GamersHeroes Monday, July 14, 2025 11:34 PM As North America's largest celebration of Japanese pop culture, Anime Expo 2025 recently brought forth more than 410,000 fans, delivering more than $110 million in revenue to local hotels, restaurants, and businesses. The post Anime Expo 2025 Saw Over 410K Fans appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Monday, July 14, 2025 10:40 PM Serving as a celebration of Swedish game development that features more than 80 titles from studios across the country, the Games Made In Sweden sale is now live on Steam. The post Games Made in Sweden Steam Sale Live on Steam appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Monday, July 14, 2025 10:06 PM Announced during the Esports World Cup this past weekend, SNK revealed that Street Fighter's Ken Masters is set to make his way to FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves later this summer. The post Street Fighter's Ken Masters Coming to FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves Later This Summer appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Monday, July 14, 2025 7:59 PM A space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments, Astra Logical's Dawn Apart is now available in Early Access for the PC via Steam. The post Fully-Destructible Automation Sim Dawn Apart Now Available in Early Access appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Monday, July 14, 2025 6:26 PM After making waves on both the Meta Quest and SteamVR, Cortopia, Free Lives, and Devolver Digital's outrageous VR gladiator sim sequel GORN 2 is now available for the PS VR2 platform. The post VR Gladiator Simulator GORN 2 Now Available on PS VR2 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Monday, July 14, 2025 5:48 PM Skybound Entertainment's in-house development studio Quarter Up today announced that Rex Splode will join the roster of their upcoming 3v3 tag fighting game Invincible VS. The post Rex Splode Invincible VS Gameplay Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
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Siliconera Monday, July 14, 2025 8:30 PM
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Siliconera Monday, July 14, 2025 7:00 PM
Uniqlo in Japan will release new Chainsaw Man T-shirts as part of its UT collection. The first collaboration it had with the popular anime and manga series was in 2023.
The new Chainsaw Man collaboration at Uniqlo will focus on the theatrical adaptation of the Reze Arc. There will be three different designs to get, and they're all priced at 1,990 JPY ($13.50). The prices for the shirts will likely be different when or if the shirts appear in stores outside of Japan.
As for the designs, you can choose one that features Denji in his Chainsaw Man form. There's also one with Pochita on the front. The last t-shirt has a plain front, but the back depicts a fight between Chainsaw Man and Bomb Girl. Here are the designs:
Chainsaw Man began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump from December 2018. MAPPA handled the anime adaptation, which ran from October 2022 to December 2022. It follows Denji, a down-on-his-luck young man who lives with Pochita, a chainsaw demon, in abject poverty. To survive and pay off the debt he inherited from his father, he kills demons and sells their body parts. After his death, Pochita revives him as Chainsaw Man. The Reze Arc will continue where the first season left off, and it'll come out in Japan on September 19, 2025.
Chainsaw Man is available to watch on streaming platforms like Crunchyroll. Viz Media licensed the English version of the manga. The Uniqlo shirts will come out in August 2025.
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Siliconera Monday, July 14, 2025 6:00 PM
NPC Studio used social media to go over various additions to Fields of Mistria that launch as part of the July 2025 update, and the newest trailer introduces the new Saturday Market characters Taliferro and Wheedle. The two will appear each week in-game after first unlocking the weekly fair in general, then after completing an additional quest to make both of them start opening stalls.
Taliferro is entirely new to Fields of Mistria as of this update, but players might have already encountered Wheedle ahead of his Saturday Market appearance by going through Balor's heart events. Taliferro is a chef. He's in charge of a cooking challenge that takes place at the market. The video cuts off before showing what that might look like in-game. Meanwhile, Wheedle runs a more traditional type of shop. His script teased he'll sell items you can't get at other places. However, the phrasing does suggest he might not be on the up-and-up.
Here's the latest video. The announcement alongside it noted we need to finish a "Upgrade the Saturday Market" quest for the town to make these two vendors appear in front of the Manor House where Elsie, Adeline, and Eiland live.
One of the last trailers leading up to the patch's launch showed what the new heart event for March looks like.
Fields of Mistria is in early access for the PC, and the new update arrives on July 21, 2025.
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Siliconera Monday, July 14, 2025 5:00 PM
Idea Factory International announced a Makeship campaign to create a plush of Benetti, the mascot character from the upcoming otome game Temirana: The Lucky Princess and The Tragic Knights. It is currently in the petition portion of the process. If 200 people support it, then a stuffed animal of the character will appear.
How the process works is that right now, it would cost $2 to make a pledge to support the concept. If 200 people would commit, then a prototype would be made and an actual campaign for the Temirana Benetti plush would take place. That could happen as early as August 2025, but might not take place until November 2025. The plush would then ship after production. At that point, someone who pledged would also be charged $27.99 for the complete product. Those who purchase the otome plush during the actual campaign would pay $29.99.
Benetti is a side character in Temirana. It's the mascot that lives with Princess Cecilia Farias Temirana. The character is also committed to helping Cecilia find a love interest. So as we go through the visual novel and meet the knights Adel, Josephy, Kiya, Milan, and Tobias, Benetti would act as an aide.
Temirana: The Lucky Princess and The Tragic Knights will come to the Nintendo Switch in 2026, and the Makeship campaign for the Benetti plush of the otome game mascot could appear in November 2025 if the petition succeeds.
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Destructoid Monday, July 14, 2025 5:47 PM
If you're looking for some silver lining out of the litany of unfortunate cancelations and layoffs that have been rocking the games industry, listen up if you're a Fallout fan.
One of these many unfortunate stories of late was the cancelation of a new MMO by Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media, but the reallocation of funds from that project's ashes means that Fallout 5 is now "fully greenlit" for development.
In a new episode of the Xbox Two Podcast, Windows Central editor and industry insider Jez Corden says "Fallout in general" is "where they've decided to make the investments and where the money will be translating to a surefire win," compared to an assumed gamble that was the canceled MMO.
This means that Fallout 5, along with "full steam ahead" development on Elder Scrolls VI and Starfield DLC, are next on the docket for Bethesda over the next few years, according to Corden. When any of these projects will come to fruition is another question entirely, and Corden's report is not much to go off of regardless, but this can be perceived as a positive in a sea of negative news surrounding games right now, especially Xbox.
Corden opined that a new studio could be spun up out of the organizational changes specifically for Fallout's development, but he claimed that was also just conjecture.
Fallout 4's 10th anniversary is coming up later this year, and Fallout 76 is turning seven years old in the fall, so a new mainline entry in the franchise has been a long time coming. And still, with a few other projects in the works, it may be several more years away from ever even seeing the light of day.
Fallout has had a big resurgence in recent years, especially thanks to the Amazon Prime Video series and turnaround of Fallout 76, so Bethesda attempting to capitalize on that hype by turning its attention back to the post-apocalyptic franchise seems like a no-brainer.
For now, take this as a modicum of positivity to come out of a massively unfortunate situation, but also don't hold your breath about getting any new information or confirmation about Fallout 5 for the next couple years.
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Destructoid Monday, July 14, 2025 4:27 PM
Another year marks another new expansion for Destiny 2. Year eight of the FPS looter shooter begins with The Edge of Fate, a new DLC launching July 15.
Having defeated The Witness in The Final Shape, the Guardians now turn their attention to a mysterious invitation to the edge of the solar system and a new destination called Kepler. New enemies, weapons, armor, powers, and discoveries await.
Before The Edge of Fate begins, though, Destiny 2 will go offline for several hours of server downtime and maintenance. Bungie will be hard at work deploying the update to the servers, but in doing so, players will need to find something else to do while they await its arrival.
Here's everything you need to know about when the game will be unavailable and when the new DLC will kick off another year of Bungie's liveservice title.
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Destiny 2 server downtime - The Edge of Fate
Below you can find all the info about Destiny 2's server downtime ahead of The Edge of Fate's launch. The game's servers should only be down for around four hours, but downtime can be extended if any issues occur.
Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate maintenance and downtime
Maintenance should last around eight hours, but this sort of thing is routinely extended, especially when a new expansion launches. Expect there to be some server hiccups and error codes in the first few hours after launch.
Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate countdown
So you don't have to worry about time zone confusion, we've included this countdown that ends exactly when The Edge of Fate is scheduled to go live when Destiny 2 is back online after server downtime:
Once The Edge of Fate is live, players will have four days to prepare for the launch of the DLC's new raid (Contest Mode), which begins on Saturday, July 19 at 12pm CT. Before then, players can run through the expansion's story mode and whatever other endgame activities there are to level up and be ready.
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Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Monday, July 14, 2025 4:25 PM According to a prominent leaker. The post Nintendo Will Reportedly Host A Nintendo Direct After Donkey Kong Bananza appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
MonsterVine Monday, July 14, 2025 9:00 PM Invincible VS just added a little more boom to its punch. Skybound and Quarter Up revealed today that Rex Splode—everyone's favorite unstable teen with attitude and explosives—is joining the playable roster for the upcoming 3v3 tag fighter Invincible VS. The game, based on the hit Invincible comic by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, […] |
MonsterVine Monday, July 14, 2025 8:00 PM Grab your katana, don your finest sombrero, and get ready to raise hell in Mexican Ninja, the newly announced retro-inspired 2.5D beat-'em-up roguelike from Colombian developer Madbricks and publisher Amber. Set in the hyper-stylized streets of Nuevo Tokyo, Mexican Ninja drops players into a neon-drenched dystopia ruled by a cartel-yakuza fusion gang called the Narkuza. […] |
MonsterVine Monday, July 14, 2025 7:00 PM It's time to lasso, launch, and loot your way through the clouds: Cloudheim, the upcoming physics-based co-op action-RPG from Noodle Cat Games, is heading into Open Beta from July 18–21 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Chaos Is the Core in Cloudheim Built for up to four-player co-op, Cloudheim turns every fight into […] |
MonsterVine Monday, July 14, 2025 6:00 PM Steer into the rising tides of rebellion: Reclaim the Sea, a tactical roguelike strategy game from solo developer 1 Last Game, is officially out now on Steam for PC, launching at a discounted price of $9.59 / €9.43 for a limited time. Set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world submerged by endless oceans, Reclaim the Sea […] |