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Blizzard Announces Overwatch‘s Next Hero: Ana

Get ready for heal-snipes. Blizzard today revealed the next playable character in Overwatch, and as had been rumored, it’s a long-range healer. Meet Ana. Ana, who is Pharah’s mother and a sniper support character, has a Biotic rifle that both heals allies and does “ongoing damage” to enemies. She’s also got a sleep dart (putting…

Let’s Dive Into The New Online Shooter Lawbreakers

Cliff Bleszinski and the team at Boss Key Productions are pulling out all the stop for Lawbreakers, a frantic first person shooter that’s currently in closed alpha. What’s it all about? I played a match and caused some mayhem. It turns out that breaking the law includes a ton of zero gravity action and sweet…

A Quick Pokémon Go Tip: Keep Catching Weak Monsters

Those of you playing Pokémon Go are probably sick to death of seeing the same crappy monsters no matter where you go. Pokémon Go doesn’t tell you this, but even those shitty critters can still be mega useful. Pokémon encounters are somewhat tied to location, yes, but they also take into account your level. The…

Today, Oculus announced that all Rift pre-orders have finally shipped, a lengthy two and a half months after the HMD’s initial release. Oculus added that Rifts will now ship in two to four business days.

Ninja Coming To Black Desert Online Next Week

Black Desert Online, the striking massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a strong focus on martial arts, is finally scoring some ninja on July 20. Don’t they look amazing? Continuing its strange trend of assigning genders to classes, Black Desert Online’s ninja are both ninja, but only one is Ninja. Male masters of the hidden…

And Now, Some Pokémon Go Erotica

Chuck Tingle, famous author of sexy stories, has after a few days of furious writing released a $3 piece of Pokémon Go erotica. It features, believe it or not, lots of balls. And butts. The book is called Pokebutt Go: Pounded By ‘Em All. Here is the description: Torbit is worried. After witnessing a slew…

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CBS, what are you doing. “Quick, get us some Pokemon graphics” “Sir, these say 11-07-98 on them.” “I said get us those graphics.”

Tim Duncan: From NBA Live 98 To NBA 2K16

Spurs legend Tim Duncan retired today. To put into perspective how long he was in the NBA (and like we did with Kobe), here’s a comparison between his first video game and his last. Duncan was picked #1 in the 1997 draft, which made NBA Live 98 his first video game appearance. And with 2015-16…

Get Ready For EVO With This Great FGC Documentary

To help fans (or curious onlookers) get psyched for EVO 2016, which goes down in Las Vegas this weekend, the creators of the excellent documentary FGC: Rise of the Fighting Game Community have made it free to watch on YouTube. If you like it, you can still help them out by buying the deluxe edition…

After 20 Years, Someone Cracked The Sega Saturn’s DRM

Sega Saturn disc drives are beginning to die off. Until now, it meant your machine might be useless. Thanks to engineer James Laird-Wah, Sega’s 32-bit hardware has been cracked, allowing games to be loaded via USB. Laird-Wah is known online as Dr Abrasive, and is responsible for a USB-powered ROM-reading cartridge for the Game Boy…

Mob Psycho 100‘s Debut Is The Right Kind Of Absurd

Mob Psycho 100, this summer’s soon-to-be-hit anime about a psychic middle school boy, premiered today. From the creators of One-Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100 looks as if Fooly Cooly’s flawlessly erratic animation style met Paprika levels of psychedelica, all wrapped in a One-Punch Man burrito of action/humor. The anime’s first episode is a special, confident…

Quadrilateral Cowboy, a long-in-development hacking game from the brilliant designer behind Thirty Flights of Loving and Gravity Bone, hits on July 25. It’ll launch first on Windows, with Mac and Linux in September.

Pokémon Go Nudes Are A Thing Now

Welp. Everyone knew this would happen, right? Pokémon Go makes use of your camera, and you can take a picture of whatever you’d like while playing, after all. (NSFW content ahead!) Actually, right now the internet has a number of different kinds of Pokémon Go nudes floating around, with at least a couple of people…

PSA: Pokémon Go Gets Full Access To Your Google Account On iOS [UPDATE]

Watch out: if you’re using your Google Account to sign into Pokémon Go on iOS, you may have allowed the developers at Niantic to have access to your e-mail, documents, and anything else attached to that account. Unlike other applications that link to Google, which typically ask for your basic account info, Pokémon Go gets…

Doom PC Adds Vulkan Support, Making A Fast Game Even Faster

Earlier this year Nvidia showed off its new GTX 1080 card by running Bethesda’s Doom with the super-speedy Vulkan API instead of OpenGL, resulting in frame rates approaching 200 with all the bells and whistles. Today Bethesda makes Doom Vulkan support official. Vulkanis basically the next-generation OpenGL application programming interface, boasting higher performance, better CPU…

Pokémon Go Is Missing Features Promised In The First Trailer

When Pokémon Go was announced last September, the amazing trailer promised a game more ambitious than what launched last week. Here’s that trailer, which has been watched a whopping 28 million times: The Pokémon Go that just launched delivers on the basic premise of going into the world and catching pokémon . What’s missing are…

FTC Slams Warner Bros. For ‘Failing To Adequately Disclose’ Sponsored Gameplay Videos

The Federal Trade Commission came out hard against Warner Bros. today, banning the game publisher from misrepresenting sponsored content as part of a settlement that will force WB to offer clearer disclosure practices in their marketing campaigns. Under new rules laid out by the FTC today, Warner Bros. will have to monitor the YouTubers who…

Pokémon Go Fan Trolls Westboro Baptist Church, Church Fires Back

It is 2016, and at least one religious institution hasn’t let go of the idea that Pokémon is somehow sinful. What a time to be alive. Late last week, a certain Pokémon started making headlines… For the two of you that don’t play Pokémon Go, what this picture is relaying is that Westboro Baptist Church…

Satoru Iwata died on July 11, 2015—one year ago today. Let’s look back at the former Nintendo president’s storied career and remarkable accomplishments. I bet he would’ve really loved Pokémon Go

Team Mystic Is The Pokémon Go Faction Of Choice

Over the weekend we asked Pokémon Go players which of the game’s three factions they were backing—Team Instinct, Team Mystic or Team Valor. With more than 100,000 responses recorded the big blue bird of Team Mystic reigns supreme. I’ve been watching results since the poll opened on Saturday evening, and the results have been pretty…