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PlayStation has announced what it will be unveiling at the upcoming Tokyo Games Show, scheduled to take place at the end of September.

Following the big number of reveals at Gamescom, the Tokyo Games Show (TGS) has lined up a big selection of highly anticipated titles gamers will soon be able to feast their eyes on, and now PlayStation has thrown its hat in the ring. The presence of PlayStation at the TGS 2025 marks its second year in a row at the annual event, with PlayStation showcasing big titles such as Astro Bot and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. But what will be unveiled by PlayStation at TGS 2025?

According to a recent press release, Sucker Punch will be showcasing the upcoming spiritual successor to Ghost of Tsushima called "Ghost of Yotei". Additionally, ARC System Works will be showcasing Marvel TOKON: Fighting Souls will have a spot at TGS. As for Ghost of Yotei, this showcase will be the first public demo of the highly anticipated game, which is scheduled to launch on October 2, a week after TGS.

ASUS' new ROG Raikiri II Xbox controller brings the pro-level performance of its predecessor with one big change: This new controller can be used wirelessly on Xbox consoles.

ASUS just revealed the ROG Raikiri II, a new-and-improved model that brings wireless functionality alongside anti-drift joysticks and low-latency 2.4GHz connectivity. As the company says, the Raikiri II is actually ASUS' very first Xbox-certified wireless controller--the first Raikiri worked on Xbox consoles, but it could only be used when connected via USB cable and it couldn't be used wirelessly. Hence this new version.

The gamepad sports a bunch of pro features, including dual-mode triggers that let you specify half-distance or full-distance trigger pulls. There are also four customizable back paddle buttons that can be tailored to specific inputs, anti-drift Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) joysticks as a one-up against Hall Effect joysticks, and the Raikiri II supports up to 1000Hz polling (but only on PC).

Lords of the Fallen broke 2 million sales shortly before the sequel was revealed at Gamescom, developer CI Games has announced.

New info straight from CI Games gives a quick update on Lords of the Fallen's sales figures. The action RPG soulslike has sold 2.04 million copies across consoles and PC since its launch in 2023 (CI Games actually released two versions of the game, one in 2014, and another in 2023). The overwhelming majority of sales were digital, likely reflecting the game's frequent discounts across Xbox, the PlayStation Store, and Steam, where it had just been discounted to $17.99.

The milestone was also reached right before CI Games announced Lords of the Fallen 2, the next chapter in the series. Millions of fans seem to be highly interested in the sequel--the Lords of the Fallen 2 reveal trailer has amassed 6 million views on YouTube, signalling high curiosity among the gaming community.

Publishers and game developers are still having trouble getting a hold of Switch 2 devkits, sources tell Digital Foundry.

Nintendo is still being very choosy in who is getting Switch 2 devkits. According to Digital Foundry, a lot of developers can't actually get Nintendo to send them a Switch 2 development kit. This has stalled the amount of games that can be made available on the Switch 2, as devs can't make games for the system without Switch 2 devkits.

According to the latest episode of DF Direct Weekly, Digital Foundry spoke to a bunch of developers at Gamescom 2025 and they basically all said the same thing: They can't get a Switch 2 devkit. This makes sense to a degree as Nintendo still has to manufacture, produce, and ship each devkit, which can be costly because of tariffs, plus Nintendo is also trying to be careful because it wants to avoid any more potential leak situations.

Sony might not be done raising the price of the PlayStation 5 across the globe and in the United States.

Days ago, Sony announced it was raising the price of the PlayStation 5 in the US. The full lineup of PS5 hardware saw a +$50 price increase, with the PS5 Pro now costing an astronomical $750 (the special edition 2TB Series X is close behind at $730). One analyst warns consumers that this could just be the beginning of Sony's hikes and that more price jumps could be on the way.

"Was just a matter of time. Thing is, this is likely not the last time we'll see upticks," Circana executive director Mat Piscatella said on BlueSky in direct response to Sony's announcement.

Fans of the Forza series have been patiently waiting for when the next game is going to be released, and now it appears we know when it will be announced and where the game is set.

A report from Windows Central claims sources have informed the publication through documentation that Forza Horizon 6 will be announced at the upcoming Tokyo Games Show scheduled for the end of September. This scoop from Windows Central comes after a "leak" about the game breathed life back into it, as an Australian car import company shared a photo of a Forza developer taking photos of a Kei vehicle, a Japanese car that is rarely spotted outside of Japan.

That image has since been removed from social media, sparking further speculation that the game is set in Japan. Now, the rumor has been updated, with sources informing the publication that Forza Horizon 6 will be announced at the Tokyo Games Show, which, if true, makes total sense if the game is set in Japan. Other indicators that a new Forza Horizon is in the works are the lack of new content being developed for Forza Horizon 5, which is instead receiving regular basic updates.

The ROG Xbox Ally X is coming in October, with this collaboration between ASUS and Microsoft serving as the first taste of the company's next-gen plans for Xbox hardware. It's a Windows 11 gaming PC; however, with an optimized version of the OS, the first Xbox-branded PC gaming handheld is set to present a more intuitive Steam Deck-like experience than we've seen to date.

Powered by the new AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme Processor with integrated Radeon Graphics and an XDNA NPU that offers up to 50 TOPS of performance, the flagship ROG Xbox Ally X also sports a vibrant 120 Hz 1080p display and 24GB of LPDDR5X memory. Impressive stuff, and with a price tag of around $900 (the non-X model is set to be cheaper), you might be wondering what sort of performance it delivers, natively, when playing a modern AAA title.

Well, according to @carygolomb on X, who went hands-on with the ROG Ally X at Gamescom 2025, playing DOOM: The Dark Ages, the premium PC gaming handheld hit an impressive 70 FPS at 1080p with ray-tracing enabled. And that's with the unit drawing 28W of total system power. However, this jaw-dropping performance for a PC gaming handheld comes with a long list of caveats.

Abxylute is preparing to launch its new glasses-free 3D gaming handheld, the new Abxylute 3D One, which will go on sale in late September or early October for $1699.

The Abxylute 3D One started off as the Sunday Dragon 3D One which was co-developed between Intel and Tencent Games, but now Abxylute has taken over and will sell the new Windows-based, Intel Lunar Lake-powered Abxylute 3D One gaming handheld.

The new gaming handheld features a huge 10.95-inch display with a native 2560 x 1600 (1600p) resolution and super-smooth 120Hz refresh, with an interesting hardware toggle that switches between 2D and 3D viewing modes, with a stereoscopic effect delivered through an eye-tracking system.

PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst comments on the disaster of Concord and Sony's current plans for more live service games.

PlayStation makes most of its money from microtransactions--$8.7 billion in FY24--so it's no surprise that Sony chased the money with its games-as-a-service plan. Sony initially wanted to release 12 live games by March 2026 but that plan was significantly cut after Concord's expensive $250 million failure. Now Sony is much more reserved with its PlayStation live game ambitions, relying on existing games like Gran Turismo 7, MLB The Show, Destiny 2, and Helldivers 2 to pull in money while work continues on new titles like Bungie's now-delayed extraction shooter Marathon, as well as Haven Studio's Fairgames.

Now we have new comments from PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst on the topic. In a recent interview with The Financial Times, Hulst says that he'd prefer if Sony's live games didn't leave craterous holes in organizational budgets when they fail: "I don't want teams to always play it safe. But when we do fail, I would like for us to fail early and cheaply."

Hideo Kojima has a rough concept on a potential third game in the Death Stranding franchise, but nothing's been confirmed just yet...and it doesn't sound like Kojima wants to work on another huge AAA project again.

Death Stranding 2 just released, and sales estimates indicate the game is doing well. Long-term success could prime the series for a trilogy-ending third chapter, and Hideo Kojima was asked about Death Stranding 3 at the World Strand Tour in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

"I'm not planning to do that, at the moment," Kojima said when questioned about DS3.

Overwatch 2 Season 18 is right around the corner, with Blizzard teasing that the developer has the biggest Stadium evolution for the game yet, a new support Hero called Wuyang, a full PvP refresh with Perks update, and so much more.

Stadium will continue to level up with new Hero additions, new ways to and places to play, fresh features, and a new Item pool. Team comps will change with the introduction of Winston, Brigitte, Pharah, and (later in the season) Tracer, which joins the Stadium Hero rotation.

Blizzard is changing things up with Stadium and its new Quick Play Queue speeds that increase the action with a faster, lighter version of Stadium, which results in shorter matches, a rapid-fire economy, and Backfill + Cross Play support. Draft Mode works like a pre-game huddle, where your team can counter-pick and out-think the opponents before the first shots are even fired.

Developers from around the world have made it their mission to get the 1993 classic title DOOM to run on the most novel devices, and the latest device added to the growing list is an Anker Prime GaN charger.

Getting DOOM to run on an unconventional device has become its own benchmark in a way, as it tests the skill of the developer and showcases the intense flexibility of the classic title. To demonstrate how much developers enjoy getting DOOM to run on devices you would never expect, here's a short list of the devices that have successfully been able to play the game:

The Anker Prime GaN charger features a 480 x 200-pixel 2.26-inch LCD display along with a Synwit AWM34S ARM SoC. The chip is running at 150MHz and has 8MB of SDRAM along with 16MB of flash storage. Those specifications are more than enough to support DOOM. Additionally, the game was loaded onto the device without any hardware mods as the developer used the built-in debugging header.

Escape from Tarkov is finally escaping from beta after nearly a decade of testing.

Battlestate Games has announced that OG extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov will get an official release on November 15, 2025, with the tactical shooter remaining exclusive to the developer's own games launcher.

At the time of writing, there are four editions of Tarkov ranging from the $50 standard edition to the $195 The Unheard edition.

The original Hollow Knight game is seeing a surge in popularity as fans eagerly anticipate Silksong's impending release.

After years of development, Hollow Knight Silksong is finally coming out in two weeks. To say that fans are excited is an understatement; the Silksong release date reveal has gotten over 4 million views on YouTube, a view count that's very close to Silksong's reveal trailer from 2019. This indicates that the same people who were excited before are still excited now.

The buzz over Silksong has led to more success for the first game. Hollow Knight has seen an influx of players on Steam, where it just reached 33,062 peak players for the first time. The previous record for Hollow Knight's peak players had been set in May 2022 with little over 20,000 people.

Borderlands 4's new cross-licensing part system gives players unprecedented freedom like never before, Gearbox explains.

A bit ago, Gearbox announced that Borderlands 4 would have 30 billion guns. That's roughly 30x the astronomical amount of guns that could spawn in the previous game. How is this possible?

To ramp up all the different permutations and combinations, Gearbox essentially broke weapon mod exclusivity in Borderlands 4. Now gun modifiers aren't locked to a single manufacturer, and a gun can spawn with mods from multiple arms-makers like Maliwan, Torgue, Atlas, etc. It's something that the studio is very excited about, especially company CEO Randy Pitchford.

Original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle is returning for the new Halloween game, with developer Illfonic aiming to deliver the authentic creeping terror straight from the 1978 film.

A new Halloween game is in the works with old-school horror film director John Carpenter attached as executive producer. It will be a multiplayer cat-and-mouse game where one player hunts down three others as Michael Myers, all set in 1978 Haddonfield, complete with a singleplayer story mode where you experience the first movie through Michael's perspective. Everyone involved is pretty serious about making the game look and feel as close to the original film as possible--that's why original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle has returned to reprise the role of the iconic boogeyman.

"Although it may be slightly different than the one he wore on film in 1978, Nick Castle put back on a suit to deliver the iconic walk, movements, and kills as only the OG Michael Myers could," the production team behind the game writes.

Roblox found itself in the boiling pot after it banned a creator who makes videos catching child predators on the Roblox platform. Now the company's market cap has dropped by $12 billion.

The Roblox stock price began to tumble after the company threatened to sue child predator hunter "Schlep," who makes videos about catching real-life child predators operating on the Roblox platform. Schlep has claimed to be involved in the arrest of six individuals participating in this activity, and Roblox recently sent him a cease and desist letter informing him that all his accounts are banned.

Schlep responded to the cease and desist letter by posting a video to, at the time, 640,000 subscribers, and now 1.62 million subscribers, explaining what had happened. Schlep added that he experienced grooming by an individual on Roblox when he was younger, and that his motivation behind his child predator-catching activities on Roblox is to prevent what happened to him from happening to other children using the platform.

Microsoft is going all-in on handhelds, including some pretty big optimizations in how games are delivered via DirectX.

One of the most annoying things about modern gaming is having to wait. Users already have to wait for their games to download, and gamers playing on an ROG Ally, Legion Go, or Steam Deck often have to wait extra time for the game to do something called "compiling shaders." This is a maddening phrase that's caused a lot of enmity and confusion among average consumers who just paid a lot of money for a device and a game, and simply just want to play.

Microsoft knows about this high level of friction, and has a solution: Advanced Shader Delivery. This was made specifically for handhelds like the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. Essentially, Microsoft is rolling out tech that will eliminate the dreaded compiling shaders wait times. Instead, Microsoft will use its new shader delivery to pre-configure game files ahead of time.

Battlefield 6's open beta weekend has wrapped up, and DICE has announced the title will be receiving a bunch of new changes ahead of its official release in October. Ahead of the BF6 debut, a leaker group has uploaded images of the skins that will be exclusive to Phantom Edition buyers.

The leak comes from 1BF, who sourced the images of the skins in the latest build of Battlefield Labs, the testing ground for the title. Battlefield 6 launches on October 10, and it will be arriving in two editions: the Standard Edition and the Phantom Edition. The Phantom Edition will feature cosmetics that come in the form of soldier skins, weapon packages, vehicle skins, stickers, XP boosts, and more. The Phantom Edition-exclusive skins will feature four skins, one for each class.

For those doing a comparison between the skins in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and the skins in BF6, you will quickly notice that DICE has opted for a much more subtle aesthetic as none of the skins change your soldier into a robot/cyborg. Instead, the skins are much more grounded and more in line with what real soldiers would wear. Below is an image of the skins that are part of Black Ops 7: Vault Edition, the premium edition of the upcoming game.

AMD is cooking up its next-gen semi-custom Magnus APU for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console, and now we have our first leaked render of the Magnus APU itself. Check it out:

In his latest video leaker Moore's Law is Dead had one of his MLID community members strike up a render of AMD's new Magnus APU, which features Zen 6 + Zen 6c CPU cores and a powerful RDNA 5-powered GPU.

AMD is working on Radeon desktop chiplets that will go into a console -- making it pretty much a powerful APU -- with a ton of next-gen APUs like Medusa Point, Medusa Halo, Medusa Halo Mini, and more that MLID has been leaking over the last few months.