The Pokémon Trading Card Game enters the Sword and Shield era today with the release of the first expansion based on the Switch game. The Sword & Shield expansion introduces Pokémon V, special pocket monsters with the ability to evolve into Pokémon VMAX, including Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon.  

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for being so behind on my half-marathon training because I hurt myself, but knowing that trying to catch up will only make me hurt myself again. So I’m looking forward to the push-pull of “I should run some more” and “I should not run some more.” Sports! The weekend is also for…

What We Loved And Hated About Mythic Quest, A TV Show About A Fictional Game Studio

My coworker Ethan Gach and I watched press screeners of the first season of Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a sitcom that premieres on Apple’s new streaming service on February 7. Mythic Quest is a workplace comedy about a video game studio. We’re pretty mixed: Parts of the show are hilarious, others are touching, and some…

Video Game Characters As Horrific Rubber Ducks

There is a line of toys called Tubbzthat consists of rubber ducks cosplaying as video game and pop culture characters. Today Numskull Designs announced wave two of the line, featuring characters from Street Fighter, Sonic the Hedgehog, Doom, Resident Evil, and The Last of Us. I find them quite disconcerting. I like a good PVC…

Unassuming Cube Transforms Into Awesome Lego Robot

Making a box out of Lego bricks is easy. Making a smooth cube using flat Lego pieces slightly more challenging. Creating a smooth cube with cool decorations that transforms into a small robot with a ton of personality, as Lego engineer Moko has? That’s master builder stuff. Moko’s Cube-Robo, via The Brothers Brick, is a…

Masahiro Sakurai Says There Are Too Many Fire Emblem Characters In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Even before last month’s DLC was added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the game already had too many Fire Emblem characters! Developer Masahiro Sakurai is well aware of this fact. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the playable Fire Emblem characters include Marth, Roy, Lucina, Ike, Robin, Corrin, Chrom and Byleth. In the most recent Weekly…

Coronavirus Won’t Impact Switch Sales In North America And Europe

Yesterday, Nintendo announced that Switch production and shipment to Japan from China will be impacted by coronavirus. Nintendo has issued a statement to Kotaku saying Switch sales and shipments for North America and Europe won’t be delayed. As Kotaku also previously reported, pre-orders for the Animal Crossing Switch were moved from February 8 to TBA…

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World of Warcraft‘s Latest Boss Finally Goes Down After Glitchy, 10-Day Race Between Top Guilds [UPDATE]

The “Mythic” difficulty version of World of Warcraft’s latest raid, Ny’alotha, is a doozy. Top guilds began racing to complete the 12-boss hero sandwich of a dungeon on January 28, but it wasn’t until today that one guild, Limit, finally planted its flag at the top of the eyeball mountain that is the raid’s final…

PS4 Emulation Is Taking Its First Baby Steps

As PS3 emulation continues to make strides, and with the PS5 on the horizon, it’s time for PS4 emulation to step into the limelight, as developers try and take the first steps on the road to running God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn on a PC. We’re still a very long way from that…

DDOS Attack Locks Out EVE Online Players For NINE Days

You know, normally when we report on a DDOS attack impacting an online game, it impacts players for a few hours, maybe a day tops. Yet right now there are some EVE Online players who have been unable to play the game for nine days As PC Gamer report, the attack has been ongoing for…

EA Hikes Up PC Game Prices, But Only On Steam

Yesterday, EA raised the prices on a whole bunch of games across a whole bunch of regions on Steam, making some of them cost almost twice as much on Valve’s store as they do on EA’s own Origin marketplace. While the price of EA games on Steam remains unchanged in the US, everywhere from the…

BoJack Horseman Says A Lot Of Deep Stuff About Sobriety, But I Just Liked This One Cat

The final episodes of Netflix’s animated show BoJack Horseman came out last week, ending the story of an alcoholic has-been actor who’s also, inexplicably, a horse. In the final season, BoJack goes to rehab and then tries to square his new sober lifestyle with his past. The part that rang most true to me as…