GamersHeroes Friday, June 6, 2025 6:30 PM Lovingly handcrafted and hand animated, Kong Orange, WiredFly and Morten Søndergaard's co-op platforming adventure Out of Words is set to launch next year. The post Co-Op Platforming Adventure Out of Words Launching in 2026 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, June 6, 2025 6:18 PM Announced at Summer Game Fest earlier today, Bandai Namco has announced their major new action RPG Code Vein II. The post Code Vein II Coming in 2026 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, June 6, 2025 6:05 PM Shown during the Summer Game Fest Showcase, Section 9 Interactive released a new trailer for their atmospheric action-adventure End of Abyss. The post Section 9 Interactive's End of Abyss Announced appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, June 6, 2025 5:54 PM Announced during Summer Game Fest earlier today, SEGA's Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will release both digitally and physically September 25. The post Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Launching September 25 appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Friday, June 6, 2025 5:30 PM Revealed during Summer Game Fest earlier today, Fumi Games and PlaySide's gritty, noir-fueled first-person shooter MOUSE: P.I. For Hire will feature VA icon Troy Baker as Private Investigator Jack Pepper. The post MOUSE: P.I. For Hire Casts Troy Baker appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 8:04 PM  I vividly remember the moment I truly realized Summer Game Fest 2025 was a rotten event and an example of the industry trying to pretend everything is alright. |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 7:40 PM  You should know the deal by now: In our post-E3 world, we turn our attention to Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest. |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 7:39 PM  1047 Games cofounder Ian Proulx took the stage at Summer Game Fest on Friday to promote his new game Splitgate 2 by calling out the current state of online shooters. Eschewing the marketing speak of most of his peers at the glossy showcase, he said he wants Titanfall 3 to come out and called his new game's surprise… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 7:15 PM  I don't watch wrestling, but I feel a kinship to Kenny Omega as a fellow Kenny. Well, I did, until I realized his name is actually Tyson Smith. He just took on the name, I was born into it. Anyway, since he is not a true Ken, I have found a new reason to connect with the wrestler after seeing him cosplay as every… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 6:50 PM  Resident Evil 9's executive producer, Jun Takeuchi, announced today at Summer Game Fest that he was not ready to announce anything about the next main entry in the series. Sorry. See you later! (Update: 7:00 EST PM: Actually, Capcom tricked us and announced Resident Evil 9: Requiem.) |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 6:20 PM  Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest showcase is about halfway over, and the show hasn't really had the sauce so far. I don't mean in terms of the games it's showing, I'm talking about the actual showmanship. Keighley's stage show has been pretty paint-by-numbers without a lot of good bits and showmanship. That changed… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 6:16 PM  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game was a 2010 downloadable movie tie-in that turned out to be an incredible beat 'em up, helping to lead an arcade gaming revival on console. Scott Pilgrim Ex is a spiritual successor to that project that's getting the band back together for another River City Ransom-esque smash-fest… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 5:55 PM  At today's Summer Game Fest showcase, Sega showed off Sonic Racing: Crossworlds. The kart racer is a big ol' crossover event between the blue blur and other Sega characters. After previous leaks claimed Minecraft and Spongebob characters would join the racer's roster, Sega revealed that several of its own heroes are… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 5:40 PM  Game of Thrones fans will finally be able to retcon the HBO series finale with their own playthrough of Game of Thrones: War For Westeros, a real-time strategy game coming to Steam Early Access in 2026. A trailer for the newly revealed project at Summer Game Fest showed Kit Harington as Jon Snow fighting the Night… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 5:40 PM  Imagine if the actress who suffocated her character's mute, paralyzed father with a pillow in Pearl was now wreaking havoc across the galaxy. We don't know if suffocation will be in Mia Goth's arsenal, but we do know that the scream queen will be starring in the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter film, according to The… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 5:35 PM  Today, during Summer Game Fest, Mortal Shell 2 was announced with a trailer that made me miss the days of E3 circa 2008 or 2010. The dark and twisted souls-like is coming to PC and consoles in 2026. |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 4:50 PM  ChickenDog was the first person to get a Switch 2 at launch in New York City, and Nintendo promises he'll be far from the last. Even as the new system starts selling out at most retailers, the company says it believes it will be able to meet demand through the rest of 2025, avoiding the scarcity issues that plagued… |
Kotaku Friday, June 6, 2025 4:43 PM  I'm still waiting to get my Switch 2 because my system is getting shipped to my home in New York City while I'm in Los Angeles. The only way in which I can experience the whimsical antics of Mario Kart World is through clips of the lucky bastards who have their systems already. I don't usually think of Nintendo's kart… |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 8:40 PM When it comes to videogames with impeccable vibes, I always think of Heart Machine. Hyper Light Drifter perfectly blends bold pixel art with evocative emptiness in a way that makes that world unforgettable. Solar Ash, meanwhile, transplants that style into a clean-cut 3D environment with some of the best scale I've ever seen. It's safe to say that Heart Machine's next game, Possessors, has caught my eye. If you can't wait either, you'll be glad to hear that there's a demo available today. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best platform games, Best indie games, Best single-player games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 8:35 PM The life sim has, perhaps, become one of the most saturated genres out there. Everyone wants a slice of Stardew Valley's success, with games like Disney Dreamlight Valley injecting some Magic Kingdom sparkle, while Witchbrook puts a fantastical, playful horror spin on the genre. Yet, despite my attempts to stick with them in the same way I did Animal Crossing, I've never really found myself becoming #obsessed with any of Stardew's spiritual successors. Then Neverway appeared, and it's exactly what I've been waiting for. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best indie games, New PC games, Best PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 8:31 PM Between the Guacamelee series and Nobody Saves the World, Canadian developer Drinkbox Studios has shown that it knows exactly how to make bright and expressive videogame worlds. They're some of my favorites, too, with the original Guacamelee one I consistently return to simply because of how stunning the team's luchador and Mexican stylings are. Well, I'm incredibly glad to report that Drinkbox has done it again, as the team's new game, Blighted, blends incredible visuals with the macabre in ways I never thought possible. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best new PC games, Best upcoming PC games, Best PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 7:07 PM Videogame audiences seem to be extremely eager for mech games. FromSoft's return to Armored Core was warmly received when Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon came out in 2023, Into the Breach and Titanfall 2 are two of the most respected entries to the roguelike and FPS genre respectively, and, more recently, Mecha Break blew up on Steam after putting out a demo. Anyone impressed by that sampling is in luck now, as the upcoming multiplayer mech project just had its quickly approaching launch date announced during tonight's opening Summer Games Fest presentation. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best multiplayer games , Best co-op games, Best upcoming PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 7:05 PM Yes. It's happening, it's real, and it's finally been officially unveiled. Resident Evil 9 is on the way and we've just gotten our first full look at Summer Game Fest. Now, I love Resident Evil. I've been playing the survival horror series for 29 years, ever since the first (and still best) game was released in 1996. Silent Hill, Alien Isolation, Amnesia, and other greats have earned their place in the genre's pantheon - but RE, despite, in my personal opinion, the misfires of Resident Evil 7 and Village, still reigns supreme. Now, Capcom's crown jewel is making its valiant return. This is Resident Evil Requiem, and we already have a release date. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best survival games, Best old games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 7:09 PM The Cube. There's something a little bit ominous about it. Perhaps we're all slightly scarred from The Tesseract from the Avengers movies, or maybe the shape's geometric perfection carries a distinctly austere quality. In Mundfish's new shooter, set in the world of Atomic Heart (aptly dubbed the 'Atomic Universe'), there are even more reasons to fear cubes, so I caught up with CEO Robert Bagratuni to learn about the studio's first multiplayer foray. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best new PC games, Best upcoming PC games, Best PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 7:09 PM I consider myself a bit of a shower philosopher. Some of the best articles I've ever written came to me during early morning steam sessions; it's where I ask myself questions and attempt to work out the answers. As a history and war studies graduate, I find my mind wandering to corners of the past: how would the world look if x had happened, instead of y? Mundfish answered one of those with Atomic Heart: what would have happened if the Soviet Union survived and became the global superpower? Apparently, lots of angry robots, fur people, and a very horny vending machine. But now, as revealed at Summer Game Fest, Atomic Heart 2 is on the horizon, seeking to answer different questions and ponder even more. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best new PC games, Best upcoming PC games, Best PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 7:40 PM It's the very first concept trailer for ILL that really sticks in the mind. All of 60 seconds long - and, as it happens, set in an entirely different location to the actual, real game - it nevertheless encompasses the vision of developer Team Clout. Combat is slow and weighty. The enemies are strange, frightening, and governed by a complex physics system. There's a lot of gore. In the four years since ILL first emerged, we've seen dozens of short concept videos and hints of gameplay, but for the most part, the hybrid horror FPS has been an enigma. There's a Steam page and a few social channels, but we don't really know what it's about, how it works, who's making it, and how it's meant to play. Now, finally, alongside a reveal at SGF, ILL's director speaks to PCGamesN about the game's history and inspirations. From what we've seen and heard, ILL is partly a mix of FEAR, Half-Life 2, and Soldier of Fortune - but even then, there's more than meets the eye. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best FPS games, Best horror games, Best upcoming PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 6:21 PM Scum is something of a mainstay in the world of survival videogames, having first entered Early Access on Steam all the way back in 2018. In the years since, it's garnered a solid reputation among players, earning itself a position alongside DayZ, Ark: Survival Evolved, Rust, and Valheim as one of the finest examples of the genre. And now, as it approaches nearly a decade of active development, the game is finally about to hit 1.0 in the very near future. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Scum tips, Scum admin commands, Best survival games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 6:19 PM The First Descendant Season 3 has a date, and you'll be able to get a taste of its vast new zone and try out the hover bikes early. The free-to-play looter shooter's next big update is titled 'Breakthrough,' and will see us traversing a dangerous region known as the Axion Plains. Pitched as a big turning point in the main story, the new season will also include another playable Descendant, the introduction of swords to your arsenal, an eight-player field raid, a dedicated social hub, and a Nier Automata crossover event. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: The First Descendant system requirements, The First Descendant characters, The First Descendant crossplay |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 6:10 PM During the zombie apocalypse, it's never the undead that are the real threat. As far back as the original Resident Evil, it was Wesker, not the T-Virus mutants, that you really had to keep an eye on. In State of Decay 2, it's the bandit enclaves. In DayZ, it's other players. In Project Zomboid, it's a tree stump that somehow suddenly jumps out in front of your speeding car. And in Dying Light The Beast, it's the sinister Baron, who's been running some extremely unethical experiments on you and your fellow survivors. The good news is that Dying Light 2 Ultimate Edition owners get to take on this imposing new foe for free. The better news is that the Dying Light The Beast launch date is coming this August. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best zombie games, Best open-world games, Best co-op games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 6:06 PM There are a lot of games that I associate with my childhood - LA Noire, Dragon Age: Origins, and even Halo: Reach. But my favorites were always simulation games: Rollercoaster Tycoon, The Sims (especially Bustin' Out) and, of course, Jurassic World Evolution. As a budding historian and attempted archaeologist, the franchise has always been up there with my favorites, and, after a year of silence and rampant rumors, Frontier has finally lifted the lid on Jurassic World Evolution 3. Get your management cap on and prepare to feed your visitors to a whole new type of dinosaur; it's about to get prehistoric in here. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best new PC games, Best upcoming PC games, Best PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 5:56 PM Code Vein came out back in 2019 and immediately stood apart from other soulslike games for its anime-inspired visual style and more straightforward storytelling. Though it has the demanding combat and interconnected world design of games like Elden Ring, Sekiro, Dark Souls, and Sekiro, creator Bandai Namco filtered these concepts through the bold cartoon style of a horror anime, attracting a sizable audience in the process. Seven years on, the studio's just announced that it's at work on a follow-up to the first project, with Code Vein 2 set to expand on its predecessor's concepts. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best new PC games, Best upcoming PC games, Best PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 7:14 PM The Lies of P Overture release date is here, and you can play it today. The puppet soulslike, which earned itself plenty of acclaim as one of the most worthy challengers to the Fromsoftware catalog of Elden Ring, Dark Souls, et al, is taking us back to the fall of Krat for a prequel expansion. We've been wondering exactly when it would arrive, and now developers Neowiz and Round8 Studio have given us quite the treat by launching it live on stage during the Summer Game Fest showcase. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPGs, Best fantasy games, Best soulslikes |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 5:32 PM There are so many games created with direct influence from FromSoftware's action RPGs that a new genre has been created from projects similar to Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Sekiro, Demon's Souls, and Bloodborne. What sets the most worthwhile of these soulslike games apart, though, isn't their ability to replicate the unforgiving combat design of From's catalog, but their approach to making absorbing, often foreboding settings. It's in this kind of world design that 2020's Mortal Shell excelled. Now that we've just seen a first glimpse of its sequel, Mortal Shell 2, it looks like creator Cold Symmetry is offering an increasingly detailed nightmare world to explore that continues this effort. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best new PC games, Best upcoming PC games, Best PC games |
PCGamesN Friday, June 6, 2025 5:16 PM The huge success of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 was another reminder of just how appealing living out a medieval fantasy existence can be. But what if, instead of embodying Henry's story, you told a tale all your own? That's the premise of Chronicles Medieval, revealed during the Summer Games Fest with a trailer featuring the ever-iconic Tom Hardy. With the grandiose battles of Total War and the storytelling potential of Crusader Kings 3, Chronicles Medieval drops you into a 14th-century land with complete freedom. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best new PC games, Best upcoming PC games, Best PC games |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 8:00 PM  Heart Machine's side-scrolling metroidvania platformer Possessor(s) is Hollow Knight with a splash of Amanita Design's Creaks. The bulk of your enemies are household objects - vending machines, plant pots, office printers and other fittings that have become vessels for demons. From this premise springs a note of tragedy powerful enough to conquer my outrage at a game title that has brackets in it. The demons are not, in themselves, violent - it's inhabiting the inanimate that maddens them. "Possessing something cold and dead is agony… so they lash out," explains Rhem, a mortally wounded devil you meet in the prologue. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 7:50 PM  Nothing makes me feel like a sneakers-for-sneaking wearing master thief in video games more than discovering a window on a roof that the developers left in a very obvious spot precisely so I'd feel clever for using it, and in this at least, Otherside's PvP stealth game Thick As Thieves looks to have me covered. Deus Ex creator Warren Spector introduced some pre-alpha footage this evening, and while I won't pretend I'm actually likely to play anything PvP anytime soon that isn't Mechabellum, I enjoyed seeing how they've adapted some of that classic immersive sim DNA Spector is known for into a competitive format. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 7:37 PM  What's this? A game with big robots smashing each other to tiny little pieces above a large sci-fi cityscape, and we have not yet covered it. For shame. Mecha Break is a free-to-play multiplayer robo-battler in which you fly around and wreck online foes at speeds no mere human should ever be exposed to, and it now has a release date, as announced in a flashy trailer at the Summer Game Fest. I have no idea if playing this will be as intense as the visual heart attack it looks to be. But maybe when it comes out next month I'll try it out. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 7:37 PM  Please, Watch The Artwork is the follow-up to difference 'em up puzzler Please, Touch The Artwork 2. As hinted by creator Thomas Waterzooi, it's likely coming this October. He performed the announcement in ASMR, which almost relaxed me enough to not be annoyed by the press release's use of the word 'liminal', which in game terms usually just means 'bit spooky, innit'. Still, it is quite spooky. The idea here is that you're a museum worker reporting anomalies in paintings. There's also a sad clown spreading melancholy throughout the art. Waterzooi is keen to point out there's no jumpscares, but you might feel "paranoid, melancholic, isolated and nostalgic". I know how much you all love making "and in the game" comments, so I won't take that away from you. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 7:28 PM  The makers of the Yakuza games have revealed the title of the historical brawler they teased at last year's Game Awards, then known as "Project Century". The full name is Stranger Than Heaven, as unveiled at the Summer Game Fest. It's got a new trailer set in a smokey 1943, in which we meet the game's protagonist, and nod approvingly as he smashes a nose or two. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 7:09 PM  Resident Evil 9 - aka Resident Evil Requiem - is in development, there's a substantial trailer below, and most surprisingly, it already has a specific release date: February 27th, 2026. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 7:08 PM  That spuriously attributed Henry Ford quote comes for us all, in time. If asked back in 2019 what I'd want House House to follow up Untitled Goose Game with, I would have said "bastardier gooses". I wouldn't have suggested "co-op hangout game where you solve team puzzles and shout at your mates with a megaphone from halfway across an open world when you get lost", but you know what? Now House House have explained Big Walk, I have to admit this a better idea than a terrorising hedgehog or whatever. There's never been a good game about a hedgehog, and there never will be. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 7:03 PM  Jurassic World Evolution has always been an 'almost' series for me. On paper, it's such a slam dunk of a concept it feels to hard to imagine it being anything other than brilliant. In practise, the games have always felt a bit thin and tedious, even while boasting some undeniably impressive dinos. Could the third time be the charm? We'll find out later this year, anyway. Jurassic World Evolution 3 releases 21st October. Here's a trailer. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 6:50 PM  Cronenburgian body horror shooter Ill shared more sick filth at the Summer Game Fest, with a trailer that shows the freakish pale abominations you'll be dismembering as you travel through some horrifying concrete manifestation of your own unwellness. Ah, no wait, it's a fort where bad experiments happened. My bad, too much Silent Hill going around. Anyway, here's the trailer. There's a bit where a monster gets his arm blown off and I actually whince. Poor freak. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 6:39 PM  The Artful Escape developers Beethoven & Dinosaur announced Mixtape last year, a nostalgic (providing you're nostalgic for very specific, suburban American teenager things) skating adventure set to "soundtrack of a generation" (providing you were a suburban American teenager during that specific generation). Here's a new trailer for it. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 6:35 PM  Earlier this week, IO Interactive showed the first trailer for their long-awaited Bond game, 007: First Light. Now they're bringing a bit of Bond back to their most famous creation, Hitman: World Of Assassination. Starting today, a new Elusive Target has been added to the game: Le Chiffre, as depicted Mads Mikkelsen in Casino Royale. There's a trailer below. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 6:17 PM Dying Light: The Beast is coming in August with the usual mix of rooftop parkour and zombie blasting  Zombie survival spin-off Dying Light: The Beast has ground down a release date into powder and injected it straight into your brainstem. It's August 22nd. Oh, there's a new trailer too. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 6:13 PM  Too many cosy games about mindlessly planting turnips. Not enough cosy games about the house slowly being taken over by viscera. Fractured Blooms is tagged on Steam as "cute" and "anime" and "psychological horror". It was announced at the Summer Game Fest, where presenter Geoff Keighly described the game as "Doki Doki Literature Club meets Silent Hill". There's no release date, but here's a trailer. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 6:11 PM  Lies Of P: Overture, the first story expansion for soulslike puppet 'em up Lies Of P, is out right now, this very minute, at this exact moment in time, for you to exchange money for on Steam. We got our first trailer for it back in February, and we got our last trailer for it just now, which was probably actually twenty or so minutes ago by the time you're reading this. Here's that first trailer. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 6:05 PM  Lego Builder's Journey is rare not because it's a Lego game, but because it's a Lego game that actually requires you to do Lego stuff, like build and clack blocks together. So it seems to be with the new game from the same studio, Lego Voyagers. The difference this time is that it's two-player co-op with a more expansive world to explore. It looks grand in the trailer below. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 5:52 PM  Nothing funnier than a sweary muppet. Felt That Boxing is a PunchOut style comedy fighting game about a weak-armed muppet learning to stick up for himself and the little ones he loves. It was shown off at Summer Game Fest, and the trailer is worth a chuckle. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 5:47 PM  Swords, they have their ways. Capcom have shown off a little more of their upcoming demon-slaying samurai 'em up, Onimusha: Way Of The Sword. And it is about, if I had to guess, parry windows. Come see the trailer below. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 5:36 PM Chronicles: Medieval is a strategy RPG with massive battles from Witcher and Grand Theft Auto alumni  You wait years for something to give the massive battles of Total War a run for their money so Creative Assembly might be tempted to pull their thumbs out and fix sieges, and suddenly they start pouring from the sky. According to developer Raw Power, Chronicles: Medieval is a "dynamic sandbox blending action and RPG depth on a strategic scale," which is a lot of very good words to put in a row. Lets hope they all stay in formation once the arrows start flying. Here's a trailer. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 5:35 PM  The deluge of video games news begins with a loud screech and big guitars. Mortal Shell 2, sequel to the rocky soulslike of 2021, has been announced at Summer Game Fest. It's very heavy metal by the looks of its trailer, which sees quite a lot of ugly monsters getting battered in the bulbous face. It's got a release date of some time in 2026. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 5:32 PM  Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds got a new trailer at this evening's Summer Game Fest 2025, and with it news of some of the worlds that will be crossing with the blue hedgehog. That came in the form of three new racer reveals: Hatsune Miku, Ichiban from Yakuza: Like A Dragon, and Joker from Persona 5. We also got a release date: September 25th. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Friday, June 6, 2025 5:30 PM  Australian developers Playside and their collaborators at Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment have announced Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros, a real-time strategy game based on George R.R. Martin's perennially unfinished novel series A Song Of Ice And Fire, which somehow doesn't have a proper RTS adaptation already. No, Game Of Thrones: Winter Is Coming doesn't count as an RTS adaptation, and besides, that one's kind of naff. As Cersei Lannister once put it to Ned Stark, "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die or you end up with a Mixed user review consensus on Steam". |
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 8:00 PM
During Summer Game Fest 2025, Capcom revealed the new cast of characters coming to Street Fighter 6 for the Year 3 DLC. The upcoming new season will feature Sagat, C. Viper, Alex, and Ingrid.
C. Viper made her debut in Street Fighter 4 and hasn't appeared since then. Sagat and Alex last appeared as DLC characters for Street Fighter 5. Meanwhile, Ingrid is an original character that first appeared in Capcom Fighting Evolution and made its first appearance in the Street Fighter series in Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX for the PSP.
Here is the release window for each DLC character:
Additionally, the announcement trailer featured pro wrestler Kenny Omega cosplaying as each of the 4 characters. You can check out the reveal trailer for the Street Fighter 6 Year 3 DLC here:
Elena is the latest DLC character to release for Year 2, and she made her appearance in the game on June 5, 2025.
Street Fighter 6 is currently available for the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Switch 2, and PC. Additionally, the Street Fighter 6: Years 1-2 Fighters Edition is now available for the same platforms including all the DLC content for the first two seasons of the game.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 7:22 PM
Capcom officially revealed Resident Evil 9 as Resident Evil Requiem, a new game in the survival-horror series. The reveal trailer appeared during Summer Game Fest 2025, and it showcased new character Grace Ashcroft and the ruined remains of Raccoon City after the zombie outbreak. This came after an earlier teaser during the showcase featured Executive Producer Jun Takeuchi saying Capcom would need a little more time before being announced.
First, you can check out the reveal trailer for the new Resident Evil game here. A character named Grace is the first to appear and seems to be the new protagonist.
As a reminder, Capcom announced that a new Resident Evil mainline title was in development with Resident Evil 7 Director Koshi Nakanishi back at the helm. The announcement appeared during the Capcom Next Summer 2024 broadcast back in July 1, 2024 alongside other upcoming Capcom titles.
This is Capcom's second big June 2025 reveal. It also showed Pragmata again and set a 2026 launch window for it.
Resident Evil Requiem is currently in development and will come out on February 27, 2026 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam. We'll learn more about the game over the coming weeks and months.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 7:12 PM
The Summer Game Fest stream that took place on June 6, 2025 introduced trailers for many new and upcoming games. Here is a list of all the games that appeared during the show.
As a note, some games did not have a release date or window in their trailer.
You can rewatch the livestream via the official The Game Awards YouTube channel.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 7:08 PM
At Summer Game Fest 2025, the Ryu ga Gotoku Studio (RGG) game Project Century appeared, this time under the name Stranger Than Heaven. The trailer that confirmed the name also showed a portion set in 1943. The game still doesn't have a release date or platforms yet, however.
Here is a 1915 trailer for the game that was just uploaded by Sega. That looked at footage and areas, and it included the new name and logo. This is familiar footage we saw back in December 2024.
This is the new trailer that shows cinematics and gameplay footage. A different protagonist is featured in this portion. He goes by the name Marco Daido, and we get to hear him speak to an obscured individual at the end.
Here's the Summer Game Fest 2025 full showcase:
As a reminder, the last time we heard about Project Century, it involved a different time period. That footage featured a period set in 1915. Around that same period of time, Snoop Dogg and RGG teased his possible involvement in this new title.
Stranger than Heaven is in development. It is unknown if this new game will have any type of ties to RGG's previous Yakuza or Judgment series.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 6:24 PM
During Summer Game Fest 2025, Netmarble's game based on The Seven Deadly Sins manga and anime finally reappeared. The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin is drawing closer in 2025, and pre-registration is now open. It is available to wishlist on the PS5, PC via Steam, and mobile devices on June 6, 2025. A trailer also showed off cinematics and gameplay.
To pre-register for the open-world game, someone needs to head to the official site for The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin. Once there, you need to enter your email address. There are no reward milestones mentioned for hitting certain tiers yet. However, we do know it will be at the Future Games Show, due to a roadmap on the page. That teased three more milestones.
Here's the latest trailer, to show what this The Seven Deadly Sins game will look like when it debuts.
And here's the full Summer Games Fest 2025 showcase:
For those unaware of it, The Seven Deadly Sins ran for eight years. There were 41 volumes, and Kodansha handled it worldwide. Anime adaptations appeared, with seasons and films showing up. Netflix ended up being the home for those.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin will come to the PS5, PC, and mobile devices in 2025.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 6:12 PM
During Summer Game Fest 2025, Shovel Knight developerYacht Club Games announced a release date for Mina the Hollower. Its The Legend fo Zelda like title will debut on October 31, 2025. A new trailer also appeared highlighting gameplay footage. There is also a demo available on June 9, 2025, and we'll find it on Steam. However, we only get to test it briefly before that trial goes away.
During the Mina the Hollower gameplay footage, we get to see our heroine Mina go through different areas and face unusual enemies. She'll also burrow underground to access areas and throw things. Different weapons are shown, and there are even 2D elements interspersed in some spots. Some other major characters seem to also appear during the trailer.
Here's the latest reveal, which closed with the Mina the Hollower release date.
As for the Mina the Hollower demo, it is only going to be available for a limited time on Steam. It'll launch on June 9, 2025. Then, it'll be pulled on June 19, 2025.
Here's the full Summer Game Fest 2025 showcase:
Mina the Hollower will come to the PC on October 31, 2025, and we'll see the demo for the game debut on Steam on June 9, 2025.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 5:51 PM
During Summer Game Fest 2025, Sega made a number of Sonic Racing CrossWorlds announcements, including a September 25, 2025 release date for most platforms and character cameos with Hatsune Miku and from games like Persona 5, Like a Dragon, and Minecraft. However, the Switch 2 version doesn't have a release date yet. There was also a new trailer showing off each of these crossover racers in-game. There will also be online cross-platform matchmaking for multiplayer.
You can see the trailer here. Hatsune Miku is confirmed for Sonic Racing CrossWorlds first, then we see Joker from Persona 5, Ichiban Kasuga from Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and finally Steve from Minecraft.
Here's the full Summer Game Fest 2025 showcase, in case you missed it:
We already knew about many of the Sonic the Hedgehog series characters who will be in Sonic Racing CrossWorlds. Here's the list:
We also know the prices. It will cost $59.99 on the Switch. The Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC versions will be $69.99.
Sonic Racing Crossworlds will be on the Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC on September 25, 2025, and it will be on the Switch 2 as well.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 5:31 PM
During Summer Game Fest 2025, Bandai Namco revealed Code Vein 2. The title will debut in 2026. We'll see it on the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. It will also be available to wishlist as of June 6, 2025.
Here is the very first trailer. It shows a protagonist character dealing with opponents in a medieval mansion. After taking out an opponent, we see him happen upon a being that seems to resemble a girl who once lived there. After that, we see him go through a portal and encounter another entity. It appears this time around, manipulation of time will have some effect on the story and gameplay. The video primaril focuses on CG segments that set the stage for the adventure, rather than really showing off gameplay for it yet.
Here's the first trailer:
The original Code Vein debuted in 2019. It showed up on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. In one of Bandai Namco's final updates on it, it was confirmed to have passed over two million in sales. The series was known for being able to fight alongside NPC allies or other people.
Code Vein 2 will come to the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC in 2026.
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Siliconera Friday, June 6, 2025 5:00 PM
Square Enix shared new concept art on the official Final Fantasy VII Remake social media account, and this time it showed the effect of the Toad status on Cait Sith and Red XIII and their unique forms as frogs in FFVII Rebirth. As is common, both amphibians feature traits and accessories inspired by the characters.
In the case of Cait Sith, it features a black and white color scheme like the tuxedo cat. It also wears a crown and red cape, just like the character. The comment noted it almost ended up being two frogs, to represent how the character rides a Moogle. The Red XIII frog is red with accents that mimic his markings, and it features two feathers behind its eyes. It also has a scar over the right eye.
Here are the two pieces of FFVII Rebirth concept art of Cait Sith and Red XIII as frogs after being afflicted by a Toad spell or Frog Song.
This isn't the first time Square Enix shared concept art of the frog status effect in FFVII Remake and Rebirth, as the characters' frogs resemble them when the Toad form is in effect. Back in 2022, around the first game in the trilogy's launch, we got a better look at the Aerith, Cloud, Tifa, and Barret designs.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is available for the PS4, PS5, and PC, and FFVII Rebirth is on the PS5 and PC. There's no release window for the third entry in this remake trilogy yet. FFVII Remake will also come to the Switch 2.
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Destructoid Friday, June 6, 2025 7:15 PM
Are you ready for game announcements? How about some game trailers? How about a bunch of ads and some random Hollywood cameos? Summer Game Fest 2025 is here!
E3's replacement showcase by Geoff Keighley and his Game Awards group is back for another yearly show, debuting new trailers, new game announcements, and a heck of a lot of #ad's for gamers to sink their teeth into. It's the most exciting time of the year outside of actually playing the games themselves.
Rumors are flying about release dates, new reveals, and more ahead of the show. There's talk of games like Silksong, Resident Evil 9, and many others appearing during the show which will likely last at least two hours and begin a weekend full of showings, so excitement is high, as always.
But the wait is almost over. SGF 2025 begins on June 6 at 4pm CT, streaming live from Los Angeles, and we'll be live-blogging and keeping up with all of the announcements as they come in, so buckle up and get ready for a fest of games in the summer.
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All Summer Game Fest 2025 showcase announcements
Resident Evil: Requiem - Reveal trailer
Stranger Than Heaven - New trailer
Splitgate 2 - Battle royale mode announcement
Into the Unwell - Reveal trailer
Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver - Reveal trailer
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers - New trailer
Last Flag - Reveal trailer
Street Fighter 6 - New trailer
Resident Evil 30th anniversary teaser
Infinitesimals - Reveal trailer
MechaBreak - Release date trailer
Ill - New trailer
Blighted - Reveal trailer
Wildgate - Open beta trailer
LEGO Party! - Reveal trailer
HITMAN World of Assassination - Mads Mikkelsen cameo
MindsEye - New trailer
SCUM v1.0 - New trailer
The First Descendant: Breakthrough - New trailer
Scott Pilgrim EX - Reveal trailer
Acts of Blood - Reveal trailer
Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree - Reveal trailer
Mixtape - Reveal trailer
Dying Light: The Beast - Release date trailer
Deadpool VR - Reveal trailer
Mina the Hollower - Reveal trailer
Jurassic World Evolution 3 - Reveal trailer
Blade & Soul Neo and Blade & Soul Heroes - New trailers
Fractured Blooms - Reveal trailer
Lies of P: Overture - New trailer
NickToons & the Dice of Destiny - Reveal trailer
LEGO Voyagers - Reveal trailer
Mafia: The Old Country - New trailer
Out of Words - Reveal trailer
MIO: Memories in Orbit - Demo trailer
Chrono Odyssey - Play Test Trailer
Dune: Awakening - New trailer
ARC Raiders - Release date trailer
Killer Inn - Reveal trailer
Felt That Boxing - Reveal trailer
Onimusha: Way of the Sword - New trailer
Marvel Cosmic Invasion - New trailer
The Cube: Atomic Universe - Reveal trailer
Atomic Heart 2 - Reveal trailer
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros - Reveal trailer
Mouse: P.I. For Hire - New trailer
End of Abyss - Reveal trailer
CodeVein 2 - Reveal trailer
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - New trailer
Chronicles: Medieval - Reveal trailer
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - New cutscene reveal
Mortal Shell 2 - Reveal trailer
This is the beginning point of the live blog from June 6, 2025.
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Destructoid Friday, June 6, 2025 4:23 PM
Water is pretty scarce in Dune Awakening, but there are some useful methods to try and manage the thirst on your adventures.
Managing your thirst and hydration is crucial unless you want to die a painful death and lose in-game progression. One of the easiest ways to secure water fast is by acquiring blood, which is, yeah, ugh. However, there are other methods available to sustainably produce water on your own.
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Dune Awakening Blood Purifier explained
At first, the only option for water is to absorb the dew from plants. You can also come across certain installations that will quench your thirst. Unfortunately, your situation won't improve until you can unlock and craft a few upgrades.
The Blood Purifier is a simple item that converts blood into water in Dune Awakening. To use it, you'll need to get a Blood Extractor, enabling you to obtain blood from any fallen enemy. The blood is then stored in Blood Sacks. Once you're back at your base, unload the blood into the Blood Purifier and let the process complete.
Blood Purifier can be unlocked early inside the game, and you can use several simultaneously. I recommend using at least three of them if you frequently need water, as the processing time is pretty high. You'll also rarely miss out on blood, as there are always enemies to slaughter.
Dune Awakening Stillsuit explained
If you're completing the early game quests, you'll unlock the Fabricator pretty quickly. The Fabricator will allow you to create a Stillsuit using Micro-sandwich Fabric. This item is available as loot from Scavenger Camps, or you can purchase it from traders.
With this item, you'll never run out of water completely, which is a perfect solution. However, the water production rate is limited, and you'll still need dew from plants occasionally. Once the Stillsuit is produced, you can drink the water produced by it to manage your thirst.
Which is the best way to create and store water in Dune Awakening?
The best method is to use a Windtrap or a Moisture Harvester. You can research these items after you reach Griffin's Research Tradepost. You'll have a set of quests to complete after visiting the place. Once you're done, you'll get the chance to craft the items.
They produce water passively at your base and act as storage sources, so your base will never run out of it. While running back to your base has some inconveniences, you'll be able to stop looking for blood from enemies, and no longer have to depend on the meager production rate of the Stillsuit.
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Destructoid Friday, June 6, 2025 4:09 PM
I'm not at all a fan of the latest Marvel Rivals meta, but I've been drawn back into the third-person shooter thanks to a very unique and special experimental mode recently added to the game by NetEase.
If you've missed out on the news, the limited time mode in Marvel Rivals is called Ultron's Battle Matrix Protocol, and it's like an entirely new game on top of the existing hero shooter that's currently at the top of my shit-list as far as how playing it makes me feel.
Ever since the season 2.5 update, Marvel Rivals has been more frustrating for me than anything else. The over-abundance of flying heroes like Ultron and Storm, along with new ridiculous team-ups like the one for Peni Parker and Rocket Raccoon, has the game feeling more like a chore than a joy. But with Ultron's BMP mode, I'm finding reasons to boot it up again.
Auto-battlers, or Auto Chess as the game type has come to be known, are not for everyone. Games like Teamfight Tactics, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, Super Auto Pets, and Backpack Battles scratch a certain itch in that you're playing the game, but you're not. You're relaxing and doing minimal work, but also watching numbers get bigger and enemies go boom. You kind of either like it or you don't.
I, for one, love it. I can't say the same for some of my teammates in the Rivals variant, like the one guy who said something along the lines of "how long does this take," and "I feel like I'm losing my mind" as the match wore on.
In UBMP, you build your own team of heroes from a pre-selected pool of existing characters and set them out on the battlefield to fight against other players. Along the way, you collect upgrades and buffs for your characters to help them win auto-played fights against one another as you watch from above as an Ultron drone.
You can also use your blaster to chip away at enemy players, plus heal your own teammates, and damage the other team once per round, so it's a bit more active then some other auto-battlers. But the fun comes in the strategy of picking a team comp, choosing who and what to buff, and where to place them each round.
I think you should give the mode a shot. If you need some extra encouragement, there are a couple of rewards to unlock along the way, including a spray and two emojis. But for me, I've just been enjoying playing the mode as a way to get my Marvel Rivals fix without greatly increasing my blood pressure after I solo tank for the ninth game in a row while trying to level up my battle pass.
Ultron's Battle Matrix Protocol is an experimental mode, so it may be iterated on in the future. For now, this version will only be available until June 23.
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WGB Friday, June 6, 2025 7:52 PM Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon has sold over 450,000 copies, celebrating with community gratitude. The developers promise updates, including bug fixes, mod support, and new content, enhancing the immersive RPG experience. |
WGB Friday, June 6, 2025 7:11 PM Summer Game Fest 2025 revealed Resident Evil: Requiem, launching on February 27, 2026. The trailer features Grace Ashcroft, an FBI analyst confronting horror linked to her past and her mother's murder. |
WGB Friday, June 6, 2025 6:48 PM Atomic Heart 2 has been announced, continuing its retrofuturistic narrative and expanding RPG elements. Developed for PC and consoles, it offers enhanced combat and deeper exploration of robotics and AI's chaos. |
WGB Friday, June 6, 2025 6:40 PM The highly anticipated Lies of P: Overture prequel DLC launched on June 6, 2025. Featuring 15-20 hours of new content, it introduces diverse environments, new enemies, combat enhancements, and accessibility updates. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Friday, June 6, 2025 8:15 PM A brand new game in the series. The post Resident Evil Requiem Announced For PC and Consoles appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Friday, June 6, 2025 8:02 PM Announced during the recent Summer Games Fest livestream. The post Puppet Fighting Game Felt That: Boxing Announced appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Friday, June 6, 2025 7:44 PM A trailer was also released. The post Atomic Heart 2 Announced For PC and Consoles appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Friday, June 6, 2025 7:29 PM A trailer showing several details was released. The post MMORPG The CUBE Set In Atomic Heart Universe Announced For PC and Consoles appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
Gaming Instincts – Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism Friday, June 6, 2025 7:02 PM A trailer was also released. The post Lies of P Overture DLC Available Now appeared first on Gaming Instincts - Next-Generation of Video Game Journalism. |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 10:45 PM Capcom was at Summer Game Fest 2025 with a new trailer for Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the upcoming new entry in the action-adventure Onimusha series. The latest trailer, titled "Formidable Foes Emerge," shows off the game's swordplay and some of the dangerous enemies Musashi will face, such as the towering Genma known as Daidara. In addition […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 10:40 PM Capcom has officially announced the ninth mainline Resident Evil game. Revealed at Summer Game Fest, Resident Evil Requiem promises higher realism and immersion than ever before, along with a return to Raccoon City. It will feature both psychological horror and "pulse-pounding action" to bring the series to new heights. Along with the reveal, Capcom also announced the […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 8:02 PM Beethoven & Dinosaur announced Mixtape, a coming of age story published by Annapurna Interactive. The trailer featured a number of killer 80s tracks and in general just looked sick. On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Let's take a look. Mixtape aims to be the coming-of-age adventure set to the […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 7:58 PM Bandai Namco has announced TOWA and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree, a beautifully illustrated 2D isometric action-adventure with roguelite mechanics, deep progression, and a heartfelt story of courage and community. Developed by Brownies Inc.—best known for Fantasy Life—the game will launch on September 19 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 7:33 PM NC America announced at Summer Games Fest today that Blade & Soul Heroes would be making it's global debut this September. Along with Blade & Soul Heroes though, NC America also announced that Blade & Soul NEO, the remaster of the classic MMORPG Blade & Soul would receive a new character class, the Warlock. That's […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 7:29 PM Last year at the Game Awards, RGG Studio announced a new game under the working title Project Century. It returned with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest, now officially titled Stranger Than Heaven. While the first trailer showed a 1915 setting, this new trailer is set in 1943, along with another look at the game's […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 7:18 PM Tribute Games announced a new Scott Pilgrim game at Summer Game Fest, with a new brawler adventure. Scott Pilgrim EX is a 2D brawler featuring four-player drop-in/drop-out co-op action. With seven playable characters, upgradeable stats, and equippable special items, the game promises you'll be able to customize your gameplay experience. Series creator Bryan Lee O'Malley has partnered […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 7:16 PM Drinkbox Studios, the award-winning team behind Guacamelee! and Nobody Saves the World, has announced its next title: Blighted. Revealed during Summer Game Fest 2025 and spotlighted in Day of the Devs, Blighted is a visually striking, combat-heavy Metroidvania Action-RPG launching in 2026 for PC and consoles. Set in a "psychedelic western nightmare," Blighted puts players […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 7:04 PM ARC Raiders, a free-to-play PvPvE sandbox extraction shooter developed by Embark Studios received an October 30th release date along with a release date trailer. The cinematic trailer showed no gameplay, which is a huge bummer. But the release date was a welcome one. Let's take a look. The cinematic trailer looks good but why have […] |
MonsterVine Friday, June 6, 2025 7:00 PM During today's Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest showcase, iam8bit and Coin Crew Games officially unveiled Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School — a bold new sequel to the acclaimed co-op puzzle game that's been played by more than 4 million players worldwide. This time, the Escape Academy is going full open world, with […] |