Thursday, 19 June 2025
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 19 June 2025.
General6 stories
Support for Beat Saber on PS4 and PS5 ends, shining a light on PSVR2's lack of success
Nintendo reveals new Donkey Kong Bananza gameplay info, including Pauline reveal
Death Stranding animated film confirmed: Original story in the works from Raised by Wolves writer
Christophe Gans' Silent Hill 2 movie adaptation gets a release date - 23rd January 2026
Skate reboot "just months away" from launch, as playtests open up to all who register before end of June
Free Games / Subscription1 story
Sega games for iOS and Android made free before being delisted
- Crazy Taxi Classic
- Golden Axe Classics
- Shining Force Classics
- Sonic CD Classic
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II
- Streets of Rage Classic
- Streets of Rage 2 Classic
- Super Monkey Ball: Sakura
- Virtua Tennis Challenge
Business4 stories
Warner Bros. Games promotes three studio heads as it focuses on four key properties - Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC Comics, and Game of Thrones
Developers at Ubisoft Halifax have filed to unionise
Aggro Crab and Landfall 'side hustle' Peak has sold 100,000 copies in 24 hours
A Roblox game about growing vegetables is seemingly now bigger than Fortnite - 16m concurrent users
- Editor note: for context, PUBG holds the Steam record for most concurrent players... at 3.3m.
Rumors3 stories