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Look At These Pikachu Air Jordans

For his walk down the yellow carpetat the Detective Pikachu premiere earlier today, Hollywood director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island, Metal Gear) skipped the whole nice suit thing and instead went for this amazing pair of custom Pikachu-themed AJ1s. Vogt-Roberts worked with Stomping Ground Customs to design and build the shoes, which feature a huge…

The Mighty Grand Piton Is A Very Cool Anime-Inspired Short

The Line—who you may remember from that amazing Blizzard anime video from last year—are back with this incredible animated short that basically asks: what if Iron Giant was set in the Caribbean, and was anime as hell? The answer is The Mighty Grand Piton, which is presented in the form of a trailer/pitch. I love…

Shrekiro

It’s Shrek. In Sekiro. Finally, we can all die. This mod for the PC version of the game, hotly anticipated by the whole of mankind since the dawn of time, comes to us by way of modders Dropoff and Katalash. It replaces the Chained Ogre miniboss with Shrek, an ogre forced into a quest to…

Dungeons & Dragons & Cats

Following on from their very successful Kickstarter for Dungeons and Doggies, Animal Adventures are back with a new line of miniature companions for your D&D adventures. Only this time they’re cats. Cats and Catacombs is a set that includes 13 fantasy cat miniatures, plus “a bespoke set of fifth edition compatible rules” so they can…

Guild Wars Gets An Update For Its 14th Birthday

Guild Wars might have a more modern sequel, but the 2005 original is still around and kicking, and for the game’s 14th birthday developers ArenaNet have given the game a little update. Via Massivelyop, it’s nothing major, but long-time fans might appreciate some of the tweaks. They include the return of The Augur of Kormir…

Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Design To Be Changed Following Criticism

The internet, you might have heard, did not love Sonic’s recently revealed design for the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog movie. Now, thank the furry, blue heavens, it’s going to change. Today, director Jeff Fowler responded to all the criticism on Twitter “The message is loud and clear,” he said. “You aren’t happy with the design…

ROM Hacking Website Removes Volunteer Staffer Who Took Down LGBT-Friendly Pokémon Hack

Last Sunday, the popular ROM hacking resource website Romhacking.net rejected one fan’s Pokémon Crystal hack. While rejected hacks aren’t unusual, what was unusual was the reasoning. This fan hacked the game so that the Pokémon move “attract” worked on all genders, and it was rejected for being a “political statement” that would attract “SJWs” (social…

Roleplayers Create Elaborate Magazine In Final Fantasy XIV

In March of 2018, a group of role-players from Final Fantasy XIV’s Balmung world published the first issue of Wark!, an in-character magazine that explores the world of Eorzea through news, interviews and articles. Now 12 issues in, Wark! is a cute and clever chronicle of a year of online adventures. One of the problems…

The Fruits Basket Reboot Does A Classic Manga Justice

Fruits Basket is where a lot of tween otaku picked up their first few otaku-isms: baka, neko, kawaii desu. A late ’90s slice-of-life manga that was adapted into an early ’00s anime, Fruits Basket is a gem of the shoujo canon, the quintessential anime that’s cringy to describe in hindsight but close to the heart…

Overwatch Players Are Recreating Mercy’s Old Ultimate In The Game’s Workshop

It’s been a long time since Overwatch’s winged flock of Mercy mains were entirely happy with the state of their favorite healer. A series of changes and nerfs had many feeling like she was less exciting to play than she used to be, and she didn’t fare well in the game’s now-waning GOATS meta. Some…

Every Big Game Coming Out In Spring 2019

At the start of spring, just for an instant, the Earth’s equator lines up perfectly with the center of the sun marking the first day of spring, at which point we are collectively thrust into another season chuck full of game releases. “A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in…

Eevee Is Missing A Few Evolutions, So This Artist Made Them

Theoretically, the Pokémon Eevee can evolve into anything. It doesn’t have a set evolution; instead, you can use a variety of techniques to evolve it into different Pokémon types. Not all of the Pokémon types have official Eeveelutions for them yet, though. One fan has made designs for Eeveelutions for the Pokémon types haven’t been…

Sea Of Thieves’ New Story Quests Are Just What The Game Needed

Sea of Thieves’ Anniversary Update is live. The pirate game’s ambitious expansion brings activities from competitive player-vs.-player battles to fishing and cooking. Largest of all are the “Tall Tales,” a lengthy chain of cutscene and exploration driven story missions that are designed to be completed in a group or by your lonesome. The first—hunting down…

Castlevania spiritual successor Bloodstained will be out on June 18 for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC (June 25 for Switch), the developers said today. You can watch the ridiculous new launch trailer, complete with promises to address all of those player complaints, right here.

Artist Fixes Live-Action Sonic The Hedgehog

Edward Pun is a talented artist at Sucker Punch, makers of Ghost of Tsushima, Infamous and more. His quick fix for the live-action Sonic is excellent. Here is how the original and Pun’s reworking compare: I think he nailed Sonic, avoiding the creepy Uncanny Valley of the movie version. Now, if he could fix live-action…

Five-Year Minecraft Game Ends With Shameful Death

Streamer Phil “Philza” Watson had been playing the same Minecraft survivial game for five years—five years!—until he got cocky a few days ago and died in the most “fucking stupid” way. Philza has been playing (and streaming) Minecraft’s Hardcore mode, which erases the entire world as soon as you die. And for all those years…

Microsoft’s Official Examples Of “Acceptable Trash Talk” Are A Joy

Microsoft updated the company’s “Community Standards for Xbox” earlier this week, and while this is normally not news, the content is so damn wholesome that it’s worth a closer look. You can read the whole thing here, and I genuinely recommend you do: the company has gone way beyond simply listing rules you should follow,…

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Black Ops 4‘s ‘Spectre Rising’ Event: The Good, The Bad, And The Flooded

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s “Operation Spectre Rising” update arrived on April 30 for PlayStation 4, with Xbox One and PC users joining the event within a week, but the new content drop comes with some highs and lows. The theme of this new event centers around Black Ops 4’s newest Specialist character Spectre,…

Epic Acquires Rocket League Developer Psyonix

On the spending spree to end all spending sprees, and apparently unable to buy the concepts of “cars” and “soccer” wholesale, Epic has settled for acquiring Psyonix, the developer of acclaimed car soccer game Rocket League Epic announced its latest purchase in a press release Wednesday afternoon. The acquisition will officially be complete at the…