Three comic books based on video games are among the titles to be given away during Free Comic Book Day next month. A total of 48 comics will be made available for free at participating comic book stores around the world on July 24, 2025. A list of stores can be found onthe campaign’s website. These includeStreet Fightervs Final Fight issue 1,Far Cry: Cull the Herd issue 1 and aPokémonAdventures: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire special (which also includes aSplatoon 3story)....

Square Enix will make announcements regarding the 25thanniversary of Final Fantasy 7 next month. That’s according to directorTetsuya Nomura, who shared the news during aJapanese live streamfocused on the mobile battle royale Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier on Wednesday. It’s possible June’s announcements could include the reveal ofFinal Fantasy 7 RemakePart 2, sinceSquare Enixhaspreviously indicatedthat it would like to share details on the sequel during this anniversary year....

The director of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake says he’s confident the third part will be one of the greatest video games ever made. Speaking at an event held at aFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthexhibition currently taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, directorNaoki HamaguchisaidSquare Enixwas working away on the third part of theFinal Fantasy 7 Remaketrilogy. “The development team is hard at work as we speak, and we’re going to make the game something that even beats any expectations that you have towards the game,” Hamaguchi said via an interpreter....

Former Santa Monica Studio art director Raf Grassetti has joined The Last of Us maker Naughty Dog. Grassetti served as principal art director on 2018’sGod of Warand as art director onGod of War Ragnarökduring a 10-year spell atSanta Monica Studio. He left Sony last yearto lead the art department of a now defunctNetflixstudio, where he was working alongside the likes of ex-Overwatchexecutive producer Chacko Sonny andHaloveteranJoseph Statenon an original, multiplatform triple-A gameuntil its recent closure....

Fortnite is bringing back a number of Star Wars items for the next two weeks, Epic Games has announced. Most outfits will be making a return to celebrate Star Wars day tomorrow, as will lightsaber weapons. Over the course of the period starting on May 4 and lasting until May 17, the game’s item shop will feature every previously released Star Wars outfit that wasn’t part of a Battle Pass....

Four Syphon Filter games have beenratedfor PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in Korea. As spotted byGematsu, they are Syphon Filter, Syphon Filter 2, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow. Developed bySony’sBend Studio(formerly Eidetic), the first entry in the third-person shooter stealth series was released for PSOne in 1999. Its sequel arrived the following year for the same console. Bend also developed 2006’s Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and 2007’s Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow forPSP, with both titles later releasing forPS2too....

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 developer Ninja Theory thinks its fans enjoy shorter, more focused game experiences. TheMicrosoft-owned studio recently announced thatHellblade 2 will be released on May 21forXbox Series X/SandPC. It also confirmed thatthe game will be digital-only, cost $50, and will last as long as its predecessor, which took players about eight hours to complete. “I think what we always set out to do is to tell a story and for the game length to be appropriate for the story that we want to tell,”Ninja Theorystudio headDom MatthewstoldIGN....

Levelling up inAnime Defenders, at least at launch, wasn’t much of a concern. It didn’t change a whole lot. Now, though? You’ll want to grind to get free gems. If you have a reason tolevel up fast in Anime Defenders, you could do with reading on. You’ll save a lot of time just by just knowing the best ways to get EXP in the game. What you do after that is up to you....

Nintendo has published 25 minutes of new Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity gameplay. The footage, which was shared during a special Treehouse: Live stream on Wednesday, features the first look at gameplay featuring Zelda and Gerudo Champion, Urbosa. Nintendoof America’s video team also showed various new features, such as the ability to change Link’s clothing and access the full Hyrule map in-between stages. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was announced last month, with aNintendo Switchrelease date set for November 20....

PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has claimed that PlayStation Plus’s new games library will have “all the big names present”. Speaking on theOfficial PlayStation Podcast,theSony Interactive EntertainmentCEO was asked to name some of the games coming to the service. “I’m going to play a little hard to get on that one, but I can tell you free that we have massive publisher participation in this program. We have all the big names present,” he replied....

Kevin Conroy will portray Batman one final time in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Revealed during The Game Awards, the actor, who passed away last month, will once again voice Batman, a role he’s defined for over 30 years. A brief trailer for the game, which was followed by a “Thank You Kevin” title card, was shown during the event and is viewable below. Outside of Batman games, Conroy voiced characters in Crusaders of Might and Magic, Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne....

Nintendo says Kirby and the Forgotten Land has seen the “highest sell-through” for any entry in the series to date. The critically acclaimedSwitchtitle has sold 4 million copies in its first 15 weeks, whichNintendoclaims is a record for the series. However, it’s widely claimed online that Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy sold over 5 million copies – a stat often attributed to theComputer Entertainment Supplier’s Association. It’s not clear, then, whether Nintendo is now suggesting that this information is inaccurate, or whether it’s saying that Forgotten Land has sold more copies in 15 weeks than any other Kirby title....

Larian Studios has confirmed that the Xbox Series X/S version of Baldur’s Gate 3 is still planned for release this year. Studio founder and CEO Swen Vincke provided an update on the delayedXboxversion in a Twitter update on Tuesday. “Latest on the Xbox – being actively playtested, still on schedule for this year,” hewrote. “We’ll announce the exact release date when we’re sure it’s done.” Baldur’s Gate 3was released forPCin August andPS5the following month, but the game’s Xbox release was held up asLarianstruggled to get split-screen co-op workingto the same standard on both Series X and S....