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Nvidia’s Freestyle Is Like Instagram Filters For PC Games

Image filters aren’t just for photo mode anymore. The latest version of Nvidia’s Geforce Experience app introduces Freestyle, a series of special filters that change the way games look while they’re being played. It’s a bit of a trip. Freestyle is basically an extension of Nvidia’s Ansel, the screenshot tool introduced last year that helped…

‘Suckin Dick While My Man Plays 2K‘: When Video Games Meet Sex

Back in September 2017, one Twitter user informed the world that she was “suckin dick while my man plays 2K.” At first glance, it seemed like she was boasting about some video game foreplay, but no. She later clarified, “LMAO y’all thought i meant my mans dick?😂 fohhh.” Months later, I can’t stop thinking about…

12 More Of The Strangest Foods In Gaming

Food is such an important part of our lives, so I’m always curious about its portrayal in games, especially the stranger dishes. This piece originally appeared 11/23/17. I’ve had a lot of strange food (like the earlier mentioned Resident Evil 7 Brain Cake from the Capcom Cafe), seen weirder ones that I was too scared…

The excellent Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana finally arrives on PC January 30. The release date coincides with apromised localization update for the action RPG, bringing re-recorded audio and re-translated text to PC, PlayStation 4 and Vita. Thank goodness.

PUBG Devs Publish Drop Rates For New Loot Boxes

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has outlined new additions to its loot box system to go live on the game’s test server. In addition to disclosing the odds of getting different cosmetics, the patch notes also point toward a new type of microtransaction that will be making its way into the game in the future. Loot boxes have…

Darkest Dungeon is coming to the Switch on January 18th. Its two DLCs, The Crimson Court and The Shieldbreaker, will also be available for an additional price. The upcoming DLC, The Color Of Madness, will also be available some time after that.

My PC Building Adventure, Part Three: I Am A God

This will be a short update on my PC building adventures, because there isn’t much left to say, except this: I HAVE CREATED SOMETHING WHERE THERE WAS ONCE NOTHING. WORSHIP ME, PEASANTS. As you may recall from my last PC building log, I discovered on Sunday that, even though I had done everything right, my…

Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter Gets First Update In Over Four Years

The Polish developer CD Projekt Red first announced Cyberpunk 2077 in May 2012. After a few brief teases, the studio went silent. And now, for the first time in nearly half a decade, Cyberpunk 2077 has re-emerged with a juicy, tantalizing message. Behold: This tweet, the first official message on Cyberpunk 2077 since December 2013,…

Pokemon Go is discontinuing support for Apple devices that can’t upgrade to iOS 11—in other words, starting February 28, your iPhone 5 won’t be able to play it. “This change is a result of improvements to Pokémon Go that push the application beyond the capabilities of the operating systems on such devices,” says The Pokémon…

Look At This Little Liquid-Cooled Gaming PC

Isn’t Digital Storm’s Project Spark adorable? Only 12 inches tall, yet they still managed to include a transparent side panel and LED-lit liquid cooling. Announced at CES 2018, Project Spark (not to be confused with Microsoft’s defunct game creation app) is boutique system builder Digital Storm’s latest attempt at packing as much PC power into…

Building A Lego Ship In A Bottle Seems Pretty Easy

Clever artisans have been building bottled boats since the 1800s, using either long-handled tools or folding mast and sail trickery to create striking works of nautical art. Due out in February, the Lego Ideas version is more of a build-a-bottle-around-a-boat deal. Works for me. TheLego Ideas program gives fan creators a chance to see their…

For The First Time In 11 Years, The Japanese Console Game Market Has Grown

Over the past few years, the console market in Japan—both hardware and software sales—has been sluggish. In 2017, however, that changed. According to Famitsu, hardware sales experienced a huge spike in 2017 compared to the previous year. In 2016, Japanese hardware sales were 117.05 billion yen ($1.05 billion), while in 2017, they jumped to 202.37…

Invasion Of The Virtual Anime Girl YouTubers

Last year, anime girl and virtual YouTuber Ai Kizuna made a name for herself online. Now, a slew of other virtual anime YouTubers are hoping to do the same. The virtual YouTubers are made with animation software, with their creators controlling and voicing 3D models. With a million subscribers, Ai Kizuna might be the most…

Hunter x Hunter‘s Creator Sounds Like A Nice Boss

Working in the manga business is hard. The hours are long, and some bosses allegedly don’t even pay their assistants overtime! Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi, however, seems like someone you’d want to work for. According to Buzz News, Togashi’s former assistant said the famed manga creator pays a twice yearly bonus to his…

You Can Own The Sword From Sword Art Online 

In Sword Art Online, the blade main character Kirito carries is the Elucidator. A full-scale replica is coming out, and it not only looks like the anime’s popular sword, but is packed full of hi-tech features. The sword has an internal 6-axis sensor, so its sound effects can correspond to how it is swung. It…

Mountain Dwellers. Yasuj, Iran. By Aria KhoshSirat | Instagram  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! 

We’re playing Escape from Tarkov in a surprise stream live now on Twitch. In this hardcore military shooter and loot collector, you lose your gear when you die. Which means we better be careful or else all our cool stuff will get pilfered.

Mass Effect: Andromeda Works Way Better As A Management Sim

Mass Effect: Andromeda was met with disappointment, and, in the worst parts of the internet, harassment campaigns. The game had Mass Effect in the title but it didn’t quite feel one. But Mass Effect: Andromeda deserves to be remembered as more than just another hyped AAA game that failed to meet fan expectations and corporate…

Hackers Aside, Call of Duty: World at War Is Still Gruesome Fun

It’s been nearly ten years since the release of Call of Duty: World at War, the last game in the series to dip into World War II before last year’s revival. With a ridiculous amount of hours logged on Call of Duty: WWII, I decided to revisit it recently, using Xbox One’s backward compatibility. It…

Obscure Hidden Message In BioShock Re-Surfaces A Decade After Release

More than 10 years after the release of BioShock, an obscure error message has popped up again thanks to an unlikely source—an anonymous developer, posting on 4chan, who says he or she worked on BioShock 2 The 4chan poster, writing in a thread about game creators doing drugs, alleged that developers on BioShock 2 would…