Author: Zach Barbieri

Phantom Blade Zero, the upcoming action game from Chinese developer S-GAME Studio, has a 12-month console exclusivity window with the PlayStation 5. This is similar to other games like Silent Hill 2 Remake, as well as Final Fantasy XVI, in which Sony either funds a portion of the development or pays an exclusivity deal to keep a title in their PlayStation console ecosystem during initial release to keep the conversation centred on their platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGk_auu5tk During the Video Game Awards, we finally received a release date of September 9, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC, which means a potential Xbox…

Opening up the Video Game Awards on the main stage, a new Star Wars title was announced. The game, entitled Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, is a single-player, narrative-driven RPG that will serve as a spiritual successor and possible continuation of the classic Old Republic Games developed by BioWare, being developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. The game’s development is being led by Casey Hudson, who directed the original Knights of the Old Republic title, as well as Mass Effect, during his time at BioWare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDuCLCmQ-18 The teaser trailer itself gives us very little to…

Shortly into the first Chapter of UNBEATABLE, after leaving the large house, protagonist Beat and her companion Quaver will head onto the streets with the ability to head right along it, passing by multiple people, whom the player can interact with if they want to. Making your way down the street, you will eventually come across a young girl with a jump rope in the middle of the road, her mother standing by the sidewalk in the background. This is who you are going to want to interact with to unlock the long-winded This Is Kind of Just A Game…

Earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled its reboot of the Perfect Dark franchise, a game that had been in development since around 2018. The title first received a trailer in 2024, years after being announced, during the Xbox Games Show in June of that year, skipping the next year completely, which was an indicator it might have been in some trouble, inevitably being cancelled a month later. After this, we learned that in a bid to save the project, developers involved with the Perfect Dark reboot began shopping the idea around to publishers, one of which approached and the closest to…

*This news article will contain some potential spoilers for Resident Evil Requiem. These cannot be confirmed if it is accurate at this time. GameStop has been known, from time to time, to list the exact wrong thing on their site when concerning an upcoming game (remember The Last of Us Part 2 killing dogs debacle?) And now it appears Resident Evil Requiem is the latest to hit this pitfall. In particular, this leak concerns a plot point that has been much debated since the title was initially announced: who you play as. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wFNN1f6hF8 We know that players will take the…

Katsuhiro Harada, long-time developer, Executive Producer, and Director of the popular fighting franchise Tekken, has announced that he will be departing from Bandai Namco after having worked across the company for over 30 years. The 55-year-old developer, who has been involved with every Tekken game since the series launched in 1994, has stated in a post made on social media that the death of close friends, along with the retirement or death of senior colleagues, has made him reflect on his time left as a creator He also stated advice from Ken Kutaragi, the “father of playstation”, supported him in…

New studio Chaos Manufacturing has announced its debut title, Sol Shogunate, which looks like it should delight fans of games such as Stellar Blade, Black Myth: Wukong, Ghost of Yotei, and Ninja Gaiden 4, to name a few. In it, you play as a Samurai fighting armies and shoguns through a technologically advanced sci-fi space landscape made up of traditional iconography, mixed with more modern ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCZ7nC1ybY In Sol Shogunate, players take the roles of Yuzuki, a lone survivor from a once-powerful samurai family. After a rival clan murders her family, she does the obvious and begins to carve a…

Spry Fox, the developer behind the Cozy Grove series of games, as well as the upcoming Spirit Crossing, will soon return to co-founders Daniel Cook and David Edrery. According to the publication Game File, the move is keeping in line with the changing policies at Netflix, which is additionally evidenced by the shutdown of the internal studio known as Team Blue last year. Unlike that, however, Spry Fox will remain as a studio, with Netflix having reportedly sold the studio back to its original creators, though no details on the deal have been made public yet. The studio was founded…

In a recent interview with Japanese publication Real Sound, Metal Gear series producer Noriaki discussed what is next for the Metal Gear Solid franchise following the strong performance of the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a remake of the classic PS2 title, released in August. While Konami had attempted to continue the franchise shortly after the departure of series creator Hideo Kojima with Metal Gear Survive, the series has remained mostly dormant following the fallout between Kojima and Konami, serving both as a strong return for the series as well as Konami, leaving several possibilities open for the studio.…

IO Interactive has a few projects in development, such as the upcoming 007: First Light, set to release next year. Despite branching out, the developer has confirmed that more Hitman is on the horizon, though a timeframe is currently unknown. In an interview with Variety, CEO Hakan Abrak stated in no uncertain words, “Of course there will be more Hitman.” Right now, though, those talks are on hold until after Co-op is added to Hitman: World of Assassins, which continues to receive updates from the developer. Abrak stated in the interview: So, of course, there will be more Hitman, but…