A popular video game developed by a Japanese studio has set off an unexpected cloud-computing race between Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding, as the two Chinese tech giants rush to draw players to their respective servers. Palworld, an open-world survival game developed by Pocketpair that lets players catch and raise creatures known as Pals …
huge number of players. Pocket Pair With the recent runaway success of Palworld, there is a lot of discussion about how the game managed this. The clear answer is that it is piggybacking off of Pokémon. This is not to say Palworld is not a good game. In fact, Palworld plays great, but that’s not …
Pokémon GO helped me to kickstart my New Year’s fitness resolutions to be the very best, like no one ever was. Pokémon GO launched in Australia in mid-2016, and created what felt like a collective societal shift amongst users – walking outdoors, you’d see groups of people wandering the streets with their phones out, and …
When staying at a hotel, it is customary to tip the staff that carry your bags or bring your dinner—but one hotel worker has caused amazement by revealing the unusual way one guest tips him. Adam Donovan, an employee at a hotel on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of …
HT Webster’s prophetic 2023 cartoon A list of over 4,000 artists whose work was used to train artificial intelligence (AI) products has been making the rounds of social media since Jon Lam, a storyboard artist at Riot Games, Tweeted screenshots of conversations with Midjourney CEO David Holz on the Midjourney Discord server. The conversations included …
After over 1,200 episodes and well over a dozen films, Ash Ketchum’s Pokémon journey concluded earlier this year. But you’d be crazy if you thought that would be the end of the immensely successful anime series. Pokémon Horizons is on the way to pick up the mantle, with Netflix confirming in a new trailer that …
Pokémon Concierge, a stop-motion animation show from Japan’s Dwarf Studio, will be available for streaming on Netflix starting on December 28. The streaming service has announced the show’s arrival nine months after revealing the project, which it says is the “first-ever collaborative production between Netflix and The Pokémon Company.” Pokémon Concierge has a totally different …
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet now have a trailer and release date. The latest additions to the long-running Pokémon game series are set to arrive on Nintendo Switch on November 18. This announcement was accompanied by a three-minute-long trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. These games will be the first fully open-world Pokémon games that will …
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet will feature three unique campaign modes and rideable Legendaries. Developer Game Freak confirmed during a Pokémon Presents broadcast on Wednesday that the standard gym-centric story mode can be tackled in any order. Players have no linear path in terms of gym battles, and can challenge anyone from the 8 new leaders …
