The 2025 Video Game News Thread (I was forced by anti-innovation communists to change the title again)

Speaking of zombie brands animated by rich white dudes

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A new Picross x Doraemon crossover releases in 2 days

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The Triple-i Initiative show is back on April 10.

Last year they announced some cool stuff at this show (Rogue Prince of Persia, Slay the Spire 2) so there might be some big news here (though I wouldn’t go in expecting a release date for Silksong or Demonschool or something.)

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Famous rapist employed by joke Saudi sports league to be playable in new SNK fighting game

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YIKES but also WHYYYYY

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He’s not even voicing himself??? It’s another voice actor.

Why tho

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Even if Ronaldo didn’t suck, this is just corny, man.

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It’s such a drag that I can’t buy SNK games anymore.

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It’s becoming less of a drag the more I see.

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Fantastic news for Real Bout truthers aimlessly ranting all these years about the Wolves subseries being inferior to the Real Bout subseries. (There might be some near YOU :index_pointing_at_the_viewer: )

I do feel bad for the devs who probably had little say on the matter.

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If this turns out to be Planetside 3, I’m gonna completely lose my shit.

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ugh. I didn’t want to believe the rumors and just assumed it would be some novelty DLC skin or something, but it’s a whole ass character in the base roster of the game? What a weird way to ruin the roster of a game.

The character model also looks like garbage and I think highlights all of the weaknesses with the art style. A soccer ball based moveset is very dumb within the Fatal Fury universe. SNK even acknowleges the ā€œAmerican Sports Teamā€ from KOF’94 as one of the worst ideas they had.

What a corny disappointment, and just another example of fortnite style crossover marketing making things worse.

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original Pillars Of Eternity turn-based option at long last

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Oh, damn, this might actually finally get me to play it beyond the opening section. I can do RTWP in systems I know well like AD&D, but in less familiar or bespoke systems, I tend to like having more time to think…

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???

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False alarm, I thought Nintendo were doing something pretty explicitly pro-consumer, but it turns out to ā€œlendā€ a ā€œvirtual game card,ā€ both consoles need to be on the same local wi-fi network. Leave it to Nintendo to compromise something actually cool to being just dumb enough to not be cool

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There’s something absolutely maniacal about purposefully recreating the major inconvenience of lending physical games, needing to be in the same place in person, and tacked it on to digital game distribution. Like, what, if I want to lend a game to an out-of-town friend who I am visiting, I gotta bring my Switch with me?

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Why would you be out of town without your switch?!

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They only need to be local for the initial share, once ā€œpairedā€ it claims you can lend out freely (for 2 weeks max).

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