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US Govt Wants To Imprison Nintendo Hacker Bowser For 5 Years
4.2.2022
The U.S. government suggested to a federal judge on Thursday that Nintendo hacker and modder Gary Bowser receive five years in prison after he pled guilty to two charges involving the selling and creation of mod chips that could allow people to play pirated games on their Nintendo Switch. Read more
Pokemon Legends: Arceus Players Are Spending Forever In Just The First Area
4.2.2022
Game Freak’s first stab at a semi-open world Pokémon game is quite good. In some ways it’s shockingly so. How do I know this? In part because I and a bunch of other players got immediately hooked on Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ first area and wasted hour after hour there doing tons of stuff without...
Can We Talk About Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Shockingly Dark Tone For A Second
4.2.2022
For years now, Pokémon fans have been begging Game Freak for a more “mature” monster-collecting video game, ideally one that’s more difficult than the mainline games in the franchise. With Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it seems that folks might have finally gotten what they wanted–and it’s kinda...
Genshin Impact's Best Update Yet Is Full Of Killer Moments
4.2.2022
Genshin Impact’s events can often feel puzzle-driven and sparse. Last year’s Lantern Rite Festival was a bit like a festive museum display. The Windblume Festival and Moonlight Merriment events, meanwhile, were little more than vehicles for seasonal minigames. In contrast, this year’s Chinese...
Genshin Impact’s Inazuma Update Adds Yae Miko, New Enemies, And Bartending
4.2.2022
This morning, Genshin Impact revealed the next major update for the game, which consists of new content for the Inazuma region. Yae Miko will become playable for the first time, the Enkanomiya sub-region will get its own event, and players will be able to fight a boss who looks suspiciously like...
Summer Wars Creator's New Anime Is Visually Stunning, But Misses The Mark
1.2.2022
The new animated movie Belle is a marvel. The latest from Mamoru Hosoda, director of 2018’s acclaimed Mirai, Belle features skilled art direction that remains coherent and focused in even the busiest scenes, and I loved the English soundtrack for its haunting beauty, which never strays from...
All The Big Pokémon Games, Ranked From Worst To Best
31.1.2022
Pokémon. It’s the biggest multimedia franchise on the planet. Everyone knows what a Pikachu is. The Pokéball, a red-and-white sphere bisected by a black line, is immediately recognizable to even your most out-of-touch aunts and uncles. But it all started with a game: 1996’s Pokémon Red and Blue...
NES Zelda Map Recreated By One Person Using 25,000 Lego Bricks
30.1.2022
If I dumped 25,000 Lego bricks and pieces in front of you and gave you a few months to build something with them, what would you make? You’d probably be more concerned that I dumped all that plastic on you. But one Zelda fan and Lego builder took all those blocks and created a marvelous looking...
Steamed Hams Is Now A Playable Point-And-Click Adventure Game
29.1.2022
The internet’s favorite Simpsons scene, often referred to as “Steamed Hams,” has been recreated in hundreds of strange ways over the years. Now someone has turned the whole thing into a playable point-and-click adventure game, not unlike classics like Monkey Island.Read more
How To Evolve Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ New Monsters, Plus Old Ones With Weird Requirements
28.1.2022
A new Pokémon game means, well, new Pokémon, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus is no exception. And while the latest installment in Nintendo’s flagship role-playing franchise may skew from the series’ foundational elements in interesting ways with its fluid, open-world gameplay, some of these debuting...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus: Easy Pokedex Tips That Will Make A Huge Difference
28.1.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus does a lot of things differently from the mainline Pokémon games, and that includes completing your Pokédex. Where before the games tasked you with collecting the entire monster compendium to fill out the encyclopedia within the device, Arceus takes place in the past...
How To Beat The Bizarrely Difficult Crash Bandicoot High Score In Uncharted 4
28.1.2022
Face it, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End isn’t exactly a nail-bitingly difficult game. In fact, the debatably toughest moment of Naughty Dog’s modern classic comes in the form of a game-within-a-game: Crash flippin’ Bandicoot.Read more
My, Link, How You've Grown
28.1.2022
Dan Eder is an artist currently working on Warner Bros’ fighting game Multiversus.Read more
Hitman 3 Had A Bad Steam Launch, So Everyone Gets An Upgrade
27.1.2022
The news here isn’t that IO Interactive—which has historically been reticent in doling out a bevy of publicity screenshots for its hit stealth game, Hitman 3—published a decadent 4K screenshot of suave hero Agent 47 pouring a glass of Argentinian Malbec. No, no, that’s just icing on the cake:...
It’s Not Just You: Miyamoto Hated Navi In Ocarina Of Time, Too
26.1.2022
Navi. That simple, two-syllable word is enough to send even diehard Legend of Zelda fans into a tailspin. But as it turns out, even Shigeru Miyamoto–the legendary designer behind the action-adventure franchise and countless other Nintendo properties–felt a touch of frustration toward Link’s...
Genshin Impact Players’ Zhongli and Ganyu Rolls Are Looking A Little Funny
26.1.2022
Normally, I’m a good person. I celebrate my friends’ wins when something good happens to them. But when half the internet is crying at the sad, sad state of their Genshin Impact rolls for the Lantern Rite event, I can’t help but get a bit of schadenfreude. How’s that C6 Qiqi treating you? (Sisi...
Mysterious! Guilty Gear Character’s Boobs Keep Growing With Every Sequel
26.1.2022
Even in a franchise as full of brilliant characters as Guilty Gear, Baiken rules. The fucked-up samurai, despite missing both an eye and an arm, is canonically one of the strongest people in the fighting game’s universe, and it’s hard not to be charmed by the brash swagger she brings to every...
Life-Sized Final Fantasy Bust Has Realistic Sephiroth Nipples, And They're Excited To See You
25.1.2022
When I woke up this morning, I did not expect to catch an eyeful of Final Fantasy VII villain Sephiroth’s perky nipples. Yet here we are. Life always finds a way, you know? Here’s FantasyToys’ life-size Sephiroth bust for your viewing pleasure.Read more
Mario Odyssey Speedrunner Completes Absurd, Nearly Unplayable ‘HUD Challenge’
24.1.2022
They say necessity is the mother of invention, so when speedrunning Super Mario Odyssey became “too easy” for Twitch streamer DougDoug he decided to spice things up by making the game’s heads-up display get progressively… uh, worse the longer he played. Read more
Nine Months Later, Breath of the Wild Player Is First To Collect 'Impossible' Arrow
24.1.2022
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild community is bonkers, combining all sorts of glitches to reach areas that the game would normally bar you from entering. These impossible-to-reach areas that exist outside the borders of the map sometimes contain random items, like treasure chests that were...