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No, Smite. Just No. 

Coming to Smite with the season four update, Such Cold Skadi is a premium skin that is bad and everyone who made it should feel bad. Before you say anything, watch this. A couple of years ago I wrote about how much I loved some of the silly skins that the Smite folks come up with.…

Playing Overwatch At 100 x 105 Resolution Is Not Recommended

Most of the time, PC gamers want their games to look the best. Here is an example of someone trying to make a game look the worst MinorVidsPC has taken Overwatch and got the resolution down to a miniscule 100 x 105. Throw in playing it on the lowest quality settings and you’ve got a…

Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road, Remade In Halo 5

Rainbow Road, the dangerous and psychedelic Mario Kart map you and your friends barely survived in elementary school, is now a Halo 5 map. And, yes, of course you can race on it. The map accommodates up to 10 players. It’s got all the thwomps and twists and turns and traps that will test your…

The New Power Rangers Game Isn’t Good

Can we just get a Power Rangers Musou already and stop releasing nonsense like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mega Battle? My initial reaction to the October announcement of the 2D brawler from Bandai Namco and developer Bamtang was “This looks like garbage,” but not having played the game I gave it the benefit of the…

Players Try Bringing Missingno Into Pokémon Sun and Moon, Get A Glitch Instead

Pokémon Bank, the service that allows players to transfer monsters between titles, is now live for Pokémon Sun and Moon. It was only a matter of time before people tested out if Pokémon’s most infamous glitch could be imported into the service, and thus, the latest games. Last year, Pokémon Red and Blue were released for…

Crypt of the Necrodancer DLC Adds New Character, Music and Loot

DLC for the roguelike dungeon crawler rhythm game Crypt of the Necrodancer is now available in Early Access on Steam Crypt of the Necrodancer is the kind of game that shouldn’t work at all, but totally does. Amplified, the DLC, offers new loot; remixes of its great music from OverClocked Remix, amilyJules, A_Rival, Virt, and Girlfriend…

How Peanuts Used Marcie To Explore Unhealthy Relationships

For many years, I thought that Marcie, the bespectacled, book-obsessed girl in Peanuts, was Asian American. It wasn’t just about how badly I wanted an Asian American in my favorite comic strip; it was about how much I identified with her. Through Marcie’s various story arcs, Charles Schulz depicted the struggles of a shy person…

Overwatch’s Roadhog Improves With Hook 2.0

We are now in the age of Hook 2.0, my friends. It’s been a long, sometimes unjust journey, often through walls or thick pillars. But yesterday, Blizzard fixed Overwatch’s Roadhog. And now, I feel good knowing that I deserved to hook you chumps, and didn’t just get lucky with a glitch. In the patch notes,…

Francis Ford Coppola Announces Apocalypse Now Video Game

Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope is teaming up with a crack team of game industry veterans to turn classic war movie Apocalypse Now into a crowdfunded psychological horror role-playing game. It’s been nearly four decades since Francis Coppola turned Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Hearts of Darkness into a Vietnam-era war film featuring a surprisingly overweight…

The Latest Overwatch Thing Is ‘Hot Zenyatta’

Zenyatta has a new skin for the Overwatch Lunar New Year event and uh, is it getting hot in here or is it just me? Zenyatta’s new skin portrays him as Tang Sanzang from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Sanzang is actually the central character of the novel, which is about the Buddhist…

Sometimes The Swimsuit Costume Is The More Modest Option

Tales of Berseria isa very good game, but its main protagonist is normally dressed in shredding Devil May Cry cosplay leftovers. She’s much better off wearing a swimsuit. Velvet’s revealing default outfit caused a stir when it debuted last year, with some fans disappointed that the first solo female main protagonist in the Tales series…

Prey is coming May 5 to PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Here’s a fancy new trailer.

“The Neo Geo attracts collectors because, compared with coins, stamps, and comics, you can go years and not find what you’re looking for,” rare video game dealer Shawn McCleskey told The New Yorker in an interesting piece on the world of Neo Geo collecting. Read it right here. 

Of Course, The Oscars Ignored The Biggest Anime Movie Ever

Tell me you didn’t see this coming? Your Name is a wonderful motion picture, and one of the best anime films I’ve ever seen. It’s also the highest grossing anime ever, which doesn’t validate it as a great film but, at least, will be solace to the folks who made it. According to Variety (via…

Waffles and Ice Cream. Phuket, Thailand. By Aiman Ishak. 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! 

Blizzard Says Overwatch Skins Accidentally Made Mei Look Thinner

Like most of Overwatch’s Lunar New Year skins, Mei’s outfits for the Year of the Rooster are great. They caused a slight stir earlier today, though, when people who had previously believed (and loved) Mei for being a little thicker than your average video game woman thought she was now looking a bit slimmer. For…

Game Developers Mourn Sudden Passing Of Ex-Harmonix Dev Roger Hanna Morash

Roger Hanna Morash was an indie game developer who used to work at Harmonix. Among other things, he was code lead on Amplitude and one of the minds behind brain-bending platformer Shard. Yesterday, Morash and his wife, Valerie, unexpectedly passed away. According to local publication SF Gate, the couple’s bodies, along with those of their…

Disney Infinity Studio Resurrected By Warner Bros.

Closed by Disney following last year’s cancellation of toys-to-life game Disney Infinity, developer Avalanche Software is back in business today, re-opened under new owner Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Its first project is a game based on Disney-Pixar’s Cars 3 Studio closures are an unfortunately common occurrence in the video game business. Studios closing then reopening…

The Switch’s Launch Lineup Is Getting Beefier

The Nintendo Switch’s launch lineup was initially a disappointment for people who wanted more than five launch titles. Nintendo fans were complaining that, in fact, the only “real” launch title for the Switch is Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It makes sense—the Wii U, Wii and 3DS all launched with more. Weeks after…

Overwatch‘s New CTF Mode Has Too Many Draws

Overwatch’s new seasonal event is the automated cosplay and porn generator’s first stab at a time-honored first-person shooter tradition: capture the flag. So, how does it fare? The short answer is, not great. Let me preface this by saying Overwatch’s Chinese New Year-themed “capture the rooster” brawl isn’t terrible. I’ve played for about two hours…