Gaming Briefs Wearing Boxers February 27th, 2026

 Gaming Briefs Wearing Boxers Feb 27, 2026

                Another week of “Dear lord can the news stop?”. Hell, there was even a couple of things from LAST Week I forgot to go over, just in the large mess of the gaming industry either announcing things or being on fire. This week seems to be mostly good news (Except for X-box).

Pokémon had a presentation today showing off some new collectibles (Not even Kidding I want that Pokémon Game Music Collection thing that will SURELY be at a reasonable price that isn’t already sold out because of scalpers), the times and dates of Pokémon XP Fan Expo and  Pokémon World Championships 2026, featuring tournaments for The TCG,  Pokémon Go, and Pokémon Unite.

                I have no idea how the hell a Pokémon Go tournament will work

                Of course there was updates and events for the likes of Pokémon Go, Pokémon Masters EX, and Pokémon Café Remix, and Pokémon TCG Pocket, totally all games I have a vested interest in.

                Pokémon Sleep has a somewhat creepy trailer showing off nightvision in its announcement of its new missions.

                Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno come into play for Pokémon Unite for Pokémon Day.

                Pokémon  XD Gale of Darkness comes to the Nintendo Online for Gameceube service on March 26^th.

                Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green, which were previously announced earlier last week, gets confirmation that it will work with Pokémon Home, of which I’d heard complaints that It wasn’t going to be.  

                Also compatible with Pokémon Home is Pokémon Champions, which looks, to me having been out of the space for a while, something akin to Pokémon Stadium, but with online competition  on both Switch Consoles in April and mobile later this year.

                This just sounds neat if you’re into competitive Pokémon, can train your Pokémon on other games and then use Home to compete on a larger scale… Depending on what standard it uses… I used to do all that kind of thing during the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum era, and my head now hurts remembering it.

                New update for Pokémon Z/A, Mega Dimensions with a new Mega Garchomp Z, using the Garcmopite Ze stone via the Mystery Gift System.

It was playing a Daft Punk-esque song, so I approve.

Skinwalker child. 

                Pokopia, the town builder cozy game where you play a horrific Ditto child, gains more personalities in the form of DJ Rotom and Greedant (Cook), as well as showing off the co-op capabilities in the game. Releases on March 5^th.

OH GOD ITS THE THING! 

Grumpy, No Thoughts, and Sass.

                In the (Oh yea, One more thing) Category, a very cozy breezy, artful trailer showing a Pikachu’s adventures in various sketches across all the lands from Kanto to Alola to Galar and Paldea until a very Tan and Vacation looking pair of Pikachu’s reveal the NEWEST  journey in the series with the new starters of Browt, Pombon, and Gecqua and a very vast and grand spectacle with Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves.

Look at these vacation relaxed Pikachus. Bet you wish you had a tan like them. 

                I have to admit, Pokémon games haven’t looked this good since the DS era.  Release set for 2027.

               

                 Today, in much more important history, Humble Bundle has put together the ENTIRE MEGA MAN LEGACY COLLECTIONS into one handy dandy bundle. For $50, you can play the entirety of the most important game series there is: Mega Man.

 

The Boy.

Mega Man Humble Bundle Getitgetitgetitgetit.

Alright, following up on the X-box news from last week, Greg Miller, of Kinda Funny Games, has information to lead many to believe Phil Spencer was forced to retire, especially with how abrupt it was. Sarah Bond also quitting leads to a lot of speculation that things are really going badly in the X-Box offices.  There is so much more going on with this that I'm sure more leaks will confirm as time goes on. 

In a really WILD story that’s still on going, Gamers Nexus put out a video on a story I’ve been following for a little while, where London Police seem to have (allegedly) Falsely arrested a man and confiscated a large amount of his property.

Why is this relevant to some nerd who writes about video games? The property in question were a metric crapton of Dev Kits and discs and drives from a SEGA Office after it was cleaned out and sent to a scrap yard, where Darius Khan (@Dariusaurus on X) had, for all views, legally purchased them, with the later intent to sell to the Video Game Preservation Museum.

 

Gamers Nexus went onto reveal a rather shocking connection the London Police’s IP department has directly to companies like SEGA and Nintendo. There was so much here to, while the legality might be questionable, makes everyone involved except Darius look shady as all hell, a good watch.

Broarms on the Big Screen.

SNK is developing its own Fatal Fury/King of Fighters connected movie/tv show universe. According to @thevscooper over on X, it will be centered on South Town and everyones favorite, Terry Br… I mean Mai. Everyone loves Mai. 

Nippon Ichi.

As if I didn’t have enough Beat-Em-Up Joy this year between Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Toxic Crusaders, now Limited Run Games revealed the MARVEL MaXimum Collection, bringing together a whole cadre of previously locked to their time period Marvel games, with all the different version, similar to how the TMNT: Cowabunga Collection did.

The list includes:
Konami’s X-men: The Arcade (Arcade)

                Konami’s Captain America and The Avengers (Arcade, Genesis, 8-Bit)

                Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage (SNES, Genesis)

                Spider-Man/Venom: Separation Anxiety (SNES, Genesis)

Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge (SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, Gamegear)

Silver Surfer (NES) (Yes, THAT Silver Surfer. The one that made AVGN go ballistic.)

At least half of these games are really great, but it’s nice to see the other ones here! Now if they can do this with the 5^th and 6^th generation titles (Maybe not including the movie tie-ins) for the next collection, that’d be fantastic. I also can’t wait to see how they handle Maximum Carnage’s sound track considering the band Green Jelly used midi cover of Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules.

Speaking of, Insomniac’s Wolverine game had its release date announced unceremoniously, reportedly due to the date already being leaked and forcing their hand on the matter, something I see increasingly nowadays. Release is set for September 15^th.

In the anime department, AnimEigo has a series on the creation and end of Central Park Media, who were very influential in the 90’s scene of manga and anime publication in the US. I know I read my share from them, from The Record of Lodoss War manga, to Iriaim: The Zeraim Project, and of course one of my favorite animes of all time, Project A-ko, so seeing this was rather cool.

 

That’s it for now. A nice, EASY week of game news. Surely not me just ignoring some of the bigger things waiting for more news to cover with.