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The Best Starting Pokémon, According To Science

It’s the agonizing choice and neverending debate of a generation: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle? Picking one of the Kanto starter Pokémon is usually a gut choice, based on past experience or which one looks cooler. But what if there was a way to know, objectively, the best one? Well, now we do, thanks to science.…

Target Apologizes, Making Good On Cancelled PS4 Pre-Orders

Last Friday, we reported that Target was canceling PlayStation 4 preorders that had been bundled with delayed games like Watch Dogs and Driveclub. It looks like the retailer is taking action to make good on the console part of those preorders, as well as giving $100 gift cards to make it up to those affected.…

Holy Crap. Has The Famous Glitch, Missingno, Returned In Pokémon X & Y?

Hold on to your butts, this one is a doozy. Earlier today, an image with a screenshot of a trainer standing in front of a boutique in Lumiose City, a location in Pokemon X & Y, started floating around. It seemed to show something kind of incredible: Missingno, that classic glitch from Pokemon Red and…

Apple Exec Accidentally Calls Batman ‘The Black Knight’

Today at Apple’s big presser, marketing VP Phil Schiller accidentally called Batman the Black Knight. What he meant, of course, was the Dark Knight. Unless he was referring to Martin Lawrence.

Playstation 4 Bundles In Stock On Amazon, Go! [Update: Sold Out]

Amazon has the Battlefield 4 and Killzone Bundles in stock and they won’t last. These are launch day bundles, and a $10 discount compared to buying the items separately, with free shipping and no tax depending on your state. Playstation 4 Battlefield 4 Bundle w/ 1 Year of Plus | $500 Playstation 4 Killzone ShadowFall…

Titanfall Comes Out March 11, 2014

One of next year’s biggest games will be out sooner than you think: Titanfall hits Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC on March 11, 2014 in North America. (March 13 in Europe.) Titanfall is the first game from Respawn, the studio founded by Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella when they were…

Indie Game Without an Ending Removed from Steam Store

Dark Matter, the indie game accused by customers of releasing unfinished last week, has been pulled off of Steam until it gets a proper ending, and Steam users say they’re getting refunds if they ask for them. A report by Gamasutra also says the development studio, which blamed Dark Matter‘s abrupt conclusion on the fact…

Nuclear Throne Is Like An 8-Bit Borderlands

Not only did Vlambeer make another great shoot-em-up, they’re also live streaming the game’s development twice a week while the game is in early access. Check out the gameplay above and learn the meaning of “explosive revenge.” The team is streaming development twice a week ontheir twitch channel, and you can find more details ontheir…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: PinkZapperHelmet wants us all to play a disarmingly cute but hellishly difficult puzzle game, General McFist shares a sad and personal story about living with brain seizures and how that affects game habits, and PyramidHeadcrab discusses the problems with definitive “best of” lists And you…

Battlefield 4‘s Story Trailer Punches A Dog Right In The Face.

Man, remember the Battlefield 3 single-play story, with the train and the…that rat? There was definitely a rat. And a building collapsed. That’s all I got. Battlefield 4 looks much more memorable. I certainly won’t forget the guy straddling and punching a dog at 1:36 in this trailer. Maybe it’s a dig at everyone’s favorite…

Downloading the “GTA V PC Torrent” is 18GB Worth of Bad Ideas

About the only thing I can see that’s wrong with this diabolical plot is the fact suckers have to download an 18GB torrent before the malware is unleashed. Otherwise, there’s a bogus torrent of Grand Theft Auto V‘s nonexistent PC version that’s claimed several victims of late. It bears mentioning one should not download this.…

From MMO to movie star. Funcom’s supernatural MMORPG The Secret World makes its big-screen debut in IRL, a Swedish film about a troubled teen who finds happiness in a virtual world. Check out an interview with director Erik Leijonborg at thegame’s official site.

Good morning America! You missed some pretty cool stuff while you were asleep. League Of Legends Player Says He Makes Almost $1 Million A Year Some Of The World’s Best Cartoons Are Hidden Inside Video Games Even Sony Thinks An $1850 PS4 Is “Bad For Gamers” Xbox Fight Leads Man To Bite Penis “Like A…

Team Fortress Characters Get Jobs At The Supermarket, Things Go Badly

Two years ago, we featured a video called Mac ‘n’ Cheese, an animated short heavily inspired by two characters from Team Fortress 2. Today, we’ve got a sequel. And it’s terrific. The “Scout” and “Heavy” (not actually them, but…come on) are down on their luck, so get jobs at a local supermarket. Things do not…

Let’s Pretend Nintendo Actually Made A Phone

Then let’s pretend it looked this cool. OK, so the buttons down the bottom look awkward, but just the thought of being able to carry around a Nintendo phone, packed with as many NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, DS and (maybe) GameCube games as I could fit on there, puts a smile on my face.…

The Perks Of Being Sony Boss, #1832

Don’t let the graphic fool you. We’re not here for the back of Placido Domingo’s head. We’re here for the gentleman on the right. That’s Sony boss Kaz Hirai, just chillin’ on the starting grid at the Japanese Formula 1 Grand Prix. Lookin’ sharp, Kaz. Also lookin’ like a kid in a candy store. @paulmccarthy…

What A $240 Attack On Titan Action Figure Looks Like

This isn’t the first Attack on Titan figure I’ve seen, but it is the coolest. A 1/6 scale version of Mikasa, she won’t be out until July 2014. Pity. When she does hit, though, she’ll cost around….USD$240. Which is a lot for a figure, yeah, but hey, at least it’s an incredibly detailed one, with…

Gearbox Boss Buys…Penn’s Ponytail. For Real.

Penn Jillette, from Penn & Teller, wants to make a “smart” horror movie with buddy Adam Rifkin. So he set up a crowdfunding campaign. A campaign that just got quite the boost from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford. Pitchford, himself a bit of a magician, kicked in $25,000 to the campaign (which is asking for just…

Sony’s PS4 Controller Prototypes Sounded Completely Crazy

The DualShock 4 marks the first time in over a decade that substantial changes have been made to the design of a PlayStation controller. But what we ended up getting is nowhere near as drastic a change as we could have got. In a great piece on VentureBeat examining the development process behind the DualShock…

Xbox Fight Leads Man To Bite Penis “Like A Sandwich”

Sometimes, you look at British newspaper stories about video games and shake your head. And then there are days like this The Metro reports that Jason Martin, 41, from Dover, has been jailed for seven years after chomping on a man’s penis following a video game dispute earlier this year. A former (no shit) friend…