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Here’s 21-year-old illustrator Piper Thibodeau’s rather cartoony reimagination of the Kanto starter Pokémon. Compared to Charmander in the third picture, Squirtle and Bulbasaur both look so grumpy and bored, you might consider not using them in battle at all. Squirtle’s evolution line is in the top pic, here’s Bulbasaur and Charmander. Head over to Cryptid…

Let Korean Photoshop Trolls Brighten Your Day Once Again

It’s Tuesday. There are days left in your week. Maybe you need a pick me up! Maybe you need Korean Photoshop trolls. I know I do. As Kotaku first pointed out last year, Korean Photoshop trolls make the internet a better place. And hopefully, they’ll make your day a better one, too. Once again, the…

To Explore Space, You’re Going To Need A Fancy Scanner

Limit Theory is an indie space game promising “an infinite number of star systems to explore”. It’s also got one hell of a cool scanner. OK, so that might sound like a strange thing to focus on, but take a look at it! Start at around 8:15. Scanners in games are a weird fetish of…

Drone Warfare Might Be Controversial, But It Sure Is Pretty

Hunting Anubis is a flight combat game, but one that looks quite unique. Imagine Rez snapped off its rails and stripped of its colour and you’re getting close. While the terrain looks fictional, it’s not; the game’s all about drones, so you’re seeing the real world, only through the eyes of a heartless death robot.…

Not Everyone’s A Killer In DayZ. Some Folks Are Just Weird.

You tend to only hear about the assholes in DayZ, but really, for every gun-toting lunatic you encounter, you run into ten others whose behaviour ranges from the friendly to the absurd. The Tumblr hey are you cool does a great job of documenting this. It’s Chris Livingston’s account of the people he meets while…

Music Is Coming To Steam

Valve’s in the process of testing something called Steam Music. Before you freak out and worry that Valve’s getting into the music business, relax: this isn’t a Spotify competitor. It’s just a way to integrate your existing music collection with Steam. It’s a pretty simple idea. You tell Steam which directory your music is in,…

Dark Souls. Dark Souls? Dark Souls! Dead End Thrills is still at it, pulling down some dramatic new shots of Dark Souls, looking great on PC. Head over there for more.

Drones Are Mapping The Entire Planet (For A Video Game)

ReROLL isn’t like most survival games. For one, it uses drones—the machines map out the games’ world using real-world map data. Which is to say, the open world you’ll be exploring in-game is some of the terrain you’ll find in the real world. Beyond that, the weather and temperature are pulled from the real world…

Real Academy Instructs Students In The Art Of Lightsabers

The Ludosport Lightsaber Combat Academy is a chain (yes, there are multiple schools!) in Italy that teach willing students in the art of lightsaber combat. Or, for those who’ve never dreamed of being a Jedi, in dancing around swinging a glowing toy stick. These guys have some serious skills. Going way beyond just hitting each…

Team Fortress 2‘s Soldier Would Be A Terrible Attorney

Team Fortress characters in Ace Attorney‘s courtroom sure is one of the weirder Gmod mashups. YouTuber TFHK’s video has almost all the Team Fortress 2 classes represented and yet it still somehow makes sense, even though it’s just for laughs. Here’s the full clip. The Heavy makes a really good judge by the way. Soldier:…

The PS3 Game You Have To Play (But Probably Didn’t)

Could you imagine owning a PS2 and never having played Shadow of the Colossus? Or a GTA: Vice City? Ha ha. That’d be dumb. Well, if you have a PS3—if you’re moving into the PS4 era—without having played Puppeteer, you’ve made a big mistake that you need to fix posthaste. Puppeteer is (mostly) a sidescroller.…

“Fraud” Pretends To Be Ubisoft, Tries Cancelling Watch Dogs’ Trademark

Well, this is weird. Someone has asked the US Patent & Trademark Office to scrub the trademark for Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs. A request that’s been called “fraudulent”, since it didn’t actually come from Ubisoft. Earlier today, the publisher sent a notice to the USPTO (emphasis added): Ubisoft Entertainment submits this Petition to the Director…

The Best Parts Of Every Transformers Movie, In 10 Minutes

You could sit through all three Transformers movies in preparation for the upcoming Age of Extinction…or, you can just cut to the chase and watch all the cool transformations. That’s really why many people like to watch the movies anyway—the transformations are a great showcase of the visual effects. So kudos to Tunglebrek compiling this—it’s…

Wonder Woman Is Totally Rocking That Motorcycle Look

I, for, love the design sensibilities in the current version of Wonder Woman that’s been in place since DC Comics’ New 52 re-launch. But, another re-imagining will happen at some point—of course, it will—and I’d love it if this look by artist Dan Mora were the next face of Wonder Woman. You believe this Diana…

Grand Theft Auto V‘s publisher still isn’t talking about a PC release. “At this point there’s really nothing for us to say about that,” Karl Slatoff, the president of Take-Two Interactive, said in a conference call with investors about the matter. Earlier in the call, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that “We are going to…

​Guy Steals $334K In Video Game, Earns $316 In Real World

Last week, indie game-maker Jason Rohrer launched a clever promotional campaign for his new game The Castle Doctrine in which he promised to give out real cash prizes to players depending on how much money they could steal in the game. Today, Rohrer has announced the results of the competition. The top player stole $333,952…

Watch Us Play 11 Minutes Of EverQuest Next Landmark

On Friday Sony Online Entertainment surprised its fans by announcing the early launch of the alpha test for EverQuest Next Landmark, the all-mining, all-crafting aspect of the next-generation fantasy MMO. I entered that alpha test, and I tore a hole in the world. Landmark is where EverQuest Next players get to explore, gather materials and…

Report: Disney Will Lay Off Hundreds This Week

Disney plans to lay off hundreds of people in their interactive-media department this week, the Wall Street Journal reports today Disney Interactive has 3,000 people, and includes the social game developer Playdom, which will reportedly be part of these layoffs. In January of 2013, Disney shut down Epic Mickey developer Junction Point, and that April,…

Let’s Not Get Too Excited About Nintendo’s ‘Mergers and Acquisitions’

In the past, major video game companies like Square and Enix merged. It’s a big deal when something like that happens! Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently mentioned “M&A” (aka mergers and acquisitions), setting off speculation around the internet. But what does he mean? It’s not yet clear—he could just be talking about licensing Nintendo characters.…

The Closest You Can Get To Actually Being In Skyrim

The Cyberith Virtualizer sounds like something out of a crappy sci-fi novel—until you watch this video and see what it can do. With the Virtualizer, a motion-tracking device that isn’t commercially available just yet, an Oculus Rift, and a Wii remote, this guy is basically inhabiting Skyrim. It’s… incredible. Also incredibly dorky, but still—you’re lying…