Sega has announced that a remaster of Virtua Fighter 5 is coming to Steam. The remaster will be called Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. and is set to release this winter, with no official date confirmation yet. Segadescribes it as “the Ultimate Edition of this legendary game”, and says it will boast 4K visuals with “updated hi-res textures and more”. The game will also feature support for rollback netcode, designed to make competitive online play more responsive....

Warner Bros. has teased plans to release more games based on in its Wizarding World franchise following Hogwarts Legacy’s success. In an interview withVariety,Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainmentpresident David Haddad said the Harry Potter RPG sold over 22 million copies between its release in February 2023 and the end of the calendar year. That made it “the best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide”, he claimed. Warner plans to follow-up on its success withHarry Potter: Quidditch Champions,which was revealed last April, and “a series of other things” that are currently unannounced and “will let the fans be part of this world and stories and characters in deeper and deeper ways”, Haddad said....

Worms Rumble, which is also set for release onPC, featuresnew real-time combat, a battle royale modeand support for 32-players and cross-platform play, according to its developer. “Players will rumble across the biggest Worms maps to date as they battle with weapons and items both old and new, including the Baseball Bat, Hand Cannon, Bazooka, Assault Rifle, Shotgun and more,” Team 17 said. The standard edition of Worms Rumble is set to go on sale for £10....

Obsidian’s Xbox and PC survival game Grounded will enter Xbox Game Preview with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Steam Early Access on July 28. Furthermore, those who join theXbox Insider programwill get a chance to secure an early hands-on withGroundedthis Spring, publisherXboxGame Studios announced on Tuesday. First revealed at X019 in November, Grounded has players “shrunken to the size of an ant” and tasked with surviving in the micro-world of a suburban backyard....

Yakuza 8 will officially be titled Like A Dragon 8, seemingly dropping the Yakuza title. Revealed during the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Summit live stream by executive producerMasayoshi Yokoyama, the trailer gave a brief look at Kiryu and Ichiban, who will both star in the game. Like a Dragon 8 will arrive in 2024 forPlayStation 5,PlayStation 4,Xbox Series X|S,Xbox One, Windows, andSteam. The game will once again be an RPG, and will feature dual protagonists according to Yokoyama....

The media embargo has lifted andHorizon Forbidden West reviewsare live across various publications. Following numerous Pandemic-induced delays, theGuerrilla Gamessequel will finally release forPlayStation 5andPlayStation 4on Friday, February 18. Ahead of reviews going live, VGC’s critic Jordan Middler and Hamish Black of popular YouTube channel Writing on Games linked up to discuss their thoughts on Forbidden West, after dozens of hours reviewing it for their respective publications. In the video, Black confesses to not usually being a fan ofSony’s big, blockbuster first-party games, but he saysHorizon Forbidden Westeventually won him over....

Capcom has been arguably the best game publisher of the last decade. Resident Evil refreshes and remakes have put survival horror back on the map, Street Fighter continues to be a driving force in the fighting game space, and Dragon’s Dogma 2 was a contender for Best RPG of the Year at The Game Awards. It’s Monster Hunter that’s become one of the company’s real driving forces, however, even though it took a while round these parts....

2K Sports has confirmed the majority of the matches set to appear in this year’s Showcase mode for WWE 2K24. As in previous editions of the game, Showcase chooses the best matches from WWE history that fit a particular theme, and tasks the player with recreating them by carrying out certain moves while playing. This year the theme for Showcase is Forty Years of WrestleMania, and will consist of 21 matches spanning the history of the event, right up to last year’s WrestleMania 39....

A new survey has found that 85% of US veterans who played video games while on active duty did so to help them escape the stressors of military life. The survey, which was conducted by theEntertainment Software Association(ESA) with a sample size of 1,096 veteran video game players and 508 non-veterans, found that the majority of them said games had a positive impact on their mental and emotional well-being. According to the survey data, 86% of veterans believe that video games provide a healthy outlet to help them deal with stress and anxiety....

A piece of dialogue found in God of War Ragnarök implies that PaRappa the Rapper is “history’s greatest musician”. The sequence, as shared on Twitter by user TheCardinalArts, shows Kratos and Mimir having a conversation when Mimir brings up one of Kratos’s past adventures. “Brother, I’ve heard my share of stories about your homeland,” Mimir says, “but I’d also heard that you once fought in a tournament.” “I fought in many contests,” Kratos replies....

Bioware has begun selling a new N7 day lithograph that may suggest that series protagonist Commander Shepard will star in the upcoming revival of the series. As noticed by YouTuberMrHulthen, a quickly-changed product description for theitemread: “While Shepard and the survivors are left to pick up the pieces, fans are left wondering what’s next.” This was later changed to: “The threat of the Reapers might have been ended, but at great cost including Earth itself....

A public network test for Pokémon Unite has been released for Switch in Japan. Players with a Japanese eShop account candownloadthe free test now and try the game out, but only until Saturday June 26. Because the network test is only being released in Japan for now, the game is entirely in Japanese. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Guides: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet walkthrough, tips, and Pokemon locations|How to invite friends online Pokemon Scarlet and Violet|Pokemon type chart...

This article was updated on 05/09/20 with additional sourcing. Ubisoft is planning to announce a Prince of Persia remake during its upcoming Ubisoft Forward event. The French publisher recently revealed plans to hold its secondUbisoft Forward games showcase on September 10. Promising “new games and big news”,Ubisoftsaid the digital event will featureImmortals Fenyx Rising, the game formerly known as Gods & Monsters. And speaking on the latestTriple Click podcast, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier claimed Ubisoft is planning to use the event to “announce a bunch of games like the Prince of Persia remake that was leaked a couple of weeks ago”....