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Another Silent Hill Transmission is scheduled for June 1st at midnight BST! Are we finally getting a release date for 2 Remake?

If you listen really, really closely, you can almost hear the monkey's paw curling (but seriously, fingers crossed, can't go having III remade this way only for I&II to be announced in 2027 and finally released in 2028/2029 )

Oh HELL YES, finally an update! Hilarious to me that Horii's tease of potentially doing I and II at some point might mean this is the trilogy now (big might, I guess chronologically the tagline makes sense still if that's not the case?) – I do feel like it would explain why we haven't seen it in such a long time, and also help justify a potentially higher price tag? Which I'm sure S-E would loveeeeee to do. Interesting to me that there's no PS4 listed but the Switch is. I know the Switch has obviously done much better than the PS4 in Japan, but the PS4 has done much better than the PS5, so can't help but wonder if this is S-E having some sort of agreement to cycle things on to PS5 and leave PS4 in the dust now. The real question is, now that they've dropped this and they seem to be implying that the marketing cycle is ready to be refreshed and start ramping up for this game: where are we going to be seeing it next? The rumoured State of Play/Showcase? The June Nintendo Direct? Summer Game Fest? Are S-E going to randomly swoop in with their own event?

A Japanese fan has created an alternative, ultra chaotic bloopers/behind-the-scenes-like take on Trailer #3, and it had me in stitches, so thought I'd share To compare this to the original: Love it

Paging @drahkon (who gets first tag for his avatar ), @Hero-of-Time and just about anyone else who has love for Astro's Playroom – because it seems like we're not too far away now from the announcement of Astro's next adventure! Per pretty dang reliable leaker Billbil-kun (dealabs): This also adds to his previous report of a showing of Concord in the next two weeks, and Jeff Grubb having at this point tripled down on a PlayStation Showcase taking place before the end of May. The next Showcase seems inevitable. Feel like there's honestly a lot riding on this one, and a new Astro Bot game would certainly be a step in the right direction! Which is hopefully a fully-fledged realisation of the potential of Astro's Playroom, and then some

Strongly recommend the JRPG and CRPG ones, they're lovely to look at. The cover art for the JRPG one especially!

Apparently Barça wanted to make sure that Bayern weren't the only 'FCB' getting all the attention for stupidity around their manager position, with Xavi now leaving at the end of the season. This comes following Xavi announcing his departure at the end of this season back in January, followed by murmurs and then confirmation less than 30 days ago that club president Laporta had convinced him to stay until the end of his contract in June 2025. Xavi is sticking to his original intent announced back in January to waive the remainder of his payment package, though his backroom staff will be getting their due compensation. Hansi Flick is believed to be the incoming manager, and would be only the second German manager for Barça after Udo Lattek took the reins back in the 80s. wth is going on with managers this year?!

The Nintendo Switch has officially surpassed same of the Nintendo DS in Japan (32,903,889 vs 32,878,490), making it the best-selling gaming system OF ALL-TIME in Japan! Who would've thunk that this was where things were heading some 7 years ago?

checks year Between this and the PC thread, I think the forum drunkenness is starting to get to you @Glen-i make sure you're keeping an eye on him!

The acquisition we were all waiting for Oh, and there's a t-shirt which they've shamelessly plugged under the announcement! What a time to be alive

My copy has just arrived: Along with the paper airplane and a slightly mangled sticker sheet (thanks, Royal Mail) Won't be getting to this immediately unfortunately as I've still got a game I'm rounding off at the moment (in which the ending feels so close yet so, SO far away), but I'm very excited to start digging in when I can!

They've been turned into a bit of a laughing stock after the way they've treated Tuchel (and rightly so), agreeing to parts way with months left of the season despite making it to the UCL semis, though their league form wasn't great the team has also been a jumbled mess in need of a reshuffle for a while now. Essentially, they wanted long-term options, and went window shopping mid-season: either Xabi or they wanted Nagelsmann to return. Xabi committed to a new contract, not getting distracted from the great season they were having and was keen on attempting to defend the title with Leverkusen; Nagelsmann re-upped his contract with Germany to 2026 just last month. This resulted in Bayern trying to take it all back and ask Tuchel to stay on, AFTER higher-ups and club legends had publicly shunned him. Yeah, Tuchel actually has a backbone, probably laughed at the idea and was committed to leaving at the end of the season. This has left Bayern scrambling in recent weeks, and they've been getting turned away by just about everyone: Tuchel is a UCL-winning manager who made it to the semis this year and despite a poor performance in the league this year, they did win the BuLi last year, yet was disrespected by the club, and so I imagine some higher level managers aren't willing to take that on; they're also known to be looking for younger, long-term managers (reportedly still keen on Xabi and Nagelsmann) and so anyone who comes in is only really guaranteed one season to prove themselves before they might try to be moved on. So the board have needed to shuffle ideas around, and I guess the potential of Kompany, at a young age for a manager, and what he did at Burnley last season is on their minds – worst case it's a bad appointment, expectations may be lowered a bit externally to some degree, he gets sacked mid-season; expectation is probably that he has a solid season, wins some silverware to shore up his CV, but not enough to stay on, and they go after Xabi and Nagelsmann again next year; or he wows them and he's the young, long-term manager they wanted all along. I doubt Kompany was in their first 10 or even 15 calls made. All I'm saying is, they're called FC Hollywood for a reason, they never should've sacked Nagelsmann Personally I think they should've got Mourinho in with a fixed 2-year contract (because we all know what happens in Year 3), he would've injected some life into the Bundesliga and the squad, and I genuinely think he would've run riot with them. But alas, his stock is at an all-time low and no-one seems to trust him anymore; should've never gone to Spurs.

It's been doing the rounds the last couple of days, but now seems to be heading towards being official: Vincent Kompany is reportedly going to be the next manager of Bayern Munich, after being relegated from the Prem with Burnley. I know he had a fantastic season last year in the Championship, but this has got to be one of the biggest management leaps in recent times, surely? Really curious how far down Bayern's wishlist he was. They must've offered the job to at least 10 other managers before they got to Kompany, and I mean, understandably: who'd want the job right now? Seems a bit of a poisoned chalice where they aren't giving managers a great chance and their board and legends are mouthing off publicly. Good luck to him if it's made official.

The GDC talk for the game, Tunes of the Kingdom: Evolving Physics and Sounds for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, has finally been added to the GDC YouTube channel: Definitely going to need to give this a watch over the weekend!

And there it is. Leverkusen weren't bad, but Atalanta were just better, and they were just better everywhere on the pitch. Atalanta's first piece of silverware since '63 (Coppa Italia) and their first European trophy ever! Lookman was sensational, Ederson was a stalwart, and Musso in goal was merely there to watch it all play out. 51 games unbeaten from Leverkusen is where the run ends. Can't take it away from them, they've been sensational this season. It'll be a "what if?" for a long time to come, but can still finish the season with a domestic double and domestically unbeatable season. Curious to see how they bounce back from this on the weekend and then next season. Think the shock here is that Leverkusen actually lost, but not really that Atalanta won. They've been long overdue some silverware given how they've been run and played for years now. Well deserved. Gasperini's been brilliant for them, come a very long way from his 5-game stint with Inter.

Spectacular way to seal the hat-trick from Lookman. Scorcher of a shot. Atalanta deserve this win. Outclassed Leverkusen everywhere on the pitch. Probably the last place you'd want this unbeaten run to come to an end.

Exhausted just watching this Atalanta press, they're winning the ball back on the edge of the Leverkusen box for crying out loud. Their positional awareness is something else.

Half-time in the Europa League final and Leverkusen are 2-0 down to Atalanta – who are all over them. Very curious to see how they react and how their shape changes after the break. Reminder that Leverkusen's amazing unbeaten season could be coming to an end here. Still really not a fan of the Europa League final being played before the Europa Conference League final...

Official: Absurd. Saw we were in for the Ipswich manager? The disrespect. He'll go the way of Potter, too, I'm sure of it. We somehow climbed up to European places - which btw we now seem keen to concede based on fessing up to a bit of FFP malarkey - after a stunning latter stage of the season, with this pick-and-mix of a team, and then this? Look, Abramovich, there's a lot to unpack there on an ethical level (though I feel like you can say this about most Prem club owners these days), but Boehly and his gang of yank swindlers have zero interest in this club doing well compared to that guy. None. It's disgusting. 8 year contracts? Throwing Tuchel out the way they did? Wouldn't be shocked at all if they went to the Barto-Barca school of finance and we get royally done in a few years down the line.

Story trailer for Shadow of the Erdtree: Hypeeeeee

Lucas Vázquez with the legendary response Saying what's on everyone's mind

You're going to need to Re Mind me... ...is this deja vu?

It is being reported that Toni Kroos will be retiring following the Euro's, as there will be no new contract agreed with Real Madrid. If it's true it's the end of an era for one of the modern greats. Football is starting to make me feel like an old man Still remember when he was meant to be off to United and then Real came in for him after the World Cup for something daft like €25m. Anyways, here's your reminder that Modric's contract is also due to end next month. Not sure if he'd retire, but he's reportedly keen on sticking around the Bernabeu on lower wages. Don't know if I'd be able to handle seeing two of the best midfielders I've grown up with bow out at the same time EDIT: comunicado oficial – yep, it's official.

Nintendo have acquired Shiver Entertainment from Embracer, who have worked on ports for Mortal Kombat 11, Scribblenauts, Hogwarts Legacy and Mortal Kombat 1 on Switch. Per Nintendo of Japan: Time to start getting some ports ready for that Switch 2 launch window! Seems like a very smart move given that they've worked together before and with the technological gap between Switch 2 and PS5/Series X|S potentially being smaller than that of their respective predecessors, I can imagine that - I mean, assuming they run well - there'll be more demand for ports from the get-go with their next console.