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Edwyn Mesman has won the Pokémon Trading Card Game 2026 European International Championship in the Masters division.The final came down to Dutch player Edwyn Mesman against British player Drew Stephenson.This event was Mesman’s strongest performance so far, having previously only managed a regional top 4 finish.Stephenson, who previously competed in the younger age groups, had previously managed a second-place finish at EUIC 2023.Stephenson used the popular Gholdengo deck, making use of its Make It Rain attack, which can do a huge amount of damage and knock out virtually any Pokémon.With this win, Mesman earns himself $25,000 and an invite to…
Each year I get a little older, I start to feel an unease that can only be rectified by playing one of my favorite childhood games, like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Usually, I prefer to lug out my actual console, even over the Switch or one of the best retro consoles, which I still have in my collection. But my 30-something-year-old body was too exhausted to get it organized, and so grabbing my Nintendo Switch 2 and buying the official Nintendo Switch Online N64 controller was the next-best thing.The $54.99 / £39.99 (Nintendo) controller is available straight…
Looking back, Fallout 3 seems like a pretty modest RPG in comparison to the Bethesda Game Studios epics that came before and after, but designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo says that’s because the developer was really quick to scrap features that it didn’t have the bandwidth to execute during production.”When I look back at developing Fallout 3, it was a very smart project for us,” Pagliarulo remembers of the threequel’s production in an interview with Game Informer. “It’s fairly small compared to our other games. There’s a main quest and miscellaneous quests. There are no factions. You can’t join the…
As it stands, there have been two attempts at bringing Charlie’s Angels to the big screen. The first was led by the dynamite triple-threat of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu, who earned so much success that they reunited in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. The second was directed by Elizabeth Banks in 2019 and starred Kristen Stewart. While it received mixed reviews, it quickly saw those Angels had their wings clipped with a disappointing box-office performance.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the three girls who became private detectives and worked for a faceless guy on the phone are being called…
The fantasy realm of Atre: Dominance Wars is one I’ve had eyes on for quite some time now, and developer Ironward is getting one step ahead of the upcoming February Steam Next Fest by dropping its demo early. It steps into an interesting spot somewhere between more traditional 4X offerings like Civilization 7, the hero-led strategy of Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, Black and White’s godly powers, and role-playing elements that can reshape the world through key narrative events. Ironward cites 4X games including Age of Wonders and Stellaris among its key inspirations for Atre: Dominance Wars, along with the Heroes of…
The Griffins finally return to our screens this weekend, as many tune in to watch Family Guy Season 24’s opening episode on Sunday February 15. The 450th episode is due to land on Fox at 9.30pm ET, kickstarting a new run of hijinks from the whole gang.Early looks teased that much of the first episode will be devoted to Lois and Stewie with a look back at their relationship over the years all through the hazy lens of a shared trip. That’s right, Lois can understand Stewie now? The celebratory opener is due to open up Season 24 with a…
Hideki Sato, the designer behind virtually every Sega console, and the company’s former president, has died age 77.Japanese games outlet Beep21 reports that Sato passed away this weekend.Sato and his R&D team were responsible for the creation of Sega’s arcade and home console hardware, including the Master System, Genesis / Mega Drive, Saturn, and Dreamcast.The engineer joined Sega in 1971 and was the company’s acting president between 2001 and 2003. He left the company in 2008.“From the beginning, Sega’s home console development has always been influenced by our arcade development,” Sato previously told Famitsu in an interview covering Sega’s history.“Our…
Daniel Kaluuya loves to mess with our heads, as proven during his stint in Black Mirror and his Oscar-nominated performance in Get Out. Now Deadline reports he’s got his eye on visiting trippy-sounding tale from Together director, Michael Shanks, in new project, Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel.The project Shanks also wrote is a sci-fi thriller being handled by A24, and follows a man waking up in a hotel room that’s not your average getaway. Pretty soon, he realises that he has to break free from his prison, but the only person who can help him out is himself. Sounding like it’s…
Embark Studios, the developer of Arc Raiders and The Finals, is well aware of how damaging cheaters and hacks can be to the best multiplayer games. Even a single encounter with an enemy aimbot or wallhack is often enough to step away from the computer for the evening, and the more the problem persists, the more likely players are to simply stop coming back. In its latest update, the studio says it’s been “significantly increasing our cheat detection capabilities”, and warns all players to double-check their software to be on the safe side. The Finals update 9.9.0 has just launched,…
Marín “P4T0M4N” Torres has won the Pokemon Go European International Championship.Colin “CoIin6ix” Spa and Marín “P4T0M4N” Torres were the final two players left in the mobile title tournament. Spa had previous experience winning regional tournaments, but this weekendThe final was contested in a best-of-five, with Torres taking the first two games, before Spa came back to take the third and the fourth game.After the finals reset, Spa took the first and the third game, with Torres taking the second and fourth. Torres won game five to secure the title.Dutch player Spa made it into the Grand Finals after winning his…