After 25 years, Square Enix is breathing new life into a classic RPG with the reveal of SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered. Originally a PlayStation exclusive, the new version of the game will launch today on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, and mobile devices.

SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered was unveiled at today's Nintendo Direct. Square Enix is adding brand-new events to the RPG, alongside the ability to "team up with more characters in battle," per the trailer (seen below). SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered is also promising quality-of-life improvements.

The beloved RPG returns -- fully remastered for modern platforms!
SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered brings back its signature watercolor visuals, deep strategic battles, and entwined narratives, now with quality of life improvements, new story events, and more. pic.twitter.com/wrwxDbHwkl

— SaGa Series @ #SaGaFrontier2 available today! (@SaGaGame) March 27, 2025

The RPG first launched for PlayStation in 2000 for North American audiences (1999 in Japan) and follows two protagonists: Gustave and William Knights. SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered, like the original, lets you choose from various events in Sandail's history. The user-interface has been improved for this new version, according to the Square Enix website. Another addition will be postgame content, such as the opportunity to "fight enhanced bosses as extra battle content."

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During today's Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo announced a new installment in the Tomodachi Life life-sim series--Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream. It is set to launch for Nintendo Switch in 2026, and it will be the first Tomodachi Life game since the original launched in 2014.

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream lets players create Mii characters and make them the citizens of a tropical island, where they can live lives filled with wacky situations. In one scene, we see two Miis throwing trash at each other during a heated argument, while other shows a Mii sleeping on a bench, where she dreams of a giant Mii approaching and asking her a question.

The previous Tomodachi Life game on 3DS featured Mii characters both created on the device and collected through the StreetPass feature. Players could assign Miis to specific rooms of an apartment complex, and then watch and interact with them as their lives played out in brief vignettes.

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Nintendo capped off the March Nintendo Direct by announcing a smartphone app called Nintendo Today. The app will function like a daily calendar, Nintendo said, and it will have news about Nintendo announcements, including details on the Switch 2 when the time comes.

A Nintendo Account is required to use Nintendo Today. The app arrives today, March 27, for iOS and Android. The app is live now; it allows users to choose from multiple different Nintendo franchises to select a theme for the app. You can create widgets for the home screen as well.

Shigeru Miyamoto introducing the Nintendo Today app.

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto appeared during the Nintendo Direct to reveal the app. He also confirmed that Nintendo will continue to share news with fans via the Nintendo Direct broadcasts--the next one is coming up on April 2 with news about the Switch 2.

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Dotemu has revealed Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a retro 2D beat-'em-up game featuring Marvel superheroes in a classic art style. Revealed during the Nintendo Direct, Marvel Cosmic Invasion features up to four-player co-op and has several Marvel characters you can play as to smack down alien invaders.

For each level, you pick two characters, swapping between the two via team-up attacks, and creating special combo attacks depending on which characters you choose. While only a handful of characters were shown in the reveal trailer, the Marvel Cosmic Invasion Steam page states that there will be 15 playable characters to choose from.

The trailer revealed a handful of Marvel characters you can play as, like Wolverine, Captain America, Spider-Man, Venom, Nova, Phyla-Vell, and Storm. There was also a boss fight against Task Master shown, along with a brief glimpse of the Sentinel enemies from X-Men in the cinematic.

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Nintendo has announced a new feature coming to both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 called Virtual Game Cards that will let users to treat their digital games more like physical ones, including lending them out to family members.

Announced via the most recent Nintendo Direct, buying digital games on Switch consoles will in the future (and on Switch 2) be treated as Virtual Game Cards that can be digitally loaded, ejected, and shared with other Switch consoles. Those who own multiple Nintendo Switch devices will be able to move Virtual Game Cards between accounts on up to two systems as if they were ejecting a cartridge and physically inserting it into another device. A local connection between the two consoles is required when moving Virtual Game Cards between two consoles for the first time, and an internet connection is required when loading a Virtual Game Card or moving it to another console, according to the Nintendo Direct presentation.

Accounts in the same Nintendo family group, which currently supports up to eight people, can lend copies of purchased games to other members of same group, although only one game at a time can be lent out to a particular person. Lent games are shared via local wireless connection and last for two weeks, after which they will automatically return to the original owner.

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Marvelous Entertainment announced Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar during the March 2025 Nintendo Direct. The title is a remake of the 2008 Nintendo DS game Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar. The Story of Seasons remake launches for Nintendo Switch on August 27, 2025. Previous Story of Season remakes, including Friends of Mineral Town, launched on PC and other platforms, though Marvelous didn't say whether Grand Bazaar will as well.

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar drops you in a run-down town whose glory days as a center of commerce are long gone. Rather than just running a farm and becoming the center of village life, your goal in Grand Bazaar is revitalizing the marketplace by selling the best items you produce and contributing to everyone else's success as well. The Grand Bazaar remake trailer showcased a visual overhaul--the original 2.5D is replaced with full, detailed 3D models--and sound clips, along with a new way to travel around the valley via a wind glider. Marvelous also said the remake will feature new characters and new events.

Other remakes, including Friends of Mineral Town, tweaked relationship systems to be more inclusive and added quality-of-life improvements as well, though Marvelous didn't outline other improvements in the reveal.

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During today's Nintendo Direct, Rhythm Heaven Groove, a brand-new installment in the Rhythm Heaven series, was announced. The rhythm-game series hasn't seen a new title since 2015's Rhythm Heaven Megamix, but fans of the musical franchise will be waiting a little while longer, since Rhythm Heaven Groove isn't being released until 2026.

In Rhythm Heaven games, players complete minigames with rhythm mechanics where the gameplay focuses on audio rather than visual cues. Following the rhythm through the level, you're given a score based on your accuracy. Usually, the games are grouped into four or six minigames comprising of predominantly main stages and concluding with a remix. The remix is a compilation or twist on the last few games in the set, all compiled into one level with a different song. In later games, the remixes would feature levels from former Rhythm Games titles.

Depending on your rhythm and accuracy, the game will rank you one of three titles. Being told to "Try Again" is a failure and demands a repeat of the level. Getting a "Try Again" rank three times in a row usually triggers the option to skip the stage. The "OK" rank is a pass, but only just. The "Superb" rank is reserved for players who have excelled at the stage, and will earn a medal. The medals can be used to unlock additional game modes, including endless games, and makes players eligible to participate in randomly selected Perfect Campaigns, where missing even one beat will cause the level to fail and restart. With only three chances to complete a Perfect Campaign, it's the highest-pressure version of Rhythm Heaven on offer.

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During today's Nintendo Direct, Bandai Namco released a new trailer for Shadow Labyrinth, the metroidvania-style adventure infused with Pac-Man. The trailer confirmed that the game will be launching July 18 on Nintendo Switch.

A new trailer for Shadow Labyrinth aired during the Nintendo Direct, which showed the hero--known as Swordsman No. 8--emerging from a machine, only to be greeted by Puck, a floating yellow orb bearing a strong resemblance to Pac-Man. The trailer also highlighted the duo's three main forms, Swordsman No. 8's platforming and swordplay, Mini Puck's classic arcade-style exploration, and a mech called Gaia wielding immense power.

Shadow Labyrinth is a follow-up to the Pac-Man episode of Amazon' Secret Level, the anthology series of short stories based on video games. In it, an unknown figure is greeted by Puck after awakening from a stasis tube, and the two attempt to escape from what is referred to as a "maze." However, in the episode, the unknown figure is killed, and it is revealed that Puck has multiple people held in similar stasis tubes.

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In a surprise announcement during the latest Nintendo Switch Direct, Patapon 1+2 Replay, a remaster of the first two Sony-published titles, was revealed for the Nintendo console. Despite Sony publishing Lego Horizon Adventures on Nintendo Switch last year, this remaster will instead be published by Bandai Namco.

Patapon 1+2 Replay will be the first time the series is available on a portable console since the games launched on PSP. Remasters for the first two games were eventually released on PlayStation 4, but today marks the first time the series has been announced for anything other than a Sony console. The remaster was announced for PC and PS5 shortly after the Direct.

The rhythm-action game challenges you to build formations of units to balance attack and defense as you guide your small army forward to the beat of a drum. Its charming art style, bite-sized stages, and catchy soundtrack have made Patapon a cult classic among PlayStation fans, so it's welcome to see it finally coming to new platforms.

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Back in August 2023, a massive modding project for Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3--known as the Community Edition--was announced by members of the UMvC3 modding community. Today, the team behind the mods has announced that the full version of Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Community Edition is now available to download--and it's brought nearly 70 new characters to the game.

The modders released a new trailer to celebrate the launch of the mod, which showcases a few of the most recent characters modded into the game. Rival Schools's Kyosuke Kagami, Devil May Cry's Nero, and Bad Box Art Megaman--complete with a realistic German Shepherd version of Rush--are all included in the video.

The Community Edition modders have slowly added characters to the game since that initial 2023 announcement, but the pack released today adds 67 different fighters to the playable roster, each with unique moves, animations, and more. The mod's NexusMods listing also includes full movelists for each of the new additions for those interested in testing out some of the newest names.

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Crystal Dynamics has announced that 17 employees have been laid off. The studio--currently working on a new Tomb Raider and Perfect Dark--stated that this will help with "future success," while adding it's not tied to a person's performance or ability.

On X, the official Crystal Dynamics account posted about the layoffs. "We did not make this decision lightly," reads the statement from the developer. "Ultimately, this step was necessary to better align our current business needs and the studio's future success. It is not a reflection of the dedication or ability of those affected."

This morning, Crystal Dynamics made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 17 talented team members. We did not make this decision lightly. Ultimately, this step was necessary to better align our current (cont) https://t.co/wKWtl5Be8S pic.twitter.com/q482GyteoJ

— Crystal Dynamics (@CrystalDynamics) March 26, 2025

In addition, Crystal Dynamics claims that the company's downsizing won't affect development on any projects. Almost two years ago, the studio made similar reassurances about Tomb Raider and Perfect Dark not being disrupted after the massive Embracer Group layoffs and developer closures in 2023.

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In the early '80s, the Commodore 64 was at the forefront of the home computer revolution. Now, retro publisher Ziggurat Interactive is bringing back a selection of the classic games from the C64 era in Cosmi: Forbidden Forests, which will also include a new remaster of Forbidden Forests.

1983's Forbidden Forest and its 1985 sequel, Beyond the Forbidden Forest, are both included in this compilation. But the primary attraction of Cosmi: Forbidden Forests is the modernized version of the title game that transforms the 2D art style into something that resembles a medieval tapestry. Players will have the option of toggling between the original style of Forbidden Forests and the new graphics and audio. A glimpse of the remaster is included in the announcement trailer below.

The remaining games included in this retro release include Aztec Challenge, Caverns of Khafka, Seal, Delta Man, Chomp!, Chernobyl: Nuclear Power Plant Simulation, Spite & Malice, and Navcom 6: The Persian Gulf Defense. These titles retain their C64 style graphics and gameplay, while adding features like the ability to rewind the action or create save states.

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Backbone has revealed its new limited-edition controller for smartphones, and for fans of classic Xbox vibes, this could be a very nostalgic device for mobile gaming. The Backbone One: Xbox Edition controller is available to order now for $110 in limited quantities. The controller is exclusive to the Backbone store and Best Buy.

As an extra bonus, the controller also comes with a free month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which can be used to stream games in the Xbox Cloud Gaming library. The Backbone controller also supports Remote Play with Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

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Similar to last year's Post Malone controller inspired by the musician and Lord of the Rings fan, the Xbox version sports a transparent green shell that allows you to see the inner workings of this device. It's a darker shade of green that references the classic aesthetic of Xbox, and it includes a black PCB and the iconic Xbox button. Beyond that, you're getting the standard range of inputs that you'll find on other Backbone controllers, allowing you to play games with a traditional selection of controls.

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Ancient Greece. An era when the heavenly world where the gods live and the human world are not so far apart. The protagonist loses his memory, but meets a fellow who has the same dream. Each of them will travel together in order to find out who they are. Around the same time, various parts of the world were hit by unprecedented natural disasters; land suddenly collapsing, monsters boiling from holes leading to the underworld...Something was about to happen throughout the world as the scale of the incident expanded day by day. Immortal companions who have lost their memory. Their past is the key to solving the mystery of natural disasters... Since the release of the first work "Glory of Heracles" in 1987, this is a popular RPG series that has spun a story with a lot of hardware, and this work is famous as the best scenario in the series. The story is independent of the other series and can be enjoyed alone.

AI LIMIT is a hardcore action role-playing game created by SENSE GAMES. It has a rich world of exploration and a thrilling battle experience. In the game, the player will control the heroine Arrisa, relying on his ability and will to save the future world full of threats and mysteries. Players can wear a variety of headwear, body, limbs and other components to adjust their abilities and create a unique character dress. The game has a rich variety of weapons, each with a unique combat stance, with a wealth of props for players to find their own fighting rhythm and style. Along the way, players will encounter a wide variety of characters and work with them to advance the story to understand all aspects of the world. The game has multiple endings, all depending on the player's understanding and judgment of the world.

For some reason, you've returned here. Everything has become strange. Your name, your appearance, your voice, and all your memories. Through the help of an old man, you connected with your past memories by way of a strange tape, and embarked on a journey to find your memories. In this dark world, experience strange encounters and wade through fragmented memories. As an investigation officer, uncover the truth and find the source of all the happenings. This is a first-person story-driven psychological horror game. Delve into this dark and strange world with an investigation officer from Roam to find traces of lost memories and fulfill your destiny.

Prepare for an exhilarating new battle royale experience with Mini Royale: Battle for the Bedroom. In this upcoming game, players are transported into a sprawling kids' bedroom, where green army toy soldiers engage in epic combat until only one player or team stands victorious. Mini Royale takes the beloved toy soldier concept to the next level, offering a range of exciting features and unique gameplay mechanics. Players will have access to an array of imaginative weapons and gadgets, including a versatile grapple gun that allows for swift and strategic movement across the battlefield. Gather your friends or go solo as you compete against other toy soldier enthusiasts in Mini Royale: Battle for the Bedroom. Prepare for intense battles, ingenious gadgets, and unforgettable moments in this thrilling and action-packed battle royale game.