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Summary A new interview with the developers behind the untitledOkami sequelconfirms that it’ll “be some time” until we see it again because it’s still so early in development. Although 2024’s The Game Awards didn’t give us Half-Life 3, Hollow Knight: Silksong, GTA 6, Kingdom Hearts 4, or any of the other wildly unlikely games we were all hoping for,it was still stuffed with big reveals and announcements. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the whole showwas the confirmation that Capcom is finally working on an Okami sequel....

Summary As usual, the first batch of games in Amazon Prime’s monthly giveaways has been made available alongside the announcement. Four of the 20 are available right now and there appears to be a bit of a theme.Saints Row The Third, Mafia 2, andCrime Boss Rockay Citymake up 75 percent of Amazon’s first March drop. For those who want something very different, Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master is game number four. More games will be added to Prime’s March haul every Thursday, and there are some can’t miss titles this month....

PCs are the expensive option in gaming, right? A gaming rig is the choice of serious players with disposable income, right? Well, not exactly. When you compare the cost of a newPS5($450-$700) to the price of a comparably powerful new gaming computer ($863 by IGN’s estimate), the PC is more expensive. And that estimate doesn’t include the monitor, the mouse, or the keyboard. You can always spend more, and some rigs are going to run you several thousand dollars....

Summary The Pokemon Day surprises didn’t begin and end with what there was to show during this morning’s Pokemon Presents. Various merch drops at the Pokemon Center have been made to mark the occasion too. Drops popular enough to bring the site to a grinding halt, including the return of Mega Evolution plushes out of nowhere. While some of you might have stumbled upon the Pokemon Center banner revealing Mega Evolution plushes are back, Pokemon alsopublished an update on its sitesharing the good news....

If you’ve partaken in any number of battles inPokemon Trading Card Game Pocketover the last few months, you’ll likely have encountered Druddigon. The Dragon-type Pokemon has become the perfect stall in the TCG with its Rough Skin ability, which damages any Pokemon that dares attack it. It’s found utility in a vast number of decks, and with Space-Time Smackdown fast approaching, a number of new cards mean that the Cave Pokemon could be about to get a whole lot worse....

Summary Clearing entire levels full of Nazis may not always be an easy task inSniper Elite: Resistance, but it is always an enjoyable task. Resistance has nine proper levels, though the first and the last of those levels are much shorter than the others, making the middle bits quite a bit meatier than either end. All in all, that’s going to make for quite a bit of Nazi hunting, in some fairly different situations and environments....

Summary Spider-Man 2only just released onSteama few days ago and there’s already a mod that replaces Peter’s controversial new face model with John Bubniak from the originalPS4release. Despite being a trilogy of legitimately great games (yes, even the most recent one that weirdly gets a ton of hate), there’s a surprising amount of discourse in theMarvel’s Spider-Mancommunity.Whether its puddlegate, the extremeannoyance surrounding Spider-Man’s suits, orthe playable MJ sections, players have a lot to complain about....

Summary When Hazelight Studios' latest title,Split Fiction, releasesnext month on March 6, you’ll be able to play the entire game with a friend for free. Indeed, the Swedish-based developer announced thatit will be bringing back the “Friend’s Pass"for its upcoming title. What’s more, the ability to play with a friend for free won’t be platform-locked. Rather, according to a post on Twitter, you can play on any platform. Per that same tweet, it’s as easy as having a copy of the game, getting a friend to download the “Friend’s Pass” and sending them an invite....

Summary Star Warshas a rich history with video games that stretches back far beyondOutlawsand the Jedi games. Some of the franchise’s best video game offerings are from years, if not decades ago, and if you missed out, or want to revisit them, there has never been a better time.Fanatical’s Star Wars Collectionis heavily discounted again,netting you 14 classic games for just $16.99. This isn’t a collection of Star Wars games no one has ever heard of either....

Summary Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguehas been an absolute failure for developerRocksteadyandWarner Bros, and that’s probably the nicest way you could put it. It launched to almost zero goodwill,was reviewed pretty poorly,barely had any support despite being a live service game, and pretty muchevery update after the game launched was panned. Spoilers for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League are coming up, but I doubt any of you reading actually care at this point....

Quick Links With 14 different weapons to try, and all of them being complex and totally viable,Monster Hunter Wildshas a huge variety of gameplay styles to experience. You might be drawn to a ranged option so you keep your distance from the beasties, or maybe something complex and impressive-looking, like the Switch Axe. If you’re here, though, you might see the appeal of the humble Sword And Shield, which is an effective, user-friendly, monster-unfriendly weapon that is perfect for beginners but isn’t as one-note as you might initially think....

In the time I’ve been at TheGamer, as the site’s only Features Editor based in Asia, I’ve attended a host of different conventions on the continent. The more B2B-focused Gamescom Asia is a relatively tame affair – you’ll usually see a Capcom booth, esports tournaments, a board games section, a dedicated indie game area, and artists selling their wares. Singapore Comic-Con is a bigger spectacle with headlining influencers (this year’s main draw was Rurusama, who wouldlet you look at her feet under the tablefor 1000 Singapore Dollars, roughly $700 USD), a gigantic Artist Alley where I spent too much on prints that I had no room for, cosplayers galore, and inexplicably, a booth for the police force....

Yu-G-Oh!GX left the mystery of Ancient Egypt behind as the card game evolved past its Duel Monsters roots and into a new and modernized future. Archetypes had more synergy, Fusion Monsters had neat new tricks to hit the field, and some of the most iconic cards were introduced that would forever shape the game. No other character in the GX era of Yu-Gi-Oh! is as iconic as the Slifer slacker himself, Jaden Yuki....