So Far In 2018, Japan’s Most Downloaded Nintendo Switch Game Is Minecraft 

Minecraft isn’t only popular in Japan, it’s also popular on the Nintendo Switch. Minecraft is the most downloaded game on Nintendo Switch in Japan during the first half of this year, according to lists Nintendo published today. Here are the top five for package and download versions. Note that Nintendo did not release download figures.…

People Love Goku And Vegeta’s New…Jackets

A new Dragon Ball Super: Broly trailer just debuted at San Diego Comic-Con. In it, Broly goes bonkers, but what many fans also dig are Goku’s and Vegeta’s winter wear. Just look at these jackets! Folks love them. I do, too. In Japan, those who pre-order movie tickets for Dragon Ball Super: Broly get little Goku…

The Next Evangelion Movie Will Be Out In 2020

The years-in-the-making Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 finally has a release year. The movie is slated for 2020 in Japan. Currently, the movie does not have an international release date. The release date was announced during movie previews starting today, including the previews before Mamoru Hosoda’s new feature Mirai of the Future Here is some artwork for the…

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Even LeBron James Is Impressed With This 2K Fan Video

A 2K18 player has made this little mixtape vid of his game, which has created LeBron James’ son (LeBron James Jr.) and put him on the same Lakers team as his dad. It’s pretty good! Both as a video and as a vision of a possible future, where James sticks around in the leaguelong enough…

Breath Of The Wild Comes To Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Nintendo just announced a couple of new updates to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, adding some Breath of the Wild-related items to the game. First up is a Breath of the Wild-skinned version of the Master Cycle: You’ll also be able to dress Link up in his tunic from the Switch game. Ancient customisation parts will…

OK, Maybe Adidas’ Dragon Ball Sneakers Won’t Be That Bad

Earlier this year,there was a big fuss from Dragon Ball fans over a line of sneakers that Adidas was releasing based on the franchise, mostly because a bunch of leaked designs looked terrible. Now that one of the shoes is actually coming out, though, things might not be so bad. The first sneaker in the…

Blizzard Is Sorry World Of Warcraft Patch 8.0 Messed Up The Game

Earlier this week, what should’ve been the second-biggest event of World of Warcraft’s calendar year landed with a dull, wet thud. The big 8.0 patch, which lays the foundation for the upcoming expansion Battle For Azeroth, sailed into players’ lives aboard a raft of bugs and tedium. Now Blizzard has apologized and vowed to improve…

Sony’s Spider-Man PS4 Is Very Nice

On September 7, Sony will be releasing this Spider-Man PS4 console in the US and Canada. It’ll cost USD$399/CAD$499. The bundle includes a Spider-Man themed PS4 Pro console, DualShock and a copy of Insomniac’s Spider-Man game. We used to get a lot of custom, limited edition consoles, whether they were colour schemes or branded offerings…

Thor: Ragnarok Gets A Perfect Anime Intro

Thor: Ragnarok is not anime, it’s a live-action comic book movie. But let’s just pretend, for a second, that it is anime. And that this is it’s intro.

Here’s The New Dragon Ball Super: Broly Movie Trailer

Dragon Ball movies stopped having a plot a long time ago. If the trailer shown at San Diego Comic-Con today is anything to go off of, Dragon Ball Super: Broly won’t be any different. Goku is all fired up and ready to test his strength against an even more powerful foe. Vegeta can’t believe how…

Board Game Kickstarter Cancelled After Plagiarism Scandal

Overturn: Rising Sands has been one of the most hyped board game projects on Kickstarter this past month, blowing past its funding goal and exciting players with its miniatures (and cheap prices). But it’s now dead in the water, having had its funding suspended by Kickstarter after allegations of, among other things, plagiarism. There’s a…

Epic Admits Disastrous Fortnite Tournament ‘Did Not Go As Planned’

Last weekend, Epic kicked off its $8 million Fortnite “Summer Skirmish” series with a $250,000 tournament featuring top-tier players and content creators. Thanks to latency issues and confusing camera work, it was a disaster. Now Epic has put out a postmortem acknowledging that, yeah, between lag and hyper-cautious players, things didn’t go super great. The…

EVE Online Alliances Are Positioning For A Massive War

Over the past week, the overwhelming majority of EVE Online’s player run coalitions have begun to band together and field some of the most powerful fleets that the game has ever seen. The game’s galaxy map is split along its North-South axis, with each side attempting to drive a vanguard strike deep into the heart…

You Can Now Watch U.S. Congresspeople Stream Video Games

The Washington Post is now Twitch streaming politicians beating its reporters at video games, starting today with Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz demolishing reporter David Weigel 26 to 0 in Madden 18. It’s an extremely weird interview format, but one that feels perfectly at home in the absurd media landscape of 2018. Why Madden 18? Apparently…

In Argentina, A Pro-Choice Advocate Protests With A Doom Mod

With Doom Fetito, one game developer is taking Argentinian women’s fight for abortion rights into a new arena: the world of Doom mods. Following a massive, 500,000-person strong march on International Women’s Day, the fight over abortion rights in Argentina heated up this year as the country’s government announced that it would consider legislation to…

Shadow Of The Colossus Player Rips Through 16 Giants In 36 Minutes

Shadow of the Colossus battles are supposed be dangerous clashes against massive foes, but a new boss rush world record highlights some intense climbing tricks and AI foolery that turns the game’s iconic beasts into pushovers. The boss rush speedrun was completed by ChurchNEOH using the current-gen HD remake, but many of the techniques work…

Last Night’s Upset Shows Cracks In The Overwatch League’s Best Team

Last night, something went terribly wrong with Overwatch’s best team. It became apparent early on in a match, when Do-hyeon “Pine” Kim, New York Excelsior’s unstoppable, sawed-off shotgun, switched off the sniper hero who made him famous and onto Doomfist, a character notorious for being high-risk but high-reward. This time, there was no reward. The…