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Pokémon Pokopia is out today, but it already has its first limited-time event, with three cute Pokémon only available for a two-week window this month

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Pokémon Pokopia is out now, and it's pretty sweet if you ask us. Now, wasting no time, Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and development studios Game Freak and Omega Force have announced the first limited-time event adding new Pokémon.

Marathon lands surprise PS4 and Xbox One age rating ahead of launch, but should last-gen players really get their hopes up?

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Marathon launches today, 5th March, and following a successful Server Slam test last weekend and the reveal of promising post-launch plans, developer Bungie seems to have finally built some positive sentiment. Only players on current-gen…

Highguard's final update - which Wildlight's "skeleton crew" crunched to finish - goes live, just days before the game disappears forever

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Wildlight has released its last ever patch for Highguard, with creative director Jason McCord acknowledging the "skeleton crew" that "crunched" to make it happen.

Wednesday, Mar 4

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Ubisoft's worst-kept secret is finally official as Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced artwork is revealed

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Three years after reports of an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake first surfaced - and amid a mounting stack of evidence pointing to its imminent arrival - Ubisoft has finally made its worst-kept secret official.

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Guilty Gear studio is making a card-based survival game with gorillas, and of course it's called Goritaire

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Arc System Works, the studio best known for its stellar fighting games including the Guilty Gear and BlazBlue series, has unveiled its latest endeavour: a simian-themed card game that's brilliantly titled Goritaire. It's out very soon too,…

PlayStation reportedly ditching its PC release strategy, most first-party games will now be console exclusive

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Sony is reportedly abandoning its strategy of bringing its first-party PlayStation games to PC, with the company now set to return to console-only releases for all but a select number of online titles.

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Not wanting to be overshadowed by Overwatch, Marvel Rivals sets 'Path to Doomsday' roadmap, honouring all Avengers movies with brand-new content

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Overwatch is back, at least for now, but that doesn't mean the online hero shooter which kicked its butt for a while is going anywhere. Marvel Rivals continues to march onwards, regularly adding new renowned characters, maps, modes,…

Final Fantasy 11 locks down yet another server as overpopulation continues to hit Final Fantasy 14's predecessor, over two decades after its original launch

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As countless live-service games and MMORPGs struggle to establish healthy player bases, Final Fantasy 11, which turns 24 this year, is having the exact opposite problem. After a considerable influx of new players that started in mid-2025,…

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The Division 2 is getting a limited-time Realism Mode - making it more grounded and brutal - but there's a catch

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Tom Clancy's The Division 2 probably isn't going anywhere anytime soon, especially with the next game still deep in development and Massive Studios facing layoffs and high-key staff departures. Quietly but steadily, the second game in the…

"I'm sick of having to repeat myself" - Crimson Desert PR shuts down accusations it's "hiding" console footage ahead of imminent launch

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Crimson Desert's marketing director is "sick of having to repeat" himself, as some express concern Pearl Abyss is "hiding" console footage of the open-world action adventure game.

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Trump administration debates getting Chinese Tencent money out of US gaming over feared security risks

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Donald Trump's administration is apparently debating whether to let Tencent, a Chinese tech company, keep its investments in video games companies based in the US, such as Fortnite maker Epic Games and League of Legends maker Riot Games.

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Marathon confirms global release times, launches cinematic music video, doubles down on its unique, weird art direction

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Marathon's moment of truth is almost here, and following a convincing Server Slam test, chatter around Bungie's latest game has seemingly turned a corner. Something that surely won't be disappointing those jumping in is the game's unique…

Amazon's Life is Strange TV series has found its Max and Chloe, with Nashville star in lead role

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The upcoming Life is Strange TV series from Amazon has cast its two leads.

Koei Tecmo is partnering with SpiralAI as it shows interest in creating "experiences that combine entertainment and AI" via chatbot-like LLMs

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Another day, another tech and/or entertainment company betting on AI. It's now Koei Tecmo's turn, as the Japanese giant has jointly announced a partnership with SpiralAI alongside the unveiling of the "next-generation" large language model…

Nintendo Switch Online's March update to the Classics library is all about Mario, and one new game is particularly surprising

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Nintendo is just dropping news and updates on us non-stop since the year started, and now we've got a first look at what's coming to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack sub offerings in March.

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Resident Evil Requiem has surpassed 5m copies sold in less than a week

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It seems that even as we head into the warmer petal filled season of spring, all we really want is some gritty zombie horror in our lives.

Highguard will shut down permanently next week because Wildlight doesn't make "enough revenue to keep anyone employed to work on it"

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After less than six weeks, developer Wildlight has announced it is shutting down its free-to-play hero shooter Highguard.

Tuesday, Mar 3

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Just like PlayStation, Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI helper that'll play games for you

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Following the discovery of a Sony patent application for an AI PlayStation game assistant earlier this year, similarly themed patent filings have been spotted from Microsoft, this time concerning an AI helper that can temporarily take over…

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Bungie lays out the plan for Marathon seasons: updates will be free for everyone, and the game will feel "meaningfully different" as seasons progress

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Bungie has released new information about the seasonal format of Marathon, as it nears its 5th March release date. These seasons, free to all players and roughly three months long, will result in the game feeling "meaningfully different",…

Crimson Desert passes 3 million wishlists as excitement around the single-player RPG builds

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Crimson Desert, the single player RPG spin-off from hit Korean MMO Black Desert, has surpassed 3m Wishlists in the run up to its launch later this month.

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Resident Evil Requiem tease sparks debate as fans ponder if Leon S. Kennedy really has put a ring on it - and if so who?

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Resident Evil Requiem is - as something of a 30th anniversary celebration of the legendary survival horror series - stuffed with lovely little touches, but it's one of Capcom's subtler inclusions that currently has fans debating. Look…

March on Xbox Game Pass is a whopper, boasting Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Planet of Lana 2 and more

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Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass titles for March and it's a bumper month. The headline additions are Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Hollow Knight: Silksong (for Game Pass Ultimate) and Planet of Lana 2.

Our 2025 Game of the Year, Blue Prince, shadow drops on Nintendo Switch 2 today

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Nintendo fans, this is not a drill - celebrated indie gem Blue Prince is making its headscatching but oh-so-compelling arrival on Switch 2 at some point later today.

Bungie stands firm on Marathon aesthetic, while the 'fontslop' debate rages on

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Following the Marathon Server Slam, feedback is flowing wide and free across the internet. One of the more prominent areas of discussion is focused on the game's readability: how easy it is to digest information you're given on one of its…

Next entry in acclaimed co-op puzzle series We Were Here announced, coming this year

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The fifth entry in the acclaimed co-op puzzle series We Were Here series has been announced.

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Cities Skylines 1 is getting its first new expansion in two years as resurrection efforts seemingly continue amid sequel's struggles

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Amid Cities Skylines 2's continuing efforts to right the ship some two years after its troubled launch (and with original developer Colossal Order no longer attached to the series), publisher Paradox Interactive has announced the first…

Metacritic's highest-rated Pokémon game is now the Animal Crossing-like spin-off, Pokopia

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Pokémon Pokopia has become the highest rated Pokémon game ever on Metacritic.

In a climate thirsty for a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, the studio behind Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 seems to tease exactly that

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UPDATE 4TH MARCH: The excitement was unfounded. Iron Galaxy clarified that it uses the "please stand by" Fallout slide every month for meetings, and that "it has nothing to do with anything Fallout being worked on".

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For better or worse, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen's Switch ports aren't exactly as we remember them - but is that a problem?

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Over the weekend, the fog around Nintendo's unexpected (and, in some ways, controversial) rerelease of Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen has lifted, and it's all left me feeling rather peculiar. When Nintendo first announced these ports, released…

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The next God of War game stars a new protagonist rather than Kratos, insider claims, and will be revealed this year

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The next God of War game will reportedly feature Faye as the lead character, who we're familiar with as Kratos' wife and Atreus' mother in the recent God of War games. And the game will apparently be revealed this year and released next,…