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Disney and The Pokémon Company are teaming up on a new streaming series. They announced Friday that the stop-motion animated adventure series Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu will debut on Disney XD and stream exclusively on Disney Plus in 2027. The announcement is part of a wider push to bring Pokémon to...
There were many moments when the projects could have been shut down. Many players love Bully, sometimes called the “school GTA,” and Red Dead Redemption. According to Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser, both games faced difficulties during development and were at risk of cancellation. He shared his recollections in a recent interview with IGN. Houser...
On October 18, 1985, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America with a modest lineup that included Super Mario Bros. and Excitebike. Within a few short years, its catalog had swelled to hundreds of titles. That growth showed how premature the early-’80s obituaries for the video game industry had been. Many of those...
When you buy downloadable content, you usually expect more of the same: a few extra hours, some new gear, maybe a boss the main game had no room for. But what if the DLC crowned you the new god of madness instead of handing you a few new outfits and some fetch quests? What if...
The PlayStation 4 debuted in North America on November 15, 2013, and reached Japan and the rest of the world a few months later. In the years since, it has enjoyed an unbroken run of releases across nearly every genre, and a few more titles are still on the way, even six years after the...
Zach Cregger, the director of Weapons, took an unusual route with his new adaptation of Resident Evil. He didn’t adapt the characters and story of Capcom’s survival-horror games. He tried to capture what it feels like to live through one of the Resident Evil series’ worst-case scenarios. The film follows a hapless medical courier, played...
Toxic Crusaders has a new gameplay trailer that shows four-player co-op, flashy brawling, and a boss fight. The game still has no release date. The developers at Retrowave originally planned to launch Toxic Crusaders on December 4, 2025. They later delayed it by almost 11 months without announcing a new date. The team says it...
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse has launched on PC with technical problems, and Steam players rate it “Mostly Positive.” The game marks the series’ return after almost 20 years. Konami and Evil Empire, the studio known for Dead Cells, set out to continue the Castlevania series. The console version turned out fairly well and lets players return...
The new 90-second Grand Theft Auto VI trailer has sparked debate among viewers, some of whom say the graphics look worse than before. The first reactions focused on the views of Leonida and the story of Jason and Lucia. After that, some viewers said the graphics had taken a step back from the earlier trailers....
The developers of Persona 3, 4 and 5 spoke at a festival about what defines the identity of the series. During a panel on September 22 at The Tenth Mosaic festival, Katsura Hashino, character designer Shigenori Soejima and composer Shoji Meguro discussed what makes the series distinctive. Hashino explained that Persona reflects adolescence, with all...
