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Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition is back on sale for its Black Friday price at Amazon. Nintendo and PlayStation Final Fantasy fans can get the six-game retro collection for $40 (was $75) for Switch and PS4. This is a true physical edition with all six games on the Switch cartridge or PS4 disc, and the collection is fully compatible with Switch 2 and PS5.

Bluey embodies the talent, heart and character of Australia's creative industries. But unfortunately, until now, the beloved franchise's video games had a track record spottier than her friend Chloe the dalmatian. Some parents treated Budge Studios' 2023 mobile game Bluey: Let's Play! with caution, with its $9.99 monthly subscription and persistent adverts for Budge's other licensed games. Later that same year, Artax Games' Bluey: The Videogame was widely criticised on release for its barely two-hour run time, technical problems and $60 price tag.

You only get one chance to make a first impression. Whether you're launching a gadget, premiering a hit movie, or simply going on a date, there is little room for error. For businesses, this is especially true when offering something brand new. It's easy for us to forget that the mighty Sony PlayStation was, at one time, an untested product. And soon after its release, with everything on the line, it dropped one of the most respected and influential RPGs of all time.

Physical edition preorders are available for $50 from Amazon, GameStop, Target, and Walmart. Digital preorders are also available with the same perks, and there's a Digital Deluxe Edition that comes with even more bonuses going for $70--that is, unless you're on PC, in which case you can grab the Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake standard edition for just $42.49 (was $50) or the Deluxe Edition for $59.49 (was $70).

Dubbed "The Thank You Update", this is no mere costume/weapon set, though there's over a dozen each of those to go find too. This is an all-encompassing update that brings everything from quality-of-life updates--a Picto/Lumina filter, a long-overdue photo mode, and an option to escape from battles, to a completely new area called "Verso's Drafts," with a bunch of new story content, mostly about Verso's childhood, and the final music tracks written by Lorien Testard for the game.

Orbitals is a two-player co-op adventure, where players step into the roles of Maki and Omura to save their home from a supernatural cosmic storm. Aside from showing off the game's gorgeous '80s anime-inspired visuals, Orbitals' debut trailer also highlights how Maki and Omura will traverse space and work together to solve puzzles. In one example of how the game's co-op will work, the trailer shows one character piloting a spaceship while another operates the ship's turret.

Forza Horizon 6 will star in Microsoft's first gaming showcase of 2026. Rockstar is still claiming fired employees were leaking game secrets. And the anime studio behind Neon Genesis Evangelion is officially no more. Welcome to the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku 's daily roundup of gaming news and culture, which is even later than usual today because we're all hung over from The Game Awards.

Today at The Game Awards, after a brief tease earlier in the week, The Witness developer Jonathan Blow and his team at Thekla, Inc. revealed their next game, Order of the Shining Star, which is set to launch in 2026. Players will explore four distinct worlds in OSS, with a combined 1,000 puzzles to solve, according to the announcement trailer.

Bradley the Badger 's trailer sees the titular character enthusiastically setting out on his latest adventure, to discover his house is now inside some sort of grimdark Soulslike. Walls are made of petrified hands, some holding blue-glowing lanterns, and then a title card drops in reading "Badgerborne." But as Bradley to platform around in this unpleasant reality, he discovers that it's very much not finished.

In terms of backstory and mythology, Warframe is a little convoluted. The short version is that players control Tenno, warriors who were asleep in suspended animation for centuries before being awakened in the middle of an intergalactic war. There have been 13 years of story expansions, and it's a little too much to take in all at once. And yet Herzog's delivery goes a long way towards making it sound very compelling.

PlayStation had on X that it would have news about Saros at The Game Awards, and unfortunately, fans excited for the new Housemarque project will need to wait a little longer to get their hands on it. The game has been delayed from its planned March release. But there's only a short time until the new date of April 30, and pre-orders are open now.

Frictional Games is back with a new game that looks primed to carry on the studio's tradition of excellence in horror. It's called Ontos, and it's slated to launch on PC, PlayStation and Xbox next year. The trailer debuted during The Game Awards 2025. The company's past projects include Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA, and this new title is also looking pretty dang creepy.

A lot of trailers drop during The Game Awards, but the comedy of Bradley the Badger stood out from the pack. The conceit is similar to Wreck-It Ralph. Bradley, the protagonist of a fictional platforming series, is suddenly transported into the worlds of other unfinished video games; the trailer shows a badger-ified Bloodborne, Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us. He also has access to a kit of dev tools that let him modify these incomplete projects, getting a taste of making a game.