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Persona 5 treats men and women very differently. It centres around a co-ed friendship group, but that’s about as far as it goes when it comes to gender equality. From the characters themselves, to the way the game treats them, the villains, and the Personas, it’s clear that Persona 5 cannot separate women from the idea of sex - especially when power is involved. Let’s look at the gang first. Joker can pursue a romantic relationship with each of the female friends in his group, and there’s nothing wrong with this....

As far as sports games go, 2K Games may be the top dog in the industry. One thing is for certain, 2K took the NBA license and worked wonders with it. And now, it looks to do the same with PGA TOUR 2K21. Recently, Game Rant spent some time with PGA 2K21 and there are some features that will be exciting for many fans, including a super customizable course designer, a massive PGA Tour Career Mode, tons of modes and settings, new swing mechanics, and much more....

Following a day long review of Project Scorpio development, Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirms that “amazing progress” is being made on the new Xbox One console. One of the biggest stories of the gaming year is Microsoft’s announcement of Project Scorpio. A beefed up Xbox One, the upgraded version of the console promises 4K gaming and high fidelity VR, along with 8 CPU cores and impressive 320 GB per second of memory bandwidth....

Independent video game developer Orbit Studio and publisher Super.com recently announced their next new game, a single-player action exploration adventure called Retro Machina. The game is currently scheduled for a Q1 2021 release date for Windows PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Steam is the only platform to currently have a placeholder page for Retro Machina, so wishlist away. While you’re there, check out the current Super....

Wednesday morning Sony released a “Road to PS5” presentation, a 52-minute technical breakdown of the PlayStation 5 hardware. During the presentation, Sony’s Mark Cerny went through each of the PS5’s core components, including its CPU and GPU. The key part of Cerny’s PS5 presentation, however, remains the console’s SSD. It’s this drive that reportedly makes the PS5 such an incredibly fast next-gen console. On paper, Sony lists the PS5’s internal storage as a “custom 825GB SSD....

Sounds like the PlayStation 5’s backward compatibility will be a lot better and around for a lot longer than the PlayStation 3’s. Once every seven years or so, the leading names in console development deem it time for a new generation to take place. The next generations will begin at the end of this year, so long as the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is slowed or stopped by then. At that point, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be replaced with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X....

Pokémon Gold and Silver came out almost 20 years ago, yet the games left a lasting impression that many fans still haven’t forgotten. And how have fans shown their appreciation for the sequel to one of the most important video games of our generation? The way that all modern fans do: by creating a plethora of hilarious and obscure memes. We’ve compiled a list of our favorites, which encompasses everything we love about Johto and its games: the Pokémon, the personalities, the places, the graphics, the legends, and of course the nostalgia....

There are many different beta designs for Pokémon that never released in the video games and were scrapped for many different reasons, such as that they weren’t interesting enough or were generally basic. However, although there were a lot of boring beta designs for Pokémon, there were also a lot of designs that fans wish would have ended up in the final version of the generation that they were being designed for....

Villains in Pokémon games are not exactly easy to get right, on one hand, they have to be villainous enough to work as antagonists in the player’s journey to become the very best, yet at the same time, every bad guy has to stay in line with Pokémon’s “E for Everyone” rating with schemes that are still easy to grasp for younger audiences. Throughout the years, Pokémon villains’ motives have been all over the place, from Giovanni’s Team Rocket beginnings as a simple criminal organization to Ghetsis’ desires for world domination, evil manifests itself in all kinds of ways in Pokémon....

As Pokemon fans grow older and reminisce about the older days of the franchise, the Kanto region and the first generation of Pokemon is often the main and only focus of the conversation. Though Pokemon Red and Blue are widely beloved, Pokemon Gold and Silver are the go-to favorites of an entire generation of kids. The games took place in the Johto region and were home to new baby Pokemon, the legendary Lugia and many other intriguing new beasts besides....

Pokemon GO’s August Community Day is just a week away, which means players have Eevee, and its many evolutions, on the brain. This weekend Pokemon GO players will have not just three, but six hours to catch as many of the Gen 1 creature as possible and expand their collection with shiny spawns, Eevee evolutions, and hopefully a few more surprises. The basic idea of Community Day is pretty simple: Go out and catch a ton of pokemon for three hours, but this time around things are different....

Pokemon GO developer Niantic has already made several big announcements about the game this week as more Gen 3 Pokemon are on the way and the new dynamic weather system is also releasing soon. But these aren’t the only things that Niantic is working on, as the developer has just revealed another significant gameplay feature. In a developer insights blog post, Niantic describes a new Pokemon GO feature which it calls ‘Battle Parties....

Since the feature was launched, EX Raid Battles in Pokemon GO have been the cause of a lot of complaints. The only way to get hold of the legendary Pokemon Mewtwo, EX Raiding is a process that has up until this point been buggy and relatively disorganized, but new changes from developer Niantic should be working to improve the system for all players. On top of this, regular Raid Battles are about to get a whole lot more rewarding....

Summer is pretty much here, which means it’s time to celebrate with Pokemon GO! This year, the game is once again delivering some seriously valuable in-game rewards if players around the globe are able to complete a series of difficult challenges. The first Global Research Challenge has been successfully triggered, but there are still a few more in-store if the Pokemon GO community is able to accomplish everything else on the list....

Pokemon GO fans had about a month to campaign for their favorite picks for September and October Community Day, but the big vote and come and gone and now the decision is final. Voting took place over the weekend and in both the mock poll and the final poll there was a landslide victory for the two winners and the runner-ups were left in the dust with barely 8% of the total vote combined....

When it comes to retro-inspired first-person shooters, I’m something of an aficionado. Having loved them as a kid, my interest in the genre waned during the seventh console generation as the market became dominated with Call of Duty copycats and overly realistic games. With the boom of the indie market in the early 2010s, things started to change for the better. To cut down on recapping the past, I’ll simply say that finding FPS titles in a wide variety of styles and niches is much easier nowadays....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on PC and console has a different development track than PUBG Mobile, similar to its first-person shooter competitor Call of Duty. While PUBG Season 10 began last week, introducing a new map called Haven that features a faction of AI-controlled fighters, PUBG Mobile has primarily been focused on its winter-themed Frost Festival event. Frost Festival began on December 9, allowing players to explore a snow-covered battle royale map and collect unique costumes such as “Wishing Treeman,” which turns characters into a light-strung tree....

PUBG Mobile has had quite the journey in India, garnering nearly 200 million installs before getting banned from the country. Now, the developer is preparing to launch a new PUBG title crafted specifically for the Indian market, dubbed PUBG Mobile India. The new game will have a heavy focus on security, as data breaches have been a recent problem for users in the area. In 2018 a biometric database was hacked, potentially exposing sensitive data for more than 1 billion people....

The creator of the kingdom simulator Yes, Your Grace is going from medieval to animal for its next game. UK publisher No More Robots is getting ready to reveal its next title, Let’s Build a Zoo. The upcoming zoo management sim will make its way to players later this summer as more than 300,000 animal types will become available to bond with. In Let’s Build a Zoo, players are in charge of running their own animal sanctuary and building homes for all kinds of creatures....

A week of leaks and teasers came to its natural conclusion Monday morning when Bethesda officially announced Rage 2, coinciding with the release of a live-action announcement trailer. Details regarding Rage 2’s gameplay will have to wait until tomorrow when Bethesda releases the first in-game trailer. Other information including supported platforms and release window has also been held back for the time being. One exciting bit of Rage 2 news did slip through the cracks though: Rage 2 is being co-developed by both Avalanche Studios and id Software....