Biggest Video Game News Of The Week (April 9 - 15)

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Some pretty significant stuff has gone down in video games over the past seven days. More Elden Ring, even though we've all been playing for nearly two months at this point, and Sonic continues to dominate headlines to be the torchbearer for video game adaptations, something there's going to be an awful lot of over the course of the next few years. There has also been big Cyberpunk news, No Man's Sky got a big update, and oh yeah, something about Kingdom Hearts. More on all of that and a couple of other things as we run down this week's biggest video game news.

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Earlier this year, Pokemon decided to use what most assumed would be a pretty casual Pokemon Presents on a Sunday afternoon to drop the news that we'll be getting Scarlet & Violet before the end of 2022. It would appear Sundays are the place to be for unexpected game reveals as this past week Square Enix did a little of its own. Kingdom Hearts 4 got its very first trailer and even though the sequel is in very early development, the hype train has very much left the station. It'll be a while before we know more, but that won't stop us all rewatching and dissecting this week's trailer more times than we could possibly count.

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 sped into cinemas in North America last weekend, allowing the acid test to truly begin. The blue blur's sequel outpaced the first movie in Europe and Australia during its first week and has managed to do the same around the world. Not only has Sonic 2 performed better than the original movie, but it enjoyed the best launch ever for a video game movie. $71 million at the box office during its opening weekend, and with (hopefully) no cinema shutdowns on the