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For the first time in a long time, Rayquaza is coming to Pokemon Go (opens in new tab). As Niantic announced (opens in new tab) today, the Legendary Pokemon will appear in five-star raids from Wednesday, July 31 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm BST through Monday, September …

The PS4 update 7.00 beta is going live, and if you signed up for testing you may have an invite code waiting in your mailbox right now. Sony hasn’t made any official announcements to the public, but PS4 owners are sharing the messages they received along with their invites to …

Gamescom 2019 takes place in Cologne, Germany from Tuesday, August 20 to Saturday, August 24, and you can generally think of it as a slightly calmer, more fan oriented after-dinner mint to the madness that was E3 2019 (opens in new tab).  That’s not to say there won’t be announcements …

Just a week on from announcing the Nintendo Switch Lite (opens in new tab), a smaller, cheaper model of its best selling eighth generation console, the video game company has unexpectedly dropped information about another new variant of the Switch’s original hardware.  This new model, unlike the Lite, is designed …

Between Rage 2 and Borderlands 3 (opens in new tab), this has been a good year for the trailers of batshit-crazy open-world shooters. Borderlands 3’s latest offering, appropriately titled So Happy Together and set to the titular song by The Turtles, is yet another goodun. We’ve already seen some gameplay …

 Remember those personality quizzes you got in teen magazines back in the day? Well, The Sims 4 (opens in new tab) is bringing them back as a part of the sim creation process. It’s a new game mode for Create-A-Sim that will feature probing questions like their music taste, what …

Ubisoft has pulled the plug on a number of fan-created content in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey after it noticed “an increasing flow of ‘farming quests'” that reportedly “exploited” the feature by offering low-challenge, high-XP encounters purely to farm XP. Launched in June, Story Creator enables players to create – and share …

With the Destiny 2 Shadowkeep (opens in new tab) reveal and ViDoc, Bungie committed to turning Destiny 2 into an unabashed action MMO (opens in new tab). We’re getting a revamped armor system in the expansion, for instance, as well as new abilities called finishing moves. In a recent interview …

Disintegration is the new game from V1 Interactive, a studio founded by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, and it’s going to be a sci-fi first-person shooter. The studio has been taking shape since 2014 after Lehto left Bungie, and it’s finally ready to share more about its first project. In this …

A new game in the Splinter Cell series could finally be coming… to Oculus VR headsets. The Facebook-owned virtual reality company has reportedly signed deals with Ubisoft to bring exclusive versions of Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed to Oculus. While Assassin’s Creed has been going strong for more than a …