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The Crown Tundra is Pokémon Sword and Shield’s second set of DLC (coming after The Isle of Armor), and will be available starting this fall. Here’s everything we know so far about what promises to be a massive expansion to these games, including vast new areas to explore, new Pokémon, and even new ways to play! Release Date and Price for The Crown Tundra We don’t yet know when The Crown Tundra will be released, only that it’ll be sometime this fall, following the release of The Isle of Armor in June....

Here’s how to check your Pokemon’s stats. Stats in Pokemon GO translate to something called individual value, or IV. Not all Pokemon have the same stats, so knowing which Pokemon are better than others is important to conserving your candy and evolving Pokemon that aren’t that strong. The main stats boil down to Attack, Defense, and Stamina which all max out at 15. These stats aren’t especially clear on the Pokemon GO app, so knowing your Pokemon’s IV is as close as you can get to knowing how powerful it is....

What’s that New Attack button do? If you just updated Pokemon GO on your phone you might have noticed a brand new button on the Pokemon menu. “New Attack” sits there, taunting you with all of the possibilities it opens up. But if you haven’t been following all the latest Pokemon GO developments, you might not know what those are. Hell, you might not even know how the whole thing works....

Niantic, the developers of the smash hit AR game Pokemon GO has filed a suit against Global++, according to a report from Business Insider. Global++ are the developers of PokeGO++ and Ingress++. The apps are modified versions of Pokemon GO that allow users to spoof their GPS location data, neatly overcoming the main aspect of Pokemon GO which is to interact with the location that you are in. The apps also allow you to walk in circles to hatch eggs, find rare Pokemon, and generally avoid a lot of the parts of Pokemon GO that attempt to combine gameplay and the real world....

Sometimes, we all make mistakes, and that’s okay. Have you ever taken forever to name your Pokemon, like it’s a matter of life and death? While this is relatable in older Pokemon games, since you need to visit a particular NPC just to change your Pokemon’s name, renaming your Pokemon in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is more convenient than ever. Gone are the days when you had to go to such lengths as it only takes a few steps to do so now....

2016 may have been the 20th milestone of the Pokemon franchise, though technically the anniversary is still going with the original Red and Green having released in February originally. Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are still keeping the party going though into 2017 as it has been revealed that Pokemon Snap is finally releasing on the Wii U Virtual Console. Pokemon Snap released on Nintendo 64 back in 1999 as a spinoff of the main series that quickly became a fan favorite....

While most people within the gaming industry have moved on from the debate over violent video games, the recent rise in school shootings in the US has brought the topic back into the forefront of some people’s minds. President Donald Trump brought them up as a possible cause of recent school shootings, despite the fact that most scientific research agrees that violent video games have no major effect on players, and have had no impact on actual aggression or violence among the populace....

The Season Pass for Project CARS has now been revealed and it will include a lot of content that won’t be in the base game. PlayFront has reported on everything that the Season Pass for Project CARS will bring to gamers. There will be a mix of new cars, stages, game modes, events and more. The first content from the Season Pass will be available as early as April. Check out what you get from Project CARS’ Season Pass:...

Splatfests are always heated competitions, but Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are turning up the heat by making this next Splatfest Pokémon-themed. In this competition, players will compete to see the best starter type: Fire, Water, and Grass. The Splatoon Twitter states, “Breaking news for the next Splatfest! The theme celebrates the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet. Which first partner Pokémon would you choose? Grass-type, Fire-type, or Water-type?” You’ll get your opportunity to show which starter type you choose between November 11, 2022, and November 13, 2022....

Some of the most common image formats that you’ve probably heard of and used many times before are GIF, JPEG, and PNG. Each serves a very particular purpose that we’ve come to know and appreciate across an internet of memes, reaction images, and all other forms of online expression through pictures. However, there are many more image file formats that you should know about. Of these, TIFF is one of the most complex....

Launching earlier this year to a solid reception in spite of its server issues, crossplay grievances, and major bugs, Outriders lost its player base within a few months. While the technical side of things put people off, it was the state of its endgame that drained its community. This week’s New Horizon update seems to have turned things around, at least for the time being. According to the Steam Charts page, Outriders has reached a peak of 7,311 players since the update dropped....

Overwatch’s third season of its Competitive Play will be coming to an end soon, with developer Blizzard announcing that it will conclude next week. They made the announcement in a blog post, revealing that it would officially end on February 21st at 4 PM PT. Season 4 will kick off on February 28th, so there won’t be too long of a wait to get the next season going. The developer also detailed rewards players may be eligible for, saying “If you completed your placement matches during Season 3, you will eligible to receive a special spray and player icon....

She will be the game’s 51st playable character Today, Evil Mojo Games officially revealed, in the official social media channels of their flagship title Paladins, a new Champion Teaser, this time focused on the bounty hunter Saati, The Trickshot. You can check out Saati’s teaser below, courtesy of Paladins official Youtube channel: On the game’s official Twitter profile, the game’s developers also revealed that they will reveal new details regarding Saati as well as the future of the game tomorrow, at 12PM EST, during the Trickshot Update Show....

Persona 5 was set to release Winter 2014 in Japan but it seems it has been pushed into 2015 and coming to Playstation 4. Announced early today at Sony’s Pre-TGS 2014 conference, Atlus will be bringing Persona 5 not only to the Playstation 3 but also to the next-gen with Playstation 4. This news comes at Japan expected the highly anticipated RPG to release this winter. All we know is that the title will use an in house engine and it is being developed by key staff from previous Persona titles....

Well, folks, the inherent greed of the games industry has reared its ugly head again. This time in the form of a Transformers game. Our beloved industry has shown us that creating games is not what’s on its mind. It’s getting all of the money! CEO of Yodo1, Henry Fong and Featherweight Games’ Dylan Bevis shared their advice for the mobile market to focus on monetization from the get-go. This is in contrast to factoring in that element afterward....

It has been more than four years since the PS4 came out, which means that many are looking forward to Sony talking about its next home console, the PlayStation 5, at some point. It has already been the topic of discussion several times over the past year and now it looks like Ubisoft has become the latest to jump in, saying that the PS5 won’t be coming until at least 2019....

After there being a coy hint on the possibility that PlayStation Studios may have acquired Kojima Productions, Hideo Kojima himself has put the rumors to rest, stating that the studio will be staying as an independent. Kojima went to Twitter to share a picture of the new PlayStation Studios banner, which initially sparked rumors today of the potential of an acquisition. A few minutes later, he quote tweeted with his original tweet saying, “It sounds misleading, but Kojipro has been and will continue to be an independent production studio....

The PlayStation Store typically has a number of weekly sales, sometimes offering even better deals for PS Plus members. That is why this week’s inaugural PS Plus Special Week, as they are calling it, is so very strange. Most weeks provide all PlayStation platform owners with some game sales, but this week is exclusively limited to PS Plus members, with the sales not even being all that great. Games like Bloodborne and The Order: 1886 are both discounted on here to $47....

As the November 12th/19th release date grows ever nearer, more details have come about Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 console regarding backward compatibility, a feature that has been highly demanded by fans over the past generation. We recently got news about the way the PS5 will treat PS4 games, and now, we have details on the way the console will work with PlayStation VR, Sony’s VR headset that came out in 2016....

Pokémon Detective Pikachu opened Friday to $20.7 million at the box office, giving it the best opening day for any video game adaptation. Detective Pikachu’s $20.7 million total includes $5.7 million in Thursday previews, which also gives it the best Thursday preview gross for any video game movie. While the weekend isn’t over yet, Pokémon Detective Pikachu is estimated to wrap up Sunday with an opening weekend haul of around $55 million....