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The excellent samurai action game Ghost of Yōtei’s multiplayer expansion Legends is launching on March 10th, and it looks to bring a lot more Japanese folklore into the mix, as four-player squads will fight all kinds of mythological creatures.
Kena: Scars of Kosmora is a new sequel to 2021’s Kena: Bridge of Spirits. It’s launching on PlayStation and PC sometime in 2026.
PlayStation, like other big publishers, has been leaning more into games that follow proven formulas, but I’m hoping we’ll see a few announcements that come out of left field.
The show starts at 2PM ET and is set to last for more than an hour. We’ll be covering it live.
Starting on Thursday, GeForce Now users can stream games directly on Amazon Fire TV devices, including a few new arrivals coming this week like Reanimal and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Fire TVs join a growing list of platforms with support for Nvidia GeForce Now, which even includes Linux.
Yep, Little Saint James had a single Pokéstop until it was removed by Niantic this week after Pokémon Go players kept spoofing their locations to “visit” the island. We don’t know if Epstein himself used it, though emails show he recommended the game to Deepak Chopra and Sheikh Fahad Bin Hamad.
It’s out of stock in the US and in parts of Asia, as reported by Windows Central. We reached out to Valve this morning to ask about it, but didn’t get a reply.
Wonder if it’s partly due to the component supply shortages that will affect the price of the Steam Machine.
Diablo II: Resurrected — Reign of the Warlock is launching as a paid update with the Warlock class and some quality-of-life changes. (The game is now on Steam, too.) The update costs $24.99 on its own, or you can buy Resurrected with the update and the base game for $39.99.
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The film is set to debut on November 10th, 2027, with Justin Lin directing, Deadline reports. Momoa is also starring in October’s Street Fighter movie and was part of the cast of A Minecraft Movie, which is getting a sequel in July 2027.
HP has started offering subscriptions to rent its laptops, including its Victus and Omen gaming laptops ranging from $50 per month up to $129 per month, PC Gamer reports. There’s no option to own the laptop that you’re subscribed to, but HP will let you trade it in for an upgrade every year.
The Pokémon Company, Koei Tecmo, and Game Freak’s new life sim game is more than a charming spin on Animal Crossing.
But, like, in a good way. The subscription service just announced its March lineup, and the highlight is Oceanhorn 3: Legend of the Shadow Sea, the latest in the very Legend of Zelda-inspired series. Interestingly, it’ll be playable on basically every Apple platform: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and even Apple Vision Pro.
For nearly three decades the No More Heroes developer has been showing style and inventiveness in spades.
Sega has partnered with Seiko to make a limited edition 65th anniversary watch with a subtle Sonic the Hedgehog motif, though he may not be the best character to associate with a timepiece.
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Amazon’s live-action God of War series starring Ryan Hurst as Kratos has found its Atreus in Callum Vinson (Poker Face, Chucky.)
Following the disastrous launch of FBC: Firebreak which resulted in former CEO Tero Virtala stepping down, there’s a new name in charge. Jean-Charles Gaudechon joins Remedy after previously working at EA and CCP Games, and says that his “commitment is to protect what makes it special, deliver exceptional games, and scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value.” For more on Remedy, check out this profile I wrote last year.
The two companies have collaborated on a new timepiece commemorating Sega’s 65th anniversary last year. Available in a black or silver finish the watch’s face features the hours in a font matching the Sega logo found below Seiko’s, with a Sonic silhouette can be found on a subdial. They’re 71,500 yen each, or around $458.
Correction, February 9th: An image caption in an earlier version of this article misstated the watch uses an automatic movement. It features a quartz movement.
Workers at Build A Rocket Boy, developer of the troubled game MindsEye, saw that management installed monitoring software on their machines “without their knowledge or consent” and only admitted to it later, according to GamesIndustry.biz.
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Horizon franchise creator Guerrilla Games is mostly focused on Horizon Hunters Gathering, its just-announced co-op title, Kotaku reports. One source suggested to Kotaku that the third mainline entry in the series could be three to five years away.
In the meantime, you should play the Forbidden West DLC, it’s excellent.
First announced last month, the Anbernic RG G01 is now available for preorder through the company’s online store for $39.99, but discounted to $35.99 until February 10th. The heart rate monitoring feels gimmicky, but according to an early review from Russ Crandall, the RG G01 is a solid offering with a useful configuration screen.
One of Nintendo’s biggest success stories began as a very different game.
This Super Bowl ad pulls together a grab bag of global celebrities (Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, Jisoo, Charles Leclerc, Lamine Yamal, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Young Miko) to ask which one is their favorite.
The world of affordable plugins, sample library subscriptions, and a particularly virulent case of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) has me making less music, not more. YouTuber and producer Jon Makes Beats is developing a TTRPG that battles decision paralysis with dice rolls and a Dungeons & Dragons-like rule system.
