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Himeji Castle Inner Circle Last February. Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. By Peter Stepnoski. 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! 

Animal Crossing Coming To Phones As A Camping Game

Animal Crossing is coming to phones, with Nintendo tonight announcing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. [Update: We’ve played it, here are some impressions]. As the name might suggest, instead of taking place in a town, Pocket Camp puts you in a campground, where you run around doing chores for animals so you can build furniture and…

We’re finishing our playthrough of Binary Domain right now on Twitch. It turns out that Heather was a robot the whole time!

This Overwatch/Pokemon mash-up shouldn’t work, but it totally does. I’m not sure I’d want to play iDeViL360‘s Pokemon-style Overwatch game if it existed, but it’s a fertile, monster-ridden field for humor. Speaking of fields, of course patches of tall grass would be lousy with annoying level one Hanzos.

Bomber Crew Misses Its Target

I got really excited for Bomber Crew when I first saw it, so it’s a bummer that the game—which looked like FTL vs Dambusters—annoyed the hell out of me. Everything looked so good on paper. The game puts you in control of a bomber on various missions over Europe, with a focus on actually managing…

It’s Never Been A Better Time To Love Horror Games

The Golden Age of survival horror games began in the mid-90s and ran for about a decade. Despite their often rudimentary graphics and dodgy gameplay, series like Resident Evil and Silent Hill explored B-movies and psychological horror in ways previously unfamiliar to gamers. Pick any “all-time best horror games” list, and chances are more than…

Apparently People Really Want Fruit Ninja Tabletop Games

One wouldn’t imagine the frantic slicing action of Halfbrick Studios’ breakout mobile hit Fruit Ninja would translate well in the tabletop gaming space. Well surprise: In just under four hours, Lucky Duck Gameshas successfully raised $10,500 to create not one but three different physical Fruit Ninja games. Decidedly less messy and dangerous than just buying…

We’re live on Facebook getting our tarot read with Brooklyn-based professional tarot reader, Arthur Lipp-Bonewits.

Screw You, Fortnite: Battle Royale Butterflies

Fornite’s Battle Royale mode, like the game that inspired it, is tense. Any step could be your last. Sometimes, you don’t even know where the bullets are coming from, so you become hyper-vigilant. Anything that moves could be a threat. Oh, except the environment itself sometimes moves of its own volition. The mode is dotted…

This Math Game Scared Me As A Kid, And I Still Hate It

I hated math as a child, so my parents bought me a computer game to help me enjoy math. It was called Super Solvers: Outnumbered! This game took me from hating math to fearing math. It is sadly the norm for kids in the United States to hate math. It’s especially true for girls. So,…

Seems Like Overwatch‘s Junkrat Gets Play Of The Game A Lot These Days 

It’s the end of a hard-fought Overwatch match, the brief moment before an algorithm tells the game’s 12 players who had the most badass play. I’m poised to receive my laurels after pulling off a triple-kill with Roadhog’s ultimate attack. I also won’t be upset if our Pharah gets Play of the Game with her…

A Brief History of Rappers Who Dress Like JRPG Villains

Last week, rapper Gucci Mane married Keyisha Ka’oir in a lavish ceremony. As I scrolled through his Instagram, something struck me about the way the couple was dressed. Mr. and Mrs. Gucci Mane, like many rappers and their significant others before them, looked like the villains in a JRPG. What differentiates a JRPG villain from…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Getting A Second Wind Thanks To Switch Update

Last week, a Nintendo Switch update made it possible to share short videos of select first-party games on social media. The feature isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t matter. Right now, despite being in the middle of fall game season, many video game fans are talking about months-old Nintendo releases instead. Zelda, unsurprisingly, is the most…

Twitch Adds Loot Boxes With Temporary Emotes

Twitch has introduced loot crates for Halloween which offer temporary emotes. The crates offer random rewards, as well as a permanent reward for collecting the whole set. It’s weird. A Twitch blog post outlines a Halloween promotion in which players can spent “bits” to receive special loot crates. Bits are a digital currency bought with…

We’re streaming Assassin’s Creed Origins. Join us in virtual Egypt as we play on the PS4. We’ll be avoiding spoilers and just showing the basics.

Battleborn Updates Are Over, So It Can Die In Peace

Thefinal update for Gearbox’s failed hero shooter Battleborn arrived last week, tweaking game mechanics slightly, fixing a few bugs and adding some new skins and taunts before closing the door on continued development. It did not have a good run. Asannounced in September, the fall update for Battleborn is its last dose of new content.…

Opus Magnum Is A Delightfully Esoteric PC Game

Behold the marvelous science of alchemy, in which a modest molecule of lead, through careful programming of the transmutation engine, can be transformed into shimmering gold. All this and more is possible in Opus Magnum, a most elegant mechanical puzzle game from the maker of SpaceChem. From the production-line chemistry of SpaceChem to the electronics…

Hitman Will Get New Campaign, Return Of Elusive Targets

Hitman will get a Game of the Year Edition on November 7, IO announced today. It will bring a new campaign, new escalations, and a chance to try Elusive Targets you might have missed. It’s not Season Two, but it’s a ton of exciting new stuff. The new campaign, “Patient Zero,” will cross Sapienza, Bangkok,…

The Origin Of The Matrix‘s Code Explained

The Matrix movie title credits show falling green digital code. If you know Japanese, the katakana characters will look familiar, but where did this code actually come from? The man who created the title sequence recently revealed the source: His wife’s Japanese cook book.  While the falling code is clearly influenced by the Ghost in…

The Nintendo Switch Now Supports GameCube Controllers

The recent 4.00 Nintendo Switch update has a secret: It brings GameCube controller support to the Nintendo Switch. By connecting a GameCube controller via the Wii U adapter, the Switch console will now read it, allowing players to use the controller with seemingly any Switch game. Is it too early to start assuming that a…