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You Can Complete Tacoma By Just Standing Around

Tacoma’s space station corridors, seemingly cold and barren, are alive with story. You can explore them to your heart’s content, piecing together a tale about the station’s crew—and much more. Or you can just stand around and do nothing, if you want. Your character, Amy Ferrier, is a corporate contractor responding to a distress call…

EA’s Basketball Game Now Has Women’s Teams

Let’s be clear, NBA Live is not as good as NBA 2K. But EA’s series now has one clear advantage over its rival, in that it’s going to have WNBA players and teams available in its lineup. Following on from FIFA’s introduction of women’s football a few years back, it’s a great move by EA,…

We’re continuing our playthrough of Half Life right now on our Twitch channel Will Gordon survive for a sequel? Probably.

Watch Dogs 2 Modders Hate The Game’s Final Patch

Watch Dogs 2 got its final patch today, which makes impossible to use mods while online if you’re playing on PC. The game’s publisher, Ubisoft, says that this is to ensure fair online play, but the game’s small modding community is very frustrated. The 1.17 patch wasn’t announced as a modding blocker. The features rolled…

Poll: How Do You Respond To Pyre‘s Most Difficult Moral Choice?

Pyre, the new game from the creators of Bastion and Transistor, is full of difficult choices. This, however, is easily the roughest. What will you do? Please vote, you guys. This is really important. A dog’s mustache hangs in the balance.

Hollow Knight gets its first free DLC today, Hidden Dreams. Expect new bosses, more music, fast-travel, another Stag station, and other secret goodies.

In One Of Steam’s Hottest New Games, Wars Can Last For Days

Foxhole is a new multiplayer game where you play as a soldier in a massive online battlefield. You, along with hundreds of other players, influence the trajectory of a larger war—though that grand scale won’t save you from dying as soon as you reach the front lines. The game is a top-down third-person shooter, and…

I Might Be Losing It, But Splatoon 2′s Salmon Run Schedule Is…Fine?

I don’t know if this is some weird digital version of Stockholm Syndrome, or my trying to rationalize a Nintendo-ass decision about multiplayer. Whatever is going on, I’m surprised to report that I’ve started to like the way Salmon Run is only available during certain block schedules. From what I’ve seen online, most Splatoon players seem…

Battlegrounds‘ New First-Person Servers Are Intense

Survival shooter Battlegrounds’ substantial update this morning added two special servers specifically for first-person play. They’re brutal. Early last month, developer PlayerUnknown announcedthe first-person server update. Fans were thrilled. I couldn’t put it better than Kotaku’s Nathan Grayson: “Expect a tense game to get even tenser, with limited powers of astral projection no longer in…

Official Pokémon Tournament Only Allowed Monsters With Many Weaknesses

Last weekend, the weak inherited the Pokémon world for an official online tournament. Much like last month’s Tiny Tournament, players could only use a subset of the game’s hundreds of options. The Weakness Cup’s restriction, as its name implies, only allowed players to use Pokémon with five or more weaknesses to the game’s various types.…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Multiplayer Has A Ridiculously Detailed Character Creator

Final Fantasy XV’s multiplayer beta went live today, and in it, you can hack-and-slash through a few short quests. You can also spend hours creating your very own avatar, adjusting everything from facial tattoos to, uh, lower jaw width. There’s a lot of detail in this thing, to the point where you can actually choose…

The WNBA is coming to NBA Live 18, publisher EA said today. This is the WNBA’s first appearance in a basketball video game, although the NBA Live series has been shaky in recent years.

Playing Video Games On 16 Monitors At Once

Here’s Linus Tech Tips with a chiropractor’s dream: playing a single PC game across 16 monitors at the same time. First they try Minecraft: Then Tomb Raider, which didn’t really work. So it was off to Half-Life 2: Then PUBG, which didn’t work either, but Civ V sure did. Please note the hilarious placement of…

Aztez Is What Happens When Strategy Meets Brutality

Released this week on Steam, Aztez is a single-player strategy board game in which the ancient Aztecs attempt to survive and thrive until the Spanish invaders arrive. It just happens that surviving and thriving involves lots of bloody black and white beat-em up action. The two-man development studio known as Team Colorblind first introduced Aztez…

A Cute Japanese Character For Enemas 

If there is a product, then a Japanese company probably has a cute character for it. Usually, it doesn’t seem to matter what the product is. Case in point: the enema-themed character “Kan-chan.” According to NicoNico News, Ichijiku Pharmaceutical created the character in 2016, designing it after its home enema kits. The character’s name “Kan-chan”…

Guile Is Now Selling Hair Gel In Japan

Guile. Hair. Gel. It makes sense that the Street Fighter character would now be a hair product pitchman in Japan. Guile is the new spokesperson forJ-Gelfrom Yanagiya, a company that’s been making cosmetics since 1615. The official site has a humorous interview with Guile in which he says nuggets like this: “Disheveled hair is connected…

“Nintendo” Probably Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does

The common assumption is that “Nintendo” (任天堂) means “leave luck to heaven” or even “to leave one’s fortune in the hands of fate.” Those assumptions, however, could be wrong. In Japan, Nintendo’s official logo still uses the kanji characters 任天堂, so it’s important to understand what they could have originally meant to company founderFusajiro Yamauchi.…

The Dock. Fårö in Gotland, Sweden. By David Olsson. 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! 

Look At This Nintendo Switch Cup Holder

Internet Guy Does What Nintendon’t. Thingiverse user sanzliot, aka Tripwire Interactive’s David Hensely, is to thank for this custom Nintendo Switch drink holder, which is available here to make if you at all have access to a 3D printer Those 1-2 Switch drinking games are about to get messy

Genesis Flashback Review Units Were Faulty, Maker Says

Samples of the upcoming Sega Genesis Flashback console sent to media outlets last month had outdated firmware that caused game glitches, according to the manufacturer. It will send updated hardware to those outlets soon, it said. Much like the SNES Classic, the Sega Genesis Flashback is an HDMI-enabled, $79.99 console that plays emulated versions of…