Devolver Digital has announced that Return to Monkey Island will be released for mobile on July 27. Pre-registration is open now ahead of the game’siOSandAndroidrelease at the end of the month. Return to Monkey Island first released forPC,MacandNintendo Switchin September 2022. ALinuxversion followed in October, ahead of the game’s release forPS5andXbox Series X/S(including Game Pass) in November. Return to Monkey Island is a follow up to the acclaimed adventure game series led by original writer and director Ron Gilbert....

Ubisoft will hold its second Ubisoft Forward games showcase on September 10. Promising “new games and big news”, the digital event will begin at 12pm PT/3pm ET/8pm UK. Ubisofthas confirmed that the showcase will featureImmortals Fenyx Rising, the game formerly known as Gods & Monsters. It will also includeWatch Dogs: Legion,Hyper ScapeandRainbow Six Siegeupdates. The publisher’s first fully digital conference,Ubisoft Forward in July 2020, “generated historic viewership”, according to the company’s chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet....

Sega has confirmed that its in-development Virtua Fighter project is an eSports-focused game which will initially release in Japan. The ‘Virtua Fighter X eSports’ project was announced via a teaser traileraired duringSega’sTokyo Game Showlive stream in September. At the time, the company did not reveal further details on what the project was. Sega CEO Haruki Satomi described Virtua Fighter X Esports as “a project commemorating the 60thyear anniversary of [Sega],” starting “first” in Japan....

Slitterhead feels like a PS3 game that never existed. It’s so profoundly strange in so many ways, and frustrating in others, but you’re able to never accuse it of being anything other than 100% sincere. It’s awkward to control, it doesn’t look great visually, and it’s profoundly low-budget in several ways, but nevertheless, we’re happy it exists. It’s the kind of game that wouldn’t have gotten a Western release 20 years ago....

Super Smash Bros and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai says Japanese developers should focus on making games for the Japanese market, instead of trying to appeal to Western players. Earlier this month, it was announced that Sakurai had been listed as one of the recipients of the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, given by the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. Rather than achieving the award for any of his video game works, Sakurai’s honour is instead for his YouTube series,Masahiro Sakuraion Creating Games....

Some of the classic games being made available as part of the new PlayStation Plus subscription service will include trophy support. The news was confirmed by one ofSony Interactive Entertainment’s first-party developers,Bend Studio, which said on Thursday that it will be adding trophies for Syphon Filter. “Agency intel reports that Syphon Filter will include Trophies when it arrives on the all-newPlayStationPlus,” it wrote. “And yes, you can earn thePlatinumtoo.”...

A new Sonic Frontiers trailer has shown off the Nintendo Switch version of the game. As revealed during today’sNintendo DirectMini: Partner Showcase, the trailer shows the game running on theNintendo Switch, and also revealed new linear levels which will see Sonic race through various environments disconnected from the open world. The new linear levels, which will be accessed in-game totems which will send Sonic to Cyber Space. These challenges will reward Sonic with keys that will be used to unlock further Cyber Space levels....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has released an extended Uncharted movie scene featuring almost two and a half minutes of action. The ‘Plane Fight’ scene viewable below delivers a set-piece inspired byUncharted3: Drake’s Deception’s Stowaway chapter, which sees the protagonist attempting to stop himself being ejected from a cargo plane’s ramp door while engaging in mid-air combat. Following a six-month delay, the Uncharted movie isscheduled to hit theatres on July 01, 2025....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has said its last-gen PlayStation 4 console “is still an important part” of its business, nearly four years into its successor’s lifespan. DuringSony’s business segment meeting on Wednesday, SIE’s new co-CEOsshared an update on the PlayStation businessand its strategies for the future. Hideaki Nishino, who will starthis new role as CEO of SIE’s Platform Business Groupthis weekend, said that PS5 isPlayStation’s most profitable generation to date, with operation income close to eclipsing all others combined....

Spider-Man 2 creative director, Bryan Intihar has confirmed that Insomniac’s Spider-Man games take place in the same universe as its upcoming Wolverine game. Speaking on Kinda Funny Games, Intihar said, “they’re all 1048.” when asked by host Greg Miller if the upcoming Wolverine game and the currentSpider-Mantitles exist in the same version of the Marvel universe. 1048 refers to the revision of the Marvel universe that they share. When then asked why Wolverine didn’t appear in a cameo in the game, or as a reference, Intihar said:...

Square Enix has set a firm date for Neo The World Ends with You, the sequel to the 2007 Nintendo DS RPG. The follow-up will release on July 27 forPlayStation 4,Nintendo SwitchandPCvia theEpic Games Store, the publisher confirmed on Friday alongside a new trailer. Like the original game, Neo takes place on the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, where players will take part in the ‘Reapers’ Game,’ a life-or-death battle for survival....

Square Enix has discussed the possibility of dropping numbers from Final Fantasy game titles, according to the producer of the latest series entry. In an interview withGQ,Final Fantasy 16producerNaoki Yoshidasuggested using numbers in mainline series entries could be off-putting for new players, who might think they need to have played the previous games to enjoy the latest one. “A lot of players are going to come in and they’re going to look at it like a comic book where you have to read from the beginning to know what’s going on now,” he said....

Square Enix has said the decision to sell a large part of its western development to Embracer Group will help it invest in blockchain, among other things. Swedish company Embracer announced today thatit has agreed to acquire a large part of Square Enix‘s western development armfor $300 million. The deal will seeEmbracer GroupacquiringCrystal Dynamics,Eidos Montreal,Square EnixMontreal and a catalogue of IPs including Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief and Legacy of Kain....