With only hours left to go in the week-long charity speedrun marathon, a $20,000 donation from t-shirt company The Yetee pushed the total raised by Summer Games Done Quick for Doctors Without Borderspast the $1 million mark. Nice work, people.

Pokémon Go Players: Team Instinct, Mystic Or Valor? 

Upon reaching level five in Pokémon Go, the player must choose a faction to represent in the battle for Pokémon Gym domination. Are you a member of the calm and analytical Team Mystic, or did you choose one of the other two for some reason? Red, yellow or blue, your choice of Pokémon Go team…

Richard Garriott’s Blood Pulled From Ebay, Probably Because It Was Blood

Earlier this week famed Ultima developer Richard “Lord British” Garriott made a splash by putting an artful reliquary containing his actual blood up for sale on eBay. The listing is now gone, most likely due to Ebay’s strict “Don’t Sell Blood” policy. Promoting and raising money for his crowdfunded RPG Shroud of the Avatar, Garriott…

Innocent Pizzeria Besieged By Five Nights At Freddy’s Phone Calls

Freddie’s Restaurant and Pizzeria in Long Branch, New Jersey has a serious Five Nights at Freddy’s problem. Freddie’s is a family owned and operated Italian restaurant, opened in Long Branch by Fred Scialla, who is almost certainly no relation to the animatronic bear that stars in Scott Cawthon’s series of jump-scare heavy horror games. Unfortunately,…

Pokémon Go Could Be A Death Sentence For A Black Man

This week has been a catastrophe for Blackness. Two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were killed by police officers within 24 hours of each other. Neither had committed a crime that was punishable by death nor did they put any officers lives at risk. It’s inexcusable, unjustifiable, and is perpetuated by a system that…

Weird Al’s My Little Pony Figure Comes With A Tank

Just because it has the word “party” in front of it doesn’t make what the Weird Al Yankovic-voiced Cheese Sandwich is riding on any less of a tank. The upcoming Guardians of Harmony line of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic toys turns the normally immobile plastic statues into battle-ready articulated action figures. Hasbro is…

Watch The Final Day Of The Summer Games Done Quick Speedrun Marathon

The seven-day Summer Games Done Quick charity speedrun marathon comes to a close today, but not before runs of Diablo II, Final Fantasy VI, Super Metroid and Super Mario RPG are finished. Several great games remain to be run in Summer Games Done Quick, which has so far raised nearly $800,000 forDoctors Without Borders. Can…

Evolve Cracks Steam’s Top 20 After Going Free To Play

It’s the year 2016, and people are actually playing Evolve. What a world. Yesterday, Turtle Rock released Evolve Stage 2, a free-to-play, you know, evolution of the 4v1 multiplayer monster mash. Stage 2 also refreshes the game with a new progression system and mechanics. For now, it’s only on PC. This has resulted in an…

The Counter-Strike Gambling Scandal, Explained

The past week has seen the world of online games rocked by a major gambling scandal. Two YouTubers with millions of subscribers, Trevor ‘TmarTn’ Martin and Tom ‘ProSyndicate’ Cassell, were revealed to be owners of a site they repeatedly promoted sans overt disclosure. The potential ramifications are not pretty. Roll the bones This is not…

Teen Plays Pokémon Go Outside, Finds Dead Body [Update]

All Shayla Wiggins wanted to do was find a water Pokémon. Instead, she discovered something way more disturbing. As you may already know, Pokémon Go encourages players to go outside to find monsters “located” in the real world (it is an augmented reality game ). As originally reported by County 10, Wiggins, a Pokémon fan,…

Berserk‘s Heroine Just Got A Lot Whiter For Some Reason

In Berserk’s manga, TV series and full-length movies, the sword-wielding heroine Casca has traditionally been depicted with dark skin and short, black hair. Today, in Berserk’s second episode of the anime’s new rendition, she appeared extraordinarily pale. It’s gone over about as well as you’d expect. This year’s Berserk anime series has already garnered harsh…

What Should I Do?

It’s a tough call… I’m not sure what I should do here… gonna have to put this one to a vote.

How To Play Pokémon Go

Even if you’re able to battle through the server problems plaguing Pokémon Go, you might be struck with another: the game doesn’t explain how anything works! There’s not a single tutorial sequence in Pokémon Go outside of a short series of tips, with players expected to pick up everything on the fly. It’s an odd…

The Plan One Guy Used To Get The World’s Highest Steam Level Overnight

The PalmDesert dynasty is, at least for now, over. As of today, a new guy has the world’s highest Steam level, and he managed it almost over night. His handle? St4ck. As for how he did it, well, it’s quite a story. St4ck’s current Steam level is 1,113, making it officially the highest in the…