Mega Crit has announced a sequel to its popular roguelike deck-building game Slay the Spire. Slay the Spire 2 will be released inSteamEarly Access in 2025, the Seattle, Washington-based studio said on Wednesday. The sequel has been “completely rewritten from the ground up” in a new game engine, according to its newly-launchedSteam page. “We’re bringing in modern features, incorporating all-new visuals, and expanding moddability,” it reads. “The Spire isn’t what it used to be....

Slightly Mad Studios founder and former CEO Ian Bell has criticised Electronic Arts following the publisher’s decision to cancel the Project Cars series. Bell founded London-based racing game studio Slightly Mad in 2009 and led the company through its$30 million sale to Codemastersa decade later, as well asEA’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Codemastersin February 2021. He left Slightly Mad last October,statingthat the time was right to step aside “with the studio’s future now assured”....

SNK has announced that its CEO will be stepping down, following the release of its heavily marketed latest fighting game. The company announced that Kenji Matsubara, who joined as CEO in August 2021, will “transition to an advisory role, where he will continue to lend his expertise and vision”. “During his tenure as CEO, Mr. Matsubara has been instrumental in driving the company’s growth and innovation,” a statement reads....

Insomniac Games has confirmed that Marvel’s Spider-Man saves will be transferable from the PS4 game to the upcoming PS5 remaster. Having initiallysaid it wouldn’t be possible to transfer savesbetween the two titles, the studio has now committed to delivering the feature in an update set for release around Thanksgiving (November 26). The update will also add the three new suits included inSpider-ManRemastered to thePS4version of the game. We have heard you - in an upcoming update for#SpiderManPS4, we will add the ability to export your save to Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered....

Square Enix believes the decision to make Outriders available on Xbox Game Pass on the day of its release paid off in terms of player acquisition. It is one of the highest profile third-party games so far to arrive on the service on the day of its release, andSquare Enixbelieves the boost to the online shooter’s player count means the decision was justified. “In regards to the response to Outriders, while there were slight issues with bugs and the like on launch, we believe it has gotten off to a good start as a new IP,” Square Enix presidentYosuke Matsudasaid during the company’s full year financial results briefing on May 13 (the comments have only today been published in English)....

Square Enix has published the preliminary patch notes for Final Fantasy 14’s Dawntrail expansion. Final Fantasy 14’s fifth expansion will bring the game up to version 7.0 when it goes live. Customers who pre-order the expansion will be able to register a bonus code to participate in early access beginning on June 28, ahead of Dawntrail’s official release on July 2. The preliminary notes for#FFXIVPatch 7.0 are now available! 📜https://t....

Nvidia DLSS support with frame generation will be added to the PC version of Starfield next week via a Steam Beta update. The game launched in September with support for FSR2, the latest version of AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution tech. While a mod that added support for DLSSarrived shortly after Starfield’s release, official support forNvidia‘s upscaling technology is now on the horizon. Next week’sStarfieldupdate will also include display and HDR controls for supported systems, plus other optimisations and improvements....

A new demo for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin has appeared on the PlayStation Network ahead of Wednesday’s State of Play broadcast. According to @PlaystationSize, a Twitter account that tracks thePlayStationstore for new applications being added to the service, the demo will be around 35GB in size. It’s possible that the demo will be announced and launched during a PlayStation event today, ahead of the game’s release on March 18....

E3 may have been cancelled this year, but you can still keep track of all the game news and announcements via our Summer Game Fest schedule. Summer Game Festwill be taking place on Thursday, June 9, and will be accompanied by a number of other live stream presentations from a variety of companies and organisations. Most notable of these is theXbox&BethesdaShowcase, which is planned for Sunday, June 12. Though there’s a reduced number of shows this year it can still be tricky keeping track of absolutely everything, which is why we’ve put together this complete schedule for the upcoming week....

Nacon has announced how it plans to compensate players for Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown’s launch issues. Following the game’s release on September 12, “many players found their experience marred by technical and server difficulties”, according to the publisher. To make up for the launch issues, customers who played the game before September 30 will be offered two exclusive in-game items free of charge. These include an ‘Adventurer’ off-road edition of the 1986 Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe and a pack of five stickers for customising their cars....

Sony has confirmed that when The Last of Us Part 2 comes to PC in April, it will require a PSN account to play. The game, which is now available to wishlist onSteamand theEpic Games Store, will be released on April 3. It’s the latestSonyPCtitle to require a PSN account, a decision that’sproved controversial in the past. While this has been the case for some multiplayer titles, such as the now-defunctConcord, the inclusion in strictly single-player titles has previously attracted the ire of players....

The Super Mario Bros. Movie has cleared another box office milestone, after it surpassed $500 million in North America this weekend. That’s according toThe Hollywood Reporter, which notes that theNintendoadaptation is only the fourth movie to cross the half-billion mark in the pandemic era, followingSpider-Man: No Way Home ($814.1 million), Top Gun: Maverick ($718.7 million) and Avatar: The Way of Water ($683.9 million). The film, which is a co-production between Illumination (Minions, Despicable Me) and Nintendo, is the biggest film of 2023 so far, with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania coming in second and John Wick: Chapter 4 in third for movies released in 2023....

The director of the 2006 Silent Hill movie says he’s written a script for another one. Speaking toJeux Video,director Christophe Gans revealed that he wrote the script during the Covid-19 lockdown, and that the film is unrelated to the 2006 and 2012Silent Hillfilms. “I’m working on it now,” he said (translated by VGC). “There were the Covid-19 years which finally forced us to stay home. “I took the opportunity to write two scripts, [including] the script for a new Silent Hill movie that is totally independent from the two previous movies made and respects the way Silent Hill has evolved....