Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s cat breeding roguelike Mewgenics came out earlier this week to an overwhelmingly positive reception and plenty of early success. However, one aspect of the game has left folks on the fence – this list of pretty… complicated internet personalities who’ve voiced the copious amounts of meows emitted by in-game cats. So, to get a better picture of how those cameos came to be, I reached out to developer McMillen.
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A curious new listing for an Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remaster art book has appeared on Amazon UK in what may be the clearest indication yet that Ubisoft is gearing up to release an updated version of its swashbuckling classic.
As reported by IGN, the listing states that the book is scheduled for launch on 24th March 2026 and is being published by Titan. Its price is currently £29.95, a 25% reduction on its £39.99 RRP. There are few additional details at this stage, and even the use of the word ‘Remaster’ is seemingly at odds with the ‘Resynced‘ moniker we’ve been hearing for a while now.
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After years of wait and fan expectation, Pokémon Go players will finally be able to capture Mewtwo once more — in just a few months.
The fan-favorite Legendary Pokémon was last available to battle in Pokémon Go all the way back in July 2022, though its Shadow form was available more recently — over a weekend in March 2024. Still, fans have been clamouring for another chance to add the creature to their Pokédex ever since — and now it’s almost time.
Further details for this summer’s Go Fest celebrations have now been announced at a press event held in Tokyo, which will host one of three in-person meetups, ahead of the game’s usual global Go Fest celebration. Artwork shown at the event confirms that Mewtwo will return — and hints at the debut of a Mythical Pokémon species, too.
Artwork for the Tokyo event shows the usual array of Kanto species, as well as popular croc Sandile. Of most note, though, is the Mewtwo floating within the image — confirming its long-awaited return.
“I can’t say anything specific, but look forward to the Pokémon featured in the key visual,” a spokesperson told Japanese Pokémon outlet rocketnews24go, via machine translation. “Especially Mewtwo — I think it’ll be heart-pounding excitement for people who’ve been participating in GO Fest since the early days.”
Will this finally be the moment Mewtwo’s Mega Evolutions become available, after years of wait? Mega Mewtwo X and Y remain the only missing evolutions from the franchise’s original batch of Mega Pokémon. Meanwhile, the game will soon be moving on to the release of Megas from Pokémon Legends: Z-A, with the arrival of Mega Malamar and Mega Victreebell later this month.
While Mewtwo is only shown here for Pokémon Go Fest’s Tokyo event, artwork such as this usually shows species also available (to a greater or lesser extent) at the following global Go Fest — and it seems inconceivable that the creature would only be made available in a local version, when there has been such hype for its return generally.
The same is true of this year’s Go Fest logo, which as ever features a subtle hint at the latest upcoming Mythical creature to become available. Looking at the mini blue lightning bolts on the 2026 design, Mythical Pokémon Zeraora seems a safe bet. The creature recently gained a new Mega Evolution, which would also make for a fitting release.
This year is, of course, the 30th anniversary of Pokémon and the 10th anniversary of Pokémon Go — a pair of milestones that fans expect to be celebrated fully this summer. Word on what else is coming to the Pokémon franchise this year will follow shortly on Pokémon Day — February 27 — which is when it’s expected that the series’ 10th generation of games and creatures will be unveiled.
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Wildlight, the studio behind recently released shooter Highguard, have confirmed that they’ve “parted ways” with an unspecified number of staff. This confirmation follows a former Wildlight level designer affected by the cuts claiming in a LinkedIn post that “most of the team” at the studio have been laid off.
The heavily rumoured, but yet to be confirmed, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remake/Remaster is getting its very own art book, at least according to this recent Amazon listing in the UK.
Preorders are also now available, strangely, before we’ve got official confirmation of the game actually being real and given its own release window. Its art book is listed at £29.95 right now, a slight reduction from its initial £39.99 RRP, and the Amazon listing also mentions a release date of March 24, 2026.
Titan will be publishing the art book, and the publisher already has a history of releasing art books for the gaming franchise since 2012. That includes Assassin’s Creed III, Unity, Syndicate, Origins, and more.
More recent Assassin’s Creed art books have also been published by Dark Horse, a separate publishing house, including Shadows, Mirage, and The Making of Assassin’s Creed: 15th Anniversary.
According to recent listings on the PEGI European ratings board website, the official name of the long- awaited remake is Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.
And yet, after years of internal leaks, relentless fan speculation, and even not-so-subtle nudges from the original game’s lead actor, Ubisoft still refuses to officially acknowledge that a Black Flag remake is real.
Earlier reports claim Black Flag Resynced is shaping up to be a full-scale overhaul of the series’ fan-favourite pirate outing, with meaningful visual and gameplay upgrades designed to bring it more in line with the production standards of last year’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
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Developed with the idea that legends change and history begins anew, this title offers two games in one: Yakuza Kiwami 3, a remake of Yakuza 3 (2009), and Dark Ties, an all-new never-before-seen story.
Yakuza 3 Kiwami sees Kazuma Kiryu back in action as he fights to protect those he holds dear. This reimagined edition of the 2009 classic features more intense battles, stunning depictions of Tokyo and Okinawa, extra cutscenes that add more weight to the story, and a host of endlessly entertaining minigames.
Yoshitaka Mine, Kiryu’s adversary, takes center stage in Dark Ties—a new story documenting his path from startup entrepreneur to hardened yakuza.
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties brings two yakuza epics into a single collection.
BATTLE：Fight as Kiryu in His Prime Using Two Different Battle Styles
The ultimate evolution of the classic Dragon of Dojima style, featuring the most attack techniques in the series’ history. A bold, overwhelming brawler style that embodies the essence of Kazuma Kiryu’s iconic combat.
As always, Kiryu can pick up objects on the ground and transform them into powerful weapons!
A battle style rooted in Okinawan martial arts. Its base stance utilizes a Tinbe and Rochin, a traditional shield and short spear. Simply mash or hold down the buttons to weave in flashy Sai, Nichogama, Tonfa, Tekko, Nunchaku, Eiku, and Surujin attacks.
Shield yourself from incoming bullets with the tinbe and turn the tide of battle!
Life at Morning Glory：Spend Time With The Kids and Become The Best Caretaker Around!
With Kiryu becoming the manager of Morning Glory Orphanage, it’s your job to look after the children who reside there. Together, you’ll cook, tend to a home garden, help them with homework, fish, and even go bug-catching.
You can make Kiryu stronger by doing chores and interacting with the orphans. As you become more fatherlike, you’ll discover an even larger range of activities.
Daily interactions with the children will also unlock heartwarming substories for each of them. Experience a whole new side of Kiryu as he comes face-to-face with their hopes and dreams!
Join the small-time Haisai Girls gang and protect Okinawa.
With the Tokyo Night Terrors wreaking havoc in the streets, Kiryu must step forth as the gang’s new leader, gather allies, and train the Haisai Girls into the leading girl gang in Japan.
Fight alongside 5 allies in Baddies Battles, gear up 20 of your gang members for massive Rumbles, and take on various other challenges.
Hop on your motorcycle and charge the enemy base in strategic skirmishes featuring unparalleled spectacles.
As you build your team, you can make them stronger by buying new weapons and upgrading their uniforms and bikes. Put together the ultimate squad and protect the peace of Okinawa! Join the small-time Haisai Girls gang and protect Okinawa.
substories
One of the highlights of Yakuza is its compellingsubstories featuring the town’s residents. Here’s a taste of the excitement!
Mine’s Brutal Combat Techniques
Mine uses an elegant fighting style based on shoot-boxing. Exploit openings in your opponent’s defense to deliver refined combos and beat down enemies. Dash freely through the air to overwhelm foes with unpredictable movement.
Using Dark Awakening, Mine drops his facade, revealing his true ferocity and transforming his battle animations and techniques. Go berserk, drag your opponent’s faces along the ground, and brutalize them with a storm of relentless strikes. Let your dark side loose and go wild in battle!
Mine possesses many stylish, cold-blooded Heat Actions, including an all-out barrage to the face and a brutal gut punch. During Dark Awakening, his Heat Actions evolve. Channel Mine’s inner darkness and obliterate his enemies!
Kanda Damage Control：Mine spearheads a major PR campaign
As Mine, you are tasked with turning Kanda’s image around so he can climb through the ranks. You’ll need to use wits and knowledge to tackle various requests and challenges on Kanda’s behalf.
Many people around Kamurocho are saddled with woes. Solving their problems will boost Kanda’s public perception. You may also encounter people wrestling with some particularly heavy issues. You won’t want to miss how Mine deals with these problems!
Your progress in Kanda Damage Control will unlock Drink Links, which delve deeper into your relationship with Kanda.
Underground Fight Club：Survive a brutal game using brains and brawn!
Hell’s Arena is an underground fight club in Kamurocho where VIP investors place extravagant bets on brutal competitions.
Each day, Hell’s Arena hosts Hellish Brawls that push participants to the brink and Survival Hells, dangerous races where competitors are relentlessly chased by hunters.
As the organizers of Hell’s Arena pose a major threat to the Nishikiyama Family’s business operations, Mine has decided to bring them down by entering the arena himself.
In order to succeed, he’ll need to come out on top in a series of death-defying battles against formidable foes.
Entertainment
Yakuza Kiwami 3 brings back multiple fan-favorite minigames, from bowling to the Print Club. For the first time in series’ history, SEGA’s classic handheld console, the Game Gear, is playable in-game with multiple titles available. At the arcade, you can also cut loose with a treasure trove of machines, including UFO Catchers, Emergency Call Ambulance, and SlashOut!
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties will offer a wide range of add-on content to enhance your adventure, including extra outfits, additional Bad Boy Dragon crew members, cell phone customization options, and CDs that’ll let you use favorite karaoke tracks from past games as background music.A value-priced “Deluxe Edition,” which includes the digital version of the main game and all DLC, is also available.
Legendary Lads & Gals Pack
This pack adds Daigo Dojima, Goro Majima, and other Like a Dragon characters to Bad Boy Dragon in Yakuza Kiwami 3.
Legendary Character Outfit Pack
This pack contains extra outfits for Kazuma Kiryu to wear in Yakuza Kiwami 3, including iconic get-ups sported by yakuza legends like Daigo Dojima and Goro Majima, as well as T-shirts exclusively designed for Yakuza Kiwami 3.
Ryukyu Gal Gang: Customization Pack
This pack adds more ways to personalize your Baddie Uniforms and bikes in Yakuza Kiwami 3. Choose designs based on popular characters from the franchise, including Kazuma Kiryu and Ichiban Kasuga!
Flip Phone Customization Pack
This pack contains extra customization options for your flip phone, including lock screens, stickers, antennas, and straps based on popular characters from the Like a Dragon series.
Legendary BGM CD Pack
By picking up this pack, you’ll gain the option to play karaoke staples while exploring.
*You must install the latest update to use these add-ons.
*The Legendary Character Outfit Pack will be available after you unlock outfits in Chapter 2 of Yakuza Kiwami 3.
*The Legendary Lads & Gals Pack is unlocked by progressing through the Bad Boy Dragon story in Yakuza Kiwami 3.
The Ryukyu Gal Gang: Customization Pack is unlocked by progressing through the Bad Boy Dragon story in Yakuza Kiwami 3. You must reach the second set of bike and baddie uniform upgrades in order to customize them.
*The Flip Phone Customization Pack will be available after you unlock your cell phone in Chapter 1 of Yakuza Kiwami 3.
*The Legendary BGM CD Pack will be available after you unlock the CDs in Chapter 1 of Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties.
*All DLC aside from the Legendary BGM CD Pack can be used in Yakuza Kiwami 3.
*Any outfits, Baddies, CDs, and customization items for Bad Boy Dragon and your cell phone purchased as DLC will not count toward training challenges and other achievements.
*Please be careful not to purchase duplicate items.
*See store pages for further details.
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties
Demo Available Now!
This demo will give you a taste of both Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties. Explore the vibrant streets of Okinawa and Tokyo, enjoy a variety of minigames, duke it out in exhilarating combat, and experience engrossing substories.
“Pokopia was a huge surprise”.
This March, Pokémon is expanding beyond its usual battle roots, with a brand new new game called Pokémon Pokopia that seems to include a little bit of everything.
If the information and trailers shared about the game haven’t already sold you, maybe the reviews will. Here’s what our staff writer Ollie Reynolds had to say about it, and below this, you can see what other sites had to say based on their hands on impressions.
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Celebrating 30 years of Diablo.
As part of Blizzard’s 30th anniversary spotlight broadcast for the Diablo series this week, it has surprised fans with the release of brand new paid DLC for Diablo II: Resurrected.
It’s called Reign of the Warlock and is available today from the Switch eShop for $24.99 or your regional equivalent. It introduces the Warlock class and much more. Here’s a bit about this new class and you can check out the official gameplay trailer above.
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Layoffs have hit the development studio Wildlight Entertainment, makers of the recently released multiplayer shooter Highguard. This comes just over two weeks after the free-to-play game’s January 26 launch.
Former senior level designer Alex Graner posted on LinkedIn, “Unfortunately, along with most of the team at Wildlight, I was laid off today.” While the number of people who were laid off has not currently been confirmed, the studio’s LinkedIn page states that its size is/was 51-200 employees.
Wildlight’s official X/Twitter account confirmed the layoffs with a statement reading, “Today we made an incredibly difficult decision to part ways with a number of our team members while keeping a core group of developers to continue innovating on and supporting the game.”
On BlueSky, Mat Piscatella from Circana (which tracks game sales and engagement) highlighted, “Highguard debuted in the top 10 in weekly active users on US Steam, was top 20 on both US PlayStation and Xbox (Circana Player Engagement Tracker week ending 1/31/26) and yet…” According to SteamDB, Highguard reached a peak concurrent player count of 97,249 on PC via Steam on release day and experienced a sharp decline with only 4,524 players two weeks after launch.
Graner also said, “This one really stings as there was a lot of unreleased content I was really looking forward to that I and others designed for Highguard.” While it initially had a 3v3 competitive mode, a 5v5 mode was implemented just days after release due to player reception to the small scale of the original mode. The team revealed a content roadmap on launch day that included updates with new items, modes, and characters each month throughout the year packed into seven separate episodes; it’s unclear how the layoffs will affect the studio’s plans as of now, but Widllight says it’ll continue to support the game.
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Love and Deepspace is a virtual boyfriend game (also known as an otome game) where you play as a character who fights monster aliens while five men fight for her love. It’s available to download on iOS and Android and works on the old free-to-play, gacha mechanic. The ultimate aim is to build your relationships with one, two, or all of the men (we listen and we don’t judge) by interacting with them, fighting alongside them, texting them, completing their storylines and even… playing with claw machines to collect plushies. It was developed by Papergames, which is also the studio behind Infinity Nikki.
You know how it goes, a Deepspace Tunnel opens up and suddenly alien monsters are causing havoc. As the main character living in 2034, in the fictional Linkon City, it’s your job to battle these alien monsters as part of an organisation called the Hunters Association. The Hunters all wield a special ability called an Evol and yours is Resonance, one that works alongside other Evol wielders’ to boost their skills. Throw in a shady biotech company called EVER, an organized crime syndicate called Onychinus, the Farspace Fleet, medical experiments and secrets a plenty, and you’ve got the storyline that makes the average love story look like child’s play.
There are five potential love interests in Love and Deepspace. Each has a different personality and storyline, but the one thing they all have in common is being obsessed with you. You can choose to focus on just one or play the field, and while they are mentioned in each other’s storylines, they don’t interact directly. Each has a specific Evol (think superpower) and multiple storylines that take place in both the modern day and in different lifetimes.
Light spoiler warnings ahead, although the non-linear way in which you unlock memories means piecing the storylines together is more of a puzzle than a straight path.
There are a whole bunch of mechanics in Love and Deepspace, and all of them contribute to your relationship with the different male characters.
You take on different combat challenges in the storyline to progress, and regular activities like bounty hunts or Hunter training to earn rewards. You’re always paired with one of the male characters, and your choice of special attacks will depend on their Evol. Players have the option to set combat to an auto mode where the battle plays out without your input.
You’ll receive texts from each of the men at various points, and you’re giving a selection of dialogue options to reply with. As your relationship increases you’ll also get phone calls from them to discuss various events or check in. You can also comment on their posts on a Facebook like feed, send them emojis, and poke them.
You interact with each of the men in a setting called the Destiny Cafe. You can touch various parts of their body to elicit reactions, feel their heartbeat, or blow on your microphone.
In the Destiny cafe you can also prompt them to have different types of conversations with you. You can get them to introduce themselves to your family or friends (a great way to weird your parents out over lunch) or to suggest what you should have for breakfast. Again, the dialogue options are heavily guardrailed so this isn’t going to head into AI sexbot territory. Sorry. You can also use the notebook function to ask them to set reminders for you, everything from important dates to tracking your period.
Basically the world’s most handsome Pomodoro timers. You can choose to Work, Workout, Study or Sleep for a set amount of time with any of the guys, and you can even do it in AR mode, so that you can reach new heights of comforting delusion by framing them in your real surroundings.
With Love and Deepspace dates you can go with the guys to try and grab plush toys at a claw machine, play a game called Kitty Cards against them, and go to a photo studio to get video or snapshots with them, or of them. You can style them, change the poses and backgrounds, and they have way more patience than any real life love interest would. In this section you can also update a personal journal with stickers and notes and photos, listen to audio recordings starring them, or access ‘Falling for You’ videos and visual novels content telling the story of your relationship.
A recent addition, this mode brings a bit of The Sims to Love and Deepspace. You have a house to decorate with new rooms unlocking as you complete activities in the home, and each of the men can spend time with you there. It’s kinda cute to see badass Sylus dusting bookshelves because you’ve told him to do chores. There’s a gardening element too, where you can grow flowers that can be used in flower arranging without or without the boy’s input, and new blooms can be unlocked by hybridizing the plants.
Like Genshin Impact, you can buy or earn wishes to speed up your progress in Love and Deepspace, and there’s a number of in-game currencies which can be earned or bought.
Here the wishes represent memories with the men of Love and Deepspace, with different rarities and values attached to each. Five star memories, for instance, can be used to experience Each memory can be upgraded with Heartsand and crystals which can be earned by taking part in bounty hunts, or completing tasks and protocores, which are collected through combat.
Some memories are only available during special events, though those events are repeated sporadically to allow you more than one chance to grab specific wishes. Previous events have included a Star Wars style Throne of Eros storyline and Mortality’s Tenderness, which has a classical Chinese theme.
Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development at IGN and an elder millennial. She’s been a professional nerd since 2006 when she got her start on Official PlayStation Magazine in the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, horror movies, horror games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.
