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It’s small, but welcome Pokemon Home has been the mainstay of transferring creatures for over a year now, and hopefully it’s here to stay long-term (having to math out all of the previous generation transferring was a pain). It’s currently available on Switch and mobile devices, but users of the latter platform may have been having prolonged issues with the app. A new Pokemon Home fix hopefully addresses that. Among “other issues” and a swap to a newer easier to read calendar format, crash/login issues have been rectified for folks who couldn’t get into the system based on their language settings....

The invisible controller There’s a prevailing modern philosophy in action game design that says that the controller should “disappear.” You should feel likeyou’redoing something when you press a button and the character on the screen responds. You should map “looking around” and “walking” to two different sticks because we look around and walk at the same time. You should put “shoot” on a trigger because it feels a bit like pulling the trigger on a gun....

An indie dream comes true BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2, Future Legend of Rhythm Alienis now out of the developer’s hands, as the certification process has begun for all three major publishers. Alex Neuse ofGaijin Games notes on theRunner 2blogthat Nintendo was their final step in terms of the submission process, and as a result, it’s going to arrive sooner than later if all goes well. Alex notes that this is “by far the most ambitious submission process Gaijin has ever done,” and that they still have to submit to thePC, Mac, and Linux platforms....

It’s arriving in June, with the Android version coming later [Update:Slay the Spireis now available for $10 on theApp Store.] Following a round of console ports, the fan-favorite deckbuilding roguelike gameSlay the Spireis coming to iOS and Android. It’s not my thing – card games generally elude me – but even I think it’s worth talking up. It’s the type of game that might never leave your phone once it’s installed....

Japan-only for now If you’re keen on keeping up to date with the latest firmware, even if it’s experimental and could screw with your system, you can do so now on PS4. Sony is opening up beta signups for system update 5.50, which are currently live right now in Japan and are expected to go live sometime this week for Europe and North America. It’s nice that there’s an option to get early access, but it’s kind of a pain compared to the easy to operate Xbox Insider Program....

According to a recent report,Street Fighter X Tekkenwon’t be coming to the PS Vita until this fall, but Capcom wants to make it worth the wait. The handheld version of the game will “introduce” 12 additional characters to the game (on top of the PS3/PS Vita exclusive charactersCole McGrath, Toro, Kuro, Mega Man, and Pac-Man). It’s weird for Capcom to announce all that in one go. It totally goes against their usual slow trickle-style of character reveals....

Available digitally, on vinyl, and streaming for free Supergiant Games revisited 10 of its songs fromHades,Bastion,Transistor, andPyrefor a special 10th anniversary orchestral album recorded at Abbey Road Studios with a guiding hand from Austin Wintory. In a behind-the-scenes video, Wintory said the collaboration with Supergiant was “such a privilege.” “These songs are like opera. They’re so dramatic, and tell such incredible stories. I love that. They don’t just lay down a bunch of random words, but they actually really tell you something meaningful....

Sid has “half the brain you do” 2K Sports have revealed the final batch of playable Superstars in their upcomingWWE2K18title, completing the roster for the wrestling franchise’s latest endeavor. Youngsters Peyton Royce, Aiden English and Rich Swann will step into the ring with established stars Charlotte Flair, R-Truth and The New Day.WWE2K18is also a Legend-heavy game, with The Ultimate Warrior, Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Sycho Sid returning to the squared circle for this latest rumble....

We are not your kind of people It has been several months since welast checked in onFallout: The Frontier, the community-developedNew Vegasmod that takes place in a nuclear winter-shrouded Portland. There has been good reason for that: The team hasn’t had much new to show off, but it has been steadily making progress. That progress looks as if it’s paying off handsomely, judging by this newly-released trailer. Sporting Garbage’s “Not Your Kind of People” as the soundtrack (an homage to an earlyMetal Gear Solid Vtrailer),Fallout: The Frontierreveals that it has drivable tanks, mannable turrets, big set pieces, and a space station setting with low gravity....

[ImmortalWaster takes a look at games that use politics in an interesting way. Should politics have a place in games, and if so, how can they be enlightening without being totally obnoxious? Want to see your own writing on the front page? Write something awesome andput it in the C Blogs. — Kauza] There’s no getting around it. Politics manages to seep into almost every aspect of our lives, whether we welcome it or not....

Scooby Doo and the gang are not here Come one, come all, to the grandest show of them all. I, Johnny Luchador, present to you the Rad Show Halloween Spooktacular Show of Spooky Spooky. At 4pm PST we’re going to dig intoMichigan – Report From Hellat some point, but the cast tonight is full of Halloween. And by that I mean we’ll probably just run around like idiots for 2 hours....

The popular web novel and webcomicThe Beginning After the End(TBATE), is set to receive an anime adaptation. The announcement cameduring a panel at New York Comic Con, surprising its millions of fans. Furthermore, Tapas claims that this is the first time an American web novel is getting an anime. The announcement came with an official trailer and poster. Studio A-Cat will be handling the anime, with Keitaro Motonaga (Date A LiveandKatanagatari) as the director....

Whilst it’s still to early to tell whether or notDouble Fine’s Kickstarter projectwill be a success or failure in delivering a top-quality game, it has succeeded in showing there is still demand for adventure games. In a bid to give the genre a bit of a boost during this time of interest,The Book Of Unwritten Taleshas seen a price reduction. If you haven’t already played it, the game tells the story of three characters trying to stop a powerful artifact from falling into the hands of an evil sorceress....