The Pokémon Company already announced bundles for Pokémon: Let’s Go! The Pokémon: Let’s Go! Switch is one of the first special-edition consoles released by Nintendo since the hardware launched last March. Coming out that same day are the Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!, which can be purchased individually as well as in these numerous other sets.

It’s a good day for fighting game fans: A new Samurai Shodown game is heading to PlayStation 4. There are brief glimpses of fighters going head-to-head in the trailer, but it also does a good job of showing off how the newest Samurai Shodown, which is called Samurai Spirits in Japan, title looks. Samurai Shodown is one of the most revered fighting game franchises, especially with fighting game fans who were big into the genre in the 1990s. This is especially big news for fans: The last original,

PlayStation 4’s Project Judge is the latest title from the makers of the Yakuza series. Where Yakuza has explored the lives of organized crime members, Project Judge will be a detective story crossed with a courtroom drama. The cast, the visuals, a three-year development cycle and the economics of AAA video games suggest Sega sees Project Judge as the seed to a larger series. Project Judge is spearheaded by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios, which is headed by Sega chief product officer Toshihiro Nagoshi. P

Kingdom Hearts 3 won’t arrive till 2019, but fans of the beloved Square Enix series don’t have to wait that long for their next Kingdom Hearts fix. This holiday season, a Kingdom Hearts virtual reality experience will be coming to PlayStation VR. Kingdom Hearts: VR Experience will be a free 10-minute interactive video, featuring iconic moments from the Kingdom Hearts games. As you keep playing the virtual reality experience, more content will unlock. Kingdom Hearts: VR Experience will be availab

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, one of the trickiest of the classic Final Fantasy games to play “correctly,” is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch as Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition. The original Crystal Chronicles was released back in 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube, and required four Game Boy Advance systems and link cables to play the full multiplayer experience. It was a beautiful, complicated and expensive mess to play in the way it was intended. It was als

CyGames, best known for mobile titles like Granblue Fantasy, announced one of its first console-exclusive games ahead of this year’s Tokyo Game Show: Project Awakening. The description for the short clip only tells us this: “It’s time for the wolves of war to awaken.” It seems like our hero is contending with those “wolves,” whoever they are. Expect plenty of sword action against bloodthirsty monsters who have no qualms about beating the heck out of you either way. Also possible: These giant col

Dark Souls developer FromSoftware’s next title, Déraciné, has a release date. The first-person VR game, which was announced at this year’s E3 in Los Angeles, is set to launch on Nov. 6. Produced in partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Japan Studio, the $29.99 game will be a PlayStation VR exclusive. Today’s announcement was accompanied by a release trailer, which is embedded above. Déraciné will have a digital version available from the PlayStation Store and a physical version avail

Developer Square Enix debuted a new trailer for survival game Left Alive during Sony’s pre-Tokyo Game Show 2018 press conference. The trailer shows off the game’s world, which appears to be a war-torn city caught in the middle of a conflict between two armies. Although not the focus of the footage, giant mechs that wander the streets do appear a few times, hinting — as did the original teaser — that mechs could play a large role in the game’s combat. According to Square Enix, Left Alive is a “su

Pokémon Go’s next event is a big one for anyone in need of hard-to-find Pokémon. Called the Ultra Bonus Event, the campaign will send four different legendary Pokémon back into Raid Battles, including one for the first time. First off, the legendaries: Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres will be at gyms worldwide for legendary Raid Battles, including their special shiny versions. They’ll be hanging out from Sept. 13 at 4 p.m. EDT, when the Ultra Bonus Event kicks off, until Sept. 20. The Ultra Bonus Ev

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is juggling a lot. It takes places some 300-plus years before Assassin’s Creed Origins — the game in which the Brotherhood of Assassins is born, which raises the question, “Where are we now?”Last week I muscled my way through the first six to seven hours of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey at a demo session. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey does its damndest to stay familiar, while recognizing that something’s gotta change. “I think that’s where Assassin’s Creed needed to go.”This is, o

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is an unusual game. Here’s where the specialists — Black Ops 4’s take on character classes — come in handy. It’s a model that games like Overwatch and Rainbow Six: Siege have found success in, and Black Ops 4 takes a similar approach. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One on Oct. 12. Black Ops 4’s Blackout open beta launches Monday on PS4, before launching Sept. 14 on Xbox One and Sept. 15 on PC.

More than a dozen games into the series, Shadow of the Tomb Raider suggests the core of the Tomb Raider franchise has been rotten since its debut in 1996. The modern Tomb Raider games emphasize fun, particularly Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It goes considerably further with its antagonism of the central tenets of the Tomb Raider series. Tomb Raider being problematic doesn’t mean they want to destroy or even revise Tomb Raider into something else. It can’t change what Tomb Raider is, but it aspires

Tokyo Game Show, one of the biggest gaming conventions in Tokyo, is just around the corner, and Square Enix has debuted a new Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer to celebrate. The newest addition to the Kingdom Hearts family is Big Hero 6’s adorable Baymax and his equally cute human counterpart, Hiro. The two were introduced to the Disney family in 2014 through a stand-alone Big Hero 6 movie, but more recently appeared in an ongoing Big Hero 6 series on Disney XD. Square Enix first announced in 2015 that B

I feel like NBA Live 19 smooths the last spadeful of dirt on the plot of its absentee parents, Elite and NBA Live 13. It’s part of the skills tutorial in the NBA Elite 11 demo, and it brought back a lot of bad memories when I saw it again on Wednesday. It’d be fitting to give the NBA Elite 11 demo a symbolic deletion, but I won’t. Though it’d be fitting to give the NBA Elite 11 demo a symbolic deletion, it’s too important for that. NBA Live 19 isn’t a breakthrough in the sense it has some transf

note: The following contains major spoilers for Iron Fist season two]About halfway through the season, Danny Rand’s former friend Davos steals the power of the Iron Fist. If you’re wondering what the deal with that is, it all ties back to one of the previous Iron Fists: Orson Randall. Danny and Orson have an even stronger tie than the Iron Fist mantle. During this season of Iron Fist, a mummified body dressed in Iron Fist clothing is discovered, later identified as one Orson Randall. In the curr

Slipped into Bungie’s weekly update last Thursday was this promise: First fireteam to beat Destiny 2: Forsaken’s Last Wish raid is going to get a pro-rasslin’ style championship belt. Who knows what the other premiums are, but I’m betting that a heavyweight championship belt is the best one of the lot. Last Wish goes live on Friday, Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. PT. Bungie waited 10 days to introduce it to give players more time to prepare to take down its adversaries. But as becoming World First (this is

The SoCal Regionals fighting game tournament has introduced, and now altered, new security measures for event next weekend, in response to the mass shooting at a Madden NFL tournament in Florida on Aug. 26. Though some in the fighting game community supported the enhanced security measures, others on social media criticized them as onerous, time-consuming and an overreaction. Kotaku first reported on the SoCal Regionals’ security response in a story published Friday. The SoCal Regionals’ revised

What should have been a sweet surprise for a fan in Spider-Man has turned into “the best saddest Easter egg ever.” Insomniac Games is offering to patch it out anyway. It involves fan Tyler Schultz, who in May tweeted at Insomniac asking for help proposing to his girlfriend. He said his girlfriend added that the video game message wasn’t the way she wanted to be proposed to, either. “This might go down in history as the saddest Easter egg? — Jacinda Chew (@jacinda_chew) September 9, 2018“I’m pret

The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep, launching Sept. 18, brings a robust original soundtrack, but as its forebears are more than 30 years old, it couldn’t really look to their chiptunes for inspiration. Producer Ged Grimes (who the chyron helpfully notes is a member of Simple Minds) introduces the singers and musicians. More than 100 pieces comprise The Bard’s Tale 4’s soundtrack. InXile said that the retail price will drop to $34.95 and then $29.95 respectively if 300,000 and 500,000 players wishli

A few summer sales are still happening but we’re also starting to see holiday shopping bundles pop up, like Best Buy’s popular Switch bundle, which includes half off your choice of one of the system’s best games. Dell’s annual sale is happening now as well, with discounts on Alienware gaming PCs, desktops and monitors. In other gaming deal news, Overwatch was added to October’s Humble Monthly, the PC mystery game bundle. Polygon Deals is a weekly roundup of the best deals on the internet, curate