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Pokémon Tourney Cracks Down On Hacked Monsters, Disqualifies Tons Of Players
11.8.2023
The biggest Pokémon tournament of the year is going on right now and tons of players are getting disqualified for fielding hacked teams. The first Pokémon World Championship since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s big launch, the stricter checks are apparently catching some pros off guard, and ending...
All Game Sales Should Be Announced Like This
11.8.2023
Video game discounts are usually announced with the casualness of a grocery store flier—maybe the developer will post something about it on its news center, or Steam will send you a perfunctory email about getting 20 percent off. Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames vice president Hideki Kamiya might...
Tekken Producer Has Had Enough With The 'Silly' Death Threats
11.8.2023
No one likes death threats or otherwise intimidating remarks that threaten violence. Such comments are callous, dehumanizing, pointless, unproductive, and do nothing for anyone. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada made that expressly clear, telling folks to not ask him for shit if all they’re going...
New Wiglett Pokémon Plush Looks A Lot Like Something Else
10.8.2023
Good news: The Pokémon Company released a Wiglett plush on its official Pokémon Center store. Bad news: it looks like a dick. Not a human dick, but, like, the Platonic ideal of an alien dick the U.S. government doesn’t want us to know about. Read more
Get All The Mainline Resident Evil Games For Just $35
9.8.2023
Have you been wanting to play (or replay) all of the main entries that make up Capcom’s long-running horror series, Resident Evil? Well, buddy, I got a deal for you: A new bundle available until later this month combines 11 Resident Evil games, plus some DLC, into a $35 package.Read more
10 Things You Should Never Say To A Final Fantasy Fan
9.8.2023
Everyone in the Final Fantasy fandom has feelings about the long-running series that are as varied as its mainline entries. Over the course of the RPG series’ decades-spanning lifetime, plenty of pressure points have emerged that, if pushed, can lead to some heated, passionate…er, discussion with...
The 9 Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games
9.8.2023
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles revival is in full swing. Shredder’s Revenge was a GotY contender in 2022, and Mutant Mayhem is one of the best Hollywood blockbusters of the year in an otherwise crowded field. So it’s a good time to revisit the crime-fighting ninjas’ best video game outings while...
Gran Turismo Movie Review Roundup: The Critics Are Split
8.8.2023
The Gran Turismo film comes out this month, but critics don’t seem sold on the video game-inspired biopic as the Neill Blomkamp-directed film holds a 57 percent on aggregator Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing.Read more
Street Fighter 6's Four TMNT Costumes Cost Almost As Much As The Game
8.8.2023
I love a video game crossover as much as the next person, and fighting games are a perfect platform for absurd matchups. Unfortunately, at $15 each, the price of new Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello costumes in Street Fighter 6 is giving a lot of players sticker shock.Read more
All The Announcements Packed In Pokémon's Big Event
8.8.2023
The Pokémon Company held a new Pokémon Presents showcase to talk about upcoming projects in the series. If you missed the show, you can catch the VOD right here, but if you just want to know the highlights, read on.Read more
Completely New Pokémon Are Coming To Scarlet And Violet
8.8.2023
During today’s Pokémon Presents, Game Freak showed gave us a new look at the upcoming Scarlet and Violet expansions The Teal Mask and The Indigo Disk. Here we learned that there are several new Pokémon coming alongside the DLCs, including new Paradox legendary Pokémon.Read more
Pokémon Go Adding Scarlet and Violet Starters And More From Paldea
8.8.2023
The Pokémon Company confirmed that Pokémon from 2022 open-world games Scarlet and Violet’s Paldea region are coming to augmented reality app Pokémon Go during a Pokémon Presents event on August 8. Though a May 2023 leak kicked off rumors that the popular mobile game would be getting new ‘mons, it’s...
The Old-School Pokémon Trading Card Game Comes To Switch Online
8.8.2023
Nintendo Switch Online gets its first Game Boy Pokémon game on August 8 by way of the trading card RPG adaptation, Pokémon Trading Card Game. For anyone who’s too overwhelmed by the prospect (or the cost) of buying and collecting actual Pokémon cards and doesn’t have time to mess around with...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Is Giving Away A Mew
8.8.2023
Mew and Mewtwo are coming to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet in the form of a, as The Pokemon Company calls it, “Get Mew & Mewtwo” event, which includes a Mystery Gift event and an event Tera Raid.Read more
Bayonetta 3 Creator Says ‘JRPG’ Is A Term Worth Celebrating
7.8.2023
In a recent interview with Video Games Chronicle, Bayonetta and Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya addressed criticism toward the term “JRPG,” saying Japanese developers should actually be very proud of the distinction it implies.Read more
The Next Pokémon Card Set Is Packed With Essential Charizards (And More!)
7.8.2023
For the first time since the switch to the new era of Pokémon TCG, it’s all about Charizards again. With next week’s release of Obsidian Flames, players and collectors will once again be making a very big fuss about the cuddle orange dragon, with three different ‘Zards to collect in the set....
10 Things You Should Never Say To A Pokémon Fan
7.8.2023
Pokémon fans come in all shapes and sizes. There are the competitive sickos, the shiny hunters, or the lore nerds that just want to learn more about Game Freak’s world with each game. On top of that, there’s anime watchers, card game collectors, Pokémon Go players whose biggest touchstone with...
Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 6 Cool Games To Check Out
4.8.2023
It feels like this week’s passed quickly…perhaps owing to the wild news? Just for starters, a certain former president got indicted a third time, pop star Lizzo broke a million hearts, and that supposed room-temperature superconductor is still keeping us nerds in suspense.Read more
A Resident Evil Remake Is Now The Best-Selling Game In The Series
3.8.2023
Quick! What did you think was the best-selling Resident Evil game in the franchise before you read the headline above? I assumed it was 2005’s Resident Evil 4, I mean, I’ve bought that game enough times at this point. But it actually was 2017’s Resident Evil 7—until just recently, when Resident...
Hideo Kojima Says Death Stranding 2 Will Redefine 'Strand'
3.8.2023
In a recent interview with Japanese publication Music Natalie, Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima revealed that his upcoming sequel, Death Stranding 2, will revisit the meaning of the word “strand” because of the covid pandemic. Read more