Much like Vampire Survivors' titular vampire, the game's creator, Luca Galante, is often nowhere to be found. When Vampire Survivors won a BAFTA for Game of the Year back in 2023, it was a handful of Galante's colleagues at Poncle who took to the stage to accept it. At convention panels, Galante is known for using screens and decoys rather than addressing the audience himself. In the NoClip documentary chronicling the success of Vampire Survivors, Galante opted to have a Muppets-esque puppet resembling the game's iconic vampire mascot made so he wouldn't have to appear on camera himself. And it is a very cool puppet.

Even after I arrived in the small, walled city of Lucca, Italy to preview Poncle's new game, Vampire Crawlers, the myth-making of Luca Galante continued. Several Poncle devs I spoke to recounted, with sheer amusement, how they loved playing up Galante's mysterious persona. When fans asked if Galante was around, they'd sometimes remark, "He could be. He could be me." Matteo Sapio, the chief strategy officer at Poncle, laughed as he told me, "It's all very funny because honestly, yes, he is brilliant, but he's also a very kind and normal guy. He just really values his privacy."

Imagine my delight then, when an hour after meeting Luca, I found myself sitting beside him on an old couch, both of us chatting animatedly about our love of Final Fantasy while playing Vampire Survivors together on a hulking CRT TV.

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Poncle Games, the studio behind the critically acclaimed "bullet heaven" game Vampire Survivors, has announced its next project: Vampire Crawlers. Set in the same world as Survivors, this "Turbo Wildcard," as Poncle describes it, reimagines its predecessor as a deckbuilding dungeon-crawler with roguelite elements. Crawlers is slated to release next year.

Announced as part of November's Xbox Showcase, Vampire Crawlers marks a significant departure from the simplistic gameplay of Survivors, adding increased depth and strategy via its strong focus on deckbuilding while still retaining a similar visual style and a penchant for chaos. Other notable features include the village, which serves as a central hub for your Survivors, as well as a shift to a 2.5D perspective.

"Build busted decks, explore familiar dungeons from a new perspective, and unleash world‑ending combos," Poncle wrote in Crawler's official press release. "Either take your time and be tactical, or play turns as fast as you humanly can: the outcome is always accurate."

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Agent 47 has met several famous faces--and even killed a few of them--throughout his journey in the World of Assassination, but for his next mission, he'll be taking on one of the greatest rap artists of all time: Slim Shady. To be specific, the new Elusive Target mission coming to Hitman will see Agent 47 tasked with killing Eminem's younger alter-ego by none other than Eminem himself. We promise we're not making this up.

Thanks to Slim Shady being a separate--and violent--entity, the real Eminem is fearful that his creation will eventually come for him. It's up to Agent 47 to step in and take down Slim Shady so that the real Eminem can keep on rapping till he collapses.

If you're new to them, Elusive Targets are one of the more interesting challenges in Hitman. Your targets don't show up as a red glow when you use 47's instincts to search for them, as you'll have to rely on intel and surveillance to keep track of your mark. You usually get one shot to take down an Elusive Target--as bungling a mission does have consequences--but IO has brought several of these popular contracts back in the past.

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Xbox Series X|S owners were left out when Bloober Team released its remake of Konami's Silent Hill 2 in 2024. Previous reports indicated that the game was a timed exclusive for PlayStation 5, but the one-year anniversary passed without an announcement of an Xbox port. Now, Silent Hill 2 has popped up on one of Xbox's international storefronts, which seemingly confirms that it will be heading to other countries soon.

Silent Hill 2 is currently available for half off on Xbox's Australian store. Konami has yet to formally announce it for Xbox Series X|S in the United States, but the game was recently certified for those consoles by the ESRB. It will remain an M for Mature title.

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— Wario64 (@Wario64) November 20, 2025

The ESRB page for the game doesn't have any indication that a Switch 2 port will follow. It's also unknown if Silent Hill 2 will get a physical release on Xbox consoles or if it will be digital only.

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In 2021, Resolution Games released Demeo, which brought the classic Dungeons & Dragons style of tabletop RPG experience to virtual reality on the Meta Quest, and eventually to PlayStation platforms both in and out of VR. Today, the RPG changes from "D+D-like" to simply "D+D," as Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, in partnership with Wizards of the Coast, launches on PS5, PC, and VR platforms.

Battlemarked lets up to four players join together in one of two campaigns set in the Forgotten Realms, with each player choosing between six classes: Bard, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, and Sorcerer. Persistent character progression will allow players to level up and set ability points as they see fit, and those characters will not reset once the campaign has ended, so players can choose them as much as they like.

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The two campaigns launching today with Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked are as follows:

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