If Adventure Time Characters Were Pokémon Trainers

Imagine, for a moment, that characters like Finn or Marceline had to pick a Pokémon team. What creatures would you match them up with? Here’s one take by shorelle, and I think it’s perfect. Jake already sort of looks like Pikachu, ergo… Finn X Pikachu Marcelline X Mega Gengar Princess Bubblegum X Wigglytuff If you…

Steam Shooter Copies Real War, Declares Truce For Christmas

Well this is just heartwarming. Verdun, a multiplayer World War I shooter currently in Early Access on Steam, has declared a Christmas truce from December 18-25. You will still be able to duke it out in The War That Didn’t Really Succeed In Ending All Wars if you wish, but developers M2H and Blackmill have…

GTA V’s Version of Operation Is Way More Explosive

Remember the board game Operation, where you have to do your best to extract all sorts of stuff from a patient’s body without touching the edges of the cavities? This is sort of like that, except way more unsafe. AH Community takes the time to show how you can ‘recreate’ the classic game in GTA,…

Why Pokémon Players Are Obsessed With Blissey Secret Bases

In two words: experience points. Heaps and heaps of experience points. As you might already know, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire include something called “secret bases.” Think of them like treehouses. Hidden throughout the game are nooks and crannies that players can move into and decorate, Animal Crossing style. While the game gives you…

Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s New Patch: Wait, There’s A Difference?

There’s no doubt that Assassin’s Creed Unity had technical problems, otherwise Ubisoft wouldn’t have apologized for the game’s performance and issued a series of ever-larger patches. So what’s it mean if the graphics, then and now, seem to in many ways be the same? This might seem like a strange point of view. You’ve heard,…

Spider-Woman Gets Her First Costume Change in Decades

Ever since her debut in 1977, Jessica Drew’s superhero costume has looked pretty much the same, despite a few tweaks over the decades: a tight red unitard with yellow accents and big webs stretching from arms to legs. But Spider-Woman’s got an all-new look coming soon and it’s radically different. The new Spider-Woman costume got…

Tales From the Borderlands, Ground Zeroes PC, and More Deals

Tales From The Borderlands Could’ve Been Awful, But It’s Great. Get it today for $18. [Tales From The Borderlands, $18, use code DECEMB-202014-GREENM] If you held off on buying a PS4 during Black Friday, your patience has been rewarded with what is arguably the best bundle we’ve seen Today on Amazon, $440 gets you the…

In case you missed it, Vagante is out on Early Access. I played it back when it was just a rough alpha back in June, but really liked what it was doing. It’s kinda like Spelunky but with Final Fantasy Tactics art and more of an RPG focus. We’ll probably be playing it soon to…

Evolve’s open beta will be running between January 15-19 on the Xbox One, accessible to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Two monsters, the Goliath and the Kraken, and eight hunters will be available to play across 12 maps. There will also be smaller, invite-only closed tests on the PC and PS4 around that time.

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Watch The World’s First Kill of WoW‘s Current Hardest Boss

Only 4 guilds were capable of defeating Imperator Mar’gok on the hardest difficulty, the final boss of Warlords of Draenor’s newest raid, and the quickest one was the Finnish top guild, Paragon. While that’s impressive, their newly released kill video is just as awesome. Watch 18 minutes of epicness below from multiple guild members’ view.…