Technically, Nintendo’s Pokémon franchise has well over 700 terrible pocket monsters, but finding the ten worst of the worst isn’t that difficult. There are plenty of great Pokémon out there, such as my beloved Umbreon, the elegant Gardevoir or the magnificent Solgaleo. Then there are those Pokémon.

With E3 around the corner, May is usually more barren than my fan club on any given day. That’s not to say that there aren’t any games coming out, but the biggest guns are usually reserved for the months following the annual gaming extravaganza. Where one side of the industry refrains from going all out, another side takes the opposite approach as this year’s May-day celebration is crammed to say the least.

This might be a day late, but honestly, no one was going to be reading this when the last public holiday until mid-June beckoned. Here's everything that will be hitting Netflix screens over the next month.

One of the Wii U's best games and one of the best modern 2D platformers in recent memory has a new home on the Nintendo Switch.

If you want consistently amazing quality, you’ve come to the right place as new comic book publisher kid on the block AfterShock Comics has plenty of incredible content to offer.

With a tongue that Gene Simmons would kill for and a taste for brains that puts zombies to shame, Marvel’s Venom character has been enduring to say the least. Who is Venom though? A Spider-Man villain? A dangerous vigilante? A spacebound agent of order? He’s all that and more, as we take an insultingly brief look at Marvel’s original lethal protector.

Not the most competitive mode in a very cutthroat industry, the Xperia XZ2 is still an eye-catching fresh breath of air for Sony that can ably handle any challenge thrown at it.

Ni No Kuni 2 manages to showcase that even without Studio Ghibli, Level-5 can still create a truly wondrous and magical JRPG. Even though a lot of the new features and strategic elements feel undercut by it’s easy difficulty, this is still a fine example of what the genre has to offer.

Want to get the most out of your first trip into Norse mythology with Kratos and Atreus? These simple, spoiler-free tips will help you hit all the right notes.

In Yakuza 6, cats have a starring role in one of the many side-quests of Kazuma Kiryu’s final adventure. A total of 19 stray cats seek your love and attention, although convincing them of your intentions to give them a better life is a hell of a task.

You want to soak up everything that a pricy game has to offer. You want every nook and cranny explored, you want a tour through alien worlds without the need to get your groin groped by handsy airport security when your belt buckle sets the metal detector off. Here’s a look then, at ten games which look, feel and play better when the heads-up-display is turned off.

With Arkane’s reboot, then, comes both a reminder and a celebration of how video games can offer real, meaningful, consequential choice that isn’t tied to merely differing outcomes.