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Watch A Man Spend 350 Hours Drawing All 807 Pokémon 

Here’s a timelapse video of reader Christopher Cayco drawing all 807 current Pokémon. It took him 350 hours over a span of 42 days. Actually, there are more than 807 Pokémon: while he’s got all of them accounted for, he’s drawn some of them more than once, so there’s actually over 1100 pocket monsters in…

One Of Steam’s Hottest Games Is A Zombie RTS

They Are Billions pits a steampunk village against a giant zombie horde. While it might look like a reskinned Age of Empires, that surface hides a strategy game that strikes all the right balances. Every time a wave of undead obliterated my encampment, the only thing I wanted to do was restart and try again.…

Neko Atsume Developer’s New Game Is About A Traveling Frog

The makers of cat-watching mobile game Neko Atsume dropped a new game about a frog that goes on adventures. It’s very cute. Even before Neko Atsume had an english translation, people were taken by its cute art and low pressure game play. You put out food, cats come by, and they leave you presents. They’ll…

Eleven Observations From Rewatching Most Of Lost

On a whim a couple of months ago, I decided to start rewatching Lost, a show about people on an island eating fish biscuits for nourishment. Sadly, ABC pulled it from Netflix today, choosing instead to put it all on Hulu. But I got through most of it, and I have a lot of thoughts.…

5 New Hearthstone Cards That We Totally Underestimated

Now that Hearthstone’s latest expansion Kobolds and Catacombs has been out for a few weeks, we’re seeing the metagame start to calcify as people begin to realize which decks and cards reign supreme. In the process, many cards that went under the radar in the lead-up to Kobolds’ launch turned out to be a lot…

Mad Catz Is Coming Back, Sort Of

Gaming peripheral maker Mad Catz has come back to life but not as you remember it. The company declared bankruptcy in 2017, at which time many of its assets were purchased by an unnamed Chinese holding company that has now spun them off into a new entity called “Mad Catz Global Limited.” As part of…

Doki Doki Literature Club, As Told By Steam Reviews

Doki Doki Literature Club was a surprise hit last year. According to Steam reviews, you should play it if you like big anime tiddies and giving yourself emotional pain. I really liked the way Doki Doki Literature Club got under my skin. Despite its pleasant, moe-tinged veneer, it’s not just a scary-ass game, it also contains…

D&D Player Mods Hundreds Of Monsters Into Playable Characters

Your bread-and-butter Dungeons & Dragons party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi, but maybe it should. One D&D player spent a year and a half converting every single creature in the D&D Monster Manual into playable characters, and now players can live out their dreams of being a great…

Paladins Shamelessly Adds ‘Battlegrounds’ Mode

Hero shooter Paladins is adding a new battle royale mode called “Battlegrounds,” an entirely unique addition that by no means is meant to reference any other game. Paladins already looks a lot like Blizzard’s blockbuster first-person shooter Overwatch. Its all new game mode, showcased by a song that sounds a lot like 2002’s “Headstrong” by…

Fatal Frame II Is Still One Of The Scariest Games You Can Play

There are some cultures that believe taking a photograph captures a part of your soul. Your job in Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly is to fight horror by recording it. This piece originally appeared 10/26/16. Playing as Mio Amakura, you and your twin sister Mayu unravel the mysteries behind the gruesome apparitions haunting Minakami Village.…

The Nintendo Switch Is The Fastest-Selling Console In U.S. History

Today, Nintendo announced that the Switch has become the fastest-selling home game console ever in the United States. It surpassed the previous record holder, the Nintendo Wii. Since launching on March 3, 2017, the Switch sold over 4.8 million consoles in the U.S. In comparison, during the Nintendo Wii’s first ten months, over 4 million…

Ni no Kuni 2 was supposed to be out this month but was delayedtwo months. While you wait, check out this 25-minute gameplay demo video. 

Japan Isn’t Happy With Logan Paul’s Tokyo Video, Either

On January 1, the most important day on the Japanese calendar, when families gather and think about the new year, YouTuber Logan Paul posted an apparent suicide on YouTube. That wasn’t the only time he insulted the country’s cultural norms. He started doing that days earlier. On December 30, he uploaded a clip titled “We…

It was already known that Monster Hunter: World was heading to PC. Today, producer Ryozo Tsujimoto announced that the PC version is slated for a fall 2018 release.

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Fans Have Finally Translated The Most Recent Tingle Game Into English 

Tingle’s a guy dressed in a green onesie who sells maps in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. The offbeat cartographer we so well received, Nintendo embraced him and let him return in later games, even providing him with a stand-alone spin-off series. Just a few days ago, fans finally finished translating its fourth installment.…

The Miiverse Has Been Saved, Preserving 72,135,190 Drawings

Not all of them are hairy dicks As we discussed in September, despite Nintendo’s decision to kill the Miiverse—an online community for the Wii U and 3DS—late last year, some fans and engineers wanted to save everything that had been posted to the service, so that it wasn’t lost to the ether once Nintendo pulled…

We’re playing Echo live now on Twitch. It’s a stealth-puzzle game where the enemies learn whatever actions we perform. Which means we probably shouldn’t shoot them..

Kylo Ren’s SNL Gag Is Now A Battlefront II Mod

Remember Matt The Technician, Kylo Ren’s run as an Undercover Boss on Saturday Night Live? It’s in Battlefront II now. This lil’ mod takes the game’s Unmasked Kylo Ren skin and replaces it with Matt, who is shredded, and definitely not a punk bitch. This skin, by GameTSF and ricksterlol, only works in the game’s…

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