According to Nintendo’s Pokémon Company in a Japanese press release regarding first-week sales, Sword and Shield has sold very VERY well.

This week, Google’s cloud-based game streaming service launch. And it works. It really, really works. Most of the consumers who’ve bought into stadia and who’ve been able to test it out are impressed with the experience. Games look good, they run well, and many even say that the increased latency is barely perceptible. Unfortunately, for many Stadia Founder’s Edition customers, the launch has been abysmal

Other than a quick appearance in Gran Turismo Sport, Toyota has spent a couple of years out of the gaming spotlight, robbing fans of many a classic car to tear up a track with. That all changes on December 12, as Forza Horizon 4 will see one of Toyota’s finest mechanical hours dropped into that homage to car culture.

This comes mere weeks after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which many of you might have noticed, was rather political.

Last month, steam rolled out its Remote Play together feature in beta, allowing those without proximity to friends to play games together over the internet. It works, and it works well enough that Valve has yanked the feature out of beta and put it into the main Steam client.

Moxxi’s recruiting you to seize control of a derelict space station built by the infamous Handsome Jack back when he was still President of the Hyperion corporation. The Handsome Jackpot is quite possibly the gaudiest gambling spot in the galaxy, with neon signs, slot machines, and gold statues all over the place. It’s also crawling with multiple models of deadly Hyperion Loader Bots, as well as lunatic looters who’ve been trapped on board ever since Jack’s death.

Gears 5! It’s brutal, the best slice of action on Xbox and still the main reason why you can hear me screaming VREEEEEEEEEEMMMMM at odd hours in the night. Naturally, it’s metal. And what do metal games deserve? METAL ALBUMS! That heavy metal sound that defined developer The Coalition’s latest chapter in the Gears of War saga had some of the tastiest licks around, and now it’ll be getting the vinyl treatment.

Another day, another Pokémon article! While Pokémon Sword and Shield may have plenty of new Pokémon who can be levelled up and evolved from there, some Pokémon require a more secretive manner with which to ascend to a higher form. One of those Pokémon is Yamask, a peculiar Ghost-type pocket monster that has a new regional form over in the …