The Boy Band Anime That’s Drawing Crowds In Tokyo

Originally based on a smartphone game, Idolish 7 follows the adventures of a young woman who manages a boy band. Last week, a series of posters and digital ads went up in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro Station and fans came out in droves. So many people wanted to snap photos of the ads that the official Idolish…

Fans Can’t Get Enough Of Pokémon Shield‘s Spooky New Gym Leader

All of the new gym leader character designs for Pokémon Sword and Shield are great. One recently revealed trainer in particular has been racking up the fan art. Say hello to Allister. Here is the character’s official description: Allister is a talented Trainer of Ghost-type Pokémon who has taken on the mantle of the Ghost-type…

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Look At This Spider-Man Cosplayer’s Mechanical Eyes

You see a lot of good Spider-Man cosplay, because it’s an easy one to do well. What’s not easy to do is get the character’s newer designs 1:1, since they’ve got fancy moving eyes, but Hong Kong cosplayer Cavin Creations has gone and done just that. What you’re seeing here is an incredible feat of…

Miyamoto Still Wants To Reinvent The Controller

While the standard buttons-and-joystick video game controller has made a fairly decisive return to Nintendo’s games on the Switch, that doesn’t mean Nintendo is done trying to reinvent the way we interact with video games. At the company’s annual meeting of shareholders late last month, one attendee asked the panel of Nintendo executives about the…

Hentai Sites Go To War, Leaving Animated Porn’s Future In Doubt

A transfer of power at the internet’s biggest free anime porn site was supposed to finally make its copyright-infringing operations more legit. Instead, the takeover of Hentai Haven has spurred a civil war within the hentai community. That conflict came to light yesterday after Hentai Haven’s anonymous founder, who goes by Papa HH, broke his…

Thousands Of Elite: Dangerous Players Died Trying To Cross The Universe

Six months ago, over 13,000 Elite: Dangerous players set out on a massive expedition to cross the known galaxy. As testament to how long and gruelling a trip that was, less than 4,000 survived the trip. One of the participants (Qohen Leth) has, via RPS, helpfully broken down some of the statistics involved in the…

Nike Is Making Nintendo 64 Sneakers

An upcoming colourway of Nike’s Air Max 97 doesn’t make an official mention of the console—gotta keep those lawyers at arm’s length—but its inspiration is clear: this is a Nintendo 64 sneaker. The colourway (which appears to be drawing influence from the N64’s logo and controller) matched with the sneaker’s vintage might have been enough…

Smash Pro Retires After Admitting To Relationship With Teenage Competitor

Elliot “Ally” Carroza-Oyarce is one of the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players in the world, but his career came to an apparent end recently when the 28 year old confirmed allegations that he had been involved in a romantic relationship with a much younger fellow pro who may have been 16 at the time.…

Dr Disrespect’s Return To Twitch Brings Big Numbers, Donations

Today, after a nearly month-long absence following his E3 bathroom stream suspension, Dr Disrespect returned to Twitch. His suspension lasted two weeks, during which he released a series of trailers for his return and tweeted an awkwardly worded apology “on behalf of the Dr Disrespect brand.” The result of all that hype? 80,000 concurrent viewers…

Stranger Things 3 Game Is A Boring Rehash Of The Show

In season three of Netflix’s Stranger Things, the idyllic small-town peace of Hawkins, Indiana is once again shattered by from another dimension. Only this time, there’s a licensed tie-in video game to document all of the show’s pop culture references and 80s nostalgia in pixelated detail. And document it the game does, performing the role…

Fortnite Developers Say They’ll Make The New Rubber Duck Challenge Easier [Updated]

Fortnite’s 14 Days of Summer event includes daily challenges for rewards. A recent challenge for day 13 of 14 involves searching for a tiny rubber duck in a corner of the game’s map. Yesterday, developer Epic announced they’ll be adjusting the challenge because it’s too hard. For the challenge, clues on a loading screen direct…

Final Fantasy XIV Lets You Run Dungeons With NPC Heroes Now, And It’s So Much Better Than Real People

Running through a brand-new dungeon in an online game with random strangers is nerve-wracking. I worry I will screw up and get us all killed. I fret about doing enough damage. I get grouped with jerks who know the run by heart and expect everyone else to as well. Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers expansion Iets…

Mario Maker 2 Player Finds Useful Trick For Making Randomized Levels

Make a brand new stage in Super Mario Maker 2 and you may find that objects which had an element of random chance in the first Mario Maker are now completely predictable. Clown cars, for example, will always start traveling in the same direction rather than picking one randomly. One player figured out how to…

Breath Of The Wild Players Discover An Infinite Jump Glitch

A new glitch in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is setting off a flurry of testing and exploration from speedrunners and glitch hunters. The complicated trick allows Link to jump infinitely, making it possible to explore the upward bounds of Hyrule and completely skip shrine puzzles. Exploration and experiments with the new…