Pokemon TGC Illustration Contest 2024 poster

The Pokémon Company disqualifies TCG contest entries following rule violations and suspicions of gen AI use 

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Tales of Arise

New Tales of series title likely in development, as hinted during Bandai Namco shareholders’ meeting 

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Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO announcement visual

Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO will not have rollback netcode, producer says 

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Elden Ring in-game message saying "snake ahead"

Elden Ring’s “snake” strings are the new “dog” turtles 

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Slitterhead key art

Silent Hill creator says his new title Slitterhead is a modern action-game take on Siren 

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Rorona in Aterlier Resleriana, before and after eating too many pies

Cute girl in Atelier Resleriana gets chubby from eating pie 

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One of Japan’s best-selling mobile games, Umamusume: Pretty Derby, to get English release

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Square Enix is still working hard on indie/small-scale games, CEO says 

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Torrent in Elden Ring

Elden Ring: Why being able to ride Torrent is a game changer for fighting Elden Beast 

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Death Game Hotel

Death Game Hotel: Gamble life and limb in Swery’s ultra-gory VR game, coming this July 

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Blue Protocol developers talk about what went wrong with the MMORPG 

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Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree

Elden Ring players are disappointed by what’s behind Shadow of the Erdtree’s giant waterfalls 

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