Why Pokémon Players Are Obsessed With Blissey Secret Bases

In two words: experience points. Heaps and heaps of experience points. As you might already know, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire include something called “secret bases.” Think of them like treehouses. Hidden throughout the game are nooks and crannies that players can move into and decorate, Animal Crossing style. While the game gives you…

Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s New Patch: Wait, There’s A Difference?

There’s no doubt that Assassin’s Creed Unity had technical problems, otherwise Ubisoft wouldn’t have apologized for the game’s performance and issued a series of ever-larger patches. So what’s it mean if the graphics, then and now, seem to in many ways be the same? This might seem like a strange point of view. You’ve heard,…

Spider-Woman Gets Her First Costume Change in Decades

Ever since her debut in 1977, Jessica Drew’s superhero costume has looked pretty much the same, despite a few tweaks over the decades: a tight red unitard with yellow accents and big webs stretching from arms to legs. But Spider-Woman’s got an all-new look coming soon and it’s radically different. The new Spider-Woman costume got…

Tales From the Borderlands, Ground Zeroes PC, and More Deals

Tales From The Borderlands Could’ve Been Awful, But It’s Great. Get it today for $18. [Tales From The Borderlands, $18, use code DECEMB-202014-GREENM] If you held off on buying a PS4 during Black Friday, your patience has been rewarded with what is arguably the best bundle we’ve seen Today on Amazon, $440 gets you the…

In case you missed it, Vagante is out on Early Access. I played it back when it was just a rough alpha back in June, but really liked what it was doing. It’s kinda like Spelunky but with Final Fantasy Tactics art and more of an RPG focus. We’ll probably be playing it soon to…

Evolve’s open beta will be running between January 15-19 on the Xbox One, accessible to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Two monsters, the Goliath and the Kraken, and eight hunters will be available to play across 12 maps. There will also be smaller, invite-only closed tests on the PC and PS4 around that time.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Game of the Week—Dawn of the QTE [Shenmue] • Fire Emblem Hit Percentages, Ranked • Con Men: NYCC Two Months Later and Gender Differences for Cosplayers • Project Hydra – Corpse Party: Tortured Souls EP2 & EP 3 • A Sad Tale of the Video Game Industry…

Watch The World’s First Kill of WoW‘s Current Hardest Boss

Only 4 guilds were capable of defeating Imperator Mar’gok on the hardest difficulty, the final boss of Warlords of Draenor’s newest raid, and the quickest one was the Finnish top guild, Paragon. While that’s impressive, their newly released kill video is just as awesome. Watch 18 minutes of epicness below from multiple guild members’ view.…

Flying Jetskis And Other New GTA V Myths

With the new gen versions of Grand Theft Auto V released and tons of new content added to the game, it was inevitable for the GTA Mythbusters series to return and confirm a bunch of new tricks and funny little exploits. This time it’s all about invulnerable monster trucks, pigeons avoiding wanted levels and military…

Nintendo Warns Parents About Kids Spending Their Money

Parents, do you know what video games your kids are playing? Do you know what they’re buying? Please pay more attention. For Nintendo. It happened with the iPhone, costing Apple millions of dollars to pay back people whose kids went overboard with in-app purchases on their parents’ iPhones. Now, Nintendo is asking that parents and…

GTA V Spreads Holiday Cheer with Mines and Homing Rockets [Update]

A new update is bringing Christmas goodies to Los Santos and its surroundings, and yes, those goodies include explosives. The patch only seems to be live on the PS4 for now, per user reports posted to the relevant thread at GTAForums. Apart from upping the property limit to three, the patch also adds new content,…

What Final Fantasy is, According to its Creator

From the mouth – or rather, the keyboard – of Hironobu Sakaguchi. If you’re a fan of the Final Fantasy series, you’ve heard of him. The man’s blood and tears are in the genes of the game series, and while he no longer works at Square Enix, his influence remains. In a Weekly Famitsu interview…

Enhanced Version of PC Cult Classic Suddenly Pops Up on Steam

Outcast came out in 1999. It was pretty great. Then, this year, its original creators launched a Kickstarter campaign for a HD remake of the game, which, sadly, failed to meet its goal. And now, it looks like they are settling for the next best thing: releasing the original game, with new features, on Steam.…