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Pokémon Go Will Soon Let You Raid From Your Couch

Pokémon Go’s transformation into game for people who don’t like leaving their house is almost complete. Developer Niantic said it’s currently working on adding remote raiding to the game as well as more ways to connect with distant friends and family. “We’re enhancing our in-game virtual social features to enable players to stay in touch…

Track: I Think We’re Alone Now (Cover) | Artist: Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day | Album: N/A

When We Ate At The Cafe Garden. Kyoto, Japan. By David Parham. 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 

Master Bison, I Presume?

Hogni J. Mohr is an artist and illustrator from the Faroe Islands, making this the first time the archipelago has been featured on Fine Art after almost 2000 posts. You can see more of Mohr’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Star Wars: Jedi Academy Has Secret Crossplay, And PC Players Are Killing Switch Users

Star Wars: Jedi Academy, released back in 2003 on the PC and Xbox, has only just been ported to the Nintendo Switch. And, uh, somehow PC players have been able to connect to console multiplayer servers. As PC Gamer report, PC players have been able to connect directly to the IP of the servers being…

Players Won’t Be Able To Buy And Sell Cards In Artifact 2.0

One of the most interesting things about Artifact is that you could buy and sell cards on the Steam marketplace. It was one of the more controversial aspects of the game though, and Valve says it’s getting rid of it. In a new blog post over on Steam, Valve laid out its current plans to…

Survival MMO Last Oasis Turns Out To Be Too Early For Early Access

Just days after launching on Steam, the massively multiplayer online game Last Oasis has already gone offline following widespread reports from players about issues trying to log on and server crashes. “We are suspending Last Oasis servers for the next seven days,” said Donkey Crew, the studio behind the game, on Twitter yesterday. “Our coders…

The Worst Opponents In Call Of Duty: Warzone Are The Cheaters

Hackers and map exploits are already frustrating players in Modern Warfare’s new “Warzone” battle royale. Readers may not be surprised to hear about hackers running rampant in a free-to-play title, but many Warzone players have been taken aback by how quickly these encounters have emerged in such a newly released Call of Duty title. Warzone…

How’s It Going?: Bummer Edition

It’s Monday. Can you believe they’re still making Mondays? Welcome back to our daily open thread. My foster dog got adopted this weekend, far too soon for my tastes. I begged my landlord to let me permanently adopt her, but he wouldn’t go for it. I’m happy for the dog and for her new person,…

Testing Doom Eternal On Low-End Graphics Cards

Earlier this week we benchmarked Doom Eternal extensively, but only using modern GPUs. Seeing that the game keeps receiving praise, we decided to go further and test it on a more ample number of graphics cards. This time we have a little over 40 GPUs tested at 1080p using the low-quality preset, with and without…

The Week In Games: Return To Raccoon City, Again

It’s time to return to Raccoon City, again. (Again.) Resident Evil 3, the remake, is out this week and I’m ready to run away in fear from the big boy himself, Nemesis. It feels like it was only a few years ago when Resident Evil as a franchise felt like it was dying. There were…

Track: Re: Stacks | Artist: Bon Iver | Album: For Emma, Forever Ago

Glowing Lanterns. Taiwan. By Jeremy Lim | Official Site 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 

TK427, At His Post

Vaik Nay is a freelance artist based in Switzerland. You can see more of Vaik’s stuff at his ArtStation page

HQ Trivia Is Back

HQ Trivia, the once-massive online quiz game that last year kinda stopped paying winners their cash then shut down in February, is back thanks to an “anonymous investor”. As the Wall Street Journal report, a push notification went out earlier tonight alerting users HQ Trivia would be resuming at 9pm. There are no details on…

Now Some NFL Players Are Playing Madden On TV

If real sports are going to be successful in the online (and televised) space over the next few months, the one thing they need above all others is participation from actual athletes. That’s why the La Liga and NASCARtournaments have been so fun, and is why it’s a bit worrying that Fox and the NFL’s…

GameStop Will Close Over 300 Stores This Year

Last year, GameStop closed 320 stores across America as part of an effort “to de-densify [their] store base”. This year, the company will close at least that many, and potentially more. As Gamasutra report, the closures were announced during an earnings call held last week, when executive vice president and chief financial officer Jim Bell…

Terrible Witcher Cosplay, Incredible Witcher Fight Scenes

Just goes to show, sometimes it’s not the outfit that makes the cosplay. It’s the…choreography and fight scenes? The same team behind that Mandalorian video from a few weeks back have decided to get together again and do the same thing, but for The Witcher. The terrible costumes are the point: these guys are here…

Track: Golden Years | Artist: Davie Bowie | Album: Station To Station 

Half-life: Alyx Is Still Good, Even While Sitting In A Chair

Standing in VR is cool. You feel like you are really standing in a virtual world. And for small experiences and mini-games, this is fine. But for something like the new Half-Life: Alyx, standing for hours and hours, plus crouching a lot, can start to make you feel sore and tired. So I just sat…