Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ first post-launch update is live on Switch and while very small, it does accomplish one very important thing: fixing Cherrim.

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I’ll trade it all for Pikmin 4 Nintendo is beaming ~40 minutes of Switch news to our brains this afternoon...

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Third-party developers have provided reveals and assets about upcoming aircraft and airport add-on coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We start with the much anticipated Brussels Airport (EBBR) in Belgium by Aerosoft, which has been in airport development legend Jo Erlend’s workshop for quite a while.

Today we get to see some really impressive screenshots, and the clarification that it’s still slated for Q1 2022 release.

A new report indicates a smaller game will arrive before Infinity It looks like another Assassin’s Creed game could arrive before Infinity. A...

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Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Publisher: Mundfish
Developer: Mundfish
Release: 2022

Mundfish's Atomic Heart has been making the rounds in gaming forums since early footage was first showcased in 2018. A retro-futuristic take on 1950s Soviet Russia, the world of Atomic Heart is infested with rampaging automatons, wooly man-bear-things(?), gelatinous horrors, and much more. IGN premiered a brand new trailer with an assortment of story beats, English localization, and a surprise Fall 2022 release window. You can watch the new gameplay/cinematics below.

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The studio is also extending the investigation of issues into Elden Ring The exploits causing problems for the PC versions of...

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Ruben Fleischer, the director of Sony's upcoming live-action Uncharted movie, has revealed he's currently in the throes of adapting another beloved PlayStation property for the big screen - so if you've ever wished for a Jak and Daxter movie, today is your lucky day.

Speaking to Digital Trends during a promotional tour for the Uncharted film - which finally releases on 11th February in the UK following a troubled development spanning multiple directors and lasting well over a decade - Fleischer revealed, "I'm actually working on Jak and Daxter, a version of that, for PlayStation, which I think would be really cool to bring to life".

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Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
Publisher: PlayStation Studios
Developer: Polyphony Digital
Release: March 4, 2022

Sony teased an exciting AI reveal last week and today, it unveiled Gran Turismo Sophy, a new AI developed in partnership with Polyphony Digital that races vehicles so well that it outperforms professional GT drivers. 

On the surface, it looks like a very good driving AI and if you’re anything like me, you’ve had your butt kicked by AI drivers in the likes of Need for Speed, Dirt, and even Gran Turismo before. However, Sony’s presentation today, which included speakers from Polyphony Digital including Gran Turismo 7 producer Kazunori Yamauchi, showcased just how great Sophy is at Gran Turismo. 

Seeing red while in the black It’s a big week of news for publisher Bandai Namco. The studio behind gaming...

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Three Houses gets the musou treatment! More Mario Kart - but! And so much more besides - everything as it happened.

Some five years after its original announcement, Telltale Games' long-awaited The Wolf Among Us 2 has just received a first proper trailer, along with the news it'll be launching in 2023.

The Wolf Among Us 2 has, of course, had an eventful journey to reach this point; the original game - a five-episode story-driven adventure based on Bill Willingham's Fables comic books - released almost a decade ago in 2013 to much acclaim, and the demand for a sequel was immediate. The news fans had been waiting for eventually arrived in 2017, with confirmation The Wolf Among Us 2 was in development, but progress on the title regrettably halted after developer Telltale Games shut its doors the following year.

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DMM and Koei Tecmo released another trailer of their upcoming Musou game Touken Ranbu Warriors.

Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ In case you were curious, rolling in Pokemon Legends: Arceus is indeed slower than running, in...

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When Microsoft announced its plans to purchase Activision Blizzard, one of the first questions was whether Call of Duty and the publisher's other existing titles would eventually become Xbox exclusives. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer quickly stated that Microsoft plans to honor existing contractual agreements between Sony and Activision regarding Call of Duty specifically and vaguely expressed a desire to keep the series on PlayStation. 

Though pretty definitive, the second bit of Phil's statement left room for interpretation. A new blog post by Microsoft further clarifies its commitment to keeping Activision Blizzard titles multiplatform. The post, which discusses a new set of Microsoft Store principles in preparation for the Activision acquisition approval process, says the following:

Like so many Pokémon games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus encourages players to catch lots and lots of Pokémon. It even incentivizes you to catch tons of the same creature, in order to obtain shinies and to fully complete its enhanced Pokédex. And this time around, instead of storing all those Pokémon you catch in the…

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Final Fantasy XIV’s newest expansion Endwalker will soon get a soundtrack release, which will be released soon in a music Blu Ray.

Today Square Enix released a new trailer basically speedrunning the whole soundtrack, providing a three-second sample of every single one of the 62 tracks.

The soundtrack will release on February 23 worldwide and can already be pre-ordered at the publisher’s stores for $54.99.

You can check it out below and see how it’s without a doubt another home run for composer Masayoshi Soken and his team.

Final Fantasy XIV is currently available for PlayStation 4, PS5, and PC. The upgrade to PS5 is offered free of charge to those who own the PS4 version. The Endwalker expansion has just been released a couple of months ago and you can read our recent review.

Game Pass has never been more popular, and after Microsoft revealed its plan to buy Activision Blizzard and add some of that company’s biggest games to the service, an increase in the Game Pass subscription price has never felt more inevitable. Newly minted Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer recently tried to downplay…

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Platform: Switch
Publisher: Nintendo

The latest Nintendo Direct is here, and with it comes dreams of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and more, but will any of those titles actually make an appearance? Join Game Informer at 3:30 p.m. CT for our official watch-along and preshow live on Twitch!

Your hosts for the occasion are none other than The Council of Alexes (Stadnik and Van Aken). The two Alexes are here to take your questions, react live to all the big announcements, and show the chat a good time as we see what's next for the Nintendo Switch.

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Pokemon fans can deck their social media profiles out with select gym leaders and rivals, thanks to a promotional campaign by the Pokémon Center Japan's official Twitter account. It commemorated the release of the Pokemon gym leaders and trainers mascot plush line, a series of dolls based on characters from Pokémon Sword and Shield.

The avatar release was based on raising the number of followers for the Pokémon Center account. Once the target number was reached, the account uploaded a set of Pokemon avatars for everyone.

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In total, there are eleven Pokemon avatars to use. They're based on chibi versions of Galar League trainers and gym leaders Bede, Marnie, Milo, Nessa, Allister, Bea, Gordie, Melony, Raihan, Kabu, and Champion Dande. The icons feature the Japanese names of the trainers.

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Missing from the slate of Pokemon avatars are Ballonlea Fairy Badge leader Opal and Spikemuth Dark Badge leader Piers. The two are also absent from the line of plush dolls, though no reason was given for their exclusion. Some of the Galar League gym leaders are exclusive to different versions of the game. For example, Pokemon Sword owners encounter Bea, while Shield owners encounter Allister. Gordie and Melony are also version-exclusive, between Sword and Shield, respectively. Nessa, Kabu, Raihan, Marnie, Milo, and Dande are found in both versions of the game.

Bigby’s back in business Telltale Games revealed a new look at The Wolf Among Us 2 today, and set a release window....

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Telltale has just released the first full trailer for The Wolf Among Us 2 after fans have been waiting for more since the very first teaser at The Game Awards back in 2019. The game will be coming to PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, and PS5 in 2023. It’ll be released episodically, even though the whole game will be completed before the launch of the first episode.

Geoff Keighley sat down with Telltale after the trailer reveal to get more info on what fans can expect to see from the game. We now know that this sequel takes place about six months after the end of the first game, with sheriff Bigby Wolf still working under Snow White while serving the residents of Fabletown.

The trailer shows Bigby trying to arrest well-known Fables from the Wizard of Oz stories — namely the scarecrow and tin man. And, as usual, things don’t go exactly as planned.

You can check out the trailer for yourself below to see flashbacks of Bigby in action while he speaks about his experiences.

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive
Developer: AdHoc Studio
Release: 2023

During a special livestream hosted by Geoff Keighly, The Wolf Among Us 2's first trailer premiered along with a release window of 2023. Keighly sat down with Telltale's designers and voice actors to spill the beans on what's in store for the long-awaited second season.

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Creative Assembly and Sega released a new trailer about the upcoming Warhammer strategy game Total War: Warhammer III.

This time around the trailer focuses on the multiplayer campaigns, of which there are three focusing on different areas of the world.

Two can host up to eight players, while the third is smaller, with three players.

You can check it out below.

If you’re unfamiliar with Total War: Warhammer III, which is coming for PC (including Game Pass) on Feb. 17, 2022.

Just one day after revealing the cinematic trailer for season 2, Activision is now showing off brand new gameplay for Call of Duty: Vanguard & Warzone via a fresh trailer. The video features plenty of chaotic gunfights and action, but the highlight is the armored war machines, which are set to play a large role this season.

Take a look at the gameplay trailer and official description for the game for yourself down below:

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The award-winning Call of Duty series returns with Call of Duty: Vanguard, in which players will experience influential battles of World War II as they fight for victory across the Eastern and Western Fronts of Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.

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Create and cement your legacy as Call of Duty’s signature Multiplayer experience launches an all-out assault on all fronts. Witness the rise of the Special Forces as players drop into new locales with authentic World War II loadouts.

Last week, MLB The Show 22 was officially revealed along with a couple of cover reveal trailers showing off Shohei Ohtani on the standard edition and a manga-inspired version of the slugger on the MVP Edition. But news for the upcoming baseball title hasn’t stopped there. Earlier today, the official gameplay reveal trailer for MLB The Show 22 went live on YouTube via the Sony San Diego channel.

The trailer begins with a panning shot just beyond the center-field wall in Angel Stadium. It then cuts to a few gameplay shots of Ohtani pitching on the mound and launching bombs into the stands. Then it cuts to multiple different teams doing similar pitching, diving, swinging, and celebration animations.

There wasn’t anything that stood out as new in the gameplay. The trailer was very much just a brief view of how the game will look on the current generation of consoles. Nothing about gameplay mechanics was mentioned in this trailer.

Near the end of the video, you briefly get a glimpse of slugger, Ryan Howard, rounding the bases. And later on, there was a surprising reveal of baseball Hall of Famer, Randy Johnson, dealing from the mound in a classic Arizona Diamondbacks jersey. Johnson was one of the most dominant and imposing pitchers in MLB history standing at a ridiculous 6’10”. It’ll be interesting to see how these all-time greats stand up against the superstars of today.

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The 1.2.1 Tales of Luminaria update is here and the multiplayer boss battles will look different as a result. A number of changes appeared in the patch. Among them are changes that alter how someone can play in those challenges and what they'll get. Most notably, the Easy difficulty is being removed. Nightmare is being moved in to the new gap. The sorts of reward equipment and number of event points someone can earn changed too.

The changes to Tales of Luminaria multiplayer boss battle mean things will look and play a bit different. The announcement noted that with the removal of Easy, Normal will be the new difficulty allowing everyone in. As for Nightmare, your Power level must be at least 10,000 to participate. With rewards, people playing on Hard could get one piece of equipment. Those on Extreme or Nightmare could get two pieces, with each one guaranteed to be different. Finally, you can get up to 1,000.000 event points, rather than only 500,000.

Other changes went into effect with the 1.2.1 Tales of Luminaria update too. There are now control guides that go over how you perform attacks. People can find these when they check the character screen, pause, or look under help. Artes swapping will be a bit easier, as it will let you go between old and new and slots. Also, Ana-Maria's second episode is out today.

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With Sony and Microsoft on a spending bender as of late, yet another major studio has been swooped up to the tune of $3.6B. Last week it was revealed that the long-time developers of the Halo and Destiny games, Bungie, will be coming under the Sony umbrella.

And no matter how you feel about these acquisitions, this is sure to shake some things up in the gaming sphere, including the possible revival of some dormant series. Here are three Bungie franchises we think Sony should revive.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla got too big for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Following two major expansions for the open-world RPG and forthcoming third one, Ubisoft is turning a planned fourth into its own spinoff, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports.

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Today, Square Enix officially announced that its highly anticipated sixth release in the Final Fantasy pixel remaster series would be released later this month. To be exact, fans will be able to get their hands on the Final Fantasy VI pixel remaster on Feb. 23, 2022, for Steam and mobile platforms.

You can check out more information on the game courtesy of the official press release:

Originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994, FINAL FANTASY VI captures all of the magic of the original with improved ease of play. Players will embark on a timeless story following The War of the Magi, which left little but ashes and misery in its wake and magic itself vanished from the world. A thousand years later, humanity has rebuilt the world relying on machines and technology – until they find a young girl named Terra with mysterious powers. The evil Empire has kept her enslaved in an effort to harness these powers as a weapon, leading to a fateful meeting between Terra and a young man named Locke. Their harrowing escape from the Empire’s clutches sets in motion a series of events that touches countless lives and leads to one inevitable conclusion.
 
Regarded as one of the most beloved games in the FINAL FANTASY series, FINAL FANTASY VI features a robust roster of playable characters, each with their own stories, goals and destinies. Players will be able to customize their party members’ abilities, magic spells and summons with the acclaimed magicite system. In addition, players can look forward to many improvements and updates for ward to many improvements and updates for FINAL FANTASY VI.

The Final Fantasy VI pixel remaster is set to include the following features:

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: DICE
Release: November 19, 2021

Update, 2/9/22:

Yesterday, we reported that the Battlefield 2042 petition had amassed over 25,000 signatures. Today the count has surpassed 70,000. According to the petition webpage, with 75,000 signatures, the refund petition will become one of the most supported initiatives currently on Change.org. The introductory remarks of the petition are as follows:

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