Sony Interactive Entertainment has expanded its first-party studios yet again with its fifth acquisition of the year. On Friday, thePlayStationparent confirmed it had acquired Seattle-based support studio Valkyrie Entertainment. Over the past two decades, Valkyrie has contributed to triple-A projects such asHalo Infinite,God of War(and it’s upcoming sequel),League of Legends,Forza Motorsport 7and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. PlayStation Studios bossHermen Hulstsaidin a statement: “Today we announce Valkyrie Entertainment will be joining the PlayStation Studios family....

The newly released Pokémon TCG Pocket game has enjoyed a strong launch, it’s claimed. As reported byMobilegamer.biz, estimates from mobile market research firm AppMagic suggest the game made around $3 million per day on its debut weekend. It’s claimed the game has made $12.1 million in its first four days, and is currently earning more revenue thanPokémon Go, which it’s estimated makes around $1 million per day. Given that the game is a brand new release, it remains to be seen whether it can continue this momentum, or whether it will eventually drop off as players move to other games....

Pokémon type charts are a great way to get a quick glance at which moves will be most effective against certain Pokemon. While you’re almost certainly aware of the classic “Fire beats Grass, Grass beats Water, Water beats Fire” type matchup that everyPokémongame begins with, there are 18 (technically 19) types in the main Pokémon series, meaning that there are hundreds of potential combinations that have to be calculated when considering what move to use....

Sony Interactive Entertainment could be planning to bring PlayStation trophy support to its PC games. That’s according to data fromTrueTrophies, a site that scans trophy lists directly from thePlayStationNetwork. According to the site, it recently detected a newPS5trophy list with an additional platform listed alongside it: “PSPC.” The list in question reportedly isn’t attached to any particular game and appears to be a test. It’s claimed that the “PSPC” platform listing refers to a new platform separate from the PS5, yet one that might still connect to the PS5 platform....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Season 10 has been detailed ahead of its PC launch on December 16 and console release the following day. The battle royale game’s new map,Haven, is the headline feature of its10.1 update, which is now available to preview on thePCtest server. Billed asPUBG’s most dense battleground yet, it’s a 1km by 1km map which sees 32 players dropping into an urban setting offering plenty of verticality across different zones including steelworks, coal yards, residential areas and docks....

Control is coming to Xbox Games Pass, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer. The executive revealed plans to release the title onMicrosoft’s subscription service when asked about his favourite games of the year during an Extra Life Mixerstream. “I thoughtControlwas really good,” he said. “It didn’t reach enough people so I’m glad to see that it’s coming into Game Pass, so hopefully more people will play it because it’s a game that should be played from our friends atRemedy, we love Remedy....

Capcom has announced that more than 5 million copies of Resident Evil Village have been shipped, hitting the milestone quicker than the previous three games in the series. In a statement following the release of its Q2 financial information,Capcomclaimed that since its release on May 7, Village has shipped over 5 million units worldwide. Based on previous Capcom press statements, Village has reached the figure faster than any otherResident Evilgame in the past decade....

DISCLOSURE: Chris appeared as one of many background tannoy announcers in F1 2021, and that audio has been reused in F1 22. It must be difficult to release annual iterations of a series when you’ve all but perfected its central mechanics. For a number of years now the F1 games have been delivering rock-solid recreations of the sport, meaning anyone expecting an enormous overhaul anytime soon is setting themselves up for disappointment....

Rocksteady will launch a Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League video series this week. The studio said the first episode of ‘Suicide Squad Insider’ will “unpack the story and gameplay” of the heavily delayed title. Billed as a “genre-bending action-adventure shooter” set in an open-world Metropolis, Suicide Squad wasannounced in August 2020forPS5,Xbox Series X/SandPC. Join us this Wednesday for the first episode of our brand new series, Suicide Squad Insider....

Nintendo’s chief designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, has discussed the historical performance of the Pikmin games and why he believes the series hasn’t “exploded” commercially like some of the company’s other franchises. Pikmin 4arrives onNintendo Switchtoday, and the platform holder is hoping in can reach a broader audience than its predecessors have managed. The franchise’s best-selling entry to date is the Switch port of Pikmin 3, which has sold around two million copies....

The official Sonic the Hedgehog movie account appears to be teasing that Keanu Reeves will play Shadow in the upcoming third movie. A TikTok video posted by the official account posted a message simply saying “ForeSHADOWing”, accompanied by a clip of Sonic crossing his fingers and saying “please, please, please”. Then he opens his eyes and sees Keanu Reeves in the movie Speed, and says: “Yes! Keanu, you are a national treasure....

Sony has attempted to clarify its recent removal of social media posts related to the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake. This week,fans noticedthat the tweet from the primaryPlayStationTwitter account announcing the game in 2021 had beendeleted, while the title’s reveal trailer had also beenmade private. This, combined withpress reportsof the title’s allegedly troubled development, led to speculation that the game could be the latest casualty ofrestructuring efforts at Aspyr’s parent company,Embracer Group....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has launched its PlayStation Store Summer Sale, featuring savings on thousands of games, according to the firm. The promotion runs until 11.59pm local time on August 18, although some titles will leave the sale on August 4 (check each game’sPlayStationStore page for the end date). Of note, four ofSony’s first-partyPlayStation 5games are discounted, including some special edition versions of the titles. They areDemon’s Souls,Returnal,Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, andSackboy: A Big Adventure(the last two are also available onPS4)....