Launching on Switch this September. Spike Chunsoft has released a new gameplay trailer for Shuten Order, the new title from Danganronpa / The Hundred Line creator Kazutaka Kodaka. It provides our best look yet at the game’s multi-genre mechanics, with the story branching off into five distinct paths. You play as Rei Shimobe, the founder…
Andrzej Sapkowski recently wrote a prequel to his Witcher novels, Crossroads of Ravens. At an event to publicize that novel, our colleagues at GamesRadar asked the author if he’d been involved in any part of the development of The Witcher 4. And he said, basically: nope. While explaining that the developers at CD Projekt Red…
The latest software and hardware charts have arrived from Japan, courtesy of the team over at Famitsu. It has been an excellent week for Nintendo as the Kyoto-based company has shifted a staggering 125,231 Nintendo Switch family units this week. The system also has eight games in the top ten this week with Animal Crossing:…
Trials in Arc Raiders is effectively a ranking system where you compete against other players for high scores on five challenges each week. When you complete a task for this week’s challenges, you’ll earn points towards that objective and earn a place on the leaderboard. The competition can get intense, to say the least. But…
Los Angeles-based game developers are reacting to a trio of severe wildfires that overwhelmed LA County firefighters on Tuesday and spread across thousands of acres in the most populous county in the United States, including the Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Santa Monica where Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, and other studios have offices. “Employee safety and…
2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Xbox—but in a shaky set of years for gaming at Microsoft, this one has been among the shakiest. Old CEOs are out, new leadership is in, and we’ve all been left wondering how Xbox might try to steady its prolonged tailspin. This summer’s Xbox Games Showcase is our first…
The PlayStation.Blog team can’t wait for October 13. With the launch of PlayStation VR in North America, we’re entering a new era of gaming — one that places players directly into the worlds that developers so lovingly create. To prepare for this amazing next chapter in PlayStation history, we all donned that PlayStation VR headset…
Endless Space and Humankind studio Amplitude is marking its 13th birthday, and to celebrate it’s giving out free Steam copies of Endless Legend, its underrated fantasy 4X that apparently released all the way back in 2014. So there’s a Friday morning confrontation with mortality for you. You can pick the game up by heading over…
“We share the creative community’s feelings on the ‘misdirection’ of this ad”. Apple has caught a tremendous amount of heat for its new iPad Pro ad, which shows a bunch of items – including a piano, camera and TV screen – being crushed by a hydraulic press. The backlash against the commercial – which was…
I was excited when the Painkiller reboot was formally revealed back in March, but also apprehensive. Anshar Studios’ revival of People Can Fly’s 2004 shooter looks exactly how I imagined a modern take on the game would. But it also has a co-operative emphasis, and I’m uncertain how this will mix with the series’ brutal…