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Earlier today, The Pokemon Company hosted a new Pokemon Presents event in which it revealed a lot of new details about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Pokemon Shining Pearl, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus. The event showed off a lot of cool stuff, and it's easy to walk away from that Pokemon Presents show feeling excited about these releases. Unfortunately, the event revealed a key detail about all three games that might derail that excitement for competitive players.

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Yesterday, Epic Games announced a new limited-time mode for Fortnite called Fortnite Impostors. Almost immediately, people were drawing comparisons between Fortnite Impostors and Among Us, a game that rocketed to popularity last year as the COVID-19 pandemic kept people indoors and looking for ways to spend time with friends online. As it turns out, it seems that the release of Fortnite Impostors caught the devs behind Among Us off guard.

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While today's Pokemon Presets event focused on a lot of different Pokemon games, the upcoming games for Switch got the lion's share of attention. In addition to revealing new details about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, The Pokemon Company also announced more about Pokemon Legends: Arceus today, with a new trailer giving us a look at the game's Hisui region and some of the Pokemon variants that live there.

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As expected, today's Pokemon Presents brought us some new details about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, which are upcoming remakes of the fourth-generation Pokemon games. Today we got a look at some new gameplay footage from Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, along with the confirmation of new features that weren't in the original games. In addition, the Pokemon Company and Nintendo also revealed a special edition Switch Lite that will be launching later this year.

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If you were hoping to see some new stuff about Pokemon Unite in today's Pokemon Presents, then the presentation certainly didn't disappoint. The Pokemon Company kicked off today's Pokemon Presents live stream by revealing new information about Pokemon Unite. Not only did we get sneak peeks at the two upcoming Pokemon, but the release date for the mobile versions of the game was also announced.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unsuspecting little game called Among Us took the gaming world by storm. Inspired by the party game Mafia (which is typically played in-person), Among Us saw a very sharp rise in popularity during the pandemic as people were stuck at home and looking for ways to pass the time with friends. Fast forward to today, and the influence of Among Us is clearer than ever, thanks in part to the fact that Fortnite is launching its own version of the game.

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Pokemon Unite is about to get its second post-launch Pokemon. Following the release of Gardevoir on July 28th, The Pokemon Company and Tencent announced today that the next character will be joining the roster later this week. Unfortunately, this new Pokemon probably is not the one that most Pokemon Unite players were hoping for.

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We've got a few big Pokemon games on the horizon, including a couple of remakes and a new spin-off called Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and it won't be long before we find out more about them. The Pokemon Company announced today that it will be hosting a new Pokemon Presents presentation next week. On tap for this new Pokemon Presents is new information about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends: Arceus.

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For quite some time, multiple rumors have claimed that Rockstar is looking to remaster classic Grand Theft Auto titles and re-release them on modern platforms. Thus far, those rumors haven't materialized into any confirmation from Rockstar, but according to a new report today, that confirmation may not be very far off. If you were a fan of GTA games like Grand Theft Auto 3, GTA: Vice City, or GTA: San Andreas back in the day, then it might not be long before you're able to play them with a fresh coat of paint.

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We've known for a while now that Spelunky and its sequel, the aptly named Spelunky 2, were on the way to Switch, but with no specific release date confirmed. That all changed today when Spelunky developer Derek Yu announced that both games are landing on Switch later this month. In just a few short weeks, you'll be able to play both indie gems on the go.

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Ryan Reynolds' new movie, Free Guy, comes out tomorrow, and since that movie is about a man who discovers that he's an NPC in an open-world game, there will definitely be some video game cross-promotion going on. Today, Epic Games announced that Fortnite will be one of those cross-promotion partners, as it will be adding a Free Guy outfit featuring a shirtless Ryan Reynolds and a new emote that players can unlock by completing challenges.

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The release schedules for two upcoming Life is Strange titles have been shaken up a bit. Developer Deck Nine has announced that the Life is Strange: Remastered Collection, which was slated to launch at the end of September, has been delayed. In addition, while most versions of Life is Strange: True Colors are still on track to launch on September 10th, the Switch version has been delayed as well.

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