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Oh No, The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game Launches In English Next Month

This is not good. The only thing standing between my wallet and the more than 2,000 cards in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game was all of that Japanese text. Now Square Enix is launching the game in English. On October 28. Great. For nearly six years, Japanese Final Fantasy fans have been greedily devouring…

When Capcom Does Persona 5, It’s Strange

Persona 5 characters and costumes look cool in, well, Persona 5. But how do they look in Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma Online? Kinda strange! Famitsu and 4Gamer report that Capcom is collaborating with Atlus to bring four P5 outfits (the Phantom Suit, the Panther Rubber, the Trickster Suit, and Trickster Rubber) to its free-to-play title Dragon’s…

Oktoberfest. Stuttgart, Germany. By Joshua Champion. 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!

Zapp Brannigan’s Voice Actor Reading Stupid Donald Trump Quotes [Updated]

There is nothing funny about the real Donald Trump, a raisin company mascot channelling the spirit of an internet commenter. What is funny is the voice actor behind Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan reading some of Trump’s dumbest quotes in character. UPDATE, SEP 28: Now featuring snippets from the first Presidential debate. ORIGINAL POST, AUGUST 11: Billy…

Tribes Is Dead Again

Tribes Ascend, a 2012 game which in 2015 made a surprising comeback from the dead, is now dead once more, with developers Hi-Rez today issuing the game’s final patch to a community that’s understandably upset, if also accepting of the game’s fate. There’s a sad poetry to the fact I wrote about the game’s update…

Harambe Lives On, In NBA 2K16

Cincinnati doesn’t have a team, so Cleveland it is. Bleacher Report likes to simulate basketball hypotheticals using the NBA 2K series, and while most of them are real and actual things/rumours, others are more fanciful. Like this, in which a dead gorilla/dead meme is used to try and match Golden State’s new superteam.

The first volume of the comic Steve Lichman is very good. There’s now a second volume up on Kickstarter

FFXIV Might Finally Solve Its Spam Bot Problem

Over the last few years, Final Fantasy XIV has suffered from a public spam problem. In every major zone, bots would flood general chat with “MONEY FOR GIL” ads, prompting players to switch their statuses to “busy.” FFXIV’s Tuesday patch made some necessary changes that allows players to more easily report real money transfer (“RMT”)…

Resident Evil, Transformers Headline Playstation Plus Lineup For October

Playstation Plus users are looking at a powerhouse month for games in October. If you’ve never played Resident Evil, there’s officially no excuse for missing out on its wonderful remaster. Remember, these games might be “free” but still require an active Playstation Plus membership to download and play. Here’s the lineup for October: Playstation 4…

Here’s the first 20 minutes of Gears of War 4‘s campaign. It’s got scripted action, roadie running, Lancers, grunting, and very detailed explosions. Looks like the Gears of yesteryear(s), but with more hardware muscle behind it. If that’s what you were hoping for, this video will probably make you pretty happy.

Doom Bot Learns To Play Better Than Humans

Two Carnegie Mellon University students have programmed the ultimate killing machine. If you face off against their AI in Doom’s deathmatch, that is. As originally reported by NextBigFuture, this new bot (affectionately named Arnold) uses a host of complex mechanisms to play Doom better than any human possibly can. Created by Guillaume Lample and Devendra…

Two Wild Nights In GTA Online Finally Made Me A Fan

I’m finally into Grand Theft Auto Online. It took me a while. The game launched in late 2013, though I’m not sure I could have been excited for it sooner. What’d it take? Two nights of chaos and a revelation about what Rockstar’s multiplayer game actually is. For some time I have been a GTA…

Pokémon Sun’s Alolan Exeggutor is a joke. Alolan Exeggutor nail art, however, is the real deal, and also a joke. Amounet nails did it, and it kills.

Wasteland 3 Announced, Will Have Co-Op

Fresh off the success of Wasteland 2, developer inXile is making a direct sequel, announcing today plans to release Wasteland 3 for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, and Xbox One. In the announcement for Wasteland 3, inXile said they’d be helping fund the game via crowdfunding on Fig, where they hope to raise $2.75 million. The…

Destiny Players Solve Ridiculously Complicated Secret Weapon Quest

Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space wondering why the hell they can’t get new artifacts, has a brand new quest that might be the most complicated thing we’ve seen in the game to date. It involves completing the new raid, finding a whole bunch of secrets, and… converting binary numbers to…

Kotaku UK continues their Star Citizen series with two new pieces. The first looks at Star Citizen’s superbackers, and the second is about a 24-year feud that’s dogged the game

Gal*Gun Has A Panic Button, For When Mom Walks In

Gal*Gun: Double Peace, thePlayStation game about shooting your love at schoolgirls is now on Steam, and it’s even managed to crack the top-sellers list. The more people playing, the bigger chance someone gets caught in mid-play. Luckily there’s a button just for that. Available on both the PlayStation 4 and Steam versions of Inti Create’s…

Overwatch’s Zarya Translates Nicely Into Heroes Of The Storm

The great thing about bringing Overwatch characters into Heroes of the Storm is that their shooter skills are perfect for Blizzard’s MOBA. Zarya’s damage absorption and gravity manipulation skills make her a pink-haired point-and-click powerhouse. Absorbing attacks to up her own is Zarya’s thing, kind of like Bishop from the X-Men, only with a gravity…

When Lovecraft Meets Anime

This is a trailer for Force of Will, an anime adaptation of a card game (of the same name) that’ll be out in 2018. An anthology of six short films (think The Animatrix), Shuhei Morita (Possessions) is directing this Cthulu one that the trailer below focuses on, which is pretty neat. Other shorts (also based…

Weapons Nerfed After Elite: Dangerous Players Protest With In-Game ‘Terrorism’

“This game deserves a better class of criminal,” a member of Elite: Dangerous’ player-run Smiling Dog Crew wrote in a plea for a nerf of the game’s heat weapons. “We hope to fix that with this operation,” they added, calling their plan “terrorism.” The plan’s name? Operation SpicyBois. Heat weapons were introduced as part of…