Author: Zach Barbieri

During the Nintendo Indie World Showcase, chucklefish announced that the highly anticipated and long-awaited magical life sim Witchbrook is set to open its doors on January 28, 2027. Best known for developing the Wargroove series, as well as publishing Stardew Valley, this is the indie developer’s fourth in-house title with co-development support from Robotality. This news was announced alongside a new trailer for the title, reflecting this new release date. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upnkhFNuD_w It was also revealed that Witchbrook, having been announced for both the Nintendo Switch and PC, will also be available to players on the PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and…

Given the success of Silent Hill 2 Remake, which has surpassed 6 million sales worldwide, it wasn’t that shocking when developer Bloober Team and Konami teamed up yet again on a remake of the original title. Silent Hill has had a bit of a strong resurgence over the past few years with the releases of Silent Hill 2 Remake, Silent Hill f, and Silent Hill: Townfall, releasing over the last few years. Now, according to a new Report from MP1st, Silent Hill Remake was always in the cards, with work having started in 2022 (two years prior to the release…

Nintendo has announced that a new Indie World Showcase will be held this week on Wednesday, 28, 2026 (Tomorrow, as of writing this). The event will begin at 7 am PT / 10 am ET / 2 pm GMT, with the broadcast planned to last around 15 minutes overall. Nintendo’s Japanese account has promoted the event by stating it will be around 25 minutes, suggesting a potentially different or extended broadcast will be held for that region. https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/2115081085373550827?s=20 The company last held one of its Indie World Showcases back in March of this year, with that event lasting about 18…

The developer behind Ghost of Yotei, Sucker Punch Productions, has reportedly laid off several employees as the company prepares to begin development on its next game. This comes several weeks after the developer released Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, adding content to their 2025 action-adventure title, including a new narrative expansion titled Echoes of Sekigahara, which adds a new area to explore and cut a path through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQrrWCRkMY&t=4s Now, however, it appears that Sucker Punch has let go of more than two dozen staff members, according to reports from the publication Aftermath, stating that the exact number appears to be…

Final Fantasy Resonance has had a strong showing for Square Enix on Steam, with the franchise’s first HD-2D title managing to set a new record for the franchise on Steam. Over the weekend, the title managed to reach a new peak concurrent player count on the digital platform for a single-player entry in the series. It surpassed the previously held high that was achieved by Final Fantasy VII Rebirth when it released in January of 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxi0MEVsus Shortly after the release of Final Fantasy Resonance on PC, the title hit 28,000 concurrent players, surpassing Dragon Quest III HD-2D to become…

Publisher Bandai Namco has announced that Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is receiving a free update for its 10th Anniversary. The company has detailed the contents set to be released for the game over the coming days via its website, with the update split into two different installments. The first of these drops will take place on October 27, with the second set to follow on October 30; all of this will be available to anybody who owns the game on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, and PC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOqiIKY3L8 The first free update will bring in login…

Atari has announced they are set to end support for the Atari VCS console, which the company sent to Kickstarter backers back in 2020, before fully releasing it to the public in 2021. The all-digital platform is inspired by the Atari VCS, first released in 1977, which would later come to be known as the Atari 2600. The console has a library of games available for purchase on it, access to the Antstream arcade streaming service for retro titles, as well as a PC mode, allowing players access to Linux or Windows, but it never reached the heights of its…

According to a new report, Marvel’s Blade is still in development at Arkane Lyon despite the game not having been showcased for some time. The thing is, also according to this report, the studio is doing this work with the threat of closure looming over it and the 217 employees who work there. This comes from the French publication Le Monde, which states that the Florange Law, adopted by France in 2014, requires companies with at least 1,000 employees to seek a buyer for at least a three-month period before closing a studio. This report states that the search for…

First appearing on Reddit earlier today, the trailer for the now-canceled Mass Effect title that BioWare was working on at the time of its closure has leaked online. For much of the day, the provenance and authenticity of the trailer had been unclear; however, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has since been able to confirm that this leak is indeed the trailer that was rumored to have been complete when BioWare was officially shut down yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhKBFn4DNtA Schreier stated via a post on Bluesky: Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up…

Publisher Bandai Namco has announced a narrower release window for the upcoming action brawler Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3, though the new window is still pretty big. Previously, we knew that the company planned for a 2027 release, so that is nothing new. We now know that the plan is to release the title at some point in the second half of 2027, which at least removes 6 months from the possible 12 it could have been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PMXIPVMMd0 Producer Masayuki Hirano released a statement to announce this news. In it, he stated: Dragon Ball Xenoverse is a series that we build…