The Uncracked Secrets Of Pokémon Go Egg-Hatching

For the past several days I’ve literally been running an experiment with Pokémon Go, trying to hatch eggs while running through Brooklyn and Manhattan. I ran enough that I should have hatched the 10km egg I was incubating in the game, but I did not. For nearly 20km, its shell remained intact. This defies the…

A Friendly Dolphin’s Ridiculous Adventures In Second Life

Hey guys! It’s Snorkel the Dolphin here, 🐬

Steam Game Delayed Because Publisher Forgot To Press The Release Button

Sometimes video games are delayed because a team’s schedule was too ambitious, or because they need some extra time for polish. Other times, it’s because they forgot to press the button. This Is The Police, a new strategy game, was supposed to come out today on PC but is now scheduled for Tuesday, August 2.…

New Adventure Game Starts You Off At The Final Boss Of An RPG

The scene: Your RPG hero is standing before the evil Overlord, the final boss of the game. As they start to battle, your hero suddenly forgets everything—why he’s fighting, who his friends are, and what he’s doing there in the first place. That’s the premise of The Longest 5 Minutes, a Japanese game published by…

God Damn This Halo Trailer Was Good

Game trailers tend to be forgettable things. Explosive diversions paving the way for a marketing campaign that hits you, tries to sell you something then fades into nothingness as the next hype train takes its place. ODST’s live-action clip, though, lingers long after the game has disappeared off the charts. I watched this the other…

The Mom Who Moderates Her Daughter’s Rowdy Twitch Chat

Anisa Jomha was a so-called “boobie streamer” until last March. Her sizable Twitch following includes ardent fans, horny dudes, toxic trolls, and an unusual chat moderator: her mother. On Twitch, Jomha, known online as Raihnbowkidz, streams League of Legends for her over 200,000 followers, many of whom originally subscribed for something other than her gameplay:…

German Mayor Closes Bridge Just For Pokémon Go Players

While some local government officials are trying to get Pokémon Go out of public spaces, the Mayor of Dusseldorf has taken the opposite approach, blocking off a bridge in the city so that players can catch pocket monsters in safety. The Girardet bridge, a small crossing over the Düssel (a tributary of the Rhine), is…

The Biggest Selling Games In Japan Of 2016 (So Far)

It’s late July. We’re past the half way point of 2016. Now is a good time to look back at what games have been selling in Japan. The latest issue of Famitsu complies the country’s biggest console games between December 28, 2015 and June 26, 2016. Here are the fifty top sellers. You might be…

Some Japanese Pokémon Go Players Have Bad Manners 

The stereotype is that Japan is clean. That Japanese people are clean. Many people are, but certainly not all, including some of the country’s Pokémon Go players. From a young age, Japanese people are taught to pick up after themselves. Kids in other countries are taught that as well, of course, but in Japan the…

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“The Wii U Has No Games”, A Study

Of all the complaints levelled against the Wii U over the years, the most common one is usually “there aren’t any games”. With Nintendo putting out some lifetime release figures overnight, let’s see how that claim actually holds up. Before we begin: in case you need this spelled out, nobody literally means there are no…

Five Years Later, Fan-Made StarCraft RPG Finally Launches

Once billed as a full-fledged StarCraft MMO way back in 2011, StarCraft Universe ultimately downsized into a less-massive, still-multiplayer RPG that received Blizzard’s approval and picked up $84,000 on Kickstarter. Now it’s finally a thing you can play. Just a reminder: this is the mod that got announced in 2011 as World of StarCraft, ran…