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??? Mew is not obtainable via legitmate means in the original R/G/B at all; neither in the western or Japanese versions. Only way is by attending a real-life event, or by using glitches.

Steam Deck previews are out! Absolutely monstrous performance! GTX 1050 class performance in a handheld; insane! Battery life is incredibly variable; from a minimum of 1 hour 30 minutes all the way up to just over 6 hours; depending on how you're using it. Shame about the rubbish rumble and the kind of middling screen quality; but yeah... You're paying less than half the price of competing portable PCs for a system that is not only around 1.7x as powerful, but also with FAR higher build quality all around. Err... can I have this thing now? Please?

No Pokemon game has ever been announced in a Direct, outside of a Pokemon specific Direct.

Right on cue. Time for Nintendo to announce their new Jackbox style party game

Heads up, Nintendo Life are selling eShop cards for 10% off (They have a store now!?!?!) https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/02/nintendo-announces-huge-switch-sale-more-than-1000-games-to-be-discounted Can confirm that the discount code works and that you can use it more than once! (Remember that Nintendo don't let you add more than £225 worth of eShop credit to your Nintendo Account per day )

It is also the single rarest game available for the system (and the only one I don’t have!). GBA games have actually come down to reasonable prices recently and eBay is actually now largely free of bootlegs! (outside of Pokémon). As long as you have your wits about you, now’s actually a really good time to pick up some GBA games!

And it's been 16 years since the last proper Silent Hill game with Team Silent at the helm... You don't really want a modern Silent Hill game. Just let it go.

One for you @RedShell Today's "portables" are not very portable really

Rockstar is making a new GTA game now that they're not working on RDR 2. In other news, water is wet. Well, RDR 2 took 5-6 years for the entire company combined to make and ~$800 million to produce... So I wouldn't expect GTA 6 to come out until at least 2025... hopefully Take Two won't have gone bankrupt or be bought out by then!

Well that puts to rest the stupid theory that Pokemon only sold as well as it did because people were buying both versions for themselves. Unless you think that Legends Arceus has sold twice as well as any other Pokemon game.

YCG have already made Shovel Knight 2,3,4 and Mega Man Soccer the Fighting Game spin-off! How much more Shovel Knight do you want!?

This looks awesome!! Link's Awakening meets Castlevania you say? Sign me the hell up! So glad to finally see Yacht Club Games move beyond Shovel Knight! At last! Let's just hope that they don't make the same mistake as last time and get themselves stuck in a corner where they're forced to spend the next 10 years fulfilling ridiculous & outlandish stretch goals...

BTW, tangentally related... https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/att-spin-off-warnermedia-43-billion-deal-1235168480/ AT&T are fully divesting themselves of Warner Media as a spin-off, instead of keeping them as a split-off; to Discovery for a mere $43 billion! The big game publishers missed out on getting WBIE for a cool $4 billion last year because it didn't come with exclusive rights to WB's massive slate of IP... but I could easily see the likes of Apple, Amazon or Sony (the full entity, not SIE) jumping at the chance to buy Warner Bros Discovery for less than 2/3's of an Activision Blizzard... I can definitely see it happening... $43 billion is a ridiculously low sum for the entierty of Warner Media; and it would not only give an interested party instant leverage into the TV, Movie and Streaming Entertainment industries (DC, HBO, WB, LOTR, Harry Potter etc), but they would also be grabbing the 4th largest western video game publisher too... Edit: Oh God, I just realised that Netflix could even do the deed... They are looking to get into the video game industry in a big way... this would do it in one fell swoop... while wiping out a big competitor, securing a massive amount of content for their core streaming service and taking the fight directly to Disney!

I know I've posted about this before... but HOLY MOTHER OF CHRIST are the newly arranged Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster soundtracks absolutely fucking incredible!!! Just LISTEN to this aural bliss! Final Fantasy 4 PR's Battle 2 might well be the best thing my ears have ever heard! Even though these versions are kind of mediocre all around? I'd buy the crap out of them on Switch just for the soundtracks alone! Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster comes out this month... I absolutely cannot wait to hear that soundtrack get the same treatment! BTW, as an aside, for those with the means... There is now an MSU-1 patch available for FF4 on SNES, so you can play the original SNES version of FF4 with the new Pixel Remaster soundtrack! Best of both worlds

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-playstation-bungie-will-considerably-accelerate-our-journey-with-multiplatform-live-service-games Sounds like Sony are starting to move away from their current hardware sales model and are starting to follow Microsoft's hardware agnostic model... We could be looking at the beginning of the end of the traditional console gaming model for Sony now; as it sounds like they want to start following in Microsoft's footsteps.

The deal might have started that long ago, but there is no way in hell that they were planning to spend $3.6 billion on Bungie; no way in hell. I also highly doubt that Sony were the only party that Bungie have been talking to since they went independent in 2019... (no doubt they were also talking to the likes of EA, Microsoft and Tencent behind the scenes too). This is, with absolute certainty, a panic move in response to the ABK purchase. Sony undoubtedly saw the ABK purchase go through and their bosses went "Oh shit! Fuck!! Close the deal on Bungie NOW!! I don't care how much!! Make it happen before Microsoft get a chance to bid!!". Sony then came running to Bungie with their ridiculous offer and Bungie got to dictate terms; it's the only reasonable explanation for why Sony would be willing to overpay to such a ludicrous degree, while still allowing Bungie to operate independently. Sony are getting absolutely reamed on this deal, while Bungie are making out like bandits. This is a panic move, end of. And if it isn't? Then it is the most incompetent business deal in the history of the medium! You could literally buy WBIE (an entire western publisher!) for this amount of money!!!

Yeah, Sony got a great deal with Insomniac. I can't imagine that Bungie would be worth that much more though... Destiny isn't exactly a huge IP anymore, and that's all that Bungie have to their name. But yes, I think that you're absolutely right. Sony are definitely going to start stering their shopping cart towards Japan pretty soon and Nintendo had better start making moves soon; or else they're gonna be losing some key 3rd party partners very soon... BTW, Nintendo... Yeah, buy Mercury Steam now while you still can you fools!!

Just for fun... https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/20/microsoft-acquires-bungie From $20 million in 2000 to $3.6 billion in 2022. I think Microsoft got the better deal here

Honestly? I don't think it has been bubbling for that long... I can't imagine Sony even remotely considering such a ridiculous overpayment for Bungie if they weren't absolutely desperate for an answer to losing COD. They needed an answer and they needed one now. This is an absolute act of desperation, and while it's possible that they might have been in talks for some time? I cannot believe that this decision is anything but a knee jerk reaction, with Sony bosses shouting "Fuck it! Buy them now!! At any price!!". They just paid more than 15x for Bungie than what they paid for Insomniac! This is NOT a reasonable calculated business decision (and if it is? Then it's one of the most moronic failures of business negotiations that I have ever seen in this industry). There is no way that Bungie is worth anything even remotely close to $3.6 billion, you could buy an entire publisher for that kind of money! (Hell, the entierty of WBIE was on sale for just $4 Billion just last year!!).

Ladies and gentlemen. The art of desperation in action! That is an insane sum of money for a single developer!!! Sony REALLY don't want to lose the FPS crowd!

That and Rocket Knight Adventures 1 & 2 are basically the only cartridge MD games that I actually want that are still absent from my library in one form or another. Can't help but feel that this is basically our last chance of ever seeing them get a re-release, so let's pray that it finally happens!

Playstation finally comes to Switch!

I wouldn't have thought that they could make any further behind-the-scenes deals with Sony at this point; but rather they have to honour the existing behind-the-scenes deals that they already have in place. Much like how Bethesda had to honour their existing Sony exclusivity deals with Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo.

Hey! It's @Hero-of-Time! He's back! And he's HOT! Welcome back! Glad to see you've been having some fun, hope life's been treating you well

Wow! Nice going, that's legit! Congrats!