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Metro
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
You can play Switch 2 at Gamescom 2025 as Nintendo confirms attendance
After skipping last year's event, Nintendo has confirmed it will be attending Gamescom 2025, just two months after the Switch 2's launch. Now that E3 is no more, Gamescom is the world's biggest gaming event, based on its size and visitor numbers, but one company was notably absent last year. Nintendo skipped last year's event, held annually in Cologne, Germany, and while no explicit reason was given at the time, it was presumably so the company could prepare for the Switch 2's launch. Nintendo has now confirmed it will return for Gamescom 2025, which takes place from August 20 until August 24. The news was announced on Nintendo's German account on X. 'Mark your calendar in red,' the post reads. 'Nintendo will be back at Gamescom in 2025. We look forward to welcoming you to Cologne from August 20th to 24th!' There are no details on what Nintendo will show, but it will likely focus on the Switch 2 line-up beyond its initial launch on June 5, 2025. Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza will both be released by the time Gamescom 2025 rolls around, so it might be the place to showcase Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokémon Legends Z-A, which are both slated for later this year, albeit without exact release dates. More Trending Drag x Drive, aka the wheelchair basketball game, is also set to launch at some point in the summer, while Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment and Kirby Air Riders both have vague 2025 release dates, so it's possible they could be playable too. Neither Microsoft or Sony have announced whether they're attending Gamescom 2025, but the latter has skipped for the last several years. With Marathon and Ghost of Yōtei on the horizon though, it's possible Sony could make an appearance. As usual, Gamescom 2025 will be preceded by Opening Night Live, hosted by Geoff Keighley, which serves as a starting presentation for the event with game announcements. Before Gamescom, Keighley is set to host Summer Game Fest on Friday June 6, which will be followed by an Xbox showcase on Sunday, June 8. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Take-Two boss has zero interest in playing GTA 6: 'I'm not a gamer' MORE: Stalker Legends Of The Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition review – Chornobyl horrors MORE: People shouldn't complain about £80 games says ex-PlayStation boss
Newsweek
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
INTERVIEW: Henk Rogers Changed Gaming, Now He Wants to Change the World
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Henk Rogers is best known as the man who brought Tetris to the world. In 1988, Rogers stumbled upon the game at a Las Vegas trade show, and quickly worked to secure the exclusive rights to the game, striking deals with gaming giants like Nintendo to bring the game to the masses. The rest is history, but now Rogers is looking forward to the future — and he's got big plans to redefine his legacy. Rogers doesn't spend much time in the gaming world anymore. He still checks over pitches to The Tetris Company every now and then, alongside Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, but the daily ins and outs of the company are handled by his daughter. Instead, Rogers has his mind turned to the bigger problems in the world, with climate change and pollution at the top of his list. Henk Rogers on stage during a panel at Gamescom Latam in Sao Paulo, Brazil in May 2025. Henk Rogers on stage during a panel at Gamescom Latam in Sao Paulo, Brazil in May 2025. Gamescom I sat down for a chat with Rogers at Gamescom Latam in São Paulo, Brazil, who was there promoting his new book, The Perfect Game - Tetris: From Russia With Love. It's a first-hand chronicle of the real story behind the popularization of Tetris, written in response to Jon S. Baird's Apple TV film Tetris. It started its life after Rogers read an early script for the film, with the intention of passing on some notes so scriptwriters could give it a little bit more authenticity. There was so much to the story that Rogers never finished his notes in time, and after the movie was finished, he thought to expand the timeline, detailing his time as a game developer before Tetris and what happened after. It's a fascinating story, and the book is well worth a read, but our conversation quickly turned to something more important than Tetris: the state of the world. Since 2005, Rogers' attention has been focused solely on making the world a better place, and it starts with renewable energy. After a serious heart issue – a 100% blockage in the widowmaker artery – and a frightful ambulance ride, Rogers started to take stock of his life. "In that ambulance, the first thing I said was 'You can't be f***ing kidding me, I haven't spent any of the money yet,'" Rogers recalls. "The second thing I said was 'No, I'm not going, I still have stuff to do.' And in the recovery room I got to thinking, what did I mean by stuff? I already made enough money, my wife doesn't need me anymore, my kids are all done with college. What's this stuff?" Rogers says he started to work backwards, to figure out, in his words, "what's going to piss me off at the end of my life if I don't do anything about it." He came up with a list of missions he needed to complete before his time on earth came to an end, and the first came to him in the back of a newspaper in Hawaii. "It said 'Oh, by the way, we are going to kill all the coral in the world by the end of the century.' What the hell are you talking about?" Rogers says. "It's ocean acidification, caused by carbon dioxide being absorbed into the ocean, caused by us. Okay, mission number one: end the use of carbon-based fuel. It's that simple, full stop." The cover of The Perfect Game - Tetris: From Russia With Love. The cover of The Perfect Game - Tetris: From Russia With Love. Di Angelo Productions He founded the Blue Planet Foundation in 2007, with the lofty goal of ending the use of carbon-based fuels in Hawaii first, and then the rest of the US. That might sound like an unattainable mission, but he's already well on his way. In 2015, with the Blue Planet Foundation leading the charge, Hawaii passed a law requiring the transition to 100% renewable energy by 2045. Since then, 15 other states, including California, New York, and Illinois, have passed similar legislation. Half of the US population now lives in a state that is legally required to transition to renewable energy, and Rogers is directly responsible for making that happen. But the US is just one country, only 4.3% of the world's population, and if Rogers' goal of ending the use of carbon-based fuels was going to happen, he needed to think bigger. "My new NGO is called the Blue Planet Alliance," Rogers tells me. "What we're doing is we're bringing island countries first to Hawaii to show them what we did and then teach them how to do it, and then send them back. So far, we've brought 26 islands in two countries to Hawaii." These island regions are just the first step. Once his model is proven and adopted in smaller nations, he plans to roll it out to bigger countries, bigger polluters. And then, once he's done with climate change, he wants to keep going, fixing other problems facing the world. Much like Tetris, it's all about placing one block at a time, planning ahead, and clearing out the world's problems, one line at a time. "My message isn't just about renewable energy, it's about anything that's wrong with the world. Pick a date and say that's your deadline. By then, it has to be fixed. Once everybody understands it has to be fixed by then, it becomes easy to understand the roadmap to get there." Right now, Rogers is remembered for his contributions to gaming, but he isn't taking no for an answer when it comes to fixing the rest of the world. His legacy, as he sees it, can't be about something as simple as a puzzle video game, it has to be bigger, bolder. And it has to be successful, no matter what. "That's all there is to it," an impassioned Rogers says to me. "Nothing is gonna stop me from doing this, and that's just what we need to do. Nothing's going to stop us from fixing climate change by 2045. It's as simple as that." Disclosure: Oliver Brandt attended Gamescom Latam as a guest of Abragames, with flights and accommodation provided by the organization.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It feels to me like the closer we get to the Nintendo Switch 2's June launch and the, apparently, $80 games associated with it, the more people are fighting with themselves over what is and isn't worth it. But at least Sony veteran and previous head of PlayStation Indies Shuhei Yoshida is free from inner turmoil – he thinks relatively expensive, high quality video games are unequivocally necessary. Speaking to Critical Hits Games in a video interview during the recent Gamescom Latam, Yoshida says "when you look at life in general, other products in price have increased, you know, way more than the game price. So I think it was almost too late for the video game companies to start looking at the pricing structure." "I don't believe that every game has to be priced the same," Yoshida continues. "Each game has different value it provides, or the size of budget. I totally believe it's up to the publisher – or developers self-publishing – decision to price their product to the value that they believe they are bringing in." Nintendo openly shares this mindset, as current Nintendo of America product experience VP Bill Trinen told IGN in April: "We just look at each individual game and we look at the content and the value of that game, and then we say, 'what is the right price for the value of this entertainment?'" The developer elected to price its strange Switch 2 tutorial, Welcome Tour, at $10 – instead of making it free like PlayStation's comparable Astro's Playroom. Yoshida continues to say that, "In terms of actual price of $70 or $80, for really great games, I think it will still be a steal in terms of the amount of entertainment that the top games, top quality games bring to people compared to other form of entertainment." "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money," he continues, "I don't think they should be complaining." "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games.
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Mafia The Old Country release date, platforms, and more
Image via Hangar 13. After nine long years, the long-hailed Mafia gaming franchise is back with Mafia: The Old Country. As part of 2K's Gamescom showcase, the fourth mainline entry in the Mafia franchise was revealed in August 2024. The publisher has previously promised that the game would launch in 2025. The Old Country will serve as the prequel of the very first game of the series, which actually set the tone for the franchise in 2002. Operation Sindoor 'Did not want to...': Pak def min gives absurd excuse for army's failure to withstand Op Sindoor Blackouts, sirens & Pak's failed attacks: 10 things that happened in the last 36 hrs '1971 war was not remotely as terrifying': Residents of border areas shell-shocked It's been almost a year-long wait for the fans, but that wait is over because Hangar 13 has recently revealed the trailer of the game, announcing the release date and other info. Everything you need to know about Mafia: The Old Country Mafia: The Old Country is releasing on August 8. | Image via Hangar 13. Hangar 13 has shared the game's first official trailer as well, bearing the official release date which is on August 8, 2025. However, it was already leaked . Initially it was confirmed that the game would be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows. Now, the developers have confirmed it will be released on GeForce Now as well. So, whoever owns a subscription of this service, will be able to stream it on PC. Mafia: The Old Country - 'Whatever it Takes' Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games In this game, players have to fill their shoes in the role of Enzo Favara who will embark upon his journey in Cosa Nostra in 1900s's Sicily, where he will fight for his survival. The interesting part is that this upcoming title is not going to be priced in the typical modern AAA bracket. The game is now available to pre-order in two editions: Standard and Deluxe, which are priced at $49.99 and $59.99 respectively. For those who pre-order, the Solidato Pack is included with both editions. The Soldato ensemble, the Scannaturi Speciale knife, the Tesor horse and accessories, and the Lupara charm are all included. Along with all of these, Deluxe Edition comes with Padrino Pack, Gatto Nero Pack, and many other perks. Not only is this the first mainline entry in the Mafia franchise, this installment also marks the first title to be powered by Unreal Engine 5. More information on Mafia: The Old Country will be revealed by Hangar 13 at its next PAX East developer panel, which is set to begin later today at 2 PM. ET/11 a.m. PT/7 PM BST. Read More: Mafia: The Old Country trailer gives a sneak peek into the brutal underworld of early 90s Sicily
CNBC
06-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
EA tops fourth-quarter bookings as CEO touts 'Battlefield' reveal
Visitors play the EA Sports FC 25 game in front of a placard with England's midfielder Jude Bellingham at the Electronic Arts booth during the media day at the Gamescom video games trade fair in Cologne, western Germany, on Aug. 21, 2024. Electronic Arts topped fiscal fourth-quarter bookings estimates Tuesday. Shares rose about 7%. Here's how the company did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings : 98 cents per share. The figure is not comparable to analyst estimates : 98 cents per share. The figure is not comparable to analyst estimates Revenue (bookings): $1.80 billion vs. $1.56 billion expected The video game maker said it expects bookings to range between $7.60 billion and $8 billion for the fiscal 2026 year, ahead of a StreetAccount estimate of $7.62 billion. Net bookings for the 2025 fiscal year totaled $7.355 billion. First-quarter bookings guidance came up short of analyst expectations. EA expects the figure to range between $1.175 billion and $1.275 billion, versus a $1.275 billion projection from analysts. CEO Andrew Wilson said that the company's FC and College Football games contributed to a strong year of bookings. "As we look to the future, we're confident in our ability to execute across a deep pipeline — beginning this summer with the highly anticipated reveal of 'Battlefield,' a pivotal step in delivering on our next generation of blockbuster entertainment," he wrote. Net income for Q4 2025 grew nearly 40% to $254 million, or 98 cents a share, from 182 million, or 67 cents in the fourth quarter of Q4 2024. For the year, net income totaled 1.12 billion, or $4.25 per share, down from $1.27 billion, or $4.68 per share last year. The company also announced a 19-cent per share dividend.
