The Machine That Finds Shiny Pokémon For You Just Got Even Better

Last week, we showed you amachine that someone built that found rare colors of Pokemon for them—all without having to to be present for the boring parts of the special shiny-finding process. It was impressive….but this new machine right here? It’s even better. As a quick recap: the original machine made by dekuNukem used a…

Say Goodbye To The Xbox 360 Era By Blowing One Up With C4

If you’re gonna ring in a new generation of gaming consoles, might as well do it… with a bang. This new video, from RatedRR, is quite… explosive. In it, they take a red-ringed Xbox 360 and place it… in the smoking section. The Xbox then gets a new kind of red ring: A red ring……

A 500GB PlayStation 4 Will Give You About 400GB of Storage

A 500GB PlayStation 4 actually has a little more than 400GB of available storage, meaning you’re going to fill that drive up even faster than you thought with the hefty mandatory installations of games like Killzone: Shadow Fall. That’s according to a series of Tweets from a lucky user named CJ who got his PlayStation…

Marauding Maniac Meets Mournful Madwoman In Injustice Annual #1

Who would win in a fight, Wolverine-clone Lobo, or the Joker’s unhinged girl Friday? The answer might be a lot more clear if this showdown weren’t happening in the Injustice universe. The Ultimate Edition of Injustice: Gods Among Us is available today, combining all of the downloadable content for the DC Comics alternate reality fighting…

Xbox One Call of Duty Offers Better Framerate than PS4, Say Reviewers

The furor that kicked up two weeks ago over Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ native resolution on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One appears to have gotten its sequel. With reviews of the Xbox One version trickling in today, some are saying the Xbox One does not suffer the framerate drops that were reported in…

More Than 200 Music Tracks From Pokémon X And Y For Only $10

The recent release of Pokémon X and Y didn’t just give the game a graphical overhaul. The music is better than ever before as well, and now you can buy all 3.5 hours’ worth of it on iTunes for a piddling $9.99. The Pokémon X & Pokémon Y Super Music Collection contains 212 tracks, to…

The launch trailer for Killzone: Shadow Fall gives us a little bit of zealotry and a bucket of bad blood. With their homeworld destroyed, the Helghast have come to settle with the Vektans, in a big city divided by a huge wall. Unsurprisingly, no one likes their new neighbors.

Buy 2 Get 1 Free PS4 Games, Microsoft Credit, Doctor Who [Deals]

The Amazon B2G1 Free PS4 games promotion has ended, but check out the new Amazon PSN Store and its $5 PSN credit back on select games promotion. [Amazon] Also check out the new Humble Indie Store Doctor Who Limited Edition Complete New Series on Blu-ray | $300 Microsoft $100 Gift Card for $90 | Use…

Check out the latest video for Child of Light, Ubisoft’s take on a JRPG. The combat system is inspired by Grandia II, and with it you can do some really neat things, like work together with a partner to delay enemies’ attacks and beat tough baddies at level 1. (I played the game yesterday on…

The fantastic Rayman Legends comes to non-Nintendo next-gen in February. During Ubisoft’s fiscal year 2013-2014 conference call, CEO and chairman Yves Guillemot revealed that the second game in the limbless wonder’s console rebirth will hit next-generation consoles in February 2014. Can it possibly get any prettier?

SWEAR TO ME You’ll Watch This Comic Con Video

It’s hard to mock with love. In the video above, from last night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, Pete takes to the floor of this year’s New York Comic-Con to interview the cosplaying attendees. But unlike a lot of convention interviews, there is a real sense of love — a sense that Pete genuinely…

Send Help. Stupidly Good Quiz Game Is Robbing Me Of Sleep.

I played my first round of Plain Vanilla’s QuizUp, “the biggest trivia game in the world”, last night around 9 PM. I played my last round of the evening at 4 AM. This game is dangerously good. I’ve been overlooking emails about QuizUp for several weeks now, which, considering how tired I am today, was…

​Marvel at a Museum Dedicated to One of Comics’ Greatest Artists

Captain America, the Hulk, Fantastic Four… If you read superhero comics, you’ve probably liked a character created or co-created by Jack Kirby. He made the battles of superheroes like Thor feel larger than life but he also grew up fighting in the streets of New York City’s gritty Lower East Side neighborhood. And he made…

A Spoiler-Free Look at BioShock Infinite‘s Next Chapter

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea‘s first chapter releases today, and as it deals with events after the twists-and-turns thriller of Infinite, there are few options for seeing what it’s all about without confronting a faceful of spoilers. 2K Games’ launch trailer looks like a safe approach, though. It’s Booker and it’s Elizabeth, the two main…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Stormborn makes Super Mario Brothers‘ bad guys look better in the latest part of his redesign project. Pink Zapper Helmet offers up insight on how the costs of video games prevents them from reaching a wider audience. And JJtheTexan shares info on a little-known, cancelled…

It Takes Five Minutes To Reach The First Dungeon In The Newest Zelda

Five minutes and three seconds, to be precise—that’s how long it just took me to get to the tutorial dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which comes out for 3DS on November 22. Using my iPhone stopwatch app, I started recording the second I hit “new game.” Including the opening cut-scene,…

30 Minutes Of Very Pretty Dragon Age: Inquisition Footage

Via NeoGAF, here’s the Dragon Age: Inquisition demo that the folks at BioWare showed off at PAX in Seattle a few months ago (and have been showing off at other places since). Looks good, don’t you think? Make sure you set it to HD for a better idea of what the game will look like…

Watch Xbox One’s ‘Snap’ Multitasking In Action

Not to be outdone by Sony’s PS4 launch week extravaganza, Microsoft today released this video showing off how the Xbox One’s sleek Snap feature will work. That’s how you’ll multitask if you get yourself the newest Xbox, which launches on November 22. We’ll have a full review (and much more coverage) for you next week.