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Azur Promilia is an exciting new title from Manjuu, the developer behind Azur Lane, which is generating a buzz for its new trailer with a unique blend of gameplay inspired by Genshin Impact and Palworld.

Developer SHIFT UP and Sony have released an official Stellar Blade BIBI 'Eve' music video ahead of the game's launch on PS5 next week.

Persona 5: The Phantom X is about to steal your heart – and your free time – with its release on April 18th. Persona 5: The Phantom X, developed by Black Wing Game Studio and distributed by Perfect World Games under ATLUS, is based around the Persona 5 universe, but goes its own way. Both veterans and beginners can explore a distinct Persona 5 chronology and perspective with new characters and a new storyline.

Shift Up, the South Korean studio responsible for the upcoming Stellar Blade, appears to be hiring for a new project in Unreal Engine.

In the vast world of Grand Theft Auto 5's Story Mode, players are often on the lookout for the coolest rides to steal and cruise around Los Santos. While the game offers an array of vehicles, some stand out for their performance, style, and rarity. Here are the top five cars you can find in free roam that are sure to elevate your gaming experience.

Stellar Blade developer Shift Up is already staffing up for its next project. This information has arrived via some newly emerged job listings, which also suggest that Shift Up's new game will share some similarities with Stellar Blade itself.

SHIFT UP, the Seoul-based studio behind Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, is hiring for a new “cross-platform next-gen project,” according to the company’s “New Project” recruitment page.

Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has filed to go public on the Korea Stock Exchange.

Nexon has launched a teaser website in celebration of its 30th anniversary. It will open on March 14.

Crunchyroll announced an upcoming documentary centered on the rise of Solo Leveling from its conception as a webcomic to the major anime phenomenon it has become in recent years. With the highly-anticipated anime series hitting the right notes with fans, Crunchyroll's THE LEVELING OF SOLO LEVELING documentary will explore the journey of the prolific series from conception to the international screenings of the first episodes of the anime.

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg was in Japan on Monday on a mini-Asia tour involving sword-making, mixed-reality headsets in Seoul and reportedly also lavish pre-wedding celebrations for an Indian multi-billionaire's son. Zuckerberg posted footage on Sunday on social media of a "special afternoon learning about making katanas" with a sword master, including of him hammering molten metal and swinging a blade.

Samsung and TSMC have locked horns in the 2nm chip race, with both foundry giants earlier said to be preparing samples for Qualcomm on the next-generation lithography. However, when it comes to securing actual orders, the Korean giant obtains a win in that column by bringing a Japanese startup into the fold. It is said that this research firm decided to skip TSMC for its 2nm technology, and we have a few reasons why it would make this decision.

The Finals devs are continuing their war against the FPS's controversial 'nuke', with yet another patch aimed at countering the strategy.

Even to casual fans of Yoko Taro's esoteric NieR franchise, the similarities to the upcoming and eagerly anticipated Stellar Blade are apparent—both feature flashy, action-based gameplay and buxom, blade-wielding protagonists, for starters. Rather than shy away from these comparisons, director Hyung-Tae Kim of Seoul-based developer Shift Up is refreshingly forthright, proclaiming it a «great honour» to be compared to such a storied developer as Taro himself.

South Korean actioner Badland Hunters has become Netflix's new number one movie after just three days of streaming – and it's being described by critics as Mad Max meets The Last of Us.

Heading into 2024, we knew of a couple of heavy hitter MMOs coming out with their next expansions. From Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail this summer, to World of Warcraft launching two expansions, one for each Classic and Retail, the year was already looking pretty meaty for MMO fans.

The  have been revealed. The episode will air on Netflix. The K-drama revolves around the love story of Jo Yong-pil, a weather forecaster in Jeju Island, and Jo Sam-dal, a fashion photographer from Seoul who returns to her hometown following setbacks in her career and personal life. Despite a prior separation due to a regrettable incident, their deep emotions for each other resurface, reigniting their connection.

The Finals offers rare novelty in the competitive multiplayer genre, encouraging creative strategies impossible in other titles because of its immense environmental destruction, physics-based hazards, and armory of whimsical gadgets. This first-person shooter occurs amid a digital game show where varying counts of three-person teams fight over money caches in an objective-focused format. The Finals is unpredictable in the best way: gameshow events like meteor showers or orbital lasers remap previously memorized paths, map variants like moving platforms or suspended structures can obfuscate objectives, and your team’s best-laid defensive plans are often interrupted as explosives obliterate the buildings around you. 

Happy new year, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.

OpenAI employee debunks prompt engineering as future's key skill; Chinese cybercriminals arrested for creating ransomware with ChatGPT assistance; Seoul boosts crime prevention with AI-powered surveillance expansion; Generative AI breakthrough enhances focused ultrasound for neurological treatment- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

Samsung Electronics Co. has delayed mass production plans at its new chip plant in Taylor, Texas, the Seoul Economic Daily said, potentially dealing another blow to the Biden administration's ambition to increase domestic semiconductor supplies. te

It seems that adventurers are not done exploring The Land of the Morning Light, as Black Desert announced a new region for the area, as well as a new class and more during this weekend's Calpheon Ball.

Netflix’s new Korean horror series Gyeongseong Creature will premiere just in time for Christmas. A trailer released on Thursday reveals the show’s creepy-World War II setting and even gives us a glimpse at the monster at its center.

Contestants! Strap in and get ready to experience the mad destruction of The Finals, launching on PlayStation 5 today.

There's just something special about the dystopic bloodsport in recently released first-person shooter that feels different from other FPS titles. It's not totally clear whether it's because of the club-bumping EDM soundtrack or Vegas-inspired fluorescent UI teasing people to get more cosmetics, but the game is certainly not boring. Developed by Embark Studios, was announced and released at The Game Awards 2023 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on December 7, 2023.

was the most wishlisted game on Steam, with over 267,000 awaiting the title's release. The game is the latest in a line of online PvP shooters, a high-octane team-arena FPS emphasizing fluid movement and character modification. With heavy, medium, and light classes and a multitude of weapons and gadgets, one can use to customize their perfect build.

It’s official. THE FINALS is out now.  The announcement was made during The Game Awards 2023 earlier tonight in what is arguably the best tactic for developers to capitalize on hype: the ole’ “ and it’s available now! ” approach. We had another opportunity to go hands-on with THE FINALS just last week, and here are some of our key takeaways from Embark Studio's first debut title.

You may not like playing mobile games, but millions upon millions do. Estimates indicate approximately three billion people enjoy some kind of interactive experience on their smartphone, which is almost half the entire planet’s population. That’s a staggering statistic, and it’s not hard to understand why Sony would want to penetrate the market.

Is there any better activity for the long, cold winter months than marathoning a K-drama? No, there is not. In the last few years, Netflix has become one of the go-to platforms for South Korean dramas, investing in the country’s television industry at the production level. This winter, Netflix has a diverse offering of beloved returning and exciting new K-dramas to show for it, offering a horror-tinged end to the 2023 TV season and plenty of romance to start out 2024. Here are the six upcoming Korean dramas you should be watching this winter on Netflix.

Do Kwon, former crypto darling and now fugitive, was arrested in Montenegro this March while attempting to flee to Dubai. The High Court in Podgorica, the Montenegrin capital, has now given approval for Do Kwon's extradition, though whether he'll be off to South Korea or the US, both of which have open arrest warrants for him, remains to be decided.

NCSoft has shared a new trailer for their second upcoming project, Project M.

NCSoft unveiled new trailers for its upcoming games Project M and LLL at G-Star 2023 which show off new features.

Dave the Diver is one of PC Gamer's favourite games of 2023, no small feat in a year as crammed with great releases as this one has been. In his review from July, Chris called it «easily the best game of 2023» saying «When I finished the final boss at 35 hours in, I felt like I'd been on a real adventure, and the ending gently, but genuinely, tugged on my heartstrings.» Granted, this was before Baldur's Gate 3 blew everyone away, but still a score of 91 is nothing to sniff at.

Dave the Diver's developer is making a zombie PvPvE game, and it's shared 22 minutes of new gameplay ahead of an alpha playtest.

Back in September, Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket unveiled Nakwon: Last Paradise, a 16-player stealth-survival extraction game set on the streets of Seoul amid an undead apocalypse, and now — with a public pre-alpha playtest looming — it's shared 22 minutes of gameplay.

These days, it seems as though you can’t toss a fireball without hitting a medieval MMORPG. Despite having some clear outliers in the field of space-faring MMORPGs like EVE Online and kickstarted in-development titles like Star Citizen we’ve compiled a list of 6 upcoming games that fall outside of the traditional medieval fantasy themes that so many games are modeled after.

Today, South Korean developer MINTROCKET (a division of NEXON Korea responsible for the critically acclaimed single player adventure RPG DAVE THE DIVER) unveiled NAKWON: LAST PARADISE, a zombie stealth extraction game set in Seoul. The game world features PvPvE elements, so players will have to be mindful of both real players and AI-powered zombies.

This past weekend, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, the most famous pro gamer in the world, captured his fourth League of Legends world championship as his team, T1, defeated rivals Weibo Gaming in front of a home crowd at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul. It was an impressive display but, as always, one of the most exciting parts of the experience happened before the matches even began.

G-Star 2023 is now in full swing at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, running from today through this Sunday, and NCSOFT has a big presence there.

Pearl Abyss has announced it's bringing back its in-person celebration of Black Desert, the Calpheon Ball. This year's event will take place in the developer's home country of Korea and cover both the mainline MMO and its Mobile version.

Capcom’s Devil May Cry character-action franchise is coming to Netflix in a new anime series created by Adi Shankar, the producer of violent video game fare like Castlevania and Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix. At Netflix’s Geeked Week event, fans were given a more substantial look at the anime that was teased back in September.

AI has a crucial role in advancing climate-resilient, low-emissions development; AI cameras deployed in Coimbatore for crime prevention ahead of Diwali; AI is capable of predicting glaucoma progression risk- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

The holidays are on their way, and we can’t wait to ring in the festivities with the FlashOps Holiday Showdown tournament! Registration for North America (NA), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions is now live. With participation rewards and BIG regional prize pools, you don’t want to miss it!

The Exynos 2400 is expected to be found in several Galaxy S24 variants sold in several regions, and while Samsung did not divulge the details of its flagship SoC, a recent claim made by the Korean giant’s executives placed the silicon’s GPU ahead of its competitors. However, earlier benchmarks revealed that it still has some catching up to do, and we will discuss those details shortly.

Destructible money-grabbing multiplayer shooter The Finals is now available to play in open beta. The beta runs until November 5th and includes three maps, a new mode, and sixteen unlockable rewards that will carry over to the full launch.

Back in 2018, former DICE CEO Patrick Soderlund and chief creative officer Rob Runnesson broke away from the Battlefield developer to start their own indie team, Embark Studios.

Starting October 26th, players can jump into the free-to-play team-based shooter, THE FINALS, as Embark Studios is hosting its first cross-platform open beta test for the game.

Embark Studios announced that a cross-platform Open Beta for its upcoming multiplayer team-based first-person shooter game, THE FINALS, is set to begin tomorrow on PC (Steam) and PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X consoles. It will run until November 5.

Embark Studios’ upcoming team-based first-person shooter, The Finals, is getting a crossplay open beta on PC and consoles tomorrow (October 26), which will add an entirely new mode to the game, as well as a new map.

Supercell’s globally popular mobile games Clash of Clansand Clash Royaleare now playable on the Windows PC for the first time via a beta on Google Play Games. 

Starting on October 24, viewers can stream Minions. This animated film serves as a prequel to Despicable Me and sees the Minions going on a search for a new evil master after they accidentally kill all of their previous masters. In the process, they encounter Scarlet Overkill, one of the world’s first supervillains, whom they try to impress in order to become her minions.

After two big crossovers with One Punch Man and Diablo 4 — and a smaller brand deal with Korean eyewear company Gentle Monster — Overwatch 2’s next collaboration will be with K-pop group Le Sserafim. Blizzard’s partnership with Le Sserafim is Overwatch’s first musical artist collaboration, and will include in-game components and an appearance from the group at next month’s BlizzCon.

Fans of the 2017 thriller-romance drama are in for a special treat with the upcoming episode of its spin-off,. The lead couple, and played a memorable role in making the drama iconic, in addition to its captivating storyline.

Stardew Valley will get a live concert in 2024! Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons is an intimate and immersive live concert which will play the best songs from Stardew Valleys beautiful and mesmerising soundtrack! (Please… PlayIn The Deep Woods)

Video game concerts are some of my favourite things in the world. Final Fantasy’s Distant Worlds, the NieR:Orchestra concerts, the Sonic Symphony - whatever particular series is your personal earworm, hearing music you’ve spent dozens or hours of hours listening to performed by a live orchestra can be incredibly moving and transformative. For those who feel that kind of connection with Stardew Valley, the engrossing farming-slash-romance-slash-dungeon-crawling sim is taking its OST on the road next year.

It’s official — you’ll soon be able to experience the music of Stardew Valley in live orchestral form, as a real-life concert tour is set to kick off next year across the globe.

If you just can't get enough Stardew Valley in your life, here's a different way to indulge in its unrelenting life sim coziness: The Stardew Valley «Festival of Seasons» concert series, an international musical tour featuring a selection of music from the game performed by a chamber orchestra.

There are various unique Pokemon types to collect as you play Pokemon Go and the roster only continues to grow. Gogoat is one of the latest Pokemon to make their debut in the mobile game. Below, you’ll find everything you need to know about finding a Gogoat on your Pokemon Go adventures.

Find out when you can start playing the next Assassin's Creed game.

I love K-pop almost as much as I love League of Legends, so when I heard that the 2023 World Championships would be taking place in Seoul this year, my heart skipped a beat. Did this herald the long-awaited return of KDA, League’s fan-favorite K-Pop band? The edge of my seat was well and truly worn away.

The studio behind summer hit Dave The Diver has announced its next game — and it’s very different indeed.

MINTROCKET, the developer behind Dave the Diver, has announced their next title, which might not be what you’d expect. NAKWON: LAST PARADISE, according to the developer, is “an ambitious zombie apocalypse stealth-survival game, set in Seoul, in which players must use their wits to avoid detection, loot items, and escape to survive.” The game is a 16-player PvPvE experience and will be available on PC.

“Japanese users are becoming more pragmatic,” Tom Kang, a Seoul-based analyst for Counterpoint, said in an interview. “There's now more opportunity for alternatives. We've seen a little bit of growth in Sony and a little bit of growth in some other brands, but the growth of Google was most surprising.”

There's been a certain amount of confusion and alarm over the announcement of Nakwon: Last Paradise, a dingy third-person zombie survival adventure with a big emphasis on stealth, from the creators of Dave the Diver, a bright, breezy uramaki roll of a game that mixes restaurant management with side-on undersea exploration. Is this kind of like when Prince of Persia went all edgelord with Two Thrones? Do I need to call Mintrocket's parents and ask for an intervention?

How do you follow up a five-star treat like Dave the Diver? With a zombie-themed, 16-player PvPvE stealth-survival extraction game, of course! Developer Mintrocket has just unveiled its next project, titled Nakwon: Last Paradise, and it's about as much a departure from its acclaimed snorkelling-and-sushi-restaurant-management adventure as you can get, dropping players onto the streets of Seoul, right into the middle of the undead apocalypse.

I'm not sure what I imagined would come next from Mintrocket, the studio that brought us the delightful and surprising fishing and restaurant management sim Dave the Diver—but a 16-player PvPvE zombie stealth extraction survival game wouldn't have been it. 

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Things are not going well in the kingdom of Planis. Once a thriving, bustling place, it’s now teetering on the edge of destruction as a lethal plague devastates its populace and its mad king Magnus watches the destruction unfold. You’re chosen by the goddess Veda to save this world, and alongside the other Knights of Veda you must set things right, battling against the forces of evil in order to restore Planis and set its people free.

Side Bullet is an intriguing online 2D shooter where players don't have to take depth into account but do need to keep an eye out for monsters, other players, and violent death, which can take many forms.

Genshin Impact will be celebrating its introduction of Fontaine with a look back at the music that pulled so many fans into the anime game in the first place, but, unfortunately, tickets have been as difficult to obtain as you’d expect. The Genshin Impact concert tour is set to hit a list of cities around the world, but tickets sold out in mere minutes for the locations that opened up ticket sales.

Of all League of Legends‘ numerous musical maestros, K/DA remain my favorites. As someone who adores Blackpink, BTS, and all of those other K-Pop bands you’ve heard about in passing, my brain literally exploded when Richy ‘RichyDraws’, doni ‘yoomyoom’, and emre ’emriikun’ dropped their stunning K/DA Code Pink League of Legends cosmetic concepts, and I’m genuinely so upset they won’t actually be added to the MOBA.

Cyberpunk 2077 brings the look, the flash, the aesthetic. Those vibrant Night City neons and chunky, robotic upgrades and weapons will always remain the height of cool. Meanwhile, we’ve got Metal Gear Rising, the fast-paced, ultra-stick MGS spin-off that delivers rapid-fire combat and wild combos in constant succession. Put them both together, and maybe add a little Devil May Cry or Bayonetta, and you get Axiom of Maria, an upcoming Steam action-adventure game with heaps of style that’s available to play right this moment.

Samsung head of MX, or Mobile Experience, TM Roh, was at a press conference that was held at the company’s Seocho office in Seoul. The Korean giant’s executive had already officially unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 and was ready to answer some questions, including how long it would take for the company to surpass Apple’s iPhone shipments. TM Roh was likely oozing confidence when he responded that Samsung would catch up to its biggest rival in five years.

July 2023 saw a plethora of new smartphone models hitting the Indian market, making it an exciting month for consumers. From established brands like iQOO, and Realme refocusing on the mid-range segment to Samsung and Motorola unveiling innovative foldable devices, the competition was fierce. Notably, Nothing also made waves with the highly anticipated release of its second phone. Let's delve into the key launches that captured the attention of Indian consumers this July.

There are various unique Pokemon types to collect as you play Pokemon Go and the roster only continues to grow. Niantic has announced that Skiddo will make its way into the game in the coming months. We’ve got all the details you need to know about adding Skiddo to your Pokemon Go collection.

A Genshin Impact event in South Korea had to be evacuated after an anonymous Twitter user posted a picture of a supposed homemade explosive device, implying it had been planted inside Seoul's Olympic Park arena. No one was injured.

If you're tired of the usual slab smartphones and are ready to embrace a high-end foldable, Samsung today showed off its latest Z Flip and Z Fold devices. They were the main attraction at the company's Unpacked event in Korea, though we also got a look at the next-gen Galaxy Watch and Samsung's newest tablets.

Samsung has just launched its latest foldable smartphones - the Galaxy Z Fold5 and the Galaxy Z Flip5 - in its Galaxy Z series at the Samsung Unpacked event in Seoul. The Galaxy Z Flip 5 comes with significant improvements compared to its predecessor, the Galaxy Z Flip 4. Let's compare the specifications and features of both these devices.

At the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event held today in Seoul, Korea, the tech giant unveiled its latest cutting-edge foldable smartphones - the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5. With innovative features and sleek designs, these devices are expected to revolutionise the foldable smartphone industry. The event was attended by tech enthusiasts, industry experts, and media representatives from around the world.