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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet: How To Evolve Charcadet

Charcadet will either evolve into Armarouge or Ceruledge, depending on whether you’re playing Pokemon Scarlet or Violet.

Charcadet is one of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s best new Pokemon. What it evolves into depends which game you’re playing: Scarlet players will get Armarouge, while Violet players get the significantly cooler looking Ceruledge. It’s worth going out of your way to get either as early as you can, as they’re among the most powerful new Pokemon introduced in the new games.

Learn from my mistakes, though. I trained my Charcadet up to level 60 before realizing that’s now how to evolve it.

First, catching your Charcadet. Charcadet can be found in most of Paldea, as the Pokedex shows below. Unfortunately, it’s appear rate is quite low. So while it can be found in most places, you may go long stretches of time without seeing one. If you encounter one, make sure to seize the moment.

To evolve Charcadet, you need to make a trade in Zapapico. Go to the center of the city to the area with the small water fountain. You’ll see a Zapapico citizen emitting an orange speech bubble, indicating they mean business. What the person wants depends on what game you’re playing: In Scarlet, it’s 10 Bronzor Fragments. Pokemon Violet players will need to collect 10 Sinistea Chips.

So how to get the goods? It’s simple: You just need to beat 10 Sinistea or 10 Bronzor. Each time you defeat one in battle, they’ll drop one of the items you’re looking for. It’s just a matter of finding where in Paldea they thrive and farming those items.

Pokemon Violet can evolve Charcadet as soon as they get to Cascarrafa, the city that holds the Water-themed gym. West of Cascarrafa is Asado Desert. If you head to the northern tip of Asado Desert, as shown on the map below, you’ll find an area ridden with ruins. Bronzor are everywhere here.

To farm Bronzor Fragments quickly, go to the area and press ZR. Your lead Pokemon will come out of its ball and do battle with all the creatures around it as you stand and look on, a much lazier and quicker way for you to defeat 10 Bronzor.

For Pokemon Violet players, there are two places to farm Sinistea Chips. For those earlier in the game, fly to the Pokemon Center on Zapapico’s east. There you’ll find a desert area, one of two locations Sinistea spawns in the game.

If you’ve progressed far into Pokemon Violet, the best way to farm Sinistea Chips is in Alfornada, where the Psychic-type gym is. This is an area you’ll only access later in the game — the wild Pokemon here spawn at around level 50 — but the Sinistea are more plentiful. Fly to the city and head west. You’ll see the cave entrance that probably brought you to Alfornada. It’s in this area that Sinistea are plentiful.

Once you’ve got all your goods, head back to the fountain in Zapapico. In Scarlet, the cityslicker will trade the Bronzor Fragments for Auspicious Armor. In Pokemon Violet, the lady by the fountain will take your Sinistea Chips and give you Malicious Armor.

These items are to Charcadet what a Thunder Stone is to a Pikachu. Use the item on the critter and it’ll instantly evolve. Congratulations, you just collected one of the best Pokemon in the game.

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Sony Raises Prices of PlayStation 5 consoles

Starting Thursday, you can expect to pay more for a new PlayStation, thanks to «a challenging economic environment.»

Sony will increase the prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles in the US, starting Thursday, Aug. 21. This follows the trend of console manufacturers such as Microsoft and Nintendo raising prices for their hardware in response to tariffs.

The PlayStation-maker posted about the pricing on Wednesday. The jump in price is $50 more than the current price for each model.

The new prices are:

PlayStation 5: $500 to $550
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition: $450 to $500
PlayStation 5 Pro: $700 to $750

«Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment,» Sony said in a post about the price increase.

Back in March, Microsoft increased the price of the Xbox Series consoles back in May, and Nintendo hiked the original Switch console price and Switch 2 accessories earlier this month.

While the companies didn’t point to the tariffs instituted by President Donald Trump as the reason for the hardware price jump, it would explain the trend in recent months.

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Made by Google Pixel 10 Event Watch Party: Watch the New Phone Reveals With Us Today

Our live show begins Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT) and will lead right into the Made by Google event.

The Pixel 10 series will get its big reveal shortly, and you can watch the Made by Google event right alongside CNET’s editors.

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT), the Pixel 10 watch party will kick off on CNET’s YouTube channel. Hosts Bridget Carey and Iyaz Akhtar will review and analyze details and rumors about the Pixel 10.

Preshow guests include CNET Managing Editor Patrick Holland, who will share what we already know about the Pixel 10 (Google’s been openly teasing the phone line for weeks). Minutes before the event begins, Senior Editor Mike Sorrentino will call in from the show floor.

Next comes the Made by Google event, which starts at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) and will be broadcast on our livestream.

When the Made by Google event wraps, our post-show begins with CNET Senior Editor Abrar Al-Heeti and Mashable’s Timothy Beck Werth calling in to discuss all the reveals.

Want to join our show? You can leave questions or comments using the live chat on CNET’s YouTube page.

CNET is also running a Pixel 10 live blog throughout the event, and you can check out every Pixel 10 rumor we’ve heard so far.

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Onimusha Way of the Sword Hands-On: Back to the Demon-Killing Samurai Grind

Capcom’s triumphant return to the Onimusha franchise felt pretty rote in a short demo — until the outstanding boss fight.

It’s been 19 years since Capcom released another game progressing the story of its samurai action horror franchise, Onimusha — but in 2026, Onimusha: Way of the Sword will arrive as the next game in the series. Ahead of Gamescom, Capcom gave US media a preview of the game with a short 15-minute demo, a mere taste to show us where the next game is going in the two decades since the last mainline Onimusha.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword continues the franchise’s tradition of basing characters on historic figures and then having them fight demons. Players take on the role of Miyamoto Musashi — one of the most famous swordsmen in Japanese history — tasked with destroying the Genma, an army of demons plaguing the land. You’ll hack, you’ll slash, you’ll parry, you’ll kick ass.

The Onimusha games have always been something of an arcade hack-and-slash with parrying mechanics, a novelty when the series debuted in the early 2000s, but which other games have adopted in the decades since. Period samurai games have been in vogue in recent years, from 2019’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima (and Ghost of Yotei releasing soon) to this year’s Assassin’s Creed: Shadows.

While my demo with Onimusha: Way of the Sword was brief, it seems like Capcom has resisted mimicking the stealth and hyper-mobility of those more modern samurai games and preserved the idiosyncrasies of the originals. Musashi receives the power of the Oni gauntlet, through which he can absorb orbs of the hordes of demons he slays — and no, you still can’t jump.

Most of the modernizations to Onimusha: Way of the Sword is through the parry system, which has four different ways to deflect enemy attacks, presuming you time it correctly. Yet it’s still a game about cutting apart demons with your sword in frankly brutal fashion, depleting their block meter to get in a final slash that will frequently slice them in half in a gruesomely satisfying fashion.

A short slice of Onimusha: Way of the Sword

The demo opened up with the player as Musashi walking down a forest path to get to a temple, passing fleeing villagers and sword-wielding demon soldiers pursuing them. Killing them was easy — the game was on the Action difficulty (with an even easier Story difficulty if I wanted), and even with my middling Sekiro and Elden Ring skills, it was a breeze, so I’m hoping for a tougher option when the game releases.

A dark fog gathered around the temple, which Musashi called Malice, which sounds like a concentration of demonic presence (but what do I know). As I approach the temple gates, the Oni gauntlet, the soul-gathering demon armor piece that’s iconic to the franchise, speaks to Musashi. When he moves to touch a glowing orb, ghostly memories of villagers march into the temple. To enter myself, I had to use Oni Vision — basically a Batman-style detective sight — to find the right spiritual binding to cut.

Naturally, more demon soldiers await me in the temple, giving me a chance to use my special weapons — a pair of twin blades I can summon when I’ve revved up enough energy in the Oni Power Gauge using my regular sword. Presumably, I’ll get to use a variety of magical arms this way in the full game, but it does seem like most of the combat will be using my trusty katana (and a lot of parrying).

I finally entered the main sanctuary of the temple overlooking the valley below, which had another ghostly memory for me to watch — recalling the corrupting Malice convincing elderly villagers to toss their children into the abyss. Grim stuff. But I was quickly shaken out of my reverie by an old friend of Musashi’s who greeted him with a blade. There’s some unspoken history between your legendary swordsman and the seemingly unhinged newcomer (named Sasaki Ganryu), but he’s got an Oni Gauntlet too, and a desire to cut you down.

Unlike the fodder I’d fought before, Ganryu as a boss was a satisfying and lengthy fight, requiring plenty of counters and measured attacks to break your opponent’s stance. When you do, you’re given a choice of where to land your critical hit — in the boss’s body for extra damage, or in his Oni Gauntlet to get more orb currency.

While you have some healing items to use normally, I couldn’t apply them during the boss battle — but successive attacks will make healing orbs pop out, rewarding precise play while forgiving missteps. It’s a promising alternative to other punishing slash-and-parry games, like FromSoftware’s Souls titles and their imitators.

With the boss defeated, the demo ended, and thus our first look at a brand-new Onimusha game in two decades. While Onimusha: Way of the Sword comes in the wake of several other action games set in historical Japan, Capcom’s contribution has the arcade feel and brutality, combined with demonic mystery, that could set it apart from more grounded and realistic samurai simulators.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is coming out in 2026.