Catherine Lewis
I'm one of 12DOVE's news writers, who works alongside the rest of the news team to deliver cool gaming stories that we love. After spending more hours than I can count filling The University of Sheffield's student newspaper with Pokemon and indie game content, and picking up a degree in Journalism Studies, I started my career at GAMINGbible where I worked as a journalist for over a year and a half. I then became TechRadar Gaming's news writer, where I sourced stories and wrote about all sorts of intriguing topics. In my spare time, you're sure to find me on my Nintendo Switch or PS5 playing through story-driven RPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 5 Royal, nuzlocking old Pokemon games, or going for a Victory Royale in Fortnite.
Latest articles by Catherine Lewis
Stellar Blade is finally adding Photo Mode next week, just in time to snap some pictures of its fancy new Nier: Automata outfits
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News 2B or not 2B
Helldivers 2 issues a make or break Major Order to get the Democracy Space Station up and running before the flying bots plot their next attack
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News "Haste is critical"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gameplay deep dive shows off its optional puzzle hint system that God of War Ragnarok could have taken notes from
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News 'Hint Photos' will ensure puzzle pointers are actually wanted, rather than solving the whole thing unprompted
The Nintendo Palworld lawsuit hasn't stopped the survival hit from debuting at the top of Japan's PS5 charts, beating Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and Metaphor: ReFantazio
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News "Thank you PlayStation gamers!"
A month after Switch emulator Ryujinx disappeared from the internet, Nintendo has seemingly taken ownership of its website
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News Ryujinx's lead dev was reportedly "offered an agreement" to stop working on the emulator last month
Warner Bros knows its Batman games are popular, and plans to focus its "development efforts" on "core franchises" like DC, Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, and Game of Thrones
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News The company will rely on "proven studios to improve our success ratio"
With Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 on the horizon, Sony reaffirms plans to release "major single-player" games every year going forward
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News Sony knows that single-player games "are our strength"
Palworld developer reveals the exact patents it's alleged to have infringed upon in the Nintendo lawsuit, and they all have application dates after the survival game's release
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News Pocketpair says it will "continue to assert our position in this case through future legal proceedings"
StarCraft 2 veteran says his new RTS exists because he "can't accept" that some players think "nothing can ever be better" than the Blizzard classic
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News Battle Aces aims to be a "RTS game for everyone"
Pokemon TCG Pocket's Misty is a menace to everyone, even if she's on your side
By Catherine Lewis published
News Misty feels like simultaneously the best and worst card in the game, depending on how lucky you are
Death Stranding just got a surprise launch on Xbox Series X as Kojima Productions now has full ownership of the IP and plans to bring it to more platforms
By Catherine Lewis published
News Hideo Kojima has thanked Xbox fans for "patiently waiting"
Borderlands 4's 2025 release window just got narrowed down as Gearbox owner says it won't release before April, but also won't clash with GTA 6
By Catherine Lewis published
News 2025 is set to be very busy for game releases
New Stardew Valley bug can apparently make you rich with an army of 999 lobsters, players insist "it's a feature" as creator Eric Barone says he'll look into it
By Catherine Lewis published
News Behold, the crustacean duplication station
Fortnite OG is apparently making a full-time comeback next month as a separate experience to the all-new Chapter 6
By Catherine Lewis published
News The battle royale is reportedly set to offer a permanent source of nostalgia
Dev behind Bloodborne fan remake flees from potential Sony cease and desist, but returns a year later with something arguably better – a top-down Diablo-style Bloodborne ARPG
By Catherine Lewis published
News The original remake project was "too risky"
As Nintendo confirms Switch 2 backwards compatibility, analyst claims investors are more confident that the next console is "a continuation" rather than "a risky experiment"
By Catherine Lewis published
News But will backwards compatibility be enough to guarantee its success?
From Warhammer 40K to Star Wars, Helldivers 2 creative director "would love to do a take on" loads of IP, but doing them all would be a "not Helldivers" experience
By Catherine Lewis published
News He clarifies that his ideas are "just musings," with "nothing decided yet"
Former GTA 6 dev says Rockstar will currently be trying to "really tighten" the game "in every corner" right now, because "90% of your work" is accounting for players who don't do as they're told
By Catherine Lewis published
News The former designer thinks "good games are games that don't block the player" from doing things differently
Epic calls off Fortnite tournament after the same map-destroying bug comes up 5 times in a row
By Catherine Lewis published
News The bugged map actually looks pretty cool, but there couldn't have been a worse time for it to randomly emerge
Pokemon TCG Pocket playground rumors about boosting rare card chances are running wild, but at least this in-game event offers a good shot at getting a sparkly Lapras
By Catherine Lewis published
News The Lapras ex card is the prize everyone's going to be aiming for in TCG Pocket's first Drop Event
Switch sales slump as Nintendo attributes the drop to a lack of "special" driving factors and the console's age, but don't worry, its successor will still be announced soon
By Catherine Lewis published
News Nintendo still plans to announce its next console before April 2025
Monster Hunter Wilds player uses the power of math to prove why the beta left "some weapons feeling worse" compared to Monster Hunter World or Rise
By Catherine Lewis published
News It appears that the hitstop of weapons has been reduced
Assassin's Creed boss admits the series grew "more predictable" after the third game, but says Shadows can change the "perceived inconsistency in quality" at Ubisoft
By Catherine Lewis published
News He acknowledges that players now expect more polish from games
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