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Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed March 2025’s PlayStation Plus Essential games. March’sPlayStationPlus Essential games areDragon Age: The Veilguard(PS5), Sonic Colors: Ultimate (PS4) andTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection(PS4, PS5). Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a notable inclusion, givenBioWare’s game was only released in October 2024, although publisherEA has said it failed to meet sales expectations. In January,BioWare confirmed that it was downsizingfollowing Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s release, with general managerGary McKaystating that the next Mass Effect didn’t require “support from the full studio” at this stage of its development....

Marvel Snap is now available to download and play on Steam. As announced during theGamescomOpening Night Live presentation, thePCversion of the free-to-play card battling game is now available to play onValve‘s platform. TheSteamversion will natively support widescreen displays, developer Second Dinner says. “Marvel Snap on PC is finally here,” Second Dinner’s Ben Brode said in a statement. “If you haven’t gotten into Marvel Snap yet, now is the time....

Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Double Fine Productions. Led byTim Schafer, San Francisco, California-basedDouble Fineis the studio behind Brutal Legend, Broken Age and Psychonauts. Matt Booty, head ofXboxGame Studios, announced the news during the XboxE3 2019briefing. According tofinancially troubledpublisherStarbreeze,Microsoftpaid the Swedish company $13.2 million for thePsychonauts 2publishing rights In a video released to coincide with the announcement, Schafer discussed the studio’s culture and said “nothing” about Double Fine is going to change following the studio’s acquisition by Microsoft....

Microsoft has launched a new Xbox Series X/S marketing campaign titled ‘Power Your Dreams’. The debut trailer above, ‘Us Dreamers’, will be broadcast for the first time during Sunday Night Football on October 11 when the Minnesota Vikings face the Seattle Seahawks. Josh Munsee,Xbox’s senior manager of integrated marketing, wrote in an Xbox Wireblog post: “In Us Dreamers, hero protagonist Daniel Kaluuya (Academy award nominated actor from blockbusters like Get Out and Black Panther) leads us all on an inspirational journey about what it means for gamers to dream and reach our potential, together....

Shigeru Miyamoto has suggested the next Mario game may be revealed in an upcoming Nintendo Direct. In an interview with Variety, Miyamoto was asked when the next Mario game would be released, given thatNintendohad just launched a new Super Nintendo World theme park in Hollywood and the Super Mario Bros Movie this week. Miyamoto laughed and said, according to the video’s subtitles: “Well, all I can say is please stay tuned for futureNintendo Directs”....

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne has shipped over five million units worldwide, according to publisher Capcom. The expansion reached the milestone in about six months, having released forPS4andXbox Oneon July 14, 2025, and forPCon July 10, 2025. The latest shipment figure includes copies ofMonster Hunter World: IceborneMaster Edition, which bundles the Monster Hunter: World base game (which is required to play the expansion) with Iceborne. Monster Hunter: World recently became the first game inCapcom’s history toexceed 15 million units shipped, and the publisher said on Friday that cumulative sales of the series exceeded 62 million units as of June 22, 2025....

Several classic Call of Duty titles have been added to Microsoft’s PC store, sparking hopes of an imminent Game Pass addition. Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare, and Call of Duty: United Offensive were all added toMicrosoft‘sPCstore for purchase, having previously been unavailable on the platform. Games industry news reporter Knoebel posted on X that the games may have been added ahead of their inclusion on Game Pass....

Square Enix has announced that the PC version of Neo: The World Ends with You will be released via the Epic Games Store next week. Pre-orders arenow openahead of the game’s September 28PCrelease date. The sequel to the 2007Nintendo DSRPG The World Ends with You was first released forPS4and Switch in July. Like the original game, Neo takes place on the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, where players take part in the ‘Reapers’ Game,’ a life-or-death battle for survival....

Nike is teasing an upcoming Fortnite collaboration that will reportedly offer special rewards to members of its new NFT platform .Swoosh. TheFortniteX Nike Air Max event promises to deliver “the ultimate sneakerhunt” when it launches on June 20, according to social media posts from the sportswear giant. While the event has yet to be officially detailed, Fortnite leakerHYPEXclaims the collaboration will offer an “immersive, and first-of-it’s-kind Air Max themed experience” made by Nike inUnreal Editor for Fortnite....

Firstly, three 30-second television spots forMario Kart Worldhave been shared on the JapaneseNintendoYouTube account, showcasing snippets of new footage of the racer. Separately,Japanese social media usershave reported seeing street advertising for the Switch 2 in Japan. Mario Kart World and the Switch 2 console areboth set to release on June 5. Earlier this week, a Mario Kart World Directshared more information on the upcoming launch game, including some of its new courses, items, characters and outfits....

Nintendo Switch 2 is officially in public hands, but early users have allegedly discovered they’re unable to play the console before launch. On Tuesday, a YouTube user posted a short video of them opening a retailNintendo Switch 2unit, which, based on the retailer packaging, was likely obtained early in the United Arab Emirates. According to the user, they are unable to actually play theSwitch2 console, however, because it requires an update to function before the official June 5 release date....

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will reportedly begin next week in Canada. According tobillbill-kun,who has a history of posting retail listing information ahead of official announcements, Canadian retailers are preparing to begin pre-orders forNintendo‘s next system. Pre-orders in Canada for theNintendo Switch 2will reportedly begin on April 23. Pre-orders in Canada were originally set to begin on April 9, however, on April 8,Nintendo announced this would be delayed. “Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in Canada will not start on July 15, 2025, to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the U....

Nintendo UK won’t live stream tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct “as a mark of respect” to Queen Elizabeth II, it’s said. The broadcast, which has been confirmed totake place tomorrowwill be “published as a video-on-demand on our YouTube channel at 16:00,”NintendoUK said. This decision has been made in light of the death of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II last week. The Direct will be available to stream live on Nintendo’s other region social channels as normal....