George Yang

MMORPG.com • January 15th, 2026

Preview: Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties New Mini Games Rock

As much as the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series is about shirtless men beating each other up, it’s also filled with entertaining mini games. You can partake in plenty of activities like batting cages, bowling, blackjack, and even mahjong. But in Yakuza 3 Kiwami, SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku added a plethora of new ones that are equally fun and challenging.

MMORPG.com • January 5th, 2026

Preview: Code Vein II is an Aggressive Soulslike With RPG Charm

The Soulslike genre is one of the most influential in video games. Games like Lies of P, Nioh, and The Surge have all taken their own stabs at the genre with their own unique twists, such as Nioh’s battle stances and The Surge’s dismemberment system. But there’s one intersection that surprisingly hasn’t been explored nearly as much as you’d expect: Soulslike and anime.

Restart.run • November 19th, 2025

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Hands-On Preview

Restart.run spoke with producer Takeshi Ichikawa about Dragon Quest VII Reimagined and how it differs from others Square Enix has recently released.

Anime News Network • September 25th, 2025

Yakuza Kiwami 3 is More Than Just a Remake, And Dark Ties Proves it

Sega and Ryu ga Gotoku have made sure that older games in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series are accessible to newer audiences. By remaking the first two games as Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2, as well as remastering the older PS3 titles, almost all of the games are now available on modern platforms.

Epic Games Store Blog • September 17th, 2025

Battlefield 6’s Escalation mode unleashes the series’ largest-scale battles

A few months ago, Electronic Arts and DICE teased Battlefield 6’s new Escalation mode, which promised a new way to experience Battlefield’s large-scale battles and explosive tension. With the resounding success and positive feedback that its open beta received, EA and DICE are positioned to have the best multiplayer shooter of 2025.

UploadVR • September 9th, 2025

Star Wars: Beyond Victory's Playset Mode Will Have You Feeling Like a Kid Again

Have you ever wanted to build your own imaginary Star Wars scenes as a child, but didn’t have the money to afford all of those individual figurines of your favorite characters?

Star Wars: Beyond Victory has the perfect solution to that. Developer ILM Immersive's upcoming mixed reality game has three separate game modes, including Adventure, Arcade, and Playset.

Fangoria • August 20th, 2025

This New Video Game Lets You Play As A Vampire Human Hybrid

In 2022, former CD Projekt employees founded Rebel Wolves, a new studio aiming to make dark fantasy games. With developers holding years of experience under the phenomenal The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077, it looks like Rebel Wolves is poised for success.

The studio's first game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, was first revealed in January this year. Its dark fantasy medieval setting is filled with vampires, monsters, and other haunted creatures, that is quite an aesthetic departure from what these developers created before.

Epic Games Store Blog • July 31st, 2025

Battlefield 6 hands-on: Four hours of play brings back the old days

In recent years, the Battlefield series has experimented with its various settings, including both World Wars in Battlefield 1 and V as well as the near future in Battlefield 2042. But EA is returning to a modern setting with Battlefield 6. After four hours of hands-on time with this new entry, it seems very much like a continuation of the modern warfare of Battlefield 3 and 4, which were arguably the peaks of the franchise’s popularity.

Anime News Network • June 12th, 2025

Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree is Hades but Japanese

During Summer Game Fest, Bandai Namco revealed a new roguelike game called Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree. While it was a bit difficult to tell what it was just by the gameplay trailer, it looked like Supergiant's massive hit roguelike game Hades, but with an Eastern aesthetic.

Anime News Network • June 11th, 2025

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Keeps True to its Predecessors

CAPCOM's Onimusha series had a long run on the PlayStation 2, starting with 2001's Onimusha Warlords. It was basically Resident Evil but with samurai, due to the gameplay's focus on fixed cameras. However, Onimusha didn't really take off nearly as well as CAPCOM's iconic horror franchise. As a result, 2006's Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams was the last mainline entry in the series.

Anime News Network • June 11th, 2025

Capcom's Pragmata is Intriguing

Five years ago, CAPCOM released the announcement trailer for Pragmata, a new sci-fi IP. It was only a cinematic trailer, but it piqued my interest as it showed an astronaut interacting with a small girl. All of a sudden, their surroundings completely warped in zero gravity, with both of them sent flying and a giant telescope was on its way to crash into them.

Anime News Network • June 11th, 2025

Code Vein 2 is Bigger and Better

One of the biggest surprises during Summer Game Fest was the announcement of Code Vein 2, Bandai Namco's follow-up to the 2019 vampiric soulslike RPG. The game is slated to launch sometime in 2026, and I got a chance to learn more about it through a hands-off preview with Bandai Namco.

Fangoria • June 11th, 2025

We Got A First Look At RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM And It's Horrifying

The ninth mainline game in Capcom’s iconic Resident Evil franchise has finally been revealed. During the Summer Game Fest showcase, the show ended with the reveal of Resident Evil Requiem. It follows a new protagonist, Grace Ashcroft, an investigative reporter who’s also the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft from 2003’s Resident Evil Outbreak.

Fangoria • June 9th, 2025

Supermassive Games' DIRECTIVE 8020 Is A Big Step Up

We played a 20-minute demo of Directive 8020 and spoke with executive producer Dan McDonald about why it took so long for the next Dark Pictures game to come out, as well as their future plans for the series.

Anime News Network • May 29th, 2025

Persona 5: The Phantom X Makes Smart Changes to the Traditional Persona Formula

Persona 5 was released almost a decade ago in Japan. Since then, we've had many spin-offs: Persona 5 Strikers, Persona 5 Tactica, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. I'm surprised we haven't had a Persona 5 spin-off fighting game. While the whole world is waiting for even the slightest crumb of Persona 6, there's yet another Persona 5 spin-off coming.

Enter Persona5: The Phantom X, a free-to-play mobile spin-off of Persona 5.

Inverse • May 27th, 2025

The RPGs That Started It All Are Finally Getting Perfect Remakes

The Dragon Quest series isn’t the most well-known within Square Enix’s stable, but it’s one of the most influential. Its simple turn-based combat became the blueprint of hundreds of modern RPGs. It doesn’t have any fancy battle mechanics like Persona’s Press-Turn system. But that’s what’s so special about these remakes.

Anime News Network • May 20th, 2025

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Is Shaping Up to Be One of Atlus' Best Games

I spent three hours playing the remaster's first two chapters, and it's shaping up to be one of Atlus' best games, especially from a combat angle. Aside from Persona 5 Strikers, Atlus is known for its turn-based combat, but Raidou takes the opposite route and has real-time action. It's a departure from what recent Atlus fans are used to, but it's a welcome one after years of creating turn-based games.

Digital Trends • March 13th, 2025

Rainbow Six Siege X’s new mode is perfect for newcomers like me

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege was released in 2015 and has had a surprisingly long shelf-life as a live-service game. Now, coming up on its 10-year anniversary, Rainbow Six Siege is getting an overhaul titled Rainbow Six Siege X. This includes new content, enhanced visuals, and a new game mode called Dual Front, which turns the traditional Siege gameplay formula on its head.

Digital Trends • February 12th, 2025

Elden Ring Nightreign feels like a PS3 multiplayer game in the best way

In a night full of surprises at the Game Awards 2024, Elden Ring Nightreign may have been the biggest shocker of them all. FromSoftware built its reputation on the fabled Dark Souls series and single-player games. While games like Elden Ring and Bloodborne include co-op, the studio has never taken its award-winning formula into full-on multiplayer territory. That changes on May 30.

Fangoria • January 23rd, 2025

Step Into the Past with DOOM: THE DARK AGES Prequel Sneak Peek

The highly anticipated third installment of the modern Doom trilogy is on its way this year. This time around, we'll be following our hulking Doom Slayer protagonist to the Middle Ages as he slays more monsters and demons than ever before. Doom: The Dark Ages is a prequel, making it the perfect starting point for newcomers, but veterans won't feel left out either.
FANGORIA got a sneak peek at Doom: The Dark Ages before the Xbox Developer Direct 2025 today, January 23. Game director Hugo Martin a...

Digital Trends • January 23rd, 2025

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is perfect mix of classic and new

When Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Origins in 2017, it seemed like the franchise was at the start of a transformation. While previous entries focused much more on stealth, Origins started to move in a more action-focused direction with a major emphasis on open-world exploration. 2018’s Odyssey and 2020’s Valhalla continued the trend and refined its combat mechanics, which cemented Assassin’s Creed as an action RPG series.

Digital Trends • January 16th, 2025

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii’s naval battles are more than minigames

There’s been a renaissance of pirate games over the past few years, and the quality of them has been all over the place. Rare’s Sea of Thieves dominates the space with its wondrous sense of adventure and swashbuckling exploration. Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones, on the other hand, is filled with mundane tasks that make for a live-service slog.

Digital Trends • December 11th, 2024

Synduality: Echo of Ada feels like a cross between Gundam and Genshin Impact

I once visited a friend in Los Angeles who has an obsession with mecha and anime characters. His room is filled with figurines from Mobile Suit Gundam and Genshin Impact. I thought to myself: “Wouldn’t it be cool if someone combined these two interests?” Now, that’s just what Bandai Namco has done with Synduality, a new mixed media project that features multiple stories.

Digital Trends • November 21st, 2024

I played 2 hours of Avowed entirely in third-person

When I first played Avowed back in August, it was only through a first-person perspective. The RPG’s third-person camera wasn’t available in that build. While developer Obsidian Entertainment revealed the game through its first-person camera, the developer confirmed that third-person was an accessibility feature planned from day one and wouldn’t be treated as an afterthought.