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The Pokémon Company has announced a pop-up Pokémon Center retail location will open in London this October. Located in Westfield London (Shepherd’s Bush), the store will operate between October 18 and November 15 and feature a range ofPokémonCenter-branded products, including designs exclusive to London. Permanent Pokémon Center stores have been in operation throughout Japan and North America for several years, offering many exclusive items for sale. The company said the decision to operate the pop-up store in London was in tribute to “the United Kingdom’s role in inspiring the design and feel of the all-new Galar region” featured in Pokémon Sword and Shield....

US sales of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One hardware are declining faster than expected ahead of this year’s next-gen console launches, NPD data suggests. Sales of both current-gen systems were significantly lower in January, compared to the same period during the last console generation (January 2013). In comparison, sales ofNintendo Switchhardware remained relatively steady. Following the data’s publication,Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmadsuggested that a number of factors could have contributed to the decline of current-gen hardware sales....

Epic Games’ chief technology officer has claimed that PS5 and Xbox Series X will enable him to achieve his “lifelong dream” of delivering movie-quality visuals in video games. Speaking in the latest issue ofOfficial PlayStation Magazine UK,Epic’s Kim Liberi claimed the new consoles would fulfil his longtime goal partly thanks to Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite tech, which is claimed will allow developers to put “movie-quality” assets in their games. “It has been a lifelong dream of mine that real-time computer graphics, and in particular games, can be as believable and realistic as a movie,” he said....

Sony will be broadcasting a PlayStation 5 Technical Presentation later today, which will very likely feature the introduction of the PlayStation 5 Pro. Announcing the presentation on Monday,Sonysaid it the show will “focus on PS5 and innovations in gaming technology”. The presentation will be hosted byPlayStation‘s lead architect Marc Cerny, and can be viewed in the embedded video above. The PlayStation 5 technical presentation will run for nine minutes. What do we know about the PS5 Pro?...

The PlayStation 5 is reportedly selling out in China following the launch of Black Myth: Wukong. According to consultant Daniel Camilo, the console is selling out across China, with stock at the country’s largest electronic store Huaqiangbei struggling to accommodate demand. According to the report, the demand is resulting in scalping and reselling of the console which hasn’t been common since thePS5‘s first two years. PS5 stock selling-out in China!...

Capcom has enabled PC players to revert to older versions of several Resident Evil games after recently released upgrades resulted in some users being unable to play them. Earlier this week the publisherreleased updated versionsofResident Evil 2,Resident Evil 3andResident Evil7, including new current-gen features like 4K support, improved framerates and ray tracing. While this was fine forPS5andXbox Series X/Sowners whose systems could handle the upgrades,PCowners who were already playing on or close to the minimum requirementsfound their systems could no longer run the games....

Ubisoft has announced Riders Republic, a new “massive multiplayer” extreme sports game from Ubisoft Annecy, the studio behind 2016’s Steep. Riders Republicallows players to meet and compete with other players in a variety of activities such as bike, ski, snowboard, wingsuit and rocket wingsuit,Ubisoftsaid during its Forward event on Thursday. The game allows players to roam a large open world featuring American national parks including Bryce Canyon, Yosemite Valley and Mammoth Mountain....

Rockstar Games has re-confirmed that its latest trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 was captured on PS5 hardware. The trailer, which was released on Tuesday, was predictably extremely popular, and at the time of writing has nearly 80 million views after one day. At the end of the trailer, when the game’s recently announced June 28, 2025 release date is shown, a message appears at the bottom of the screen stating: “Captured on PS5....

Rocksteady Studios is currently helping to develop an unannounced Hogwarts Legacy Director’s Cut. That’s according to a newBloombergreport charting the troubled development of the studio’s live service flop,Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, on which parent company Warner Bros. hastaken a $200 million loss. Weeks after the title’sdisappointing launch in February,Warner Bros. Gamesboss David Haddad reportedly visitedRocksteady’s London office to deliver an update on its plans for the studio....

A number of videos showing off Skate 4 have leaked online. The videos, which are linked to onReddit, include an introduction to the upcoming game as well as general gameplay. Last weekEA showed off what it called “pre-pre-pre-alpha” footage of the gameand invited players toto closed playtests. In April it was claimed thatSkate 4willinclude an online free skate mode which lets users hang out and build skateparks together. This is corroborated in the leaked videos, which describe Fun City as a persistent, massively multiplayer playspace....

Resident Evil 4’s original game director Shinji Mikami has commented for the first time on Capcom’s in-development remake. VGC first revealedCapcom’s plans to remake Resident Evil 4earlier this year. The project is in development at Osaka-based M-Two, thenew studio founded by former PlatinumGames head Tatsuya Minami, which has been preparing for its development since 2018. Mikami, who directed the originalResident Evilgame and 4, was approached to co-found M-Two but turned down the role due to his commitment to working onBethesda’s GhostWire: Tokyo, a person with knowledge of the situation told VGC....

The upcoming Silent Hill F was originally going to be set in the real ‘Silent Hill’, but a large landmark ruined the mood. In an interview withFamitsuheld at Anime Expo 2025, the game’s writer Ryukishi07 explained that he looked into setting the game in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture. Shizuoka literally translates to Quiet Hill orSilent Hill, and Ryukishi07 felt that this would have made it an ideal setting for the first Silent Hill game to be set in Japan....

SOC Investment Group has urged fellow Activision Blizzard shareholders to vote against Microsoft’s proposed merger with the Call of Duty publisher. It was announced in January thatMicrosoftintends topurchase Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal—the game industry’sbiggest ever by some distance—that would also give theXboxmaker exclusive ownership of franchisesincluding Warcraft, Overwatch, Crash Bandicoot and Guitar Hero. Activision Blizzardinvestors are set to vote for or against the proposed takeover in a special meeting of stockholders on April 28....