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Pokémon Pokopia successfully turns Pokémon into a charming life sim, though it takes a lot of patience to get there.

I'm gonna reconstruct block by block. I feel like I’ve been rebuilding my relationship with Pokémon over the past decade. It’s been a weird experience for me, who’s grown up with the franchise at every stage of my life; taking my toy Pokédex to school; sitting at the top of the stairs, GBA SP in hand and Sapphire on the screen, timidly listening to my parents arguing; attending the midnight launch of Sword & Shield and staying up until 5am with my best friends. But in the last ten years, I think...

Pokémon has always excelled at the strange spin-off. This isn't to say they're always good (looking at you PokéPark games), but they're always guaranteed to make you think, 'What? Really?' From watching TV with Pikachu, a Nobunaga's Ambition crossover, and Pokémon Project Studio (which I'm sure we all hold dear to our hearts), I do feel like I should be immune to Pokémon spin-off bizarreness by now. And yet, the announcement of Pokémon Pokopia still caught me off guard.

Happy this week all! Some weeks, I do a couple of paragraphs of preamble before listing the new PC releases, but this week, there is no time, for the videogames are many, curious and capacious. Bungie's latest shooter and the return of Spire are among the larger drops in a deluge that makes me yearn for the quieter, pre-broadband period when the global economy could only support one videogame a month, and they were all delivered to your PC by horse and cart. Without further ado, FEED THE MAW.

MS takes its ball and goes home. Then brings it back again.

Internally at Apple, the rumored low-end MacBook is being described as "incredible value," so much so that the company believes its imminent launch is going to drive a serious number of switchers from Windows machines and Chromebooks, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his Power On newsletter over the weekend, Gurman says that Apple believes the device "could even compel iPhone users without computers to buy their first Mac." We don't yet have an official price for the machine, but the ...

So there's quite a lot happening on Steam in 2026. Earlier this year, we reported that Valve has lined up an eye-watering 22 themed fests over the course of 2026. That means there's some sort of promotion or festival every 2.4 weeks, on average, until 31st December. These themed weeks are planned to run on top of the now-traditional Next Fests (which take place in February, June, and October), and the well-received seasonal sales in spring, summer, autumn and winter, making for a grand total of ...

EA Javelin anticheat is reporting a 94% success rate.

On its own, at 4.9mm thin, Tecno's modular phone concept barely feels like a smartphone. It has a screen, a basic camera module, four low-profile pogo-pin connectors and that's about it. From there, you can seemingly build your conceptual phone however you want. At its booth at MWC 2026, Tecno had two families of modular components in two different colorways, which is surprising at this concept stage. The chunky telephoto lens and housing must weigh over three times as much as the base phone, ad...

Gen 10, catch 'em again. The Pokémon Company wrapped up its annual February Presents showcase with a first look at Pokémon Winds and Waves, the long-anticipated Gen 10 mainline games launching on Switch 2 in 2027. We've only had the one trailer at the time of writing, but we've been sorting through it frame-by-frame to bring you the following rundown of every confirmed Pokémon coming to Winds and Waves.

Apple's rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro will be a "touch-friendly device, rather than one that's touch-first," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in Power On, Gurman said users will be able to easily move between touch-based and point-and-click inputs, thanks to changes coming in macOS 27 – set up in part by last year's Liquid Glass redesign. However, Apple is said to be taking a conservative approach to touch-based input, offering it more as a "bonus" than a prominent feature. "Befor...

For those that thought that even the Legion Go's screen was too small, let alone the puny Steam Deck, we have a new screen size champion.

I'm seeing double: four Henrys!

The top open-world games featuring a rich universe beyond our own, from remastered classics like Oblivion to recent releases like Spider-Man 2.

Kickstarter now live. BIT.TRIP developer Choice Provisions (once known as Gaijin Games back in the day) has a Kickstarter campaign in progress to bring BIT.TRIP Rerunner to the Switch 2. First released on Steam in 2023 and PS5/Xbox in 2024, it's a complete remake of the original BIT.TRIP RUNNER for the WiiWare service on Wii. The accompanying trailer brings back industry legend Charles Martinet for some key voiceover work At the time of writing, the Kickstarter is sitting at $16,933 with 17 days...

Bloodborne. It's still not on PC. Perhaps a remake might bring it to PC. Ah. Nuts. Original developers FromSoftware reportedly turned down a Bloodborne remake pitch from recently shuttered PlayStation studio Bluepoint Games last year.

Apple is still developing a large foldable iPad, despite hitting several technical hurdles along the way, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his Power On newsletter, Gurman says the "gigantic" foldable iPad will challenge Apple's long-running tradition of keeping the Mac and iPad as separate devices. Some have referred to it as a foldable iPad, while others have called it an all-display MacBook, but concerns remain about its practicality when it comes to typing. A report in July last ye...

The time of age assurance is upon us, and not just for social media - for operating systems too and that includes Linux as well of course

The time of age assurance is upon us, and not just for social media - for operating systems too and that includes Linux as well of course

"Forget what I have said."

Marathon's Sever Slam weekend is over now, and with the game ready to launch later this week, players are now either more convinced they'll be playing the hell out of it or skipping since it's not really rewriting the extraction shooter genre. In any case, its early numbers are promising enough, and now we're hearing about the first traditional Bungie mysteries which have popped up in-game...

'This is the steepest contraction in device shipments witnessed in over a decade'.

Everywhere you look, more impressive Resident Evil Requiem stats reveal themselves - it’s now top of Metacritic's user score charts.

Another major antitrust lawsuit has launched in the UK. This time its against Sony, which could be on the hook for almost £2 billion ($2.7 billion) for overcharging PlayStation users.  A class action case for about 12.2 million users argues that Sony "occupies a dominant position in relation to the digital distribution of PlayStation games and in-game content and that it has been unfairly charging its UK customers too much for digital games and in-game content purchased through the PlayStation S...

Apple will update the MacBook Air with an OLED display for its 2028 model, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman says that he expects the MacBook Air's transition from LCD to OLED to occur with the product's 2028 update, as part of a larger migration to OLED across the company's flagship iPad and MacBook models that includes the iPad mini, MacBook Pro, iPad Air, and MacBook Air – and likely in that order. Apple already uses OLED displays in the...

SteamInputDB recently launched as a new third-party community site to help you find Steam Input configurations for various gamepads with Steam games

Apple will add a vapor chamber cooling system to the iPad Pro as soon as next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says an iPhone 17 Pro-style vapor chamber is something Apple has been working to bring to the ultra-thin iPad Pro, and it could debut in the next model, which is expected to arrive in spring of 2027. Apple overhauled the thermal design of the iPhone 17 Pro models to include a vapor chamber cooling system, where a small amount ...

Stay young forever.

Vivo barely has a presence outside of China but that seems to be changing with the company's next flagship phone. At Mobile World Conference 2026, the company unveiled the X300 Ultra smartphone that comes with a 200MP sensor along with two accessories designed for pro photographers and content creators: a SmallRig video cage and 400mm Zeiss telephoto extender lens. Vivo didn't go into detail about the phone's specs, but you can likely expect a high-end processor, screen, battery and other intern...

Say hello to the Sonos Play – a new unannounced portable speaker that appears to have been accidentally leaked on the Canadian Best Buy site. Priced at CAD $399.99, the speaker looks a lot like a smaller version of the Sonos Move 2, and features Wi-Fi for multi-room setups of up to 32 speakers, AirPlay 2 support, and Bluetooth 5.3. There's also an aux-in for connecting record players and other equipment. Courtesy of the Redditor who spotted the listing, here's the blurb: Take quality sound where...

Well into WH40K: Space Marine 2's second year of post-launch content (both free and paid), publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive might've run into the game's first major hurdle: its voice pack DLC isn't going down well with veteran players.

The creators of Baldur's Village, a Stardew Valley mod revolving around a community of characters from Baldur's Gate 3, have been pretty quiet since their work escaped being "mistakenly" zapped out of existence by Wizards of the Coast last April. Now, ahead of Baldur's Village's first birthday, they've provided a progress update on the Halsin romance arc they've been working on in the interim.

The authors of Frieren, Ranma 1/2, and more removed their works from Manga One after Shogakukan came under fire for rehiring a sexual offender.

With the Marathon Server Slam concluded, developers at Bungie have released one final weekend recap post addressing concerns, teasing future tweaks, and confirming they've "heard" requests for a dedicated duo queue.

It also sold more than Mario Tennis Fever. The latest UK charts data is in, and as expected, Resident Evil Requiem has claimed the top spot following its launch on 27th February 2026. Switch 2 sits at the bottom of the platform split, contributing 4% of the overall launch sales. With that said, however, The Game Business' Christopher Dring has stated that Requiem's sales on Switch 2 are "broadly the same" as Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition last year. He also says that Requiem did more in its fi...