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Siliconera’s Most Anticipated Games of 2026 We’ve gone through and honored all our favorites of 2025, so now what? Let’s look forward! Here are the titles the Siliconera team most want to play next year: our 2026 Most Anticipated Games. These awards represent the consensus of the Siliconera staff. For more of the year’s award selections, check out our Game of the Year 2025 archive . Pokemon Pokopia We’ve been clear about how much we love Dragon Quest Builders 2 , and a shift to the world of Pokemon does nothing to dampen our enthusiasm for the development team’s latest effort. It looks to build (heh) on these elements and combine them with a more “cozy” approach with slow life and farming. Also? Using Ditto as a way to justify gaining abilities is clever. It can't get here fast enough! Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era The Heroes of Might and Magic franchise is beloved, but it’s been subject to decades of neglect and abuse after its heyday. (Truly, only Sonic fans might be able to relate.) Olden Era seems to finally return to the formula that worked the best, and with a sharp aesthetic and smart design scope that makes us confident this game will actually finish development unlike its recent predecessors. Winner: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Fire Emblem: Three Houses was a masterclass in worldbuilding and character design, capturing hearts of players even with somewhat middling systems and map design. Its follow-up, Engage , really worked on those mechanical elements while perhaps dropping the ball on the other stuff. So we’re hopeful that Fortune’s Weave can continue to build on the Three Houses world we love so much while spending just a bit more effort on making its strategic choices just a bit more meaningful. Fingers crossed! "Most Anticipated" is an honor of potential, and we hope it reaches it. The post Siliconera’s Most Anticipated Games of 2026 appeared first on Siliconera .

PC News Category - SiliconeraJan 1

Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe Shows Off Hololive Vtubers in a Scary Setting Horror games based on Hololive Vtubers are starting to become a staple among holo indie releases, and Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe is the latest among them. It’s ambitious! It features segments that cover multiple genres . It can be ominous, with some overtones that can be a bit spooky. It also gives Sakura Miko another moment in the spotlight, which is good news for her fans. It does heavily rely on knowledge of Hololive and Cover to enjoy, but this is a situation in which that helps sext the experience apart. Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe begins with Vtuber Sakura Miko heading to the Cover offices as usual. This is a recreation of the facilities we see in the Holo no Graffiti anime series on YouTube, and it seems like a pretty solid replica! It’s the first indicator that Lexilia Games is really tapping into lore and everything we know about the organization. As she waits around, other members of the company show up. However, an unnatural disturbance sucks them all into a portal, leaving them trapped in awkward situations set in a version of the office that they can’t escape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIwVc6KQ14Y So the first way in which Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe really feels like a solid tribute to the Vtuber organization and its Hololive performers is how accurate all the references are. Of course, the ones about Sakura Miko herself are spot-on. Mikodanye shows up as an enemy. There are standees of her, and they perfectly capture her costume and official appearance. There’s a reference to Kintoki. We are basically seeing the PekoMiko unit with Usada Pekora referenced through interactions. However, there are also great references to other members of the company, including ones that don’t show up in the game. Shirakami Fubiki’s Sukonbu is shown as a figure. The Koseki Bijou moai head emoji is referenced. There are doodles from Ninomae Ina’nis in one desk drawer. Now, I also mentioned “ones that don’t show up in the game.” That’s because while Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe is basically an adventure game with horror elements, Sakura Miko isn’t the only Hololive Vtuber there. Hiodoshi Ao, Houshou Marine, Ichijou Ririka, Oozora Subaru, Shirogane Noel, Tokino Sora, and Usada Pekora are present too. If you find topics to talk about, you can interact with them, build up affection up to two hearts, and see special story segments. It’s an interesting and unexpected bonus. I also especially liked seeing Ao and Ririka included. Images via Lexilia Games The one thing I will say about Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe is that it is very clearly a project from a group of newcomers. There are some lighting issues in areas, and it isn’t about creating atmosphere or making things seem spooky. There are clunky parts and bugs, though I have noticed some ended up patched along the way. The framerate is often off and shockingly low. Character models for the Vtubers standing around the offices don’t fit in due to lighting and textures and stand out in a bad way. The English localization also needs work. There are a lot of awkward phrasing situations, even though I found I could still understand what Lexilia Games was going for in almost every situation. It just doesn’t sound natural. Like “This is a prophetic dream where Miko will become an elite CEO in the future” and “You got a nightmare or something” are prime examples. Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe clearly shows knowledge of Hololive Vtubers like Sakura Miko, but this horror adventure game needs quite a few patches at the moment. Framerate and lighting issues, coupled with bugs and an awkward localization, really take away from the overall experience. It is fun to explore the Cover offices in this sort of situation and see all the references to performers. Plus members who we hadn’t seen in-game show up as members of the cast. Hopefully in a few weeks, it will be in better shape. Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe is available for PCs. The post Holo ADV: SakuraSingularity.exe Shows Off Hololive Vtubers in a Scary Setting appeared first on Siliconera .

PC News Category - SiliconeraJan 1

Skate Story ReviewEat the moon The post Skate Story Review appeared first on WellPlayed .

Reviews PC – WellPlayedJan 1

Score Persona 5 Tactica for $10 Today at Best Buy

IGN PC ArticlesDec 31

PlayStation Plus January 2026 Game Line-Up Confirmed, Includes Need for Speed UnboundSony has announced the PlayStation Plus monthly games for January 2026, and the new year kicks off with Need for Speed Unbound, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, and Core Keeper.

IGN PC ArticlesDec 31

Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025) ReviewSimilar in design to last year, the AMD version of the Asus ROG Strix G16 offers solid gaming performance in a bulky shell.

IGN PC ArticlesDec 31

Siliconera’s Best Overall Game of the Year 2025 It’s all been leading to this. In a year with so many great releases, which one did the Siliconera team pick as the best of the best? Honestly, we didn’t expect this one either. These awards represent the consensus of the Siliconera staff. For more of the year’s award selections, check out our Game of the Year 2025 archive . Blue Prince Sure, sure, Dogubomb’s Blue Prince is one of the best games of the year, a generational release for some members of our staff and a great example of why game devs should play more good board games. For sure. And of course, it’s structured so masterfully that it has players who have never been achievement hunters going after all the game’s trophies. We’ve all talked about that . But given that this may be the last time we get a chance to ask: when are y’all patching in Dirigiblocks ? We want to see it. Hades II For a game that shares so much DNA with its predecessor, it’s wild how fresh and different the gameplay itself feels. Its systems intersect in fresh ways, and the constant shifting of options makes something as simple as fighting a few enemies in a room feel different every time. Very few games these days are for everyone, especially in the indie space, but we’d be hard-pressed to find someone reading this who shouldn’t give Hades II a try. Winner: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Well this was wildly unlikely. We here at Siliconera have done a lot of reporting over the years on Level-5, especially in its modern era of mass development headaches and constant delays. And with Fantasy Life in particular! But the team got the game over the finish line and out to the public eventually, and — though the seams from patching together pieces from the many development shifts are clearly visible — the resulting game is a ton of fun . Congrats to the developers for all their efforts along the way: Fantasy Life i is the Siliconera Game of the Year 2025. The post Siliconera’s Best Overall Game of the Year 2025 appeared first on Siliconera .

PC News Category - SiliconeraDec 31

Save Over 60% Off Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake at Amazon

IGN PC ArticlesDec 31

AU Deals: New Year, Same Problem, Too Many Great Games On Sale and These Are the Must BuysWhile everyone else is arguing over fireworks playlists and sparkling wine, I am quietly locking in deals I will absolutely be playing into January.

IGN PC ArticlesDec 30

FFVII Ever Crisis New Year 2026 Updates Include a Tifa Kimono Square Enix released a brief trailer on social media that went over some of the New Year 2026 updates that will start appearing in FFVII Ever Crisis as of 7am PT/10am ET on December 31, 2025. First and foremost are freebies for logging in. However, there will also be a new kimono costume for Tifa in FFVII Ever Crisis . The costume for Tifa is called the Golden Flower Kimono, and it will be in the FFVII Ever Crisis in-game shop. This means you will need to spend real money to get it. It is part of New Year 2026 Pack Vol 1. The initial tweet showed official art of her wearing it and a clip of her wearing the gear during a fight. The store update portion of the announcement also confirmed that there will be Legendary Pack I (Cloud), Legendary Pack III (Tifa), and Legendary Pack IV (Aerith) sold between December 31, 2025 and January 3, 2026. As for the free login bonuses, they are doled out depending on how many times you log in. When you first show up between December 31, 2025 and January 3, 2026, you immediately get 1 5-star Weapon Voucher, 10 Refined Mythrils, 30 Mythril Ingots, 100 Stamina Tonics, 5,000 Blue Crystals, and 2,026,000 Gil. If people log in for three more days after that, they get 26 New Year 2026 Medals to trade for New Year Lucky Bags with Limit Break Weapons and 3,000 Blue Crystals. Showing up for 14 more days nets someone 20 Mythril Ingots, 50 Sephiroth (Original)-Specific Weapon Parts, 50 Yuffie-Specific Weapon Parts, and 3,000 Blue Crystals. Here’s the full trailer: https://twitter.com/FFVII_EC_EN/status/2005881538353979830 This isn’t the first time Tifa got a kimono costume in FFVII Ever Crisis, as she got gear with that sort of design back in January 2025 too . FFVII Ever Crisis is available on PCs and mobile devices, and the New Year 2026 updates start appearing on December 31, 2025. The post FFVII Ever Crisis New Year 2026 Updates Include a Tifa Kimono appeared first on Siliconera .

PC News Category - SiliconeraDec 30