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A new Super Robot Wars is on the way, and it’s adding a popular Gundam to the mix. Super Robot Wars Y has been officially announced for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, and it’ll see Suletta Mercury from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury make her series debut.

Announced today during the March 2025 Nintendo Direct, the latest Super Robot Wars wasn’t shown in the English broadcast, but did appear in Nintendo’s Japanese stream. Regardless, Super Robot Wars Y is planned for reelase in the West, arriving sometime in 2025.

If you’re unfamilar, Super Robot Wars is a long-running tactical RPG series that mashes up mecha and robot from across many different series. While the heavy-hitters like Mobile Suit Gundam, Mazinger, Macross, and more are all seen throughout the series, you’ll also see the occassional outside-shot like Cowboy Bebop or Magic Knight Rayearth.

This entry marks Gundam: The Witch From Mercury’s Super Robot Wars debut, putting Suletta alongside a legion of past Gundam pilots appearing in the new title. Alongside G-Witch, Bandai Namco highlights a few other series making appearances in Super Robot Wars Y:

• Combattler V
• Aura Battler Dunbine
• Mobile Fighter G Gundam
• Majestic Prince
• Macross Delta: Passionate Wakure
• Code Geass Lelouch of the Re;surrection
• Getter Robo Arc

Spearheading development is Bandai Namco Forge Digitals, formerly known as B.B. Studio, which has worked on the past Super Robot Wars games.

No date has been set yet, but Super Robot Wars Y is targeting a 2025 release for PS5, Switch, and PC.

Be sure to check out our round-up of everything announced at the March 2025 Nintendo Direct to catch anything else you might have missed in the showcase.

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If you’ve been itching for a game that lets you dive into the world of Game of Thrones, then the free-to-play action-adventure RPG Game of Thrones: Kingsroad that’s coming soon on PC and mobile will be right up your alley.

Bringing a new, original story in Westeros, it’s set during the latter half of Season 4 of Game of Thrones. Your character is a new addition to the series lore, an heir to House Tyre, a minor house in the North that has been caught up in the web of political intrigue of the realm

Your journey will bring you into contact with well-known characters like Jon Snow, Samwell Tarly, Lord Varys, and Cersei Lannister, and you’ll see events you’ve never gotten to witness before — from House Bolton’s shifting allegiances to the rise of the White Walkers. Players will travel across the continent to iconic locations like King’s Landing, Castle Black, and Highgarden, which have been re-created to emulate their look from the show.

The game’s open world exploration allows you to freely roam through each of these locations, as well as the wilderness beyond the Wall and in new hidden towns to discover. Within each town, you’ll find unique quests and challenges to complete that tie into the rich lore of the Game of Thrones world.

As well as the familiar main quests to propel the story forward and side quests to keep you bust, there are a bevy of other activities to keep you entertained as you explore Westeros. Faction and Estate tasks let you earn money, gear and crafting items to customize your loadout and character just the way you want to.

This being Westeros, your travels will be full of danger — and not just the political kind. The realm is full of desperate people willing to kill to survive, which is where the action RPG combat comes in.

Combat is defined by the character’s class. There are three options: Knight, Sellsword, or Assassin, each of which is inspired by types of characters in Game of Thrones. The Knight is based on Westerosi knights. They use a longsword and rely on precise, calculated strikes. The Sellsword relies on raw, brute strength, inspired by Wildlings and the Dothraki. Assassin wields double daggers with deadly agility, inspired by the Faceless Men and fighters of Dorne.

Each class offers unique gear, traits, and skills, so how your character evolves is up to you. Trait trees are separated into Attack, Defense, and Support, each containing unique nodes that grant fixed effects. Players can choose to specialize in one of those areas or spread out their growth to be a jack of all trades. Four skill slots are available, where you can equip special skills you unlock, and each class has its own unique skills.

Combat is reliant on reading enemy attacks and reacting accordingly. Players can guard and parry, but some enemies have unblockable attacks that can only be avoided if dodged. That means you need to pay attention, analyze enemy attack patterns, and strike when the opportunity is right. You’ll need to think strategically to claim victory over your enemies, this isn’t a system where you simply mash one button over and over to win every fight.

In addition to the main single-player story mode, there’s a multiplayer mode called Altar of Memories where players can team up with others to fight legendary creatures.. That includes ice spiders the size of hounds, unicorns from Skagos, majestic griffins, and grotesque cockatrices.

The game will launch in Early Access on March 26, and you can pre-register for Game of Thrones: Kingsroad on the official website right now. Pre-registration is available on both PC and mobile devices, and you can wishlist it on Steam. It’s scheduled to release in 2025 and will offer cross-play and cross-progression across all its platforms. To stay up to date on all news and updates, you can also follow the game on Twitter, Facebook, and Discord.

Cult-classic rhythm strategy bundle Patapon 1+2 Replay is bringing two beloved PSP games to PC, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 5 (PS5) July 11.

The two-pack remaster was revealed during today’s March 2025 Nintendo Direct alongside gameplay and its summer launch plan. It’s a move that finally allows two hidden-gem PlayStation games from the mid-2000s to stomp onto non-PlayStation platforms for the first time while updating them for PS5 players, too.

“Having lived in the desolate frontier for years, the Patapon tribe was driven from their home by the Zigoton army,” an official description from new publisher Bandai Namco said.

“This drove them to become fierce warrior spirits that can only be commanded by the beat of the war drum, played by the Mighty One (the player). Their wait has finally come to an end as the drums of war are heard once again by the Almighty’s return to guide the Patapon tribe through their adventures to fight against challenging enemies and return them to their homeland.”

Patapon 1+2 Replay seems to come with a few upgrades not seen in the 2017 PS4 remasters. Bandai Namco specifically lists upgraded graphics as one of the more noticeable additions, though returning Almighty will also notice added Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulty modes, as well as timing adjustment and constant command display options. While Patapon 1+2 Replay aims to bring the classic 2007 and 2008 titles to players better than ever, there’s no sign of the PSP’s 2011 title, Patapon 3.

Patapon may not be one of PlayStation’s more recognizable franchises, but it’s still a name that has been associated with the brand for nearly 20 years. It’s unclear why or how it’s leaping other platforms now or if the series will continue to blossom with any new entries in the future. There’s also been no mention of a potential Xbox version, so it’s best to expect Patapon 1+2 Replay on PC, Switch, and PS5 to be where things end for now.

For more on today’s news, you can catch up with everything else revealed during the March 2025 Nintendo Direct here.

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Nintendo has confirmed the Nintendo Switch 2’s mysterious new Joy-Con button is indeed the C button, as had been rumored.

Confirmation comes from the just announced and released Nintendo Today! app, whose App Store and Google Play store listings include an image that, when looked at closely, reveals the C on the button.

The new button was revealed alongside the Switch 2 earlier this year, but at the time images of the new Joy-Con did not include a letter on the button. Prior reports indicated it was called the “C” button, and so it has proved.

Power banks are more essential than ever, but the higher prices for reliable brands can always be off-putting, making this £6.99 deal on the Anker 313 with its 10000 mAh one of the biggest steals I’ve seen in the Amazon Spring Sale so far.

Originally £22.99, you also need to apply a 50% voucher coupon available until March 31. With its decent features and high-quality design, you’ll regret missing out on this one if you’re in need of a portable charger.

Instead of going all the way to Mordor, bring its coolest part right in your living room by building a LEGO Lord of the Rings model of Sauron’s central stronghold, Barad-dûr—now £339.99 thanks to a £60 price slash at the Amazon Spring Deal Days sale.

“At best this could be a Jason Statham movie,” reads a two-star Goodreads review of Levon’s Trade, the first of 12 novels following the exploits of Royal Marines commando-turned-construction worker-turned-vigilante Levon Cade. Well, congratulations to that clairvoyant user, because Levon’s Trade has now become the Jason Statham vehicle A Working Man – though the word “best” doesn’t belong anywhere in the conversation about it. The British action star can do, and has done, much better than this raggedy and aesthetically unpleasing adaptation, a lousy extension of his creative partnership with The Beekeeper director David Ayer (who performs the same role here) and his fellow Expendable Sylvester Stallone (who co-wrote the script with Ayer).

It starts off well enough, with Levon demonstrating his unique skillset on some nameless thugs trying to rough up one of his construction co-workers. He swiftly deals with them by throwing a bucket of nails, a bag of cement, and a fair few punches – choreography that makes fun use of the tools around him. But the fights grow excruciatingly dull from there. After Jenny (Arianna Riva), the teenage daughter of his boss, Joe (Michael Peña), is kidnapped, Levon investigates her disappearance, a quest that puts him in the unimaginatively depicted crosshairs of a one-dimensional drug-dealing biker gang, cartoonish human traffickers, and a Russian mafia brotherhood seemingly ripped off from the John Wick franchise.

The later parts of A Working Man lack thrills because there’s never any sense that Levon is genuinely in danger. He’s so superhumanly efficient and deadly, he makes easy work of every goon who squares up to him. Even Dutch (Chidi Ajufo), a drug baron and fellow former marine who spends most of his time sitting on a ridiculous chrome throne in the back of a biker bar, lasts about five seconds against our hero.

But it’s mostly over-zealous editing and tight framing of the gritty, unflatteringly colored images on screen that do Statham a disservice. He battles bad guys in the back of a van and Dutch’s bar without any of the visual finesse, thrilling use of space, or playfulness that we’ve seen in his past films like War, or in the Transporter and Fast and Furious franchises. A Working Man is very bash, bash, bash, break, break, break – copy-and-paste choreography that only grows lazier across a 116-minute runtime. That tediousness even sucks the life out of the operatic setup for Levon’s climactic confrontation with the bad guys, which takes place in an old house fit for a Meat Loaf video (complete with a piano on which Jenny, in one heavy-handed scene shoehorned between fight sequences, performs Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata). This should be the staging ground for some over-the-top entertainment, but sadly it’s not.

For all the ass-kicking qualifications Ayer and Stallone bring to a character like Levon (only to squander them), they’re not entirely equipped to deal with what makes him tick. Whatever he got up to in his previous 22 years of military service left Levon with untreated PTSD and violent rage, a mental-health issue that’s never really made clear in Statham’s drier-than-usual performance. It is used against him in a battle over custody of his daughter, Merry (Isla Gie), though. Levon’s wife’s offscreen death by suicide makes room for this threadbare subplot; “she battled depression” is all the explanation given. The bland direction of a scene where Merry tells her dad, “I’m mad at mama for dying,” offers zero emotional depth nor room exploration as the story progresses, typical of A Working Man’s laughable attempts to fill out its characters.

It’s also emblematic of the unintentional knee-slappers that clutter Stallone and Ayer’s script. “I don’t trust people, I trust biology,” Levon tells a drug-dealing bartender at one point. (Your guess as to what that means is as good as mine.) Stranger Things’ David Harbour makes an appearance as one of Levon’s former military comrades; after reflecting on how he’s still alive thanks to Levon, Statham comes in with a flat delivery of “I’m sorry I couldn’t save your eyes.” You’ll be forgiven for rolling yours.

A Working Man tops off its feeble fights, clumsy dialogue, and caricatured villains with some pretty outlandish costume choices. Peña seems to wear the same shirt and tie in all of his scenes, while Jenny and her college gal pals dress like middle-aged paralegals for a night out. (Has anyone involved with this movie met Gen Z?) Then there are the flamboyant tracksuits a pair of Russian mobsterswear for a joke that never lands, and the cheap-looking goth attire of the henchmen. It’s an ill-conceived world where everyone looks like guests at a fancy dress party no one quite understands the theme of.

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Score: 3

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WonderCon 2025 is upon us, meaning convention season is back again. Comixology is kicking off the show by revealing the next four books joining the ever-growing Comixology Originals library. That includes a new series written by Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim, The Adventures of Ulysses Monarch.

IGN can exclusively reveal cover art and early details for all for of these new books. Read on to learn more.

Alienated

Written, Colored and Lettered by Taki Soma

Art by John Broglia

Cover art by Michael Avon Oeming

The time has come. The world wakes one morning to the news of alien contact. Finally. But they are all dead…except for one. What does it want, why did they arrive, and why did they all perish? When TJ, a retired teacher, and his grandkids come in contact with the alien they are determined to protect it and find some answers.

Length: 6 issues

Release Date: April 8

The Adventures of Ulysses Monarch

Written by Marc Guggenheim

Art by Harvey Tolibao

Colors by Mark Englert

Letters by Diego Sanches

Cover by Harvey Tolibao with colors by Kevin Tolibao

The Year 3026. Adventurer and archeologist Ulysses Monarch searches for rare artifacts left by an ancient civilization.

Length: 5 issues

Release Date: April 29

Edgeworld: Season 3

Written by Chuck Austen

Art by Chuck Austen and Patrick Olliffe

Colors by Lee Loughridge

Letters by Chuck Austen and Jodi Wynne

Covers by Chuck Austen and Patrick Olliffe

Following the events of the last season, Edgeworld continues for an intense third and final season featuring a rich and complex world of characters and stories. An edgy, potent adventure that’s part science fiction, part detective series, part western, Edgeworld is a unique blend of energy, comedy and darkness.

Length: 5 issues

Release Date: May 13

Outer Lands

Written by Matthew Arnold

Art by Davide Gianfelice

Cover by Jock

When a young prince living in an Ancient Grecian world is exiled to a prison isle to keep him from assuming the throne, he unintentionally discovers a massive global conspiracy in this science-fiction fantasy mash-up.

Length: Original graphic novel

Release Date: July 29

Like all Comixology Originals titles, these books will be free to read for subscribers of Comixology Unlimited and Kindle Unlimited, as well as available for a la carte purchase.

For those interested in learning more about these and other upcoming titles (like the recently announced sci-fi graphic novel Major Thomás), Comixology will be holding a WonderCon panel called “Comixology Originals: Lights, Camera…Comics!” The panel will be held on Saturday, March 29 from 3-4pm PT in Room: 213CD. Panelists include Austen, writer/producer Matthew Arnold, and The Lycan co-creator Thomas Jane.

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We bet you didn’t have a game like this on your BINGO card for this week. Blue Scarab (made up former Helldivers 2, Battlefield, World of Warcraft, and Star Stable developers) has announced Equinox: Homecoming, the trailer for which (you can watch it above) will take you on quite a ride (no pun intended). It’s in development for PC.

So what is it? As the team at describes it, “Equinox is an open-world MMORPG for fans of murder mysteries, cozy escapism, and horses! Saddle up and charge into a mysterious adventure. Every trail leads to wonder and intrigue while uncovering an occult murder mystery.” The first screenshots are in the gallery below.

“We’re very excited to see what people make of Equinox. We’ve had faith throughout development that there is an audience out there for different and interesting experiences,” said Craig Morrison, the Studio Creative Director. “Yes, there is definitely a risk, but we’re in a position where we can take this shot and try to provide players with a truly unique world and story.”

Yes, there are cozy woods beautifully scenic hillsides to peacefully ride through, but there’s also the mystery of the sudden disappearance of your mother that needs to be solved. You’ll bond with your horse and with your friends as you uncover the occultish mystery. Wishlist Equinox: Homecoming on Steam if you’re interested.

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Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will start on the same day as the Switch 2 Direct, April 2, according to an official blog post recently released by Best Buy Canada.

The blog post is a comprehensive guide on how to pre-order the Switch 2, and states: “Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 will open on April 2nd at Best Buy Canada.”

It’s yet to be confirmed if it’s just Best Buy Canada commencing pre-orders on April 2, or whether other major retailers will follow suit.

Best Buy’s Switch 2 page for the U.S. is yet to have any mention of a pre-order start date, but it does allow users to sign up to be notified of news on pre-orders.

Switch 2 was revealed near the start of the year, with a short trailer from Nintendo confirming the new hardware alongside a brand new Mario Kart game, and closed with confirmation of a Switch 2 Direct presentation on April 2.

Nintendo has also recently announced a Nintendo Direct focused on the Nintendo Switch. The direct is set for 7 am PT today, March 27, and will feature around 30 minutes of upcoming games for the Nintendo Switch.

There was also a familiar reminder from Nintendo that there will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during the March 27 presentation. Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct is currently set for 6 am PT on April 2.

Nintendo is also hosting various fan events in the days following the Direct next week. North American locations will include New York from April 4 to 6, Los Angeles from April 11 to 13, Dallas from April 25 to 27, and Toronto from April 25 to 27.

European locations include Paris from April 4 to 6, London from April 11 to 13, Milan from April 25 to 27, Berlin from April 25 to 27, Madrid from May 9 to May 11, and Amsterdam from May 9 to 11. Nintendo is also visiting Melbourne from May 10 to 11, Tokyo from April 26 to 27, and Seoul from May 31 to June 1.

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