Muramasa: Revenant Blades launches February 4, 2027
Vanillaware’s updated action RPG brings six stories together, adds English voice acting, and is headed to PS5, Switch 2, Switch, and PC.
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Sonic Mania case study: how fangame creators built an official release
Experience accumulated through tools, remasters and fan communities enabled an external team to rebuild 2D Sonic within a production supervised by Sega.
Arm launches Mali G2-Ultra NX with neural acceleration for mobile games
The new mobile GPU introduces features inspired by the PC market, but supersampling, frame generation and denoising will follow different schedules and require game integration.
Kernel-level anti-cheat: why games use privileged access
Running a driver close to the Windows core expands visibility into cheats, but it also increases the impact of failures and requires trust in the vendor.
Carrie gets full trailer ahead of October 7 premiere
Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode series updates Stephen King’s novel with a Carrie raised outside society and exposed to contemporary school cruelty.
Bit rot: why digital files can become corrupted without warning
Keeping a copy does not prove it remained intact. Checksums can expose silent changes, but recovery still depends on redundancy and maintenance.
Xbox to publish PHYSINT after PlayStation exits project
Kojima Productions’ espionage game will remain in development, but its platforms and release date have not been confirmed.
OpenStreetMap case study: how a collaborative database became global infrastructure
The project separated data, maps and services so communities, companies and humanitarian organizations could reuse and update the same representation of the world.
Hasbro discloses exposure of employees’ personal and financial data
Massachusetts filings describe the categories of information involved, but do not reveal the total number of affected people or formally connect the notice to the March incident.
Comic book variant covers: what A, B and 1:25 mean
The art changes, but the story is usually the same. Here is how open-order covers, incentive ratios and store exclusives affect availability and price.
Black Bullet returns after 12 years with light novel reboot
New World Order begins with two books on November 10 and moves the story toward a new phase; no anime continuation has been announced.
How rollback netcode works in fighting games
The technique responds to local input before receiving the opponent’s data, then re-simulates the match when a prediction fails, trading constant delay for occasional corrections.
Today’s Nintendo Direct will feature 45 minutes of Switch 2 games
The presentation starts at 10 a.m. ET and will be followed by a Treehouse broadcast; Nintendo has not revealed which games are on the schedule.
MAME case study: how an emulator became hardware documentation
The project preserves machines by reconstructing their behavior in code while keeping technical documentation separate from access to protected ROMs.
Godzilla Minus Zero gets new trailer and November 5 Brazil release
The preview confirms the monster survived, expands the cast and shows IMAX-format sequences ahead of a New York Film Festival world premiere.