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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Cost $75-$100 Million To Make, Eidos Says

Video game budgets are higher than they’ve ever been, and the new Tomb Raider is yet another example of that inflation, helping illustrate why big publishers are so desperate to get players to spend more than $60 on their games. “Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and other different AAA single-player games, cost $75 million to…

Is It Time To Finally Upgrade Your Console?

It’s hard to deny the appeal of a PlayStation 4 Pro, especially for those of us still playing on 1080p TV’s or those of us enjoying games with performance modes. The moment I changed that one setting and experienced combat in a smooth 60 frames per second in God of War, there was no way…

Fantasy Life Online, Level-5’s RPG sim for mobile, was first announced back in 2015 and, by website Barukanlog’s count has been previously delayed four times, will be delayed again from its schedule spring to release in Japan to this summer.

Behold Some Incredible Models And Dioramas

This is the work of a South Korean model builder and diorama maker who goes by the name “Gaia.” Damn, it’s good. As tipster Sang points out, his real name is Jung-hoon Ahn. He teaches model building and diorama making in Seoul, but his studio is in Busan. Gaia has been featured several times on…

Bridges. Kyoto, Japan. By ShuYung Wu. 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! 

Civilization VI Got A Few Updates Today

Civilization VI’s Spring Update (the game likes to do things in seasons) is now live, and while many of the changes it brings are just tweaks to various dials and figures, there are a few welcome new additions in there as well. The best is how joint wars now work, with players able to ask…

Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has got himself some new Fortnite-themed custom gloves. Via Footpack

Developer Kicked Off Steam For Posting Fake Reviews

Polish studio Acram Digital, who have released games like Steam: Rails to Riches and Eight-Minute Empire, have had all their content scrubbed from Steam after Valve caught them posting fake reviews of their own games. Purchasers of the company’s games—PC conversions of board game classics—had been complaining of not just the fake reviews (which have…

Formula 1 Fan Took A Game Boy Camera To A Race, And The Photos Are Fantastic

F1 fan Tim Binniongot to go to the Shanghai Grand Prix last month, and like most people lucky enough to see a race in person, he took a ton of photos. Thing is, amidst a sea of SLRs and iPhones, he took them on a Game Boy camera. Having grown up without the pleasure of…

Big Study Of 10 Million Steam Reviews Is Absolutely Fascinating

Steam reviews have a reputation for being whiny garbage, but they can still be really useful when the trash is filtered out and some serious data extracted. Which is exactly what this in-depth study of the service has found. An Empirical Study of Game Reviews on the Steam Platform is the name of a study…

A Nifty Switch Battery Case Became A Crowdfunding ‘Nightmare’

The complications that one Switch charging case’s crowdfunding campaign has run into only proves the old adage: “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.” The SwitchCharge is a case with a battery in it for the Nintendo Switch from the London-based company InDemand, meant to prolong the system’s battery life. When its crowdfunding campaign launched, Kotaku’s own Mike…

Minecraft on the Switch will get its long awaited Bedrock update on June 21, Nintendo has announced. The free update adds cross-play with Xbox One and Android devices, as well as Xbox achievements. But starting in September, players will need a paid Switch Online subscription to keep playing online.

D&D’s Upcoming Adventure Will Showcase Its Grossest Monster

Sometimes, people create horrible and unconscionable things all in the name of fantasy. Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes is D&D’s upcoming sourcebook, to be released May 18, and its bestiary features something called the Sibriex. It’s appeared before in D&D’s 3rd edition, but in its current incarnation, it’s truly awful. The creature’s “blood and bile cascade”…

Rockstar Games is running a promotion this week that will make it extremely easy for players to make a good chunk of cash. All you have to do is load up GTA Online, and you’ll be sent $250,000 later this month. Keep jumping into GTA Online every day this week to earn an extra $150,000…

New Super NES Game Is All About The Dangers Of Crunch

Indie publisher Devolver Digital is releasing a new Super Nintendo game that looks to raise awareness of video game development crunch, with all its profits going to a mental health charity. Fork Parker’s Crunch Out gets its title from the game industry term for when companies push their employees to work long hours in the…

Former Drunk Streamer Now Hopes Twitch Will Help Him Stay Sober

Experts agree that if you’re going to kick an addiction, it’s important to have the support of others. If you’re a Twitch streamer, can some of that support structure come from your audience? A streamer named Pegz hopes so. A few months ago, Pegz wasn’t happy with what he saw when he looked in the…

Silent Hill 2‘s Pyramid Head Was Pure Sexual Terror

By the time I got to the elementary school in Silent Hill, I was so scared that I had to turn off my PlayStation. If those little grey children with their little baby butcher knives were too much for me to handle, well, frankly I’m surprised I didn’t suffer a full-on nervous breakdown the first…

Players Are Using God of War‘s Photo Mode To Turn Kratos Into A Goofball

Finally, Kratos can crack a big smile. The new photo mode for God of War dropped yesterday, and players are having a blast with it. You can change Kratos and Atreus’s facial expressions with it, which players are using to their full advantage: It’s nice to see those two enjoy themselves for once! Players aren’t…

Super Mario 64 Online Is Back From The Dead, For Now

Last September, modders created a way for up to 24 people to jump around together in Super Mario 64. The ROM hack was called SM64 Online and it garnered lots of attention, including Nintendo’s who promptly issued copyright strikes to have the ROM hack and videos demoing it taken down. Eight months later the modders…

Top Fortnite Streamer Starts Cursing Less, And It’s Causing Backlash

If you’ve tuned into a Tyler “Ninja” Blevins livestream lately, you’ve probably noticed that things sound a little different now. Twitch’s biggest star is trying to make his entertainment more family-friendly, and some fans aren’t taking it very well. He says he’s doing it for parents and their kids. The fans he’s angered worry that…