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Pokemon Go's catch rate deemed a 'bug,' will be addressed

One of the subtler changes introduced with last week’s updates to Pokemon Go has made catching the little ‘Mons a lot harder. This affects even extremely weak Pokemon, and as a result, p...

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Pokemon Go has reached Brazil, just in time for the Olympics

Pokemon Go continues to transfix the world, and as we head into 2016’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the city’s mayor has appealed directly to the app’s developer to launch the game in B...

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Let's Play Near Death

Near Death is a survival sim with a strong story and creepy The Thing vibes. You play as a pilot who crash lands at an abandoned Antarctic station in 1982, with nothing but a space h...

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Someone's already reached the level cap in Pokemon Go... but they had to cheat to get there

Reddit user _problemz claims to have become the world’s first Pokemon Go player to hit the game’s highest level, but don’t worry — they needed cheating software to get there, and even then, i...

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Seven custom control schemes for Overwatch gamepad users

There is no shortage of variety in Overwatch. With 21 characters — 22 if you are counting Ana — spread across 4 classes competing in 4 game modes on 12 unique maps, Blizzard has epitomized the idea th...

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Sacramento is a trip. A really pretty trip.

Sacramento is a gorgeous little watercolor ‘walking simulator’ by Itch.io creator DZiff (with sound by Glass Body). I played a bunch and fell a little bit in love with the dreamy, wistful tone of the...

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Let's Play Zombie Night Terror

Zombie Night Terror is a unique puzzle/RTS hybrid that puts you in the director’s chair of an ongoing zombie apocalypse movie. Your goal — to infect as many people as you can and reign suprem...

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Blizzard has restored Overwatch accounts hit with progress loss bug on PS4

Last week, a number of PlayStation 4 users reported seeing their levels, stats, and skill ratings reduced or even reset while playing Blizzard’s mega-successful team shooter, Overwatch. While...

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Overwatch's newest heroine is now available to all on PC

Ana Amari has been in public beta testing for a few days now, but as of today Blizzard has officially added her to Overwatch‘s character roster on PC!

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Overwatch players on PS4 are falling prey to a mysterious bug

Overwatch players on PlayStation 4 have run afoul of a bug which can revert or even reset their accounts, costing them experience points, levels, competitive ranking, and unlockable rewa...

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Oh the places you will (Pokemon) Go

Despite continued server problems and even a denial-of-service attack over the weekend, Niantic’s popular Nintendo-branded augmented reality game Pokemon Go has rolled out for an additional 2...

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Okhlos is like Ancient Greek Pikmin, but angry

Okhlos is a rowdy, light-RTS/action game with an Ancient Greek theme and a heaping helping of chaos. You play as a little 8-bit philosopher, fed up with the whims of the gods and fighting mad. To that...

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A year after its Japanese release, Mobius Final Fantasy is finally headed West

I always forget about Mobius Final Fantasy (previously Mevius) until I see a picture of its protagonist and go “ohh, the guy with the skimpy outfit.” It was so skimpy it app...

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How does your Trainer Level affect your experience in Pokemon Go?

Leveling up isn’t something that happens to Pokemon in Pokemon Go– it only happens to you, the Trainer, and it’s the main thing that gates off features and mechanics in this game. Every...

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Cute pets of the internet react to Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is everywhere — in your local park, at that bar down the street, in your bathroom, and er, between the sheets. And it seems like everyone is playing it — here in Brooklyn, I’ve hun...

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How to save battery power in Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is a massive drain on phone batteries– when I’m playing, it’s not unusual for me to eat 30% of my battery on a decent walk around my neighborhood. Niantic’s previous game, Ingress, was also...

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Time to Die Adventures is a rad, free dungeon crawler

Time to Die Adventures is an awesome – and free – little dungeon crawler from itch.io creator thatwhichis. You can try the game right here for a little baddie-bashing, dungeon-exploring,...

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Anomaly 1729 is a hidden gem of the Steam summer sale

Anomaly 1729 is a rad indie puzzle game from the folks at Anvil Drop. You can think of it as Portal-esque in concept — only, instead of shooting impossible holes in spacetime, you ro...

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The father of Final Fantasy is founding (another) game studio

Here’s a factoid: Hironobu Sakaguchi, lead designer of the original Final Fantasy and design lead for many of the games that would follow under that title, is only 53. If he seems like a...

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Fallout 4 modders in uproar over rampant theft

One of Fallout 4‘s most popular mods, Caliente’s Beautiful Bodies Enhancer (CBBE), will not be headed to consoles. That’s not because CBBE supports nude character mods — the author was m...