The fantastically adorable Pokémon Concierge is getting new episodes this September. During today’s Pokémon Presents, The Pokémon Company announced that the second season of the stop-motion show about a lady and her Psyduck running a more wholesome, pokémon-ified version of The White Lotus hotel is coming later this year on Netflix. Also, if you haven’t seen the first season, you can catch the first four episodes for free on YouTube right now.
Ahh MySpace. A website from simpler times when the worst you had to worry about from social media was falling out with the friend that didn’t make your Top 8. It has since puttered along morphing into something completely unrecognizable...until now. Game designer Ste Curran has created SkySpace, a website that’ll take your Bluesky profile and make it into a MySpace page complete with a customizable background, a Top 8 you can set, and even a music plugin.
The announcement seems to be in response to a post from Hades II voice actor, Marin M. Miller who explained that they might have been recast because they are participating in the SAG-AFTRA interactive media agreement strike.
Studios that wish to use union talent during the strike can sign an interim agreement contract which apparently Supergiant has not. In the announcement, Supergiant expressed support for striking performers, but noted none of its games have been subject to SAG-AFTRA contracts.
What’s even more wild: Marvel Rivals was almost cancelled. That’s according to a new report in Bloomberg highlighting NetEase founder and CEO William Ding. According to the report, jobs are being cut, investments are slowing down, and the company is shifting its development focus to casual games stuffed with microtransactions.
GameStop has just announced that it will sell its business in Canada and France. Now this is just the next beat in a trend that began in 2023 with GameStop shuttering operations all over Europe. But in a post on X, GameStop CEO and r/wallstreetbets messiah Ryan Cohen hinted the reason for the closure involved, “Wokeness and DEI” instead of, y’know the whole ‘stonks’ thing and generally trying to operate a brick and mortar video game business in 2025.
[news.gamestop.com]
