Author: Zach Barbieri

Shift Up, the developer behind the will receive action game Stellar Blade has confirmed that Sony will not serve as the publisher on the sequel. This further supports that the title will most likely see a multiplatform release upon launch, rather than Sony exclusivity. Instead, the Korean company behind the game will self-publish the follow-up title, presumably to be called Stellar Blade 2. In an earnings report, Shift Up stated that the decision would help the franchise’s “unique appeal” be communicated “more directly and effectively.” Stellar Blade launched on the PlayStation 5 exclusively back in April of 2024, with a…

Fans awaiting the release of Lego Batman: Legacy or The Dark Knight, the first new Lego Batman in over a decade, are preparing for Spoilers to hit after players who bought the game digitally from Walmart found they were able to download and play the full game. Redditor Dramatic-Track-9935 stated they had acquired a digital code from Walmart, which, when redeemed on their Xbox console, let them download the game. If preloading is available, this is all normal stuff. When they received the “ready to start” message on screen, they found they could fully access the game rather than having…

Nintendo has announced the sales figures for Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, the combined sales of which signify a strong showing despite community backlash to the $20 price point at which each game was sold. In 6 weeks, the two Game Boy Advance titles sold a combined 4 million copies. That equals out to about $80 million in revenue for Nintendo. Nintendo revealed the plans to rerelease the two Pokémon titles back in February, adding them to the Nintendo eShop for purchase. This isn’t uncommon per se; however, Nintendo has a service for retro Game Boy Advance that comes combined with…

Capcom has released a new roguelike mode for Resident Evil Requiem, starring everybody’s favorite Raccoon City survivor, Leon S. Kennedy, taking on new challenges. This is the mode that Requiem director Koshi Nakabishi had previously hinted was coming in May, which fans of the series had assumed would be the series’s traditional Mercenaries mode. Players spotted and updated overnight, adding the mode, entitled “Leon Must Die Forever”, dropping first on PlayStation and PC. Leon Must Die Forever is a roguelike set of levels featuring enemies and environments familiar to those who have played the main game, with the player getting…

Developer Cold Iron Studios, along with Daybreak Game Company, has announced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, a sequel to the 2021 PvE third-person shooter of the same name. The game is in development for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series, with a planned release this summer. The title was previously hinted at as being in development last year, in October, when the game appeared on the ESRB website, having been rated M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bISGUJn3sSk The most noticeable change in the series, as featured in the trailer, is the addition of a fourth squad member to your…

Only a few weeks after the new IP Pragmata was crossing the impressive milestone of one million copies sold, this was in just two days, mind you, the game has crossed another threshold. Capcom has announced through another sales update that the title has now crossed the two million copies sold milestone in only sixteen days. In the announcement, Capcom attributed this success to marketing initiatives such as making a Playable Demo available, along with an aggressive campaign to boost the visibility of a new IP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oncaa_fMsyw The developer has also stated that they believe the emotional, narrative-driven story, along…

Star Fox is getting an impressive-looking remake for the Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo announced via a shadow-dropped Nintendo Direct event. Simply titled Star Fox, the game is a remake of the popular Star Fox 64 (known in some regions as Lylat Wars) that served as many a fan’s entry into the series back in 1997 on the Nintendo 64 system. This news, while definitely coming out of nowhere, has been building up with the character making an appearance in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and a major leak at Nintendo pointing to the first new game starring the titular Fox…

The upcoming action game, Stranger than heaven recieved a deep dive as part of the Xbox Presents series. The title is a new IP from Like A Dragon developer RGG Studios, set in the same universe but across multiple different years and cities. In addition, we finally have a time frame as to when players can travel to the multiple cities and carve a destiny of their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ltmLZIvYA The deep dive begins with a long trailer focusing on what will be a story spanning 50 years. The sees Makoto Daito, a half-Japanese man, who decides to flee America for…

Based on the description, the Fall From Grace trophy sounds fairly easy to acquire. It’s not that this is incorrect, but the set of requirements that need to be met to make this trophy pop can be annoying. The first of these is that the description requires you to kill an enemy using the environment, and while there are things like explosive cocoons and corrosive lakes that seem like they might be part of this, the name actually gives it away. The only way to use the environment is to cause an enemy to fall to their death. Again, this…

The next game from developer Yacht Club Studio, the studio known for its indie breakout hit Shovel Knight, which launched originally as a Nintendo exclusive, has finally announced a release date for its next game, Mina The Hollower. Originally announced alongside its Kickstarter back in 2022, this is the first new IP for the studio since Shovel Knight was released in 2014, with several expansions and rereleases being developed since then. https://twitter.com/YachtClubGames/status/2052075954059751727?s=20 Originally slated to release late last year, Mina The Hollower was delayed into 2026 without a release date until now, following a similar trend to games like Subnautica…