Patricia Hernandez

Pokémon Fan Has Genius Way Of Avoiding YouTube’s Copyright Bullshit

Since release, Pokémon YouTubers have had issues uploading any footage utilizing the signature new “Z-Moves” introduced in Sun and Moon. One fan decided to take matters into his own hands, and the workaround for circumventing YouTube’s crap is hilarious. As you may already know, YouTube has something called “Content ID,” which is a system meant…

Thousands of People Get Banned From Pokémon Sun and Moon For Cheating

Cheating is rampant inPokémon thanks to tools which allow players to create fake monsters with impossible stats from scratch. Well, it looks like some of the people messing around with their save files have gotten the hammer from The Pokémon Company. According to leading Pokémon news site Serebii, 5,954 people have been banned from going online…

Players Try Bringing Missingno Into Pokémon Sun and Moon, Get A Glitch Instead

Pokémon Bank, the service that allows players to transfer monsters between titles, is now live for Pokémon Sun and Moon. It was only a matter of time before people tested out if Pokémon’s most infamous glitch could be imported into the service, and thus, the latest games. Last year, Pokémon Red and Blue were released for…

Overwatch‘s Lunar New Year Event Is Now Live, Here’s What’s In It

Overwatch is celebrating the Chinese New Year in style, from the 24th of January to the 13th of February. Expect lots of skins, sprays, as well as a new Capture-The-Flag Brawl mode. Here’s the trailer: Blizzard notes that this event will come with 100 cosmetic themed items, along with LOTS of fireworks. Said items will…

PS4 Fans Are Baffled As To Why Sony Is Promoting Crappy-Looking Games

Earlier this month, the official PlayStation YouTube account uploaded a trailer for a game called “Life of Black Tiger.” The mature adventure game, which appears to be a port of a free mobile title, looks like crap—but it has sparked a discussion over the quality of games that players expect to see on consoles. Now,…

The Woes of An Overwatch Player Who Keeps Getting Reported For Playing Widowmaker

Snipers have a bad reputation: the class is infamous for standing back and picking off kills, all without contributing to the match objective. In Overwatch, that sniper stigma means that players consider heroes like Widowmaker and Hanzo to be nonviable competitively. For some players, straying from that norm often turns ugly. For weeks now, I’ve…

If Super Mario Odyssey Had The Realism of Grand Theft Auto

Super Mario Odyssey’s trailer was only a couple minutes long, but it was enough to get everyone hung up on was Mario’s bizarre appearance in a fictionalized version of NYC. The immediate comparison was that Odyssey reminded people of GTA, so it was only a matter of time before mods mashed together the whimsy of…

RIP Miiverse

Miiverse, Nintendo’s special social network that debuted on the Wii U, will not be coming back for the Switch, VentureBeat reports. I’m heartbroken. Miiverse was genuinely my favorite thing about the Wii U, and I was really hoping Nintendo might revamp it for the Switch. Alas. Miiverse was too good for this world; always making…

The Nintendo Switch Already Has A Promising Esport

I’m seeing a lot of negativity out there about the Switch’s launch line-up, but I really don’t know what people are talking about. The 1-2 Switch is gonna be a system seller, and it’s going to be because of this amazing cow milking mini-game. Maybe you missed it last night—the official 1-2 Switch trailer only…

We’re at today’s private Nintendo Switch event in NYC! We’ll have some hands-on impressions with the new console, games, and more in the coming hours, so stay tuned. For now, if you wanted to get a sense of what the Switch will actually look like after some use:

Super Mario Odyssey’s Real Humans Are Weird and Bad

Super Mario Odyssey has Mario jumping into an actual city, which is populated by humans. One problem: the humans are proportioned realistically, and Mario is not. It’s the most jarring and upsetting detail about tonight’s Switch event. Why is everyone dressed as if they were in the 1950’s? Why does this level remind me of…

Fire Emblem Warriors is a real thing, and it’s coming to the Nintendo Switch. Details are slim, but we know it is being developed by Koei Tecmo.

Splatoon 2 Coming To The Nintendo Switch

The freshest shooter of the last few years will be making a splash on the Switch, Nintendo announced today. Expect new weapons, new hair styles, and more importantly, new threads for your squid kid. Excellent. Here’s the trailer: The first Splatoon debuted on the Wii U, and it featured a unique combat system: instead of…

Nintendo Switch Gets A Mini-Game Compilation Called 1-2 Switch

One of the Switch’s launch titles will be a party game that makes heavy use of the detachable Joy Cons and face-to-face interaction. It’s a pretty Nintendo idea. During tonight’s demo, we saw people racing to do shoot-outs, sword fighting, air guitar, tennis, dancing, among other things. Here’s the trailer: 1-2 Switch will be available…

Bloodborne Players Are Still Looking For Secrets In The Chalice Dungeons

Bloodborne lore contains a group known as the Tomb Prospectors, who explore the labyrinth dungeon on behalf of the Healing Church. Months after release, that idea spawned a group of real-life Tomb Prospectors: players who endlessly scour Bloodborne’s dungeons, all in the hope of finding something no one is even sure actually exists in the…

We’re Hiring–Come Work With Us

Kotaku and Deadspin are teaming up to cover esports, and we’re looking for some fresh talent to help make it happen. We want people who are fearless in their reporting. We want people with an intolerance for hype and bullshit. We want people who can spot stand-out moments and amazing plays in anything from Counter-Strike…

Pokémon Based On Inanimate Objects, Ranked

Some people will tell you that the worst Pokémon designs are the ones based on real-world items, rather than animals. Those people are wrong. Actually, some of the best creatures in the pocket monster roster are ones based on inanimate objects. The thing about inanimate object Pokémon is, you can tell Game Freak actually has…

Mass Effect: Andromeda’s new North American release date is Tuesday, March 21, 2017 for the PS4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. Europe gets it on the 23rd.

The Year In Video Game Sex, 2016

2016 was a big year for nerdy perverts. Overwatch alone probably started an entire sex industry, VR porn became the face of virtual reality, and more games tackled raunchy subjects. More than anything, 2016 felt like the year horny fandom took over the internet. We talked more about the characters people wanted to kiss and…

Nebby Gets Out of The Bag, Destroys A Pokémon Team

The only two moves that Cosmog can learn are Splash and Teleport. Surely, then, a Cosmog would be useless in a Pokémon battle? Not necessarily! PIMPNITE was challenged by YouTube fans to set up a “sweep” with Cosmog, meaning, a battle in which Cosmog takes out the entire enemy team. Nobody really thought it was possible—the…