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Goddess of Victory: Nikke Game Director Discusses Third Anniversary Event and the Game’s Future

The third anniversary of Goddess of Victory: Nikke arrives in November, and today it launched its biggest in-game event yet that includes the culmination of the main “Rapture Queen” storyline and the largest-scale battles the game has seen.If you don’t know about Goddess of Victory: Nikke, it’s a free-to-play third-person ...
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Former Suikoden and Romancing Saga devs release fairytale RPG Stray Children, with a plea to never spoil the ending

Onion Games have released the English language version of Stray Children, a "bittersweet, fairytale RPG" I hadn't heard of till Oisin wrote it up in June, and then became very excited about. Created by Onion Games, the developers of Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, Stray Children takes place in a world ...
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Guide: Everything Included In The Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free 3.0 Update

Nook and see.Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and the accompanying Ver. 3.0 update arrive on 15th January 2026, and there's a lot packed into them.Below, we've listed everything included in the ACNH 3.0 update — which is coming to the base Switch 1 game too — ...
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Setting the World Stage for Virtua Fighter’s Return to Xbox

October 30, 2025 Setting the World Stage for Virtua Fighter’s Return to Xbox
  • Zachary ReeseComms Manager, Sega
Ready? Go! Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage officially launches today for Xbox Series X|S, marking its triumphant return to the Xbox platform after an almost 20-year absence. A lot has ...
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Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow launches December 4 on PS VR2

Since first launching in 1998, the Thief series of stealth games helped define the genre, maintaining notoriety across several games spanning nearly three decades. Steven Gallagher (Creative Director at Eidos-Montréal) and I are here to give PlayStation Blog readers the first glimpse into the next iteration of the franchise, Thief ...
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It Looks Like Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings MMO Is Dead

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings MMO appears to have been canceled as part of sweeping layoffs that hit the company’s gaming business hard.This week, Amazon confirmed it was walking away from making new content for its MMO, New World, amid huge layoffs affecting 14,000 roles at the company. According ...
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Let us indulge in some kneejerk reactions to Apex Legends Season 27’s biggest updates

Apex Legends is rolling out its Season 27 update next Tuesday, November 4th, and RPS has been furnished with an overview of its meatiest rejigging work. I haven’t playtested this megapatch so unlike with Season 25, I can’t say from experience how any of these changes will get you killed ...
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Resident Evil Requiem Is Up for Preorder: Here’s What Comes in Each Edition

Resident Evil Requiem is set to release for PS5, Xbox, Switch 2, and PC on February 27. It puts you in the shoes of Grace Ashcroft, an FBI intelligence analyst who, unlike most Resident Evil protagonists, is not used to fighting horrific enemies. It will also let you switch between ...
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Retro Nintendo Games Are Returning To Animal Crossing (Sort Of)

One game per system.As you've no doubt seen, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting another massive update early next year, along with a Switch 2 Edition with the expected enhancements (Mouse Mode, wooo). But amongst all the Bells and whistles announced, you might have missed the news that retro Nintendo ...
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Arc Raiders Invites Us Into the Extraction Shooter

October 30, 2025 Arc Raiders Invites Us Into the Extraction Shooter Summary
  • PvPvE extraction shooter Arc Raiders is available today for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
  • The risk of losing your stuff, the danger of the robots, ...
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