Metal: Hellsinger VR Announced for Meta Quest 2 and 3, Meta Quest Pro, PS VR2, and PC VR

Sand Land is set to release at the end of this month, with a demo dropping in March and excitement for the manga-inspired title reaching new heights. Bandai Namco and developer ILCA have released a new trailer for the game, featuring extremely well-fitting background music.

ILCA and Bandai Namco’s turn-based RPG One Piece Odyssey is headed to the Nintendo Switch. It launched for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in January of last year, and Bandai Namco has now confirmed that it will be releasing for the Nintendo Switch on July 25 in Japan, and a day later, on July 26 in the rest of the world.

In the last few months, Meta Platforms has been adding more and more artificial intelligence (AI) features to its suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, perhaps to keep up in the AI race against its competitors. Its latest foray into AI comes in the form of Meta AI, an AI-powered chatbot that users can not only converse with but also accomplish tasks such as generating AI images.

Season Zero of Fortnite Rocket Racing has come to a close and you can now hit the road during the Neon Rush. The new content drop is set in a neon metropolitan city and creator made tracks are now fully available to race on. To start the update on the right track, there are Neon Rush Kickoff quests to complete and earn Fortnite Rocket Racing cosmetic rewards along the way.

AI roundup: In a race to bring AI to smartphones, Oppo and OnePlus partner with Google to bring the Gemini Ultra platform to smartphones. This move will allow smartphone brands to provide improved integration of AI. In other news, Adobe is currently developing its artificial intelligence text-to-video generator for which it is buying videos to train the model. Know more about such AI news from today. 

In the special WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria event coming in Patch 10.2.7, players will be able to earn earn titles, transmogs, and previously unreleased color variants of older mounts, which can be carried forward into The War Within! The Reins of the Crimson Pandaren Phoenix, Reins of the Crimson Pandaren Phoenix, Reins of the Crimson Pandaren Phoenix, and Reins of the Violet Pandaren Phoenix were originally Silver Medal Challenge Mode rewards, with this previously unreleased white and red color scheme highlighted as a WoW Remix reward! Given these are challenge mode rewards, could we also see the return of the highly coveted Challenge mode sets or at least recolors? Blizzard has emphasized that players will be able to collect new and old cosmetics of highly coveted and hard to get items, so perhaps there will be a new recolor of Tusks of Mannoroth to collected as well!

Meta's latest VR headset, the Meta Quest 3, is receiving an update that adds numerous features, including the long-awaited ability to lie down while playing a game. The v64 update is beginning to roll out now, so players with the virtual reality headset shouldn't have long to wait to use the new function.

Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka ended a 16-month social media blackout on Sunday, by accusing top Dragon Quest producer Yu Miyake of lying as part of Naka’s high-profile insider trading trial.

Nippon Ichi Software has announced Disgaea 7: Koremade no Zenbu Iri Hajimemashita., a bundle edition of Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless that includes all previously released downloadable content and bonus items, as well as an additional bonus story and new gameplay elements that will also be made available for the base game. It will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on July 25 in Japan for 5,980 yen (6,578 yen with tax). A western release has yet to be announced, but it would likely be titled Disgaea 7 Complete, given past Disgaea re-releases.

FarBridge and Gearbox Entertainment have announced a new spin-off title set in the sci-fi setting of Homeworld. The game, titled Homeworld: Vast Reaches, is a new story in the saga, and is a VR game coming to Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets later in 2024. Check out the trailer below.

E3 might be officially dead, but June is still the time where the industry will collectively be shedding light on what the future will bring, with events like the Xbox Games Showcase and Summer Game Fest already having been confirmed for the month. Another name has also now joined that list.

Compile Heart has announced “motorcycle action game” Neptunia VS Titan Dogoo (final English title to be confirmed) for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch, the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals. It will launch on June 28 in Japan for 3,080 yen. 4,180 yen and 10,780 yen editions will also be available.