Author: Zach Barbieri

EA has announced plans to “make some targeted team adjustments,” which is set to include 300 to 400 eliminated positions across the company. As reported by Bloomberg, this also includes 100 positions being cut from Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor developer Respawn Entertainment, and a cancellation at the studio of a follow-up game to the Titanfall series, presumably Titanfall 3. This is not the first time the third title in the series has been reported to have been canceled. Code-named R7 internally, the Titanfall game was reportedly an extraction shooter set in the mech-filled universe. Bloomberg stated it…

Lost Soul Aside, the upcoming Chinese Action game, has been hit with a three-month delay so that the development team can add additional polish to the long-awaited title. Originally planned for a May 30th release, it will now release on August 29th, a relatively short wait given the game has spent a decade in development with creator Bing Yang building the initial project solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3hVP2IEreI Ultizero Games, the developer behind the game, stated via X: We are truly grateful for the positive response we’ve received from players all over the world since we announced Lost Soul Aside. We remain committed…

Little Kitty, Big City, the debut title from developer Double Dagger Studio, has received a release date for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. It will be available on May 9th, exactly one year since it was released for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Consoles, and PC. It was additionally available as a day-one game with Xbox Game Pass. https://twitter.com/LittleKittyGame/status/1916896278837121505 In the game, players take the role of the titular kitty in the titular Japanese-inspired city after the kitty falls from the balcony of his apartment home and needs to find his way home. To do so, the lazy kitty will…

inKonbini: One Store, Many Stories, the debut game from developer Nagai Industries, has announced that the Prologue demo will be made available for the game on Steam starting on May 1st. It will be featured as part of LudoNarraCon 2025, an indie event organized by Citizen Sleeper 2 publisher Fellow Traveller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMMBAGTHP7Q The demo will feature the opening to the game, in which the protagonist Makoto starts her first night shift at the titular konbini, known as the Honki-Ponki Convenience Store. Players will be able to take their time taking in this environment and store, as the game hopes to…

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut game from developer Sandfall Interactive and Publisher Kelpher Interactive, has performed incredibly well since launch, especially for a game that only had 30 developers. The studio has made the announcement that, since launching on April 24, it has already cleared the sales milestone of 500,000 copies sold https://twitter.com/expedition33/status/1915777375834452273 Sandfall Interactive posted this news on the game’s official Twitter account, stating, “A milestone for us, reached sooner than we’d ever imagined. Thank you all.” This news is all the more welcome, given concerns that some had for the game’s sales following the stealth release of…

Breath of Fire IV, the popular title in the classic Capcom RPG series, has returned on PC some 25 years after its initial release. Originally released in North America and Japan in 2000, with Europe receiving it a year later, it also received a port in Europe and Japan in 2003. Breath of Fire IV would receive a sequel in 2002 in Japan and 2003 in North America and Europe, with the last time we saw the series being an online multiplayer game for PC and Mobile in 2016. The narrative of this entry revolves around a Character named Ryu,…

The upcoming co-op shooter from Remedy Entertainment, FBC: Firebreak, has received a release date of June 17th, 2025. The title, which is set in the shifting, changing world of their Control game, is a session-based, PvE multiplayer game where players take on Jobs that can often go from simple to bizarre in the blink of an eye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohYTWzw0Uno Remedy has announced that the game will release for $39.99, with a deluxe edition costing $49.99, releasing alongside it. Players who buy the base game will have an option to upgrade to the deluxe edition through a $10 dollar purchase at a…

11 Bit Studio has announced Frostpunk 1886, a remake of the original Frostpunk game, which is scheduled to release in 2027. The project will be using Unreal Engine 5, a departure from the Liquid Engine of the original, which is common for remakes and remasters, similar to the recently released The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, which used Unreal instead of Bethesda’s internal Creation Engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tkikl91xPw Having first launched in 2018, provided that this remake meets its intended date, will mark nearly a decade since the survival management sim first released. This announcement also follows shortly behind the release of…

Ghost of Yotei, the sequel to the open-world samurai game Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch Production, has received a release date of October 2, 2025, confirming their plans to release the game this year. Alongside this information, a PlayStation Blog post has detailed additional story elements to let players know what they can expect come release, as well as a new trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVBLJYjSAhg This trailer, entitled The Onryo List, fills in some of the blanks that the previous trailer left, focusing on the motivations of the main character, Atsu. 16 years prior to the events of the game, a…

President of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa, has warned that demand for the company’s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 console has exceeded demand expectations in Japan, which will lead to some consumers being unable to secure the console. In a post via X, Furukawa explained that currently, around 2.2 million in Japan hope to secure the handheld hybrid through My Nintendo Store as part of a lottery process. He also noted that this number “far exceeds the number of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles that can be delivered from the My Nintendo Store on June 5th.” This means, as he puts it, “a significant…