The Pokémon Company in Japan has introduced a new measure to counter Pokémon TCG scalpers: a “facial recognition system” that will check to see if someone has entered a store “more than once in one day,” and refuse re-entry to those who attempt to purchase from a select location twice…

A new Game Freak design from Pokemon’s past has appeared online, showing what a scrapped Delibird evolution looked like, or might look like if one is added in the future. 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise, and this is far from the first time that unreleased Pokemon…

The head of Amazon Gaming claims that the rising price of home consoles could be a major boon for the company’s Amazon Luna cloud gaming platform. Amazon first launched its cloud streaming platform in 2022 as an alternative to home consoles. Cloud gaming has seen significant growth in recent years,…

Major players around the gaming industry are in a spate of collapse. Years of poor management and short term trend chasing has cornered many big publishers, whose rapid compression is putting their future in crisis. Except for Capcom. Good ol’ Capcom. It’s been hard not to notice how a mix…

A former GTA creator shares his stance on digital and physical media after Sony’s recent decision to transition to digital-only games, at the same time as a PlayStation fan loses their account and is unable to play digital games. Currently, the Grand Theft Auto studio is one of the companies…

Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida revealed that the Evercold expansion has two potential housing updates planned that were inspired by the game’s chief competitor, World of Warcraft. Final Fantasy 14 will launch Evercold sometime in January 2027 across all current-gen platforms. On July 25, Yoshida revealed more…