The Best Speedruns From SGDQ 2016

Last week, a lot of people played through a lot of video games very, very quickly. Here are some of the best. I haven’t watched EVERY run from Summer Games Done Quick 2016, which ended late Saturday night after raising close to $1.3 million for Doctors Without Borders, but I’ve watched a lot, so I’ve…

A Quick Pokémon Go Tip: Keep Catching Weak Monsters

Those of you playing Pokémon Go are probably sick to death of seeing the same crappy monsters no matter where you go. Pokémon Go doesn’t tell you this, but even those shitty critters can still be mega useful. Pokémon encounters are somewhat tied to location, yes, but they also take into account your level. The…

Dead Century Is A Very Good-Looking Video Game

A few years back, I wrote about a game called Dead Century, which looked very cool. The bad news: its Kickstarter failed. The good news: it got made anyway, and is now looking even better. Dead Century is an RPG/adventure game in the vein of Telltale’s various series, and it’s out now on iOS (with…

7th Dragon III Code: VFD: The Kotaku Review

The name might be a bit of a mess, but Sega’s new 3DS role-playing game is anything but. It makes a little more sense in context. 7th Dragon III Code: VFD is the first Western release for a Japanese RPG series that began with 2009’s more simply named 7th Dragon for the Nintendo DS. 7th…

Japanese Fans Are Impatient About Pokémon Go

The country that created Pokémon still hasn’t seen an official Pokémon Go release. Imagine being the dude who has to tell folks in Japan that they need to wait a bit more before that happens. Kento Suga is said dude. Yes, Pokémon Go was playable in Japan for a spell yesterday for those who downloaded…

And Now, Some Pokémon Go Erotica

Chuck Tingle, famous author of sexy stories, has after a few days of furious writing released a $3 piece of Pokémon Go erotica. It features, believe it or not, lots of balls. And butts. The book is called Pokebutt Go: Pounded By ‘Em All. Here is the description: Torbit is worried. After witnessing a slew…

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CBS, what are you doing. “Quick, get us some Pokemon graphics” “Sir, these say 11-07-98 on them.” “I said get us those graphics.”

Ciri Rides Into The Real World

There will come a day when I stop posting awesome Witcher 3 cosplay. But it is not this day. Cosplay by Weronika Starzyńska, photos by Aneta Pawska

Morning Men is a story-driven RPG set in a desert world full of intrigue, lies, and junk. While it might look like a riff on Mad-Max-style post-apocalyptica, its developers cite movies like The Fifth Element as their primary influences. It’s currently on Steam Greenlight, but it already looks and sounds great.

Get Ready For EVO With This Great FGC Documentary

To help fans (or curious onlookers) get psyched for EVO 2016, which goes down in Las Vegas this weekend, the creators of the excellent documentary FGC: Rise of the Fighting Game Community have made it free to watch on YouTube. If you like it, you can still help them out by buying the deluxe edition…

Mob Psycho 100‘s Debut Is The Right Kind Of Absurd

Mob Psycho 100, this summer’s soon-to-be-hit anime about a psychic middle school boy, premiered today. From the creators of One-Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100 looks as if Fooly Cooly’s flawlessly erratic animation style met Paprika levels of psychedelica, all wrapped in a One-Punch Man burrito of action/humor. The anime’s first episode is a special, confident…