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Centipede VR is an immersive horror survival game, designed to keep players on edge as they fight through a dark, perilous world. Available on Meta Quest 2 and 3, players must confront six terrifying enemies, each with distinct behaviors that increase in intensity as they advance through the game's map-based progression system. With each level, waves of enemies grow stronger, forcing players to adapt their strategies and use every resource at their disposal to survive. Multiplayer COOP mode offers the chance to team up with friends, combining forces to withstand relentless enemy onslaughts. As you defeat enemies, you'll earn points that unlock new and more powerful weapons, adding to the tension and excitement of each encounter. At the core of Centipede VR is its horrifying boss: a giant, segmented centipede that stalks players through the levels. Shooting its body causes it to split into multiple segments, turning one threat into many. Only by targeting the centipede’s head will players bring about its explosive destruction. Will you have the skill and nerve to survive this nightmare?

Pokemon is celebrating its 30th anniversary today, and of course, there are a number of events happening all around the internet to mark the occasion. The official festivities kicked off this morning with a Pokemon Presents live stream unveiling several announcements for the Pokemon video games and trading card series, including the reveal of the next mainline Pokemon games, Pokemon Winds and Waves, coming to Switch 2 in 2027. Of course, Pokemon has always been more than just a video game franchise, From the launch of new Lego sets to special Trading card Game collector's editions, there's a lot to look forward to, and today is seeing numerous big product launches, including new Lego sets, manga box sets, Pokemon TCG releases, and more. To help you find the best, we've rounded up some of the biggest Pokemon Day merch drops below.

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Earlier this month, President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. Although Trump was quick to announce new tariffs, companies are already lined up to get refunds. However, Cards Against Humanity, LLC wants to make sure that its players get their "f**king money back" in the most colorful way possible.

That f-bomb is even a part of the URL for CAH's refund site, which features a message that mocks Trump by referencing his infamous misogynistic comments from 2005. More importantly, CAH shared a pledge to any of its customers that it will refund them any of the money they receive from the government.

"We’re going to give you your f**king money back," reads the statement from CAH. "If you overpaid for one of our games, click the [link] and fill out the form. Then, when the Trump Administration gives us our tariff refund, we won’t keep it: we'll give 100% of the money back to you, our loyal customers, who actually make our business possible."

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Epic Games has run a few "buy this game on the Epic Games Store and get a Fortnite skin" promotions over the years, but it seems the Fortnite creator has decided to do a lot more of that kind of thing in 2026, starting in March with Resident Evil Requiem and Crimson Desert. Steve Allison, general manager for EGS, proclaimed in January that the company hopes to offer as many as 100 of these deals every year. That's quite a ramp-up, since Fortnite has rarely had more than one or two of these sorts of promos running at once in the past.

A lot of these deals will offer skins, but some of these gaming collabs will focus on accessories--like Dumb Ways to Die, a mobile game, offering a back bling and an emote. While that particular promo has ended, you can expect at least some of the upcoming collaborations to be of a similar scale, particularly with cheaper indie games.

Before we look at what the collaborations actually are, let's talk about the ground rules.

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Over the years, fans have called for a Bloodborne remake. It never materialized, but not for lack of trying. A new report from Bloomberg said the recently shuttered Bluepoint Games pitched a Bloodborne remake in early 2025, but original developer From Software rejected it.

According to the report, Bluepoint was advised that "the numbers made sense," but From Software "didn't want it to happen."

This isn't a total surprise, as former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida told Kinda Funny in 2025 that original Bloodborne director Hidetaka Miyazaki wanted to remake the game but was too busy. He added that Miyazaki didn't want "anyone else to touch it."

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Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's cartoon band, the Gorillaz, has taken a stand against generative AI with its new project, a short animated film that serves as a hand-crafted homage to the golden era of 2D animation. Released in time for the band's new album of the same name, The Mountain reimagines the group through the lens of a '60s-era animated film, complete with all the imperfections that made those movies look and feel special. Co-director Max Taylor says the project evolved into a "love letter to craftsmanship" during a time of "AI overload".

Taylor added that animation studio The Line utilized a hybrid analog-digital workflow, mixing real materials, practical effects, and period-accurate limitations over contemporary shortcuts.

"If particular visuals couldn't be achieved in that era, then we didn't do them. We processed our digital pencil work to mimic photocopy degradation. We scanned real paintings at high resolution and finished the details digitally. It was about capturing the tactile quality that only real materials give you," Taylor said (via Catsuka). "In a time of AI overload, this is our love letter to craftsmanship. We're chasing the feel of pencil on paper. Paint on board. And all the imperfections that come with it."

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Beneath the cold, hard exterior of EVE Online lies plenty of stories from players that will warm your heart. Recently, I became aware of Arrowspeed Bounty, also known as Jennifer--a 70-year-old veteran player who has risen through the game’s political ranks to hold an important position on the Council of Stellar Management, or CSM.

Arrowspeed Bounty was first introduced to EVE Online thanks to some of her gaming friends. After playing the tutorial, she began to join those friends in mining activities but noted that it was "still trial and error" in the early days, especially when figuring out the game’s currency and how to mitigate losing ships. "While it wasn’t the end of the world when that happened, it was still disheartening as the real mission was flying to different places to find the specific parts needed to replace them," she notes.

After finding her feet in EVE Online, Arrowspeed Bounty joined a small corporation--a community similar to a guild or a clan that allows for collaborative play and contribution to large goals or advanced content. However, greater collaboration doesn't always make for an easier experience, and Arrowspeed Bounty was quickly forced to learn a new part of EVE Online: Decorum. "As a newcomer to the game, it was expected that I’d learn about undocumented and social protocols by breaking them myself--accidentally, of course,"

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Honkai Star Rail 4.0’s livestream reveal at the beginning of February concerned players, including me. A reduction in the number of events--being replaced with more minigames--the absence of an impressively produced music-video-style trailer, the already disappointing 3.X phase of the game, and the version being split across two worlds--Planarcadia and Astropolis--led to the reveal feeling a little underwhelming. However, having spent some time in 4.0 now, I can swallow my pride and say my apprehensions were for nothing. This update is the most fun I’ve had in Honkai Star Rail for a long time.

Planarcadia as a world leans into the lighthearted side of Honkai Star Rail. HSR has long mixed serious narratives with funnier ones, but the previous setting of Amphoreus was mostly the former. Planarcadia is immediately charming, funny, and drew me in from the off. It’s a sprawling city with multiple different areas full of advanced technology, but doesn’t resemble 2.0's Penacony despite also being a city setting.

Different new characters caught my eye and added to the humorous aspect of the narrative, too. Caustide--a large boss with open-neck purple shirt, fur-lined jacket, oversized shades, and pink quiff hairstyle--is the perfect depiction of a mobster villain, only he’s a chicken. The “Narrator” is a tiny cross-eyed monkey who banters with the other characters in an endearing yet still comical manner.

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Thirty years ago, Pokemon was a much smaller and stranger world. As Pokemon’s 30th anniversary approaches, the contrast between the original 151 and today’s sprawling National Pokedex shows just how dramatically the series’ creature design has evolved.

When Pokemon Red and Blue first launched, the Kanto region’s lineup was relatively restrained. There was only one Ghost-type evolutionary line--Gastly and its evolutions--and just one fully evolved Dragon-type in Dragonite. Early Pokemon tended to be grounded in animals, simple fantasy archetypes, or straightforward elemental ideas.

Over time, that philosophy shifted. Ghost-types expanded beyond haunted towers and into possessed chandeliers, sandcastles, and household objects. The introduction of the Fairy-type in 2013 reshaped both competitive balance and visual identity, adding a new category that blended folklore with bright, whimsical designs. Dark-types became more nuanced as well, evolving from basic counters to Psychic-types into some of the franchise’s most intricate creations.

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The games industry seems to have run a-fowl of a strange trend as of late, with multiple upcoming AAA titles featuring belligerent chickens. This flock of games includes the Fable reboot, Krafton's Project Windless, and the recently announced Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves.

Chickens have long been a staple in the Fable series, with the classic RPGs allowing players to kick them as a gag. The first game even featured a chicken-kicking competition for the particularly sadistic. Punting any chickens in the upcoming Fable reboot from Playground Games can actually factor into the title's complex morality system.

And the game, which releases in late 2026, also features a new Cockatrice enemy type, a giant fire-breathing chicken that almost looks like it's getting back at you for all those years of chicken-kicking.

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It's official: Pokemon Winds and Waves will not be released on Nintendo Switch.

The website for the new games outright confirms this, stating that they "will be released exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 in a simultaneous worldwide release in 2027." This will mark the first time that a mainline Pokemon game will be released exclusively for Nintendo's latest system, as every title released since Pokemon Sword and Shield in 2018 has been on Nintendo Switch.

This might be frustrating to those who don't want to invest $450 or more in a new system to play the latest Pokemon game, but I believe Nintendo Switch 2 exclusivity was the right decision for Pokemon Winds and Waves.

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Nintendo is a highly successful, world-renowned company, with a big stable of iconic franchises. But like any company in entertainment, Nintendo faces its own set of challenges, too. One of these, according to Dr. Serkan Toto of research group Kantan Games, is that Nintendo needs to keep coming up with new ideas, or else it runs the risk of becoming "stale."

"The one risk is that at some point in time, people could grow tired of the same IPs that Nintendo produces games around," Toto told CNBC.

He said Nintendo's top franchises are Zelda, Mario, and Pokemon, and beyond those, Nintendo also has a "treasure trove of IPs." But in 2036, or 2046, will people still care about those big three?

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If you haven't heard, today is Pokemon Day, and it's also Pokemon's 30th birthday. Earlier today, The Pokemon Company broadcast its annual Pokemon Presents livestream with news and updates, and nestled among the reveal of the next generation of Pokemon games and other updates was the Game Boy Jukebox, a curious replica of the original Game Boy handheld that only plays music. GameSpot recently went hands-on with the device at New York Toy Fair, and it evokes the spirit of the 1990s in more ways than one.

The Game Boy Jukebox comes bundled with 45 replica cartridges, each representing either Pokemon Red or Blue. Each has the label for the corresponding game on one side, and an image of a scene from those original Pokemon games on the other. Each cartridge, when placed into the Game Boy, plays the music of the scene depicted in the in-game image through the speakers of the replica Game Boy.

For example, one cartridge shows Red riding his bike. When you place the cartridge in the replica Game Boy's cartridge slot--with the in-game image facing the "screen" so it looks like that scene is playing on the device--and "turn on" the Game Boy, you'll hear the familiar Game Boy start-up sound, followed by the bike-riding theme from Pokemon Red and Blue.

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Switch 2 is set to see its first GameCube Pokemon title sooner than later. Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness will arrive on the system in March, which is just days away, for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers. Unless a surprise happens before then, it will be the ninth GameCube title for the service.

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company revealed the release window for Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness on Switch 2 at today's Pokemon Presents celebrating the 30th anniversary for the franchise. However, it's been known since April 2025 that Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness was slated for Expansion Pack members at some point. That's because Nintendo announced the title as part of an initial wave of GameCube releases for Switch 2 then--alongside Pokemon Colosseum, which still hasn't come out yet.

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Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness originally launched on GameCube in 2005. Shadow Lugia is the featured Pokemon on the game's cover, with Shadow Pokemon in general being a major part of the RPG. We here at GameSpot listed it as one of the best Pokemon spin-offs. Additionally, it's intriguing Nintendo is releasing this game before Pokemon Colosseum on Switch 2, since it's the successor to that title.

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The Pokemon Company has revealed that the two dressed-up Pikachus that we see toward the start of Pokemon Winds and Waves' reveal trailer actually have names.

In the first minute or so of the Pokemon Winds and Waves trailer, a trainer and their Pikachu are reminiscing about previous regions. They then answer their door and are greeted by two Pikcahus who look dressed for vacation. While this might've just seemed like a cute way to introduce us to this tropical region, these Pikachus will play a bigger role in the games and are actually named Mr. Windychu and Ms. Wavychu.

Yes, those Pikachu have names. Mr. Winydchu is the one wearing sunglasses and a shirt, while Ms. Wavychu is the one wearing a floral top and skirt. "The latest video featured the appearance of some Pikachu with a brand-new look," the website for Pokemon Winds and Waves teases. "Just how could these Pikachu be involved in your adventure? Look forward to future announcements."

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