Brittany Vincent

Nintendo is making a massive push to expand and refine its current inventory of Switch devices, and with that, consumers are likely in for a world of confusion. After just , Nintendo almost immediately dropped another bomb on consumers: There are now we know simply as the Nintendo Switch.

Next week, the world’s best Fortnite players will descend upon New York City with one goal in mind: to determine the winner of the lion’s share of a massive $30 million prize pool. That, and bragging rights for the title of “Best Fortnite Player in the World.”

A mass petrification event befalls humanity one day, turning the entire world to stone. An alternate universe Tokyo saddles a fire-wielding task force with staving off spontaneous human combustion. A group of high school students set off down the clumsy and occasionally awkward path to adulthood. What do all of these things have in common? They're all themes from summer 2019's new crop of anime series.

Time travel narratives are a well-trodden path for many forms of media: The Time Machine, Predestination, and even Avengers: Endgame looking to the trope for ways to move their individual stories along. But, as it turns out, it's for good reason – the idea that you can 'undo' undesirable events by simply rewinding the flow of time is an attractive one, to say the least.

Nintendo just introduced the device with which it plans to finally bury the 3DS: the Nintendo Switch Lite. The revised version of the popular handheld and home console hybrid is a smaller riff on the current Switch model with fewer features at a budget price, and it’s hitting stores September 8.

As we pass the halfway point of 2019, we’re staring down a jam-packed second half of the year when it comes to blockbuster video games. But we’ve already racked up so many excellent titles that it’s hard to keep track.

The generator takes two random Pokémon and forcibly smushes their usually disparate characteristics together to create an insane new mashup, new name and all. You can also manually select the two monsters that comprise your new creation, but it's much more fun to let the fusion machine work its magic with the 151 original Pokémon in its database. You can get different results based on which Pokémon you plug into the equation, of course, yielding thousands upon thousands of ridiculous results. Th

E3 2019, the year’s biggest week in gaming, has come and gone. Sprinkled before, throughout, and after the industry's biggest and wildest week in Los Angeles were huge reveals, flashy booths, press conferences, and sizzling trailers. As usual, it was all in a bid to offer attendees and those at home a glimpse at what the landscape of video games might look like in the next year or so.

Ever since Labo made its debut, eager creators have set about bringing to life some of the coolest creations they could imagine. Many have gone above and beyond anything Nintendo had in mind, and their out-of-the-box methods are inspirational, to say the least. People are endlessly creative, and Nintendo has held several popular contests seeking the most innovative Labo applications users could think of.

From 'Euphoria' to 'Dark,' here are 9 shows that could fill the dragon-sized hole in your heart If you're still grieving over the loss of Game of Thrones, you're not alone. Plenty of viewers are still trying to figure out where to go next. What do you watch after enjoying eight years of one of TV's most addictive dramas? That's where we come in. Whether you're still fruitlessly browsing through titles to find something to scratch that same itch or you just want to try something new, we've got

All week long, Popular Mechanics gaming correspondent Brittany Vincent has been on the scene at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, sending dispatches from the trade show, including the coolest upcoming games and big announcements from major developers. Now that the show is over, here are Brittany’s 10 best games from E3. The end of E3 2019 is finally upon us, and though the end is bittersweet, it’s also the perfect time to look back and reflect on every excellent game t

Popular Mechanics gaming correspondent Brittany Vincent is on the scene this week at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Check back all week to see her dispatches from the trade show, including the coolest upcoming games and big announcements from major developers.

Popular Mechanics gaming correspondent Brittany Vincent is on the scene this week at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Starting today, check back to see her dispatches from the trade show, including the coolest upcoming games and big announcements from major developers. To kick off our coverage, here are eight of Brittany’s most anticipated games at E3.

The beloved and iconic '90s anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion is making its way to Netflix, marking the first time it's ever been available on a streaming platform. All 26 episodes, including films The End of Evangelion and Evangelion: Death (True)2, will be available on June 21. Since its debut in 1995, Evangelion has remained one of the most influential and lauded anime of all time, attracting new fans even in 2019. The story centers on a clandestine organization known as NERV, which recru

Think you've seen the last of handheld gaming systems? Then you haven't met the Playdate. It’s a brand-new handheld video game system in line with the classic Game Boy or Game Gear, only it’s being manufactured by Panic, a developer and publisher that previously worked on iOS software and video games like Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game.

With Sony Interactive Entertainment recently launching the movie studio PlayStation Productions, which aims to bring a swath of the company's 100+ properties to film and TV, there are more opportunities than ever to find the holy grail: a video game movie that isn't absolute garbage.

Pokémon Detective Pikachu is finally out in theaters, with Ryan Reynolds bringing everyone’s favorite poké-detective to life. The video game on which the movie is based hit the Nintendo 3DS in March 2018 – just about a year ahead of the movie’s debut. You may have already picked it up and played it, especially since it came out alongside an oversized Detective Pikachu amiibo figure. So if you already played the game, is it worth going to see the movie in theaters, or would you essentially be se

It's depressing, but it's a well-known fact that video game publishers and big-name corporations just don't know how to market their products toward women. Let's not mince words here: they're just awful at it. Whether it's a pastel PSP or an ad proclaiming "Girlz Play Too," there are some truly horrific examples that will likely conjure a wicked case of second-hand embarrassment. Despite the endless amount of surveys that proclaim half the video game-playing public to be women, it's still such

It’s easy to assume our favourite games will be around to play forever. When you purchase a title and place it gingerly upon your shelf, you know at the very least you can reach for it at any point in the future, slide it into your disc tray (or cartridge slot), and enjoy a blast of nostalgia. This is generally true of physical media, but hardly ever certain with digital content, which is as ephemeral as gaming gets these days.

In April, Nintendo celebrated the 30th anniversary of the release of the Game Boy. The portable video game console debuted on April 21, 1989, to an eager fan base, and sales between the original Game Boy and its 1998 successor, Game Boy Color, total over 118 million worldwide. The major success of the hardware was tied, from the beginning, to a legendary piece of software: a Russian import called Tetris.