Here are some of the week’s highlights in gaming, movies, and other nerd-related news:
Nintendo held a Pokémon themed Nintendo Direct on 2/27 to announce a new set of games in the series,PokémonSword and Pokémon Shield. The presentation revealed the new UK-inspired region, Galar, as well as the three starters; Scorbunny, Sobble, and Grookey
The game is set for worldwide release in late 2019 on Nintendo Switch
NetherRealm Games revealed that Johnny Cage will return in Mortal Kombat 11
The lineup for fighting game tournament EVO 2019 was revealed, with the following games getting top billing (via http://evo.shoryuken.com/):
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Mortal Kombat 11
Samurai Shodown
Soulcalibur 6
Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Tekken 7
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
Resident Evil 0, 1, and 4 are heading to Nintendo Switch on May 21 (via Resident Evil’s Twitter)
Blizzard have announced Overwatch‘s 30th hero, a support hero named Baptiste. The character is now available for PC players in the PTR
Kingdom Hearts 3 director Tetsuya Nomura confirmed in an interview that the game will receive free and paid DLC in future (via Polygon)
A new trailer for MLB The Show 19 helped announce star player Bryce Harper’s signing with the Philadelphia Phillies
A listing for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign remastered appeared on PEGI’s website, following rumors of the game being paired with the latest game coming last year (via Destructoid)
Capcom set a release date for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy for April 9, 2019. The package contains the first three games in the series with touched-up art, and will release on PC, PS4, Xbox one and Switch
Respawn Entertainment’s upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will have its first trailer reveal at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago on April 13 (via Twitter)
A new trailer for the upcoming Hellboy reboot (April 12) has released
A new Detective Pikachu trailer released this week, showing some more of the plot and Pokemon. Detective Pikachu is set for release on May 10
The latest trailer for Dark Phoenix, the newest entry in the X-Men film series, also released. The film is set to release June 7
And now a list of some of this week’s notable releases in games and movies
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