Terrible Pokémon Can Be Traded, Eventually, For Legendaries

Even a piece of crap Pokémon can result in a legendary trade. The trick? Patience, and an eye for trading up. It’s sort of like the Pokémon equivalent of One Red Paperclip, where blogger Kyle MacDonald managed to barter his way from a paperclip to an actual house over the course of a year. Only…

Meet The People Who Beat Destiny‘s First Massive Raid

They were the first in history to finish Destiny‘s mind-boggling raid, and—despite lives, jobs, and significant others—they’re not going anywhere. 1,605 deaths. That’s how many times uber-clan PrimeGuard collectively keeled over before finally finishing their ten hour run of Destiny‘s mad minotaur labyrinth of a raid, the Vault of Glass. They survived (well, eventually survived)…

Report: Girl Shoots Man For His PS4 While Her Baby Watches

Daniel John Zeitz, a former pro gamer also known as Phobos, has been shot and killed in a bungled attempt to steal his PS4 console, according to police in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Zeitz had organised the sale of his console via Craigslist, and had arranged to meet 20 year-old Nathaniel Vivian and his 16 year-old…

The Xbox One Controller Comes To PC, But It Might Be Too Late

The corded version of the Xbox 360 controller for Windows was one of the unsung heroes of the last generation of hardware. Combining the reliability of a wired connection with the fantastic design of the 360 pad itself, it managed – for the first time ever – to establish a standardised control pad for the…

Bomb Threat Targeted Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming Awards Last March

An anonymous e-mailer threatened to blow up a bomb at the Game Developers Choice Awards this past March unless the hosts rescinded an award recognizing feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian, the organizers of the event have confirmed to Kotaku “We can confirm that approximately 25 of GDC’s organizers received an anonymous email early in the morning…

I’m Worried About These Halo Remakes

I came into a recent Halo: Master Chief Collection preview event expecting to think, “Yep, it’s Halo alright” and be on my merry way. Instead I encountered a surprising number of problems. Halo 2 Anniversary, specifically, left me curiously cold, which is worrisome because the game is only a couple months from release. I got…

Pretty GIFs From Final Fantasy Type-0 For PS4 And Xbox One

UPDATED POST: Looks like someone at IGN accidentally pulled the trigger early on publishing English gameplay footage from the HD version of Final Fantasy Type-0, which will be out on March 17, 2015 for PS4 and Xbox One. It looked great, so we pulled a few GIFs and will leave them for you here while…

The Horror of Bringing The Sims To Life

Good thing people don’t actually act like sims—things would get out of hand quick. Not just because people would act in strange, sometimes hilarious ways, mind. Things would get out of hand because it means we’d be at the whims of some jerk player somewhere—and that’s bad news, as you can see in this video…

Critic Argues That Game Culture Is For Guys

A cultural criticwho regularly critiques modern feminists is weighing in on the ongoing debate about women in games in a new video, arguing that hardcore gaming is mostly a guy thing and saying that those criticizing women’s portrayal in mainstream games might as well be knocking women-targeted shows like The View or magazines such as…

What Starcraft Cards Would Look Like In Hearthstone

OK, this is pretty damn fantastic—Hearthstone player Fulla has dreamed up an entire Starcraft pack for Blizzard’s addictive collectible card game. In addition to Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan heroes, Fulla put together a ton of Terran- and Zerg-themed cards that somehow feel both proper and… well, at least somewhat balanced. (That Broodlord…) Check’em out:

Hours to Earn an Average Professional Deck in Hearthstone Read More on Numbers This week, Blizzard released the list of the 32 players that qualified for the next phase of the Hearthstone World Championship. Obviously these players got to where they are based on both their skill and the quality of their deck, but what…

Krispy Kreme’s Ghostbusters Donuts Look Too Cute To Eat

I love Ghostbusters. I also love donuts. So why am I intimidated by the prospect of Krispy Kreme’s newly announced “exclusive offer of two new marshmallow Kreme™-filled Ghostbuster treats?” Well, can you imagine biting into that face? These two cheerful-looking deserts are part of a seasonal campaign that Krispy Kreme is conducting in partnership with…

Gone Home Map For Counter-Strike Lets You Defuse Bombs, Emotions

Gone Home doesn’t have guns, you say? Well now it’s got guns and terrorists thanks to acustom CS:GO map by Nipper that turns the Greenbriar’s house into a hostage situation. The map even has a tiny dash of story in the description: June 7th, 2015 1:15 AM Your family is mysteriously missing again. But you…

Final Fantasy IV, which has been released on every digital device known to man, is now on Steam, too. It’ll run you $16 for the PC version, which is a port of the three-dimensional DS remake of the fourth Final Fantasy that includes some stuff that wasn’t on the Super Nintendo, like voice acting and…