. I mean, lots. Twitter user Epee bought a whole bunch of Rubik’s Cubes to make these creations But look at what you can do with them Each one took about 900 Rubik’s Cubes to complete. This one, however, needed around one thousand…

This Japanese Cat Cafe Also Has Hedgehogs 

For years, there have been cat cafes in Japan. Hedgehog cafes are not new, either. But now, starting this spring, it has a cat and a hedgehog cafe. Cat and Hedgehog Cafe Cherish opened this past May in Takatsuki, Osaka. If you don’t have to visit a cat cafe and a hedgehog one, it looks…

K-pop Superstar Dresses Up As Squirtle To Check Out Fans’ Birthday Wishes

JR from the Korean boy group Nu’est recently had a birthday. According to SBS, fans rented out subway billboards with birthday wishes. JR wanted to go see the ads for himself and dressed up as Squirtle as he ventured out in public. Below are images of JR, apparently dressed as Squirtle, checking out the birthday…

Earth and Sky. Itsukushima Shrine, Hiroshima, Japan. By Harold Loar. 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! 

Wait, Skyrim: Very Special Edition For Amazon’s Alexa Is Kinda Real?

During Bethesda’s E3 show earlier tonight, there was a cute video starring Keegan-Michael Key about Skyrim coming to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. We all chuckled and got on with our lives, because Key is a comedian and that would be a stupid game. And yet here we are, a few hours later, and you can…

When JRPG Dreams Come True

In 99% of instances, Twitter is a waking hellscape. But sometimes there is room for joy, even if it comes in the form of video game localisation announcements. 2008’s Tales of Vesperia was released worldwide on the Xbox 360. One year later, it was also ported to the PS3, but that version—enhanced with more voice-acting…

Metal Wolf Chaos, A Game About Presidential Robot Battles, Is Finally Getting Released In America

Devolver Digital is bringing FromSoftware’s cult-classic mech action game Metal Wolf Chaos to modern platforms. During their E3 livestream tonight, the publisher announced Metal Wolf Chaos XD, a remastered version of one of the Xbox’s wildest games. Metal Wolf Chaos was released on the Xbox in 2004 but only in Japan. FromSoftware, now best known for…

Base-building vault management sim Fallout Shelter is coming to PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Switch tonight. It will still be free, and the Switch version will have both touchscreen and Joy-Con controls, so get to making some more of those horror vaults

Sadistic boss fight game Cuphead is getting DLC in 2019, Microsoft announced today. It’s called “The Delicious Last Course” and in it, a new character named Ms. Chalice will be playable.

Metro Exodus looks pretty badass in a new trailer set to Massive Attack’s “Angel.” Deep Silver showed off gameplay in the post-apocalyptic survival FPS at Microsoft’s E3 Media Briefing and also revealed it now has a release date of February 22, 2018, a day that’s already stacked with both Days Gone and Anthem.

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a new game set in the Life Is Strange universe, coming June 26th. It’s about a young boy pretending to be a super hero, and will probably make me cry.

Today during Microsoft’s E3 news conference, it showed off a new trailer for Ori And The Will Of The Wisps, the sequel to Ori And The Blind Forest. It’s full of beautiful psychedelic imagery and some gnarly monsters. The game will be out in 2019.

Square Enix announced that Nier: Automata is coming to the Xbox One on June 26th, 2018, then they removed the announcement page. According to the now-removed page, it will be released in a “Become As Gods” edition that includes the “3C3C1D119440927″ DLC and some cosmetic items.

New Command & Conquer Mobile Game Is Getting Mauled Online

Can you tell what kind of message is being sent to Electronic Arts with the YouTube voting on the gameplay trailer for the newly-announced Command & Conquer Rivals mobile game? 244 upvotes. 7,900 downvotes. The strategy game’s “reveal” trailer isn’t doing much better. A thousand up. Nineteen thousand down. It’s about as easy to point…

Kingdom Hearts III Will Be Out In January

It’s 1:30am Eastern on a Sunday morning and Square Enix just announced Kingdom Hearts III’s release date, because why not? The long-awaited action-roleplaying game will be out on January 29, 2019, the publisher says. Technically this is a delay—Square had previously said Kingdom Hearts III would be out in 2018—but at least there’s a firm…

Collection Of Rare Japanese Games Leaks Online Without Owner’s Permission

Earlier this week, a group of game archivists revealed that a trove of over 70 lost Japanese video games has surfaced, including the third game in the obscure Horror Tour trilogy of point-and-click horror games. The release of these games, from the personal stash of a Japanese collector, has touched off a debate about how…

The Sims 3 Sucks

One of the favorite pastimes of The Sims’ community is to talk about how good the older games are. While there are things about The Sims 4 that I don’t love, I’m not as nostalgic as other fans. Every time I think about The Sims 3, for instance, all I can remember is how much…

Nintendo’s New Sushi Game Is Wonderful, If You Don’t Mind The Controls

Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido, a new Nintendo puzzle game, is an excellent, challenging adventure set in a silly anime world where sushi is illegal. But it’s a shame that players who are intrigued by that will have to decide between a 3DS version that controls better or a Switch version that looks better.…

Hitman‘s Sniper Assassin Mode is a Deadly Puzzlebox

Hitman 2 is coming in November, but eager assassins can test their skills on an entirely new level. A mode called Sniper Assassin is available to people who pre-orders the game, offering a little puzzle box of trick shots and stealth. Just like anything in Hitman, it’s often at its best when things go wrong.…

There Are Finally New PixelJunk Games, And They’re Both Terrific

For a lovely few years during the heyday of the Playstation 3 we got a steady drip of new PixelJunk games. They were usually really good. Now, after a seven-year (mostly) dry spell, we’ve got two more. In the last couple of weeks, the Kyoto-based Q-Games has released PixelJunk Eden Obscura for cell phones and…