Former Tekken Boss Katsuhiro Harada To Lead New SNK Studio

SNK Corporation, the company behind franchises such as Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, and Metal Slug, has announced a new game development subsidiary called VS Studio helmed by former Bandai Namco veteran Katsuhiro Harada. The news comes six months after Harada departed Bandai last December after serving as the longtime director and producer of…

PUBG is removing several weapons from the game, and you could be due compensation

Sounds a bit like one of those old PPI commercials, doesn’t it? Did you own a QBU skin between 2020 and 2026? Well, you could be due compensation. It isn’t exactly wrong, though. The next PUBG update is removing a bunch of weapons in the next month, and if you own skins for said weapons,…

Pokémon Deluxe Character Guide Features Over 300 Gorgeous Pages On The Franchise’s History

Image: Nintendo Life Looking for another gorgeous tome to stick on your shelf or coffee table, and happen to be a big Pokémon fan? Then the Pokémon Deluxe Character Guide should be on your radar. Announced by The Pokémon Company today, this beautiful-looking 336-page book releases on 25th August 2026 and is stuffed full of…

James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash is finally heading to Disney Plus in June

Pandora is officially heading home. Announced Tuesday, Avatar: Fire and Ash will begin streaming on Disney Plus starting June 27, bringing James Cameron’s latest sci-fi epic to audiences after its extended theatrical run. The film is the third chapter in Cameron’s long-running Avatar saga, continuing the story of Jake Sully, Neytiri, and the fractured Na’vi…

Deadzone Rogue 2, Follow-Up To Excellent Roguelite FPS, Announced

Deadzone: Rogue was a game that slipped past our collective radars, but once we finally played it upon its Switch 2 release, we absolutely loved it, awarding it a 9 out of 10. Now, quicker than most expected, developer Prophecy Games has announced a sequel to its roguelite FPS, Deadzone Rogue 2. In Deadzone Rogue…

Haunted Chocolatier Is Set To Be ‘Way Bigger than Stardew Valley’

Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone is juggling a lot right now. Between developing the massive 1.7 update for Stardew, catching up with a lot of fan mail, and celebrating Stardew’s tenth anniversary with a bunch of interviews, I do not understand how this guy has time to sleep. However, he’s also managing to make…

PlayStation Store Update Worldwide May 12, 2026

Each week Sony brings PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR, and PlayStation Plus owners new content, add-ons, games, and more. Here is the complete global PlayStation Store update. PlayStation LifeStyle catalogs the PlayStation Store updates for the major regions across the globe. Check back every Tuesday to keep up to date with each week’s PlayStation…

Path of Exile’s overwhelming complexity isn’t the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: ‘I think that PoE 1’s being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem’

Talk to a Path of Exile player and they’ll tell you they’re still a new player after 3,000 hours. By all accounts, PoE is the most action RPG you can find. It has over a decade of systems layered on top of each other, a web of complexity that you’d probably only understand if you…

Forza Horizon 6 leak not a “pre-load issue,” Playground Games claims as dev bans entire bloodlines for playing pirated copies

If I had a nickel for every big triple-A game that’s been leaked early over the past couple of months, I’d have two nickels. It’s not much, but it’s certainly a big problem. Forza Horizon 6 has been uploaded to Steam in its entirety, opening it up to the videogame seven seas. While, initially, it…

Cover Reveal – The Blood Of Dawnwalker

In 2015, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt set the bar for immersive storytelling and choice-driven narrative within the action/RPG space. Now, the director of that game is back with his new studio, Rebel Wolves, to deliver another ambitious, narrative-driven role-playing game with The Blood of Dawnwalker. That very game graces the cover of the latest…