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Final Fantasy XIV: A Snow Sculpture Reborn 

At this year’s Sapporo Snow Festival, the centerpiece is an enormous Final Fantasy XIV snow sculpture. FFXIV producer Naoki Yoshida appeared on stage, giving a speech during the festival’s opening ceremony. The sculpture is lit up with projection mapping during the evening. This isn’t a first for Final Fantasy. Last year, Final Fantasy VII was…

After Gaming For 20 Hours, Man Could Not Walk

A man in Zhejiang Province, China had to be carried out of a net cafe after losing feeling in his legs following a marathon gaming session. According to QQ (via Newsweek), the man didn’t take a break during a reported twenty-hour gaming session. When he tried to get up to go the restroom, he discovered…

An Amazing Dumpling Shop. Tainan City, Taiwan. By Ross Goodwin. 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! 

A New Sherlock Holmes-Inspired Anime Is In Production

Steve Ahn, director of the new Voltron series and an asst. director on The Legend Of Korra, has a new animated series in development about two young detectives who solve crimes by their smell and can teleport using selfies. The series is called Blossom Detective Holmes, and is kind of a take on Sherlock Holmes,…

Here’s The First Han Solo Movie Teaser Trailer

The first teaser trailer for the Han Solo movie—out very soon!—was just shown as part of the Super Bowl festivities. Lookin’ sharp, Lando.

Fan Creates Smash Bros. Board Game

Libertalia is a good board game about duelling pirates. It can also, with a bit of fiddling, be turned into a recreation of Super Smash Bros This is Super Smash Brothers: TableTop, by jowhee13, where players assemble teams of Nintendo characters then go at it, hurling items and dealing damage while trying to avoid having…

Streets of Red is a retro beat ‘em up headed to PS4 and Switch on February 27. There are a lot of side-scrolling brawlers that aim to capture the original arcade experience, but Streets of Red really commits by not allowing you any continues or saves. When you die, it’s game over and you have…

Rogue One Actor Says Sleeping Dogs Movie Is Still Happening 

Donnie Yen of Ip Man and Rogue One fame said the Sleeping Dogs movie no one’s heard anything about for some time is still in motion on social media yesterday. “Sometimes great things take a bit of time,” the actor and martial artists said in an Instagram post. “Sleeping Dog is motion, you guys ready…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Does Some Weird Stuff Behind The Camera

Dragon Ball FighterZ is a polished fighting game with tight controls and a combat system that’s fast-paced but still approachable. It also looks amazing, which is why people have been sharing all of its scripted animations for weeks leading up to the release. It turns out there’s some really weird stuff happening during them though.…

After Three Months, Pirates Say They’ve Finally Cracked Assassin’s Creed Origins 

The Italian hacking group CPY announced today it finally cracked Assassin’s Creed Origins meaning people with pirated versions of the game will now be able to bypass its DRM protections. The announcement from CPY cropped up on the CrackWatch subreddit earlier today where commenters have been speculating for months about when and if the game…

Nintendo Switch players were not happy after an ugly placeholder icon for Owlboy showed up on the eshop. Several discussions about it blew up on Reddit and Twitter because Switch owners take game icons very seriously. Owlboy being a gorgeous game, however, D-Pad Studio has a new icon on the way

Slay The Spire Has Some Fun Infinite Combos 

Slay The Spire is one of Steam’s latest Early Access gems thanks to its polished combination of roguelike dungeon crawling and traditional card game mechanics. The game’s quite challenging at first, but some players have already been discovering special combos that allow them to rip through the game with ease. Twitch streamer RiskyCB is one…

Staff Writer Heather Alexandra is sharpening her dual swords and hunting some nasty critters in Monster Hunter World right now on Twitch You can join in the fun on PS4 with session ID 6nzs3hEAmwJk.

Tactical RPG Ikenfell has a new trailer and is set to release on Steam this summer. The game was Kickstarted two years ago and basically takes the setup for Harry Potter and turns it into an RPG with Paper Mario-esque combat. Perhaps best of all the Steven Universe people put together the music.

Let’s Open Some Pokemon Ultra Prism Cards And See If There’s Anything Good

It’s new Pokemon Trading Card Game expansion day, and fans are tearing into thousands of Sun & Moon Ultra Prism booster packs, searching for powerful new additions to their decks. I’ve only got four boosters, but no deck, so I like my odds. I do most of my Pokemon TCG playing online, but I still…

Collector Offers To Pay $100,000 For Original Contra Box Art

While video game collecting is a popular hobby, video game art collecting is a more rarefied avocation. That’s probably because there are so few pieces to go around. There are thousands of copies of Battletoads In Battlemaniacs for the Super Nintendo, but only one original painting of its box artwork—and that’s owned by Dan, a…

‘Resistance’ DLC Brings Much-Needed Map Variety To COD: WWII

Call of Duty’s first DLC pack is here, and it brings some much-needed variety to the maps and a (slightly) more interesting Zombies experience. “The Resistance” arrived on January 30 for PlayStation 4, and should be available on Xbox One and PC one month from now. Resistance includes four multiplayer maps and one Zombies map…

Final Fantasy XII Runs Pretty Well On PC

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, a remastered version of the 2006 PS2 classic, came out on PC yesterday. Good news: the port is pretty solid. As a brand new PC Expert, I spent an hour this afternoon playing through the opening of FFXII on PC. After switching the framerate cap to 60—it starts at…

11 Free Steam Games Worth Playing

While Steam gets a lot of hype for discounted prices, you don’t actually have to spend any money to enjoy some of the best games the service has to offer. Over the years, Steam has accumulated a number of great games that are free-to-play, and I’m here to tell you which ones you should check…

Recreating Oblivion In Skyrim Means Paying Close Attention To Trees

Skyblivion is a project by a volunteer team of modders to recreate the map for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion inside Skyrim. It’s been years in the making, dating back to 2012, and the team recently released an updated trailer to showcase their accomplishments so far. Their progress will give you a new appreciation for…