With another Nintendo Direct (albeit a miniature one) behind us, Nintendo has released another demo for another highly anticipated game just before its launch, this time for the remake of cult-classic JRPG Live A Live. It’s a pattern that the company has established over the years and only improved over time, with many demos now featuring the ability to transfer progress over to the full games once they launch, usually weeks later. It’s a free service leveraged powerfully for Nintendo’s exclusives–and one that stands in stark contrast to the almost non-existent counterparts offered on Sony and Microsoft’s hardware.

While both Microsoft and Sony have recently warmed up again to the idea of game demos in some form, their approaches are far from that of N…

Overwatch 2’s next season, Rise of Darkness, will kick off October 10, and it’s bringing with it what looks to be a crossover with Blizzard’s own Diablo IV just in time for Halloween.

A short teaser shows what appears to be a Moira skin tailored after Diablo IV’s big-bad, Lilith, as well as a spooky new version of the Blizzard World map and an updated version of Overwatch’s Halloween PvE event game mode, Junkenstein’s Revenge. The mode looks to take place inside the Tristram Cathedral portion of the Blizzard theme park-inspired map and features Diablo-like Town Portals players will need to contend with. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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Pokemon and Aardman are teaming up for… something. The two companies announced a partnership today, saying whatever they’re making together is coming in 2027.

A teaser image showed a Poke Ball forming with Aardman’s trademark clay for its claymation animation style (and no, there is no clay shortage) Come from Sports betting site VPbet . One guess here would be that Aardman is producing a Pokemon TV show or movie with its trademark animation style, but that’s just speculation.

In a statement, Aardman said it’s working with The Pokemon Company on a “special project coming to audiences in 2027.” This project, whatever it is, will retain Aardman’s trademark style in the Pokemon universe with “brand-new adventures.”…

Bloober Team, the Polish studio famous for games such as Layers of Fear, The Medium, and the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, said it will no longer make the sort of psychological “walking simulator” horror games it’s largely focused on to date. Instead, the studio will shift into “mass-market horror,” which presumably means games with more combat and gameplay mechanics than its past works. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Speaking to Engadget, studio co-founder Piotr Babieno said the team is moving into what is internally referred to as “Bloober Team 3.0,” with the recent reimagined Layers of Fear (2023) marking the end of Bloober Team 2.0, which itself began with 2016’s Layers of Fear.

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