Attention all Bulbasaur plushie owners and potential future Bulbasaur plushie owners. The Pokemon Company has officially announced a Pokemon Presents showcase set to take place in July. Plus, we finally know for sure when exactly Pokemon Legends Z-A will be arriving for Switch 2 and original Switch.

This next Pokemon Presents will be taking place on Tuesday, July 22, meaning you’ve got a month and a bit to wait. You’ll be able to watch it at 6AM PST, which is 2PM BST, 9AM ET, and 3PM CEST via the official Pokemon YouTube channel.

There’ve been no further details announced as to what it’ll feature, aside from “the latest news and updates from the world of Pokemon”, which yeah, duh, Pokemon showcase. It’s worth noting that Nintendo’s Switch 2 will have been out a month and a bit by then, so it seems likely we could see some more Pokemon games aimed at that console.

One that pretty much seems like a lock unless TPC thinks it’s shared enough info already is Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which has just finally been given a full release date. Both the Switch 2 and original Switch versions will be dropping on October 16, with eShop pre-orders kicking off June 5. The game’s moody nighttime cover art has also been revealed.

“Players who purchase either the physical or digital version of Pokémon Legends: Z-A for Nintendo Switch will have the option to upgrade to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition by purchasing an upgrade pack,” TPC wrote, “Upgrade packs will be available on Nintendo eShop and My Nintendo Store.”

If you’ve forgotten what the game is here’s the synopsis: “Pokemon Legends: Z-A is a new frontier for the Pokémon video game series, blending an RPG story unfolding in a single city with action elements and a real-time battle system unlike anything seen before in the franchise Trainers can look forward to the beginning of a new adventure in Lumiose City—one woven by people and Pokémon together!”

If you’re planning on playing a bunch more Pokemon TCG Pocket while you wait for this next Presents showcase to roll around, you can consult our huge array of helpful TCG Pocket guides for expert advice on things like assembling decks based around ex Pokemon ranging from Cresselia to Yanmega.

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Indie developer Bellring Games announced a release date for Mistfall Hunter, their PvPvE extraction RPG set in a dark fantasy world.

Mistfall Hunter is set to release across Windows PC (Steam), Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 on July 29th. An open beta is launching on June 14th, too.

Here’s a rundown on the new details, plus a trailer:

Mistfall Hunter drops players into the Gyldenmist as Gyldhunters: class-based warriors hunting the corroded horrors that stalk the fog. Squad up in three-player teams or push in solo, choose your class, and extract before something out there extracts you.

Meet the Withered Knight

Once they were Rose Knights of the Kingdom of Gaenaria: sworn, ceremonial, gilded. Now they are exiles, cast to the North and branded “Withered Knights.” Their armor is worn. Their honor is shattered. Their faith is not.

In Mistfall Hunter, the Withered Knight strides into the Gyldenmist with a two-handed greatsword and a chivalric code that won’t quit. The weapon’s reach is unusually long, rewarding patient spacing and clean reads. But the class is built around something more interesting than raw damage. At its heart is a sigil-and-detonation loop that turns every encounter into a setup for a payoff.

Core kit:

• Withering Sigils + Reckoning: Mark enemies in combat. Detonate the sigils at the right moment for layered damage and battlefield control.
• Parry: A precise, timing-based defensive tool. Mistime it and eat the hit. Land it and flip the exchange.
• Thorn Guide: A grappling skill that drags enemies into position, pulling targets out of formation for teammates to clean up.
• Withering Talent: The class’s defining mechanic. Suppress and grind down with Sigils, or break enemy lines at the decisive moment. Your build, your call.

The Withered Knight joins an existing roster that includes the Mercenary, Sorcerer, Blackarrow, Shadowstrix, and Seer. It slots cleanly into three-player team compositions as a tempo-setter and crowd-control specialist.

Open Beta: June 14

Mistfall Hunter opens its doors to the full community with a public open beta on Saturday, June 14 at 6:00 PM PT to June 22nd at 3am PT across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation. The open beta is the first chance for players to experience the full three-player co-op loop ahead of launch.

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The Genshin Impact 3.5 livestream date and time has been announced, and as always, will provide information on the upcoming Banner schedule and events included with the free update.

3.5 is expected to debut 5-Star and 4-Star characters in new Banners, as well as provide the usual new and returning events.

We’ll cover the exact 3.5 livestream time and date in Genshin Impact below, and also provide all the information we know about upcoming Banners from reliable leakers.

Update: If you’re after the limited-time 3.5 livestream codes, be sure you check out our Genshin Impact codes page for the three codes that drop during the stream for x300 Primogems and other rewards! For all other information on Banners and events, check out our version 3.4 and version 3.5 hub pages.

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Genshin Impact 3.5 livestream date and time in UK, GMT, CET, EST and PST

The Genshin Impact 3.5 livestream is on Friday, 17th February at 7am (UTC-5) on the official Genshin Impact Twitch channel.

In other timezones, the Genshin Impact 3.5 livestream time is:

• UK: 12pm (GMT)
• Europe: 1pm (CET)
• East Coast US: 7am (EST)
• West Coast US: 4am (PST)

The 3.5 livestream is then set to go live on the official Youtube channel an hour hour later at 8am (UTC-5). This is three hours earlier than it usually gets uploaded.

As well as upcoming Banner and event details, the 3.5 livestream will provide limited codes that will expire less than a day after the stream ends. You can visit our Genshin Impact codes page to stay up to date with these intermitent drops throughout the stream.

What to expect from Genshin Impact 3.5 Banners

We’ll have to wait for the 3.5 livestream for official details on who the character event Banners will be, but there has been some leakers providing information on the possible upcoming 3.5 Banners for Phase 1 and Phase 2 – though not as precise leaks as we’re used to.

There’s usually a whole bunch of leaks all but confirming what the new and returning Banners will be, but we don’t actually have an awful lot of information to go on this time. Perhaps it’s because of the recent legal trouble some leakers have got into?

That said, we’re inclined to be believe that new 5-Star Pyro character Deyha and new 4-Star Cryo character Mika will be included in the next Banners in Genshin Impact. Their marketing has been kicked into full gear on the official Genshin Twitter account, and beta testers have been playing as them in the latest test servers.

As for reruns, the SaveYourPrimos website has compiled all of more believable rumours out there and has noted the following characters could have reruns in the 3.5 Banners:

• Albedo
• Cyno
• Eula
• Klee
• Shenhe

To add our own speculation, we think it’s most likely at Eula and Shenhe will have reruns, as their Banners haven’t been seen as recently as Aldebo, Klee, and Cyno’s. However, Genshin Impact has been basing Banner runs off story and events more recently, so take that with a pinch of salt.

Just like the character Banners, we only have speculation and rumours on what the next weapon Banner will feature in Genshin Impact.

As Deyha is all but confirmed to feature in one of the next Banners, she should have a new 5-Star claymore signature weapon to run alongside her in the next Epitome Invocation Banner.

Apart from this likely inclusion, we can only speculate on what the other three 5-Stars will be across both phases, as we don’t have the usual reliable leaks on what 5-Star characters will be featured.

Here’s what weapons should be featured in the next weapon Banners, depending on what 5-Star character gets a rerun:

• Calamity Queller polearm (Shenhe’s signature)
• Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds (featured on Klee’s last rerun)
• Primordial Jade Cuter (featured on Albedo’s last rerun)
• Staff of the Scarlet Sands polearm (Cyno’s signature)
• Song of Broken Pines claymore (Eula’s signature)

As a reminder, none of this information is official, so we’ll have to wait until the 3.5 livestream for solid details on who and what will be on the next Banners in Genshin Impact.

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Bandai Namco and Project Aces have confirmed the release date for Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, launching the latest entry in the hit dogfighting series on 2nd October for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.

Pre-ordering will net you a fresh port of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War from 2006, and an unlock for the F-14A.

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is a direct sequel to Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown which released all the way back in 2019. This time out, you’re a fighter pilot, adrift at sea in a rescue boat until the outdated aircraft carrier, Endurance, pulls you aboard. The ageing vessel, its decks crowded with refugees, has already retreated far from the front lines.

On this ship, you’re given a new name: “Wings of Theve”. A legendary ace, a symbol of hope, a name tied to Theve, the FCU capital. But, as it turns out, that legend was a lie; it was just a story made to keep morale alive. Now, you must carry that name and take to the skies with three new comrades at your side, fighting to reclaim your lost homeland.

Ace Combat 7 earned a hefty 9/10 when it launched, where I said, “In Ace Combat 7, dogfighting games have a new Top Gun. The VR sadly turned my stomach, but the series’ trademark action is bigger and better than ever, with the spectacular weather effects introducing a level of realism and drama that will win over any wannabe Mavericks.”

I definitely can’t wait to check out some more aerial combat, and I’ll certainly try to remember more of the story this time out, with the new first-person cutscenes looking like they’ll put you right at the centre of the action.

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We have been permanently standing in a state of ‘Squidward window meme’ since LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight launched on every platform but Switch 2 last month, but Warner Bros. Games finally has some release date news for us.

As revealed in a new trailer (above), LEGO Batman will arrive on Switch 2 on 18th September, and pre-orders are now open!

The Switch 2 launch date will also see the arrival of the game’s ‘Mayhem Collection DLC’, which adds in a playable Joker and Harley Quinn, a new story mission, ‘Mayhem Mode’ and more. The expansion is included in the ‘Deluxe Edition’ release, which also bundles in the ‘Legacy Collection’ extras, three-day early access and the ‘Dark Knight Returns’ Batsuit — that last one is also included with Standard Edition pre-orders.

For those who have missed this one so far, Legacy of the Dark Knight is a new open-world LEGO game set in Gotham City. It’s absolutely full to the brim with Batman in-jokes and references and features the vocal talents of none other than Matt Berry as Bane. Come on, what’s not to like?

The September release window is a pretty stacked one (it joins Insomniac’s Wolverine as another superhero launch in that week), but we’ll be carving out some time, nonetheless. After all, it’s the game we all need.

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Amazon Prime Day is back, it is four days long again, and, for the first time in Prime Day’s history, it’s kicking off in June rather than July. 

So, if you spent last summer waiting until mid-July to buy that thing at a discounted price, you now have about two fewer weeks to make up your mind.

When is Prime Day 2026 sale?

Prime Day 2026 runs through June 23–26, kicking off at 12:01 a.m. PDT on June 23. That brings it roughly two weeks ahead of the Prime Day 2025 sale, which ran July 8–11. 

Amazon has not explained the shift, but I think there’s a reasonable explanation here. Moving to late June positions the event squarely ahead of the back-to-school shopping season, rather than overlapping with it. 

The change, in my opinion, could benefit both buyers and sellers. What’s even more interesting is that you don’t have to wait until June 23 as early deals are already live across Amazon’s devices, books, Audible, Prime Video, groceries, and items sold by small businesses. 

What deals are available right now before Prime Day starts?

If you’re a Prime member, you can save up to 65% on select Kindle, Echo, Ring, Fire TV, Blink, and eero devices right now. In fact, Amazon Haul has deals starting at $1, which, if you ask me, add up quite fast to your cart’s bill. 

Books are up to 65% off in print and up to 80% off on Kindle for the e-reading enthusiasts. You can read more about the early Prime deals here. Apart from these, you should also get deals on products from other brands that the e-commerce platform would either unveil a few days ahead of the event or during the event. 

Prime members in other regions like Australia, Brazil, India, and Japan will get their version of Prime Day later this summer. The event otherwise covers 23 countries including the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and others.

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Wondering when Skarner is receiving the next visual and gameplay update (VGU)? Here is what we know about the champion so far.

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Skarner VGU 2024 –  Everything We Know So Far

Skarner was voted by the community as the champion that would receive a rework in 2023. Being one of the least-played junglers in the game, due to his dependency on the spires, Skarner will hopefully get a new exciting kit like the recent Aurelion Sol CGU.

At the start of the new 2023 season, Riot Games’ development team updated fans on the upcoming Skarner VGU: “The Skarner VGU team has started exploring ways to dial up his scorpion fantasy,” is what Lexi Gao, Riot’s champion product manager said in the new season announcement video. “At this phase, we’re leaving no arthropod-hiding stone unturned to find exciting themes, kits, and stories.”

The champion won the fan vote last February, beating out Shyvana, Kog’Maw, Tryndamere and Nocturne. This means that it’s been one year since the rework was decided. According to the dev post made by Rioter Lexi “Lexical” Gao, Skarner is one of the least popular champions in League in all areas that we survey, except for familiarity with backstory.

After nearly a year from the previous update, Riot is finally releasing the reworked Skarner. It’s been one hell of a ride, but here we are.

When is the VGU going to hit the live servers?

Riot will be releasing Skarner to the live servers with Patch 14.7, which is planned to be released on April 3, 2024.

Skarner’s new theme

In the dev update, Art Directo Larry “The BravoRay” Ray went on to break Skarner down based on his visual cues: scorpion, crystals, and the good hero archetype. While they did consider keeping the crystal theme, Riot ultimately decided to amplify his good/lawful character archetype and scorpion fantasy, completely omitting the other.

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In the end, after considering different power fantasies, they went for elemental magic, thus the link to the Ixtal region.

This allowed us to explore different power fantasies in the Runeterran universe, from Voidspawn to Hextech-empowered. But we decided to hone in on the elemental magic, as we felt it left a lot of creative freedom for every aspect of his development.

“We brought in more of a crustacean’s heavily-weighted shell shape while leveling up his scorpion tail to a three-pronged stinger for grabbing his prey, making him appear like an intimidating indestructible beast to his enemies,” said Larry.

Riot also updated the champion’s description, which you can find below:

The ancient brackern Skarner is revered in Ixtal as one of the founding members of its ruling caste, the Yun Tal, and is devoted to keeping Ixtal safe from the rest of the world by maintaining the region’s isolation. As more members of the Yun Tal begin to question this decision, Skarner grows increasingly paranoid and will do anything to keep Ixtal and its people safe—no matter the cost. 2/2 “I am the first Yun Tal, and I will be the last.” “I am the vanguard of Ixtal’s protection.” “All crumble in the wake of my calamity!

The Skarner Gameplay Rework

In one of the latest dev blogs, we finally got a preview of how Skarner’s kit will look like in the game. To know all the numbers, check out our Skarner ability rundown.

Q ability

The Q will be his moment-to-moment combat ability: Skarner tears a piece of terrain from the Rift itself and carries it around with him. While it’s supposed to have a long cast time, Skarner’s boulder empowers his auto attacks, but he can also throw the boulder for a slow and a big chunk of damage. This should help him improve his clear and then give him the ability to finish off the escaping enemies.

W ability

Skarner smashes the ground, releasing waves from the earth and gaining a shield.

E ability

Skarner’s E is also completely revamped. The champion continually gains movement speed with limited controls and tries to collide with a target. If he finds a target to grab he has a short window to pin them to a wall for a stun and bonus damage. If he manages to smash the target into the wall, Skarner will be able to grab another rock that he can throw with his Q.

R ability

For the ultimate, Skarner can now Impale up to three enemy champions, all while damaging and suppressing them while he gains bonus movement speed for a short time before carrying that champion until the effect ends.

READ ALSO: Riot releases new Dev Update - Skarner, Quick play, and more

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Dead Island 2’s release date has been quite the saga.

Today, Dambuster Studios revealed Dead Island 2 will now make its zombie-riddled debut a week earlier than previously announced.

Yes, make a new note in your diary, as its release date has changed again. We are now expecting the game to launch on 21st April.

“You asked for it, you got it,” the developer shared in a brief update today alongside a collection of messages imploring the Dead Island 2 team to finally get the game out the door.

Needless to say, knowing the game has finally gone gold is a very exciting milestone for all those eager to get their hands on more zombie gore. After all, the game was initially announced all the way back in 2014.

Dead Island 2 is currently available to preorder through the game’s site. Those that choose to do this will get some customary preorder bonuses.

Additionally, when Dead Island 2 does release, it will come with a new gaming feature known as Alexa Game Control.

This feature, announced by Amazon last year, will see players be able to control aspects of their game via voice activated software. In Dead Island 2, this will mean users will be able to help them navigate through LA (or Hell A, as the Dead Island 2 team has branded it) by saying things such as “where is the nearest workbench”.

What holds the most potential for fun, perhaps, is that this new feature will allow Dead Island 2 players to “manipulate zombie hordes” by saying “Hey zombie” into the mic.

For more on Dead Island 2, check out Ian’s interview with developers David Stenton and James Worral, where they talk more about their new and improved version of the game.

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Google has been unusually quiet about its Gemini-powered Home Speaker ever since announcing it in October 2025. I was expecting the device to make an appearance at the I/O 2026, but that didn’t happen either. 

Now, a product page on Best Buy Canada just casually posted (read leaked) a release date, suggesting the wait is almost over.

What does the leak suggest?

As per the Best Buy page, the Home Speaker might be released on June 25, 2026 (via 9To5Google). The page has since been updated, and the launch date has been removed, which is the kind of thing that usually happens with real release dates rather than placeholders.

So, how do we know about the release date? Several outlets captured screenshots before the date was removed. Even though Google hasn’t confirmed the Home Speaker’s launch date yet, June 25 is just four days after spring officially ends on June 21, which adds more credibility to it. 

In my opinion, the delay is intentional. Google had to finish rolling out Gemini for Home to existing hardware before introducing new devices, and that rollout has been active since October 2025, with updates arriving three to four times per month since March 2026. 

What does the Google Home Speaker actually offer?

The device wraps a 360-degree fabric design around everything except the base, which houses a microphone mute switch and a ring of status lights, which glow dynamically when the speaker is listening, thinking, or responding. Some features, including brainstorming, require a Gemini subscription

You can also pair two speakers with the Google TV Streamer for a home cinema setup, and stereo pairing with existing Nest Audio speakers enables multi-room audio throughout the house. 

Google’s Gemini AI assistant enables natural language conversation, along with smart home control and automation. Priced at $99.99 in the US, it will be available in four colors: Berry, Hazel, Jade, and Porcelain. Availability is confirmed for 19 countries including the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Ireland, and Japan.

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