After twenty years, you have to understand that Pokémon is the Star Wars of the gaming industry: Everywhere, more regular than a middle-age colon and stacked to the top with merchandise. Fans count on that schedule of seeing a new Pokémon game every three years, that pushes the ideas of the franchise in new directions and unleashes dozens of new pocket monsters in the process.

Thunder strikes thrice in 2019, as the Thundercats are coming back to TV with an adorable new look and plenty of action.

What does Assassin's Creed have planned for 2019? It looks like we’re going to have a Grexit on our hands, as Ubisoft prepares to spin a new tale in Greece.

First revealed back at E3 2016, Days Gone had another showing at last year’s E3 and some press were able to sit down for an extended gameplay session that didn’t exactly tickle them in the right place as Days Gone kind of had the appearance of a tepid and tedious game. Maybe it's that kind of response, which has pushed the game back to a 2019 release date.

It’s just numbers. Numbers of all shapes and sizes. All I’m doing is mathematically attacking anything with a pulse so that I can earn gear which allows me to math harder and the cycle never ends. And yet, it’s a gameplay grind that I can’t stop myself from enjoying in games like Diablo 3 or Destiny 2. A narrative of …