How To Get Decent At Overwatch

Overwatch is a very approachable first-person shooter, but if you’ve watched the pros, then you know that the game has a high skill ceiling. How the hell do they do thing with the backline flank and the Pulse Bomb without dying? Surely you want to do that, too, and feel like a champ. (Maybe you…

How To Know Whether To Play Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered

Ubisoft is releasing a PS4 and Xbox One version of one of my favorite Assassin’s Creed games on Tuesday. Back in late 2014, I raved about the marvelous Assassin’s Creed Rogue. Then, I’d recommend it to anyone. Today? It depends. The game features Shay Cormac, an Assassin who becomes a Templar over the course of…

Monster Hunter: World’s Best Event Quest Is Its Simplest

Monster Hunter: World offers new limited-time quests every week. Some of these involve brawling tons of monsters, while other feature giant versions of familiar beasts. But the best quest so far is one of the most straightforward. “Ya-Ku With That?” is one of the most common event quests in Monster Hunter: World, repeating three times…

The Faster A Video Game Treasure Chest Opens, The Better 

About one hour into my Assassin’s Creed: Origins playthrough, I came upon my first treasure chest in an out-of-the-way cave near Siwa. As I walked up to it, I pressed the E key and braced myself for that everlasting example of minor gameplay annoyances: the chest-opening animation. But it never came. Instead of sitting through…

Adventure Time And Steven Universe Make A Great Mobile Game Better

Here is how to make a great video game featuring licensed characters. Step one: find a great video game. Step two: put characters from We Bare Bears, Steven Universe and Adventure Time in it. That’s pretty much how Cartoon Network Match Land was born. I’m barely exaggerating here. Last year indie developer Race Cat Games…

We Played An Hour Of The New God Of War And Really Liked It

On a snowy day last week, in a fancy hotel suite in Manhattan I controlled Kratos in his newest PlayStation adventure. The new God of War is out in a month, yet the public has seen very little of it. The game is a drastic stylistic departure from the previous games in the series, so…

With Paragon Dying, Epic Games Is Making The Characters And Environments Free

Multiplayer battle arena Paragon shuts down on April 26, but its characters and environments have a chance to live on. Epic Games has released “$12 million worth” of the game’s character and environment assets onto the Unreal Engine Marketplace for free. Epic’s got no time for a MOBA that spent two years trying and failing…

The Week In Games: Get Ready For Boats

Prepare to sail the Sea of Thieves and to experience the glory of a remastered Assassin’s Creed Rogue, which, uh, also has boats. There are some interesting classics hitting contemporary consoles this week. Bad Dudes is coming to the Switch and Titan Quest is jumping onto the PS4 and the Xbox One. If you’re not…

Japan’s Newest Meme Is “Self-Defense Geezer”

Last week, a Japanese morning show interviewed a man on the street about the country’s national pension. His brief response has turned him into an internet superstar. The guy’s name was not given, and the show only listed him as a “35-year-old man.” He’s now known as “Jiko Bouei Ojisan” (自己防衛おじさん) or “Self-Defense Geezer.” In…

Massive Crowds Gather To Watch Dragon Ball Super Together

Over the weekend, anime fans in Latin America gathered to watch Dragon Ball Super’s 130th episode streamed in stadiums, plazas and parks. The Dragon Ball Super TV anime will come to an end for the time being. However, a Dragon Ball Super movie will hit theaters later this year in Japan. Toei Animation sent out…

Foggy Night. Bangkok, Thailand. By Zack Lowe. 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! 

Girl Shot In The Head By Her Brother During Argument Over Video Game Controller [Update]

A 13 year-old girl from Monroe County, Mississippi has been shot in the head by her 9 year-old brother during an argument over an unspecified video game controller. The Associated Press reports that the incident took place on Saturday, when the girl “wouldn’t give up the video game controller when her brother wanted it.” It’s…

Street Fighter II Sure Looks Inspired By This 1975 Charles Bronson Movie

Here’s something I’d never noticed before: two of the most memorable stages from Street Fighter II are likely a tribute to Hard Times, a 1975 Charles Bronson movie about…street fighting. There are multiple fights in the movie, but as Guerilla’s Dennis Zopfi pointed out in the tweet below, two in particular influenced the design of…

Shadow Of Mordor Cosplay Is A Twofer

This is not photoshop, this is Jechtssplitting himself in two for some A++ Shadow of Mordor cosplay. The results are even more impressive when you see the rest of him. Photos by Britany Quin

Suspected Drug Dealers Arrested Hiding Cocaine, LSD Inside Fake Nintendo Cartridges

Four people were arrested in The Netherlands last week after a police raid on a premises that had been using 3D printers to create fake Nintendo cartridges, inside which were hidden a variety of drugs like LSD, cocaine and MDMA. As De Telegraaf report, Dutch police raided a dark web drug dealing setup last year…