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PlayStation has announced its first major acquisition of the year. Firewalk Studios will join the PlayStation family to create “a triple-A multiplayer game” that will “help grow our live service operations.“Firewalk Studios was founded back in 2018 by former Activision and Bungie devs Tony Hsu and Ryan Ellis. Hsu was in charge of the Destiny Business unit back when Bungie was still an Activision Studio, while Ellis was the technical art director and later creative director for Destiny at Bungie....

Region-lockedPokemonhave been the bane ofPokemon Goplayers' lives ever since the game launched in 2016. However, none appear to have bothered players as much as the recently introduced Hawlucha. Exclusive to Mexico for an undetermined amount of time, one trainer has revealed they were taunted extra hard byNianticas their timed research asked them to leave the US and travel to Mexico to spin Pokestops. Pokemon Go players lucky enough to be happily spinning Pokestops in Mexico have got some timed research to complete to celebrate Hawlucha’s arrival....

The purpose statement forPokemon Go, at least when it launched, was to bring people together. It’s not very often that a video game makes people get out of their houses and actually meet other people, and Niantic nailed the formula. Even during the Covid 19 pandemic lockdowns, the devs brought Trainers together via the Remote Raid Pass.However, the Pokemon community is not at all happy with thenew changes announced for the feature....

With this week’s entry to a shameful saga, we officially pass the halfway point of our two most embarrassment-averse editors’ journey to smash (or pass) on every Pokemon. Coming into Gen 5, Tabletop Editor Joe Parlock has a 15 smash lead over Editor-in-Chief Stacey Henley, with his 152 to Stacey’s 137. However, last week also saw the first failure of this whole ordeal, as Joe fell one smash short of the 25 percent smash threshold....

PlayStationhas gradually been porting its console exclusives toPC, includingThe Last Of Us Part 1which arrives on its new platform later this month.Ratchet & Clankappears to have been overlooked asSonydecides what’s next, though. That will potentially change soon as early evidence suggestingRift Apartmay be the next PS game to get the PC port treatment has surfaced. Evidence that a Rift Apart port might be in the pipeline was posted on Reddit byVeloxz....

Despite going into detail on every other stance that’s going to be inStar Wars Jedi: Survivor,Respawnis still being strangely coy about the Blaster stance. One of the worst-kept secrets in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (which, in itself is one of gaming’s worst-kept secrets of the last few years) is that Cal Kestis is going to follow in Han Solo’s footsteps and have a good blaster by his side this time around....

Scream is like no other slasher series and while that’s down to its meta comedy and self-reflective writing, the glue holding it together is its legacy characters. So often, the final girl is just that—thefinalgirl. They’re alone in their last struggle for survival as all of their friends have died, leaving them to fend off whatever masked killer is storming down the corridor solo. Halloween set the mould with Laurie Strode cowering as she expected Michael Myers to finally catch up with her, only for Dr Samuel Loomis to gun him down....

Last week,Wizards of the Coast sent private security company Pinkertonafter a leaker of its nextMagic: The Gatheringset, March of the Machine: The Aftermath. The leaker alleges they were confronted by armed guards who made his family cry and threatened him with jail time. Even if Wizards then stated to the leaker its belief he didn’t commit any crimes in attaining the Aftermath boxes, and promised him compensation for confiscating his Aftermath cards, as he claims, there’s one thing that really should go without saying: this is easily the worst thing Wizards of the Coast has ever done....

I felt cocky going intoSifu’snew arena mode. As all of my colleagues at TheGamer have heard a million times over, I previously managed to beat Sifu on its hardest difficulty without any patches or updates before it even launched, a feat that only took several sleepless nights, complaints from my roommate over some salty 2am language, and a few boss battle tantrums. Blood, sweat, tears, and hand cramps aside, I felt like I’d more than earned my Sifu stripes....

Sonic Frontierswasin the works for yearsand went through a bunch of iterations before Sonic Team landed on the look and feel of the final product. And as revealed in some concept art made available to anyone who picked up the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game, there were some enemy designs left on the cutting room floor. Now, a fan has gone back and re-implemented them into the game, replacing the vanilla enemy designs with something a lot more exciting....

Rope is used to craft a variety of different items inSons Of The Forest- all of them pretty much essential to your survival. It’s also something that you’ll need to find when exploring, so we’ve got some tips and locations where you can find rope. RELATED:Sons Of The Forest: Beginner’s Guide There is a lot to explore in Sons Of The Forest, and rope can be found in different locations around the map....

Even the people that are desperate forMicrosoftto gets its acquisition ofActivision Blizzardover the line have to admit that it’s been a pretty messy affair so far. It became even messier afterSonybegan raising concerns about the deal, which has led to the pair sparring overCall of Dutyfor a number of months. It now seems like things are heating up, as Sony has claimed Microsoft attempts to get its hands on information regarding several Sony executives as “obvious harassment....

Yes, we might have to wait a little longer than expected, but the wait forStar Wars Jedi: Survivoris almost over. Just a little more than a month to go until the launch of the sequel, and a new story trailer for Survivor has finally confirmed Greez and Merrin are okay, showing the two of them in the follow-up game for the very first time. The new trailer kicks off with reconfirmation from Cal that it has been five years sinceFallen Order....