Asia Games Beat: 14 June 2025
The big Summer Games Fest weekend of live showcases & game previews is over, and we’ve got the details of what’s in store in this week’s game news recap.
The Big Picture
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”
A quote that floats around the games industry that still hits hard to this day. Nowhere is this more apparent than the release of action-adventure open world title Mindseye.
This highly-touted title from ex-Rockstar Games publisher Leslie Benzies’s studio Build A Rocket boasted a rich single-player narrative and promised ongoing user-generated content post-launch. The game came out on 11 June, with not a single reviewer in the world getting an early copy pre-launch. That is usually a bad sign for a troubled game.
Sure enough, content creators and reviewers’ early and late-game impressions of Mindseye were mostly negative. The game came out buggy, had a lot of technical issues with its stability, performance, and AI, and the narrative ended on an abrupt note. A huge number of PlayStation owners refunded the game en masse; the last time this happened was for Cyberpunk 2077’s troubled PlayStation 4 launch back in 2020.
The team are hard at work patching the title up this week, and most likely the next few as it is a proverbial car on fire right now. The game should not have come out at its current state, despite it being a good window of opportunity sales-wise where the brunt of 2025 game releases are saved up for the last half.
One does have to ask a few questions regarding this botched launch:
-Who asked for an open world action adventure title that isn’t Grand Theft Auto? This isn’t the aughts.
-Did the ex-Rockstar producer actually do anything during the development of the GTA titles way back then? A seasoned veteran of these kinds of big-scale games wouldn’t cock up this badly.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. But this won’t be the last.
Short Beats
ASUS Republic of Gaming is teaming up with Xbox to make a ROG Xbox Ally (standard and X version) portable PC that will be out this holiday 2025.
The Outer Worlds 2 will be out on 30 October and will cost US$80; this is the latest in the long line of triple-A titles costing more than US$60.
The animated superhero series Invincible is getting its own fighting game slated for 2026, with the former developers of the acclaimed Killer Instinct 2013 reboot behind the new Robert Kirkman-led project.
The next Capcom survival horror game is Resident Evil Requiem (or Resident Evil 9), slated for 27 February 2026 for PC and consoles.
Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 3 times more than the first Switch at launch in Japan.
Malaysian-made action rhythm title No Straight Roads 2 has been announced, with developer Metronomik teaming up with Shueisha Games to publish the title in 2026.
Malaysian kid’s TV show Upin & Ipin is receiving an action-adventure video game adaptation, which is slated for Summer 2025.
Marvel Entertainment has announced a new mobile strategy game called Marvel Mystic Mayhem. The title is coming out on 25 June for Apple iOS and Android devices.
Konami has announced a remake of the first Silent Hill game, with Bloober Team in charge of development like with the Silent Hill 2 remake.
Renowned football player and alleged sex offender Cristiano Ronaldo is nominated as the global ambassador of the Esports World Cup.
Op-Eds
Here is the full list of coverage we did for the following weekend (and rest of the week) game expo livestreams:
Summer Games Fest 2025
Games Out This Week
Berserk Or Die is a fun 2D indie action game where you play as a berserker destroying Roman legionnaires swarming you left and/or right. You use the left keys of the keyboard to do left attacks, and right keys of the keyboard to attack right flanks; smash them for heavier combo attacks!
Mindseye is a new action-adventure open-world game from Build A Rocket, and is directed by ex-Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzie.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine – Master Crafted Edition is the remastered version of the classic 2011 action title using the scifi Warhammer 40K license.
Wizards of Legend 2 is a roguelite follow-up to the first action title, featuring new 3D visuals and new spells to combine and experiment with.
Recommended Viewing
Here’s a funny comparison video between the new game Mindseye and the 2004 title Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Here’s an old interview of famous role-playing game composer Yasunori Nishiki about the art of making great music.
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