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In celebration of Pokemon Day and thePokemonfranchise, The Pokemon Company has officially announced that the next Pokemon Presents event will take place on Monday, February 27 at 6:00am PT. Pokemon Presents events are basically thePokemon-specific equivalents of Nintendo Direct presentations, so fans should be able to expect a number of announcements tied to the monster catching franchise come next Tuesday.Last year’s Pokemon Presents event was especially exciting. Despite being only about a month out from the launch ofPokemon Legends: Arceus, Game Freak and The Pokemon Company shocked the world with the announcement for theGeneration 9 gamesPokemon Scarlet and Violet....

AlthoughPokemonfans are currently looking forward toBrilliant DiamondandShining Pearlreleasing later this year, 2019’sPokemon SwordandShieldcontinue to receive regular updates for players to enjoy. The 8th generation games introduced fans to the mega-sizing Dynamax phenomenon, along with co-op Max Raid Battles for players to partake in with each other inthe Galar region’s all-new Wild Area. Game Freak tends to introduce monthly Max Raid Battle events featuring certain Pokemon, as well as some flash Max Raid events that last about a few days....

Summary A luckyPokemon TCGfan bought a Charizard EX card for their boyfriend, only to discover that a second copy of the same card was among the extra packs they got.Pokemon TCGpushes fans to build up card collections of their favorite, and because of this hunt to gather the best cards possible,Pokemoncollectors have a variety of stories to share. During a cruise, onePokemon TCGfan spent $150 on a type of slot machine game to acquire a rare set of Pokemon cards that were up for grabs, getting a box worth more than double the amount invested....

TheSilver Tempestexpansion is the last mainline entry in theSword and Shieldgeneration ofPokemon TCG. It is an appropriate send-off for the Galar region, as it allows players and collectors to enjoy V cards one more time beforePokemon TCGmoves on to Pokemon ex cards, returning to the game after many years away. Already, there are a few cards that have shown themselves to be quite popular on the online market. Not unexpectedly, collectors are crazy for Lugia, and cards featuring this guardian of the seas fetch quite a lot of money online....

Summary Released almost eight years ago now,Titanfall 2is still widely believed to be one of the greatest first-person shooters of the modern age, and the fact that fans have received no newTitanfallcontent since then is tragic. A shooter-platformer-mech pilot hybrid, there’s still not really any othergame out there likeTitanfall 2, though some titles have managed to scratch a few of those itches in their own unique way. The recently releasedPrince of Persia: The Lost Crownis the perfect example....

After a very slow start all the way back in December 2015,Rainbow Six Siegehas managed to turn into an absolute behemoth for Ubisoft. Currently, the development team at Ubisoft Montreal have continued tosupport the game with new content like operators and maps, while also fixing and balancing the core gameplay. That level of support has helped turn the game into a popular eSport experience and has managed to attract over 70 million registered users across all platforms....

To many people,Red Dead Redemption 2is one of the most advanced video games ever made, and after almost four years since its initial release, it still rivals the graphics and details of newly released games. AsRed Dead Redemption 2is an open-world game, a great deal of effort was put into creating a massive Western landscape and allowing players to interact with the environment in an immersive way that is representative of the era....

Whether directly or not,Red Dead Redemption 2andDeath Strandingboth deal with the theme of fatherhood in a major way. The settings of the two games are quite different from each other, with the former taking place in the American old west while the latter is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi game, but the main characters in both stories deal with fatherhood or father figures throughout the entirety of the games. The theme of fatherhood is also especially significant in the predecessor toRed Dead Redemption 2and and other Kojima games beforeDeath Stranding....

Summary Red Dead Redemption 2struck the general gaming audience for several reasons. The game features a massive open world with incredible details littered throughout. The way that the player interacts with their own character, their horse, and the world around them was, at the time of its release, like nothing else to date. Many of the mechanics inRed Dead Redemption 2are simulator-esque, and the experience the game provides is one of the most immersive in the gaming medium....

Summary Fans hoping for anotherBatman: Arkhamsequel afterSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguemay wish to temper their expectations, as Rocksteady is seemingly committed to the later game’s provocative subtitle. WhenBatman: Arkham Knightwas released in 2015, players thought they would be seeing the end ofRocksteady’s beloved Arkhamverse franchise, and the only new entries to come since were the short-livedBatman: Arkham Underworldfor mobile devices andBatman: Arkham VR. Players were thus taken by surprise when Rocksteady announcedSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueat the inaugural DC Fandome event....

The next generation of console hardware is right around the corner, with thePS5 and Xbox Series Xset for release this holiday season. Sony has got its hands on a lot of triple-A exclusives for the Playstation 5 that are drawing many gamers towards the console, but Microsoft shouldn’t be counted out. Indeed, thePS5 is expected to sell twice as the Xbox Series Xover the next 5 years, but those projections may be about to change....

Summary Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versewas a visual spectacle partly because of how many different iterations of Spider-Man were used in the film. However, one of the Spider-Man variants - Spider-Boy - didn’t make the cut despite the film’s lead character designer, Kris Anka, drawing him into the film during production. Anka admitted they had planned to include Spider-Boy among the manySpider-Manvariants that made acameo inSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. However, Spider-Boy had to be cut from the film for legal reasons....

Steam, which connects players to a storefront of thousands upon thousands of games, and also connects players through those games in online play, is having some trouble right now. With theLunar New Year saleonly just in its rear view mirror, it seems the new year is not starting off with a bang for Steam, as it recently went down in its entirety. Many players realized this when attempting to log into their ownSteamclients, which is one of the most important applications on many a computer....