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A new update is out for Pokemon Cafe Mix, the free-to-play Pokemon puzzle game for Switch and mobile. The update introduces a new team function that lets players cooperatively clear team challenges, and the first of these features a very hungry Snorlax.

For 300 golden acorns, players can create their own team, separate from their friends list. Each team can hold up to 30 players, and those who form their own teams will receive 300 golden acorns for each member they recruit (up to a maximum of 10,000 golden acorns). Players can also join existing teams either by searching for a specific one (via their team name or ID) or by selecting one from a randomly compiled list.

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The Hill House follow up show debuted its first horrifying trailer, and it was packed with moments you may have missed.

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been eagerly awaiting the next season of Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House, a show that debuted to rave reviews back in 2018. In fact, it even managed to earn GameSpot’s top honor for TV shows that year. Shortly after it premiered, it was announced that the series would be taking up an anthology style, with a new season tackling yet another spooky literary classic, retold with a modern and unfamiliar twist.

Now, after a little over a year of waiting, the show’s first trailer has finally arrived. Season 2 of Hill House is called The Haunting of Bly Manor and it looks just as creepy and unsettling as you might expect. Fans of Hill House will no doubt recognize some familiar faces–though they’re no longer playing members of the dysfunctional Crane family–along with some newcomers to the mix as we plunge into the heart of yet another terrifying haunted house.

Were you able to catch every creepy detail in the trailer? We combed through it frame-by-frame to piece together what might actually be going on on the grounds of Bly.

The Haunting of Bly Manor will premiere on Netflix October 9.

1. Flora at the lake

The Haunting of Bly Manor is based on Henry James’ Turn of the Screw–but if this show is anything like its predecessor, the Haunting of Hill House–which was based on Shirley Jackson’s book of the same name–we can expect some healthy deviation from the source material.

Still, this trailer is full of little moments and themes that will undoubtedly seem familiar to anyone familiar with James’ work, including this opening moment of a young girl–Flora–standing at the edge of a lake with what looks like some seriously ominous intent. In the original work, Flora is found by a lake, presumably speaking with a “ghost,” or so her new nanny believes.

2. A doll house

There aren’t many things creepier than doll houses in horror movies. Flora owns one–and she’s holding what looks to be a truly horrific porcelain baby as she splits her time playing with it and staring at a closed door. Also worth noting that there are plenty of other, non-doll house sized dolls in her room, too. If we had to guess, we’d say this is probably going to take a turn for the worst at some point in the show.

3. Put on a “happy” face

The next shot is an unusual one. It seems to be in first person perspective, with someone–a child maybe? Certainly someone at Flora’s height, though it’s hard to tell if they’re just crouching down by the moment itself–watching Flora as she approaches. She puts what looks like a mask on their face as the voice over says “there you are, now let’s come up with a story.”

One element of Turn of the Screw that should be kept in mind here is the theme of narration–unreliable or otherwise. In the novel, the story is dictated by an unnamed narrator based on letters left behind. It’s possible that we’re seeing the show’s interpretation of that element, with Flora acting as a sort of storyteller for whatever events transpire in the house.

That, or she’s just being a creepy kid. Who can say?

4. At home at Bly

If you hadn’t already put it together, it looks like Flora’s doll house is designed to be a replica of her actual house–the sprawling Bly Manor, which we see here from the outside.

5. Meet the “Governess”

Here’s a familiar face for Hill House fans. Nell Crane herself, Victoria Pedretti, is featured in this show in a new role. In the novel, she’s called a “governess,” but here, in the synopsis of the show, she’s called an “au pair,” which is basically just a fancy way to say live-in nanny.

6. Someone’s gravely wounded

Moments after the au pair says in voice-over that she “knows what loss is,” we get a disturbing shot of a bloody hand trembling on a bed. It’s impossible to see who it belongs to or what happened, but easy to assume it’s nothing good.

7. And here’s Miles

There are two children in Turn of the Screw–Flora, who we’ve met, and her older brother Miles, who we finally see here. Like everyone else in the trailer, he doesn’t seem to be having a great time. Notably, the voice-over here is the au pair saying “your parents loved you so, so much.” In Turn of the Screw, Miles and Flora were orphaned after their parents tragically died. We can assume that is something being brought over from the source material.

8. In the graveyard

Flora seems to be the conduit for most of the creepy stuff in this trailer, including just casually hanging out in a graveyard. The au pair seems to be trying to comfort her about the death of her parents; “in a way they’ll always be here.” Sounds like a recipe for ghosts to us.

9. Meet Mrs. Grose

T’Nia Miller, a newcomer to the Hill House anthology universe, plays Mrs. Grose, another character from the novel. Mrs. Grose is the housekeeper of the manor–and judging by this introduction, where she seems to be looking at a strange crack in the wall, she’s not having a very great time of it either.

10. Lady by the Lake

The lake is a featured part of the Turn of the Screw story, but it’s impossible to tell how it’s going to be used in the show. In this blink-and-you-miss-it moment, we can see a figure standing by it (or maybe in it?) in the dead of night. In the original story, the au pair believes she sees the ghost of the children’s last caretaker, a woman named Ms. Jessel, standing by the shore. Our best guess is that this figure is either Jessel herself, or Jessel’s ghost.

11. An assortment of nightmares

It’s difficult to make out what exactly is going on in these next brief clips but they’re certainly very ominous. Hill House fans are sure to recognize the face of Oliver Jackson-Cohen, however, who played the youngest Crane brother, Luke.

12. “Someone else’s dream”

Here’s our introduction to yet another new face for the anthology. Rahul Kohli plays the manor’s chef, Owen. We don’t know much about him yet, but apparently he is someone who Mrs. Grose is able to confide in as she goes through whatever breakdown she seems to be experiencing.

13. Dolls again

If the doll house itself wasn’t creepy enough, it looks like Bly’s basement is full of dolls, too. And one of them moves. Great.

14. Even more nightmares

We have to give credit to whoever cut this trailer together–it does a fantastic job of not giving much away. These rapid-fire clips feature tiny moments like Miles flicking a lighter, someone walking toward that spooky lake, Flora getting a bath (while staring at something over the au pair’s shoulder), and the dollhouse opening by itself. We have no idea what any of this might mean for the show, but even stripped of context, it’s pretty chilling.

15. Drowning?

It’s difficult to make out exactly what’s happening here but we can see that the au pair is being dragged underwater by the neck by–well, something. If we had to guess, we’d say that the lake is home to someone or something that isn’t exactly friendly. This shot immediately jumps to the au pair staring into a full bathtub–so maybe it’s every body of water that represents some sort of ghostly threat in the house.

16. There’s something behind Flora

It’s very difficult to make out but it looks like there’s someone–or something–crawling around behind Flora. To her credit, she doesn’t seem phased by this at all–classic creepy kid in a horror story move right there.

17. The thing in the lake

That’s definitely not a normal person surfacing from the lake water. We can’t make out too much, but it seems to have skin where its eye sockets ought to be.

18. There’s something wrong with Mrs. Grose

As Mrs. Grose says “the dead” in voice over, we get a series of even more nightmarish moments, including her having some sort of fit or migraine–she’s rubbing the back of her head as her neck snaps back, seconds before it cuts to a clip of a man apparently getting sucked back into the house. It’s hard to make any real guesses as to what this might mean, but another major theme in Turn of the Screw is the idea that the “supernatural” events of the story may actually exist within the characters’ heads. We could be seeing some representation of that here–maybe there’s something physically going on in Mrs. Grose’s brain.

19. Cool, another doll

This trailer just keeps raising the bar on creepy dolls. This one looks almost like a voodoo doll–very homemade–and it features a woman with no real face. Maybe it has something to do with the thing in the lake?

20. “I’ve seen things”

Oliver Jackson-Cohen’s character narrates that he’s “seen things,” and that its like he’s “in hell.” So whatever is going on, it’s likely not isolated to one character’s experiences or delusions–something might be physically wrong with Mrs. Grose, but this character is also being put through the ringer. This is said over some creepy clips of feet walking, doors glowing, people drowning, and kids fighting.

21. Hey, it’s Hugh Crane!

Another familiar face–or two of them–for Hill House fans. Henry Thomas played the young Hugh Crane in the show. Here he seems to have a very maniacal looking twin or doppleganger, tormenting him.

22. More ghosts

Be sure to take the time and notice some of these split-second spooks, like a child in a nightgown wearing some sort of porcelain or plastic mask and a man with glowing eyes looming over the au pair’s shoulder. Also in this montage: the au pair apparently bound and gagged, someone being dragged back to the manor at night, some polaroid photos being snapped that we can guess will develop into something horrifying later, Mrs. Grose screaming, and a crayon drawing that reads “come home.” All of this is played as Owen says “the people? They’re born here, they die here.”

23. Let’s get surreal

These next few clips skew more toward the surreal than the spooky. We see what looks like Miles confronting someone who might be another child or maybe even a doppelganger–maybe it has something to do with the other double we saw tormenting Henry Thomas’s character; a woman watching what looks like water closing in from the ceiling of her bedroom (there’s that drowning motif again), and the au pair panicking in what looks like a child’s closet.

24. A ghost in the daylight

The poor au pair sees–and feels–a hand while washing the dishes in the kitchen. Notably she’s standing there in broad daylight, surrounded by people. Like Hill House before it, Bly Manor is very likely going to keep the scares coming, even when you least expect them.

Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda includes some big notable properties like The Elder Scrolls, Doom, and Fallout, but it also includes new games in development like Starfield. The space-faring game from Bethesda Game Studios was a topic of discussion in a roundtable interview with Xbox and Bethesda executives.

The Starfield exchange takes place between Microsoft’s Larry Hryb and Bethesda’s Todd Howard. Hryb pointedly asks what’s up with Starfield, prompting Howard to joke that “it’s got really good hype for a game no one has seen.” He mentioned, offhandedly, that some people at Microsoft actually have seen it.

“I would say that it’s a really exciting project that we’ve been doing for a long time,” Howard went on. “Once we got on the new systems, the things we found we could do–it’s a major engine rewrite on that game. People who know me, I like to wait as long as possible to show stuff. So we’re closer to showing it than we were in the beginning of this conversation. And we’ll see when. I think it’s going to be something really, really special, and we’re excited to work with Xbox on that.”

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As part of a consultation on loot boxes, the UK government is looking to hear from “video games players and adults responsible for children and young people who play video games” to figure out if they “may encourage or lead to problem gambling.”

Surveys can be filled out here and will inform the government’s review of the Gambling Act 2005, which could lead to new regulations on loot boxes. The call for evidence will run until the 22 November 2020, and is also seeking consultation from video game businesses, researchers and organizations.

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Back in January 2020, England’s top mental health nurse Claire Murdoch released a report calling for a review of microtransactions, noting that loot boxes were “setting kids up for addiction.” The UK government then formally announced a call for evidence in June 2020, to “gather evidence and understand the impact of loot boxes.”

In August 2019 it was announced that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo were working on new loot box policies that would disclose a range of odds for a player’s purchase. The ESRB recently launched a new ratings label that will inform consumers about whether a game includes random items as part of its in-game purchasing system.

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Netflix has released a nightmarish new trailer for The Haunting of Bly Manor – the second season of Mike Flanagan’s horror anthology series which began with The Haunting of Hill House.

The latest trailer plunges the Bly Manor residents into an abyss of sinister secrets and dark tragedies from the centuries of love and loss that possess the haunted building at the centre of the new season, which is scheduled to hit Netflix on October 9, with nine brand new episodes for audiences to unlock.

Watch the new trailer for The Haunting of Bly Manor below:

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The Haunting of Bly Manor is a loose adaptation of Henry James’ 1898 novel The Turn of the Screw, which is said to be “a jumping-off point” for Hill House Season 2’s “much scarier” narrative. The new chapter will feature several actors from the first season of Netflix’s The Haunting of… anthology series.

The returning stars will portray new characters in the upcoming season, which is set in 1980s England. The story will follow the unexplainable events that occur after Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young American nanny (Victoria Pedretti) to care for his orphaned niece and nephew (Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen (Rahul Kohli), groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve) and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (T’Nia Miller).

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Want to know more about Bly Manor? Take a “look beneath the surface” of the show’s chilling poster, make a phone call to apply for the “live-in nanny” role at the haunted residence or watch the show’s first teaser trailer for some more frightening footage from the new series. Alternatively, if you need to attend to house duties and are short on time, check out our broader round-up of everything we know about Netflix’s Hill House Season 2.

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Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has confirmed that Bethesda will continue to run semi-independently after the company’s acquisition by Microsoft.

Speaking to CNET, Spencer made clear that, while Bethesda games will adopt some of Xbox’s new practices – including launching into Xbox Game Pass and becoming playable through game streaming – the company will retain some of the autonomy that resulted into some of the biggest games of all time: “It is about the culture of those teams,” Spencer explained. “They’re not about becoming us.”

The specifics here aren’t clear, but it seems likely that that Microsoft will allow for Bethesda to retain the development culture at its studios, as well as the existing connections between individual studios and the wider Bethesda Softworks organisation.

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This tallies with previous comments from Bethesda SVP of global marketing Pete Hines, who said, “We’re still working on the same games we were yesterday, made by the same studios we’ve worked with for years, and those games will be published by us.”

The implication here may be that, while Bethesda’s 8 studios are now owned by Microsoft, they may not become a part of the formal Xbox Game Studios group (the listed publisher for Microsoft’s other owned studios). Apart from a difference in development oversight, this could also have some effect on whether Bethesda games become Xbox exclusives – it may be that Bethesda is able to choose to continue releasing games across all platforms.

There’s much still to learn about Bethesda’s status as a Microsoft company after the planned acquisition goes through in the second half of 2021, but here are the 5 biggest takeaways from the move.

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Blizzard co-founder and ex-CEO Mike Morhaime has announced Dreamhaven, a new games company with two internal development studios, each of which is working on a new game, and is headed by other Blizzard veterans.

As reported by GamesBeat and The Washington Post, Dreamhaven is designed as an overarching company – offering guidance and funding – within which development studios can open. Its first two internal studios are Moonshot and Secret Door.

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Moonshot’s studio head is Jason Chayes (Blizzard executive producer who worked on Hearthstone, and lead producer on StarCraft 2). He’s joined by Dustin Browder (game director on StarCraft 2, Heroes of the Storm, and Command and Conquer), and Ben Thompson (creative director on Hearthstone), as well as a group of other seasoned developers.

Secret Door’s studio head is Chris Sigaty (executive producer on Hearthstone, StarCraft 2, and Heroes of the Storm, and lead producer on the original Warcraft 3). He’s joined by Eric Dodds (first game director on Hearthstone) and Alan Dabiri (game director on Heroes of the Storm) and a team of other veteran developers.

Both team’s games are currently unknown, and the entire company is in its early stages, meaning we shouldn’t expect announcements anytime soon.

Morhaime will act as CEO of Dreamhaven as a whole, which will be based in Irvine, California. It marks his first major move in the games industry since stepping down as Blizzard president in 2018 and leaving the company he helped create in 2019.

Stay tuned to IGN for more – we have an interview with Morhaime, Chayes, and Sigaty coming later today.

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Look, everybody knows it: Video game movies are usually pretty embarrassing for everyone involved. Depending on who you ask, the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie is entertainingly cheesy or just plain cheesy–much like the Mortal Kombat franchise itself–but most of us fans can agree it’s one of the better examples put to celluloid. Now, it seems that MK developer NetherRealm Studios is further embracing the ’90s nostalgia, this time by introducing Mortal Kombat 11 DLC that would feature voices from the actors who played Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, and Raiden in the film.

The proof of the pack’s existence comes in the form of a now-removed YouTube video that showcases actors from the MK movie recording existing Mortal Kombat 11 lines. This wouldn’t be the first time that MK11 has referenced the 1995 film, as the game’s version of Shang Tsung is portrayed by the actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played him 25 years ago. A similar video posted on Twitter showcases Christopher Lambert’s growling take on Raiden.

As Eurogamer points out, this lends credence to the above leak posted a few months ago that claimed more movie voices would be added to the game. That leak also claimed more characters would come to the game, including horror icon Michael Myers, Harley Quinn, and fan-favorite Mileena. Currently, there’s no announced plans for a new Kombat Pack–though a Halloween costume pack is coming soon–but given all this digital evidence, it seems likely at this juncture, so keep your eyes peeled.