Pokémon Sun and Moon Players Busted After ‘Glitch’ Turns Out To Be A Broken Cheat

Right now there’s a scare going on within the Pokémon community. “Don’t save inside Pokémon centers,” people are warning each other. “Your save file might get borked.” Well, about that… Recently, there have been reports online of a serious Pokémon glitch that renders the game completely unplayable, as the avatar disappears and the second screen…

Welcome To Symmetra Hell

The Symmetra revamp is now live on Overwatch’s PTR. In other news, we all live in hell now, but at least the weather’s alright. Nibel captured the madness from PikaIsCool’s stream. And of course: So there you go. Now you’ve got something to look forward to when you log onto the PTR this evening. Or…

Early Anime Fans Were Tough Pioneers

In 2016, Westerners take stuff like anime and cosplay for granted. It’s everywhere. But in the 1970s and early 1980s, fans of these emerging scenes had to work hard for their leisure, braving bewildered hotels for their cons and going to incredible lengths just to get hold of bootleg episodes. The following is an excerpt…

Pre-Order Loophole Allows Bogus User Ratings And Reviews To Proliferate On Xbox One And PS4 Stores

People who pre-order games digitally on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have been earning themselves an unadvertised and easily abused perk: the ability to rate, and sometimes review, video games that they have yet to play and aren’t even out yet. As a result, both online stores are full of star-ratings for games that haven’t…

Minecraft’s Next Update Will Bring Huge Progress To Consoles [Update]

In an announcement today, Mojang has indicated that a large number of long-awaited changes are coming to the console editions of Minecraft, bringing those editions a lot closer to the Java edition. The most significant updates are the addition of Ender Cities—pre-generated structures in The End that contain some of Minecraft’s more obscure materials and…

What Lies Beyond The Boundaries Of Mario Kart Tracks

Built for speed and not exploration, racing games like Mario Kart like to keep players confined to a set track. Since developers always know what the player will be looking at, it’s easier to hide things away, until a YouTuber like Shesez starts using camera tricks to explore beyond track borders. In the latest installment…

A Horror Game About Finding A Stranger’s Phone

Sara Is Missing is a horror game that takes place entirely on a stranger’s phone. While it never strays too far from horror clichés, it still manages to be pretty frightening, and takes full advantage of its limited format. Horror movies often find fear in granular elements of life—an unclosed door, a barely heard whisper,…

How To Capture Shiny Pokémon In Sun and Moon

There is about a 1 in 4,000 chance a unique color variant of a Pokémon will appear in a random encounter, making “shiny Pokémon” the rarest type of monster you can capture. Some people have played Pokémon for decades and have never seen a shiny. Here’s how you can beat those odds and get a…

King Kaiju Game Lets You Destroy Cities, Godzilla Style

VR is for living out our dreams with no real consequences. And if your dream is to be an enormous, city-destroying monster, you’re in luck: King Kaiju is here. King Kaiju, available on Steam for the HTC Vive, gives you everything you need to go on a shitstorm mayhem spree of indiscriminate chaos. You’ve got giant,…

Blizzard Is Giving Overwatch‘s Symmetra Two Ultimates

For a little while, Blizzard’s acknowledged that Symmetra is too much of a situational hero. Now they’re doing something about that. In a new developer video, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained that a new version of Symmetra will soon be coming to the game’s PTR. Nu-mmetra will be the first Overwatch hero to have…

Some of Watch Dogs 2‘s Multiplayer Features Are Coming Online Today

Watch Dogs 2‘s seamless multiplayer was broken at launch, but some of the features have been brought online today for Playstation 4, with availability for Xbox One soon to follow. Should the update run smoothly “additional elements” to the multiplayer will be phased in, Ubisoft noted in a statement this morning. If you want to…

Gifts For Someone Who Plays Board Games

Hopefully, there is a special someone (or at least a someone you’re obligated to buy holiday gifts for) in your life that is into board games. If so, don’t buy them board games! Buy them cool stuff that helps them store or organise their board games, they’ll like that better. Feldherr Storage Inserts & Bags…

Sleeping Dogs, Outlast Headline December’s Xbox Games With Gold

There are some pretty cool games in December’s Xbox Games with Gold. Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab four games for “free;” the two games for the Xbox 360 are backward compatible, so you can play them on your Xbox One as well. Remember, these are only free if you have an Xbox Live…

Season Three of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, titled “A New Frontier,” will premiere December 20th on all major platforms and mobile devices. A retail disc will be available February 7.

Japanese Twitch Streamer Briefly Interrupted By Earthquake

Yesterday’s 6.9 magnitude earthquake off Honshu island, Japan, sent waves as far as Tokyo, where it rocked a humble Twitch streamer playing Pokémon Kai Hamano, whose streams as Kaihama, was sorting through his inventory in the new Pokémon game when his bedroom started shaking. “What the fuck?” he asked his viewers. “Oh my god, it’s…