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Chief director of Pokopia at Koei Tecmo, Takuto Edagawa, says that his team was “very focused” on writing dialogue for each of the game’s individual Pokemon, with the game’s producer at The Pokemon Company, Kanako Murata, calling the large amount of conversation between Pocket Monsters “top class”.In an interview with Famitsu that’s been translated by GamesRadar+, Edagawa, Murata and the game’s director at Game Freak, Shigeru Ogawa, discuss the amount of dialogue between Pokemon that will be featured in Pokopia, and how it showcases each species “unique personality.”While Pokemon show their charms through their animations in most series games, there…
In most media, an alien race crash-landing onto Earth means only one thing – a bloody battle where humanity must expend all its energy, bombs, and bullets to survive against its otherworldly invaders. In Astrobotanica, things are the complete opposite for two reasons. Firstly, it’s set 300,000 years ago, and last time I checked, cavemen didn’t have tanks and assault rifles. Secondly, Xel – the blue-skinned, pointy-eared protagonist of the new survival game – isn’t here to kickstart some planetary domination. Instead, they’re here to indulge in their hobby of botany, live off the land, and coexist with the primitive…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms upped the ante this week. After the first half of the season was more concerned with humor, dirty jokes, and the bond between Dunk and Egg, the penultimate episode brought us the brutal Trial of Seven.Warning: there are major spoilers for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5 ahead, so turn back now if you’re not up to date!After Dunk assaulted Prince Aerion and was accused of kidnapping his new squire Egg, he was sentenced to a Trial of Seven. Intimitate, gritty, and violent, the fight between Dunk, Aerion, and the knights who…
The first thing I noticed about turn-based tactics game Dobbel Dungeon is that you can see fingerprints on the playdough character models. Even hard metallic objects such as swords are decked with faint, glimmering whorls. I’d have liked the game to let me leave my own prints on those playdough characters, care of the biometrics functionality I assume is secretly built into my work laptop. Perhaps they could have made this part of a proper degradation system, with high level characters looking all greasy and smooshed. Alas, Dobbel Dungeon has no time for such Crysis-grade simulation elements. Going by the…
If I’ve learned anything about the games industry over the past few years, it’s that there’s such a thing as too much hype. Just take a look at Highguard, Wildlight Entertainment’s ill-fated fantasy shooter that made its debut as ‘the big trailer’ at The Game Awards, but then released to mixed reviews. As soon as Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont’s Los Ratones secured its spot in the League of Legends European Championship, I felt myself wince slightly – the hype was real, but the potential backlash even more so. I’ve followed the star-studded team since day one, and I’ve truly enjoyed watching…
No Man’s Sky’s recent Remnant update added a whole host of exciting stuff from a gravity gun to a spider mech, but for Switch users, the biggest win comes in the form of the Voyagers update’s customizable ships finally being available on Nintendo’s previous-generation hardware.Corvettes were first added to No Man’s Sky late last August, but last week’s Remnant upgrade has now brought them to Nintendo Switch, too. It’s not that Switch users have been forgotten up to this point, but as engine programmer Martin Griffiths explains, the delay is the result of a “difficult technical challenge” that the devs…
Creative Assembly have just detailed Total War: Warhammer 3’s first character pack, these being “smaller, focused content drops built around a single character with their own unique feature, supported by a handful of exciting new units”, priced (in this case) at £3.99, $4.99 or €4.99 apiece. Yes, it’s Creative Assembly once again nosing at the shards of your smashed piggy bank, but the developers have, in theory, pre-empted any rancour over DLC nickel-and-diming by making the character pack cat-themed. Everybody loves cats! Even when they cost as much as a medium oatmilk latte. Especially cats like Bhashiva…
Of all the games I expected to capture my attention in 2026, I didn’t expect one to simply be called Mole. But then, it’s the games that come out of nowhere that always get you best, isn’t it? Mole, which I keep accidentally calling Hole, is a game that’s basically about piloting a large, post-war drilling machine. But if you liked the creepy horror of Mouthwashing, you’ll know there’s far more than meets the eye to this game. Mole is fundamentally a horror game, but the gameplay has simulation elements. It’s not trying to be realistic, mind you – it’s…
I find myself longingly looking at 8Bitdo’s authentic gray N64 controller more than I’d like to admit. However, I’ve just discovered that if you try to look up the gamepad at Amazon, it won’t actually appear in the storefront’s search results. Therefore, this is a PSA to confirm it does exist at the retailer, and I’ll be jealous if you pick one up.The specific listing you’ll need is the 8BitDo N64 Bluetooth Controller for Analogue 3D for $44.99 at Amazon. I’m not entirely sure why it fails to pop up when you use the search bar, and it feels like…
“Get me somebody who’s played The Chinese Room’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 STAT,” I yelled, barging through the double doors of our seedy news saloon. “I need 300 or more tasty words on these leaked videos of the older, unreleased Hardsuit Labs version.” A grim silence fell across the chamber. Mark furtively donned a pod-racing helmet. James hid himself behind his latest tower of graphics cards, with an apologetic murmur that while he had played a few hours of Bloodlines 2, he was very busy right now building towers of graphics cards. “If you want something done, do…