Author: Zach Barbieri

Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the creator of the iconic Double Dragon series, as well as the Kunio-Kun series, which is best known in the West for River City Ransom, has passed away at the age of 64. This news was confirmed by his son, Ryūbō Kishimoto, across multiple social media accounts. On Facebook, he wrote: This is the son of Yoshihisa Kishimoto. I am sorry to inform you that my father has passed to rest on 04/02/2026… I hope you will continue to enjoy my father’s works, including Kuno-kun. Thank you. In a follow-up post made to Twitter, he continued by saying:…

The Creative Director of Naughty Dog, Shaun Escayg, posted a picture to their Instagram account, leading many fans of the company to believe the studio is building up to a New Uncharted title. The Uncharted series last saw release with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy in 2017. a spin-off game originally concieved as a DLC for 2016’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End before becoming its own thing. Both games were eventually released together for PS5 and PC as part of the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves collection in 2022, with the franchise lacking a new entry for almost a decade. Escayg served…

Several games will be leaving Xbox Game Pass in April, among them being the ever-popular Grand Theft Auto V. According to the Xbox PC app, both the Enhanced and Legacy editions of the game are set to depart the service soon, around a year after they rejoined the service on April 15, 2025. These versions are specifically on the PC, with the console version simply being GTA V, and offer a choice between higher framerate/fidelity in enhanced or legacy, if you were heavily invested in modding or had a low-end PC. Despite Grand Theft Auto being a pretty big title…

Sony has announced the three titles that will be available as part of the PlayStation Plus Monthly lineup for April. This follows several leaks earlier this month, which are now confirmed accurate, though they didn’t reveal every offering available this month. Three titles will make up the lineup for this upcoming month, with each of them being available to claim starting on Tuesday, April 7, until Monday, May 4. The two titles that had previously been leaked include the Soulslike game Lords of the Fallen and JRPG Sword Arts Online: Fractured Daydream, with the Tomb Raider I-III Remastered rounding out…

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…