Bushiroad Games announces visual novels from Frontwing, Cherrymochi, and HEADLOCK for Switch, PC

Popular upcoming mobile game Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live has announced both the launch of the game's Global version and its shutdown date at the same time. The newest game from the massively popular idol anime franchise comes on the heels of its predecessor, Love Live! School Idol Festival, ending its service early last year. The original mobile rhythm game boasted more than 40 million players at its peak in 2018, split between the Global and Japanese versions. Now, the game has announced the launch of the Global version, while also confirming its end-of-service.

Baldur's Gate 3 has taken home Game of the Year at this year's New York Video Game Critics Circle 2024 New York Game Awards, as well as an award for Best Writing.

Publisher WhisperGames has announced The Nameless: Slay Dragon, a turn-based RPG that has been in development by one-man Nameless Sword Studio over the past three years. It will launch for PC via Steam in Q2 2024, followed by Switch at a later date.

In yet another blow to workers in the video game industry, Riot Games has announced that it will lay off 530 staff members, or roughly 11% of its employees. The decision follows the unfortunate trend of studio shutdowns, game cancelations, and AAA game studio layoffs that dominated the industry in 2023.

Award-winning indie game Sea of Stars is set to expand its reach with a physical release in spring 2024. The surprise announcement of its boxed edition arrived some five months after Sea of Stars debuted to critical acclaim.

As we all know, I like vampire stories, and I like different takes on vampire stories. Yesterday Edwin dangled an upcoming visual novel called Vampire Therapist in front of my nose. I am intrigued, also because I appreciate a Ronseal approach to titles. In Vampire Therapist, out on Steam this June 17th, you play Sam, a vampire who becomes a therapist to other vampires. So the title works twice!

I think I’m both terrified and in complete awe of the power of Satoru Gojo fans.

Microsoft has announced new titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in late January to early February, which includes Palworld, Persona 3 Reload, F1 23, and more.

RuneScape has unveiled the latest round of visual upgrades, this time for the Kingdom of Kandarin. The team has some new comparison screenshots and a new dev video taking us through all of the overhauls.

Bushiroad Games has announced a Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club visual novel for Switch. A release date was not announced.

CyberStep visual novel game brand Rabbitfoot has announced a visual novel game starring the Virtual YouTuber music group Meropaka for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC, iOS, and Android. It will launch this summer with language support for English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and more to be announced.

GameShark, the classic cheat device, is making an AI-powered comeback - and publisher Altec Lansing may have just leaked the Nintendo Switch 2 release date as part of the news.