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New Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl trailer shines with promise
Coming in November

Besides the open-world Pokémon Legends: Arceus, The Pokémon Company has another set of games up its sleeve coming this year: Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. The remakes of the previous generations promise to bring the old games to the modern console generation. At the time, the previous trailer showed a more generalized port of the two games. Now, another trailer shows more of the remake’s changes.
As with the old games, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl takes players to the Sinnoh region. Trainer can choose between Piplup, Chimchar, and Turtwig as starters. The remake will use a tilt-shift perspective, offering a bit more behind the corner of every building.
Both versions will offer a bit more customizations for players. You can customize outfits like how clothes are offered in Pokémon Sword and Shield. You can also add in stickers to Pokéballs to make your Pokémon feel a bit more personalized. The games also have a few more minigames for players to do in between of catching creatures and battling.
Pre-orders includes some bonuses including a dozen free Quick Balls. Both games will also eventually support Pokémon Home, an app that can manage Pokémon between different games. To further add hype to the remakes, Nintendo is also launching a special edition of the Switch Lite with Dialga and Palkia on the rear.
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will launch on November 19.
SEE ALSO: Pokémon Legends: Arceus shows off new gameplay trailer


The time has come for Sony’s annual Days of Play, offering gamers special deals on DualSense Wireless Controllers and software titles from June 2 to 12.
During the sale period, Sony’s DualSense Wireless Controllers will retail for a special price of PhP 2,990.
The controller is available in White, Midnight Black, Cosmic Red, Starlight Blue, Nova Pink, Galactic Purple, and Gray Camouflage colorways.
Popular PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 (Blue-ray Disc version) titles will also get special prices during the promo period:
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS4) – PhP 1,490
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS5) – PhP 1,490
- God of War Ragnarok (PS4) – PhP 1,990
- God of War Ragnarok (PS5) – PhP 2,490
- Horizon Forbidden West (PS5) – PhP 1,990
- The Last of Us Part I (PS5) – PhP 2,490
- Gran Turismo 7 (PS5) – PhP 1,990
Meanwhile, PlayStation 5 consoles are now available at all authorized retailer stores.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
It’s been more than a month since the release of Horizon: Forbidden West’s DLC, Burning Shores and the reviews came in hot. There were plenty of raves that the game is a treat as are the visuals. But what really made the most waves on the is that the fiery redhead heroine gets a partner. In more ways than one.
Aloy was first introduced in Horizon Zero Dawn as an outcast, so being on her own was expected. Understandably, when you’re treated like a pariah since childhood, warming up to people isn’t exactly second nature.
The burden of being The One
She picks up new friends, even some potentially interested parties along the way but the game steers us from expecting that they’ll be tagging along for the long run. By the game’s sequel, she is still Ms. Independent, but with blossoming character development in terms of her interpersonal relationships
While there’s a bit of attraction and tension with men and women alike thrown in-game, Aloy never gets into anything no matter how hard you try to flirt. (Yes, we tried). Horizon clearly didn’t focus on finding her mate, given that there is indeed a lot on Aloy’s plate.
She even admits in dialogue that her mission as The One created to save the world, is a full-time occupation that she can’t think of anything else. Fair enough, you go do what you gotta do, girl.
Along came Seyka
With the introduction of Seyka in Burning Shores, it would’ve been easy to dismiss that sure, they have chemistry but nothing’s going to happen. We’ve gone so far with Aloy embracing singlehood by choice, why would it change now?
That’s probably what made this DLC stand out. After becoming partners in crime, the pair share an intimate conversation where they first met to consider pursuing something more. The player option to engage in a romance probably has the audience saying “finally” or asking, “why now?”, and those who appear to take issue in Seyka’s sex are asking “why?”
But the better question is, WHY NOT?
Seyka is no stranger to duty and purpose, being intent in rescuing her sister and tribespeople from Burning Shore’s main villain, Walter Londra. She is headstrong, agile, and fierce — qualities she shares with our main girl. Aloy also learns to rely on someone for help, which is a big deal.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise either that Aloy would take on a lady love: Forbidden West final boss Tilda did express that she loved Elizabet Sobeck — Aloy’s clone source or “mother” — more than we know. Who’s to say that the genetic copy of the apple would fall far from the tree? Ultimately, should the player to decide to let Aloy initiate a romance, it’s not the end of the world if it’s a girl. Actually, they even saved it together.
SEE ALSO: Horizon Forbidden West Review: Back to save us from machines
Burning Shores
The story of Burning Shores picks up directly where Horizon Forbidden West left off. It contains additional content for Horizon Forbidden West, including new characters and experiences in a stunning yet hazardous new area.
To enter the Burning Shores, you must complete the main quest (up to and including Singularity) in the PS5 version of Horizon Forbidden West. Following the main quest, the player will receive a call over Aloy’s Focus, beginning the DLC.

Perhaps easily the best showcase game of the PlayStation (PS5) that anyone can easily jump into is making its way to PC. Insomniac Games’ Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart follows the growing list of PlayStation exclusives making its way to PC. It’s coming on July 26.
PC Features
Nixxes Software worked with Insomniac to make this happen. And they’re not simply porting the game to PC. They are also adding features especially made for PC gamers. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC will have support for multiple types of monitors. Whether you’re using 21:9, 32:9 and up to 48:9 resolutions for triple monitor setups, you can rest assured that you’ll have a grand time with this inter-dimensional adventure. Both gameplay and cutscenes are optimized for ultra-wide screens.
The game also supports now unlocked framerates. You can choose from NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 2, Intel XeSS and Insomniac Games’ Temporal Injection. NVIDIA Reflex and image quality enhancing NVIDIA DLAA are also supported.
Availability
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be available on Steam and in the Epic Games Store. You may head to the aforementioned stores now to Wishlist or pre-purchase the game. If you pre-purchase ahead of launch, you’ll get access to the following in-game items early in your playthrough:
- Pixelizer Weapon
- Carbonox Armor set
SEE ALSO: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Review
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