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How to find the psychic gym and fight its leader You’re nearing the final stretch! Odds are you’ll be taking on the Alfornada near the end of the game, and technically, it’s the seventh (of eight) gym you “should” be taking on if you’re going in order. Here’s where to find the off-the-beaten-path gym and how to take on its leader, Tulip. Locating the Alfornada psychic type gym Alfornada is tucked away in the southwest portion of Paldea, high up in the mountains....

There are a lot of tools and pieces of kit inHello Kitty Island Adventure. While each of these pieces of equipment is useful in its own way, you’ll definitely find yourself using some things more than others. Whether you want to make the perfect gifts for each of the Sanrio villagers, or you just want to make one of everything it’s possible to make, you’ll need to venture far and wide and complete a long list of quests to unlock some of the equipment....

[Update: More links from the rest of the day included!] Nintendo unleashed a ton of new info on the world tonight. Most importantly of all, the 3DS has been dated and priced. The handheld will be available in Japan starting February 2011 for ¥25000 (about $300). The handheld will then be coming across the seas to Europe and the US sometime in March. Plenty of games were also shown off tonight....

You get couch co-op whether you like it or not [Update:Frima Studios has reached out and informed us that it miscommunicated its statement about not being able to clear the game solo. The game can be beaten singleplayer, but only about 80 percent of theoptionalpaths are accessible without a cooperative partner.] Of all the titles on display at IGN’s independent games mixer at GDC, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by one in particular....

Square Enix’s Play Arts has produce two figures based on the upcoming Platinum Games titleBayonetta. The detailed figures show off both titular heroine Bayonetta and her arch rival Jeanne, and they look like promising little display pieces, if a little rough around the edges in this early first glimpse. Just so you know, I am going to obtain both of these figures and then put them in my pants. I will them hump the floor with them in my pants and grunt like a wounded buffalo before collapsing into a fat, wobbly, crying heap....

This is hilarity on a stick. China, the country that findsskeletons in videogamesoffensive, hasreleased a gamewhere you can physically torture corrupt politicians … and their families!Incorruptible Fighteris a new online PC game developed by Chinese government employees in which players slaughter untrustworthy officials using weaponry and magic in the quest for a “graft-free paradise.” This may very well be the greatest — and hypocritical — videogame ever made. 100,000 gamers have thus far flocked to this new game, that also sees you targeting the loved ones of your victims in order to achieve victory....

No Brakes Crazy Taxiis like a wonderful time capsule. It captures the best part of the ‘00s in perfect stasis: the part that was basically still the late ‘90s. It was a time when we celebrated the identity of being an asshole. Consumerism was both rampant and celebrated. Wait, that all makes it sound awful. Maybe it was, but in kind of a funny way. And although the developers probably didn’t intend it to be,Crazy Taxiencapsulates all of it....

Destructoid community memberteknomcrwas walking the E3 show floor when he snapped this INCREDIBLE and SHOCKING picture in the Nintendo booth. As you can see, Reggie (the President of Nintendo of America) was walking around, mingling with the common folk, when he was inexplicably caught actually sucking the souls out of some helpless Nintendo fans. Either that, or he is shaking them wildly in excitement over all the recent Nintendo announcements....

‘Leave your mark’ An enigmatic tweet appeared this weekend on the official twitter of insanely popular battle royale title,Fortnite.The teaser appears to show the game gearing up for the launch of its new season. The image also includes a very “comic book superhero” style panel featuring the faces of a selection ofFortnitecharacters. The tweet’s text merely states the words “Leave your mark”. If one visits the official site, then they are confronted with the same image alongside the words “BRACE FOR IMPACT!...

Agito-no Final Fantasy Type-0might not be getting a long-ago-promised international release, but it appears it’s getting a mobile follow up. Ironically,Type-0began life as a mobile game titledFinal Fantasy Agito XIIIbefore ballooning into a PSP game that got rebranded. Japanatorpicked up ona Famitsu leakthat says a new title,Final Fantasy Agito, is coming to iOS and Android in Japan this winter. More details coming fromanother source,translated, fill in other blanks.The game will be free-to-play with microtransactions and things like paid continues....

Not satisfied with making an utter fool of itself over theMass Effect“controversy,” Fox’s pathetic attempts to discredit the games industry have reached new levels of ridiculous as it jumps on a recent hypocritical news piece for its site. The “news” source’s Web site has published a story (with a stupid headline) that claims research isnow blaming videogamesfor the eventual decline of Mother Nature herself. It only briefly acknowledged the fact that televisions and computers are actually what the researchers reference in their little assassination attempt....

With the Firebrand making his triumphant return to the spotlight in the upcomingUltimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, it makes sense that Capcom would choose now to re-release some of the titular gargoyle’s other games.Gargoyle’s Questwas the first title to star the iconicGhosts ‘n Goblinscommon enemy, but it wasn’t the last. I hope this re-release, presumably headed to to the 3DS’s virtual console, leads to theGargoyle’s Quest II(originally on the NES) andDemon’s Crest(originally on the SNES) hitting digital download services as well....

While Nintendo didn’t quite reveal anything new at GDC (and we knew this before hand), they did come armed with new trailers of some of their most sought after games. Among these is this trailer forLegend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.Now I could get all fanboy over this — start gushing about how I can’t wait to play another solidZeldaadventure, and how Nintendo’s touch screen innovations are going to take the franchise in a new, exciting direction that’s going to blow my mind....