Saltsea Chronicles launches October 12

Idol Mahjong Final Romance 4 Remaster, a remastered version of the 1998 arcade mahjong game from Video System, will launch for Switch via Nintendo eShop on October 26 in Japan for 2,480 yen, publisher City Connection announced. Pre-orders are available now at a 2,232 yen discount price.

The Switch version of rhythm game Hello Kitty and Friends: Happiness Parade will launch on October 26 for $19.99, publisher Rogue Games and developer Dabadu Games announced. It will be available at a 15 percent-off discount price for the first week of launch.

Game Developer Deep Dives are an ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design decisions aren’t really that simple at all.

Side-scrolling beat ’em up game Vengeance of Mr. Peppermint will launch for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG on October 23, publisher Freedom Games and developer Hack The Publisher announced.

Saltsea Chronicles is another narrative-driven adventure from the makers of Mutazione, only this time, you're playing a whole cast of characters, not just one. With their captain missing, a group of friends set sail across the Saltsea archipelago to find her, only for the mystery to steadily grow much larger.

Saltsea Chronicles is set in a world rebuilt after ecological crisis and planetary flooding; it’s a world that’s not our own, but could someday be. The mythology of the game recalls a time when a group of people called “hoarders” took too much from the land, building up its treasures far too high. The seas became jealous and rise to meet these treasures, leaving only islands across the saltsea.

An extensive climate impact report published by Saltsea Chronicles developer Die Gute Fabrik (DGF) shows how the project's near four-year production cycle affected this little blue dot we call home.

Side-scrolling adventure game Makoto Wakaido’s Case Files Deluxe Trilogy will launch for Switch and PC via Steam on October 19 for 1,564 yen, publisher room6 and developer Hakaba Bunko announced. It will support English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese language options. A PC demo is available now.

Throughout historical periods of exploration, naturalists assembled cabinets of curiosities. These explorers amassed an amalgamation of biological artifacts — like shells, preserved bugs, and stuffed birds — along with other items or sketches from their travels, and placed them in wooden cabinets.

PlayStation 5 cloud streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers will launch on October 17 in Japan, October 23 in Europe, and October 30 in North America, allowing users to play PlayStation 5 games without having to download them, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced.

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Dimps will release a major free update for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 on October 12, followed by new downloadable content and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions in 2024, the companies announced.

worm club will release Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on October 26, the developer announced. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass.