‘Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ will not be fully open-world, devs confirm

Apex Legends next map, Storm Point, discusses the size and verticality of the landscape.Respawn’s battle royale Apex Legends is close to releasing its 11th season with a new map. Storm Point is the largest map released for Apex Legends, and its designer Rodney Reece has spoken to The Loadout about its design.Reece explains that he pushed for more verticality because he knew that legends would be coming to the game to exploit the added height.

Respawn is gearing up to release a new season of Apex Legends, and oh boy, it’s a big one. A new legend, map, and weapon come to the arena alongside several changes to existing systems.First up is Storm Point.

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.

Pokémon Go hosted its first in-person event in the UK last weekend as the Safari Zone was held in Liverpool.READ MORE: Why ‘Katamari Damacy’ might be gaming’s purest expression of comedy through playThe event, which was originally scheduled to take place in March 2020, was postponed following the pandemic.

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

Pokémon GO’s first UK event is happening this weekend, and Niantic has opened up about the future of the augmented reality mobile game.In an interview with Eurogamer, global product marketing Michael Sterenka and EMEA product marketing manager Philip Marz have spoken about the upcoming event in Liverpool, and what Pokémon GO’s future holds.One point of discussion is the use of Augmented Reality within the game and what it adds to the overall experience.“We do think that the augmented reality

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Anna Paquin and International Emmy winner Ray Winstone are leading the cast of A Bit of Light, the sophomore feature from director Stephen Moyer, who is best known for playing vampire Bill Compton in HBO series True Blood.

Pokémon GO will introduce new Halloween-themed Pokémon into the game starting from Friday October 15. The new Pokémon will begin appearing from 10am, local to each player.The event will take place over two weeks, ending at 8pm on Halloween, and will consist of two parts, each introducing new Pokémon, items, costumes and raids.

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.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus suggest that Game Freak‘s new Pokémon title is not the Breath Of The Wild-style open world adventure some fans have anticipated.Commenting on two screenshots showing the game’s map, which appear to be outlined with individual segments, Serebii.net’s Joe Merrick tweeted, “It is coming increasingly clear that Pokémon Legends: Arceus may not be fully open world but rather segmented open areas”.He instead compared these to the maps in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the later

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