The Yakuza series—which has rebranded to Like a Dragon with recent entries—always features a number of different minigames and side activities for you to pour your time into. These range from simple games to earn extra cash, to deep, long-running side stories, with unique mechanics that only exist for the minigames. Across the franchise, you could lose hundreds of hours to these minigames.

Promise Mascot Agency is the newest game from Kaizen Game Works, the developer behind Paradise Killer. At its core, Promise Mascot Agency is a management sim where you run a mascot agency, sending mascots to different events around town.

Ghost of Yotei, the sequel to PlayStation's hit samurai game Ghost of Tsushima, is set to release on PS5 on October 2, 2025. While the original was well-regarded, there is room for improvement. Here's what I'm hoping to see.

Super Massive, the developer behind the PlayStationexclusive Until Dawn, The Quarry, and the Dark Pictures Anthology series, has reportedly canceled a Blade Runner game. Super Massive's latest release was The Casting of Frank Stone, a narrative-horror game set in the Dead by Daylight universe. It released to middling reviews, sitting at a 68 on Metacritic for the PS5 version. Supermassive Games also has another game set to release later in 2025, Directive 8020, the next entry in the Dark Pictures series, featuring more action and a sci-fi setting, which sounds pretty similar to the pitch for a Blade Runner game that the company had apparently been working on.

Xbox and Bethesda shadow dropped The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC, an Unreal Engine 5 remaster of the beloved fantasy RPG. While the "remastered" in the title might undersell it, this style of remaster includes gameplay improvements, new content, and all the DLC packaged together, making it feel like a much bigger overhaul compared to some other remastered games.