Video Game News Roundup – March 23, 2025
Welcome to our daily roundup of the latest video game news! Today’s highlights include:
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series’ most successful game yet
- Eagle-eyed streamer spots that Roberta Williams’ portrait in King’s Quest 4 is based on her author photo on the back of the game box: ‘I never noticed it before.’
- Switch 2 Will Be Nintendo’s Best Ever Console From Day One
Let’s dive into the details of what’s happening in the world of gaming today.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series’ most successful game yet
Source: PC Gamer – March 23, 2025
Just three days after its release date, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has hit yet another milestone and passed 2 million players. According to Ubisoft, “Assassin’s Creed Shadows has now surpassed the launches of AC Origins and Odyssey.” Shadows had already sailed past 1 million players in its first 24 hours, easily breaking AC Valhalla’s record. To put that into perspective, when Valhalla released in 2020, Ubisoft claimed it was its biggest PC launch ever (although the game’s Steam playerbase remains smaller than other games in the AC franchise). Five years later, Shadows seems to have eclipsed even that. Assassins Creed Shadows Review – YouTube Watch On
This record-breaking wave of players at launch is thanks in part to the fact that Ubisoft didn’t wait to release Shadows on Steam—Valhalla didn’t arrive on Steam until a full two years after its original release date.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Eagle-eyed streamer spots that Roberta Williams’ portrait in King’s Quest 4 is based on her author photo on the back of the game box: ‘I never noticed it before.’
Source: PC Gamer – March 23, 2025
Ever had that feeling that something’s been staring you in the face for years and you simply never realised? Like the fact that Simon Pegg is in Band of Brothers. Or the fact that Andrew Scott is also in Band of Brothers. In fact, I get this feeling pretty much every time I rewatch Band of Brothers, because it’s stuffed to bursting with young actors who went on to become massive stars. Anyway, a similar flash of recognition recently happened to adventure game streamer Mike Piontek, who discovered an interesting fact about the Sierra classic King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella that was staring him in the face twice at the same time.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Switch 2 Will Be Nintendo’s Best Ever Console From Day One
Source: IGN – March 23, 2025
This is a guest column from Nintendo Life , the world’s most-visited independent Nintendo website. It covers the world of Nintendo from all angles: the games, hardware, and history with in-depth reviews and features, and also the fan community, culture, and conversation that’s formed around gaming’s most beloved company and characters. For Nintendo fans the world over, time seems to be passing slower than ever. Since the January reveal of Switch 2 (the official Nintendo one, not the leaks weeks before) we’ve all been crossing days off the calendar counting down to the April Nintendo Direct , when we’ll finally get a proper deep dive at the hardware, a look at new games, and perhaps even a release date.
Read the full article at IGN →
Daily Deals: SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Headset, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and More
Source: IGN – March 23, 2025
SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Multi-System Gaming Headset 0 $349.99 save 48% $181.99 at Amazon The flagship SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset is on sale for just $181.99 today at Amazon, and this is one of the best gaming headsets you can buy on the market. You can cancel out noise in your environment to focus on the game, and the swappable batteries make it so you never have to go without a charge.
Read the full article at IGN →
Chaotic courier sim Deliver At All Costs will crash through your letterbox this May, and its latest trailer is even weirder than I expected
Source: PC Gamer – March 22, 2025
After more than four years of development, the slapstick driving sim Deliver At All Costs finally has a release date and will let you cause carnage in its ’50s-inspired world in just a couple of months. Developed by Studio Far Out Games, Deliver At All Costs casts players as Winston Green, a struggling courier desperate to make his mark in the island slice of Americana that is St Monique. Hedoes so by taking on increasingly hazardous delivery jobs. It’s an isometric driving game with DMA-era Grand Theft Auto leanings, but with a heavy emphasis on destruction and physics-based shenanigans..
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Medieval colony sim Norland is getting a ‘damn big update’ that completely overhauls the game’s mechanics: ‘We’re rolling out some radical changes to the core gameplay’
Source: PC Gamer – March 23, 2025
The community has mostly well-received the game, but the medieval colony sim definitely had its problems. Getting monarchs and nobles to do what you needed to ensure your colony’s survival could be tricky when all they cared about was getting laid and acquiring holy rings as status symbols, and this often led to your colonies collapsing in ways you couldn’t avoid. It appears developer Long Jaunt wasn’t happy with how Norland’s early access build played either. The studio has just released a “damn big update” (literally what it is called) that not only adds a bunch of stuff to the game, but completely reworks the core mechanics to make it more enjoyable.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets a crumb of support as EA offers free weapon skins to coincide with a 50% discount
Source: PC Gamer – March 23, 2025
The Steam Spring Sale may be over but, like rain in Scotland, the discounts never truly end. If your wallet survived the tsunami of cheap games over the last couple of weeks, then you can currently grab BioWare’s fantasy RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard at a 50% discount. That’s not all, either. To coincide with the sale, publisher EA is offering a free cosmetic DLC, somewhat clumsily named Rook’s Weapons Appearance Offer. Annoyingly, the store page doesn’t actually explain what said Weapons Appearance offer entails, simply stating that “The items will appear in Rook’s Room when you log into Dragon Age: The Veilguard” for players who download it.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
‘You’ve been asking, and we’ve been listening’: Myst remake adds a whole new world to the classic adventure, one originally introduced in another overhaul from 25 years ago
Source: PC Gamer – March 23, 2025
Time is a flat circle, and Myst has new content. Developer Cyan Worlds had added another area to its modern remake of the classic 1993 adventure game. The Age of Rime update expands the game with a “snowy, mountainous seascape”, which becomes available to players after completing the main story of Myst, bringing “all new narrative beats, new lore, and new sights to behold”. We should pause a moment, however, to clarify what “new” means here. The world of Rime is indeed new to Cyan’s contemporary overhaul of Myst, but the history of this island stretches back a quarter of a century.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Minecraft Live 2025: Vibrant Visuals, Flying Happy Ghast, and Everything Announced
Source: IGN – March 22, 2025
Minecraft Live 2025 is done and dusted, and developer Mojang has announced a long list of new upgrades and content coming to the best-selling video game of all time. Mojang revealed Minecraft’s first game drop of the year, called Spring to Life. This will introduce a variety of updates to the Overworld that will make biomes “feel more immersive and alive,” such as new variants for cows, pigs, and chickens, and new ambient features and sounds (glittering firefly bush, falling leaves, and whispers of sand). Spring to Life launches on March 25. The second game drop of the year doesn’t have a name just yet, but we do know what it will include.
Read the full article at IGN →
Assassin’s Creed Shadows voice actor Masumi reflects on her first video game performance
Source: Polygon – March 22, 2025
Singer-songwriter, actor, and now video game voice actor Masumi is not new to playing a Japanese assassin grieving the loss of her father. She starred as a yakuza heir in 2021’s Yakuza Princess — her “breakout movie,” as she calls it. Then, she booked a new challenge: Naoe, the shinobi assassin protagonist in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the newest entry in Ubisoft’s AAA franchise, which was released Thursday. Masumi’s performance as Naoe is the heartbeat of the game, alongside that of Tongayi Chirisa, who voices the other protagonist, based on the historical figure Yasuke. In the opening hours of the game, it’s Naoe’s voice that guides you around as you get your footing in feudal Japan.
Read the full article at Polygon →
7 great games you can finish in one sitting
Source: Polygon – March 23, 2025
You’re on your lunch break, or maybe you’re just bored and need something to do for 20 minutes. That’s where short games come in. They’re little experiences you can completely finish in a single sitting. Sometimes there are puzzles to solve or challenges to face, and sometimes there aren’t. These games can be anything, really. Anyone who likes games will appreciate all of the things you can cram into an experience that won’t take ages to see through. There’s nothing wrong with spending hundreds of hours in a big RPG, but there are plenty of smaller games that can be just as meaningful in a fraction of the time.
Read the full article at Polygon →
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