Atlus has announced that a Nintendo Switch 2 version of Persona 4 Revival will be released on May 20th, 2027, a few months after its release on other platforms. The developer has also confirmed that Persona 6 will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2. The information was revealed during the latest Nintendo Direct in the… Read More »

In addition to a release date for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, Level-5 had an additional big announcement in the latest Nintendo Direct Presentation: Yo-kai Watch is back! The ghost-capture monster collecting series returns to western shores after a long hiatus (and many missing games) with a remake of Yo-kai Watch 2… Read More »

And here I thought Clear River Games was doing enough in 2027 by giving us Terranigma! Announced today during the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, the publisher just revealed they are working with Taito to also bring two more beloved SNES RPGs to modern platforms, with Lufia I & II: The Sinistrals Saga. Here’s the… Read More »

This edition of RPGs Coming This Week is an excellent one for pixel art games, between the likes of Nocturne and Yami Kids. We also have a pair of narrative adventure titles that are striking in different ways — Nighthawks with its gritty, urban vampire cast contrasts well against Rivage‘s shiny, Star Trek-esque space station.… Read More »

Befitting their stable of indie games, Cypriot publisher Critical Reflex had a small but very atmospheric booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026. Packed into a few square meters of techno-horror machinery were 19 (!) games mostly in the horror adventure wheelhouse, save for TANUKI: Pon’s Summer, a post office-sim about a chubby tanuki on a… Read More »

Whereas in 2025, Konami’s booth at Tokyo Game Show was a terrifying recreation of Silent Hill f, this year it was a bright, white and red celebration of the 40th anniversary of Ganbare Goemon, the Konami Code (↑↑↓↓←→←→B A), and a beloved little franchise called Castlevania. Though there were flashy photo booth-style displays for Konami’s… Read More »

After a promising resurgence at last year’s Tokyo Game Show, Level-5 came out swinging at TGS 2026. With a booth that put all others to shame in terms of volume and colour, Level-5 was showing nearly a full house of RPG-adjacent games, including Snack World Reloaded, Holy Horror Mansion, and a return of last year’s… Read More »

The Mystery Dungeon series occupies a unique position in the RPG landscape. Better known for its crossovers with bigger RPG franchises like Final Fantasy and Pokémon, the mainline entries floundered in obscurity for years (despite being mechanically ahead of their time), with the occasional re-release but no new original titles. That is, until 2024’s Shiren… Read More »

I bookended my first day at Tokyo Game Show 2026 with RGG Studio’s Like a Dragon prequel, Stranger Than Heaven. In the morning, I beelined to the impressive display/museum/theatre/demo space set up for the game. First, they ushered me and about thirty other industry folks into a standing room plastered with mock music posters from… Read More »

The last time I played Persona 4, it was Persona 4 Golden on the Vita, and I was on my first flight to Japan, unaware that I’d still be living here a decade later. As it does for me, Persona 4 holds a special place in many fans’ hearts. Remakes of any beloved property face… Read More »

Matt Wardell You know the meme with the mother holding her smiling daughter aloft in a pool while her other child fights for their life to stay afloat? If Square Enix is the mother, SaGa is the oft-ignored, half-drowned kid. Not quite the skeleton at the bottom of the ocean, the SaGa series nonetheless struggles… Read More »

If I’ve already played the original game, it takes a lot for remakes to grip me, especially if they don’t offer enough new content. For a time, I was fairly certain that the first two remakes for The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky series, the launching point of Falcom‘s grand worldbuilding Trails opus,… Read More »