After a thousand innovations, derivatives and rewrites of the Pokémon universe, Nintendo is offering this week a game that could be described as canonical, Sparkling Diamond Pokémon, and its variant Sparkling Pearl Pokémon.
Sparkling Diamond Pokémon
These are slightly improved remakes for the Nintendo Switch of games released in 2007 for the Nintendo DS. Forget the critters that get bigger than a skyscraper or the mini-games, the graphics of Sparkling Diamond, the version we tested, is minimalist, with characters with small bodies and big heads. In the fights, we alternate in a classic way the blows with funny names to enrich our Pokédex on the island of Sinnoh. Sparkling Diamond Pokémon does not renew the genre, but will please fans.
Our rating: 3.5 out of 5
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Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, is more skilled than ever in hockey, being able to list sports results, dates of the next matches and statistics.
Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, has seen a few new things in Canada in recent weeks. First, she is more trained than ever in hockey, being able to decline sports results, dates of the next matches and statistics. The Echo models with display can play you the best moments of the previous day’s matches on demand. And we endowed him with a rather particular sense of humor: his favorite hockey club is the Montreal Canadiens, “a legendary team”. “My circuits always overheat a bit when they qualify for the playoffs. The other novelty is that we now have a new voice from Quebec, a male voice. Just ask her: “Alexa, change your voice. ”
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Sony launched a new beta feature of its app last month in Canada and Japan PS App which allows you to transfer screenshots and short videos to a phone.
Between using a USB stick for the PlayStation and having to flush out the Nintendo Switch’s microSD card, exporting screenshots from game consoles is rarely a piece of cake. But things are changing. Since December 2020, the Switch offers a rather efficient method, with a QR code, to send these images directly to your phone. And Sony launched a new beta feature of its app last month in Canada and Japan. PS App. Once paired with your main console, all screenshots and non-4K videos under three minutes old become available on your phone. They remain accessible for 14 days.
See the new method of transferring screenshots for the PS5