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It’s weird how many Pokémon have just never made it to kerbillion-player mobile hit, Pokémon Go. Astonishingly, the game has yet to feature major monsters like Arceus, Naganadel and Silvally, and even the most banal minor names like Phione, Honedge and Blipbug. The gaps in Gen VII are inexplicable. But fortunately, one such enormity is being addressed: at long last, this Halloween, Morpeko is arriving. The Week In Games: Pocket Monsters And Simulated Goats The...

If I had to choose a single word to describe Mario & Luigi: Brothership after an hour or so seeing a few different areas of the near-final game, that word is up there in the headline: it’s delightful. If I had to choose a second, well… let’s go for refreshing. It feels a bit like the Mario & Luigi series never really left. When you think about it, though, it’s been the better part of...

Almost no one is denying anymore that Marvel Studios has hit a bit of a slump in recent times, yet it’s also managed to put out some bangers and utterly demolished the box office this summer with Deadpool & Wolverine. This explains why Sebastian Stan is defending the hell out of the House of M still. The veteran Marvel actor, widely known as Bucky Barnes aka The Winter Soldier, has recently been promoting his work...

Legendary’s MonsterVerse is in a pretty good spot after its last two crossover movies and Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters surprisingly being one of the best super expensive tie-in shows based on big-screen properties. Now, it’s juicing up its cast ahead of Season 2, and Amber Midthunder is first in line. Variety broke the news on October 8, revealing the rising star is joining Season 2 of the show “in a heavily recurring role.”...

HBO and DC Studios’ high-profile Lanterns series is rapidly heating up and has just found its John Stewart in Rebel Ridge’s Aaron Pierre after a very long search for the perfect actor to go with Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan. James Gunn’s DCU is off to an exciting start this year with Creature Commandos, a stylish animated series. In 2025, his Superman reboot will mark the universe’s first live-action movie and Peacemaker will get a second...

Finally, it’s here, the announcement all you Mario and Zelda fans have been waiting for… the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo. Nintendo Switch 2? Never heard of it, but what I have heard of is the freshly announced Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, a literal alarm clock from the Mario makers themselves. No, you haven’t just skipped a few months to April 1, this is a very real product that Nintendo has announced, and it is...

Gladiator 2 might not even be out yet, and Ridley Scott might be getting quite close to his 90s, but he’s already working on a script for a third one. After a 24 year gap, the 2000 historical epic classic Gladiator is finally getting a sequel, with Ridley Scott still at the helm, an impressive thing considering the director is 86 (and he’ll be 87 next month, too). That’s quite the wait for a...

Blizzard’s continued improvements for Diablo IV have introduced many new, mechanics, among them the incredibly useful Tempering. Once you begin collecting powerful gear, particularly Legendary, Unique, and Ancestral-rarity items, Tempering is one of the new major ways you’ll push their power even higher. MORE POWER! Here’s how. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Diablo IV The old mechanic of ‘upgrading’ items is gone, so you won’t get uninteresting and minor stat upgrades anymore. Instead,...

Roblox stock fell a whopping nine percent after the publication of a report that claims the software is a “pedophile hellscape,” alongside figures that it claims suggest the company is massively exaggerating the number of people using it. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: December 2022 Edition For those paying close attention, games-platform-cum-creation-tool Roblox has seemed like a place you might wanna keep your kids away from for years. However, for most...

Image: ConcernedApe Let’s face it, at this point everybody and their mother already owns Stardew Valley. The indie Harvest Moon-like released in 2016 and quickly became a hit amongst gamers. Eight years later and the game is still going strong, with no real sign of developer ConcernedApe stopping support any time soon (despite also working on a new game). So while you probably already know all there is to know about the game, this is...