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Pokémon Platinum Content Spotted In Diamond And Pearl Remake Trailer - Nintendo Life
Terraria dev says Stadia launch will now proceed after resolving spat with Google - Eurogamer.net
Sony’s PlayStation Network experiencing outage Saturday - The Verge

Pokémon Platinum Content Spotted In Diamond And Pearl Remake Trailer - Nintendo Life

Posted: 26 Feb 2021 06:25 PM PST

It's official, The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are arriving this year.

The PR describes how the Nintendo DS originals have been faithfully reproduced. There are also a number of updates, including easy-to-understand and player-friendly conveniences.

All of this has got fans wondering if the content from the third version, Pokémon Platinum, will feature. According to a Twitter user known as 'voltimer', there's a good chance it will, based on the reveal trailer:

As can be seen above, there's apparently an extra NPC in the Platinum version of Floaroma Town that also features in the Switch version. This character gives you Gracidea if you have Shaymin on hand.

It's also considered as "more concrete evidence" than the appearance of Porygon-Z in the Switch trailer - which appears in Diamond and Pearl's post-game.

What do you make of all this? Think it's a sign of Platinum Version content in the remakes? Leave a comment down below.

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Terraria dev says Stadia launch will now proceed after resolving spat with Google - Eurogamer.net

Posted: 26 Feb 2021 11:52 PM PST

Cites "hard work the Stadia team has put in".

Earlier this month, following a very public spat with Google, Terraria studio Re-Logic announced it was ceasing development of the game's Stadia version. However, it's now decided to reverse that decision and development will proceed.

Events came to a head at the start of February, when Re-Logic founder Andrew Spinks railed against Google on Twitter after his account had been disabled for three weeks with no explanation - preventing access to his Google Play app library, Google Drive data, and YouTube channel. "The worst of all," he wrote, "is losing access to my Gmail address of over 15 years."

"I absolutely have not done anything to violate your terms of service, so I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge," he added. "Consider it burned. Terraria for Google Stadia is cancelled. My company will no longer support any of your platforms moving forward."

Terraria: Journey's End trailer.

In a new update posted to the Terraria forum, however, Re-Logic has announced the Stadia version will go ahead after all. "As you may have noticed, we had a ton of issues to kick off the year stemming from the locking-down of Redigit's entire Google account in early January," the company wrote. "After a month of pushing (and with the immense support of our fans), Google finally reached out and was able to provide a lot of transparency around the situation and to restore access to all of our accounts."

"Due to the hard work the Stadia team has put in - as well as our partners at 505 Games - we have decided that we will allow the upcoming launch [of] Terraria on Google Stadia to proceed," the statement continued. "The Terraria Stadia build is based on the DR Studios 1.4.0.5 (latest) build, and is currently at Google for certification review."

There's no word on when Terraria for Stadia might launch, but it's encouraging to see the issue resolved with relative speed. Stadia, of course, recently ceased all internal game development, meaning it's now absolutely critical for it to shore up relationships with external studios.

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Sony’s PlayStation Network experiencing outage Saturday - The Verge

Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:05 AM PST

An outage of Sony's PlayStation Network that began Friday afternoon appeared to be persisting on Saturday morning. According to an update on the status page timestamped 6:33PM (not clear what time zone that is) on February 26th, the affected platforms are PS Vita, PS3, PS4, and PS5.

"You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience," the update reads.

Engadget reported that the outage may be affecting some games but not others; Fortnite appeared to be accessible but Minecraft and Call of Duty: Warzone were not.

The PlayStation Network outage began a day after Microsoft's Xbox Live service suffered a global outage for five hours. On February 10th, the PlayStation Network was down worldwide for about an hour.

We've reached out to Sony for details about what's causing the outage, how widespread it is, and when it may be resolved, and will update when we learn more.

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