‘Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ may not be an open world game

Pokémon Unite developer has announced that hiding the score during matches is intentional in order to prevent players from quitting early.In email correspondence with Kotaku, Pokémon Unite’s producer, Masaaki Hoshino said “The matches last 10 minutes and players have the possibility of making a comeback, so we wanted people to play without giving up to the very end.”The easiest way for a team to make a comeback in Nintendo’s popular MMO is by defeating Zapdos, who appears in the last minutes of

Respawn has released a new gameplay trailer showing the next map coming to Apex Legends: A tropical island called Storm Point.The latest Apex Legends trailer gives fans a first look at the next season of Apex in action. A significant focus of the trailer is the new map, Storm Point.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will be available via Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now.Rockstar Games announced today (October 22, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of GTA 3) that GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will release on November 11 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC (via the Rockstar Games Launcher), which includes GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreasas a package price for £54.99 ($59.99).While that suggests there’s no

Metroid Dread update fixes a game-crashing progression bug that some players were encountering.The bug occurred near the end of the game and was causing considerable trouble for players afflicted by it. It occurred when players destroyed a door while a map marker for that specific door was displayed on the map.

Respawn has revealed that Ash will finally become a playable character in Apex Legends next season. The season is titled Escape.A new trailer for the upcoming season of Apex Legends reveals more about Ash’s backstory and confirms that she will be the next playable legend.The video, titled Ashes to Ash, shows how the new legend became a simulacrum to begin with.

Pokémon Unite is getting a Halloween event that will introduce brand new cosmetics and a new playable Pokémon.A new trailer shared to the Pokémon Unite Twitter account today (October 18) revealed that the Halloween Festival event is scheduled to begin on October 20 and will introduce “a spooky new way to play”.First, and most notably, the Halloween Festival event will introduce the Pokémon Greedent as a new playable character in the MOBA.

Apex Legends players are being advised to avoid using Epic Poses, as a bug has been causing crashes for players who use them too often.As spotted by PCGamesN, Respawn Entertainment has identified “an issue with animated Epic Poses which can cause crashes”.The issue means that using animated epic poses can crash Apex Legends – not just for the player using one, but for everyone else in the lobby.Addressing the issue, Respawn Entertainment has published an in-game message recommending that players

Metroid Dread that can cause the game to crash.Nintendo has already been made aware of the bug, which can occur near the end of the game, and has shared details to players on how to avoid it, while a patch will be released by the end of October to fix it.A bug has been found in #MetroidDread that can prevent players from progressing under a certain condition. A patch will be released by the end of October to fix this.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes showcase quite a few changes coming to the updated DS games. There’s plenty of major and minor additions coming to the games, revealed through various previews, so we’ve rounded up the details. By far the biggest is that the fairly recent change to Exp. share – where experience is evenly distributed between the whole party – is present in both the Diamond and Pearl remakes.

The Pokémon Company has confirmed that Pokémon Legends: Arceus will not have a fully open world. Instead, the map will be segmented into separate Monster Hunter-style open-world areas.In a statement to Kotaku, The Pokémon Company has confirmed that Pokémon Legends: Arceus will not have the completely open world that fans may have been expecting.

Aspyr has announced it will be releasing two Star Wars game bundles on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch later this year.The first bundle is the Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection and will include Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast is a single-player first and third-person action game where you take up the role of Jedi Knight Kyle Katarn in 24 missions.

Skyrim player spent weeks levelling up in the tutorial area, only to find that being massively over-levelled actually made their game much harder.In a Reddit post spotted by GamesRadar, user Harlen_Sinclair chipped in to discuss an ongoing exploit where players can earn significant levels without leaving Helgen, Skyrim‘s tutorial area.

Metroid series has typically never sold that well, but the success of Metroid Dread could change all that as it’s the fastest-selling Metroid game in the UK to date.As first reported by GamesIndustry.biz, Dread has sold more than three and a half times as many copies as the last 2D Metroid game did at launch, Metroid: Samus Returns.This is great news for fans of the series. Metroid is one of Nintendo‘s smaller IPs, and it took 19 years for a new side-scrolling 2D entry in the series, so

Respawn has confirmed that the team is looking at Apex Legend’s ranked arenas after players complained about matchmaking.Apex Legends got a non-battle royale mode earlier this year, with a ranked version following shortly after. Arenas pits two teams of three against each other in a series of short matches.

Respawn is releasing a new update for Apex Legends which includes new spooky cosmetics and the return of Shadow Royale.Last year, Respawn celebrated Halloween with an in-game event that added cosmetic skins and the Shadow Royale limited-time mode. This year the mode is back, along with a new array of cosmetics.A new trailer revealed the details of the events and some of the skins that will be available.

Monster Hunter Rise took the highest honour at the Japan Game Awards, taking home the Grand Award at the 2021 awards on October 3.The annually held awards, organised by Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association and partially voted for by the public, took place during Tokyo Game Show 2021.In a statement, CESA said of Monster Hunter Rise: “The game has successfully met the expectations of series fans who had been waiting for its release with a new and exciting hunting experience.

Rockstar Games has officially killed off its long-abandoned spy game Agent.As reported in Polygon, the publisher quietly removed the title from its official website, where it had only publicly existed as a logo since it was first officially announced in 2009 at Sony‘s E3 conference as a PS3-exclusive.The removal of the title is about as close to an official statement from Rockstar that Agent is cancelled, though it should have been evident from another report in 2018 that the trademark had also

Retro Studios director of development and producer, Bryan Walker, recently revealed scrapped plans for an open-world Metroid Prime game.During an interview with Kiwi Talkz, the developer revealed that during production for Metroid Prime 3, he and series director, Mark Pacini, had drafted plans for a game that would see Samus explore a non-linear world.While this concept made it through several stages of prototyping, the scale of the proposed additions was ultimately too much to handle.

Apex Legends has just introduced Apex Chronicles – a new series of story events that introduce new narrative threads to EA’s online battle royale.Apex Chronicles are small story events that EA hopes to use to bring a sense of narrative into the game – starting with the first Chronicle, ‘Old Ways, New Dawn’, which is all about the game’s epic tracker, Bloodhound.“On Sept 29th, our first Apex Chronicle—called Old Ways, New Dawn—will launch,” reads the official announcement.

The Pokémon Company has released a fresh trailer for its upcoming open-world game Pokémon Legends: Arceus, showcasing a new class of “Noble Pokémon” players will encounter in the game.The new look at the game first introduces features such as rideable Pokémon, with the player character traversing the world on the backs of new Pokémon such as Wyrdeer and Basculegion, plus interactions with Pokémon Wardens.