Month: February 2024

Image: Nintendo We’ve got some good news for Pokémon fans and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo collectors. In celebration of Pokémon Day 2024, Nintendo has restocked its official online stores with select Pokémon amiibo. The Pokémon included in this restock are Pikachu, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard, Mewtwo, Lucario, Greninja and Incineroar. They will set you back
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It’s no secret that games are getting more expensive, and Katsuhiro Harada says that Tekken 8 costs three times as much to develop as its predecessor. The Tekken 8 Executive Producer brought this up in defense of the game’s live-service elements. Tekken 8 Executive Producer Katsuhiro Harada defends microtransactions Micro-transactions are a well-established practice that
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Today is Pokemon Day 2024, and it kicked off with a Pokemon Presents presentation full of news on everyone’s favorite Pocket Monsters. Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president and CEO of The Pokemon Company, hosted the presentation, and if you missed it, you can watch it below. Pokémon Presents | 2.27.2024 Pokemon Presents: Pokemon Day 2024 –
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On Pokémon Day—observed this year on February 27, 2024—Tsunekazu Ishihara, President and CEO of The Pokémon Company, hosted a special Pokémon Presents video that featured all sorts of exciting Pokémon news, including our first peek at a pair of new Pokémon titles—Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket. Additionally, there were updates about Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, a
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A massive sweep of layoffs has rocked various Sony first-party studios today, including Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games, and Insomniac. Another victim is Firesprite Games, the UK studio behind The Playroom games and The Persistence, and an additional casualty from that studio is reportedly a new Twisted Metal title. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Firesprite had
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I’ve done some elementary study of the planet Jupiter for various creative research projects/dead-ends. It’s probably a symptom of my failings as an astronomer, but I have to say that at no point have I noticed any gigantic, depressed clowns. In new platformer Clown Meat, one such gigantic, depressed clown has swum through Jupiter’s atmosphere,
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Nintendo recently made a subtle yet notable change to its Japanese website, requiring visitors to add one extra keystroke to reach the page. Previously accessed through ‘nintendo.co.jp’, the site can now be found at ‘nintendo.com/jp’. Despite initial reactions of keyboard-related horror, Nintendo assures users that this update is part of “server environment improvements”. This change
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Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures developer Supermassive Games recently issued a statement that it is laying off some employees. This announcement comes shortly after news leaked that the UK-based company intends to terminate roughly 90 workers. 150 Supermassive Games employees are at risk for layoffs Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported Monday morning that the studio
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Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by hugging pocket monsters, schoolyard violence, a “weirdass, janky imsim… thing” with teleporting cigarettes, and more. Check out all these attractive and interesting
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