If you’ve been collecting the many Animal Crossing amiibo figurines or cards released over the last year, good news: they’re more useful now. Using Amiibo, you can now invite more characters to your town, and some will come with special items as well. The Amiibo support goes beyond Animal Crossing specific toys, too: both Splatoon…
Once a fandom gets big enough, it starts to develop a reputation. In the case of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the reputation isn’t necessarily a good one—and the creator of the series knows it. Yesterday, developer Scott Cawthon took to the Steam forums of Sister Location,and he explained why he takes umbrage with people who…
In 2001’s Paper Mario, our favorite hero in blue overalls saves the day, just like he always does. Peach helps, but in the end, it’s Mario who defeats Bowser. For years, however, speedrunners and glitch hunters have attempted to rewrite that sequence of events. Many of us have played through Paper Mario sequentially, chapter after…
Sometimes, developers put stuff inside of a game that players are never supposed to see. Such was the case with the original Paper Mario, which apparently had a bunch of dialogue that was not discovered until very recently. As Paper Mario expert Stryder7x explains in the video below, if you go out of bounds using…
So, you’re about to start an exciting new adventure in Tamriel. Maybe you’ve played Skyrim before. Maybe this is your first go-around. If you’re playing on console, a wealth of options are now available to you, all thanks to the power of mods. Accessing mods is easy: there should be an option right on the…
Missingno was never supposed to exist; it was a glitch monster that could appear in Red and Blue only under special circumstances. Despite being a mishap, even now, twenty years later, fans still love and remember Missingno. While Game Freak may never bring Missingno back, VGMoose went ahead and modded Missingno into Pokémon Omega Ruby…
Haunted sandcastlePokémon. Dugtrio with luscious hair. Garfield’s shitty blue cousin. Maybe you’ve noticed, but Sun and Moon’s creature design is actively absurd, sometimes bordering on troll-like. All of that is intentional, according to the creators. Earlier this month I spoke to Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda, producer on Sun and Moon, as well as Shigeru Ohmori, director…
On July 29, 2011, a YouTube channel named “Tulpa Effect” uploaded a vlog where a woman named Marissa explained that her boyfriend, Roger, had acquired a new obsession: Slender Man. “He reads these forums, and he looks online, at the YouTube videos…and originally, he was talking about wanting to make a Slender Man video,” Marissa…
The Pokémon Sun and Moon demo has secrets, some of which are only viewable if you play multiple days in a row. Some players are convinced that a creepy NPC must be a part of those special events, even though he repeatedly admits there’s nothing to him. Meet the mysterious old man. That’s not a…
If you play Pokémon Go from October 26th to November 1st, you might notice an increase in spooky apparitions. That’s totally intentional! As the trailer for Pokémon Go’s seasonal event states, the mobile game will be celebrating Halloween. Trainers will enjoy an increase in candy rewards, which is very appropriate. Niantic says that having a…
Half the internet has been unreliable today as the result of what seems to be a major attack by unknown parties. Adding to that list of annoying outages now is PSN, given that many users are reporting issues with it since this morning. If you’ve been having trouble connecting a PlayStation console to PSN today, you…
For years, Pokémon fans have argued over what happens when a monster is recalled into a Pokeball. The theories are endless. Does a Pokémon simply shrink down in size? Is a Pokeball just an empty prison? Does a Pokémon transform into pure energy, or perhaps information, once inside a Pokeball—meaning there’s no “inside” of a…
It was sad enough to read about how Mimikyu dresses up like a popular Pokémon because it also wants to be loved. It’s another thing entirely to hear Mimikyu sing about its woes. A Japanese version of Mimikyu’s song was uploaded by the official Pokémon channel yesterday, and YouTuber Tobias went ahead and subtitled the…
The Sun and Moon demo has only been out for a couple of days, but people are already finding ways to tweak and mod it. You know, in addition to unlocking the entire Pokedex before it was announced. KazoWAR has footage of Sun and Moon running with a “no-line” patch that was created by Shiny…
Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the system that will be replacing the Wii U (and possibly the 3DS) as Nintendo’s main console. Meet the Nintendo Switch. It will launch on March 2017. Here’s Nintendo: Introducing Nintendo Switch! In addition to providing single and multiplayer thrills at home, the Nintendo Switch system also enables gamers to play…
Earlier this month, Kotaku asked the folks at Game Freak which starter Pokémon they prefer in Sun and Moon. Unfortunately, poor Popplio didn’t make the cut. I got a chance to speak over the phone to Junichi Masuda, producer on Sun and Moon, as well as Shigeru Ohmori, director on Sun and Moon, and they…
The recent controversial takedowns of high-profile yet unofficial Nintendo-related creations paints a picture of an aggressive corporation that punishes fans. But Game Freak, the creators of Pokémon, actually seem remarkably chill about the existence of fan games based on a recent conversation with Kotaku. As some of you know, 2016 has been a fraught year…
Well, the Meowth is out of the bag now. Thanks to datamining of the recent Sun and Moon demo, we now know what a good portion of the Alolan Pokedex will look like, including many monsters which haven’t even been announced yet. (Spoilers ahead.) You know what that means, right? Pokémon fans are inundating the…
Good news, 3DS owners. You can now go into the Nintendo eShop and download a small taste of the upcoming Pokémon games. The demo is not hard to find: it’s currently the first thing that pops up in eShop when you load into it. While much of the content inside of the demo is currently…
After two days of teasing the internet with images, Rockstar has now come right out with it: Red Dead Redemption 2 is a real thing that is happening, and we can expect a trailer for it on Thursday, October 20th, at 11am. And…that’s it for now. The final image reveal does however give us a…
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