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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…

Pokémon Go Nudes Are A Thing Now

Welp. Everyone knew this would happen, right? Pokémon Go makes use of your camera, and you can take a picture of whatever you’d like while playing, after all. (NSFW content ahead!) Actually, right now the internet has a number of different kinds of Pokémon Go nudes floating around, with at least a couple of people…

Rocket League Adding Crates, Skipping Steam Market Features To Avoid Gambling Issues

If you were a human with functional Internet access last week, you probably heard about the big Counter-Strike gambling scandal. Despite a secondary market’s potential to help bring in big bucks, Rocket League’s developers don’t want a slice of that increasingly tainted pie. In a post confirming that, yes, loot crates are coming to Soccer…

PSA: Pokémon Go Gets Full Access To Your Google Account On iOS [UPDATE]

Watch out: if you’re using your Google Account to sign into Pokémon Go on iOS, you may have allowed the developers at Niantic to have access to your e-mail, documents, and anything else attached to that account. Unlike other applications that link to Google, which typically ask for your basic account info, Pokémon Go gets…

Valve Making Changes To Team Fortress 2‘s New Casual Mode After Widespread Criticism

Last week, Valve launched Team Fortress 2‘s big competitive mode update and, with it, a new casual mode that took the place of classic quick play. So far, people… don’t exactly love it. The new 12 vs 12 unranked matchmaking mode has players angrily spitting out their sandviches for quite a few reasons, most prominent…

Doom PC Adds Vulkan Support, Making A Fast Game Even Faster

Earlier this year Nvidia showed off its new GTX 1080 card by running Bethesda’s Doom with the super-speedy Vulkan API instead of OpenGL, resulting in frame rates approaching 200 with all the bells and whistles. Today Bethesda makes Doom Vulkan support official. Vulkanis basically the next-generation OpenGL application programming interface, boasting higher performance, better CPU…

Pokémon Go Is Missing Features Promised In The First Trailer

When Pokémon Go was announced last September, the amazing trailer promised a game more ambitious than what launched last week. Here’s that trailer, which has been watched a whopping 28 million times: The Pokémon Go that just launched delivers on the basic premise of going into the world and catching pokémon . What’s missing are…

FTC Slams Warner Bros. For ‘Failing To Adequately Disclose’ Sponsored Gameplay Videos

The Federal Trade Commission came out hard against Warner Bros. today, banning the game publisher from misrepresenting sponsored content as part of a settlement that will force WB to offer clearer disclosure practices in their marketing campaigns. Under new rules laid out by the FTC today, Warner Bros. will have to monitor the YouTubers who…

Pokémon Go Fan Trolls Westboro Baptist Church, Church Fires Back

It is 2016, and at least one religious institution hasn’t let go of the idea that Pokémon is somehow sinful. What a time to be alive. Late last week, a certain Pokémon started making headlines… For the two of you that don’t play Pokémon Go, what this picture is relaying is that Westboro Baptist Church…

Robot Samurai

Georgi Simeonov was one of the main artists responsible for the look of ADAM, that incredible short film that was put together recently on the Unity Engine In a blog post over on Unity’s site, Simeonov—who has worked on games like Brink and Batman: Arkham Origins—outlines the design work and processes that went into creating…

Speedrunner Crushes Super Mario World Without Using A Single Power-Up

There were some remarkable speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2016, but this might be the most impressive: Rezephos blazing through Super Mario World without getting a single mushroom, fire flower, cape, star, or Yoshi. You can watch the astounding run here (starts at 7:50): Those shell jumping tricks are just out of this world.…