Author: Zach Barbieri

Sony has announced a $50 price hike for every console in the PlayStation 5 family in the U.S. region. This includes the PlayStation 5 physical edition, the PlayStation 5 digital edition, and the PlayStation 5 Pro consoles. These price raises will go into effect on August 21. What this will do is drive up the physical edition to $549.99, the Digital to $499.99, with the Pro now $749.99 (Remember the Pro comes as a digital console, so this price is before adding on items like a disk drive). Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Vice President, Global Marketing, Isabelle Tomatis, released a short…

Game Science, developer of the massively successful Black Myth Wukong, ended Opening Night Live at Gamescom with the announcement of Black Myth: Zhong Kui, a new story and sequel to Wukong. The game was announced with a trailer that made clear the game was in early development, with no release date on the horizon for the title as of yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwYZ7xC2v80 The sequel solidifies that Black Myth is a series that will explore eastern mythology, rather than one specifically using the Journey to the West or the character of Sun Wukong as a template to tell its stories. Here, players…

Six years after the original announcement of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 was announced, the title has finally received an official release date, alongside a new trailer, as part of Opening Night Live at Gamescom, the Geoff Keighly-hosted event. The game is now set to release on October 21, 2025, roughly 2 months from now, and it will release at $59.99. In addition, Preorders for the gamer are live now, with the Bloodlines Nostalgia Jukebox being a bonus decor item for players who do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAVDT7maJE The trailer for the game showcases the game’s dual protagonists with players taking the…

After teasing that another Tales title would be getting the remaster treatment following Tales of Vesperia and Tales of Graces f, Namco Bandai has announced that the next game in the series to return for modern platforms will be Tales of Xillia. This continues an effort by the company to bring back older games in the series, which started in 2019 and continued through the release of Graces f last year. At the time, Namco Bandai stated that they planned to double down on these efforts due to the success of the two releases. Tales of Xillia was originally released…

Nintendo has announced that a Nintendo Direct will be showcased tomorrow, on August 19th, which will begin at 6 am PT, 9 am ET. This directive will focus on the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 title, Kirby Air Riders, and will feature 45 minutes’ worth of information about Kirby’s latest outing, a sequel to Kirby Air Ride, a racing game originally released on the Nintendo GameCube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJVsNMp_nAU This news was announced via the Nintendo Today app, an app released by Nintendo to focus on upcoming announcements. Interestingly, Kirby Air Riders is the first new project from developer Masahiro Sakurai in years,…

Yu Suzuki and Publisher ININ Games have announced Shenmue III Enhanced as part of Gamescom 2025, which the publisher has described as “the most refined version of Ryo Hazuki’s epic journey,” seeing the 2019 title get a host of new features and enhanced visuals. In addition, Shenmue III Enhanced will be released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, marking the first time the game will be released beyond the PlayStation, which was originally released on PlayStation 4 and PC. The title will also be released on Nintendo platforms, though the specifics of this have not been specified yet, making it unclear…

Geoff Keighley has spoken about seven of the games set to be showcased during Opening Night Live, which is set to premiere next Tuesday. This includes Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which was announced over the summer during the Xbox Showcase, as well as other Microsoft Owned titles, The Outer Worlds 2, and World of Warcraft: Midnight, as well as Xbox-published titles, Ninja Gaiden 4. Sony will also be present during Opening Night Live with their upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive, Ghost of Yotei, as well as Konami showcasing more of Silent Hill f, which is set to release in…

Chibi-Robo!, the Nintendo GameCube title from 2005, has been announced to be joining the Nintendo Switch Online catalog available to players on the Nintendo Switch 2. The title was already suggested to be coming at some point due to a summary that was available on the Nintendo eShop, suggesting the company to be porting it to their new system. We now know that it will arrive next week. This will make it the second title added to the GameCube library, which remains small at only 4 titles so far, since Super Mario Strikers was added. Nintendo Switch Online is a…

*Minor Spoiler for Mafia: The Old Country Below During the Vendetta D’onore, the sixth chapter of Mafia: The Old Country, though the fifth numbered chapter, Enzo is tasked with breaking into the Ludovichi estate to kidnap the man alive for his part in an attempted kidnapping that took part the chapter before. Enzo is given a pistol and a rifle pair at the start of the chapter, which you might be tempted to use at the first chance you get, but breaking into the man’s mansion requires a delicate hand, and if you can manage the feat of reaching Ludovich…

*Spoilers For Mafia: The Old Country Below. We return to Enzo at the villa, presumably shortly after the altercation that occurred in San Celeste at the end of the previous chapter. Isabella has slipped a note under his door telling him to meet her in the garden, but as it turns out, Luca has also been looking for Enzo for something. For the first time in the game, two waypoints are placed on the map, one in white indicating optional, while the other in yellow depicting it as the main mission. Since Isabella is the white option, we might as…