Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute launches April 25, 2024 for PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC

Open-world survival crafting game Palworld will launch in Early Access for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on January 19 at 12:00 a.m. PT / 3:00 a.m. ET / 17:00 JST, developer Pocket Pair announced. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass. It will support English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Korean language options.

Controller design has been key to a corresponding console's success - and how fondly we remember it in the years that follow - for decades. Many of us reminisce about our favorites, some of which have been tweaked and replaced multiple times over. This current generation has been pretty great for bringing some of those controllers from the past into the present though, whether officially or through a third party, and now Hyperkin has announced plans to remake Xbox's Controller S for modern consoles.

France's antitrust regulator, Autorité de la Concurrence, has handed Japanese tech giant Sony a fine of 13.5 million Euros ($14.8 million) after finding it used its dominant position to corner the market, specifically in the realm of third-party PS4 controller manufacture.

7QUARK-developed Edo Japan-set action RPG Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam in October, global publisher Game Source Entertainment announced.

Softstar Entertainment-developed horror game The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch alongside its previously announced PC (Steam) release in 2024, Japan and Asia publisher Game Source Entertainment announced.

Every year, we turn to a panel of trusted analysts to ask them what they see coming down the road, and ask them to assess their predictions from the previous year.

I talked about Pachio-Kun some time ago for my Famicom Friday column because I thought the idea of an anthropomorphic pachinko mascot was amusing. Back then, I noted the staggering number of games in the series: at least 12.

Xbox Game Pass is going to add plenty of new games to its library in 2024, expanding the variety of choices available to anyone who subscribes to the service. Although it's impossible to say what the full scope of changes to the library will be in the coming year, a number of planned titles have already been revealed. Among these options, a select number stand out as the most exciting additions to the service.

Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force have announced Fate/Samurai Remnant downloadable content “Record’s Fragment: Keian Command Championship.” It will launch in February 2024. Two additional downloadable content episodes will follow in 2024.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director, Naoki Hamaguchi, says that one of his biggest aspirations for 2024 is for fans of the series to get to see "Aerith's fate unfold".

Cagliostro will be a playable character in action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and Seofon and Tweyen will join the roster as playable characters via a free update in April 2024, publisher Cygames and developer Cygames Osaka announced.

Someone once told me that the Sega Saturn controller (the Japanese one, not the American original) is the best 2D controller ever made. I don’t remember who it was, but it happened. The claim stuck with me.