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Hello, my beautiful poison and fairy types. This week on NEP, we have a special guest—three in fact! Jay, James and Julian from Massive Monster join us to talk about their upcoming challenging action-platformer for Nintendo Switch, “Never Give Up”. The devs reveal a lot about their upcoming game including a few secrets, how Egoraptor / Arin Hanson is involved, and their origins as developers that led up to this point.

The trio then sticks around to chat with us about new Pokemon details and lootboxes in gaming, with Nintendo making a statement recently about introducing new rules for transparency. We all get on and have a great chat, and we’re particularly grateful for Massive Monster’s insight on these topics as developers.

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The Pokemon Company has shared an official announcement covering all of today’s Sword/Shield news. We have the full rundown on Galarian Pokemon, new Pokemon in general, rivals, and more.

Here’s the full press release:

The Pokemon Company has sent out a new batch of screenshots and art for Pokemon Sword/Shield. We have the full set in the gallery below.

Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield are unveiling another aspect of its gameplay today. We’re now introduced to Poke Jobs, which can be checked at the Rotomi in Pokemon Centers. Pokemon can be sent directly from their Boxes to any job they accept.

Here’s the full rundown of Poke Jobs:

The Pokemon Company has published a brand new trailer for Pokemon Sword/Shield that reveals the latest information about the game.

Here’s a recap of what was shown:

On social media, The Pokemon Company has announced that it will have more news to share on Pokemon Sword/Shield this week. New information will drop on August 7.

Look for a trailer (and more) at the following times:

Hello my lovely left and right Joy-con! Are you stable or are you drifting? In this NEP, we talk logical about the hardware problems that are on the tip of everyone’s tongues to kick things off. We then hit you with fast paced news and some unintentionally analytical chats about games reviews and journalism. Then we cover Pokemon Masters, but we’re both kinda burnt out on Pokemon mobile efforts… But we have plenty of energy as we chew through all our lovely listener mails and tell the abridged story of when Oni met Galen. We hope you enjoy!

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GameStop has announced an exclusive pre-order bonus for the Pokemon Sword/Shield Double Pack. If you reserve the game, you’ll receive the double-sided wall banner.

You can pre-order the Pokemon Sword/Shield Double Pack on GameStop’s website here. Note that quantities are said to be limited. 

Hello my beautiful Superheroes and X-Men! Steel yourself for an intense NEP experience! Oni and Galen are on opposite sides of the fence as they engage in some very heated discussions this episode. We’re talkin’ Fire Emblem, Pokemon and the Pokedex controversy, Switch future with Breath of The Wild 2. It’s a lot to take in, but we hope you enjoy!

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Hello my beautiful Popos and Nanas! Oni and Galen have a great discussion overall, in our most intimate episode of NEP yet. We talk localization and well-written characters in fiction, the pros and cons of the Switch Lite (and what this could mean for a future “Pro” variant), Dr. Mario and how different in design it is, and we tie things up with a discussion of Fire Emblem and LGBTQ+ representation in media and video games. We hope you enjoy.

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