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How’s It Going?: Dinner Edition

Welcome to Thursday in the longest and shortest week in recent memory, and welcome back to our daily open thread. Something that’s been tricky about these posts is that it’s hard to think of a new topic every day when most of my days are pretty much the same. I started worrying yesterday that these…

Xbox Series X Backwards Compatible Games Will Support Quick Resume Feature And HDR, Microsoft Says

Microsoft explained some of the ways the Xbox Series X will play older games even better than the hardware they were originally created for in a blog post this morning. “Not only should gamers be able to play all of these games from the past, but they should play better than ever before,” Jason Ronald,…

MUMOK. Austria, Vienna. By Denis Bučar. 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

That Is A Very Long Train

Min Guen is an artist who has worked on games like Warface, and TV shows like Agents of Shield and the new Snowpiercer series on Netflix. You can see more of Guen’s stuff at his ArtStation page

How The Makers Of Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection Dug Up A Long-Lost, Unreleased Game

The entirety of the Neo Geo’s Samurai Shodown library—plus one that hasn’t seen the light of day since 2005—will soon be available in one complete package for PC, PlayStation 4, and Switch. Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection, which will release on Epic Games Store (for free, at first) on June 11, Steam on June 18,…

The TurboGrafx-16 Mini Is Awesome (If You Love Shooters)

I forgive you if you didn’t even notice that the TurboGrafx-16 Mini was officially released last week. Who could know? I don’t see so much as a press release in my inbox about it. The extent of the marketing for it seems to be Konami’s official Twitter account sporadically retweeting people who bought one. But…

Fans Make E3-Style Showcase Featuring A Ton Of Games That Aren’t Super Grim

A digital games showcase called the Wholesome Games Direct aired yesterday, dedicated to cute and colorful games. It put the spotlight on over 50 upcoming indie games that run the gamut from train sims to augmented reality adventures. I want to play them all. Produced by brothers Matthew Taylor and James Tillman and graphic designer…

There may be a PlayStation 5 online showcase as soon as next Wednesday, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Takashi Mochizuki and some other guy. They write: “The virtual event could be held June 3, though some people also cautioned that plans have been in flux and that the date may change.”

How’s It Going?: Bug Edition

It’s Wednesday I, uh, guess? Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yesterday was a very bad day in the world, as the majority of them seem to be these days. I spent a long time confirming how terrible everything is to a friend over Zoom last night, then lay in bed desperately trying to…

Stern’s New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pinball Machines Are Glorious

The latest silver ball playground from Stern Pinball is a trio of machines based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. They’ve got a spinning magnetic pizza. They’ve got a sculpted Turtle Van that can capture up to four balls. They have a floating Krang. They even play the original theme song. A new…

In the Adirondack Mountains. Wadham, New York. By Dan Smith | Instagram 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

Oh Hell Yeah Toy Soldiers Is Getting A WW2 Sequel

Toy Soldiers, one of the most dangerously underrated tower defence games of all time, has had a couple of spin-offs. But this week, marking ten years since the original’s release, a full-blown sequel has been shown off. While the original was set in the First World War, one spin-off in the 1980s and the other…

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Entei Ryu is an artist based in Tokyo. You can see more of Ryu’s stuff at their ArtStation page

Android Now Has A Very Good 3DS Emulator

While there has been an unofficial port available for a while now, anyone wanting to see what a 3DS game really looks like on a modern phone can now download an official Android version of Citra, the best 3DS emulator around. Having got requests for a handheld version of their now-basically-complete desktop emulator for years,…

Destiny 2 Players Are Looking For A Giant Spaceship By Staring Directly Into The Sun

As the current season of Destiny 2 draws to a close, players are desperately searching for signs of a giant spaceship that’s supposed to be on a collision course with Earth. After today’s weekly reset, they finally found one by staring directly into the sun. One of the first reports came in from the game’s…

Silent Hill Returns As Dead By Daylight Expansion

The next major Dead by Daylight expansion will feature content based on the iconic Silent Hill franchise. Starting in June, players of the asymmetric, competitive horror game will be able to control the series’ ostensible mascot Pyramid Head (otherwise referred to as “The Executioner”) and Silent Hill 3 protagonist Cheryl Mason (also known as Heather…

BlizzCon 2020 Has Been Cancelled

Blizzard, the studio behind World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo just announced via blog post that they are cancelling BlizzCon 2020. Even as states are slowly reopening with social distancing guidelines in place, Blizzard expressed concerns that it’s just too much to consider trying to throw their massive convention this year. “We’ve had many discussions about…

Skullgirls Honors Two High-Level Queer Players In Latest Update

Although Skullgirls patches these days often focus on improvements to online play and tiny graphical bugs, the 2012 fighting game received an update over the long weekend that pays homage to a pair of high-level players. Before they dominated Mortal Kombat and Dragon Ball FighterZ, Dominique “SonicFox” McLean was the world’s greatest Skullgirls player. Now,…

Classic Anno Strategy Games Are Getting Future-Proofed With 64-Bit Updates

The Anno city-building strategy series began over two decades ago with Anno 1602: Creation of a New World. That and other games from the series’ early history are getting touched up as part of the new Anno History Collection, coming to PC on June 25. The collection will be $40 and include the first four…

Fallout 76 Intestine Shortage Delays Big Masked-Parade Event [Update]

Fallout 76’s much anticipated Fasnacht Parade went live yesterday, but not for long. It was quickly taken offline after players discovered a bug that made it too hard to complete the event’s requirements. It’s the latest piece of Fallout 76 content to be derailed by a slew of recent technical problems. The Fasnacht Parade, based…