The Pokemon Company reveals future plans for Pokemon TCG Pocket

November 14, 2024 | by Julian L. Mertz | No comments

The Pokemon Company reveals future plans for Pokemon TCG Pocket

By Sickr on November 14, 2024

The Pokemon Company has taken to X to share some of their plans for future updates to the recently released Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket for iOS and Android. The company is keen to state that the information shared below is coming to the free-to-play game in the next few months. This includes additional booster packs which will be added by the end of next month and a feature that allows certain cards to be traded which will kick off in January. Here's the details:

"To all of you playing Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, This is the Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Operations Team. First off, we would like to use this opportunity to thank everyone who waited in anticipation of the release, as well as everyone who has given the game a try.

We are continuing to develop and operate the game so that everyone can enjoy it even more, and we plan to hold a variety of in-game events in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket going forward. Now then, today we would like to announce new content planned to be released in a future major update. To begin with, we plan to add new booster packs by the end of the year.

In addition, we are aiming to add a feature that allows certain cards to be traded starting in January, 2025. We are planning to gradually expand the selection of cards that are able to be traded. Also, we have other new features in development outside of the trade feature introduced here. We plan to announce more details about the update as the dates for the addition of these features are finalized, so please look forward to it."

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Zelda producer says they always start work on gameplay before creating the story

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Zelda producer says they always start work on gameplay before creating the story

By Sickr on November 14, 2024

In a new interview with The Washington Post the legendary producer of The Legend of Zelda series, Eiji Aonuma, has said that that the stories behind The Legend of Zelda games are always created after they have established the gameplay and its concepts. Once the gameplay and the concepts have been fully realised the team then starts to work on creating an engrossing story. The Washington Post says that this stands on contrast with other large developers who work on the narrative first and then the overall gameplay.

Another contrast to the rest of the industry: Nintendo games are typically written with story as the afterthought, establishing game design concepts before creating a narrative to graft around them. Production for many of today's big games front-load narrative conception at the start of the process. To this day, that approach eludes Aonuma.

"I've never really made a game where you think of the story first and then go into gameplay," Aonuma said. "First when you think of the gameplay, what you're trying to think of after that is how you can get players to understand that gameplay." Anuma said this approach helps teams improve game elements more easily, freed from any adherence to requisites set by the narrative. Instead, the game's design elements are the outline for narrative to follow.

"The story becomes used as a vessel because it has a beginning and end, and the player moves through it," Aonuma said. "I think it would actually be kind of difficult to do the reverse and start with the story,
then try to match the gameplay mechanics to that."

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Grand Theft Auto Trilogy on Nintendo Switch updated to version 1.112

November 13, 2024 | by Julian L. Mertz | No comments

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Grand Theft Auto Trilogy on Nintendo Switch updated to version 1.112

By Amaan on November 14, 2024

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition has received its latest update for Nintendo Switch and it appears to be a notable one, with several significant changes and the addition of a Classic Lighting mode.

First, here are the official patch notes from Rockstar:

Numerous fixes and improvements

Added Classic Lighting mode which restores the look and feel of the sky in the original games

X user and RockstarINTEL writer SynthPotato noted in a post what those "fixes and improvements" entailed.

Some of the biggest changes are that the fog from the original games is back, players can fly through clouds in GTA San Andreas, and that it is now possible to pause cutscenes in all three games in the trilogy.

Crouching has also been fixed, and the changing weather in GTA San Andreas has been improved upon to where the differences in weather between areas are now noticeable.

SynthPotato also pointed out that Grove Street Games, the developer of the trilogy, has been removed from the credits as a part of the patch, for reasons unknown.

The update is now live on Nintendo Switch and all other versions of the game.

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