GamersHeroes Wednesday, August 13, 2025 5:55 PM The team at EA SPORTS has released the first of its Deep Dive series for NHL 26. The post NHL 26 Deep Dive Video Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
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GamersHeroes Wednesday, August 13, 2025 2:22 PM The next installment in Sports Interactive's fan-favorite soccer management sim series, Football Manager 26 has been revealed with a new trailer. The post Football Manager 26 Revealed appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Wednesday, August 13, 2025 2:11 PM Developed in collaboration with JOYCITY Corporation, get a firsthand look at the strategic depth and fast-paced gameplay of Resident Evil Survival Unit with the new cinematic trailer for the mobile strategy game. The post Resident Evil Survival Unit Cinematic Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Wednesday, August 13, 2025 5:16 PM
There's never been more options for playing on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox, and PC The post A Ton Of New Game Controllers Are On The Way appeared first on Kotaku. |
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The hit hero (and villain) shooter is still going strong well into its third season, so why not improve your skills with a variety of the game's characters? The post Suit Up With All Of Our <i>Marvel Rivals</i> Hero Guides appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Does this cozy puzzle game benefit from more powerful hardware? The post Everything You Need To Know About Playing <i>Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker</i> On Switch 2 appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Rote, dated gameplay burdens this entry in the Mafia saga, but its depiction of one man's struggle for a better life resonates The post <i>Mafia: The Old Country</i>: The <i>Kotaku</i> Review appeared first on Kotaku. |
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Drag x Drive and Switch 2 launch game Welcome Tour are both at the very bottom of Metacritic's Switch 2 rankings The post Two Of The Worst-Reviewed Games On Switch 2 Come From Nintendo appeared first on Kotaku. |
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PCGamesN Wednesday, August 13, 2025 3:16 PM Hats off to whoever designed the Alienware Aurora R16 case - from the iconic light-up alien head that doubles as a power button, to the smouldering ring of light behind the front panel, this curvy, space-age chassis really looks the part, and it's well-made too. Dell is equipping its new Aurora PCs with the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 GPUs as well, and our sample comes with an RTX 5070 Ti, which is one of the better cards from the new Blackwell lineup. With a super-cool case and a decent GPU, this Alienware rig is already looking like an obvious contender for our best gaming PC guide. There are a few areas that hold it back from greatness, however, including an odd choice of CPU for a gaming machine, and a surprisingly messy interior that's at odds with the clean design of the case. I've been using the Alienware Aurora for a few weeks now, and I've tested it in a load of games, as well as benchmarking its rendering performance, and taking it apart to see what makes it tick. [site_jumplinks] MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming |
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Siliconera Wednesday, August 13, 2025 4:00 PM
Square Enix announced on social media that the Boba Bear boba tea shop will cost a FFVII Ever Crisis pop-up event that turns the place into a replica of Tifa's Seventh Heaven bar. It will take place at the Los Angeles, California location in Koreatown. Things will start on September 22, 2025, though there will be a Community Preview Day event on September 7, 2025.
The preview event will last for three hours and start at 2pm PT on September 7, 2025. It will be hosted by the Square Enix Community Team. The special FFVII Ever Crisis Seventh Heaven drinks and decorations will be on display at Boba Bear during that session. People selected to attend will get to join with a plus one. The pair will each get one free drink and free entry. The Square Enix official site is taking applications to potentially be picked. If you do get selected to attend, you can only visit for up to one hour.
A few details about the full event also appeared. It will start on September 22, 2025. Someone who wants to attend must be in Los Angeles and able to attend the location. When they do, they place a $10 reservation. That money, when you attend, will be used to partially pay for your drinks. You can start placing reservations early on August 30, 2025. People who happen to be near by can try to walk up and wait to attend, but there are no guarantees you could get in without a reservation.
Here's the key art for the event, which features young Sephiroth and Angeal.
FFVII Ever Crisis is available for PCs and mobile devices, and the Boba Bear Koreatown location Seventh Heaven pop-up experience will run September 22, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
The post FFVII Ever Crisis Seventh Heaven Pop-Up Comes to Boba Bear appeared first on Siliconera. |
Siliconera Wednesday, August 13, 2025 3:00 PM
Kenshi Yonezu won't just be contributing the song "Iris Out" as a theme song for the Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc movie, as the official social media account for the series revealed that he'll also sing the theme song "Jane Doe" with Hikaru Utada for the film. The full track isn't available yet. Mappa only shared about a 30 second teaser for it on YouTube.
Here's the latest clip. As with other trailers, some animations from the movie also appear. While we do hear a bit of Hikaru Utada's voice toward the end of it, we don't get to hear either performer actually sing or get a hint at the lyrics for the track. It does seem like it is a slower-paced piano theme, compared to other Chainsaw Man theme songs.
Here's the Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc movie theme song teaser for the Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada song "Jane Doe."
We already heard a bit of the other song Kenshi Yonezu sang for Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc, as it appeared in the last movie trailer shared in July 2025. In case you missed it, you can hear it in the background over this footage from the film.
Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc will debut in Japan on September 19, 2025, and it will appear in US theaters in English on October 29, 2025. The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll, and Viz Media handles the manga outside Japan.
The post Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada Sing Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc Song appeared first on Siliconera. |
Destructoid Wednesday, August 13, 2025 3:51 PM
Cartels are now available in Schedule 1 as part of version 0.4.0 (currently only in beta), and you'll face one of your hardest challenges in the game.
The new cartel system is built with all existing systems, and you'll find that new areas unlock based on their influence. You're introduced to the Benzies (aka the cartel) pretty early, so let's take a look at how to interact with them.
How do you meet with Thomas Benzies in Schedule 1?
As of writing, the process of interacting with the Benzies is pretty buggy. If you're just starting your new save, you'll need to unlock a significant number of potential customers in the Westville region. If you're continuing your main game, chances are that you either have all the areas unlocked or you have all the potential clients available in the Westville region.
If you're continuing on your main save, you will need to sleep to get your first mail from the Benzies. When you wake up, you'll get a text from the main man, asking you to meet him. Now here's where a major bug happens in the beta.
If the request works as intended, you'll have to reach the Taco Ticklers. This is the exact location where you start a new save, and Thomas will be at the parking lot. He will be sitting in his black-colored SUV, with the window glass rolled down on the side.
He will introduce himself, revealing something interesting about your RV (no spoilers here). He will then make you two offers: accept his truce, or declare war. If you take his truce, there won't be a war, and you'll be safe. However, you'll practically become a dealer to him. You'll need to supply him with a certain amount of drugs on a timely basis. He openly says that he will pay you less than the market rate.
If you reject his offer, you openly declare war against him. His henchmen will be on your back and try to take down your dealers to upset your empire. However, you'll have your uncle Benji offering his advice about how to take the Benzies down. If you're going to become an enemy of the cartel, it will start a separate questline that requires you to topple them once and for all.
The post How to meet and interact with the cartel in Schedule 1? appeared first on Destructoid. |
Destructoid Wednesday, August 13, 2025 2:52 PM
I'm already hyped for Pokémon's 30th anniversary in 2026, and most of us who are fans of the series know this will probably be a big year for the series. While the Pokémon Company has yet to confirm what's coming next year, it's reasonable to expect that sometime later in 2025, we will get news of games coming in 2026.
This will likely include a fresh mainline Pokémon game, which will most likely be a Switch 2 exclusive that will make me pay the console tax. I'm sure of that because of the anniversary, and also because it lines up with the release cadence of previous generations, which have never been released later than four years after the previous one. Generation 9 debuted in late 2022, after all.
This could be the start of Generation 10 of Pokémon, which means a new game with a different region and a unique set of monsters. While this alone is exciting for me, since I've been playing Pokémon for what I think is already 25 years, I still have the dream of seeing the Pokémon Company release an MMORPG.
I want a Pokémon world that's connected
It's not about online gaming. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet already have decent online features: battling other players, exploring the map together in the Union Circle, and PvE battles in Tera Raids. It's a comprehensive experience that lets you join players you don't know, randomly queuing up with or against you. While it's still far from having a clan or guild system like long-standing MMOs have, it's more than Pokémon had before the Nintendo Switch era.
I want a Pokémon MMO so I can see an ever-expanding world with updates over the years. The dream that probably anyone who has played more than two mainline Pokémon games has: starting in the Kanto region, and after six months or a year, unlocking Johto, then other regions until we have a 10- or 15-year-old game where we can play as one trainer across the entire Pokémon world, traveling from region to region, fighting different gyms and Elite Fours. Essentially, a single title would feature all the games and continents ever released in the franchise.
That's even more exciting to me than the multiplayer aspect, though it would only truly shine if there were lots of players active at the same time. I'm not a game designer, so I won't try to say what the best way to achieve this could be. I do think one of the hardest challenges would be figuring out how to make that much content work with Pokémon's usual leveling system. But MMOs like World of Warcraft have figured out how to keep leveling interesting while still releasing new content without extreme level-cap increases.
Maybe The Pokémon Company could create some kind of IV or EV upgrades, increase their caps, and add farming systems. I believe, or would like to believe, that there's a solution for this. There are thousands of talented developers, level and character designers out there who could make it happen if the Pokémon Company hired them. After all the recent layoffs across Microsoft and other companies, I can only imagine there are plenty of skilled people available to build a Pokémon MMO.
The Pokémon Company has surprised us before
The only obstacle is the Pokémon Company itself. But they have surprised us and experimented successfully with other genres: a MOBA in Pokémon Unite, a gacha in Pokémon Masters EX, augmented reality in Pokémon GO, tactics in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, tile-matching in Pokémon Trozei, and even a fighting game in Pokkén Tournament DX. Yet, despite the franchise's roots as an RPG, it never came close to being an MMO.
The main historical barrier was hardware/ How could you make an MMO for the Game Boy Color, DS, or 3DS? Nintendo also has no games on PC. But now, with the Nintendo Switch, we've even seen Temtem, a Pokémon-inspired MMO, run on the platform, so we know it's possible.
The bigger issue might be that Nintendo has never made any MMOs, and these games require high maintenance, investment, and ongoing updates. That's very different from the live service they've done for Pokémon Unite (designing a few 'mon occasionally) or Pokémon Masters EX (adding sync pairs, stories, and side missions). Expanding an MMO means building entire world expansions, huge undertakings that can fundamentally change how the game works. Nintendo doesn't have that experience.
So I don't think it will happen. Still, I think I can dream, right? I'd love to see this become a reality someday. And who knows, maybe in a few months, I'll be writing the news that there's a Pokémon MMO… and then I'll wake up and realize it was just a dream.
The post Am I delusional for hoping The Pokémon Company releases an MMO in 2026? appeared first on Destructoid. |
Destructoid Wednesday, August 13, 2025 2:14 PM
Resident Evil: Requiem appears to want to change the series from the inside out. Capcom has already expressed its desire to do something different this time around, but if you were ever to ask me if I'd expect vehicles and open areas, I'd have said you're out of your mind.
That, however, seems to be the reality. According to Dusk Golem, a reputable leaker particularly interested in Capcom, Resident Evil: Requiem will introduce a wide array of "innovations," previously not present in most of the series. Though Capcom aims to up the ante in regard to terror and fear, RE: Requiem is nevertheless apparently planning to expand the map as well, adding larger open-level areas and vehicles to traverse them.
"[Capcom's] been working hard to achieve having good performance on open-level designed areas like Raccoon City, along w/a vehicle to travel around it," Dusk Golem claimed.
This jump in level design will be followed by appropriate high-tech environmental physics, which, as Dusk Golem says, will be a significant part of some segments of the game.
"There's been [an] effort to provide more environmental physic systems and interactivity for Grace's segments where she has to work with the environment more," they said.
Resident Evil games have primarily been pretty tight-knit, with somewhat open-ended environments that are ultimately linear in nature.
Though you can go in several directions sometimes, the games at their core are fundamentally streamlined from point A to B, usually confined to buildings or other limited areas. Open-level locations are certainly not that much of a novelty to the franchise, but a more open-world-type design certainly is, especially one requiring a vehicle to be traversed.
Other innovations are also apparently in the works, with Leon in particular being the focus. Dusk Golem has said Leon's combat takes a lot of inspiration from The Last of Us: Part 2, but comes with its own set of innovations as well.
According to them, this could also be the last Leon RE game, with the character potentially not set to appear in any future mainline entries, at least not as a playable character.
I am split on some of these design choices Capcom has supposedly gone for. However, fresh and new twists are a welcome thing when done right, so I'll withhold any value judgment until I see this stuff confirmed in the game.
And, to add a bit for the very end, I must say I'd love to be able to explore a post-nuke Raccoon City in detail, and the approach above could very well enable that.
The post Resident Evil Requiem will have large open areas and vehicle traversal, leaker claims appeared first on Destructoid. |
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