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Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Will Take Place During Different Times of Day
If you’re debating which Pokémon game to pick up later this year, developers Game Freak just highlighted one of the biggest differences between the games: they don’t take place at the same exact time. As the trailer above shows, Sun and Moon are set 12 hours apart from one another—which means that events will play…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 6, 2016 -
Four Minutes of Amazing GTA Online Car Stunts
GTA Online’s Cunning Stunts update has given players a whole slew of new toys to do mess around with, and some daredevils are taking advantage of this by concocting all sorts of entertaining car tricks. Behold, an impressive compilation of stunts pulled off by EvolveStunting: Damn.
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 2, 2016 -
Pokémon Go’s Buddy System Will Let You Have Special Time With Your Favorite Monster
While it has been rumored for a while now thanks to data miners, Niantic finally acknowledged an upcoming feature that will let you have more one-on-one time with Pokémon. Here’s Niantic, explaining how it’ll generally work: The next addition to Pokémon GO will be Buddy Pokémon. You will be able to pick your favorite Pokémon…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 2, 2016 -
What Happens If You Wear The Silver Shroud Costume In Fallout 4’s Nuka World DLC
The Silver Shroud costume was one of the best gags in Fallout 4, and Bethesda has been keen to keep the joke going in all the DLC, including the latest installment, Nuka World. Let me tell you, the lines are excellent. FluffyNinjaLlama has documented ten whole minutes of scenes that can unfold in Nuka World…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 2, 2016 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sun and Moon’s New Snorlax
By now you probably know about Pokémon Sun and Moon’s preorder bonus, which gives you access to a Snorlax with a special move called Pulverizing Pancake. Turns out, waking Snorlax up can get pretty ugly in Alola. Just seeing the move in action is hilarious—Game Freak definitely had fun coming up with the idea: Given…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 2, 2016 -
Gears of War 4’s new Horde 3.0 mode looks sick thanks to new classes, enemy types, maps, and even vehicles (!). It’s been too long since we’ve had a Gears game with this type of co-op goodness, eh? From the official press release: In addition to ferocious new classes of enemies like the Swarm and…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 1, 2016 -
Nobody Knows How The Portals In No Man’s Sky Work
Over the last couple of weeks, No Man’s Sky players have discovered a number of monoliths scattered across the universe. The structures look important somehow, like they are meant to do something, or perhaps trigger something. Except…they don’t. Two years ago, No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games uploaded a video titled “Portal gameplay trailer,” to…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 1, 2016 -
YouTubers Are Freaking Out About Money and ‘Censorship’
Yesterday, popular YouTuber Philip DeFranco uploaded a video where he claimed that YouTube was ‘shutting down’ his channel due to guideline violations that included ‘excessive strong language.’ Since then, panic and confusion have struck the YouTube world, with some wondering if this is the start of an excessive clamp down that would put channels with…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 1, 2016 -
A Year Later, One Mario Maker Player Is Still Trying To Make The Hardest Level Ever
Francis Travers spent has spent over 650 hours creating, and then trying to beat, a single level in Mario Maker. Travers’ ambition is to create the most challenging Mario level ever, even if it means spending 2016 trying to best a creation that may actually be impossible. Perhaps this story sounds familiar. Immediately after it…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 31, 2016 -
Guy Pulls Off Pokémon Permadeath Run Only Using A Rattata
Rattata are found near the start of Pokémon games for a reason: they’re not very good fighters. Eventually, most players cycle out a Rattata on their team for something bigger, better, stronger. Not this particular Pokémon fan, though. Pokémon Challenges is a Twitch channel chronicling one German player’s grueling adventures. Earlier this year, the channel…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 29, 2016 -
The Evil Raider Factions You Can Join In Fallout 4’s Nuka World DLC
Everyone knows that Fallout 4’s last big DLC will let you be a jerk, but now we finally have a sense of what kind of dick you can be. Judging by Bethesda’s description, the possibilities are exciting. In the video above, Bethesda walks you through some of the big things you should know about Nuka…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 29, 2016 -
Pokémon Go Player Tries Getting A Million XP In A Day, Gets Treated Like Cheater
As far as Pokémon Go is concerned, only cheaters should be able to get massive amounts of XP in a short amount of time. Well, about that… Jimmy Derocher is a hardcore Pokémon Go player who has spent the last couple of weeks devising an ingenious plan to accrue as much XP as humanly possible.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 21, 2016 -
The New Sandcastle Pokémon Is Terrifying
It is 2016 and official Pokémon art now depicts Pikachu DYING. What a time to be alive (or not, in this case!) We’d already heard that Pokémon Sun and Moon would include a haunted sandcastle Pokémon, but today The Pokémon Company unveiled footage showing the critter in action: The official Pokémon website also updated with…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 19, 2016 -
The No Man’s Sky Player Who Still Hasn’t Left His First Planet
The planets in No Man’s Sky are so vast, that one player has spent 30 hours adventuring on his starter planet. It’s amazing. Meet Kahbaatangs: Discovered by 27-year-old gamer Jorgen Fernandez, Kahbaatangs is a mostly barren desert with a 24 hour rain cycle. “The worst thing about my planet was the lifelessness and lack of…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 19, 2016 -
Pewdiepie To Overeager Fans: “Don’t Come To My House”
This seems like common sense, right? Don’t be weird; don’t put people in an uncomfortable situation, no matter who they are. And yet… YouTube’s biggest star says that he constantly has to deal with the problem of fans visiting his house, even though he’s moved multiple times across the years: “I’ve even had parents coming…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 17, 2016 -
No Man’s Sky Players Are Finding Dick Monsters
In an endless universe full of possibilities, there’s one thing you can always count on: dicks. Lots and lots of dicks. As you know, the creatures in No Man’s Sky are procedurally generated, which means that animals can look like all sorts of things, depending on what the algorithm spits out. There are no outright…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 15, 2016 -
Despite Takedown, Pokémon Uranium Creators Say It’s ‘More Alive Than Ever’
There’s something about playing Pokémon Uranium that feels strangely illicit for a game about collecting cute critters. The developers behind the massive fan project took down the ‘official’ download last weekend to avoid any potential legal action by Nintendo, so the only way for me to play the game was to track down someone else…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 15, 2016