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Back in May, The Pokemon Company held a special presentation where it revealed a variety of upcomingPokemonvideo games and products. While the presentation included a look at thebizarrePokemon Sleep, it also saw the announcement of a newPokemonmobile game calledPokemon Masters, which gathers all of the main characters from the core series together in one game for the first time ever. The gimmick ofPokemon Mastersis that instead of players building a team of Pokemon for battles, everyone has one partner Pokemon that they’re attached to for the entire game....

I CAN PLAY DRUMS AGAIN!! I bought an Xbox One for one single reason: to playRock Band 4. I’ve spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours in theRock Bandfranchise. Thing is, about 90% percent of that time was on the drums. I was drumming so much that I eventually purchased theION Drum Rocker. So, of course, I was incredibly disappointed whenRock Band 4did not support my drum kit. I still played the game, but not very much....

Valorant News The VALORANT Convergence event is the first global tournament for the FPS to be hosted by Riot Games in India. A high profile VALORANT tournament is on its way to India to end the 2023 OFF//SEASON. In the middle of December, six invited teams will battle it out in Convergence, an event hosted by Riot Games and The Esports Club. In 2022, India hosted the likes of Paper Rex and Team Heretics for the VALORANT India Invitational....

League of Legends News Riot Games will disable all Riot-created pro player accounts created after January 7. Instead, the game developer will hand out fresh accounts. Riot Games will disable all Riot-created pro player accounts after August 08, 2025, the companyannouncedtoday. These accounts received boosted MMR numbers helping them reach the top of the ladder despite playing much fewer games. Mark “Scruffy” Yetter, League of Legends gameplay design director, announced Riot Games will disable all Riot-created pro player accounts....

Steam Deck lending a hand(held) PC gaming platform Steam has smashed its current all-time record for Most Current Players, with a staggering 30 million players plus jumping online over the course of this past weekend. The numbers peaked on Sunday, October 23, withan amazing 30,032,005 playersonline. While no one game, in particular, can be tipped as responsible for this player platoon, mass multiplayer titles — such as Electronic Arts’Apex Legends,PUBG Corporation’sPUBG: Battlegrounds,and Valve’s own long-running Steam iconsDOTA 2andCounter-Strike: Global Offensive(CS:GO)— remain the most popular and most played titles on the PC-based platform....

News Relive the best and worst moments of IEM Dallas! The prelude to the BLAST Austin Major is done, with teams given one last chance to prove they’re ready via IEM Dallas 2025 last week. Between the return of a superstar, a less-than-exciting grand final, and the rise of new faces to the peak of CS, there’s much to contemplate about heading into the major. We’re wrapping up IEM Dallas with the best and the worst of the week in the Texan city....

Blumhouse Productions’ head Jason Blum recently took to Twitter to post a photo of the script ofKing Spawn,the working title of a tentatively upcoming new Spawn film. pic.twitter.com/nzcDNqpHMe The photo naturally emphasizes the title, but it also reveals that the script is being written byJokerandJoker 2’sco-scribe Scott Silver,The Falcon and The Winter Soldier‘s Malcolm Spellman, and Matt Mixon, writer ofYesterday Was Everything. That’s good news, but the title is a possible source of confusion even for fans for reasons that we’re about to go into....

Pokémon News Looking to score your own Van Gogh Pikachu Pokémon TCG promo card? We have the details about the collab, merch, the card, and more. One of the stranger things about being an elder millennial is seeing the proliferation of Pokémon as a brand. Once “that show that annoyed my mother,” the Pocket Monster IP is now, arguably, the biggest in the world. This is perfectly demonstrated withthe upcoming Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collaboration in Amsterdam....

Given that I’m not generally attracted to the FPS genre, the fact that Valve is quickly becoming one of my favorite and most-respected developers is telling. I like their games, I like their business model, and I like their design philosophy. Imagine my glee, then, whenLeft 4 Deadwriter Chet Faliszekspoke with Gamasutraabout Valve’s policy of extensive playtesting and the stages of acceptance: “When you first encounter using outside playtesters, you go through these stages,” Faliszek explained....

News The Japanese derby might throw up some surprises. Two Japanese teams followed the earlier Korean team series, to fight for their own bragging rights as the better Japanese team. The DFM vs Zeta Division match brings the best Japanese teams facing off against each other in this epic battle. Zeta vs DFM For Zeta Division, the VCT Pacific season had started well. In joint third with T1 at the start of the day and a scoreline of 2-1, Zeta were expected to win the series....

News Different Playstyles call for different choices. The First Descendant is a post-apocalyptic first-person shooter game that follows a particular storyline through to victory. With the fate of humanity’s survival in your hands, there’s a lot of responsibility to ensure that you see it through to victory. Once you start the game, you are presented with a choice. A choice to choose your Descendant from three. We have this short guide to help you through this difficult choice....

Zenless Zone Zero Guides Here’s a Jane Doe trust event guide for that sweet, sweet, dynamic wallpaper. The long-awaited Jane Doe is finally a playable character in Zenless Zone Zero version 1.1! This means you may get to know her better through her trust events. Here’s a handy guide to all of the Jane Doe trust events in ZZZ. Jane Doe Wallpapers from Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ) for PC & Mobile How many aura points do you gain (or lose) by using these ZZZ Jane Doe PC and phone wallpapers?...

There is the good, the bad, and the downright ugly regarding video game film adaptations. Some, like the absolute travesty of Borderlands, miss the mark entirely. Despite the collective PTSD we all now suffer from this massacre, there are still a few games out there that could do with a good movie adaptation. Games that should be films A couple of core elements need to be in place for a video game to be adapted into a good film....