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Japanese PS5 Sales Continue to Improve Following Launch of Cheaper Model
Image: Push Square The Japanese games market is pretty much cornered by Nintendo and has been for a while, but Sony’s still plugging away with PS5, and it’s slowly getting better for the console. Late last year, a new, Japan-exclusive PS5 model launched with a reduced retail price and support for the Japanese language only. […]
Battlefield 6’s first season arrives just 18 days after launch and over two weeks before Black Ops 7
As a multiplayer game releasing in the year 2025 – and one that’s very much modelled after Call of Duty – there was very little chance Battlefield 6 wasn’t going to adopt the now-standard live service content pipeline. But sometimes it’s good to get things in writing, which is what EA just did. We’re about […]
Spry Fox bosses slashed their salaries to buy out the studio and launch cozy MMO Spirit Crossing later this year
Indie games studio Spry Fox has had a wild couple of years: After being bought up by Netflix back in 2022, it was bought back by its founders ahead of the 2025 holiday season, in a story that seems to be a lot more common these days as megacorps forget why they even wanted to […]
Bully Online Mod Suddenly Shutting Down Just Months After Launch
Bully Online, a mod that added online multiplayer to Rockstar’s classic open-world game, is shutting down less than a month after launch. The creators haven’t explained why yet, but fans are already blaming Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, for the sudden demise of the project. Developed by Fat Pigeon, a collection of […]
Civilization 7 to Launch on Apple Devices (Gaming News Roundup)
The Apple Arcade version of 2K Games’ “Sid Meier’s Civilization 7” is set to launch next month. The Firaxis Games-developed turn-based strategy game, which debuted to mixed reviews last February, will be available to play on iPhone, iPad and Mac as of Feb. 5 Per Apple’s description for the latest addition to the popular “Civilization” […]
Bully Online Gets Shutdown A Month After Launch
If you were interested in the recently released Bully Online mod, hopefully you were able to check it out because it’s been shutdown. In a Discord post, it was announced that the Bully Online project was ending development and being taken offline “forever”. That means the server is offline, the source code has been taken […]
Riot Games Congratulates Hytale Launch Six Months After Canceling It
In June 2025, Riot Games canceled Hytale and closed down Hypixel Studios, marking the end of the dreams of Minecraft fans worldwide. Hytale, the chief Hypixel project, had been in development for ten years, but it was cited as being ‘overly ambitious’ and failed to hit quality expectations, and was wiped from the slate by […]
PAX Autocratica’s early access launch has been delayed by a month
Mutliverse has announced that it is delaying the launch of its colony builder and FPS roguelite hybrid PAX Autocratica by a month to address performance, stability, and balancing issues that have been raised. Initially, PAX Autocratica was going to launch on February 2nd into early access, but now it will launch on March 4th instead. […]
Cross Reverie Set To Launch In 2026
Montreal’s Sinxsoft plans to launch Cross Reverie this year. Originally revealed as part of a cancelled Kickstarter in 2015, Cross Reverie returns this year with a newly launched Steam page and the intention to launch in 2026. Cross Reverie iset on the island of Talesford, a home to mystical ancients and divine beings, The Dreamr. […]
Roommates, Romance, and Ringing Hearts: An FMV Simulation Game by TV Asahi & Aiming to Launch on March 4
Aiming Inc. Sets a New Date for a Live-Action Romance Hit Video game production studio Aiming Inc., in collaboration with TV Asahi and other partners, has locked in a March 4, 2026 release date for Roommates, Romance, and Ringing Hearts. The title lands in Japan on JST and lands as a joint effort with Roommates, […]