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Pokémon Go Spotlight Hour time and featured Spotlight Hour Pokémon explained

The Spotlight Hour in Pokémon Go is a weekly event that will highlight one, special, surprise Pokémon . For one hour, the chosen Pokémon will appear more frequently in the wild, allowing you to catch as many as you can. This …

Kunai review - not the greatest Metroidvania, but a good reminder of what makes Metroidvanias great

Kunai throws a grappling hook and a fair amount of style into the Metroidvania genre for a solid if not stellar example of the form. Don't judge this on its premise alone. Kunai, which has just come out on PC and console, i…

Dragon Ball FighterZ's third season announced

Dragon Ball FighterZ is getting a third season of DLC characters, and publisher Bandai Namco has announced two of the characters coming to the game. First up is Kefla, who launches on 28th February - or two days earlier if you…

Another Call of Duty: Modern Warfare leak spills the beans on season 2 maps

At this rate very little will remain a surprise for the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's second season, as another leak has provided details of new maps - along with a…

The Double-A Team: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was the good kind of cheese

The Double-A Team is a feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more. You can catch up with all of our Double-A Team pieces in our handy, spangly ar…

CD Projekt is now the second-biggest video game company in Europe

CD Projekt has become the second-largest video game company in Europe, second only to Ubisoft, in terms of its market valuation. Though it was valued at $6.8 billion (£5.2bn) just a month ago, it's now hit $8 billion (£6.1b…

One year on, Anthem remains a sad monument to a generation of folly

It's the most wonderful time of year: February! It's also still Christmas, according to Anthem, because the game still has its decorations up - even now, a full two weeks after the initial tweet , which pointed out that…

The Division 2's Warlords of New York paid expansion liberating Manhattan in March

New campaign, overhauled endgame, more. Ubisoft has unveiled Warlords of New York, a brand-new paid expansion for online shooter The Division 2 that's heading to Xbox One, PlayStation 4,…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's heavily leaked Season 2 gets official unveiling

And it looks like a battle royale mode is imminent. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's second season of post-launch content has, following several days of major leakage , finally been officia…

Stardew Valley creator details two new projects

"Please don't get too hyped at this stage." Stardew Valley's creator and sole developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has detailed…

Need for Speed development is moving back to Criterion

Tyred out. The Need for Speed franchise is doing a U-turn: and by that I mean EA is moving develop…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's battle royale is called Warzone, leaks suggest

And players have glitched into the menu. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has not been having a great week for leaks , and things have on…

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is adding extra-angry versions of Rajang and Brachydios

Coming to consoles in March, PC in April. Just when you thought you might be making a dint in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne's increasingly teetering mound of creature-bothering delights,…

Mass Effect lead writer Drew Karpyshyn joins ex-BioWare vets' new Wizards of the Coast studio

Is working on story-driven sci-fi RPG. Back in January, Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast unveiled Archetype Entertai…

Disney invites game devs to get creative with its IP

Following the success of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Last year, Disney's share of the US film market managed to reach a record 35 per cent ( thanks to its merger w…

Marvel's Avengers pre-order bonuses include access to beta

And play the full game 72 hours early in some cases. If you're so enthusiastically eager to play Crystal Dynamics' upcoming Marvel Avengers game that you're struggling to resist the urge to to dash to the shops and s…

Bulletstorm dev shares first gameplay details of co-op sci-fi looter-shooter Outriders

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Bulletstorm dev shares first gameplay details of co-op sci-fi looter-shooter Outriders

And there's a bunch of new footage too. Earlier this week Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly unveiled a brand-new trailer for its co-operative sci-fi looter-shooter Outriders, and no…

Marvel's Avengers achievements list leaks story details

More than six months early. Marvel's Avengers is still over six months away, but you can take a peek at its leaked achievement list right now. Trophy snooping site Exophase …

Space Engineers' long-awaited Xbox One edition finally arrives in April

Five and a half years after it was announced. Developer Keen Software House's construction-focussed sandbox game Space Engineers is finally making its way to Xbox One on 15th April. …

Apex Legends' original Kings Canyon map is back

But just for the weekend. Apex Legends is getting a touch nostalgic this weekend, as the free-to-play battle royale game returns to its roots by ushering in its origi…

Xbox Series X games, including first-party and other confirmed games, plus Xbox Series X exclusive games explained

All games we know coming to Xbox Series X explained. Xbox Series X games are slowly being announced - giving us an idea of what we'll be playing when the system launches in late 2020. Th…

EA reportedly cancelled a Star Wars Battlefront spin-off last year

"'Too many cooks' was a running theme," say sources. We've been awash with rumours of cancelled Star Wars games in recent years , and here's another: EA reportedly cancel…