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Beau Is The Best Villager In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp players have been getting really attached to their villagers. They love Apollo, the surly eagle and Goldie, the cute dog. Which villager is the best of all? I can definitively say it’s Beau. Beau is a kindly deer in a sweater, and also my son who I would die to protect.…

Fans Relive Final Fantasy XI‘s Punishing Past On Private Servers

Back in the early 2000s, Final Fantasy XI was famous for completely disrespecting players’ time. Masochistic and convoluted, the MMO  drew in thousands of dedicated players who traded hours upon hours of grinding for the sweet feeling of accomplishment. 15 years later, more player-friendly MMOs monopolize the genre. And yet, there are still hundreds of…

The Beginner’s Guide Creators’ New Game Is About Keanu Reeves Stabbing People

“Welcome player. It’s a fucking video game. Get your stats ready,” Absolutely: A True Crime Story begins. Then it asks you to boost one of your starting character’s stats like strength, dexterity, or something called J3V. None of these stats matter: the browser game is just a random, nihilistic parody. But it’s funny, mostly because…

Holdfast: Nations At War Mixes Historical Battles With Online Shenanigans

Holdfast: Nations at War is a multiplayer game set during the Napoleonic era. Matches are a mixture of well-disciplined line battles and lone wolf shitheads. It’s massive, chaotic, and one of the most charming games I’ve played in a long time. Battles in Holdfast take place on massive maps ranging from South African deserts with…

The 4K and full HD remaster of Star Ocean: The Last Hope is now available on PC and PS4 for the special launch price of $20.99. This might be my last hope of playing through one of the best 3D Star Ocean games, after my previous attempt wasthwarted 25 hours in by burglars.

Four And A Half Years After Raising $121,000, Skyrim Composer’s Kickstarter Is MIA [UPDATE]

In March 2013, Skyrim composer Jeremy Soule used Kickstarter to raise $121,227 for a new album. Four and a half years later—and stop me if you’ve heard this one before—that Kickstarter project is nowhere to be found. And the most recent update has a wild twist. When Soule launched his crowdfunding campaign for The Northerner,…

If you picked up on Xbox One X during launch, check your console messages. Microsoft’s been passing out codes for a free download of The Lego Batman Movie in all its ultra HD glory. HDR really makes the darkness pop.

Civilization VI is getting a new expansion, Rise and Fall, which is full of new features and civs. It’ll be out February 8, 2018. More info over here

Why Some Zelda Speedruns Use German And Others Use Japanese

There’s a reason Breath of the Wild is played in German. It’s just a heck of a lot faster. Speedruns use different languages and versions to cut down on time. Here’s how that works for The Legend of Zelda. This post originally appeared 3/24/17. Making sure you get the best times is mostly a matter…

Crawl is a delightful and creepy local multiplayer game where the players are monsters who take turns killing off another player, the sole human. And on December 19th, it’s coming to the Switch!

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a mobile version in China. Tencent, the game’s Chinese operator, is working with Bluehole on the mobile port. No word if Battlegrounds will be released on smart devices outside China.

The First Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Global Mission Was A Failure

Just as the first global mission for Pokémon Sun and Moon was a failure, the first mission for Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon was also, well, a bust. From November 16 to 11:59pm on November 27, players had to catch a total of 10 million Pocket Monsters. They came up way short, and the…

How To Make Tokyo Look Cooler? Akira Murals

Tokyo shopping complex Parco is being rebuilt. Instead of boring white barriers around the construction site, the temporary walls are covered in Akira murals. The first part of the mural was unveiled this past May, and in the months that followed, other sections have been added added. The “A.D. 2019″ refers to when Parco will…

Approaching Storm. Near Moscow Idaho, USA. By Russell Eck.  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! 

AER Has Some Of The Best Flight In Video Games

AER Memories of Old is a game of two halves. One, clearly inspired by Zelda, is about dungeons, puzzles and platforming. It’s fine, but it’s the other half—where the player is able to transform into a bird and fly around a massive map—that I want to talk about. I’ve had my eye on the game…

What Happened When The Guy Who Remixes Overwatch‘s Jeff Kaplan Met Jeff Kaplan

When Dinoflask first started making comedy videos of Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan, he never could’ve imagined he’d one day be surprising the man himself to celebrate his 15th anniversary at Blizzard. Heck, he could barely believe it right before it happened. “I was like, ‘it’s definitely a scam,’” Dinoflask said of the moment he got…

How To Make Money Quickly In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Making money isn’t the point of Animal Crossing as a series. It’s more about taking it easy and making friends in the forest. But if you are interested in making some quick cash in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, here’s what you should be doing. Talk To All The Villagers At Your Camp You might already…

Planet Of The Apes: Last Frontier Has Great Apes, But That’s About It

There’s no confusing Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier with a Telltale-style adventure game. There is no exploration, no dialogue trees or puzzles to solve. It’s a three-hour movie peppered with simple A or B choices that influence how events play out. It’s about as basic as interactive fiction gets. Set a year after the…

The Dystopian Journey Of Streets of Rage 2

Streets of Rage 2 is one of the greatest 2D action brawlers ever made and joins the pantheon of classic games like TMNT, The Simpsons, Double Dragon, and Final Fight. While Streets 2 has smooth controls, gritty bright environments, and outstanding music, it’s the narrative that gets expressed through the levels that makes it compelling…

Ode, a new game from Ubisoft, is trying to give “soundscape” a new meaning. Players travel through “musical gardens” and play musical plants in the sonic exploration game.