Games

Embark on a new adventure as a Pokémon Trainer in the streets of Lumiose City!

When the update launched, trainers were given a large number of items all at once – things like Pokeballs, potions, and storage expansions earned by leveling up. This caused a lot of players to quickly fill up their item storage.

Valorant has become a huge success for Riot Games, building on the popularity of their earlier game, League of Legends. It’s a ‘hero shooter’ – a first-person shooter where characters have special abilities – but stands out from games like Overwatch by focusing on strategy and precise shooting, much like Counter-Strike.

This information confirms an analyst’s prediction from earlier this week, which estimated around 7 million copies sold – a very strong start, similar to a new Call of Duty game.

Spellcasters Chronicles is a free-to-play game that mixes fast-paced action with strategic planning, drawing inspiration from popular MOBAs and deckbuilding games. Two teams of three players will battle it out in 25-minute matches, aiming to capture key areas and destroy the opposing team’s ‘Lifestones’ to win.

According to The Game Post (and noted by Eurogamer), Sony argues in a recent court document that Tencent is actively trying to avoid responsibility for their mobile game, Light of Motiram, released in December 2024. Sony claims the game closely resembles the Horizon series. Tencent previously attempted to get the lawsuit – originally filed in July 2025 – dismissed, arguing Sony was trying to control the conventions of the game genre. However, Sony now asserts that the damage is already done and Tencent is just trying to deflect blame.

Season 4 revealed Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), the main villain secretly controlling the Upside Down all along. His attack on Hawkins now sets up a huge showdown in Season 5 of Stranger Things.

Olivier Courtemanche, head of PlayStation Studios mobile, testified as part of Sony’s lawsuit against Tencent. His statement revealed that while the case focuses on Tencent’s game *Light of Motiram*, PlayStation representatives met with Tencent and its Aurora Studios team in China last year to discuss a potential *The Last of Us* project.

The latest season of South Park hasn’t held back, satirizing figures like Donald Trump, FCC chair Brendan Carr, Labubus, and ChatGPT. A recurring theme has been the show’s take on Trump’s connection to Satan.

Riley Walz, a 23-year-old software engineer, reportedly orchestrated a prank by booking 50 Waymo self-driving cars to go to the same dead-end street at the same time, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.