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Pokémon GO's Big Weekend Accidentally Reminded Us The Game Used To Be Fun

15.7.2024
This weekend may have been deranged on previously unexplored levels, but it was also Go Fest in Pokémon GO, the annual event when the mobile game reminds its millions of players why they used to love playing. This year, as the app reaches new nadirs of money-grubbing banality, the event’s terrific...

Palworld And Sony Team Up To Make The Next Pokémon Company

10.7.2024
Palworld feels like gaming’s ultimate troll. It’s a troll on the concepts of IP and copyright as it so brazenly mimics Pokémon with its creature design. And it’s a troll on Pokémon fans, given it’s really just yet another tree-bashing survival game. But oh boy, has it been a success, and...

Steam Dev Tells Player Who Posted Negative Review To 'Kill Yoursells'

9.7.2024
A Steam user left a negative review after playing Coin Pusher Casino on Steam. In response, a developer behind the game left a comment telling the player to “Kill Yoursells.” This has led to a backlash via a viral Reddit post, and an apology from the studio. Read more

Pokémon GO Is Refusing To Let Long-Time Players Come To Its Birthday Party

28.6.2024
Mobile game mega-hit Pokémon GOnever misses a chance to make an inexplicably dreadful decision. Its latest comes with the celebration of the game’s eighth birthday, where it has made the bizarre decision to refuse to allow access to long-time players who completed one specific quest back...

Pokémon Card Contest Disqualifies Fans For Allegedly Using AI Art

25.6.2024
The Pokémon Company holds regular illustration contests for fans to submit their artwork to possibly be used as official art for Pokémon trading cards, more recently made available to artists in the U.S. However, the company’s 2024 competition has had a new, not-so-fun wrinkle of controversy...

2024 Game Pass Hit Palworld Looks Like It's Finally Coming To PlayStation

24.6.2024
Palworld, the highly controversial but mostly fine “Pokémon With Guns” monster tamer game from Pocketpair, has reached over 25 million players on PC and Xbox. That’s already a whole lot of people playing the legally distinct knock-off of Game Freak’s RPGs, but why stop there when there are other...

XDefiant Devs Talk Bunny Hopping, Balance, And New Maps

18.6.2024
As the dust settled on a hectic (and messy) launch, I got the chance to talk with FPS XDefiant’s executive producer Mark Rubin, and creative director Safy Saada, about the free-to-play Call of Duty-like’s first few weeks, how the Ubisoft team balances the game, all-important bunny hopping, creating...

Division 2 Players Really Hate The New Shift To Seasonal Characters

11.6.2024
The Division 2's newest season—Year 6 Season 1—is now live and with it, Ubisoft also revealed its plans for the rest of the year. However, a big change on the roadmap involving seasonal characters that players must create fresh at the start of each new stretch has led to a massive amount...

The Star Wars Hotel Failure Was Just A Real-Life Bad Video Game Launch

4.6.2024
Unless you’ve been living under a rock on Exegol for the last month, you’ve probably heard of YouTuber Jenny Nicholson’s viral, four-hour-long video reviewing the Star Wars hotel, officially known as Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Titled “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel,” it goes...

Genshin Impact’s Next Big Region Is Giving Major Pokémon Vibes

24.5.2024
With the imminent release of Genshin Impact version 4.7, which will down the story of Fontaine and its inhabitants, players are starting to look toward the future. Developer HoYoverse is doing the same, as the company gave us a surprise first look at the action RPG’s next location. Like past major...

Ubisoft's COD-Like Shooter Is Finally Out--But Matchmaking Is Broken

21.5.2024
After years of marketing, delays, betas, and name changes, XDefiant from Ubisoft is finally here and...things aren’t going very well. Players are currently unable to find matches as the game’s servers can’t seem to cope with the large influx of people. Read more

GTA 6 Could Be The First Game To Push Past $70

20.5.2024
It’s only been about two years or so since the video game industry began charging $70 for big games instead of the usual $60, due to game development costs increasing (and greed). This shift, understandably, didn’t go over well with players as the cost to stay up-to-date with modern gaming...

Fans Want This Pokémon X Animal Crossing Mashup To Be Real

16.5.2024
As someone who mostly passes through Animal Crossing each time a game comes out, it’s easy to draw comparisons between why people love that series and the ways in which players connect to Pokémon. Sure, in Nintendo’s life sim you’re not “capturing” all the animal villagers, but people still collect...

What Honkai: Star Rail’s Massive Acheron Reveal Means

9.5.2024
From the second the mysterious swordswoman Acheron was revealed in Honkai: Star Rail, fans had an inkling that there was more to her than developer HoYoverse was letting on. The release of version 2.0 in February confirmed they were correct, showing her to be a semi-amnesiac who barely knows...

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