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Pokemon Go: Gets Spritey With 8-Bit April Fools

Pokemon Go's latest update might make you a little nostalgic. Instead of its typical 3D models, each Pokemon in your Pokedex has taken on a rather familiar 8-bit appearance. "Experience Pokémon GO like never before with cutting-edge 8-BIT GRAPHICS," a post on the Pokemon Go website reads. "Registering approximately twice the definition of 4K, the chunky squares of each pixel provide realistic detail and unbelievable definition. Your Pokédex will feel lifelike in ways previously unimagined on any handheld device ever created."

Top Five PC March 2018: Most Popular Videogames

1) The Pillars of the Earth  follows the principles of a classic point-and-click adventure: the user controls one of three main characters as they travel across highly detailed backgrounds as the plot continues. The game is almost exclusively controlled by mouse. The player holds the left mouse button over objects or characters to bring up an interaction menu with "look", "talk", and "use" options. The player may hold the space bar to have the interactive portions of the world, such as objects, highlighted. This shows differently coloured indicators for objects, characters, and travel points. The game also features an inventory screen accessed by the right mouse button. Objects gathered from the world are stored in the character's backpack, which are then used in the world and/or combined with other items to solve puzzles and advance the story. In addition, the game includes  minigames , where characters interact in real time with some element...