Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies’ Build A Rocket Boy has premiered a new trailer for narrative action game MindsEye, and confirmed its release plans. MindsEye will release on June 17, 2025, forPlayStation 5,Xbox Series X|S, andPC, publisher IOI Partners announced on Friday. Pre-orders for both digital and physical copies of MindsEye are available now, with those who pre-order receiving various in-game items. MindsEye is described as “a story-driven, action-adventure thriller, set in a fictional near future Americana” and featuring “best-in-class cinematics, high-octane driving, and explosive combat”....

Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming Tomb Raider anime series. The teaser below premiered duringa showcase of its animated shows, which was also used to announce a Devil May Cry series. Starring Hayley Atwell (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will be released in 2024. The Devil May Cry anime series, fromCapcom, Studio Mir and Adi Shankar, the producer ofNetflix’s Castlevania series, is also billed as “coming soon”....

PlatinumGames’ chief game designer Hideki Kamiya has said he’s “totally serious” in relation to recent comments about resurrecting cancelled Xbox exclusive Scalebound. Last week Kamiya attracted major press attention after he toldIGN Japanthathe’d like to open discussions with Microsoftover the possibility of revisiting the action RPG, which was planned as anXbox Oneexclusive but was eventually cancelled in 2017. “We did a lot of work on it, and it’s no useMicrosoftkeeping the game in its current form, so we’d like to do something about it,” he was quoted as saying....

To work on completing your roster of Arisen-specific classes, you’re going to need to figure outhow to unlock the Mystic Spearhand in Dragon’s Dogma 2. To cut down on a lot of guesswork, just read the handy steps below. Unlocking this unique blend of magic and melee means getting through a fairly labourious part of the main quest in Vernworth. While you’re there, you’ll want tofind a place with plenty of tomesfor part of it, and probably pick up somefancy clothes for the Masqueradeyou’ll need to join later down the line....

Fumito Ueda has revealed a teaser trailer for his next game. Ueda, who is best known for Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, revealed his latest project atThe Game Awards. Although the game was described as ‘untitled’, a credits screen at the end of the trailer refers to it as Project: Robot. The game is in development at genDESIGN, a Tokyo-based studio led by Ueda and composed of a team of veteran developers from Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian....

Indie digital game store Itch.io has deindexed its entire NSFW (Not Safe for Work) games library from its store. This comes as payment providers have begun scrutinizing NSFW content on platforms such as Steam. While the extent of the changes to the platform isn’t currently known, astatementconfirms that Itch.Io is working rapidly to change the way it platforms explicit content. This comes less than a week afterSteamintroduced a new set ofguidelinesbanning previously permitted explicit content from its platform....

Mobile game Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link has been cancelled, Square Enix has announced. The game, which was first announced during a Kingdom Hearts 20th anniversary event in 2022, has had multiple closed beta tests since then, but will now not see a full release. “We have made the decision to cancel the development of Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link,” a statement on the game’s official website says. “We wish to convey our heartfelt apologies to everyone who has been looking forward to the start of service....

Bandai Namco’s Klonoa remasters will release on multiple platforms when they arrive on July 8, the company has announced. The remaster collection will release onPS4,PS5,Xbox Series X|S,Xbox One, andSteam,Bandai Namcosaid on Thursday, in addition to the already-confirmedNintendo Switchversion arriving the same day. Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series will feature HD remasters of both the original Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and its sequel Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil in one package. According to Bandai Namco, Phantasy Reverie Series will introduce new features to the classic games including optional tutorials, a 2-player support mode, a “challenging” Stopwatch mode and easy, normal and hard difficulty modes....

Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered has appeared on the PlayStation Network. The page for the game, which wasfirst mentioned on the base of a statue of San Diego Comic-Conin the summer, had seemingly gone live early. Update24th Sep 2024 / 11:20 pm The game has now been officially confirmed. Appearing on the latestState of Playpresentation, it will be released on December 10 forPS5andPS4. The page, which has since been taken back down, reads: “Celebrate Soul Reaver’s 25th Anniversary....

Nintendo has released the list of games that will receive free updates for Nintendo Switch 2, but won’t receive full ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Edition’ upgrades. During Wednesday’sNintendo Direct,Nintendoannounced that several games wouldreceive Nintendo Switch 2 Editions. Switch2 Edition games are separate from standard Switch 2 backwards compatibility and need to either be purchased separately or upgraded to for owners of Switch 1 versions. However, following the event, Nintendo has announced that many Switch 1 games including some of the console’s most popular titles, will receive free updates, which Nintendo says will improve the “playability” of select games....

The team behind Marvel Rivals has apologised for seeking to restrict negative coverage of the game from content creators. In order to participate in its content creator program, players were required to sign an agreement which included a “non-disparagement” clause that forbade them from providing “subjective negative reviews of the game”. Following a backlash from content creators including popular streamerBrandon Larned, developerNetEasesaid it would revise the terms, which it acknowledged were overly restrictive....

Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is reportedly set to avoid another approvals process by the European Commission. That’s according to anonymousBloombergsources, who said the EU has decided not to further investigate the recently restructured deal. Microsoftrevised the deal after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority blocked it in April due to concerns about its impact on the nascent cloud gaming market. In a bid to allay these concerns, theXboxmakeragreed to sell Ubisoft cloud gaming rightsoutside the European Economic Area for allActivision Blizzardgames released over the next 15 years....

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision Blizzard can be viewed as a sign that Ubisoft is on the right track with its current business strategy. While the merger has often been framed asMicrosoftseeking to purchase Call of Duty,XboxbossPhil Spencerhas consistently claimed that the $69 billion deal isprimarily driven by the company’s mobile gaming ambitions. Of course,Activision Blizzardis also home to some of gaming’s biggest worldwide brands, as well as leading live service andPC games– all areas Microsoft hopes to acquire a greater foothold in, and whichUbisoftis pursuing too....