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Chris Metzen On Leaving Blizzard: ‘I Started Having Panic Attacks’

For over two decades, Chris Metzen was a cherished mascot for Blizzard, where he was the senior Vice President of Story and Franchise development. When he retired in September, at 42, fans wondered why he’d abandon a company he’d been at since he was 19. Today, in an interview with podcaster Scott Johnson, Metzen explained…

Disney XD is the new home for Pokémon animation in the U.S., starting with a special December 5 airing of Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel and the first two episodes of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, with the full season launching early next year.

Video Game Heroes Inspire Me To Make The World Better

I’ve made no secret of my current dismay with affairs in the real world. I initially turned to games as solace. In games, I could be the hero of a battlefield, a daring assassin, or run in endless fields. Video games can be a place for escape, but they can also help us find the…

Genital Jousting Is A Steam Game That Needs No Other Explanation

Genital Jousting is a game about dick butts penetrating each other—with consent, of course. It is now out on Steam’s Early Access for program $4.99, and it looks incredible. (NSFW warning.) Here’s the store description: Genital Jousting is an online and local multiplayer party game about flaccid penises and wiggly anuses for up to eight…

That YouTuber’s Infamous ‘Nintendo Switch’ Is Fake [CORRECTED]

Seen any Nintendo Switches floating around recently—for example, in the viral EWNetwork video of a YouTuber brandishing his shiny, new Switch console? Don’t hold your breath for a leak. It’s a fake. Two days ago, Etika from EWNetwork appeared to reveal a Nintendo Switch in his Brooklyn apartment. Yelling, he held it up on stream,…

Pokémon Sun Versus Pokémon Moon: Which To Buy

We are in the eve of the next big Pokémon release, which means that some of you might be debating which version to buy. Fear not, undecided trainer. I’m here to help. As always, Pokémon comes in two flavors, each with its own set of version-exclusive creatures and slight storytelling variances. The first difference you…

Episode 4 of Telltale’s Batman, “Guardian of Gotham,” arrives November 22 Here’s a trailer!

Gifts For Those Who Want To Import A Bit Of Japanese Gaming

This holiday season, why not give the gift of Japanese gaming to those you love? No, seriously. Why not? Importing video games and video game accessories is a time honored tradition. Surely, everyone has done it at one point or another. And if you haven’t, it’s worth a try! And during the holidays, it might…

Nintendo Releases Swapdoodle, Like Swapnote But With More Stuff To Buy

Released today in North America and Europe, Swapdoodle is Nintendo’s latest take on 3DS note swapping, allowing players to share scribbled messages and purchase various add-ons to make them better at it. Though Nintendo doesn’t specifically say so in today’s eShop press release, Swapdoodle sounds like a successor to the Swapnote sharing app, sharing a…

Overwatch Voice Actor Meetup Gets Animated

Seeing real actors speaking as your favorite characters can be a little jarring, even when they’re as attractive as Overwatch’s voice cast. YouTuber Greatdictator took the sound from Jonny “Lucio” Cruz’s awesome Blizzcon video and replaced the actors with their digital counterparts. Now we have a video (via Polygon) I can watch without staring in…

Nintendo Shipped Over Ten Million Copies Of Pokémon Sun and Moon 

While we don’t yet have sales numbers, we do have Pokémon Sun and Moon’s worldwide shipment numbers. And they are nuts. According to Famitsu, the initial launch day shipment of Pokémon Sun and Moon was over 10 million copies. That’s not only 1.5 times larger than the initial shipment launch of Pokémon X and Y,…

Panties Battling To The Death

This is Pan Pan. According to the officialdescription, it’s “a fast-paced battle game.” With, uh, panties. The game’s Steam page continues, “NO hentai contents in this game!” It adds that all the game just has “stupid panties.” Pan Pan will be out next year on Steam, dumb fighting underwear and all. 

Pikachu. Where Are You Going.

Come back, Pikachu.

Mega Man Is Very Sad

Mega Man fans are sad, this we know. But I had no idea that Mega Man himself was “imbued with sadness” by his creator. In Boss Fight’s Mega Man 3, which we’ve run an excerpt from previously, creator Akira Kitamura talks (via Mike Drucker) about the character’s genesis, and “the sadness of being a robot”.…

The Makers Of Donald Trump Video Games Have No Regrets

For most of the election, many people thought Donald Trump was a joke, or at least someone who had no chance of being President. It’s no surprise, then, that many video games that featured or added modes involving Trump treated him that way, too. The creators of those games talked to us about the intent…

Just-Outed NSA Surveillance Site Is Also A SimCity Mod

SimCity is so realistic. That’s probably why, in SimCity 4, you can mod in a vestige of our current surveillance state, 33 Thomas Street, New York, NY, which just today was outed as a probable NSA surveillance site. SimCity is all about managing the less convenient aspects of life. Road planning, earthquake management and government-sanctioned…

Screeching Jeep In Watch Dogs 2 Scares The Hell Out Of Pedestrians

Messing around with NPCs is a time honored tradition in open world games. Never before have I seen it done with a screaming car. There are 7 unique vehicles hidden on the map in Watch Dogs 2. This one, the Mountain King, screeches when you honk the horn. Murphurf on r/watch_dogs, has discovered that NPCs…

Battleborn Fans’ Revival Event Helped, But Not Much

Battleborn Day, the fan-led event aimed at drumming up more players for Gearbox’s troubled hero shooter, managed to drastically increase the number of players in the game over the November 12 weekend, but the numbers were still low and the spike didn’t last. The spike in concurrent users during the special event, during which veteran…

Persona 5 Delayed To April

The fifth Persona is delayed yet again, this time to April 4, 2017, Atlus announced today on a stream. To make up for this delay, the publisher says they’re adding dual audio, so you’ll be able to play with either Japanese or English voices. Still a bummer. This marks the 193120392103192nd delay of Persona 5,…

Video Games Most People Won’t Ask For This Holiday Season, But That You Should Give Them

If you are giving a video game gift later this year, there’s a chance you’ll be wrapping up a copy of Call of Duty or Nintendo’s NES Classic. You may be dutifully satisfying a request for Overwatch or doling out for PlayStation VR. This is what people will ask for. Maybe you’d like to toss…