Author: Game Infliction

The year is young, but 2025 is already shaping up to be a big year for excellent video games. An increasing list of big games is set to release this year for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. In March, we’ll see new entries in franchises like Assassin’s Creed, WWE 2K, MLB The Show, and many more. Below, you’ll find release dates for all the biggest games and expansions that have been announced for the rest of the year and beyond. Let’s get right down to it.

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March 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

March finallly sees the release of the often-delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the installment that finally delivers what fans have been pining for for over a decade: an ancient Japan setting. Too bad Ghost of Tsushima got there first, but this game still looks awesome. Also out this month is a remaster of the JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X, plus MLB The Show 25, remasters of the first two Suikodens, Split Fiction, and more.

• Age of Mythology: Retold – March 4 – (PS5)
• Carmen Sandiego – March 4 – (PS5, Xbox, Switch, PC)
• Everhood 2 – March 4 – (Switch, PC)
• Two Point Museum – March 4 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Do No Harm – March 6 – (PC)
• Dragonkin: The Banished – March 6 – (PC)
• Frag Punk – March 6 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Split Fiction – March 6 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Suikoden I & II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars – March 6 – (PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• Sugardew Island – March 7 – (PS5, Xbox, Switch, PC)
• WWE 2K25 – March 7 (premium editions), March 14 (standard) – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Rise of the Ronin – March 11 – (PC)
• Wanderstop – March 11 – (PS5, PC)
• Dungeons of Hinterberg – March 13 – (PS5)
• MLB The Show 25 – March 14 (premium edition) March 18 (standard) – (PS5, Xbox, Switch)
• Lost Records: Bloom and Rage Tape 2 – March 18 – (PS5)
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows – March 20 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Wreckfest 2 (early access) – March 20 – (PC)
• Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition – March 20 – (Switch)
• Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land – March 21 – (PS5, Xbox, Switch, PC)
• Killing Floor 3 – March 25 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• JDM: Japanese Drift Masterx – March 26 – (PC)
• Atomfall – March 27 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Hitman: World of Assassination – March 27 – (PSVR 2)
• The First Berzerker: Khazan – March 27 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Bubble Ghost Remake – March 28 – (Switch)
• inZOI – March 28 – (PC)

April 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

• The Last of Us Part II Remastered – April 3 – (PC)
• South of Midnight – April 8 – (Xbox, PC)
• Lushfoil Photography Sim – April 15 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Lunar Remastered Collection – April 18 – (PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – April 24 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves – April 24 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Days Gone Remastered – April 25 – (PS5)
• Skin Deep – April 30 – (PC)

May 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

• Metal Eden – May 6 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• The Midnight Walk – May 8 – (PS5, PC)
• Doom: The Dark Ages – May 15 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2 – May 16 – (PS4, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• Dune: Awakening – May 20 – (PC)
• Fantasy Life i: the Girl Who Steals Time – May 21 – (PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• Onimusa 2: Samurai’s Destiny – May 23 – (PS4, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• To a T – May 28 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Elden Ring: Nightreign – May 30 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Lost Soul Aside – May 30 – (PS5, PC)
• Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma – May 30 – (Switch, PC)

June 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

• Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic – June 13 – (PS5)

July 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

• Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game – July 29 – (PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC)

August 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

• Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater – August 28 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance – August 29 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)

September 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

• Hell Is Us – September 4 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Terminator 2D: No Fate – September 5 – (PS5, Xbox, Switch, PC)
• Borderlands 4 – September 23 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)

October 2025 – Video Game Release Dates

• Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game – October 2 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Double Dragon Revive – October 23 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)

Upcoming Video Games – Release Date TBA

• 33 Immortals – 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition – Spring 2025 – (PS5)
• The Alters – 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• Anno 117: Pax Romana – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Arc Raiders – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• ArcheAge Chronicles – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Ark 2 – TBA – (PC)
• Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian – 2025 – (PS5, Switch, PC)
• Ballad of Antara – 2025 – (PS5)
• Blackfrost: The Long Dark II – TBA
• Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Clockwork Revolution – TBA – (Xbox, PC)
• Coffee Talk Tokyo – 2025 – (Switch)
• Contraband – TBA – (Xbox, PC)
• Crimson Desert – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – 2025 – (PS5)
• Digimon Story: Time Stranger – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game – 2025 – (PS5)
• Dreams of Another – 2025 – (PS5)
• Dune: Awakening – TBA – (PS5, Xbox)
• Dying Light: The Beast – Summer 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Everwild – TBA – (Xbox, PC)
• Fable – 2026 – (Xbox, PC)
• Fragpunk – 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• Front Mission 3 Remake – TBA – (Switch)
• Game of Thrones: Kingsroad – 2025
• Gears of War: E-Day – TBA – (Xbox, PC)
• Gex Trilogy – Summer 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, Switch, PC)
• Ghost of Yotei – 2025 – (PS5)
• Grand Theft Auto 6 – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox)
• Hello Kitty: Island Adventure – 2025 – (Switch)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong – TBA – (PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy – Early 2025 – (Switch)
• Hyper Light Breaker – Early Access Early 2025 – (PC)
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Early 2025 – (PS5)
• Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet – TBA – (PS5)
• John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Judas – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Jurassic Park: Survival – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)

• Killing Floor 3 – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter – Fall 2025 – (PS5, Switch, PC)
• Lies of P: Overture (DLC) – Summer 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Little Devil Inside – TBA – (PS5, Switch, Xbox)
• Little Nightmares 3 – 2025 – (PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• Mafia: The Old Country – Summer 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Marathon – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Marvel’s Blade – TBA – (Xbox, PC)
• Mecha Break – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – 2025 – (Switch)
• MindsEye – Summer 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Mio: Memories in Orbit – 2025 – (Switch)
• Mixtape – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Moth Kubit – Spring 2025 – (Switch)
• Ninja Gaiden 4 – Fall 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• OD – TBA – (Xbox)
• Okami 2 – TBA
• Onimusha: Way of the Sword – 2026 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• The Outer Worlds 2 – 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• Perfect Dark – TBA – (Xbox, PC)
• Phantom Blade 0 – TBA – (PS5)
• Phantom Hellcat – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero – 2025 – (Switch)
• Pokemon Champions – TBA – (Switch, mobile)
• Pokemon Legends: Z-A – Late 2025 – (Switch)
• The Precinct – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake – 2026 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Prison Architect 2 – TBA (Xbox, PC)
• Professor Layton and the New World of Steam – 2025 – (Switch)
• Replaced – 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• Rift of the Necrodancer – 2025 – (Switch)
• Saros – 2026 – (PS5)
• Screamer – 2026 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX – 2025 – (Switch)
• The Sinking City 2 – 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• Slay the Spire 2 – early access in 2025 – (PC)
• Sleight of Hand – 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• Sonic Racing CrossWorlds – TBA – (PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC)
• Star Overdrive – 2025 – (Switch)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake – TBA – (PS5)
• State of Decay 3 – TBA (Xbox, PC)
• Terminator: Survivors – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Tides of Annihilation – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Turok Origins – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 – H1 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Venus Vacation Prism – early 2025 – (PS5, PC)
• Winter Burrow – Early 2025 – (Xbox, PC)
• The Witcher 4 – TBA
• The Wolf Among Us 2 – TBA – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Wolverine – TBA – (PS5)
• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – 2025 – (PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall – Q1 2025 – (Switch, Xbox, PC)

For more release date fun, check out our ongoing list of 4K UHD and Blu-ray release dates.

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When Pokemon TCG Pocket first launched, the meta quickly came to be dominated by a very small handful of decks. One of those, centered around Misty and water-type Pokemon, came to be hated early on due to its potential to overpower opponents early on based entirely on how well some coin flips went.

Now, three expansions later, you would think other cards would have swooped in to replace or counter Misty decks. But instead, Pokemon TCG Pocket’s latest expansion just added a new card that makes Misty decks stronger than ever, and a lot of players are kind of over it.

For context, it’s not that Misty decks are necessarily the most powerful in the game. It’s that the luck-based nature of Misty makes losing to them feel very, very bad. Misty is a Supporter card, with the unique ability to allow the user to pick a water-type Pokemon, and flip a coin until they land on tails. They then attach a water-type energy to that Pokemon for every heads they flipped. This could result in a player attaching 0 water-type energy, effectively wasting a deck spot on the card and a supporter card play. Or they could attach 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 energy, or more, if luck is on their side that day. A well-flipped Misty could allow a player to win on turn one in certain situations, before the opponent even has a chance to make a move. Or, in more common scenarios, the user gets enough bonus energy to bring extremely powerful cards online before their opponent can build a meaningful defense.

All that’s fine and dandy, but what’s made Misty worse are the numerous cards in subsequent expansions that have made it even more powerful. Mythical Island added Vaporean, which has an ability allowing players to essentially move all that bonus energy freely around between their water-types. Space-Time Smackdown brought Manaphy in, which adds even more water energy to the board. Both expansions saw new, powerful water-type Pokemon that can make use of that energy, such as Palkia ex and Gyarados ex. As a result, water decks have been at the top of the meta consistently for multiple expansions in a row.

And now, with Triumphant Light, there’s another card out there making Misty decks even more hellish: Irida. Irida, like Misty, is a Supporter card, but its effect is that it can heal 40 damage from each Pokemon that has any water-type energy attached. Up to this point, grass-type decks have been the healing experts. But with Irida, water-type decks can make significant comebacks as long as they’ve collected and spread out enough energy…and between Misty, Manaphy, and Vaporeon, they’re very likely to do so.

For what it’s worth, some Pokemon TCG experts are offering a pretty logical explanation for Irida. In TCG Pocket, decks are limited to 20 cards That means if you want to add something like Irida, you need to take something else out. Water decks are simply swimming in good cards – at a certain point, players must weigh whether or not it’s actually worth removing Misty for a card like Irida. Some players are speculating that developer DeNA added Irida in an effort to crowd Misty out and force players to make tough choices about which Supporters to include. But that doesn’t mean plenty of wise deckbuilders haven’t found ways to include both.

As the player above points out, Pokemon TCG Pocket is gearing up for a regularly-scheduled event, where rewards will be doled out for going on win streaks in the game’s online competitive mode. The best reward, a gold profile badge, will be given out for winning five matches in a row. This is surprisingly difficult to do, and even moreso when many decks you’ll be facing can sweep you away within the first few turns if they flip coins correctly, and have backups like Irida to save them even if the flips go bad for them.

Expect to see a lot of water decks during this event and for a long time to come. In fact, at this point, it may just be worth playing one yourself if you’re not already.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.