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The creative director of Samson has promised the team is “committed to the future” of the game despite launching to a ‘Mixed’ reception on Steam amid complaints about performance, gameplay, optimization, and more. Samson released just yesterday, April 8, and is currently the third-lowest-rated game of 2026 according to Metacritic, with a score a full…

Pokémon Pokopia has a new update available on Switch 2, with a fix for your missing creatures and habitats. Pokopia launched for Switch 2 back in March to huge success, with more than 2.2 million copies sold and a warm reception from both critics and fans alike for its cosy sandbox life sim vibes. Since…

Superman follow-up Man of Tomorrow will feature Maxima, and DC Studios chief James Gunn reportedly has four finalists for the role to choose from. Maxima made her debut in Action Comics number 645, published in 1989. In that story, the super powerful alien warrior queen from the planet Almerac comes to Earth looking for Superman.…

Following a rocky launch, the maker of Pokémon Champions has apologized for the game’s various technical issues and released a list of bugs it’s currently planning to fix. Champions, billed as the Pokémon franchise’s new competitive battle platform, launched this week for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, but has received a mixed reaction from fans.…

Pokémon Champions has shipped with a bug that blocks higher 4K visuals when playing on a docked Switch 2 — unless you manually undock and then re-dock your console. The graphical issue, discovered by players following the game’s launch yesterday, adds to the growing list of grumbles around the free-to-play battle game — such as…

In a new interview, development veteran and Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey (Dead Space, Call of Duty: WWII) has detailed how a decision on a development partner to handle the PC port of 2002’s 007 Nightfire could have had huge ramifications on the actual existence of the Call of Duty franchise as we know it…

Streamer IShowSpeed (real name Darren Jason Watkins Jr.) is collaborating with live-action One Piece co-showrunner Matt Owens on a new anime series. Variety reports the project is in the works at Big Shot Pictures, the animation company founded by former Paramount co-CEO Brian Robbins earlier this year. Details about the project’s story, which is said…

Brandon Sanderson is making quick progress on his own Mistborn movie adaptation, but in the meantime he’s been taking a closer look at older movies. In the most recent episode of his podcast, Intentionally Blank, he and Dan Wells discussed rankings for the best movie trilogy of all time. Unsurprisingly, The Lord of the Rings…

Microsoft is rolling out improvements and updates to its pioneering Achievements system for Xbox, adding things like updated icons and animations, the ability to highlight your 100%-completed games, and the option to hide games from your list of Achievements. These changes are available to inner-ring Insiders today, and they’ll roll out wider to other Insider…