Author: Zach Barbieri

The developer behind Stellar Blade, Shift Up, has acquired Shinji Mikami’s newest studio venture, Unbound Games, and will help with the creation and publishing of their debut game. Mikami, who served as the director of Resident Evil in 1996, also worked as the director on Dino Crisis and Resident Evil 4 before leaving to form PlatinumGames and later Tango Gameworks. He left Tango to form this new venture right before the studio, which had just released Hi-Fi Rush, was closed by Microsoft, before being acquired by Krafton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTColDTq19M In an announcement video post by Shift Up, Shinji Mikami stated that…

Magical Schoolgirl RPG Blue Reflection is getting a collection entitled Blue Reflection Quartet, developer Gust and publisher Koei Tecmo have announced. The collection is set to release on July 30, and will be made available on the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VvzKSZnvJc In Blue Reflection, players take the role of Shirai Hinako, a new transfer student at the Hoshinomiya Girls’ High School, suffering from depression brought on by a knee injury a year prior that caused her to lose an important ballet competition. As she attends this new school and begins to make…

Microsoft has announced that its annual Xbox Games Showcase will be held on June 7. Immediately following the event, the company has also announced that it will be holding a dedicated event that will focus on Gears of War: E-Day, which makes sense given the anticipated titles’ absence from several events held by Microsoft this year. Asha Sharma, the new Head of Xbox at Microsoft, following the departure of Phil Spencer in February, announced the event via social media today. She stated: Sunday, June 7 is locked in Xbox Games Showcase 2026 is almost here with a deep dive into…

Sony has announced that they will be raising the prices for their PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal Hardware, blaming “continued pressures in the global economic landscape.” These Price Raises, set to come into effect on April 2, 2026, were discussed by Isabelle Tomatis, Vice President of Global Marketing for Sony Interactive Entertainment, via a PlayStation Blog post. She stated: With continued pressures in the global economic landscape, we’ve made the decision to increase the prices of PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player globally. We know that price changes impact our community, and after careful evaluation,…

Starting the Xbox Partner Showcase, the developer behind RoboCop: Rogue City, Polish studio Teyon, along with publisher Nacon, announced a new game entitled Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish. If the world looks familiar to you, the title is based on the World of Darkness TTRPG Hunter: The Reckoning, a franchise that shares a universe with their more well-known franchise Vampire: The Masquerade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesz-Oagr3s&t=129s The trailer itself offers very little in the way of actual context, with much of it being cinematic, with only a few pieces being in-game near the end. Hunter, as a franchise, represents the opposite spectrum of…

RGG Studios’ newest IP, Stranger Than Heaven, received a new trailer during the Xbox Partner Preview held on March 26. For those hoping a release date might be provided during the event, we did not receive one; however, it was announced that Xbox will be holding a special look at the title on May 6th. Currently, the title is anticipated to release within SEGA’s financial year ending in March 2027. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqkjDoyI8o Similar to previous trailers, a focus was placed on much of the combat, also set to a jazz drum riff of the era. Using the studio’s Dragon engine, there…

Nintendo has announced that there will be a change in pricing, charging different amounts between physical and digital Nintendo Switch 2 games beginning next month, with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. The title was previously announced with a price of $59.99 across both versions. While this price point will remain for the digital version of the game, the physical version of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book will see a price increase to $69.99, a $10 increase in price. In a statement issued by Nintendo today, the company has said price increases for physical titles “simply reflects the different costs associated…

Microsoft has announced that an Xbox Partner Preview showcase will be held on Thursday of this week. The event is set to house several updates on already announced projects, but also promises “new reveals.” The Partner Preview, as the name implies, will focus on third-party developers with games currently coming to the Xbox platform and Game Pass, so it wouldn’t behoove fans to hope for updates to titles like Clockwork Revolution or Gears of War: E Day, titles being developed under the Xbox Game Studios banner. There have been a few announcements as to what we can expect during the…

Crimson Desert features a very large open world to explore, and it is slightly selective when it comes to explaining certain mechanics to you. As such, you might spend much of your early hours wandering the big world on horseback, but this can seem to become too much once the scope becomes clear. There is, however, a way to fast-travel between locations, making it much easier to move between areas. You just need to unlock it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsZ1pXAlVAA If you go to the map from your menu, you will notice large areas covered in white, with a question mark at the…

While January was a relatively slow month for game releases and sales, February served to shake up the sales charts dramatically, thanks to several new releases. This includes the hotly anticipated Resident Evil Requiem, which debuted in the number 1 spot for February, making it the biggest release of the month, and by extension, the year so far. No specific sales figures have been released from Capcom yet as to how many copies the game has sold. Capcom did celebrate 6 million units sold globally, making it the fastest-selling game in the series to date. Unfortunately, even with a strong…