The Lego Ninjago Movie Videogame is secretly one of the best Lego video games ever, and now it’s free on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You have until May 21 to download the game, play the game, and agree with me. After that, you’ll just have to take my word for it.

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Guilty Gear Strive won’t come out this year after all. The anime fighter has been delayed until early 2021 due to, you guessed it, the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Producer Takeshi Yamanaka said the delay will be used to improve the game based on feedback from the recent closed beta.

Epic And Microsoft Aren’t Saying Whether That Unreal PS5 Demo Can Run On Xbox Series X [UPDATE]

Epic Games’ impressive Unreal 5 tech demo revealed earlier this week was running on a PS5 development kit. Whether it can also run on Xbox Series X remains a mystery. “The demo we revealed [on Wednesday] is running on PS5 because that’s been our target platform for this particular experience,” a spokesperson for Epic told…

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The latest Pokémon animated feature Pocket Monsters the Movie: Coco will be delayed in Japan due to coronavirus covid-19. The movie was originally slated to open on July 10 but its release has been changed to TBA with the new date to be announced in the future. 

Publishers Read-Only Memory have released this print called Japansoft Hardware History, to accompanythe excellent book Japansoft: An Oral History. It features 29 platforms, from the FM Towns to the SNES, and you can get it here

The new Microprose may have little in common with the old studio aside from the name, but as it tries to get old heads excited about its lineup, it’s showing off some very Microprosey games. Like Sea Power here.

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These Early Diablo III Screens Are Much Darker Than What We Got

A former Blizzard North artist recently shared a “new” collection of screenshots from an early, unreleased version of Diablo III. Much like previous asset dumps, they show a continuation of the dark, gothic aesthetics of the game’s predecessors, details that many felt were missing from the Diablo III that launched in 2012. Diablo III was…

Epic Says That One Moment In Its PS5 Tech Demo Wasn’t To Hide Loading

One part of Epic’s new Unreal Engine 5 tech demothat stuck out to me was when the protagonist inches through a narrow passage to enter a cave. It’s the kind of thing I’ve seen hundreds of times this console generation and learned to associate with games buying time while a new section is being loaded…