SEGA launched a new story trailer for the highly anticipated Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii featuring Pirate King Raymond Law, played by AEW professional wrestler Samoa Joe.
In the trailer, the Pirate King gives viewers a glimpse into the adventure that awaits Majima and crew, and hints at stories untold – and adventures that will unfold.
Fans can check out the rest of the amazing English VO cast’s performance when the VO patch drops at launch. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii releases February 21st, 2025 and is available to pre-order for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows and PC (Steam). Fans who pre-order the game can add Ichiban Kasuga and Nancy to their crew plus the ability to have Majima change into two of Ichiban Kasuga’s iconic outfits.
Like the first part, Chernobylite 2 is a story of people who try to accomplish an impossible mission and survive in the sinister Chornobyl Zone. Cole Grey, a former military and security guard, lives in a reality where the economy and industry are based entirely on a substance called Chernobylite. With its help, people have made a real leap in civilization. However, the construction of the utopia has been paid for by massive unemployment, pushing people like Cole to the margins of society. Due to severe financial problems, he joins the mysterious “Planewalker” initiative to provide for his family.
It quickly becomes apparent that there is a shortage of Chernobylite in Cole’s universe, and the solution is the morally questionable initiative that involves traveling to parallel worlds in search of the mineral and obtaining it by any means possible. In addition, the Planewalker service requires appropriate genetic modifications. Cole must, therefore, physically absorb the essence of Chernobylite and, to increase his physical and intellectual capabilities, lose a part of his humanity. However, seeing no other options for himself, he agrees to the bloody and dangerous service, which results in him ending up trapped in the most sinister place in the world: the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. There, he meets a Black Stalker, the Zone’s dark guide and silent ruler.
Today, we’re revealing a brand new story trailer that introduces the plot of Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone.
Thanks to this, we can now focus on developing the alternative first-person combat mode, allowing you to play the game in any style you choose. Whether you’re a fan of classic third-person RPGs or modern first-person adventures, you should be comfortable experiencing Chernobylite 2 in a way that is more natural to you.
Chernobylite 2 has just reached the 170% level of funding on the Kickstarter and there’s still a week to back the project in the campaign that achieved another stretch goal. Thanks to this, the game will receive extra locations for playing coop and solo missions.
Soon, all Kickstarter backers will get access to the demo and Beta version of the game so you can expect the first game previews soon!
Chernobylite 2 will be released on Steam in Early Access on March 6th, similar to the first part in 2019, which was awarded the Top Early Access Platinum Graduate on Steam.
Today, independent game development studio Noodle Cat Games unveils its debut multiplayer action RPG Cloudheim, launching in Q3 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Combining crafting with chaotic physics-based combat, players will explore, fight, loot, and grow their base to help restore an ancient Norse-inspired world to its former glory.
“Cloudheim blends the exceptional talent of a veteran team with an experimental, iterative development process informed by science and modern psychology,” said David Hunt, CEO and Founder, Noodle Cat Games. “Every member of the team has a meaningful creative impact, allowing us to push exceptional gameplay quality for our team size, budget, and development time. I’m proud of what we’ve built, and how the team has proven this process is ultimately better for the ones who matter most – our players.”
In Cloudheim, players will rally allies for spectacular, combo-driven combat in a destructible world, where enemies take more damage when they use physics to destroy them. Players can harness powerful abilities and craft ever-evolving weapons to unlock new skills and devastating combos. A myriad of diverse islands and mysterious dungeons are waiting to be explored from players’ flying turtle base, Odin Shell. Cloudheim can be experienced solo or in up to 4-player online co-op with a cast of characters and creatures to guide the player’s journey. Blending fast-paced action and dynamic crafting, this brand-new action RPG is a colorful fantasy realm waiting to be transformed.
“Our core gameplay began with a simple question – what if we take the juggling from fighting games, and make it the combat foundation in a co-op action RPG?” said David Hunt, CEO and Founder, Noodle Cat Games. “Mix in a hauntingly beautiful world, a chaotic symphony of physics combos, and base customization – that’s Cloudheim. We can’t wait to see the creative combat gameplay players discover and share with their friends.”
Cloudheim’s key features include:
Mastering Chaos: Mayhem is unleashed in a fully breakable world. Players can chain powerful abilities together and coordinate devastating team combos to crush their enemies. This includes tearing down pillars onto monsters, lassoing enemies into tornadoes, shooting Greebles out of cannons, or kicking exploding barrels into the fray.
Rising Together: Players can join forces with up to three friends in online co-op, sharing every weapon and ability unlocked as they grow stronger together and discover new playable characters.
Forging Infinite Possibilities: With visual crafting, players will never have to wait for a friend in a menu as they can craft a massive array of weapons, gear, and powerful abilities usable in battle – or sell if they don’t need them. Perhaps someday they can even craft worlds…
Cruising the Skies: Odin Shell, a massive, ancient turtle that carries a fragment of a dead god’s power, is players’ refuge and portal to the world. They can expand their workshop, customize their space, run a thriving shop, and uncover hidden secrets as their fortress takes flight.
Exploring an Untamed World: Players can adventure across diverse islands and explore mysterious, changing dungeons filled with challenging enemies, puzzles, crafting resources, and valuable loot waiting to be discovered.
Teaming up with Fantastic Creatures: The resourceful Blins, the ever-hungry Gnasher, and the spiky yet loyal Swordcupine are all here to help players on their adventures.
Megabit, the publishing arm launched by Aonic to support the company’s 1st and 3rd party video game studios, today announced that Grit and Valor – 1949, will launch March 26th on Steam.
In this dieselpunk real-time tactics roguelite from developer Milky Tea, players lead their brave squad of resistance mech pilots against the Evil Axis forces and turn the tide of World War II in this alternate history dieselpunk setting. Grit and Valor – 1949 is also coming to Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch in Summer 2025.
Key Game Features:
Alternate History Dieselpunk Setting – The Axis have seized control of Europe using giant mechanized warriors to turn the tide of the war.
Four Distinct Regions – Grit and Valor is set across four distinct regions, each with unique gameplay mechanics, challenges and a variety of randomly generated battlefields to overcome.
Evolved-Real Time Tactics Gameplay – Each new region and battlefield you enter presents a new challenge with unique combinations of enemy waves and terrain.
Build The Ultimate Mech Squad – You have the freedom to customize and configure your squad of Mechs and Pilots to adapt your tactics for each new mission.
Roguelite Replayability – No two playthroughs in Grit and Valor – 1949 are the same, ensuring every battlefield is as deadly and unpredictable as the last.
Take in the spellbinding majesty of Arrakis in a new video showcasing the harsh beauty and variety players can expect. Although principally a desert planet, its vast surface is home to many unique and diverse locations with secrets to uncover.
Dune: Awakening is an open-world, multiplayer survival game on a massive scale, set on the most dangerous planet in the universe. Rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium. Coming to PC in Early 2025.
Leading gaming accessories maker Turtle BeachCorporation (Nasdaq: TBCH) today announced its groundbreaking new Turtle Beach® VelocityOne™ Multi-Shift three-function gear shifter and handbrake is now available. Not only is VelocityOne Multi-Shift the perfect expansion to Turtle Beach’s VelocityOne Race Wheel & Pedals kit for Xbox and PC, but it is also universal and can be added to most other racing sim setups. VelocityOne Multi-Shift is a premium universal racing sim shifter and handbrake module that’s designed with high-end materials and innovative versatility to bring enhanced realism. It offers sim racing gamers an option for a standard H-gate shifting as well as a digital sequential shifting. Additionally, with the simple push of a button, VelocityOne Multi-Shift can be turned into an analog handbrake. Turtle Beach’s VelocityOne Multi-Shift Universal Gear Shifter & Handbrake is available now at www.turtlebeach.com and participating retailers worldwide for $129.99/£119.99/€129.99 MSRP.
“VelocityOne Multi-Shift is our latest innovative racing sim peripheral for fans seeking the ultimate racing sim experience,” said Cris Keirn, CEO, Turtle Beach Corporation. “VelocityOne Multi-Shift offers racing sim gamers a new level of fidelity with its ability to be used as both a multi-function gear shifter and handbrake. Add in compatibility with Xbox and PC, and an alluring price point compared to the competition, and you can see why we believe it is such an attractive product offering for the racing sim community.”
VelocityOne Multi-Shift is a premium sim racing shifter & handbrake module that enables gamers to select between H-Gate shifting or rally-ready digital sequential shifting on-the-fly. More impressively, while in sequential mode the Handbrake button instantly transforms VelocityOne Multi-Shift into an analog handbrake. High-end soft-touch surfaces, steel components, and contactless, magnetic Hall-Effect sensors provide a true-to-life feel and long-lasting durability. VelocityOne: Multi-Shift features eight gear inputs (1-7 + Reverse), as well as a High/Low button that can be mapped and used to switch gears in farm and truck simulation games when pressed, making it great for sim games featuring vehicles with more gears.
VelocityOne Multi-Shift is plug-and-play compatible on Windows PC as a standalone device, or on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC via connection to Turtle Beach’s VelocityOne Race Wheel & Pedals kit. Plus, gamers can even add two VelocityOne Multi-Shifts to their setup – one as a dedicated gear shifter, and the other as a dedicated handbrake. Versatile mounting options allow gamers to fix VelocityOne: Multi-Shift to most desktops with the integrated clamp, or to sim rigs with the included hardware. Sim racers will also be able to swap between the H-gate shift knob and a short-throw shaft, a sequential shift knob and long-throw shaft, or their own custom shift knobs.
Fire up your rockets and journey back to the golden age of adventure gaming; Elroy and the Aliens launches on April 2nd, and will be part of this month’s Steam Next Fest.
Travel back in time to 1993 in the live demo and meet Elroy, a passionate but chaotic rocket engineer who teams up with the daring reporter Peggie to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his father. Their search for the truth will launch them on an unforgettable intergalactic adventure spanning 60 locales to explore across two sprawling planets.
Puzzles, peculiar aliens, and ancient legends await on Elroy’s path, with a tale of love, loss, and regret presented in a 90s-era cartoon style inspired by LucasArts and Sierra games. You’ll meet an eclectic cast of human (and non-human) locals to befriend as Elroy and Peggie begin to unravel an ancient archaeological mystery…
In a tale with exploration, discovery, and friendship at its core, players will uncover more than what happened to Elroy’s father, especially when faced with the troubled mayor’s dangerous galaxy-changing plans!
If you’re ready to embark on this cosmic quest, Elroy and the Aliens’ demo is playable for free ahead of Steam Next Fest. A small slice of this soon-to-launch epic sci-fi adventure that has been lovingly crafted across the span of the last decade offers up a strong serving of discovery, friendship, and exploration, ready for players seeking a story-rich epic of world-saving proportions.
Elroy and the Aliens Demo Features
Meet protagonists Elroy and Peggie as they begin their galaxy-wide adventure
Encounter 5 fully voiced characters in the 30-minute Steam Next Fest demo
Explore a slice of the charming locale of Slope City
Fully voiced in English, with text translations for other languages, starting with Spanish, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese
NIS America, Inc. is excited to share the opening movie in a new trailer for The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II, ahead of its launch on Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC (Steam®, Epic Games Store, and GOG) on February 14. Today’s action-packed trailer reveals the highly anticipated sequel’s original song “Crimson Sin” and hints at what mysteries and battles await in the Calvard Republic as the Daybreak saga continues.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II Limited Edition is available now for preorder through the NIS Online Store. The bundle features a deluxe edition of the game, collector’s box, art book, art card set, original soundtrack, steelbook, and an atlas of Calvard.
Wired Productions proudly stick to its commitment to supporting independent developers and are thrilled to announce its latest partnership with Portuguese indie studio Camel 101 (Those Who Remain, Syndrome) for the release of their upcoming horror FPS, Beneath.
To celebrate this exciting new collaboration, a closed beta playtest for Beneath is now available for sign up. Players eager to explore the game early and provide valuable feedback can sign up now here.
Following the success of psychological thriller Those Who Remain in 2019, Beneath marks a renewed collaboration between Wired Productions and Camel 101. Drawing inspiration from iconic titles such as F.E.A.R., Resident Evil, and Half-Life, Beneath is a Lovecraftian first-person survival horror that promises to deliver a gripping blend of action, psychological tension, and atmospheric storytelling.
When seasoned diver Noah Quinn’s routine expedition descends into chaos, he finds himself trapped in the depths of the ocean, where an ancient evil lurks. As supplies dwindle and nightmarish creatures close in, Noah must confront horrifying mutations, creeping madness, and a sinister conspiracy that threatens humanity itself.
Today, publisher Atari and developer Choice Provisions (the studio behind BIT.TRIP) announced Breakout Beyond, a vibrant new reimagining of the series that invites players to break on through to the other side. Coming to PC and console later this year, this new entry into Breakout lore will challenge players not just to break every brick, but to creatively breach the wall with score-building combos. Breakout Beyond features a whole new sideways perspective, 72 levels for players to blast through, and two-player co-op, designed to share the high-octane brick-breaking with a friend.
In this neon-infused twist on the classic 1976 arcade game, players smash through each puzzle by clearing bricks to reach the final goal. However, the script has been flipped—literally! Players now progress sideways, breaking through barriers and building up combos that ramp up the intensity of the effects, rewarding the most skilled players with a dazzling light show. Breaking special blocks offers powerful advantages, like massive brick-clearing blasts, a protective barrier to shield the ball, and a laser cannon to carve a path forward. Each one unleashes stunning dynamic effects, delivering dazzling visuals never seen before in Breakout.
