Playtonic have released a new trailer for their upcoming game Yooka-Laylee and it looks beautiful.

The trailer takes us through some of the worlds of Yooka-Laylee, showing off our duo as they journey across the world collecting pick ups, using special moves to fight enemies and solve puzzles and even one of the transformations in which both Yooka and Laylee are clearly visible in a snowplough form.

For those who backed Playtonic’s spiritual successor, the elements that Playtonic have brought over from Banjo-Kazooie to Yooka-Laylee will be obvious in this trailer. It looks to be just the 90s-inspired tag team platformer that we hoped for.

Check out the trailer below!

If players find an exploit there is usually someone willing to use it. Even if it ruins the fun of others around them also playing the game.

Pokémon Go has been very successful there’s no doubt, and one of the big features for players is locating and fighting for the possession of the Gym locations dotted around their area, hoping to turn the area all red or blue or yellow for their chosen Team. However many people are finding that Gyms can no longer be won because the person in control… has placed an Egg inside the Gym.

When you win the possession of a Gym you must leave behind Pokemon there for passing challengers to do battle with, and your fellow teammates can add their own to help boost the Gym’s defences against being taken away from your Team’s possession. However, an Egg is an unhatched Pokemon. They therefore have no character data or stats assigned to them and therefore cannot be battled with – meaning that the Gym can’t be switched from a Team’s allegiance and neither can anyone gain XP from the Gym via battling. It also allows the player who placed the Egg in there to continue to earn the Pokécoin rewards they get for holding onto the Gym without any fear that they’ll lose it.

So far numerous Gyms in the New York area have been locked up like this, and as news spreads Gyms across the world might soon find themselves forever frozen in a Team’s possession.

At least until Niantic are able to patch this exploit out. God knows what’ll happen to all those Eggs then… maybe redistributed to more responsible Trainers?

The Japanese magazine “CoroCoro” has become so associated in the west with Pokémon news, that one merely needs to say “CoroCoro” and Pokémon fans flock to see what else has just been revealed about the next games in the series. Thus it comes as no surprise that with the most recent issue now out in Japan, once more we bring you new details about things coming to Pokémon Sun and Moon.

New Pokémon

Let’s start with the new faces, since that’s what all new generations are about anyway. This month, CoroCoro have pictures for four new Alolan Pokémon, including one that’s a pre-evolution of another recent reveal. Currently known by its Japanese name “Nuikoguma”, this cute bear with the pink face is a pre-evolution of the previously-revealed (and rather funnily-named) Bewear. A Normal/Fighting type like its bigger brother, Nuikoguma is very popular among women and children, and tops the lists of Pokémon people want to meet. It hates being touched and will kick and struggle to resist. It’s also described as being very powerful, and it only becomes more so when it evolves into the “herculean” Bewear.

Both Bewear and this new pre-evolution are shown on the bottom of the page you see on your left, but what are those rather creepy-looking things above them? “Creepy” is the right word indeed. These two Ghost/Ground-type Pokémon are basically haunted sandcastles. Shirodesuna – the bigger one – steals the life force from other Pokémon, in a style not dissimilar to the Gengar family I love so dearly. Whatever grudges that Pokémon had then get turned into Sunaba – the smaller one – which is Shirodesuna’s pre-evolution. Sand that becomes sentient from angry spirits… yeah, that’s pretty creepy if you ask me.

The other new Pokémon reveal is the little fishy to your right, currently known as Yowashi. Capable of fighting on its own in “Single Form”, it also has a special form called the “School Form” where it turns dark and gathers lots of itself together, to create a far larger and rather monstrous-looking fish. Unsurprisingly, it is a Water-type Pokémon.

New Alolan Forms!

As well as the new Pokémon, Meowth is getting a makeover. In Alola, Meowth were bred by the ruling Royal Family; as a result, they have become far more pampered and regal-looking. For some reason, they’ve also turned grey, and now class as Dark-type Pokémon. Also getting a new Alolan form is Marowak, who to protect from the island’s native predators, has learned to wield a ghostly flame to resist them. This flame now lights up both sides of its traditional Bonemerang, and turns the Alolan Marowak into a Fire/Ghost type himself. Both are pictured to the left of the Alolan Exeggutor, revealed a month or so ago.

Other Stuff!

CoroCoro also has hints to the Alolan region’s villainous team. Currently known as Team Skull, it is suggested the team may be Pirate-themed; and is headed by a boss currently known as “Guzma”, while there appears to be many female members including a woman currently known as “Plumeri”.

More information is hinted to be revealed next week, including a hint to a “secret evolution” of Rockruff. We’ll have more as it gets revealed, but until then, as always, you can join our Forum or Discord to have your say on what you think of the new reveals.

Update: Nintendo have pushed out a new English-language Trailer showing off the CoroCoro-leaked information. Watch it here:

Pokemon does have a slight history of having other devices be a part of their games, with things like the Pokewalker and the not-yet-released writst accessory for Pokemon Go that was included in trailers of the game when it was first announced. And it seems that Sun and Moon are not going to be any different.

Japanese toy-maker Takara Tomy will be making and releasing a kid-friendly peripheral based on the new Z-Moves that are being introduced in the game, a powerful type-specific move that can only be used once a battle. The ‘Z Ring’ is based off the Z Ring in-game and will blink, make noise and vibrate whenever the Pokemon performs the Z-Move, with 18 different crystals to collect that each seem to correspond to a different Z-Move and thus Pokemon type.

Priced at 2,600 yen ($25.60) the ring comes with one crystal included, with further sets of Z Crystals including 3 others and being priced at 599 yen ($5.90). There’ll also be a special bundle pack released for sale that will include the Z Ring and six of the Z Crystals for 4,490 yen ($44.19).

Releasing on November 18 when Sun and Moon release, the international site for the game also lists the Z Ring so we should see a worldwide release for the accessory which Tomy International say will be “timed to release” at the same time as the games.

The original Darksiders was a pretty interesting game. Casting you in the shoes of War, literally one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, you had to find out what had happened to humanity. There was a lot of hitting things with a big sword, a lot of platforming and some pretty cool boss fights.

Now, Darksiders is getting a remaster…excuse me warmaster. Even though that isn’t a word, the game is getting rendering improvements, doubled texture resolutions and better shadow quality. It’ll support 1080p and 60fps on Ps4, Xbox One and PC. If you own a Wii U, it will be at 30 fps, so begin raging in the comments below. Oh, and this remaster (I’m not saying warmaster agai…damnit) of the 2010 original will be available on October 25th. So get ready to get out your giant sword and *sigh* step into the shoes of War.