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Summary GOG is offering PC gamers a free game, allowing users to claimHero of the Kingdom 2for a limited amount of time.Hero of the Kingdom 2is a casual-friendly indie RPG originally released in 2015 and has been very well-reviewed by players in the years since. With GOG offering the game entirely for free, there’s little reason to miss out on claimingHero of the Kingdom 2whetherPCgamers play it now or save it for a rainy day....

Persona 5 Royal Remasteredhas hit its first big sales milestone, with Atlus revealing that the game surpassed one million sales after just over a month on the market. The figure dwarfs the launch performance of the company’s previousPersonarerelease, as the PC port ofPersona 4 Goldenmanaged around half a million salesover a similar period, though it didn’t have the advantage of multiplatform availability enjoyed byPersona 5 Royal Remastered. Persona 5released for PS3 and PS4 in 2016, whereas its enhanced edition,Persona 5 Royal, originally launched as a PS4 exclusive three years later....

PlayStation’s efforts toward accessibility on its platforms have continued with the addition of a new feature on thePS5store. Sony has strived to make thePS5more accessible through the implementation of accessibility features in first-party games as well as the development of the Project Leonardo controller. In recent years, Sony has worked toward making PlayStation consoles and games more accessible. Perhaps the biggest example of this work is the announcement of theProject Leonardo controller for PS5, which seemed to be Sony’s response to the Xbox Adaptive Controller....

Summary An incredibly talentedPokemonfan created a dynamic diorama that used custom-made figures of Paras and its evolved form, Parasect. The impressive art piece was shared online, gathering a variety of comments from fellow fans. Paras was among the 151Pokemonthat were featured in the series' first generation of games. The orange Bug/Grass type monster resembles a cicada in its nymph stage and can be identified by the dotted mushroom-like parasites that grow on the back of its body....

Among the various events that come in go inPokemon GO, Spotlight Hours are one of the most frequent, presenting one or more Pokemon that receive boosted wild spawn rates but a special Bonus for players to take advantage of during the one hour. DuringPokemon GO’sMay 7 Spotlight Hour,the iconic Fighting Type Pokemon, Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan, are the lucky contenders to receive these boosted spawn rates, giving players the chance to add them to their Pokedex, seek out a new Pokemon for competitive battling, or in lucky circumstances, even encounter a shiny variant....

Pokemon Legends: Arceusis set to be a very differentPokemongame than what players have come to expect from the series up until now, especially considering it is set in the region of Hisui, which is the ancient name ofPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearl’s Sinnoh. There is a lot of potential forPokemon Legends: Arceusto be quite groundbreaking, with it being the first open-worldPokemongame ever made, albeit it seems that the new title is going to be segmented in its areas, so not a fully open-world....

Delibird Presents is a new chain of stores introduced inPokemon Scarlet & Violetwith five locations dotted across the Paldea region. Each of the locations offers a number of helpful items, with the stores’ selection growing as the player progresses through the game. Pokemon Scarlet & Violetbreak fromPokemontradition in many ways, with the accessibility of important items being one of them. Instead of gating important and powerful held items and items meant for optimizing stats to the later parts of the story, many of them are available right at the start of the game....

Pokemon ScarletandVioletmay very well get a new trailer soon, either in May or June, but thus far, the only trustworthy information came from the official announcement on Pokemon Day in February. Ever since the reveal of Generation 9 games, many alleged leakers have been posting information online that’s supposedly about features orevolutionary lines inPokemon ScarletandViolet. Still, it’s quite hard to navigate these alleged leaks and figure out what has the potential of being true and what is blatantly fake, but there are some insiders with information that did become believable over time....

Red Dead Redemption 2remains in the unfortunate in-between time where it’s available on current generation consoles but has yet to even be announced for PC. With Rockstar’s previous game,Grand Theft Auto 5, PC gamers ultimately waited over a year and a half before it launched on the platform. If similarly scheduled,Red Dead Redemption 2on PC could be near a year away from release. An announcement could help assuage frustrated fans, though one is likely far off given Rockstar is skipping E3 2019....

Ever since arcades began to decline, the future of their iconic beat-’em-up genre has become uncertain. Its sibling genre of fighting games had made the jump to consoles, but 3D game design trends had begun to pull away from what made brawlers resemble themselves. For a while, the genre was relegated to the rare nostalgic throwback, and classic franchises likeStreets of RageandFinal Fightseemed to have retired. However, there has been a recent surge in beat-’em-ups from both the indie scene and larger publishers....

On Monday, Bandai Namco revealed a free update being released for anime action-RPGScarlet Nexus. Since launch, Bandai Namco has dropped two DLC packs forScarlet Nexus, each accompanied by a free update. As expected, that new DLC has now been revealed. Introducing Scarlet Nexus' third and final DLC, the Brain Eater Pack.The third DLC forScarlet Nexusmay take some by surprise. The Brain Eater Pack includes the story chapter Episode Karen: Unknown History....

Despite being 25 years old,Super Mario 64is still being played and enjoyed by tons of players today.Super Mario 64is one of the best gamesavailable on the Nintendo 64, with many video game fans even calling it one of the best games of all time. As such, the community surrounding the game is extremely dedicated to it, with many fans creating their own projects to add twists and changes to the original title....

Sword Art Online: Progressive’s appeal couldn’t be more alluring to longtime fans: a revisit of the storyline that started it all, but with an opportunity to do more.As A1 Pictures continues to bring these storiesto the big screen, it might be time to assess what they’re doing well, and what they can improve on going forward to make the most out of this second chance. Progressivebegan in 2012 and was written to expand upon the Aincrad arc of the main series, where everyone was trapped inSword Art Online....