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People Are Spending Millions Of Dollars On Fake Money To Buy Fake Cats

CryptoKitties lets you exchange a made-up thing called Ethereum for fake cats. Naturally it’s the next big thing in the super convoluted world of cryptocurrencies, where people spend a lot of time cooking up fancy new names for pyramid schemes. Like people who hoarded Beanie Babies back in the day, digital collectors are gathering and…

Dragon’s Crown Pro, a PS4 remaster of the 2013 action game, is coming to North America this spring, publisher Atlus said today. Not sure what else to say. There’s absolutely nothing controversial about this one. Just another video game, coming out this spring. For PS4.

Overpowered New Gun Dominates Destiny 2 PvP [UPDATE]

With the launch of Curse of Osiris, there’s plenty of new stuff in Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space resisting the urge to spend money to change the colors of their helmets. There’s also a gun that’s just about wrecking everyone. Meet Prometheus Lens, a brand new exotic that has…

Coming to Injustice 2 December 12, The Atom speaks to the tiny fighter inside all of us by becoming the tiny fighter inside his opponents. How’d he get through Bane’s face mask? Love finds a way. Check out the gameplay trailer on YouTube for more of The Atom’s size-shifting shenanigans.

Pokémon Go Gets 50 New Monsters And An Intense Weather System

Niantic has begun its roll out of the third generation of monsters in Pokémon Go with fifty critters from the Hoenn region, and more slated to come later in the year. More surprisingly, though, is that Pokémon Go is about to require going out into the rain and snow to capture every monster thanks to…

Portal Gets Its Own Bridge Building Game

Portal has gone all over the place, from the darkest depths of Aperture Science to outer space, briefly. Next stop: the open road. Or some bridges, anyway. Because why not? I guess? Bridge Constructor: Portal is a collaboration between Bridge Constructor developer ClockStone Software and Valve. In it, you’ll solve puzzles that involve trucks crossing abyssal…

Just Released PlayStation VR Game Already Has Porn Parody

Today, PSVR game Fate/Grand Order VR feat. Mashu Kyrielight was released in Japan. It already has a VR porn parody, and the side-by-side comparisons are unexpectedly accurate. Well, save for the sex parts. Those aren’t in the PlayStation VR game. In original PS4 game, players interact with virtual lady Mashu Kyrielight. It’s all rather tame.…

In the wake of accidents caused by tourists riding go-karts in Japan, the country’s government increasing regulations, such as requiring helmets, seat belts, rear break lights and fenders. 

Japanese Gaming’s Incredible Comeback Story 

With Puyo Puyo’s release in 1991, Masamitsu Itani became one of the most successful game company presidents in Japan. Then everything went bust. But just as Itani lost everything, he didn’t lose his will to keep making games. According to AOL News Japan, Itani said he wanted to make a game that sold. While Kazunari…

Mt. Chocorua in White Mountain National Forest. New Hampshire, USA. By Brian Harvey. 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! 

Korea Is Coming To Civilization VI

One of the new factions coming to Civ VI alongside the big new expansion will be Korea, a welcome return since they were so cool in Civ V Queen Seondeok is one of the nine new leaders in the expansion, and as we can probably expect with most of the new guys, has abilities tied…

Anyone who owns a lot of board games will know that storing them isn’t that hard. Storing them nicely, though, is almost impossible,which is why BoxThrone is trying to change that with a modular shelving system designed to accommodate any game, no matter how weird or heavy it is.

GTA Online Boss Visits His Crew In Real Life If They’re Loyal

GTA Online has a giant community with thousands of crews who work together in-game. One crew, Hillbilly Agenda, has a leader who will personally visit anyone in his group IRL, provided they’ve been in the crew long enough. Hillbilly Agenda is a crew of about 30 players, many who live in Tennessee. The crew is…

Mod Turns Mirror’s Edge Into A Multiplayer Racing Game

The original Mirror’s Edge is still so good, but the solo experience can only give you so much after all these years. So why not try something new, like online multiplayer racing? This modturns a first-person platformer into a racing game, pitting players against each other in a dash to the finish line. Think the…

Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris‘s Campaign Has Some Good Moments But Is Mostly Tedious

Today, Bungie released a brand new expansion to Destiny 2, a video game in which players are trapped forever in an infinite simulation. And if you wanted something revelatory, you might need to recalibrate your expectations. Curse of Osiris, the first of two announced expansion packs for Destiny 2, opens up Mercury as a patrol…

Star Control’s Creators Call On Stardock To Stop Selling The Original Games

The space fighter series Star Control is at the center of a new dispute over who owns the franchise, and what that means for the future of the series. In a recent series of posts, Star Control creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III have called on the publisher Stardock, which purchased some of the…

Call of Duty: WWII‘s Ranked Mode Lets Everyone Play With Pro Rules

Call of Duty: WWII’s new Ranked Play mode lets anyone play like the pros, as long as you don’t mind being a lone wolf. Ranked Play, which launched on December 1 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, follows the esports guidelines used for Call of Duty World League: 4-versus-4 matches in the Search and Destroy,…

The Best Overwatch Feeling Is Hooking A Tracer

If Overwatch had a sequel that was just Roadhog grabbing Tracer with his chain hook, I’d pay a whole $40 for it. Snagging Overwatch’s Roadrunner, pulling her in and head-shotting her is the best feeling in Overwatch Roadhog and Tracer are like the tortoise and the hare. Roadhog isn’t very mobile; he can’t dash, teleport…

From the people behind the Trine series, developer Frozenbyte’s latest game Nine Parchments comes out today for Switch and PC. Here are the opening moments from the game running on Switch. Frozenbyte have yet to reveal the release date for Playstation 4 and Xbox One but they say it’ll be coming soon

The Last Months Of Gazillion Entertainment, Maker Of Marvel Heroes

November 22nd should have just been game designer Anthony Gallegos’ birthday. But circumstances were unusual this year. His employer, Marvel Heroes developer Gazillion Entertainment, had put him and the rest of its staff on unpaid furlough earlier that week. He didn’t know when he’d see his next paycheck. His dog Shasta had just been diagnosed…