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The newly launched Pokemon Trading Card Game 2025 Holiday Calendar is back in stock at Amazon and Target. Like most Pokemon TCG releases this year, the 2025 Holiday Calendar sold out almost immediately when preorders opened back in June. It remained sold out for the past few months, but fans can finally secure their Pokemon Advent Calendar. This year's edition launched August 22, so it's available to ship right now. Take a closer look at the Pokemon Trading Card Game 2025 Holiday Calendar...
Pokemon Legends: Z-A will see players return to Pokemon X and Y's Kalos region, and fittingly, one of the major gameplay features of those games will make a return: Mega Evolutions. Ahead of its release next month, The Pokemon Company has shown off one of the new Mega Evolutions debuting in the game, as the Luchador-inspired Pokemon Hawlucha is getting a serious upgrade when it jumps into the ring. A Fighting- and Flying-type Pokemon, Hawlucha's Mega Evolution sees the Pokemon transform...
While proprietary engines aren't all that common at many studios--given the fact that they're just simply difficult to make--Capcom has found a lot of success with its own one, RE Engine. It's been used across all of the studio's games since 2017's Resident Evil 7, with the upcoming Pragmata being no different. However, a small thing you might not think about being important is that Diana, the game's deuteragonist, has very long hair. According to producer Naoto Oyama, the RE Engine actually...
Developer Crystal Dynamics is laying off more members from the team, though not detailing the total number of people impacted. This is the second round of cuts at the Tomb Raider studio within the last six months--and the first since the Perfect Dark reboot was canned. On LinkedIn, the official Crystal Dynamics account announced the layoffs. "This decision was not made lightly," the post reads. "It was necessary, however, to ensure the long-term health of our studio and core creative...
What's the most important thing that EA's new Skate game needs? Contrary to popular belief, polished gameplay and fun environments aren't at the top of the list, because that's a spot reserved for the soundtrack. If we're talking sub-genres within the playlist itself, then naturally, we have to know just how much of it is reserved for the best music to power a kickflip: ska. So just how much ska is in Skate? That's a question Skate's developers aren't quite ready to answer yet, although they...
Ever since Resident Evil 7, the horror series' non-remake games have opted for a first-person perspective over the third-person perspective Resident Evil 4 set as the de facto choice in 3D games. Resident Evil Village was made with first-person in mind, though it did get a third-person camera mode post-launch. When Resident Evil Requiem launches next year, it'll do so with first- and third-person modes right out the gate. But according to the game's director, the latter was only added in so...
The Battlefield 6 testing program, Battlefield Labs, is ramping back up this week following the end of the game's popular open beta earlier this month. A leaked document reveals that the next Battlefield Labs test will begin on Friday, August 29, across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. There is no word yet on what content might be in the next Labs test, however. If you took part in a Labs test before the open beta, you're automatically in for future tests. Everyone else, however, has to sign...
Activision has brought Call of Duty: World War II back to the Microsoft Store and Xbox PC App after it was removed more than a month ago, though the company has still not said a word about what happened. A statement released on August 27 confirmed that the 2017 game has returned, and is once again available for PC Game Pass players. However, there was no explanation as to anything else related to the game's removal on July 4. At the time, Activision said it pulled the game to investigate...
Earlier this summer, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima laughed when asked if he would play the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, before flatly replying, "No, I won't." Regardless, the creative team behind Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is hopeful that their former colleague will get a chance to see that the remake was created with great reverence and respect for the original. "We are not sure what [Kojima] would want to do, but we want to deliver this game whilst being...
While players are still enjoying Peak's brand-new Mesa biome, the game's latest patch is here to address some technical concerns--specifically making it easier to run Peak on lower-powered computers. The latest patch, which brings the game to version 1.27.a, introduces a new Texture Quality graphics setting. The new option, which Team Peak says has been much-requested, allows players with low VRAM to lower the texture quality, reducing the incidence of low framerates, missing graphics, and...
Hello Games has just dropped the massive Voyagers update for No Man's Sky, adding brand-new, fully-customizable Corvette class starships. The studio has set up five days of Twitch drops to celebrate the update, giving away loot ranging from base decor to cute alien critters to cool starships. Here's how you can redeem the free loot for yourself. The No Man's Sky Twitch drops will run for five days from August 28 to September 1, with different loot on offer each day. Each daily drop includes...
After a couple of weeks of testing on the beta branch, the new Schedule 1 update, Rival Cartels, is now live in the main game. The update introduces competition in the form of Hyland Point's Benzies family, as well as a new property to purchase, a new vehicle, and more. Viral hit Schedule 1 sees players build a drug-dealing empire from the ground up, and the new update adds some new obstacles for the player's rise to power--as well as new possibilities. The Benzies family will only be...
Next year, Resident Evil Requiem will introduce players to Grace Ashcroft, the newest protagonist in the franchise. In the trailers shared so far, Grace has been way over her head in danger. That's how she enters the story, but she won't remain that way forever. According to director Kōshi Nakanishi, Grace's transformation from helpless to powerful may represent the "most extreme gap" in the franchise. "We're at the testing phase now in development as we gear up to the February release, and...
Amazon has restocked a pair of Nintendo Amiibo figures that it hasn't had in its inventory in more than seven years. Super Mario fans can add Koopa Troopa and Goomba Amiibo to their collections for $16 each. Both characters are shipped and sold by Amazon, so we wouldn't expect Mario's iconic punching bags to remain in stock for very long. Goomba and Koopa Troopa are part of the long-dormant Super Mario Amiibo series. Both figures released in the US in October 2017 and were sold out at...
The next big PS5 exclusive game, Ghost of Yotei, launches on October 2. To celebrate the open-world action game’s imminent release, Sony announced a limited edition Ghost of Yotei-themed PS5 console and accessories that will launch alongside the game. The lineup includes two PS5 Slim models featuring faceplates with traditional Japanese Sumi-e ink illustrations inspired by the game. There are gold and black ink versions of the console, which will be available in bundles that include special...
Every time Hello Games is readying an update for No Man's Sky, studio founder Sean Murray tweets out cryptic emoji that send the community's head spinning. For the Voyagers update, he posted a waving emoji, followed by a group of three waving emoji to hint at the major feature of the update: ships big enough to travel around in with your friends. The Voyagers update brings Corvette-class ships to the galaxy. Where the one-seater ships we've piloted thus far are pretty limited in...
Cult filmmaker John Carpenter seems to have been having a moment at Gamescom 2025. Not only does his name grace the title for Toxic Commando, Saber Interactive's fun evolution of the zombie co-op FPS, but his sci-fi horror, The Thing, is also a key influence of the upcoming Directive 8020. Topping it off, it was during the show where the previously announced Halloween, based on the horror classic with Carpenter himself attached as executive producer, had its first trailer it was announced...
Supermassive Games has already proven itself as one of the most popular storytellers in interactive cinematic horror--since Until Dawn's release a decade ago, more than half a dozen similar titles that focus on different monsters have been released. Directive 8020 is the latest of these as part of its anthology series The Dark Pictures, and sees the developer charting new territory in space. Alien is one major cornerstone, the film that really showed us how terrifying space can be, while...
Bethesda is not finished supporting 2023's spacefaring RPG Starfield. Lead creative producer Tim Lab said in a new video that fans can look forward to many new updates to the game over time, including a second story DLC. "I'm really excited for players to see what the team has been working on. We have some cool stuff coming, including free updates and features that players have been asking for, as well as a new DLC story," he said. "I can't go into all the details just yet, but I will say...
Gears of War: Reloaded, a remaster of the 2006 original game, launched this week--but it didn't go over entirely smoothly. The PC version currently has a "mixed" review rating on Steam, with people reporting crashing issues pointing out how the game is missing things like an FOV slider. Some issues have been reported on console as well, including matchmaking problems. People are also calling the game out for its lack of split-screen co-op on PC, a feature they say was advertised as a...