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Pokémon Pokopia review – collectible creatures create their own perfect world

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Nintendo Switch 2; Game Freak/Omega Force/Nintendo Work together with a bunch of lovable Pokémon to restore a long-abandoned town in this novel, absorbing game that’s quite unlike others in the seriesBear with me here: Pokémon has always had an environmentalist subtext. As you wander its verdant, creature-filled worlds, collecting species like an acquisitive David Attenborough, […]

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Even for fans like me, the Pokémon 30th anniversary ‘stuff’ is a bit much

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With the wait for the new Winds and Waves games set to stretch into 2027, Pokemon’s 30th anniversary celebrations have plugged the gap with a deluge of nostalgia bait. Is the franchise in danger of losing its heart?• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt has been almost impossible to escape

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Five of the most interesting upcoming indie games

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From the ghostly Shutter Story to road trip adventure Outbound and strategy puzzler Titanium Court, here are the titles we enjoyed the most from this year’s Steam Next Fest showcaseThese days, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that every new indie game is either a co-op extraction shooter or a roguelike deck-builder

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Stardew Valley at 10: the anticapitalist game that cures burnout and inspires queer art

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Since 2016, the cosy, inclusive, non-heteronormative escapism of the beloved farming sim has inspired a community of devoted fans, and helped it shift 50m unitsWhen farming sim Stardew Valley first came out back in 2016, most of us saw it as a modest indie hit, offering charm, wit and a beautiful little world. Ten years

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£12m for a Pokémon card? If you’re not in the game you’re missing a trick

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The record sum paid at auction for a rare example is part of a boom in trading cards – and the prices can be staggeringFor £12m, you could buy a seven-bedroom mansion in Hampstead, north London, or a Bugatti La Voiture Noire, one of the world’s most coveted sports cars, with a few hundred thousand

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Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film | Dominik Diamond

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With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur moviesI spent Valentine’s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It’s a new game called Speed Dates – Winter Edition, which I only chanced upon when

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Resident Evil Requiem review – there’s plenty of life in the undead yet

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Fear, fights and feverish fanservice collide in this celebration of Resident Evil’s recent and retro legacyPC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2; CapcomThere’s often an undercurrent of existential fatigue in games that look back at their legacy. Dark Souls III’s dying kingdom, Metal Gear Solid 4’s decrepit Snake. So when Capcom showed us an ageing

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