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Should You Quit Your Job To Go Make Video Games?

Your boss just pulled you into another surprise meeting. You’ve got a case of the Mondays. And your raise got rejected. Why not leave it all behind and roll the dice on a new career in video games? Aside from the design, art, and programming jobs we often think of, the “games industry” includes everything…

Dragon Ball Z Manga And Anime Compared 

Dragon Ball Z’s “Final Atonement” episode is one of the most famous moments in DBZ history. Let’s see how the manga and anime stack up. Via Redditor jumpshot22 come these amazing GIFs: You can see another one right here. It’s fascinating to see how they compare, and it’s incredible to see how much impact the…

Bay of Sept-Iles. Quebec, Canada. By Luis Bernardo. 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!

Nvidia’s New $1200 GPU Is Just Silly

Didn’t Nvidia just release the GTX 1080? Not sure why they felt the need to go topping it already, but hey, they just did. This is the Nvidia Titan X. Here are the specs: · 12-billion transistors · 11 TFLOPs FP32 (32-bit floating point) · 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instruction) · 3,584…

After one hell of a wait, Pokémon Go is finally out in Japan on Android and iOS. Let’s hope everyone remembers those safety warnings

Reporter Busted Playing Pokémon Go During State Department Briefing

US State Department spokesman John Kirby was trying to talk to the press earlier today about the efforts to combat ISIS, but one reporter had more important things to do. CNN reportsthat the unidentified culprit was busted by Kirby mid-talk, interrupting his terrorism briefing to say “You’re playing the Pokemon thing right there, aren’t you.”…

Welcome To The Dorky Future Of VR Arcade Games

Hey, remember that cool zombie VR warehouse we told you about that Sega Japan was going to open? Where players could walk around with guns strapped to their backs and blast zombies? It’s open. And it’s…well, see for yourself. Here’s how it was sold! Up top, though, you can see the hesitant, dorky reality. Here’s…

The Black Death, Now In A Video Game

The Black Death, an outbreak of the bubonic plague which swept through Europe in the 14th century (killing anywhere from 30-60% of its population!), does not seem a good setting for a video game. Oh, unless it’s Crusader Kings II we’re talking about. Which, hey, we are. The medieval murder/sex/papacy simulation is about to add…

Man Arrested For Sending Death Threats To Blizzard

A Sacramento man has been arrested and charged with sending multiple death threats to Blizzard Entertainment, the developers of World of Warcraft and Overwatch Stephen Cebula, 28, is accused of sending messages “over the internet” on July 2 & 3 saying he “may or may not pay [Blizzard] a visit with an AK47 amongst some…

Final Fantasy XIV’s Exciting New Dungeon Is Not Very Exciting Yet [UPDATE]

When Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida revealed the MMORPG’s upcoming Palace of the Dead dungeon last April, I had what I now realize was an embarrassingly romantic notion of what it would be: dungeon-crawling with friendly strangers, sneaking by traps and strategically navigating its roguelike-inspired, randomized maps to best an onslaught of challenging monsters.…

Sony Is The Only Remaining Obstacle To PS4-Xbox Cross-Play

In recent days, the developers behind Rocket League and The Witcher 3 have both called for Sony to break down the walls separating PlayStation Network and Xbox Live and allow cross-platform multiplayer. This idea kicked off in March, when Microsoft announced native support for cross-platform play between Windows 10 and Xbox One. It also allowed…

No Man’s Sky And The Patented ‘Superformula’

With just under three weeks before the launch of No Man’s Sky—which I personally delayed back in May—a new potential controversy has emerged, this one revolving around a Dutch scientist’s patent. In order to generate the geology of its billions of procedurally generated planets, No Man’s Sky relies upon a mathematical equation called the Superformula…

Men Who Brought Guns To Pokémon World Championships Sent To Prison For Two Years

Two Iowan men who were arrested in August of 2015 for apparent gun threats at the Pokémon World Championships were sentenced to two years in prison today in a Boston court. James Stumbo and Kevin Norton each pled guilty to charges that they’d brought a shotgun, a rifle, and ammunition to the competitive Pokémon card…

Guy Pranks Pokémon Go Players, Causes Stampede

When Pokémon Go players see a good Pokémon spawn on the map, everyone will start running toward it, even if it’s not particularly rare. It was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of this phenomenon. Watch what happens after Vine star Logan Paul screams DRAGONITE in the middle of a crowd of…

Look At This Transformers Figure

3A toys—most recently flooring us with their Destiny efforts—have also managed to pick up the rights to make some Transformers figures. And oh boy There’ll be a whole series of them, each based on original G1 character designs. For TFG1, Ashley Wood and the development team at ThreeA have gone back to the original 1980s…

Here’s a look at A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV, the sidescrolling beat’em’up that’ll launch alongside FFXV in September. It’s a GameStop pre-order bonus right now, though it’s a safe guess that you’ll be able to get it separately later.

‘Now You’re Playing With Power’: NES Classic Brings Back Nintendo’s Best Slogan

Nintendo is going full nostalgia with their new NES Classic, aka the mini-NES, which fits into your palm and will play 30 pre-installed Nintendo games. (The whole thing costs $60.) Now they just need to bring back the Power Glove. It’s so bad.

Nintendo Defends Art Style Of Controversial New Metroid Game

The first nine minutes of a new video for the most hotly-debated Nintendo game in years shows what looks like a pretty fun four-player co-op shooter. The last five minutes are interesting in a different way, as they appear to be Nintendo’s best efforts yet to address criticism of the upcoming game, Metroid Prime: Federation…

The Rare Pokémon Go Monsters That No One Has Caught Yet [Update]

Pokémon Go is supposed to have the original cast of the first Pokémon games: this means, at minimum, a roster of 151 creatures. But so far, there’s no way of collecting the full set. In the main Pokémon games, there is a concept known as “legendaries”—that is, rare and powerful Pokémon that are significantly harder…

Fed Up Payday 2 Console Players Have Been Waiting A Year For Promised Updates

“We will be able to share a date with you relatively soon when the first update for consoles will hit,” said Payday 2 producer Amir Listo in February. We’ve been making some real progress.” It’s now the end of July, and there’s no indication when console owners are getting new content. Payday 2: Crimewave Edition…