Here’s a quick breakdown on everything that Nintendo and Game Freak had to say in today’s Pokémon Direct about the Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra expansions coming to Pokemon Sword and Shield.

Here's everything that Nintendo had to say in today's brief but informative Pokemon Direct event.

Not one to be outdone in the ostentatious show-off market, Razer decided to ask someone nearby to hold their beer with RGB lighting as they set to work making their gamer chair which is aimed at the eSport racer market. Still in the concept phase for now, the Razer Eracing Simulator Concept Chair may not be as imposing as the Thronos at first glance, but man oh man is it still a sight to behold.

For a long time, we had close to zero Tennis games – which is a pity given how we had both Virtual Tennis and top spin serving up aces. Then in 2018 we suddenly had two big ones; Tennis World Tour – one of the worst sports games I’ve had the misfortune of playing - and AO Tennis, which also wasn’t very good. At least the developers of AO Tennis fixed the game up after its release, to the point where it was a serviceable Tennis simulator.

And their plan involves overhauling what has become a notoriously clunky system.

Humanity may fear the rise of the machines, but they’ll never expect this. Infiltrate society as a human...ish android by learning how to speak fluently enough to avoid suspicion. Wrestle with tricky controls to flap its synthetic lips, tongue, and maybe even wiggle those eyebrows to rise through the ranks of humanity and become the president of the world.

There have been multiple, pervasive rumours that the next Assassin’s Creed game would feature Vikings, and would be called Ragnarok. While initial screens of the game were proven false, they’re rumours that just won’t go away. Hints in The Division 2, and suggestions by Kotaku (which align with some things we’ve heard) suggest that we’ll soon be playing as Vikings …

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order almost didn’t feature any lightsaber combat. According to Game director Stig Asmussen in an interview, LucasFilm wasn’t “comfortable” with Respawn using Jedi in their game.