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CultureThat All-Black Pikachu Probably Wasn’t Hinting At Anything
In addition to the surprise reveal of New Pokémon Snap, this morning’s Pokémon broadcast also included an intriguing cameo from an all-black Pikachu plush, which hung out in the background while company president Tsunekazu Ishihara presented on stream. But don’t get too excited; it seems this was just an opportunity for Ishihara to show off…
By Ian Walker Published June 17, 2020 -
CulturePokémon Sword And Shield’s New DLC Finally Lets Pokémon Follow You Around
Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor DLC adds a big new area to explore and a bunch more Pokémon to discover, but by far one of the coolest things in it is a new feature that lets you hang out with your favorite Pokémon out in the wild. Once you hit a certain point…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2020 - Uncategorized
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By G/O Media Published June 17, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesPokémon Sword and Shield’s new Isle of Armor DLC is out today, but you can only access it from a certain location. You need to first head to the Wedgehurst Station and then show the man next to the gate your Armor pass. And make sure you already caught the Slowpoke.
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Morning Edition
Welcome to Wednesday—we’re halfway there!—and welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been up since 5am covering the new Fortnite season, because it is my job to get up at such ungodly hours to play video games. I’ve always wanted to be a morning person, but I can never quite pull it off with…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 17, 2020 -
CulturePokémon Gets A New Puzzle Game And A Toothbrushing App
In non-Pokémon Snap news, this morning’s YouTube presentation from The Pokémon Company also revealed free-to-start puzzle game Pokémon Café Mix and Pokémon Smile, a mobile app meant to help children brush their teeth. Launching on June 23 on Switch, iOS, and Android, Pokémon Café Mixis a match puzzle game in which players complete orders in…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureThey’re Finally Making A New Pokémon Snap
During a special YouTube presentation this morning, The Pokémon Company announced a new version of classic Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap in development for Nintendo Switch. Released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999, Pokémon Snap is a photo safari spinoff of the monster-collecting RPG series in which players are tasked with snapping pictures of pocket…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2020 -
Kotaku EastKFC Opens A Virtual Restaurant In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Today, KFC Philippines has created a virtual location in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, complete with little buckets of chicken and Colonel Sanders himself. As Ungeek (via Go Nintendo and Wonderosa) notes, the KFC Philippines Official Animal Crossing Island does an amazing job of recreating the Kentucky Fried experience in New Horizons. If players find the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2020 -
UncategorizedTokyo Drinking Street Recreated In Vietnam
Well to “Chill Town.” It’s a street of bars and restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City that was inspired by Tokyo’s nightlife districts like Kabukicho. It’s not an exact copy by any stretch, but it certainly is evocative. Some of the Japanese signs are odd (they are even upside down!), but in general, it’s a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanNintendo’s stocks have hit a two-year high in Japan over second-wave covid-19 concerns. “The stock had been struggling the past two months with demand for stay-at-home stocks dropping as the economy re-opened…” said analyst Katsuyuki Fujii. “But as fears for the second wave of coronavirus grow, people are taking a second look at those stocks.”
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureFortnite Season 3 Floods The Map, Adds Aquaman
Fortnite’s Season 3 is here, at long last, and things look different. The map is flooded, a giant shark keeps landing on me, and there are more NPCs to fight. As suspected, the battle royale island is now largely covered in water. While the landmarks seem much the same, many of them are now islands.…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureHuman Toad Is Freaky And Terrifying
Artist Miguel Vasquez is a genius at taking beloved video game and cartoon characters and turning them into nightmare fuel. His latest? Toad from Super Mario Vasquez uses a 2D image of each character as a reference but then gives them realistic human eyes. He also takes inspiration from movie make-up effects artists like Rick…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureRed Dead Online Update Removes Modded KKK From The Game
For a little while now modders had been taking advantage of a vulnerability in Rockstar’s Red Dead Online that allowed them to spawn members of the Ku Klux Klan, who are normally only present in the offline singleplayer component. That loophole has now been closed. As Polygon reports, Red Dead players had been complaining about…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 16, 2020 -
CultureFormer Evo Champion Banned From Multiple Fighting Game Events After Racist Tweet
After posting a tweet that both mocked the Black Lives Matter movement and peddled in racist tropes, former Evo champion Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez has been banned from several fighting game events. This includes an indefinite suspension from Capcom-related tournaments. Ramirez has always been known as something of a heel in the fighting game community,…
By Ian Walker Published June 16, 2020 -
CultureAvengers Game Twitter Assembles, Then Deletes Extremely Bad Tweet About Defaced Statue
Today, the official Avengers video game Twitter account posted a short video featuring a monument of Captain America and said that the area around it had been “defaced.” It’s the kind of atrociously poor timing that, itself, deserves some kind of historical monument. Right now, all across the nation, cities and states are making plans…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 16, 2020 - Uncategorized
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By G/O Media Published June 16, 2020 -
CultureFake Crowds Added To Actual Football Matches, Looks Like Some FIFA 96 Shit
Spain’s La Liga, which has resumed its season after March’s Covid-19 lockdown, is like every other major sports league returning to action playing in front of empty seats. So to try and add a little atmosphere for the folks watching at home, they’ve added artificial video game-style crowds, and they are terrible. The league teamed…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 16, 2020 -
OpinionEven The Wii U Lived Longer Than The Confederacy
Did you know every major gaming generation has lasted longer than the Confederacy that sparked the American Civil War? That nascent nation only managed to hold out for a little over four years. And yet, instead of erecting statues to the Xbox, the United States continues to honor Confederate figures with memorials across the country.…
By Ian Walker Published June 16, 2020
