Pokémon Go has only be out in Japan for a few hours. Players need to catch up as soon as they can! Some have come up with some ways they think they can. The goal is fooling the smartphone’s sensor so Pokémon Go would register steps and distance travelled to hatch eggs and earn XP.…
Dragon Ball Z’s “Final Atonement” episode is one of the most famous moments in DBZ history. Let’s see how the manga and anime stack up. Via Redditor jumpshot22 come these amazing GIFs: You can see another one right here. It’s fascinating to see how they compare, and it’s incredible to see how much impact the…
One of Japan’s oldest and most important Shinto shrines Izumo-taisha has banned visitors from playing Pokémon Go. This comes as the game finally got its Japanese release earlier today. Izumo-taisha posted an official Pokémon Go ban onits website, stating it was prohibited to play the game inside the shrine as well as on its surroundings…
These are not official GIFs. They were made by Australian animator CL Terry, and they are terrific. Terry is on a quest to make an animated GIF everyday for one hundred days. These Totoro GIFs, via Curazy, are the result of that project. That, and a good sense of humor. You can see more on…
Pokémon Go is out in Japan and coming to McDonald’s. According to Famitsu, around 2,500 McDonald’s restaurants will double as PokéStops, and another 400 or so will be Pokémon gyms.
Bay of Sept-Iles. Quebec, Canada. By Luis Bernardo. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Track: Howl | Artist: Rival Consoles | Album: Howl Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Didn’t Nvidia just release the GTX 1080? Not sure why they felt the need to go topping it already, but hey, they just did. This is the Nvidia Titan X. Here are the specs: · 12-billion transistors · 11 TFLOPs FP32 (32-bit floating point) · 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instruction) · 3,584…
After one hell of a wait, Pokémon Go is finally out in Japan on Android and iOS. Let’s hope everyone remembers those safety warnings
US State Department spokesman John Kirby was trying to talk to the press earlier today about the efforts to combat ISIS, but one reporter had more important things to do. CNN reportsthat the unidentified culprit was busted by Kirby mid-talk, interrupting his terrorism briefing to say “You’re playing the Pokemon thing right there, aren’t you.”…
Andreas Krupa, aka eosAndy, is a cosplay photographer from Germany. His work is fantastic Not that the cosplay here isn’t incredible by itself! Some of the world’s best, like Maul, are pictured here doing their thing in costumes that look like they walked right out of a video game. It’s just that on top of…
Hey, remember that cool zombie VR warehouse we told you about that Sega Japan was going to open? Where players could walk around with guns strapped to their backs and blast zombies? It’s open. And it’s…well, see for yourself. Here’s how it was sold! Up top, though, you can see the hesitant, dorky reality. Here’s…
The Black Death, an outbreak of the bubonic plague which swept through Europe in the 14th century (killing anywhere from 30-60% of its population!), does not seem a good setting for a video game. Oh, unless it’s Crusader Kings II we’re talking about. Which, hey, we are. The medieval murder/sex/papacy simulation is about to add…
A Sacramento man has been arrested and charged with sending multiple death threats to Blizzard Entertainment, the developers of World of Warcraft and Overwatch Stephen Cebula, 28, is accused of sending messages “over the internet” on July 2 & 3 saying he “may or may not pay [Blizzard] a visit with an AK47 amongst some…
When Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida revealed the MMORPG’s upcoming Palace of the Dead dungeon last April, I had what I now realize was an embarrassingly romantic notion of what it would be: dungeon-crawling with friendly strangers, sneaking by traps and strategically navigating its roguelike-inspired, randomized maps to best an onslaught of challenging monsters.…
In recent days, the developers behind Rocket League and The Witcher 3 have both called for Sony to break down the walls separating PlayStation Network and Xbox Live and allow cross-platform multiplayer. This idea kicked off in March, when Microsoft announced native support for cross-platform play between Windows 10 and Xbox One. It also allowed…
With just under three weeks before the launch of No Man’s Sky—which I personally delayed back in May—a new potential controversy has emerged, this one revolving around a Dutch scientist’s patent. In order to generate the geology of its billions of procedurally generated planets, No Man’s Sky relies upon a mathematical equation called the Superformula…
Two Iowan men who were arrested in August of 2015 for apparent gun threats at the Pokémon World Championships were sentenced to two years in prison today in a Boston court. James Stumbo and Kevin Norton each pled guilty to charges that they’d brought a shotgun, a rifle, and ammunition to the competitive Pokémon card…
When Pokémon Go players see a good Pokémon spawn on the map, everyone will start running toward it, even if it’s not particularly rare. It was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of this phenomenon. Watch what happens after Vine star Logan Paul screams DRAGONITE in the middle of a crowd of…
Brigador took five years to create. It’s a mech game with a great retro-chic look, a standout soundtrack, and fully desctructible everything. The developers jokingly call it a “Kool-Aid Man simulator.” On Steam, it has a 94 percent positive rating. Despite all that, it flopped. In the wake of a small handful of reviews and…
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