Chucklefish's magical life sim, nearly a decade in the making, opened Nintendo's Indie World and is also confirmed for PS5. You enrol at a wizarding school in the town of Mossport, brew potions, gather resources, fly broomsticks and decorate rooms, with up to four players in online co-op. Think Stardew Valley with spellbooks.
Yesterday's 15-minute show also brought Slime Rancher 2 to Switch 2 in January 2027, the co-op horror hit R.E.P.O. in 2027, Super Battle Golf on 25 March 2027, raccoon co-op sandbox Dumpster Gang in March, a new Celeste co-creator platformer called City of None, and a roguelike from the designer of Dead Cells. Sword of the Sea lands on Switch 2 today, and several demos are already live.
All three are claimable from 3 Nov to 30 Nov. Dead Island 2 and the Tomb Raider remaster trilogy (The Last Revelation, Chronicles and The Angel of Darkness) cover both PS5 and PS4; Monster Train 2 is PS5 only.
Three transparent DualSense controllers and matching console covers in Flare Orange, Emerald Green and Graphite Gray, a nod to the clear controllers of the late '90s.
Update 7.10 adds new ships and cockpits, a minimal HUD mode, seamless warping, creepy new items and gameplay, and a batch of quality-of-life changes, on Switch and Switch 2 as well as PS5.
Some US buyers were told their pre-order was cancelled because Walmart had oversold. They won't be charged, and Nintendo has said more Zelda-themed Switch 2 restocks are coming.
Samsung's second-generation 8nm process, due to be presented at IEDM, reportedly promises 12% more performance, 15% less power and an 8% smaller chip. That's fuelled speculation about a smaller Switch 2, but nothing is confirmed.
Ten Taito arcade games from 1978 to 1990, including Space Invaders and the three-screen Sagaia, arrive in Japan on 28 January 2027 for 5,720 yen. No western release yet.
Bereaved families of the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush in Seoul, which killed 159 people, want Activision to edit a news clip out of the game's intro montage, calling its use "highly inappropriate and insensitive".
Modern Warfare 4 had only a couple of Xbox reviews against more than 30 for PS5 and PC. Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said reviewing a game "takes too many steps" and that it will improve.
A week after cuts of around 400 jobs that closed BioWare, current and former EA workers told Vertical Slice about pressure to use AI tools, a push towards live-service games, and secretive layoffs announced in chat-less Zoom calls.
At a developer Q&A in South Korea, Valve said "a significant number" of staff are tackling how new games get noticed, but it doesn't want to tell developers which tools to use. It prefers boosting original games over removing clones.
