GamersHeroes Friday, September 19, 2025 11:52 PM Dying Light: The Beast is another terrifying foray that provides a unique spin on the survival horror genre. However, its horde of bugged missions and objectives damage its otherwise immersive terror. The post Dying Light: The Beast Review appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, September 19, 2025 6:00 PM Playtonic Friends and MegaWobble are dancing in the dark with the Lil Gator Game DLC In the Dark in early 2026 - learn more with the latest trailer for the whimsical expansion. The post Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC Expansion Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, September 19, 2025 5:21 PM The legends at SNK CORPORATION have announced that the SNK World Championship 2025 premier global eSports tournament will take place at DreamHack Atlanta - complete with a $4.1M prize pool! The post SNK World Championship 2025 Planned for DreamHack Atlanta With $4.1M Prize Pool appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, September 19, 2025 5:06 PM Setting out to become the ultimate dark fantasy MMORPG, Netmarble has released a new episode in their "INSIDE RAVEN2" weekly video series. The post Brutal Dark Fantasy MMORPG Raven2 "Trail of the Demon" Video Live appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, September 19, 2025 4:21 PM Drawing inspiration from classic BBC sci-fi and 50s paranoia, pre-orders of SPACELAB9 and Rebellion's limited-edition Atomfall: Original Game Soundtrack LP are now open. The post Atomfall Limited Edition Vinyl OST Pre-Orders Open appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Friday, September 19, 2025 6:29 PM
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Siliconera Friday, September 19, 2025 10:00 PM
Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIV will collaborate with Shu Uemura for an upcoming makeup and cosmetics line based on the popular video game. The collaboration will also appear in North America, but there are no dates announced yet.
The products feature and are inspired by the Moogle characters from FFXIV. Once it releases, there will be 7 different products available. You can check out the full line-up for the FFXIV makeup collaboration, its prices, and how the goods look below.
The FFXIV x Shu Uemura collaboration makeup line will appear in Japan on October 31, 2025. Pre-orders will open on October 23 from the Shu Uemura online storefront, and October 24 at the Isetan Beauty online stores, as well as the physical Isetan Shinjuku, Hankyu Department Store Umeda, and JR Nagoya Takashimaya.
In case you missed it, Square Enix announced the dates for the upcoming 2026 Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival, which will be held in Anaheim, California, Berlin (Germany,) and Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. You can check out the exact dates here.
Final Fantasy XIV is available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.
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Siliconera Friday, September 19, 2025 5:00 PM
Shift Up teased a Stellar Blade 2025 Tokyo Game Show update announcement, and it could involve a crossover with another game again. The developer used the official social media account to share an image of a dilapidated, dark, blood red hallway with obvious beams showing overhead. It also teased a reveal with the words "in one week." If it comes in exactly seven days, that would put the Stellar Blade reveal at September 26, 2025, right in the midst of TGS 2025.
There are no clues beyond the possible location. Due to the use of the color red, as well as both red being a major color in the Silent Hill series and upcoming game Silent Hill f, that could be one possible crossover. However, the horror elements and fact that Shift Up is already working with Capcom on a Resident Evil crossover in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE could make it a possibility. No other company names are mentioned in the credits for the image.
Here's the full teaser image:
If this does turn out to be a Stellar Blade crossover with a game like Silent Hill f or series like Resident Evil, it would mark the third one for the title. The first ended up being NieR: Automata DLC. The second brought Shift Up's Goddess of Victory: NIKKE into the game.
Stellar Blade is available for the PS5 and PC, and we may learn more about this update and possible crossover during TGS 2025 between September 25-28, 2025.
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Destructoid Friday, September 19, 2025 4:57 PM
Following a trend in the gaming market, Microsoft is hiking the prices of all Xbox variants in the US, with one particular version of the Series X costing up to $800. That's the price of a solid PC, built from parts as old as the Xbox.
As announced on the Xbox support page, these new prices come into effect on Oct. 3. The Series S will run you $399.99 and $449.99 for the 512GB and 1TB variants, while the Series X will go for $599.99 and $649.99 for the Digital and Physical versions, respectively. The 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition variant of the Series X now costs $799.99, which is a ludicrous price for five-year-old hardware that you'd expect to become cheaper over time.
In the case of consoles, that rule has no effect, and both Sony and Microsoft are steadily increasing the prices of their hardware despite their internal components remaining the same five-year-old parts they've had since the beginning. What's more, Sony's reportedly even cutting down drive space on its PlayStation consoles in Europe while maintaining the price, so it seems we're even getting worse hardware with time, but with the same or higher prices.
These Xbox costs have been driven by "changes in the macroeconomic environment," which could mean just about anything, from the Trump Administration's new tariffs to supply chain issues. This also only affects US customers, with the rest of the world dodging the bullet.
No matter what, though, these are massive prices to pay for aged hardware since you could build fairly capable PCs for just about the same cost, given that graphics cards, CPUs, RAM sticks, and other components from 2020 are now dirt-cheap in second-hand markets.
With enough time and care, you could easily have a better machine for just as much money, or even less, and since Xbox games always simultaneously release on PC, there's an extra reason to avoid buying these machines at inflated prices.
Additionally, if you're in the market for a console specifically, you can still get the PlayStation 5 or PS5 Pro and play Xbox-exclusive titles, which are slowly but surely making their way to Sony's platform.
The only argument left for buying an Xbox would be Game Pass, but then again, you can build a more competent PC and still subscribe to the Game Pass service, so there's quite literally no point in forking over this much money for a near-last-generation machine.
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Destructoid Friday, September 19, 2025 4:49 PM
Earlier today, we learned how there's reportedly nothing happening at Sony regarding Bloodborne, which comes as no surprise to anyone. The game's been stuck in PS4 hell since its launch in 2015 and was never ported, updated, or remastered for modern machines. Thankfully, the community's got our back.
As our Scott Duwe already wrote up, Bloodborne is seemingly not moving an inch, with Sony apparently caring little about porting or remastering the title for the time being. That'd be funny if it weren't so confusing, as Sony seems willing to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into failed live-service projects like Concord rather than earning a bucket load of free cash by releasing Bloodborne on PC.
Anyhow, we've all heard that story today, and have been hearing similar ones for quite some time. Bloodborne is in stasis, strapped in the Hunter's Dream, never to come out, be updated, remastered, or ported. But what is out and progressing rapidly is PlayStation 4 emulation on PC, tailor-made to allow people to run Bloodborne on their machines.
I've followed ShadPS4, as the project is known, for over two years now, steadily scouting out how Bloodborne runs on PC these days. And I can tell you it's almost as good as it gets. With high resolutions, a frame rate the official version of Bloodborne can only dream of, and only a handful of audiovisual glitches that players have ways to solve, Bloodborne on PC is a perfectly viable way to play.
That is, if you have a machine capable of emulating one of the most complex architectures in the industry's history.
And even if you don't, there are probably myriad patches, plugins, fixes, and tweaks you can employ to make Bloodborne run smoother, if not altogether perfectly. No matter how it runs, though, it's probably still miles ahead of the PS4 version of the game, which is stuck in a low 720p resolution that YouTube doesn't even consider HD nowadays, running at a locked 30 fps that it fails to maintain most of the time.
As the video above indicates (thanks GAMESMARK), you can have the game work at 4K, with mods improving graphical fidelity and lighting, as well as running at a smooth 60 fps. It's the superior experience, the issues you might encounter be damned. With time, Bloodborne on PC will only become better, and it has already surpassed the original version in more ways than one.
So, instead of waiting for Sony to remember it owns the IP, do yourself a favor and boot up Bloodborne via an emulator and enjoy the best Lovecraftian horror game you've ever experienced.
Note: Emulation itself is a legal practice, but pirating software is not. If you wish to play the game via emulation, you will have to procure the files from a legitimate copy you yourself have purchased and own. Destructoid does not approve of nor condone piracy. Buy the game, get the files, and play however you want.
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Destructoid Friday, September 19, 2025 4:40 PM
Resident Evil Requiem is my most anticipated game, so every new report or leak that comes out about it further excites me and makes the wait for February more difficult. But then there's this latest one...oof.
Here's your spoiler warning, folks. Click away if you don't want to know more about RE9, even if the leak ends up being fake. You have been warned.
A supposed leaked image, originally posted on 4Chan (yeah, I know) and then re-posted to Reddit, shows a new look for one of the franchise's most popular characters, and one who is pivotal to the series' legacy in many ways, along with some Japanese text (translated by a Reddit user) describing Capcom's process of modeling characters in the RE Engine. And then there's some big red "CONFIDENTIAL" text in the top right, as always.
So, Leon S. Kennedy is likely going to be in Resident Evil Requiem. Leakers are saying so, and it would only be right for him to return as a send-off in this final chapter of the Umbrella story that Capcom looks to be telling in RE9. Chris has had plenty of time to shine (where are Claire and Jill?!), and so Leon is most likely to appear in this game. And that's exactly who we see in this purported leak.
Grace Ashcroft is probably just one of the playable characters in RE9. Most RE games had multiple. If we really are returning to Raccoon City to close that chapter, then Leon needs to be in it. Having said that, if in RE9 he looks like he does in this supposed leak, I'm pretty disappointed.
He's basically just Big Boss/Punished Snake/Venom Snake from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The low-quality picture depicts a Zombie in an RPD vest, a weird two-headed monster, and then our main boy. The image has Leon with the same exact haircut that he had in 1998, but with some graying to it, and a slightly graying beard. And an eyepatch. What.
First, dude, get a haircut. Change your style. Rocking the Titanic-era DiCaprio cut 28 years after your first day at the RPD is ludicrous. This puts him at around 50 years old, give or take, depending on exactly when RE9 takes place. I'm all for expressing yourself stylistically, but you also have to be age-appropriate.
But then the eye patch? Why? I've been making jokes about an old Leon showing up like Old Snake in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, a grizzled veteran ready to fight his final battles, but this leak makes it look like Capcom took that idea a little too literally.
So far, we've only seen glimpses of Grace gameplay from an early section of RE9. With Tokyo Game Show coming up next week, along with a potential State of Play from PlayStation, I think we'll begin seeing Leon confirmation in some capacity to hype up the game over the next five months before it releases.
I'm fairly certain Leon will be in RE9 in some capacity, with the odds showing that he will be the second playable character and action horror foil to Grace's pure survival horror. But if he shows up looking like Kiefer Sutherland's Big Boss clone in RE9, it'll be just plain weird, so I'm hoping this "leak" is a well-made fake.
Give him the beard, sure, and throw in some graying hair for dramatic effect to remind us all how god damn old we are now (I played the original RE2 when I was 9). But change up the haircut and leave the eye patch on the cutting room floor. Let's give our man the send-off he deserves.
Update on Sept. 19 at 3:40pm CT: For what it's worth, the same leaker who's adamant about Leon being in RE9 says that the image is a fake. Thank Spencer.
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WGB Friday, September 19, 2025 8:25 PM Microsoft is increasing Xbox prices for the second time this year in the US, likely due to tariffs. New prices take effect on October 3rd, making the Xbox Series X 2TB the priciest console. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Friday, September 19, 2025 5:20 PM A trailer was also released. The post HYPERFUNK Announced For PC and Consoles appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
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Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Friday, September 19, 2025 4:17 PM The trailer provides narrative and lore details. The post Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Gets New Narrative Trailer appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
MonsterVine Friday, September 19, 2025 10:00 PM Atlus has released the first-ever official music video for Persona 3 Reload, highlighting the global hit "It's Going Down Now." The track, performed by Lotus Juice and Azumi Takahashi, now comes to life with a blend of live-action performances, in-game visuals, and brand-new animations. Composer Toshiki Konishi of the Atlus Sound team also joins the […] |