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A reward bug in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Tera Raid Battle Events has halted them. The bug appears to give a “none” reward after combat and crash the game. This appears to have affected all weekend events, including today’s 5-Star Great Tusk and Iron Treads and the 7-Star Chesnaught Tera Raid Battles rerun. The Pokémon Company removed the above as ...

On May 21, 2023, Strictly Limited will begin pre-orders for a physical version of Eschatos, a fantastic shmup. The Strictly Limited website has listings. Standard and special editions will be available. The former is normal Switch packaging with the game. However, the latter is more intriguing and costs less than £50, making it quite tempting. This version includes: Game for ...

PlatinumGames released additional DLC for 2020’s The Wonderful 101: Remastered today. The game’s Kickstarter stretch goal material is also free. Today, you can download Part One of the DLC. Next week, Part Two will drop. This new DLC, ‘The Wonderful One: After School Hero’, follows Luka’s superhero quest. “Super-duper-fun side-scrolling laser shooting action” is advertised in the DLC’s trailer. We’ve ...

Overwatch 2’s PvE Hero Mode was canceled today by Blizzard. The sequel to the popular team-based hero shooter’s main mode has been scrapped, but PvE will remain. In a Twitch livestream, Overwatch 2 executive producer Jared Neuss explained that the PvE experience had “not really” progressed and that shipping a “Blizzard-quality experience” would be huge with no end date. “With ...

Nintendo will close Bandai Namco’s Switch Online game PAC-MAN 99 on October 8, 2023. You can still play offline, including any paid content, but you can no longer play online. Social media announcement: “The online service for Nintendo Switch Online subscriber-only software “PAC-MAN 99″ will end on Sunday, October 8, 2023. You can continue to enjoy the offline mode of ...

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Ganondorf’s new look excited fans. Hidemaro Fujibayashi, director of Tears of the Kingdom, recently revealed that Satoru Takizawa, a staffer since The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and a huge Ganondorf fan, was given the redesign task. Fujibayashi’s only request was to make him a “very cool” and “very awesome demon king” ...

Sega Sammy may join other major publishers in raising some game prices to $70. After a year of $69.99 games, President / Group CEO Haruki Satomi and Senior Vice President / Group CFO Koichi Fukazawa confirmed in a recent Q&A (thanks, VGC) that the company will review its titles’ prices. Full quote: “Globally, AAA console games have been sold at ...

The next mainline Mortal Kombat game has been rumored and teased for a while, but we may finally learn more this week. On May 10, the official Mortal Kombat Twitter account teased that the next game would be called “Mortal Kombat 1” and be a reboot. The Nintendo Switch version appeared to launch alongside PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. ...

WrestleQuest combines turn-based RPG mechanics with wrestling’s biggest stars. The outrageous outing, originally scheduled for May, has been delayed until summer. Instead of bugs and pixels, the delay is more intriguing. At this late stage, Mega Cat Studios “secured a new partnership we are extremely excited about” that “resulted in certain issues outside of our control”. WrestleQuest has over 50 ...

Crash Bandicoot voice actor Brendan O’Brien died at 60. O’Brien voiced Crash Bandicoot, Neo Cortex, N. Gin, Nitrus Brio, and Tiny Tiger in the PS1 trilogy and other characters in spinoffs like Crash Team Racing and Crash Bash. Fans are sharing emotional memories of O’Brien’s work on Legacy and social media. PS1 hardware prevented extended line reads, but a well-delivered ...