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PlayStation Network Keeps Going Down

What’s up with the PlayStation Network? For the past week, Sony’s premium online service has been intermittently offline, with users reporting issues playing games, streaming videos, and logging into their accounts. The problems appear to have started around January 23, and we’ve gotten tips and seen reports of sporadic outages on almost every day since.…

Newly Discovered Audio Message In Assassin’s Creed Origins Was Supposed To Be There All Along

A game as popular as October’s Assassin’s Creed Origins is usually wrung free of major surprises by the time it’s been out for four months. That’s why some fans were startled last week to discover that Origins contains a previously unknown, new audio message from the Isu, a mysterious ancient civilization that is part of…

You should watch this fascinating Trainer Tips documentary on the world’s top Pokémon Go player, and the incredibly competitive gaming scene he inspires in Singapore.

Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition, the chibi version of Noctis’s rambunctious road trip, will be out on February 9. It tells the entire story of FFXV across ten chapters, with touch controls and adorable polygons.

Playmobil’s Ghostbusters Toys Gear Up For The Sequel

Last year Playmobil embarked on its first foray into licensed toys with a line of figures and playsetsbased on the original Ghostbusters. This year the plastic paranormal exterminators trade their tan jumpsuits for the dark gray gear of Ghostbusters II. It looks good on them. Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore, decked…

Behold, Japan’s Newest Giant Mecha 

After six years, Japan’s Sakakibara Machinery Works Co. has unveiled its newest giant mecha. Back in 2005, the company had a mecha rolled out the Landwalker, which could be piloted and fired tennis balls. It followed that up with a $20,000 mecha for kids. Now, Sakakibara has introduced its latest creation: LW-Mononofu It’s 27.8 feet…

Which character represents Japan? According to a multiple answer poll of 500 Japanese people, the first choice was Doraemon with 186 votes, followed by Pikachu (160 votes), Mario (145), Anpanman (116) and Hello Kitty (112). Read the full results here

When Your Monster Hunter: World Character Looks Different In-Game

In more and more games, the character creation tools are amazing. You can craft cool, cute and, yes, sexy-looking characters. But what if your creations look slightly different when in the field? Bummer! As pointed out by Monster Hunter YouTuber Gaijin Hunter, some folks are feeling letdown by how their character creations appear to change.…

Man Thrilled He Can Name His Kid After Dragon Ball‘s Goku

Actors. Musicians. Athletes. People name their kids after all sorts of people, so why not after a Super Saiyan? Last week, Carlos Sanchez took to Facebook with a sign that read if he got a million likes, he could name his new baby boy “Goku.” Currently, the photo has 1.4 million likes. His wife agreed…

Snow-Capped. Mt. Fuji, Japan. By Aaron Baggett | Tokyo Cheapo 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! 

Princess Peach, Protecting The Payload

Look, if Nintendo can work with Ubisoft, they can work with Blizzard. Art by Antonio Demico.

A New Game For Train Nerds

It’s been a long time since games like Railroad Tycoon and Sid Meier’s Railroads! were popular, so Railway Empire is here to give fans something a bit newer. I had a quick play of the game last week and it’s fun! It’s very similar to Sid Meier’s Railroads!, and some of the menu design is…

The Classic Video Game Box Art Of The Late Bob Wakelin

They just don’t make covers like they used to. Video games of the 80s and 90s were usually accompanied by hand-drawn and detail-rich box art and if it was a title published by Ocean or Imagine, chances are the artist was Robert Wakelin. Sadly, Wakelin passed away earlier this month, but a part of him…

GTA V‘s North Yankton Is Beautifully Incomplete 

Ludendorff, North Yankton is where the prologue of Grand Theft Auto V takes place. You’re there to steal some cash and then things go sideways, setting in motion the game’s main events nine years later. The town is sort of an after thought, in other words, with lots of low-res textures and missing stuff. That’s…

Monster Hunter: World Matchmaking On Xbox One Is Currently Busted [UPDATE]

Monster Hunter: World is a multiplayer game meant to be played online with other people. Unfortunately, matchmaking on Xbox One isn’t yet working as intended. [Update- 7:00pm, 2/1/2018] Capcom patched the game today to fix matchmaking on the Xbox One. While many players have reported it’s now working for them and they’re able to search…

PlayStation Network is currently experiencing some problems. A note on the service’s status page reads: “You may have some difficulty launching games, applications, or online features. Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and we thank you for your patience.”

The latest update for They Are Billions adds waypoints, new housing styles, and towers out in the map that can be repaired. It also adds a bunch more languages and some new music for when the zombie hordes come knocking, but the waypoints are especially nice, letting players make more complex patrol routes.

YouTuber SWEGTA’s latest dump of Bully content that didn’t make it from the beta into the final game is a super eerie song that was intended to play during Mr. Hattrick’s math classes. By way of Polgyon, the song is pretty good though and will help tide you over until Bully gets remastered.

3D printed wolf Amiibo are pretty adorable. BurninCoco made them using a filament with a high percentage of wood (yes you can 3D print things with what amounts to saw dust) and although they don’t actually serve any purpose, they’re still pretty cool looking. You can see a few more pictures of them over on…

Xenogears‘ Amazing Soundtrack Is Getting Remastered 

The PS1-era JRPG has remained a classic for a number of reasons, but chief among them was the beautiful score by composer Yasunori Mitsuda. According to a recent Facebook post, an “Original Soundtrack Revival Disc” for Xenogears is coming out in April. It’ll be on Blu-Ray and include work from ANÚNA, an Irish choral Mitsuda…