1917: The Alien Invasion DX20163 factsAndrade Games · OtakuMaker.com StudioGame page →DX is the enhanced edition of Andrade Games' original 1917 - The Alien Invasion, and the series was later remastered yet again as 1917: The Alien Invasion DX Remastered.andrade-games.itch.ioThe heroine is Dr. Brunhild Stahlmüller, a WW1 scientist who retrofits a triplane with captured alien technology and takes the fight from Earth's skies all the way to an ancient alien homeworld.store.steampowered.comThe developer explicitly bills it as a "memorization" bullet-hell — the old-school school of shmup design where learning enemy patterns by heart, not reflexes alone, is the key to survival.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Epic Mickey20106 factsJunction Point Studios · Disney Interactive StudiosGame page →It was directed by Warren Spector, best known for immersive-sim classics Deus Ex and System Shock, who applied his player-choice philosophy to a Disney platformer.en.wikipedia.orgMickey wields a magic paintbrush to lay down paint (build/befriend) or thinner (erase/destroy), dynamically reshaping the world and branching alliances and quests based on player choices.en.wikipedia.orgIt is set in Wasteland, an alternate world of Disney's forgotten and retired creations ruled by Oswald the Lucky Rabbit — Walt Disney's pre-Mickey star whom Disney reacquired from Universal in 2006.en.wikipedia.orgIt marked the first video-game appearance of Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit together.en.wikipedia.orgReviews praised its art style and meta-narrative but widely criticized the camera; it holds a 73/100 on Metacritic.en.wikipedia.orgIt sold about 1.3 million copies in its first month and roughly 2 million in NA and Europe by June 2011, spawning the 2012 sequel Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.en.wikipedia.orgRead 4 more facts
Onimusha: Way of the Sword202628 factsCapcomGame page →Onimusha: Way of the Sword was announced at The Game Awards in December 2024 — the first mainline Onimusha in about 20 years (since Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams in 2006).en.wikipedia.orgThe protagonist's face is the licensed likeness of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune; Capcom spent about two years securing permission to use it.automaton-media.comIt is set in a supernatural, "Malice"-corrupted Edo-era Kyoto — a departure from the series' usual Sengoku backdrop — with the returning Oni Gauntlet that absorbs demonic Genma souls.news.xbox.comIts story centers on the real historical swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, and the developers say it is deliberately NOT a Soulslike, focusing instead on "the clashing of blades."en.wikipedia.orgIt is built on Capcom's RE Engine and is directed by Satoru Nihei and produced by Akihito Kadowaki.en.wikipedia.orgCapcom decided to make a new Onimusha in early 2020; negotiating Toshiro Mifune's likeness with Mifune Productions took about two years and was settled in 2022.gamesradar.comToshiro Mifune had played Miyamoto Musashi before, in the 1954 film Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto.gamesradar.comCapcom worked with officials of Kyoto's Kiyomizu-dera temple so that its in-game version would reflect how the temple looked in the game's era.gamesradar.comThe team also worked directly with the Kyoto city administration on the game's Kyoto stages.rpgsite.netProfessional swordsmen who did motion capture told the team that a samurai facing death would break the "rules" to survive, which shaped Musashi's scrappy fighting style.eurogamer.netThe blade sound effects came from a specially forged, thick katana with an S-shaped kink, scraped against construction rebar to get a deliberately raw, rough sound.pcgamer.comThe sound of the giant hammer was built from a suitcase, a broken drum kick pedal, a doorknob and a clamp.game.watch.impress.co.jpThe game supports 7.1.4-channel Dolby Atmos; wind and tree ambience was recorded on location in Kyoto, and the sound of a suikinkutsu (water-drip vessel) marks the link between the demon world and the living world.gamespark.jpDirector Satoru Nihei named Super Mario Odyssey as a key influence on the controls, while producer Akihito Kadowaki cited the Gundam series for its cast of charismatic characters.gamesradar.comIts dynamic dismemberment system, which cuts wherever the blade passes, was added to the RE Engine by Capcom's engine team at the developers' request.80.lvCapcom moved the launch three weeks earlier, from 25 September to 4 September 2026, in an announcement on 2 July 2026.capcom.co.jpRock band MAN WITH A MISSION wrote the official promotion song "Issen".capcom-games.comJujutsu Kaisen creator Gege Akutami drew commemorative art for the launch.capcom-games.comMonster Hunter Rise outfits were released as free DLC on 7 September 2026.capcom-games.comThe Nintendo Switch 2 version has exclusive Joy-Con 2 motion controls, such as swinging for horizontal or vertical attacks and gyro aiming for the Oni bow.capcom-games.comThe Oni Lady who lives inside the gauntlet is named Shizuka; the writers deliberately avoided making her an "annoying companion".gameinformer.comLead writer Hiroshi Yamashita had wanted to feature Izumo no Okuni, the woman credited with creating kabuki, in earlier projects before she finally appeared here.gameinformer.comThe story is unconnected to earlier entries, but the Chijiko demon is a homage to Onimusha: Warlords' Reynaldo Genma: both attack from underground and split apart when killed.gameinformer.comMusashi's rival Sasaki Ganryu also wields an Oni Gauntlet, so the two historical swordsmen meet as equals.onemoregame.phKyoto's Rokudo Chinno-ji temple ties into the lore as a gateway between hell and the real world, and historians reviewed the story.news.xbox.comIt sold over 1 million units worldwide on launch day, pushing the Onimusha series past 10 million units in total.capcom.co.jpIt won Best Gameplay and Best Sony PlayStation Game at the Gamescom Award 2026.capcom.co.jpThe Nintendo Switch 2 version holds its highest Metacritic score, 90.metacritic.comRead 26 more facts
Hytale202610 factsHypixel StudiosGame page →The December 2018 reveal trailer went viral, hitting 31 million views within a month — by comparison, 2018's most-viewed gaming trailer, Fortnite's Season 5 teaser, took six months to reach 48 million. The Hytale trailer had passed 61 million by 2025.comicbook.comRiot Games fully acquired Hypixel Studios in April 2020 after an earlier investment, becoming Hytale's owner and funder.en.wikipedia.orgIn a Summer 2022 update the team announced a full rewrite of both client and server from Java and C# to C++, after "months of painstaking research and soul-searching" — a decision widely blamed for the years of delay that followed.hytale.comOn 23 June 2025 Riot Games cancelled Hytale and shut down Hypixel Studios after nearly a decade of development, citing overly ambitious scope.gamesradar.comThe cancellation did not stick: founder Simon Collins-Laflamme opened talks with Riot in August 2025 and announced on 17 November 2025, in a post titled "HYTALE IS SAVED!", that the founding team had personally bought back the IP and assets.hytale.comThe revived team rehired more than 30 former developers, committed personal funding for ten years with no outside publisher or investor, and abandoned the troubled C++ rewrite entirely — reverting to an older, already-playable C#/Java build from roughly four years earlier.hytale.comHytale finally reached players on 13 January 2026, entering Early Access seven years after its reveal trailer.hytale.comThe founders disclosed that the studio had been spending up to US$400,000 a month on development before the buyout, and that pre-purchase revenue from the relaunch funded at least the next two years.hytale.comIn June 2026 Hypixel launched "Hytale Shared Source," publishing the game's full server source code on GitHub — delivering on a November 2025 promise to release it "as soon as we are legally able to."hytale.comDevelopment originally began around 2015 after Mojang's 2014 EULA change cut the Hypixel Minecraft server's revenue by a reported 85% — the founders decided to build their own game rather than depend on someone else's.en.wikipedia.orgRead 8 more facts
GoldenEye 007: Reloaded20113 factsEurocom Entertainment Software · ActivisionGame page →Bond film composer David Arnold scored the game with Kevin Kiner — the first time Arnold wrote for a Bond video game — and Nicole Scherzinger recorded a new cover of the GoldenEye theme.en.wikipedia.orgIt was pulled from digital storefronts in early January 2013 with no notice, when Activision's James Bond license ended early and all its Bond titles were delisted.en.wikipedia.orgReloaded runs the Wii remake in a new HD engine at 60fps and adds the Mi6 Ops mission mode — Eurocom's last Bond project before the studio closed in 2012.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Visions of Mana20247 factsOuka Studio · Square EnixGame page →It is the first brand-new mainline Mana game in over 15 years — the previous one, Dawn of Mana, shipped in 2006, an 18-year gap — and was unveiled at The Game Awards in December 2023 during the series' 30th-anniversary period.rockpapershotgun.comDeveloper Ouka Studios, a NetEase-owned Tokyo studio staffed with ex-Capcom, Bandai Namco and Square Enix veterans, had most of its staff laid off and was effectively shut down right around the game's release day.animenewsnetwork.comCo-director Kenji Ozawa later spoke publicly about the studio's premature closure and went on to start a new studio of his own.automaton-media.comThe Elemental Vessel system lets characters switch classes through elemental allies, while the Pikul — a dog-like mount designed by series creator Koichi Ishii — handles exploration and traversal.blog.playstation.comReviews split hard: Metacritic 75 on PS5 and PC, with IGN at 8/10 and RPGFan at 87% but GameSpot at 5/10 and GamesRadar+ at 2.5/5; Famitsu's four critics gave it 34/40.en.wikipedia.orgDevelopment ran roughly four years from 2020 on Unreal Engine 4, complicated by communication difficulties between the Japanese and Chinese sides of NetEase-owned Ouka and by the pandemic.en.wikipedia.orgThe score was divided three ways by function rather than by area — Kikuta on cutscenes, Sekito on combat, Yamazaki on fields — an unusual split for a JRPG soundtrack.en.wikipedia.orgRead 5 more facts
Tides of Annihilation8 factsEclipse Glow GamesGame page →Tides of Annihilation was unveiled with a reveal trailer during Sony's State of Play on 12 February 2025.en.wikipedia.orgThe premise fuses modern-day London with the mythical realm of Avalon after an otherworldly invasion, with protagonist Gwendolyn described as humanity's lone survivor.worthplaying.comThe core combat mechanic lets Gwendolyn summon and command spectral Knights of the Round Table — including the spear-wielding Sir Lamorak — with "Mirror Space" sequences that let the player control Gwendolyn and a knight simultaneously.en.wikipedia.orgDeveloper Eclipse Glow Games is a Chengdu-based studio making its debut title, backed by Sony's China Hero Project with Tencent investment.en.wikipedia.orgIt is built in Unreal Engine 5 with direct collaboration from Epic's own engineers and an NVIDIA partnership covering path tracing, DLSS and driver-level optimisation; a proprietary Nanite-based system handles the "Giant Knight" encounters.worthplaying.comProducer Kun Fu said the team wants to "push the visual ceiling to the absolute limit of current technology" while keeping rigorous optimisation for all hardware.worthplaying.comIn July 2026 Jennifer English — known for Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — announced she was stepping away from voicing Gwendolyn to look after her mental and physical health, calling it a "difficult yet personally necessary decision." She stayed on in an advisory capacity and the role was recast at her own recommendation.videogameschronicle.comA public hands-on demo is planned for Gamescom 2026 in Cologne (26-30 August), with a new trailer premiering at Opening Night Live.pushsquare.comRead 6 more facts
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos20216 factsHeliocentric Studios · Team17Game page →Developer Josh Gump calls the game 'a love letter to A Link to the Past more than anything' — it began as his winter-break experiment making procedural infinite versions of his favourite 16-bit classics.zeldauniverse.netThe 4-player co-op was a mid-development pivot: about a year in, the two-person team noticed rival Zelda-likes but none with multiplayer, so they added online and local co-op as their differentiator.zeldauniverse.netIts 2018 Kickstarter FAILED — raising $9,845 of a $20,000 goal — yet the game still shipped after Team17 signed on as publisher, a rare failed-crowdfund-to-publisher-rescue story.kicktraq.comDungeon loot feeds a town-building meta: players rebuild and upgrade the village of Intori for permanent upgrades, blending life-sim homemaking with roguelite runs.store.steampowered.comIt's built in MonoGame — the open-source framework — rather than a traditional engine, which the developer chose for its cross-platform support.steamcommunity.comDeath doesn't end a run: the roguelite loop sends fallen heroes back to town to spend their gems, with six character classes and procedurally generated dungeons where no two runs are the same.store.steampowered.comRead 4 more facts
Is This Seat Taken?20258 factsPoti Poti · Wholesome Games PresentsGame page →Poti Poti Studio is two people — Sergi Pérez Crespo on art and design andAusiàs Dalmau Roig on programming and design — who founded it in Barcelona in June 2024 after Dalmau was laid off. They describe it as a leap of faith.gamespain.esThe pair had previously worked together on You Suck At Parking and Scrabble Go before going independent.gamespain.esIt won the A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game at the 15th New York Game Awards.gamesbeat.comIt was nominated in the Family category at the 22nd BAFTA Games Awards, losing to Lego Party, and was longlisted for Debut Game.en.wikipedia.orgIt picked up two honorable mentions at the 28th Independent Games Festival — Excellence in Design and Excellence in Visual Arts.en.wikipedia.orgThe whole game is one deceptively simple problem: seat everybody so that every shape is happy. Game Informer scored it 9.25/10 and named it a Must Play.gameinformer.comIts release path ran entirely through showcase events — a demo at Steam Next Fest in February 2025, a date reveal at Wholesome Direct in June, and the Switch version announced at Nintendo Indie World in August on the same day it launched.en.wikipedia.orgReviews landed well — Metacritic 84 on Switch and 79 on PC, with 90% recommending on OpenCritic.en.wikipedia.orgRead 6 more facts
Fishing: North Atlantic20205 factsMisc GamesGame page →The Andrea Gail — the real swordfishing vessel lost in the 1991 'Perfect Storm' and the basis of the book and film — is a playable boat, buyable in Lunenburg and described in-game as 'the real ship featured in the film The Perfect Storm'.steamcommunity.comAll ~27-29 boats are modeled on real vessels, with officially licensed equipment from Hermes, Scanmar, Skipasyn, Pronav, NorSap and others, and hull designs from Nova Scotia's A.F. Theriault & Son shipyard.cbc.caA Norwegian studio built a game about Canadian fishing: Stavanger-based Misc Games recreated Lunenburg, Lockeport, Yarmouth and Digby from real map data — and the Town of Yarmouth officially publicized being the game's starting harbour.townofyarmouth.caIt's the middle entry of Misc Games' maritime lineage: sequel to Fishing: Barents Sea (2018) and predecessor to the studio's Unreal Engine 5 follow-up Ships at Sea (2024).miscgames.comAn Enhanced Edition arrived on 24 November 2021 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, adding ray tracing, DualSense support and additional licensed boats.savingcontent.comRead 3 more facts
Tales of the Shire20258 factsWeta Gameshop · Private DivisionGame page →It is the first video game made by Wētā Workshop — the New Zealand company that built the physical props, armour and creatures for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films.en.wikipedia.orgCreative director Stephen Lambert says the game was "very much born out of the COVID-19 period" — the team wanted to make something relaxing and community-focused.en.wikipedia.orgThe cooking system comes straight from the books: hobbits famously eat seven meals a day, and the studio kept a Tolkien scholar on the team to keep the details right.en.wikipedia.orgIts publisher changed identity mid-development. Take-Two sold Private Division in November 2024 to Haveli Investments, which rebranded the label to Fictions in June 2025 — so the game was announced under one publisher and released under another.en.wikipedia.orgIt was announced in April 2024 and delayed twice — first from 2024 to early 2025, then in February 2025 to a final date of 29 July 2025.en.wikipedia.orgCritics and players landed in very different places. Metacritic sits at 61 on PS5 and 58 on PC with just 25% recommending on OpenCritic, while Steam users rate it Very Positive at 82%.en.wikipedia.orgIts ESRB rating is E, with the only two descriptors being Alcohol Reference and Use of Tobacco — triggered by an ale item and a character briefly raising an unlit pipe.esrb.orgA Nintendo Switch 2 edition followed in March 2026.gematsu.comRead 6 more facts
FBC: Firebreak20259 factsRemedy EntertainmentGame page →FBC: Firebreak is Remedy Entertainment's first multiplayer game and its first first-person shooter in a 30-year history of single-player narrative titles.blog.playstation.comIt is set inside the Oldest House — the Federal Bureau of Control's shifting headquarters from Control — six years after that game's events.en.wikipedia.orgThe structure is three-player cooperative PvE built around customisable "Crisis Kits" loadouts, including a wave-based Endless Shift mode.en.wikipedia.orgDirector Mike Kayatta lists PowerWash Simulator among the inspirations — "cleaning dirt is oddly meditative" — alongside Overcooked and TV shows about crisis response like Dirty Jobs.blog.playstation.comDespite passing 1 million players within ten days, Steam concurrents collapsed to under 200 within weeks, and only 24% of critics recommended it on OpenCritic.en.wikipedia.orgRemedy attributed the underperformance specifically to weak Steam sales and booked a EUR 14.9 million non-cash write-down for FY2025; CEO Tero Virtala stepped down that October.en.wikipedia.orgIt launched day one on PC Game Pass, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium catalogues simultaneously — a rare cross-console subscription arrangement for a paid $39.99 title.remedygames.comRemedy kept updating it anyway: "Breakpoint" in September 2025, "Rogue Protocol" in January 2026 overhauling mission scaling, and a final "Open House" update in March 2026 that permanently cut the price to $19.99 — after which new content development stopped so the studio could focus on narrative games like Control Resonant.gematsu.comThe name refers to real firebreaks — cleared strips of land that stop a fire spreading — which the game mirrors as a literal feature of the Oldest House.blog.playstation.comRead 7 more facts
Paper Trail20249 factsNewfangled GamesGame page →The whole game is built on one idea the brothers first prototyped with real paper in a London basement — folding the corner of the world map to connect two places that shouldn't touch.en.wikipedia.orgIt won Best Family Game at the Gamescom Awards in 2022, on the strength of a demo — two years before it released.en.wikipedia.orgThat award is what got Netflix's attention: the company was looking for family-friendly games, and its testing team pushed the developers to build a stronger in-game hint system for accessibility.en.wikipedia.orgIt swept two categories at the 2024 TIGA Games Industry Awards — Best Casual Game and Creativity in Games — and went on to a BAFTA nomination for British Game and a DICE nomination for Mobile Game of the Year.tiga.orgNetflix shipped it day-and-date on mobile, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, Windows and macOS all at once in May 2024.en.wikipedia.orgAstra Fund investment quadrupled the scope — the original concept was about a quarter of the finished game's size.en.wikipedia.orgBrothers Henry and Frederick Hoffman founded Newfangled Games in 2019, having previously worked on Q.U.B.E. and Hue; they moved the studio from a London basement to Norwich during development.en.wikipedia.orgIt is ESRB E with no content descriptors whatsoever — there is nothing in it to flag.esrb.orgReviews were strong across platforms — Metacritic 83 on Switch, 82 on Xbox Series, 80 on PC and 75 on PS5, with 75% recommending on OpenCritic.en.wikipedia.orgRead 7 more facts
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars20112 factsUbisoft Sofia · Ubisoft EntertainmentGame page →Shadow Wars was led by Julian Gollop — the creator of the original X-COM — who brought his signature turn-based tactics to the Ghost Recon license as a Nintendo 3DS launch title.en.wikipedia.orgIts 37-mission campaign runs roughly 35-45 hours — unusually long for a handheld launch title — and earned one of the strongest review scores of the 3DS launch lineup (Metacritic 77).gamefaqs.gamespot.com
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve202621 factsBandai Namco Aces Inc. · Bandai Namco EntertainmentGame page →It was revealed at The Game Awards 2025 with an announcement trailer titled "False Wings", and its key art shows an F/A-18E Super Hornet.famitsu.comSeries brand director Kazutoki Kono sent director Sunao Katabuchi (In This Corner of the World) a long offer by direct message in June 2020; Katabuchi returned to write the screenplay after Ace Combat 7, and development began that year.famitsu.comEarlier Ace Combat games built their worlds at 10x scale; Ace Combat 8 uses real 1:1 scale, with dogfight airspace covering about 10,000 km².famitsu.comAn in-house cloud system called Cloudly, with R&D by Q-Games, replaced the third-party trueSKY middleware used in Ace Combat 7.gamebusiness.jpStory scenes are presented in first person, a first for the series.psu.comUnlike Ace Combat 7, it has no VR mode on any platform; VR was considered early in development and dropped.rpgsite.netJet engine audio was recorded at a base in Okinawa, real explosives were used for sound effects, and the team built its own 3D audio engine with 7.1.4-channel support.news.denfaminicogamer.jpA "focus mixing" system rebalances music, sound effects and voice in real time based on the player's situation.automaton-media.comJapanese players nicknamed Kenjiro Tsuda's whispered radio lines as Jan Cope "whispering Tsuda-Ken" and jokingly called the game "ASMR".automaton-media.comThe Japanese store page states the game was produced in cooperation with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.store.steampowered.comKono said he never expected Tasha Severskaya to become so popular worldwide; the team jokingly calls her "the most expensive character".invenglobal.comViolinist Lindsey Stirling released a performance of the track "Hortus Regis Alti" dressed as Tasha on 29 September 2026.en.bandainamcoent.euHOUR ZERO, a four-part live-action prequel starring Josh Holloway, Brandon Routh and Tamlyn Tomita, began airing on 15 September 2026.bandainamcoent.comPre-order bonuses included a port of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War and a playable F-14A.news.denfaminicogamer.jpThe original FA-36 aircraft's nickname "Game" comes from the gamecock; superweapons include the 6 km "Megafloat Fatosia" and the orbital "Spear of Tonitrus".famitsu.comIts online Air Base lobby holds up to 100 players.famitsu.comIt is the best-reviewed Ace Combat game since Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (2001).80.lvIt peaked at 48,743 concurrent players on Steam, about 3.5 times Ace Combat 7's peak of 13,758.automaton-media.comIt debuted at #1 in Japan with 63,013 PS5 retail copies in its first week (Famitsu, 28 Sep–4 Oct 2026).famitsu.comIt passed 1 million units worldwide at the fastest pace in the series' 30-year history.en.bandainamcoent.euIt won a Future Division award at the Japan Game Awards 2026.news.denfaminicogamer.jpRead 19 more facts
Mortal Shell II202610 factsCold Symmetry · PlaystackGame page →Mortal Shell II was unveiled at Summer Game Fest on June 6, 2025 as a standalone sequel that requires no knowledge of the first game.rpgfan.comPublisher Playstack's VP of publishing Rob Crossley called it "Playstack's biggest ever game investment by an order of magnitude," saying the original Mortal Shell marked a turning point that helped fund later hits such as Balatro and Abiotic Factor.playstack.comCold Symmetry was founded in 2017 by four co-founders and works fully remote; the team grew from about 15 people during the first game's roughly two-year development to around 30 by the sequel's announcement.unrealengine.comCo-founder Dmitry Parkin left a senior character-artist role at Sucker Punch Productions in 2021 to work on Cold Symmetry full time.en.wikipedia.orgThe original Mortal Shell was nominated for Best Debut Game at The Game Awards 2020, sold over 500,000 units by March 2021, passed 1 million by September 2023 and had exceeded 2 million by the time the sequel was announced — the commercial basis press cited for the greenlight.en.wikipedia.orgThe sequel moves to Unreal Engine 5 from the original's Unreal Engine 4, enabling a seamless open world with no loading screens between areas using Nanite and Lumen.mortalshell2.wiki.fextralife.comThe series' signature "Shell" possession mechanic returns — the Harbinger inhabits the bodies of fallen warriors — with three new Shells shown at reveal: Tiel the Acolyte, Eredrim the Venerable and Proxima the Broodseeker.playstack.comUnlike the linear hub-based original, Mortal Shell II uses a deliberately compact interconnected open world containing more than 60 handcrafted dungeons, and drops the traditional stamina bar for a posture-break and critical-strike system.rpgfan.comA roughly three-hour open beta launched shortly before release and passed 500,000 downloads within about two weeks, generating over 6 million views across YouTube, Twitch and short-form video; story progress carried into the full game and participants earned an exclusive "Flayed Harbinger" skin.screenrant.comThe August 20, 2026 release date was reportedly chosen to dodge the crowded September-November 2026 window occupied by Control Resonant, Marvel's Wolverine and Grand Theft Auto VI.insider-gaming.comRead 8 more facts
Wonder Woman8 factsMonolith Productions · Warner Bros. InteractiveGame page →Wonder Woman was cancelled on 25 February 2025 when Warner Bros. Games closed Monolith Productions — along with Player First Games and WB Games San Diego — citing a strategic refocus onto Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC and Game of Thrones.en.wikipedia.orgIt was revealed at The Game Awards in December 2021 with a teaser narrated by Hippolyta that closed on the line "You are Wonder Woman."en.wikipedia.orgThe game was confirmed to use Monolith's patented Nemesis System; after cancellation, reporting indicated the system "wasn't coming together" as intended in this project.videogameschronicle.comWarner Bros. still holds the Nemesis System patent, filed in 2016, until an adjusted expiry of 11 August 2036 — so the mechanic remains locked away industry-wide even though the studio that invented it no longer exists.eurogamer.netDevelopment was reported as troubled, including a major reboot in early 2024 amid leadership uncertainty, per Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.thegamer.comReported details described a single-player open-world action-adventure set on Themyscira with fast, free-flowing combat, procedurally generated allies and enemies via the Nemesis System, and a predominantly female cast.ign.comMonolith Productions had existed for 31 years — the last 21 of them under Warner Bros. — and was the studio behind No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R. and the Middle-earth games.en.wikipedia.orgNo composer, voice cast or engine was ever publicly announced for the project; only the 2021 teaser was ever shown.videogameschronicle.comRead 6 more facts
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection20248 factsCapcomGame page →Ace Attorney Investigations 2 came out in Japan in February 2011 and was never officially localised — this 2024 collection ended a 13-year wait.en.wikipedia.orgCapcom gave two reasons for the delay: the original localisation staff had disbanded and moved to other teams, and the projected localisation costs exceeded the expected returns after the first game's weak Western sales.en.wikipedia.orgIn the gap, the Court-Records community produced a full fan translation — partial patches in 2013, a complete one in 2014, a final revision in 2015 and an Android port in 2023. The project vetted applicants before letting them join, unusual for a fan translation.en.wikipedia.orgCapcom's localisation director Janet Hsu deliberately never played the fan translation, so it could not influence the official script.en.wikipedia.orgProducer Shunsuke Nishida has said the collection existed specifically to get both spin-offs onto modern hardware and to finally localise the Japan-exclusive second game.en.wikipedia.orgIt adds newly drawn HD character animations with a toggle back to the original DS pixel sprites, an art and animation gallery, and a Story Mode that can auto-solve puzzles for players who just want the plot.en.wikipedia.orgReception was strong across the board — Metacritic 85 on Switch, 83 on PS4, 82 on PC and 80 on Xbox One, with 89% recommending on OpenCritic.en.wikipedia.orgThe ESRB Teen rating is driven by crime-scene depictions — bloodstained clothing, gunshot and knife wounds, victims in pools of blood — plus a single use of the word "bastard."esrb.orgRead 6 more facts
Marvel's Blade9 factsArkane Studios · Bethesda SoftworksGame page →Marvel's Blade was revealed with a cinematic trailer at The Game Awards on 7 December 2023, showing Eric "Blade" Brooks in Paris.en.wikipedia.orgIt is set in a quarantined 1920s Paris overrun by vampires, with the dhampir vampire-hunter Eric Brooks as protagonist.en.wikipedia.orgCreative director Dinga Bakaba specifically picked Paris because it is his hometown, describing it as a personal challenge for the team.en.wikipedia.orgIt marks Arkane Lyon's departure from the first-person immersive-sim style that defined Dishonored and Deathloop, moving to third-person single-player action.en.wikipedia.orgMarvel Games executive Bill Rosemann said of the pairing: "The Arkane touch fits Blade like his trademark trenchcoat."en.wikipedia.orgIt runs on Void Engine, Arkane's proprietary in-house technology derived from id Tech and used for Dishonored and Deathloop.en.wikipedia.orgIn July 2026 Microsoft announced it was exploring selling or closing Arkane Lyon amid a broader Xbox restructuring that cut 3,200 jobs, throwing the game's future into doubt and triggering French Works Council consultations.finance.yahoo.comAmid that uncertainty, Arkane named MachineGames co-founder Jerk Gustafsson as its new president on 30 June 2026, replacing Leonard Bendel — read by press as a possible sign the studio would survive.comicbook.comBethesda Game Studios head Todd Howard pushed back on cancellation fears in May 2026 after seeing recent footage: "I saw some stuff just yesterday and the folks at Arkane are doing a really, really great job."gameranx.comRead 7 more facts
Mad Tower Tycoon20204 factsEggcodeGame page →Mad Tower Tycoon is a modern take on the 1990s skyscraper-management classic SimTower, built by Eggcode, the small German studio (Vlotho) best known for Mad Games Tycoon.nerdybookahs.wordpress.comIt simulates elevators realistically — cars have limited capacity and real travel time between floors, making vertical transport the core management challenge.nerdybookahs.wordpress.comRooms are placed directly with no separate floor-laying step and tenants move in automatically, making it deliberately more accessible than micromanagement-heavy rivals like Project Highrise.nerdybookahs.wordpress.comThe game left Steam Early Access into its full 1.0 release on January 14, 2020, shipping with no DLC and no mod support.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Kingdom Hearts IV9 factsSquare Enix Creative Studio I · Square EnixGame page →Kingdom Hearts IV was a complete surprise reveal — it had not been pre-announced, and was unveiled on April 10, 2022 at the Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary Event in Tokyo, alongside the mobile title Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link.kotaku.comIts setting, Quadratum, is a fictionalized version of real-world Tokyo — specifically Shibuya and Minami-Aoyama, where Sora's apartment is located. Fans matched screenshots from the reveal to the real Shibuya Sakura Stage development.thegamer.comThe game opens the "Lost Master Arc," a brand-new story arc succeeding the "Dark Seeker Saga" that ran from Kingdom Hearts (2002) through Kingdom Hearts III.en.wikipedia.orgThe original teaser trailer was rendered in real time in Unreal Engine 4, but development subsequently moved to Unreal Engine 5.en.wikipedia.orgThe reveal's shift toward a photorealistic art style for Sora and Quadratum split the fanbase — praised by some as a visual leap, criticized by others as a departure from the series' two-decade cartoon identity.kotaku.comStrelitzia — a character previously confined to the mobile spin-offs Kingdom Hearts Union χ and Dark Road — appears in the reveal trailer introducing Sora to Quadratum, marking her mainline-series debut. She is the sister of Lauriam (Marluxia) and a former Union leader chosen by the Master of Masters.noisypixel.netKingdom Hearts Missing-Link, the companion mobile game announced the same day as Kingdom Hearts IV and intended to bridge story threads into it, was cancelled on May 14, 2025, with Square Enix stating the team was redirected to focus on Kingdom Hearts IV.gameinformer.comSeries composer Yoko Shimomura, who has scored Kingdom Hearts since 2002, confirmed she is writing the score for Kingdom Hearts IV, describing herself as "knee-deep" in the project and naming an early track, "Reality in the Dark."thegamer.comPlatforms were not confirmed until a June 2026 Nintendo Direct, where new gameplay footage revealed the game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC — still with no release date attached.gematsu.comRead 7 more facts
Silent Hill: Orphan20075 factsGamefederation · KonamiGame page →Released in Europe as Silent Hill Mobile, Orphan is a first-person point-and-click game for mobile phones developed by Sweden's Gamefederation.en.wikipedia.orgThe story is split into three interlocking chapters told through orphans Ben, Moon and Karen, who return to the abandoned Sheppard's Orphanage.en.wikipedia.orgThe US release swapped its spider-like monsters for mounds of flesh on the ceiling and lit areas so the lighter was no longer needed.en.wikipedia.orgIt was followed by Orphan 2 (2008), set in the town's hospital, and Orphan 3 (2010).en.wikipedia.orgIt was built with Gamefederation's "INK Technology".silenthillmemories.netRead 3 more facts
Station Manager20163 factsKairosoftGame page →Station Manager launched on mobile in June 2016 but only reached Steam on March 27, 2022 — part of Kairosoft's long-running campaign of porting its back catalog to PC and consoles.store.steampowered.comKairosoft is the Japanese studio behind Game Dev Story, and Station Manager follows the same compact tycoon template — down to amenities like arcades, VIP lounges and taco stands on your platforms.store.steampowered.comThe game's internal name is "densha" (Japanese for train), visible in both its Google Play package id and Kairosoft's official site URL.kairosoft.netRead 1 more fact
Atari Flashback Classics Vol. 120164 factsCode Mystics · Atari, Inc.Game page →Volume 1 contains the complete Swordquest trilogy (Earthworld, Fireworld, Waterworld) — the games behind Atari's legendary early-80s contest whose jewel-encrusted prizes were never fully awarded after the video game crash cut the competition short.atari.comThe collection gave "Save Mary" — an Atari 2600 game finished around 1989 but shelved when the console was discontinued — one of its first official releases, nearly three decades after it was completed.atari.comAll 50 games run on FOCAL, the in-house emulation technology of developer Code Mystics — the studio founded in 2009 by Jeff Vavasour, one of the industry's best-known retro-emulation engineers.codemystics.comThe collection added online multiplayer, achievements and global leaderboards to games originally released in the 1970s and 1980s — letting Atari 2600 classics like Combat and Warlords be played online for the first time officially.xbox.comRead 2 more facts
Pangeon20204 factsSkrypious · Ultimate Games, Gaming FactoryGame page →The name Pangeon is a portmanteau of 'Pangea' and 'dungeon.'gematsu.comPlayers choose one of four classes to descend the dungeon: warrior, archer, wizard or thief.thirdcoastreview.comIts dungeon has eight themed levels with more than ten weapons to find.thirdcoastreview.comUnlike most roguelikes, its dungeon and monster layouts are fixed each run rather than randomly generated, which several critics noted.gameluster.comRead 2 more facts
Honkai: Star Rail202315 factsCOGNOSPHEREGame page →It was downloaded 20 million times on launch day, beating the 17 million first-day figure of HoYoverse's own Genshin Impact.gamedeveloper.comAlmost 23 million players pre-registered in mainland China alone, and on pre-download day the game topped the App Store free charts in more than 113 countries.en.wikipedia.orgIt passed 100 million downloads on 6 February 2024, less than ten months after launch.kitguru.netIt won Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2023, swept Google Play's Best of 2023 with Best Game, Best Story and Best for Tablets, and took Apple's iPhone Game of the Year.blog.googleThe Astral Express premise comes from literature the team named directly: Kenji Miyazawa's novel Night on the Galactic Railroad and Leiji Matsumoto's manga Galaxy Express 999.news.denfaminicogamer.jpProducer David Jiang cites the Trails series as a personal influence — he wanted to recapture the feeling of playing Trails from Zero at university, and has used Tio Plato as his messaging avatar for over a decade.noisypixel.netHoYoverse turned a real steam locomotive into the Astral Express: Japan's Chichibu Railway ran its Paleo Express with the game's emblem, decorated carriages and dressed stations for a month in 2023.techraptor.netThe game was announced at the end of a concert — the closing moments of the Honkai Impact 3rd online show "Starfire Sonorant" in October 2021 — and went through three closed betas before release.gamingbolt.comIts Fate/stay night crossover in July 2025 added Saber and Archer as playable characters, years after the producer had named Unlimited Blade Works as an inspiration.siliconera.comThe 2024 SAG-AFTRA video game strike left English lines missing from Version 3.0, and from March 2025 HoYoverse recast several English roles across its games.dexerto.comIn late 2023 the game ran simultaneous restaurant tie-ins across a dozen markets at once — Domino's in the UK, Wendy's First Kitchen in Japan, KFC in Hong Kong and more.vg247.comIt received a cultural-development subsidy from the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Shanghai's Xuhui District in August 2022, months before its Chinese distribution licence came through.ithome.comThe 2024 first-anniversary concert, Star Rail LIVE, was staged in Shanghai and streamed worldwide on the game's official YouTube channel.gamespress.commiHoYo ran more than 2,000 different ad creatives on Google Play in the month before launch, concentrated on Japan, Hong Kong, the United States, Vietnam and Thailand.gameres.comIn February 2026 the crossovers went the other way: Kafka and Blade were added to Fortnite through an Epic Games Store partnership.store.epicgames.comRead 13 more facts
Aphelion20266 factsDON'T NODGame page →Aphelion is a cinematic third-person action-adventure by DON'T NOD (Life is Strange, Vampyr), set in the 2060s on Persephone, an uncharted frozen ninth planet at the edge of the solar system that humanity turns to as Earth dies.en.wikipedia.orgPlayers alternate between two crash-landed astronauts — Ariane Montclair (traversal, grappling hook, parkour) and the injured Thomas Cross (investigation) — whose fractured relationship drives the story.news.xbox.comIt was developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) to ground its science, and the fictional "Hope-01" mission patch was designed with the ESA.dont-nod.comThe planet Persephone was inspired by the real-world "Planet Nine" hypothesis, and encounters with the antagonist drew on the Alien franchise.en.wikipedia.orgIt was revealed in June 2025 at the Xbox Games Showcase, built on Unreal Engine 5, and released April 28, 2026 as an Xbox Play Anywhere title, day one on Game Pass.news.xbox.comThe score is by César-winning film composer Amine Bouhafa, with the soundtrack sold as separate DLC on Steam.dont-nod.comRead 4 more facts
Pixel Gun 3D20133 factsCubic Games StudioGame page →For years the game was officially credited to 'Alex Krasnov' — essentially a publishing-account name; behind it was a small Moscow team that grew into Cubic Games (earlier known as RiliSoft).en.wikipedia.orgBy October 2023 Cubic Games reported 185 million downloads and $200 million in profit — from a blocky mobile shooter that launched in May 2013.en.wikipedia.orgA separate 'Pixel Gun 3D: PC Edition' finally arrived on Steam in April 2024 — eleven years after the mobile original.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator20106 factsVirtuos · Ubisoft EntertainmentGame page →It is the only Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game released exclusively for the PlayStation Portable, and the only main-series entry developed by Virtuos rather than Ubisoft's Red Storm/Paris studios.en.wikipedia.orgSet in the jungles of Sri Lanka, its narrative draws on the real-world 1987-1989 JVP insurrection.en.wikipedia.orgPlayers command a three-soldier Ghost squad chosen from eight characters across five classes (scout, support gunner, marksman, shotgunner, medic) and can switch between squadmates on the fly.en.wikipedia.orgIts campaign frames a 72-hour mission preparing for a U.S. invasion, during which the Ghosts uncover falsified intelligence about their target.metacritic.comIt was critically panned, holding a Metacritic score of 54/100; reviewers cited weak AI, awkward controls and a brief campaign.metacritic.comIt includes online and ad-hoc co-op multiplayer for up to three players.co-optimus.comRead 4 more facts
Atari Flashback Classics Vol. 220164 factsCode Mystics · Atari, Inc.Game page →Volume 2 includes Adventure (1980), the Atari 2600 classic containing gaming's most famous early Easter egg — programmer Warren Robinett's hidden name room, the discovery that popularized the very term "Easter egg" in games.en.wikipedia.orgThe lineup mixes household names (Asteroids, Missile Command, Breakout) with arcade vector-graphics rarities like Major Havoc, Gravitar and Red Baron, all emulated from the original arcade versions.atari.comIncluded title Secret Quest (1989) was one of the very last official Atari 2600 games and was marketed with Nolan Bushnell's name on the box, though it was actually programmed by Steve DeFrisco at Axlon.en.wikipedia.orgLike Volume 1, all 50 games run on developer Code Mystics' in-house FOCAL emulation technology, with online multiplayer and global leaderboards added to games first released in the 1970s and 80s.codemystics.comRead 2 more facts
Beyond Galaxyland20246 factsSam Enright · United LabelGame page →It is the work of one person — Chicago-based developer and music producer Sam Enright wrote, designed, built and scored the entire game.cigames.comThe concept dates back roughly a decade before release, around 2014; serious story-driven development began about five years out, and the first public trailer only appeared in early 2024.godisageek.comThe summon system deliberately copies the logic of Materia from the original Final Fantasy VII — Enright's own stated reference point.gamingbolt.comThere is no voice acting anywhere in the game, in any language — all twelve supported languages are text and interface only.steamcommunity.comPublisher United Label is CI Games' dedicated indie label, which also released Röki and Tails of Iron.cigames.comCritics split unusually wide for a game this small — GameGrin gave it 9.5/10 and God is a Geek 9/10, while Sports Illustrated's GLHF gave it 60, landing it at Metacritic 78 on PC and 81 on PS5.metacritic.comRead 4 more facts
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales20265 factsSquare Enix, Claytechworks · Square EnixGame page →The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is a Square Enix HD-2D action RPG co-developed with Claytechworks by Team Asano (the Octopath Traveler / Live A Live team) under Creative Studio 5.en.wikipedia.orgAdventurer Elliot and his fairy companion Faie travel through the Doorway of Time across four eras spanning a thousand years to lift a curse on Princess Heuria and save the kingdom.square-enix.comCombat is real-time using seven weapon types with dual-wielding, plus a "magicite" weapon-customization system.store.steampowered.comIt supports two-player local co-op, where player 2 controls Faie to assist in battle, retrieve items and help with puzzles.en.wikipedia.orgIt was revealed on July 31, 2025 during a Nintendo Direct (with a free ~90-minute demo the same day) and released June 18, 2026 to generally favorable reviews.en.wikipedia.orgRead 3 more facts
The Witcher: Monster Slayer20215 factsSpokkoGame page →It's a prequel set hundreds of years before Geralt: you play one of the earliest witchers, when monsters roamed thick and the profession was young.pcgamesn.comReal-world time and weather drove the hunts — scarier and rarer monsters appeared at night and in rain, pulled from live local weather data.cdprojekt.comPlayers had slain over 100 million in-game monsters by the time the shutdown was announced.en.wikipedia.orgSpokko's Android Performance Tuner work expanded supported devices from 520 to 9,280 in two weeks by dropping the strict ARCore requirement — worth ~10% more downloads.developer.android.comThe shutdown killed the studio, not just the game: Spokko was merged into CD PROJEKT RED, with some staff moved to core projects and others laid off.gamedeveloper.comRead 3 more facts
Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator202312 factsJokuPelle · JoySpark GamesGame page →The Steam Workshop dwarfs the game itself: over 41,000 community items, including 10,146 alternate-history scenarios, 7,983 historical ones, 2,706 fantasy maps and 2,661 flag packs. Alternate history is the single largest category.steamcommunity.comMore people have watched it than played it: the game's all-time Twitch peak of 3,635 viewers is more than double its all-time Steam peak of 1,639 concurrent players.steamdb.infoMobile dwarfs PC. The free mobile version has passed 1 million Google Play downloads, against a third-party estimate of 200,000-500,000 Steam owners.play.google.comAll of the game's sound effects were made in BeepBox, a free browser-based chiptune tool — including the trumpet sting that plays when a nation declares war.jokupelle.itch.ioA key performance breakthrough came from storing the simulation's data in a texture rather than in mesh vertices — which is why thousands of provinces can update at once on modest hardware.jokupelle.itch.ioIt started life as a free itch.io release on 21 August 2022, six months before the Steam launch. That original free build still exists but was frozen in October 2022.jokupelle.itch.ioThere is no fixed roster of nations and no ending. Nation count is a parameter the player sets on procedurally randomised maps, and a simulation can be left running for thousands of in-game years with a full history log of long-extinct states. Steam's own page opens by insisting 'This is not a Strategy Game'.store.steampowered.comOne person, 60+ updates: the game has stayed in Early Access for more than three years and been localised into 16 languages one at a time — Turkish in v2.2.4, Polish in v2.4.3, Chinese in v3.3.3, Ukrainian in v3.4.2, Japanese in v4.0.6, Korean in v4.3.6.jokupelle.itch.ioVersion 4.0.0 added a built-in 36×24-pixel flag editor, later extended with shareable Workshop 'Flag Packs' and randomly generated flags.store.steampowered.comThe itch.io page carries an explicit 'No generative AI was used' declaration.jokupelle.itch.ioIt was built alongside a full-time job and university studies — the developer described himself at the time as 'a solo dev with a full time job and uni to manage'.itch.ioFor a one-person project it ships an unusually complete platform feature set: 11 Steam achievements, Steam Deck support, Steam Cloud, full Workshop integration and a built-in level editor.store.steampowered.comRead 10 more facts
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4202615 factsInfinity Ward · ActivisionGame page →It is the first mainline Call of Duty campaign set in Korea — a North Korean full-scale invasion of South Korea, told partly from the POV of a young South Korean squad; Infinity Ward consulted North Korean defectors and regional specialists.news.xbox.comCaptain John Price returns as a playable protagonist — a vengeful Price on the run after assassinating General Herschel Shepherd.en.wikipedia.org"Kill Block" is billed as Call of Duty's first dynamic multiplayer map: its center reconfigures in real time mid-match with 500+ combinations and can pull in pieces of classic Modern Warfare maps.gamespot.comThe DMZ extraction mode returns (from the Warzone/MWII era) with 20 squads of up to 3 players.en.wikipedia.orgIt is the first Modern Warfare on a Nintendo platform in over a decade, with a native Nintendo Switch 2 build co-developed by Digital Legends.nintendo.comIt runs on the IW 9.0 engine (used since MWII 2022), which Activision touts as a new technical benchmark with DLSS 4.5 and expanded real-time ray tracing.en.wikipedia.orgIt was revealed on May 28, 2026, and releases October 23, 2026, with campaign early access on October 16 for digital pre-orders.callofduty.comThe invasion begins in the South Korean city of Hajin, and the campaign's player character is Private Park Hyun Jun.callofduty.comIts reveal trailer drew about 22 million views within a day, and a Korean Studies academic called the setting potentially "controversial".bbc.co.ukIt is the first mainline Call of Duty to skip PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.bbc.co.ukIt is the first Call of Duty on Nintendo hardware since Call of Duty: Ghosts in 2013; the native Switch 2 version, built with Digital Legends, supports Joy-Con 2 mouse controls, gyro aiming, cross-play and cross-progression.digitalfoundry.netInfinity Ward removed the weapon "bloom" accuracy system, so shots land where the gun is pointing.digitalfoundry.netIts beta was the first in Call of Duty history to include a complete campaign mission, "Entrenched".callofduty.comMads Mikkelsen was revealed as one of the campaign's antagonists during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show broadcast on September 17, 2026.ign.comYoung Mazino plays Private Park, while Barry Sloane returns as Captain Price and María Elisa Camargo as Valeria.gamespot.comRead 13 more facts
Metro 2039202710 facts4A Games · Deep SilverGame page →Metro 2039 was announced on 13 April 2026 and given a dedicated Xbox First Look world-premiere broadcast on 16 April 2026 — not a Game Awards reveal.en.wikipedia.orgIt is the fourth mainline Metro game and the first not to star the silent Artyom; the new lead, "the Stranger," is the series' first fully voiced protagonist.windowscentral.comSet four years after Metro Exodus, the Metro's factions have been forcibly unified under a fascist regime called the Novoreich, ruled by former Spartan Ranger Hunter, who has declared himself Führer.en.wikipedia.orgWithin two weeks of its reveal the game passed one million wishlists across Steam and other storefronts.en.wikipedia.org4A Games develops the title across its Kyiv and Malta offices; most of the team kept working from Kyiv through the war, dealing with power outages, generator dependence and disruption from missile and drone attacks.engadget.comAuthor Dmitry Glukhovsky, who co-wrote the narrative, has lived in exile from Russia since denouncing the invasion of Ukraine; Russia designated him a foreign agent in October 2022 and a Moscow court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison in August 2023 for "discrediting the Russian army."meduza.ioThe game runs on 4A Games' proprietary 4A Engine, extending the real-time ray-traced global illumination first shipped in Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition in 2021.en.wikipedia.orgLevel design is built around what creative director Andriy Shevchenko calls "frozen stories" — environments staged with objects and bodies that tell micro-narratives — returning to denser tunnel spaces after Exodus's open areas.en.wikipedia.orgGlukhovsky has said Metro 2039 is "darker than anything you've seen before" in the series, and co-creative director and lead audio designer Pawel Ulmer called it "the darkest chapter in the Metro saga yet."gamespot.comThe game is set to be publicly playable for the first time at Gamescom 2026 (26-30 August), ahead of its February 2027 launch on PlayStation 5, PC and Xbox Series X|S.deepsilver.comRead 8 more facts
Reynatis20247 factsFuRyuGame page →The game is built on a Final Fantasy Versus XIII pedigree without being connected to it: writer Kazushige Nojima and composer Yoko Shimomura both worked on that cancelled project, and director Takumi Isobe has cited its trailers as an influence.en.wikipedia.orgIt contains a full crossover subquest with NEO: The World Ends with You, featuring Rindo and Shoka — included in the base game rather than sold as DLC. Isobe pursued it because he was a fan and considered TWEWY "the most famous work that involves Shibuya."gematsu.comReal Shibuya businesses and landmarks appear in-game under their actual names, including Bic Camera and TSUTAYA.ja.wikipedia.orgThere is no English dub — Japanese is the only language with full voice audio, and the publisher confirmed no plans to add one.siliconera.comReception was poor and consistent about it — Metacritic 64 on PC, 61 on Switch and 58 on PS5, with roughly 21% recommending on OpenCritic. TheGamer went to 1 out of 5, calling it "one of the most miserable experiences I have had with a game in decades."thegamer.comAlmost every review that panned the game still singled out Yoko Shimomura's score as its strongest element.thegamer.comShimomura is credited with composition only — the arrangements are by Kayoko Naoe and Yuki Ohata, a split she notes on her own official site.yokoshimomura.comRead 5 more facts
Silent Hill: Ascension20237 factsGenvid · KonamiGame page →Silent Hill: Ascension was a CGI interactive streaming series in which viewers voted on the story in real time after each episode, producing a single shared canon.en.wikipedia.orgIt premiered on October 31, 2023, broadcast daily at 9 PM ET, and its final episode aired on April 24, 2024.en.wikipedia.orgViewers played mini-games and puzzles, including a rhythm game set to music from earlier Silent Hill titles, to earn Influence Points for voting.en.wikipedia.orgThe story follows the Johansen family in Stilledalen, Norway, and the Hernandez family in Hope's Junction, Pennsylvania.silenthillmemories.netThe series was split into 21 chapters of roughly 24–51 minutes each.genvid.comIt won a juried Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media Programming at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys.televisionacademy.comIt was produced by Genvid with Bad Robot Games and Behaviour Interactive in partnership with Konami.en.wikipedia.orgRead 5 more facts
Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat20215 factsNebulaJoyGame page →The license predates the game's release by years: Chinese studio Yunchang acquired the DMC mobile rights from Capcom on December 26, 2017 — the game finally launched globally in January 2024, a six-year runway.pocketgamer.comIts global pre-registration campaign hit a deliberately demonic milestone: 666,666 sign-ups.gameworldobserver.comThe 'Bury the Light' team reunited for the global-launch theme: composer Casey Edwards and vocalist Victor Borba (of DMC5 fame) made the new song 'Fire Inside', released a week before launch.finalweapon.netThe English dub uses a brand-new cast — Jacob Browning voices Dante instead of mainline actor Reuben Langdon.imdb.comIn a rare reversal, the game was shut down in its HOME market — China servers closed December 30, 2024 — while the international version it spawned lives on.gamingonphone.comRead 3 more facts
Horizon Chase20155 factsAquiris Game StudioGame page →A nostalgic tribute to 1980s-90s arcade racers, its 3D low-poly, brightly-colored aesthetic is directly inspired by 16-bit classics like Top Gear (SNES) and Out Run.en.wikipedia.orgThe soundtrack was written by Barry Leitch, composer of the SNES Top Gear (1992) — a game whose music was hugely popular with Brazilian fans, which is why Aquiris sought him out.pixelatedaudio.comA cover of Top Gear's beloved 'Las Vegas' track is hidden in the game as an Easter egg, and fan remixes from a community contest were folded into the official soundtrack.en.wikipedia.orgMade by Brazilian studio Aquiris Game Studio, the mobile game was later remade and expanded for PC/console as Horizon Chase Turbo (2018).en.wikipedia.orgThe Horizon Chase series surpassed 50 million downloads by its 5th anniversary in 2020.pocketgamer.comRead 3 more facts
Star Wars Zero Company20265 factsBit Reactor · Electronic ArtsGame page →Star Wars: Zero Company was revealed in April 2025 at Star Wars Celebration Japan, and is a single-player turn-based tactics game set in the twilight of the Clone Wars era.en.wikipedia.orgDeveloper Bit Reactor was founded in 2022 by Greg Foertsch and former Firaxis (XCOM/Civilization) staff, and the game is co-developed with Respawn Entertainment.en.wikipedia.orgYou lead a customizable mercenary squad — "Zero Company" — of professionals-for-hire from across the galaxy, from scoundrels to astromechs to a Jedi.ea.comSquad members can suffer permadeath, and characters who fight together build bonds that grant tactical synergy bonuses — previewers compared it to Mass Effect crossed with XCOM.pcgamer.comThe GRAMMY-winning Star Wars composer Gordy Haab scored the game, with the original soundtrack releasing via Walt Disney Records on the August 27, 2026 launch day.news.ea.comRead 3 more facts
Silent Hill: Townfall202614 factsScreen Burn · Konami, Annapurna InteractiveGame page →Townfall was first teased at Konami's Silent Hill Transmission on October 19, 2022, with No Code developing and Annapurna Interactive co-producing.vgchartz.comThe Glasgow studio No Code — founded in 2015 by Jon McKellan and Omar Khan and known for Stories Untold and Observation — rebranded as Screen Burn Interactive in July 2025.en.wikipedia.orgAnnapurna Interactive recommended the studio to Konami on the strength of Stories Untold and Observation.en.wikipedia.orgIt is the first full-length Silent Hill game played entirely in first person.konami.comThe fictional Scottish island town of St. Amelia is based on the real Fife village of St Monans.en.wikipedia.orgThe story is set in 1996, chosen as the moment "on the cusp of when technology started to explode in the home."en.wikipedia.orgThe CRTV pocket television evolved from the series' classic radio; McKellan wanted to make it an active tool rather than a passive one, and said it couldn't work from any perspective other than first person.blog.playstation.comThe game has five endings, two of which — the joke "Dog" and "Sci Fi" endings — unlock only in New Game+.en.wikipedia.orgFamitsu calls it the first main-series entry with multiple playable protagonists; Zoe, for example, uses a pager instead of the CRTV.famitsu.comA tie-in comic, Silent Hill: Townfall – The Dock House, was released in the UK on September 16, 2026.en.wikipedia.orgDirector Jon McKellan was UI director on Alien: Isolation and designed its famous motion tracker.gamedeveloper.comLongtime series composer Akira Yamaoka is not involved; the score is by synthwave artist Pilotpriest (Anthony Scott Burns).relyonhorror.comSound designer Byron Bullock, who implemented the dynamic score, previously worked on Alien: Isolation.screenburn.comLost star Terry O'Quinn voices Richard Shaw, alongside Jovan Adepo as protagonist Simon Ordell and Kezia Burrows as Zoe.konami.comRead 12 more facts
Silent Hill: The Arcade20078 factsKonamiGame page →Silent Hill: The Arcade was first revealed at the 2007 AOU arcade show in Japan.en.wikipedia.orgIt is a light-gun rail shooter in the style of The House of the Dead, and shooting off-screen reloads the gun.en.wikipedia.orgA second player can join at any time as the other protagonist.en.wikipedia.orgThe story follows Eric and Tina, who investigate the steamboat Little Baroness that vanished on Toluca Lake 75 years earlier.en.wikipedia.orgIts joke ending sends Eric and Tina inside a Gradius game being played by Robbie the Rabbit.en.wikipedia.orgProgress could be saved with a Konami e-Amusement pass.en.wikipedia.orgIt was the series' first shooting-type game.ja.wikipedia.orgMasahiro Ito, creator of Pyramid Head, drew the game's Pyramid Head illustration.silenthillmemories.netRead 6 more facts
How to Fish20267 factsDazed GamesGame page →How to Fish sold more than one million copies in its first two days on sale — five times the roughly 200,000 copies Dazed Games had set as its goal.swedengamearena.comDazed Games was founded in 2024 by Carl-Vilhelm Johansson and Melvin Olsson, who met as students at LBS Kreativa Gymnasiet in Gothenburg; a school visit from the University of Skövde first pushed them toward game development.swedengamearena.comDevelopment on How to Fish began in August 2025, roughly a year before its August 2026 Steam launch.swedengamearena.comFellow Swedish studio Landfall made a project investment in How to Fish, and the team was also supported through the Science Park Skövde startup program.swedengamearena.comIt is Dazed Games' second game, following the studio's first prototype-turned-release Out of Hand: Deluxe.swedengamearena.comThe game had about one million wishlists on Steam around launch, and Xbox and PlayStation versions are planned.swedengamearena.comThree days after launch it peaked at 268,101 concurrent Steam players, making it the fourth most-played game on Steam at the time.invenglobal.comRead 5 more facts
Star Wars: Galactic Racer202626 factsFuse Games · Secret ModeGame page →Star Wars: Galactic Racer was revealed in December 2025 with a trailer at The Game Awards, for a October 6, 2026 release on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.en.wikipedia.orgIt is developed by Fuse Games, a Guildford (UK) studio founded in 2023 largely by veterans of EA's Criterion (Need for Speed, Burnout) who also built the vehicle-combat modes for Star Wars Battlefront (2015) and Battlefront II (2017).thegamebusiness.comIt reinvents podracing as a roguelite: a "Galactic Tour" of three randomized acts where you need a League Entry Token to race — crashing too often or finishing outside the top 3 revokes the Token and ends the run.news.xbox.comIt is set in the post-Empire New Republic era: the "Galactic League" is an underground, unsanctioned racing circuit in the lawless Outer Rim, and you play Shade, a loner seeking revenge against champion Kestar Bool.en.wikipedia.orgPreviewers described it as "a glorious mix of Burnout, WipEout and MotorStorm," with the ex-Burnout devs citing Slay the Spire-style route maps and Hades-style hub downtime to add real consequence to each race.traxion.ggIt is built in Unreal Engine 5, published by Secret Mode with Lucasfilm Games, with PLAION handling global physical distribution — including a $160 physical collector's edition.gamespress.comIt is the first Star Wars racing game since Star Wars Racer Revenge in 2002.traxion.ggCreative Director Kieran Crimmins grew up playing Star Wars Episode I: Racer on the N64 and says he had wanted to make this game for at least 20 years.insider-gaming.comCrimmins believes the aggression of the podrace in The Phantom Menace probably influenced the early Burnout games, calling the pairing of Burnout veterans and Star Wars racing "a marriage made in heaven".pcgamesn.comFuse Games CEO Matt Webster first joined Criterion as executive producer on Burnout 3: Takedown.traxion.ggBefore Fuse, Matt Webster spent 32 years at EA, where he created the first design for EA Soccer and helped build the first FIFA game in Vancouver.starwarsgalacticracer.comFuse Games was announced on 16 March 2023 with just 17 staff, after five Criterion leads left EA in December 2022 following Need for Speed Unbound.nme.comWebster says the story was inspired by World War II pilots who returned home with a "restless energy".game.intel.comThe skim speeder vehicle class makes its Star Wars debut in this game; Fuse designed it with Lucasfilm Games from the very first sketch.starwarsgalacticracer.comThe repulsorcraft have no traction model because they grip through technology rather than the ground, which let the designers use more terrain types and higher speeds.starwarsgalacticracer.comDesign Director Mark Bridges performed the motion capture for the game's villain, Kestar Bool.starwarsgalacticracer.comThe Liverpool (Scouse) accent of Hibi, the Ardennian mechanic, was voice actor Lucy Montgomery's own suggestion.starwarsgalacticracer.comSebulba is a playable podracer, and his racer can spit fire at rivals.blog.playstation.comBen Quadinaros, the Toong podracer from The Phantom Menace, appears in the game; Webster admitted he didn't know who the character was until about two summers before.gamereactor.euThe player character Shade never shows their face behind the suit and helmet; apart from colours, the only character choice is a male or female voice.pcgames.deDerven Acos is an arena built for the Galactic League that combines the conditions of every planet; it hosts the showpiece events and the finale of multiplayer runs.starwarsgalacticracer.comThe October 6 release date leaked early when the Steam page was briefly updated in late April 2026, before the official pre-order announcement on 30 April.wccftech.comThe game went gold on 19 August 2026.starwarsgalacticracer.comThe Collector's Edition includes a metal model of the Darc X landspeeder and Kestar's Bool family banner.starwarsgalacticracer.comGordy Haab's score was recorded at the Synchron Stage in Vienna, and the main theme "The Soul of Racing" was released as a single on 18 September 2026.starwarsgalacticracer.comAt launch it reached a Metacritic score of 88 on PS5 from 66 critic reviews.metacritic.comRead 24 more facts
Silent Hill: The Escape20076 factsKonamiGame page →The original Japanese phone version used "gesture technology", reading the player's movements through the phone's built-in camera.silenthillmemories.netAcross ten levels the goal is simply to find a key and escape through a locked door while fighting nurses and Pyramid Head-like monsters.en.wikipedia.orgOn iPhone you reload by tilting the device to line bullets up with the chamber; misalign them and only three of six rounds load.en.wikipedia.orgBeating the game unlocks an Alien and Mira the Shiba Inu as playable characters — nods to the series' joke endings.en.wikipedia.orgRadio static warns of nearby enemies, and the flashlight batteries drain over time.en.wikipedia.orgOn Japanese i-mode it was sold as a 315-yen monthly subscription.silenthillmemories.netRead 4 more facts
Company of Heroes Online20104 factsRelic Entertainment · THQGame page →Company of Heroes Online was a free-to-play, microtransaction-funded MMO reworking of Relic Entertainment's 2006 RTS Company of Heroes, published by THQ.gamedeveloper.comIt first launched as free-to-play in South Korea in April 2010 (with publisher WindySoft) and had a separate Chinese version via Shanda; a global/NA open beta began on 2 September 2010.companyofheroes.fandom.comTHQ cancelled the game and shut its servers on 31 March 2011, citing a reevaluation of adapting Western content into free-to-play online games for Asian markets; Relic's effort shifted toward what became Company of Heroes 2.bit-tech.netPlayers managed up to four persistent commanders per account that gained levels and abilities — for example a Blitzkrieg commander could call in extra tank support — layered onto the original game's maps.companyofheroes.fandom.comRead 2 more facts
Harry Potter for Kinect20123 factsEurocom · Warner Bros. InteractiveGame page →You could literally put yourself in Hogwarts — the game used the Kinect camera to scan your face onto your own student avatar.en.wikipedia.orgIt was one of veteran UK studio Eurocom's final games: weeks after release, the studio laid off ~75% of its ~200 staff (23 November 2012) and shut down completely on 6 December 2012.gamespot.comNone of the film cast returned — Harry is voiced by Adam Sopp, with soundalikes for Ron, Dumbledore and the rest of Hogwarts.behindthevoiceactors.comRead 1 more fact
