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Blue Prince is said to be an upcoming genre-bending, atmospheric, architectural adventure from the people at Dogubomb. The intent is to explore an everchanging manor of 45 shifting rooms. Sounds kind of cool. It's coming out for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam sometime in 2025. Does this look like a game you could get into?

Dreams of Another is a upcoming action third person shooter from Q-Games, that doesn't really look like your traditional shooter. In this game, instead of killing enemies with guns, you're instead tasked with revealing the world with every shot you take. At least from what I am seeing in the trailer below. It's unique art style is really getting me. I can't wait to check this one out. It looks to only be releasing for PS5 sometimes in 2025.

Darwin's Paradox! is an upcoming game action adventure indie game from the people at ZDT Studio. There is no official release date yet, but they do say sometime in 2025 for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S & PC. Check out the trailer below and discuss if this is something you can see yourself playing or not.

The Midnight Walk is a new dark fantasy adventure VR game from the team at MoonHood for the PS5/ PSVR 2 & PC and it looks really cool. I'm really liking the graphical style. It will release on May 8th, 2025.

Five Nights at Freddy's is back with Secret of the Mimic, a new VR first person survival horror game in the FNAF world. Check out the reveal trailer below. I myself am not too big of a fan of these games, but it's good to see them actually changing the formular instead of sitting in one spot like the original games. It will release on PSVR2 for the PS5 on June 13th 2025.

We're getting another Sonic Kart racer called Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, but it's not a direct sequel to Team Sonic Racing. It's being said to be released sometime in 2025 for the PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Windows (Probably Steam or Epic Games, or both). Check the reveal trailer below.

Saros is a new action adventure game from the team at Housemarque, who you may remember for doing Returnal back in 2021. A reveal trailer for the game aired as Sony's State of Play event recengtly, showing off a cinematic trailer. Not much else is known about the game. Though it's being said it will expand upon the gameplay Returnal had, so I'm kind of curious to see if this will end up being a really challenging game or what. Check out the trailer below. it will star actor Rahul Kohli, who was in iZombie and The Fall of the House of Usher.

Days Gone Remastered was recently announced at Sony's State of play and boasts some new additions. Fans may not be too pleased as their hopes were on a possible sequel, but that likely won't happen with some of the creators leaving Sony Bend a while back. So we're getting a remaster edition now. Maybe down the line Sony could revisit it, but I doubt it. It will release for PS5 in April 25th 2025. It will also release on PC.

MindsEye is the upcoming game from GTA Co-creator Leslie Benzies and his studio Build A Rocket Boy. This new game is a new story driven action adventure thriller taking place in a fictional future America. It looks really dope and I am really excited to see what they have in store for this one. It looks to be coming out for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. The official release date is not yet known. I can definitely see the GTA influence from Benzies here and also see some hint of Cyberpunk too.

Directive 8020 is an upcoming interactive survival horror game in the The Dark Pictures Anthology series, developed by Supermassive Games. It will release in October 2 of 2025 for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. I'm digging the space setting, reminds me a lot of the Thing but in space.

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is a new 2D action platformer that was recently revealed during Sony's State of Play that happened today. It's from the team who made the recent Streets of Rage 4. The game is scheduled to release August 29th, 2025 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, and PC (Steam). Check the trailer below.

I can't say I ever played the first game, but it's cool to see a sequel coming out for this. Spirit of the North 2 is a new game from Infuse Studio. It was recently revealed, and you can find the reveal trailer below. As well, you can find the steam page for it here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778840/Spirit_of_the_North_2/ It will also be coming out for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5. No official release date yet, but it is said to be coming out sometime this year. Did anyone play the first game?

According to this article here - https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/02/the-order-1886-dev-pitched-a-sequel-to-sony-but-was-denied the Ready at Dawn co-founder Andrea Pessino says he had pitched a sequel to The Order: 1886, but it was denied instead. Pessino believes it was due to the poor reviews the game received. Which is likely the cause. I don't know about the sales, but I assume the game didn't sell super well. Anyway, would you have liked to see a sequel? Even with the lower reviews in question, should Sony have given Ready at Dawn another crack at a game?

Source of story: https://nintendoeverything.com/take-two-talks-nintendo-switch-2-indicates-it-will-support-the-console/ This is great news for Nintendo fans, because Take-Two hasn't done too many games for Nintendo in recent years. I don't think they've seen a GTA title since I can't remember. The GTA trilogy released on it, RDR1 and maybe some other classics down the line. But, Take-Two and Rockstar for the most part, haven't released any of their modern titles to the Switch. But, things might be changing when the Switch 2 arrives, as Take-Two The article doesn't specifically say much, but that they are looking to support the console because they believe the Switch 2 can support any audience, so I imagine they think there's good money to be made here. Do you think more Take-Two games will pop up on the Switch 2? Maybe RDR2 or GTA V will pop up on there. I'm sure they can tone down the graphics to get RDR2 and even new games to work.

The ESA (Entertainment Software Association has recently come out against the idea of tariffs being pushed on imports from China, Mexico and Canada. I heard some of those countries, like Canada who has worked in a deal with the US to increase their border security. Anyway, this is not meant to be a political discussion, but more on the idea of what tariffs could do to the gaming industry and us gamers. With that all being said, tariffs could cause a rise in prices for video games, not only that, but consoles, and all the parts that go into them could be affected by these tariffs. The US citizens will be stuck paying the increased prices. Of course, things could change from now and into the next few years. Maybe these tariffs won't go through and things will just go back to normal. Or it could end up being where just about everything goes up in prices. And we all know the gaming industry will increase those prices to make up for the costs. You can read more on what the ESA had to say in their statement in the article below. https://rushdownradio.net/the-esa-speaks-out-on-impending-tariffs-how-they-could-reshape-the-video-game-industry/

Keep Driving is a new game from indie game studio YCJY Games. It's said to be a management RPG where you're heading on a road trip to attend a festival across the country, and during your travels you can pick up hitchhikers, upgrade your vehicle and more. Check out the trailer below. The pixel style graphics look really nice. Check it out on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2756920/Keep_Driving/

Source - https://www.ign.com/articles/tony-hawk-confirms-plans-for-pro-skater-3-4-remake-were-abandoned-after-blizzard-merger Well that's disappointing. After the Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 + 2 remakes that came out a few years ago, I was expecting Activision and company to make a sequel featuring 3 & 4, but it seems that is no longer planned after Vicarious Visions was merged and eaten by Blizzard, which was merged into Blizzard. The man himself, Tony Hawk confirmed the news. And it sounds like there are no plans to make any sequels even, as they tried to find other developers but decided not to. Do you think we'll one day get more Tony Hawk games?

EA CEO Andrew Wilson recently stated that the new Dragon Age: The Veilguard was a failure due to not having enough live service elements. Yes you heard that right, the EA CEO thinks the new Dragon Age would have succeeded if they made it into some live service shlock. He and EA were recently disappointed with the recent earning reports for the company for the recent quarter. I really think these CEOs and people in charge of these gaming companies are either dumb or completely out of the loop to believe every game needs live service elements. Dragon Age doesn't need it, it just needs to be a good quality game with a good story. Check out the news on this below. And give us your thoughts on it. Source - https://twistedvoxel.com/ea-ceo-dragon-age-the-veilguard-failed-due-to-lack-of-live-service-elements/

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny is getting a remastered version coming out to PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC via Steam sometime in 2025. Check out the reveal trailer that just dropped today:

The Sims 1 & 2 is back in the Legacy Collection. It includes the original games alone with all DLC. It just released recently. But I'm a bit confused about the versions available. I thought this was a two pack set that included the Sims 1 and 2 along with all DLC. But according to the EA site, there are two listings: The Sims - https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-25th-anniv-edition The Sims 2 - https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-2-25th-anniv-edition I thought this was a collection with both games included, but it looks like they just re-released both games separately the first game for $20, and the second for $30. Both versions include all the DLC that released for them, or so I believe from the descriptions on the site. Also it looks to only be available on PC via Steam, Windows, Epic Games and the EA launcher.

Source - https://twistedvoxel.com/valve-planning-steam-console-to-compete-with-playstation-xbox/ This would be pretty cool. I know they are making the Steam OS easily accessible to users, as you can now download Steam OS to other devices and may even use it on PC. So it would be very interesting if Valve decides to make their own console. They have the catalog of games already, and I'm sure they could make a console that matches what most consoles do today, if not better. Though this might not be 100% true. It's all alleged by an insider who also happens to be a content creator, who recently spoke about how another YouTuber spilled the details about there being a new console in the works. He believes it has something to do with Valve being heavily involved in the development of drivers for the AMD 9070 GPU, and it's alleged that will be in the console. Check the article above for more details on this news. What do you think though? Would you like Valve to come out with a console? I know we've had a SteamBox I think it was back in the day, which was kind of like a console/PC hybrid if I remember correctly. But I don't think they've outright made their own console aside from the SteamDeck.

I read an article about something a former PlayStation exec said, on how Xbox could be on track to becoming a software only company. You can read the article here - https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-software-only-company/ We're already seeing Xbox games coming to PlayStation consoles. So this would make sense. Especially with their hardware sales as of late not coming close to that of PlayStations. PlayStation's Shawn Layden believes that Xbox is going to go full third party in the future, instead focusing on software over hardware. He believes they're heading down a similar path to that of Sega and how they became a third-party publisher/developer. Do you think that will happen though? I think it could work simply because of the amount of IPs MS owns. If they actually put out more games, maybe then I could see it working. And I suppose they could put more focus on their games rather than hardware. What do you think though?

Disorder is an action roguelike from the team at GRUMPY that released recently for the PS5. It's also available on the PC via Steam. Many say the game is heavily inspired by Stellar Blade. Has anyone here played this one yet? Worth checking out?

Has anyone here played the new Ninja Gaiden 2 Black that just released a few days ago? I hear it's been getting good reviews. It's a remastered/remake of Ninja Gaiden 2. I was never too fond of the intense difficulty of the original versions, so I don't know if this is really for me. But for fans of the franchise, it's out now for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via steam.

It's still weird to me that some Xbox games are releasing on PlayStation. Forza Horizon 5 to be exact, will be releasing on the PlayStation 5 this spring 2025. Everything that was in the PC and Xbox version of the game, will be available to PlayStation gamers. Check out the news via the link below. And tell us what you think of this news. Will you be playing Forza Horizon 5 on your PS5 this spring? https://forza.net/news/forza-horizon-5-comes-to-ps5