Author: Zach Barbieri

Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive Orbitals will have a Global Friend’s pass available at launch, developer Shapefarm has announced. What this means is that only one person will need to own the game upon its release, while the second player taking part in the split-screen adventure needs only to access the game via the Global Friend’s Pass app. This will allow that second player to be able to experience the full game from start to finish at no cost to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqFf2mXV9Y In addition to this, the Global Friends Pass will also include a free local co-op demo that includes…

Panache Digital Games has released a new trailer for its upcoming narrative-driven action-adventure title, 1666 Amsterdam. In particular, this trailer explores the dual protagonists featured in the game, Noa and Aaron, giving players a sense of what playing as them will feel like. Noa and Aaron have both previously gotten some tutorial gameplay as part of the Prologue demo that was released alongside the game’s announcement trailer during Summer Games Fest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ib9vbgIbks Jean-François Boivin, the former associate producer for the Assassin’s Creed franchise and a co-founder of Panache Digital Games, serves as the narrator for the trailer, explaining the characters…

Shortly following the celebration of its first anniversary since its release, 505 Games and Chengdu Recursive Dolphin Technology Co., Ltd. (brand name: “Indolphinity”), a Chinese game development studio founded by Xia Siyuan, have jointly announced that they are entering into development of a next chapter for the Wuchang franchise. The first title in the series, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, initially released on July 24, 2025, hit 131,000 concurrent players on Steam, eventually crossing the 5 million player milestone by the end of its first year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyViiYN9sU Earlier this year, Digital Bros., the parent company of 505 Games, announced the acquisition of…

Blue Reflection Quartet is a weird collection of games, if we are being honest. Last year I also reviewed the Ryza DX trilogy, which is probably the developer Gust’s claim to fame, with the Atelier series being the series that they are known for in general. Blue Reflection is an enjoyable other franchise that never reached the same audience, which is a shame, but before Quartet, it wasn’t a quartet like Ryza was a trilogy. Up until this point, and much more accurately in the West, there were two games in the series: the 2017 original and a follow-up from…

Sony has confirmed the lineup of games players can expect for the PlayStation Plus monthly games lineup for August 2026. Arguably, the lineup headline is Dying Light 2: Stay Human: Reloaded Edition, with the titles being available from August 4 to August 31. This also means players still have a few days left to pick up the monthly games for July, which include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, For The King II, and Cross Code. Dying Light 2: Stay Human was released for the PlayStation 4 and 5 back in 2022, allowing players to return to the world of…

Management sim Planet Zoo 2 developer Frontier Developments has decided to celebrate World Conservation Day with a deeper look at one of the sequel’s Conservation Reserves. When the title was announced earlier this year, we learned that, amid the many changes coming to the zoo management game would be a further emphasis on both the environmental and ecological impact of your zoo. This includes ecosystem restoration, the restoration of animal habitats, and the new Wildlife Reserves that players can fully customize, so animals can live in their natural environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqAQ_7YPpdo The trailer released showcases the Scottish Highland reserve in particular,…

According to a new report, the critically acclaimed Anime Spin-off of Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, is getting a 2.5D brawler. This news is according to a report from MP1st, which stated that the title is currently under the codename Project Gemini, which has been in development under CD Projekt since 2025. In addition, it appears that the title is being developed by WayForward, known for titles such as River City Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBlPg818lGI Details for the project were provided by an unnamed former employee at WayForward, who pointed to the project currently being in the research and design phase, still a…

Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team Ninja have pulled back the curtain on the first DLC Expansion coming to Nioh 3, entitled Hell Rising. Coming next month on August 19th for PlayStation 5 and PC, the DLC will see players travel to the Keian Period, which occurred between 1648 and 1652 during the Edo Period, and was punctuated by the Keian Uprising, which was a failed coup attempted by masterless samurai to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. In addition to the new region and time period, the DLC will see new weapons, Martial Arts, Soul Cores, and More. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbaQTQsoIVc In an…

Publisher XSEED Games, which is an independent brand of Marvelous USA, along with Marvelous Europe and developer Little Chicken Game Company, have announced that Moonlight Peaks has surpassed a milestone of 200,000 copies sold. The title was initially released on July 7th and is available on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC via Steam, and the Google Play Games Store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7POLaOebE6s Moonlight Peaks is an (un)life sim in the vein of Stardew Valley or Coral Island, in which the player takes control of a vampire who is Dracula’s child and travels to their ancestral land of Moonlight Peaks to become…

Developer Square Enix has announced that the upcoming port of Final Fantasy XIV to the Nintendo Switch 2 will release on August 4, 2026. The game’s director, Naoki Yoshida, announced this news on stage at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival held in Berlin to confirm this news, as well as outline a series of updates that are coming to the game in the near future. Square Enix had previously confirmed an August release date for the game, but today’s news gave us an official date that is only a week away. Preorders for Final Fantasy XIV are set to…