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After quite a worldwide trek through Teyvat, it's time for our Traveler and Paimon (and their gacha army) to return to the game's point of origin: Mondstadt. HoYoverse has announced the next Genshin Impact update, version 5.6, which brings players back to the city of Mondstadt for some questing, interlude, and amusement park management shenaniga...
We have a ton of major games out this week, along with a mix of good and sad news in the Asia gaming industry sphere. The Big Picture Sandfall Interactive is a new studio in France that is taking a huge gamble with its first game release: Clair Obscur - Expedition 33. The studio consists of 30 developers, with most of them form...
During Playism's Tokyo Game Show 2024 showing, we came across a pretty unique title that combines the dark depths of the undersea with an action title akin to a fast-paced mecha title ala Zone of the Enders. The game is called Glaciered, and you play a Tuai warrior who can swim super fast and glide through water really smoothly while using a combin...
Playism's Tokyo Game Show 2024 showing had a slew of fun indie games filled with bright and pixelated artwork. One of them I did play a bit was Outrider Mako, which combines the action of a 90s Zelda title with package-delivery quests and yokai-related magic you have to deal with. That game has a release date: 23 June for PC (Steam). Playism is ...
Last year during Tokyo Game Show 2024, we played a number of Playism titles that really clicked with us. One of them is the 2D shooter Nitro Express which combines cute girls with guns, police, mechas to destroy, and pixelated explosions; a brighter Metal Slug with an aiming system. Playism has announced the release date for this cutie: 19 May f...
Street Fighter 6's final Year 2 character, Elena will be arriving in a few months, so Capcom is showing her off in style. Elena fights using Capoeira, meaning her buttons are all kicks. She has her trademark Street Fighter 3 moves like Rhino Horn (forward-moving kick) and Spinning Scythe (multi-hitting). Her Lynx Song and Moon Glider are new: Ly...
If your wish for an epic animated action flick involves seeing Korean pop stars beating the s*** out of Korean boy band demons and their groupies, Netflix has you covered. The streaming site has announced a new animated film called KPop Demon Hunters, and it's about, well, female Kpop stars slaying demons while going through the hustle and bustl...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is out now, and it's one of 2025's best JRPG experiences around. With a lovely narrative, gorgeous aesthetics, and fun combat, it's a game to remember for years to come. Let's focus on the combat, as it requires a lot of active button-pressing and JRPG-style setups and preparation. The game can get challenging especia...
The Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series can't hog the spotlight for all high-school contemporary JRPGs; let other companies take a shot. And so, Japanese company Furyu is doing just that with its new title Varlet. Varlet is an all-new high school RPG where your protagonists explore the duality of their own nature as they navigate the perilous hig...
PlayStation and Sucker Punch Productions have announced the release date of its upcoming open-world feudal Japan action title. Ghost Of Y?tei, the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, will be out on 2nd October 2025 exclusively for PlayStation 5. Sucker Punch Productions also revealed the story synopsis of the sequel. "Sixteen years ago in the heart of...
Platform(s): PlayStation 5 (version reviewed), PC, Xbox Series Genre: Japanese role-playing game made by a 30-person French studio, Story-Heavy Last year was a bountiful blessing for Japanese role-playing game fans, as it was filled with a ton of winners and even Game Of The Year contenders. Metaphor: ReFantazio, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth,...
Blizzard is teaming up with Berserk, the legendary dark fantasy manga by the late Kentaro Miura, for a two-fer in-game event next month. Starting with Diablo 4, players will be able to slay demons and earn Behelits for themed cosmetic in the Berserk Reliquary. Here's what the update will entail: Diablo 4: Berserk x Diablo (7 May – 3 June GMT+...
Trouble's brewing over in Indonesia's game development scene. The makers of mobile MOBA title Lokapala: Saga of the Six Realms, Anantarupa Studios, have allegedly been accused of unpaid labour. Following anonymous reviews of the studio at Glassdoor.com (along with additional reporting from Nmiagaming and SEAGamethetic), employees stated they hav...
Another year, yet another Japanese mecha and robot collaboration game. Bandai Namco has announced the release date of its crossover turn-based strategy mecha-filled game Super Robot Wars Y: 28 August 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch. Apart from your usual suspects like Gundam, Code Geass, and Combattler V added to the mix, the new...
Video game movie adaptations are a dime a dozen, with films like the Sonic trilogy, Detective Pikachu, and this year's A Minecraft Movie making gangbusters for their respective parent companies. Universal plans to add its own video game adaptation to the mix with Sega's OutRun series. According to Sega, Universal Studios is making a a live-adapt...
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is out now (via Early Access mode; it's really coming out on 24 April) and it's a heckuva fighting game fit for SNK veterans and newbies alike. It's currently the top Steam game in Japan. One of the game's standout feature is the Colour Edit mode, where you can put in your own colours for each of the cast: a featur...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series Genre: 2D Fighting Game 26 years. 26 f***ing years. That's how long many 2D fighting game fans who cherished the SNK brand had to wait for the follow-up to Garou: Mark of the Wolves, the previous Fatal Fury installment. It was arguably one of the best fighting games of all tim...
Update 20/4/2025: Official trailer added. If you missed the days when Star Wars was a strategy game back in the late 90s and 2000s, EA and Bit Reactor/Respawn Entertainment has you sorted. Publisher EA and developers Bit Reactor (a studio made up of former Firaxis game devs) and Respawn Entertainment will be making a new Star Wars turn-based ...
We get some insights from a former PlayStation legend while also getting a slew of news on retiring VTubers and leaks in this week’s news recap. The Big Picture Bungie has shown off new gameplay of its upcoming extraction multiplayer shooter title Marathon, which is a Player-versus-Player-versus-environment-focused remake of a t...
Marvel's third attempt at a Fantastic Four movie is coming soon in the next few months, so Marvel and Disney just popped off a new trailer showing off the show's premise and some interesting changes. The most striking one is the Silver Surfer, who is now a woman instead of a male. Otherwise, everything else seems on par with a Fantastic F...
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