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9 New Things We Learned Today About Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
21.10.2022
Today, the internet isfilled with hands-on previews of next month’s Pokémon Scarlet And Violet. Not from us though, because Nintendo has us on their Naughty List. So instead, we read everyone else’s coverage, and have handily compiled everything we learned in the process. Take that...
Final Fantasy XVI Goes Full Game Of Thrones In New Trailer
20.10.2022
If you’re as intrigued about Final Fantasy XVI’s story as I am, you’ll be happy to know there’s a new four-minute trailer that dives deep into the characters and world-building behind Square Enix’s next big JRPG. The geopolitics are fraught, the consequences are ruthless and bloody, and the magic...
Destiny 2’s Halloween Event Is On Fire
19.10.2022
Destiny 2’s annual spooky loot event is back and it’s a mess. Festival of the Lost went live yesterday riddled with issues from a bug that blocked quest progress to players being saddled with old, obsolete loot. It was not good, especially for an event that is mostly unchanged from the year prior...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's Most Online Gym Leader Is Proud To Reveal: Frog
14.10.2022
Remember Tuesday? The day that Game Freak released a video for Pokémon Scarlet And Violet teasing a new electric-type monster. It revealed Iona, a Gym Leader for next month’s game who looks like a vtuber and clickbaits like one, too. Today, we get to know the brand new Pokémon who will be...
Inside The Monster Hunting MMO That Was Shaped Around Pokémon Franchise's Weaknesses
14.10.2022
When monster-catching RPG Temtem debuted in January 2020, Spanish studio CremaGames had a pretty simple plan: Launch the game in Early Access, use that to support ongoing development, and, a couple years down the line, bring out version 1.0. But as is often the case with plans of this nature, what...
Destiny 2 Goes Full Anime With Haunted Gundam Armor
13.10.2022
Destiny 2’s big spooky event is just around the corner, and Bungie finally teased the new mech-inspired armor players will be chasing. Some people get Ultraman vibes. Others see Power Rangers. But I’m getting a big dose of Gundam, and I’m super pumped about it.Read more
Every Way Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's New Gym Leader Could Get Canceled
12.10.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced a new gym leader today. Her name is Iono, she’s the electric-specializing leader of Levincia. But even more central to her identity, according to a translation of her dialogue in a trailer released this morning, is being a “streamer and influencer bringin’...
Square Enix Kills Its Final Fantasy 7 Battle Royale Before It’s Even A Year Old
12.10.2022
Everything’s gotta die eventually, and Square Enix heard the death knell loud and clear. Dig up an early grave because the company’s battle royale mobile game, Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, will shut down on January 11, 2023.Read more
Final Fantasy 14 Is Under Attack By Hackers, Square Enix Says
7.10.2022
Hackers never let folks catch a break, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games are always a target for heinous acts of data collecting. The latest victim? Square Enix’s super popular Final Fantasy XIV, which the company announced yesterday is currently experiencing “an attack by a third...
Destiny 2’s Most Powerful Exotic Gets Controversial Downgrade
7.10.2022
Destiny 2’s Exotic Trace Rifle Divinity has been the backbone of a lot of players’ arsenals for end game content ever since it was first introduced back in the Shadowkeep expansion in 2019. Yesterday, Bungie finally announced a long-awaited nerf to how powerful it is, and while many are welcoming...
Valkyrie Elysium: The Kotaku Review
7.10.2022
Square Enix’s Valkyrie Profile series of RPGs has been dormant for quite a while, with the last full-fledged entry being 2009’s DS game Covenant of the Plume. Now, however, a brand new entry has arrived in Valkyrie Elysium, which brings with it a shift from the franchise’s turn-based combat system...
Oh God, Are They Eating LeChonk In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet?!
6.10.2022
At first glance, the news revealed in today’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet trailer seemed just lovely: You can now have a picnic with your Pokémon! But then, it turned out, everything is wrong there. Because unless the Pokémon world has been hiding pigs from us, these people are eating...
You Can Give Your Stinky Pokémon A Bath In Scarlet And Violet
6.10.2022
Sometimes you really don’t need more than a headline. But as we were watching the new 14-minute trailer for Pokémon Scarlet And Violet this morning, among the news of Terastalizing creatures and Far Cry-like base battling, one thing stood out to us above all else: You can give your Pokémon...
10 Things We Saw In Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Epic 14-Minute New Trailer
6.10.2022
As November 18 slowly crawls toward us, Nintendo is increasingly raising the hype for the first all-new mainline game in three years. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet received their latest enormous 14-minute trailer today, and you can see the whole thing right below.Read more
Pokémon Go's New Event Finally Lets You Evolve Cosmog
5.10.2022
When Pokémon Go added Cosmog at the start of its latest quarterly season, the Season of Light, it was (of course) done in the most confusing manner possible. This fan-favorite pocket monster was finally part of the mobile game but in a form that apparently couldn’t evolve. Well, starting today...
Genshin Impact Devs Won’t Be Adding More Endgame Content And Players Are Pissed
5.10.2022
HoYoverse has always struggled to satisfy its hardcore Genshin Impact audience, but the tension came to a boil when the studio confirmed on October 1 that it will not add more endgame content. The endgame dungeon Spiral Abyss will remain the only way players can test their most competitive...
Time For A New Obsession: Official Pokémon Cards With Only Crochet Art
4.10.2022
We recently celebrated the extraordinary Pokémon TCG card art of Yuka Morii, and her immaculate clay models photographed in nature. But it would be remiss to stop there, and while pretty much every artist working on the cards deserves recognition, our attention is next drawn to Asako Ito and her...
Oh Wow, The Most Captivating Pokémon Card Game Art All Comes From The Same Person
30.9.2022
Over the years, the Pokémon Trading Card Game has seen a huge number of artists come and go. Approximately 175 different people have contributed art to the cards, some only ever designing one, others contributing hundreds. Heck, Ken Sugimori has created 966 of them, beginning with the very first...
Square Enix Is Drowning 2022 With New RPGs, And We're Here For It
30.9.2022
2022 is a great year to be an RPG fan, particularly of Japanese games. The holiday season is usually crowded with new game releases, but this year Square Enix appears to be releasing games like it’s Christmas all year round. With so many out already, and so many more to come, are SE’s profligate...
Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown
30.9.2022
Few thought Google’s troubled streaming service, Stadia, might ever become a dominant player in the gaming industry, but almost no one expected it to shut down so abruptly, including the company’s own employees. Stadia VP Phil Harrison, fast becoming the grim reaper of new gaming initiatives...