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This fall, the first Valkyria Chronicles is coming to Nintendo Switch in Japan via the Nintendo eShop. No word yet on an international release.

This weekend, Sega announced it was working on a brand new Sakura Wars game. Details are scant, but the game is set during a fictionalized Taisho Period in Tokyo and has the temporary title Shin Sakura Taisen (New Sakura Wars).

Grave Of The Fireflies‘ Movie Poster Has A Hidden (And Depressing) Secret 

Grave of the Fireflies is one of the saddest movies ever made. Decades after its original release, people have discovered a haunting, hidden image in the Japanese movie poster. Attention has been re-focused on Grave of the Fireflies after director Isao Takahata’s recent passing. Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 Studio Ghibli movie about…

Always Remember Spring. Tokyo, Japan. By Nelson Diaz. 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! 

2016’s This is the Police was a bit of a mess, but its upcoming sequel—due later this year—looks interesting, if only for the drastic genre switch: instead of remotely sending cops out to incidents and having them return automatically, you now control them on a tactical “battlefield”.

Jessica Estephan Becomes First Woman To Win A Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix

Sydney’s Jessica Estephan has become the first woman to ever win a Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix at the game’s Sydney meet over the weekend. Estephan, along with Ryan Lewis-Jonns (Sydney) and Lachlan Saunders (Canberra), emerged victorious in the Team Grand Prix from a field of 350 entries, beating rivals from Australia and New Zealand…

Tokaido Is A Beautiful Board Game

Tokaido is six years old, and I am kicking myself I haven’t played it sooner. My crew tends to drift towards games about war, killing, conquest, destruction and murder. We’re not bad people, it’s just that a lot of the bigger board games we end up playing are just about that kind of stuff. I…

Terraria spin-off Otherworld, which was announced back in 2015, has been cancelled.

Billy Mitchell Releases Statement On His Disqualified Records

Controversial arcade game player Billy Mitchell released a statementtoday, responding to the recent disqualification of his records from both the Twin Galaxies leaderboards and Guinness World Records. Several of Mitchell’s high scores were disputed earlier this year by a forum poster claiming he used an emulator to record his scores, rather than a standard arcade…

Magic: The Gathering Arena Is A Nice Stepping Stone For A Casual Like Me

Magic: The Gathering has been running for as long as I can remember. Even when I was young, going to the games store to pick out new Game Boy games, I could see the packs and decks hovering over me. It’s always seemed interesting but daunting. Arena makes those apprehensive first toes in the water…

Marie’s Room Is A Narrative Game You Have To Play In One Sitting

Marie’s Room is set mostly in one room. It goes along like a stage play. Through objects and memories, you slowly unravel the story of two girls and a friendship gone wrong. And you have to do it all in one sitting. I was taking a look at the new releases on Steam yesterday, and…

The Persona Dancing Games Are Getting Some Wild Crossover Costumes

Persona 5: Dancing Star Night is getting some Yakuza and Sonic crossover costumes. Announced at Sega’s FES 2018 event, the Persona 3 dancing spinoff will also have its own set of costumes from another Sega series, Virtua Fighter. Check out some footage of the costumes featuring Ann dancing in a Majima Goro outfit, complete with…

I Like When Battle Royale Arenas Fight Back

There’s no shortage of battle royale-style games to sate my need to drop onto an island and fight to be last man standing. Yet I can’t help think about the one thing so many are lacking: an arena that wants to kill me as bad as the other players do. I re-watched the first couple…

Let’s Remember Some MOBAs

Trends come and go in gaming. Right now, the big kid on the block is the battle royale game, but it wasn’t that long ago when everyone was looking to capture the MOBA lightning. Standing for “multiplayer online battle arena,” the vague term became a catch-all for anything involving heroes, levels, and lanes. From the…

A Punch-Out Successor Starring A Boxing Duck

There are a lot of ways to create a spiritual successor to Nintendo’s classic boxing game Punch-Out!! But Pato Box, with its black-and-white noir look, mechanic-laden bosses, and half-mallard protagonist might be one of the more unique ones out there. I’ve been really enjoying my time with Pato Box, gradually chipping away at its roster…

This cannot continue…except it is! We’re streaming through Nier: Automata right now on Twitch

Sega Announces A Mega Drive Mini

During last night’s Sega FES 2018 stream, the company announced a mini version of the Mega Drive will be released in Japan later this year. Sega didn’t show much more than the actual model, so details are scarce as to what kind of hardware or software is packed in the lil’ machine. We do have…

Shenmue I And II Are Coming To Consoles And PC This Year

Shenmue I and II are coming to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC later this year, Sega announced at tonight’s FES 2018 press conference. Sega has confirmed it will have higher resolutions and improved textures, as well as graphics options for PC players. You will also be able to choose between modern or classic…

PUBG Works Great As A Team Deathmatch Game

PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds’ new event, War, turns the battle royale game into a regular multiplayer shooter full of large teams and quick respawns. It’s loud, messy, and a damn good time. Following the clumsy flare gun event, which was far too dependent on finding the damn gun, PUBG’s events have ramped up the intensity. This improvement…

A Lot Of Work Goes Into Adding Just One Suit To Spider-Man

Sometimes when you see a skin or an alternate costume in a video game, you think “hey, that’s neat!” and don’t give it a second thought. Xavier Coelho-Kostolny, a 3D character artist at Insomniac Games, actually broke down the process of getting a cool piece of video game art from concept to your television screen…