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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile Doesn’t Look Half Bad

Wondering how Battlegrounds is supposed to look on smart devices? Today, a mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was released for China. Developed by Timi, the Tencent-published, Chinese-language game can currently be downloaded from the Chinese App Store. As far as I know, there’s no word yet of an international release. As with any new game,…

Top Japanese Cosplayer Is Making Lots Of Money 

Since around 2012, Enako has been a popular cosplayer, but in the past few years, her popularity has exploded. Last night, she appeared on Downtown DX, one of Japan’s most popular variety talk shows and astonished all with her sizeable salary. In the above image, the banner in the top right corner reads, “Japan’s Top…

Thinking About LGBTQ Students, Japanese School Institutes Uniform Freedom

A junior high in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture is allowing students to mix and match uniforms how they please in an effort to be more aware of LGBTQ students’ feelings. Considering how some teens pick schools on whether they like the uniforms or not and many students dig the getups, wearing the academic threads is less…

Perched Up High. Paris, France. By Yohann Junique | Flickr 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! 

Japanese Skaters Performed Yuri On Ice At The Winter Olympics

Japanese pair Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara just completed one of the first performances of the 2018 Winter Olympics figure skating program. And they did it to the title track from skating anime Yuri On Ice Here’s some footage from their routine: And here’s the track: It’s not the first time they’ve performed it—they broke…

There’s A New Tomb Raider Arcade Game

There’s a new Tomb Raider game! It’s not an action adventure for consoles and the PC, though: it’s a four-player lightgun game that you play at the arcade. Released to coincide with the movie due in March, it’s exclusive to Dave & Busters, and as Arcade Heroes points out has hardware based on…Rabbids Hollywood. Interestingly,…

Two Of Twitch’s Biggest Streamers Are Fighting Over A Viewer Record

Earlier this week, Dr Disrespect, the self-proclaimed “face of Twitch,” returned to the streaming platform and pulled in what Twitch says was a record-breaking number of viewers. Days later, however, Dr Disrespect and previous record-holder Tyler1 are still beefing over the number, as are their fans. It all began on Monday, when Dr Disrespect’s concurrent…

I Am Sorry, Star Wars Fans

Is this NSFW? Who knows any more. Maybe? The Dairy Princess is the work of sculptor Mike Strick, who is actually selling a small quantity of them on his site for £40 (USD$55). It’s 120mm wide and 90mm tall, making it roughly a match for standard 3.75 inch action figures. Sweet dreams, everyone.

Fire Emblem Warriors’ second DLC pack arrives on February 14, adding three characters from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for the Nintendo DS. The pack also includes new costumes, weapons, history maps and armor break models, including one for Tiki, the 3,000 year old 13-year-old.

Creator Of Amazing Division Screenshot Mod Swiftly Banned For Life [UPDATE]

At the beginning of the month a modder from Finland updated a program that lets players of the 2015 game The Division take jaw-dropping screenshots. On Tuesday of this week, just over a week later, he was informed by the game’s publisher that he’s been banned from the game forever. Cinematic Tools is a program…

Twitch Gets New Policies For Sexual Content and Harassment

Twitch is taking extra steps to clean up their community and combat harassment on the platform. A revised set of community guidelines focuses on harsher penalties and cracking down on sexual content with measures including permanent bans and off-site harassment moderation. In a blog post today, Twitch revealed changes to their community guidelines that seek…

Logan Paul’s Eye-Rolling Return To YouTube

Even Logan Paul’s comeback tour sucks. The brawny social media star who built an image around being a maverick was shamed early last month when a YouTube video crassly showcasing a suicide victim in Japan convinced the internet that he was an insensitive asshole. Scorched by nearly universal criticism, he took a break from his…

The Next Game From The Makers Of FTL Is Brilliant

Into The Breach, the next game from the creators of FTL, is sort of like a cross between XCOM, Advance Wars, and FTL itself. But maybe it’s best described as beautiful kaiju chess. Here’s the premise: You, controlling a gang of three time-traveling mech pilots, must defend a cluster of islands from alien invaders. To…

New Game Lets You Create Unholy Monster Mashups 

If you’ve ever idly wondered what it would be like if the Predator and the Terminator had a child, Monster Breederis the perfect game to scratch that highly specific itch. Monster Breeder is an in-browser critter-collecting game by musician Neil Cicierega. Cicierega is best known as the creator of Flash animation The Ultimate Showdown of…

Ubisoft says For Honor will get dedicated servers for PC on February 19, shortly after the season five update arrives. Unfortunately, console players won’t get dedicated servers until “soon after” with exact release dates to come later.

Dr Disrespect Calls Criticism Of His Mock Chinese Accent ‘Laughable’

Possibly the most popular streamer on Twitch, Dr Disrespect was called out yesterday by musician Jimmy Wong for acting racist based on a series of clips compiled by the latter in which Disrespect caricatures Chinese accents and language. During a recent stream, Disrespect fired back by saying that some of his best friends are Asian.…

My Little Pony Season Eight Turns Friendship Into Schoolwork

In season eight of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, debuting March 24 on Discovery Family, Twilight Sparkle and friends leave the pony empire of Equestria to found a school teaching friendship to the friendless hordes beyond. Is there a toy of this school? Of course there’s a toy of this school. The show that…

Why People Pirate Video Games

For such an important topic, it’s a shame that we can’t ever seem to have a real discussion about video game piracy. Any attempt normally goes down like this: people downloading games are painted as criminals, publishers trying to stop them are portrayed as monsters, everyone sticks to this division and nothing ever gets done…

Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition Keeps Things Nice And Simple

Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition is an abridged Final Fantasy XV for players without the time, patience or attention span for the full game. What a brilliant idea. I am one of those players. I own the original version of Final Fantasy XV on two different consoles, and I’ve launched into the early moments of…

Soon, Switch Owners Can Pay With Gold Points [UPDATE]

It will be possible to pay for Switch games with My Nintendo Gold Points starting early this March, in Europe, Japan, and North America. The change will come via a future update, allowing people to use Gold Points they’ve acquired to buy Switch games from the Nintendo eShop. Gold Points will be good for a…