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In Your Dreams, There’s A Pokemon x Adventure Time Crossover

These Pokemon are the work of designer and illustrator Daniel Mackey. If your first thought is that they look like something Finn would take a swing at, you’re not alone, that’s exactly what I was thinking as well. I like how they take a series that’s primarily about cute animals, drawn from a Japanese perspective,…

How Can You Fly Inside An Inside-Out World?

I’m not entirely sure, to be honest, but InnerSpace sure looks pretty. Developer PolyKnight Games calls InnerSpace an “exploration flying game.” The premise—like the game’s dreamy, almost creamy look—is simple but elegant: “Set in a world where physics are inverted, the player flies in a spherical world surrounded by water, where gravity falls away from…

That’s A Lot Of War To Cram Into A Video Game

Wars and Battles is an upcoming iPad game that doesn’t cover a single war. It doesn’t even cover a single era of war. It’s covering all the wars It’s doing this the easiest and most obvious way possible: by making an engine based on the flexible rules of tabletop wargaming, then sticking it in a…

Real Life Disney Princesses Would Make The Worst Best Friends

Disney princesses don’t always have the best priorities—but normally, that’s not actually your problem. Unless, of course, you happen to be friends with a Disney princess. Then things get tricky. Here’s a silly take on what it would be like to know Disney Princesses in real life, as a counterpart to the Disney Princes video…

Unlock A Secret Borderlands Boss By… Calling Someone A ‘Dick’

We might just have a new contender for the title of most Borderlands boss in the history of Borderlands bosses. Spoiler alert for those who’ve rejected the infinite communication potential of the Internet in favor of scouring games for days, months, even years, in search of every last secret. (More power to you! I’m just…

Destiny Cheats Now Include God Mode

Last month, we detailed Destiny cheats that enabled players to have infinite ammo.Since then, it seems as if cheats available to some players have gotten more complex and game-breaking. In this footage, we can see YouTube user MhzMiricle entering a special menu where they can tell the game what cheat they’d like to enable: As…

See What A Difference A Day One Patch Makes

Hint: In spooky-scary Shinji Mikami survival-horror The Evil Within, it’s a pretty big one. If your Internet connection is non-existent/unreliable, this is probably not the best news. The Evil Within‘s particular brand of survival-horror has been known to cause a bit of a mess, but not like this. Eurogamer took a PlayStation 4 retail copy…

Commander Shepard Killed More than 300,000 People

Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard may be the savior of the galaxy, but how many people did she kill along the way? Reddit user mocha820 tallied up every kill in a standard run through all three games and assembled some neat stats on the series. Warning: spoilers ahead. Mocha’s numbers are pretty shocking, but not all…

How I’m Preparing For WoW‘s Warlords Of Draenor Expansion

After nearly eight years of covering World of Warcraft from the same old character, I’m taking next month’s Warlords of Draenor expansion as an opportunity to start fresh with a class I’ve never played before. Meet Prachok, the rapidly-leveling Draenai Shaman. My Mage, Rande, has served me well over the years. He started off undead.…

The Last Of Us, Turned Into A Ghost Story

YouTuber Freako likes to mess around with The Last Of Us, putting Ellie’s shirt on Joel, or deleting characters. In this case though, the results are a whole lot spookier, accidentally turning TLOU into something like Beyond: Two Souls Freako started by deleting the character models for Joel and his brother Tommy. This makes the…

The Pokémon Company Welcomes iOS Campers To Camp Pokémon

Less than a month after the iPad release of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, The Pokémon Company returns to iTunes with Camp Pokémon, a free collection of kid-friendly mini-games that’ll give fans something to fool around with while waiting for Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby to come out. Set on a Pokémon-themed island, Camp Pokémon…

Alien: Isolation‘s first DLC is out next Tuesday, October 28. It’ll add three new maps to the game’s currently thin survivor mode, and will tell the story of a new playable character, a Seegson employee named Ransome. More info here; read our review of Isolation here.

​Super Smash Bros. Announcer Sings The Pokémon Theme

One of the pivotal parts of the any Smash Bros. game is an over-the-top announcer, and the current Smash Bros. one is no different. And guess what? It turns out the guy can sing as well. As part of an AMA on his YouTube channel, voice actor Xander Mobus karaoked the first half of the…

Indie Dev Resigns After Saying He’d Kill Gabe Newell

Yesterday, Valve took the indie game Paranautical Activity off Steam following a tweet in which the game’s developer Mike Maulbeck said he would “kill Gabe Newell.” Today, Maulbeck has resigned. The tweet, which Maulbeck said was written in jest, followed a string of complaints about the game being incorrectly labeled as “Early Access” on Steam.…

Smash Bros. 3DS XLs, Clone Wars: The Lost Missions, and More Deals

Best Buy has some decent prices on the 3DS XL today, but surprise: the deal includes the Smash Bros. editions Preorder to save on Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions. While the discount on the DVD version is deeper than the Blu-ray release, preorder price protection basically makes that a moot point. You’ll…

Looks Like Somebody’s Got A Hankering For Talion Meat

Ah, Shadow of Mordor orcs. So silly. And also so, so creepy when they want to be. Reddit user ootinii captured this particularly…vivid taunt from a nemesis I have yet to come across in my own orc-slaying adventures. I’d put it right up there with insane giggling as one of the most unsettling ways an…

Resident Evil Creator Doesn’t Want ‘Submissive’ Women In His Games

The man behind the Resident Evil series and The Evil Within doesn’t cater to the common horror trope of the helpless screaming female. In a recent interview withThe Guardian, Shinji Mikami talks about writing strong, independent women, and why he didn’t want RE‘s Rebecca Chambers in his game. Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield — the Resident…

Shadow of Mordor is adding some new epic runes and an alternate skin that lets you dress up as Sauron’s Black Hand, publisher Warner Bros. announced today. Keep in mind you only look like the villain—you’re not actually gaining evil powers. The free update is out now for the Xbox One, with PS4 and PC…

How To Get Rid Of The Evil Within’s Pesky Black Bars On PC

The Evil Within is one of those horror games that goes for a cinematic vibe, which can be irritating for some gamers who feel restricted by its field of view. The good news is that modders have already rigged up several solutions to this problem. The bad news is they only work on PCs for…

Calm Down With Funky Kong As He Makes Soothing, Gross Noises​

Hey Dude. Looks like you’ve had a stressful time. Looks like you might need a bodacious bro to calm you down. Don’t worry, bruh. I’m here for you, and so is Funky Kong. Docfuture1 (AKA Topher Florance, the dude behind A semi-alphabetical listing of Black actors with speaking roles on Friends) recently made this simultaneously…