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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Ranked Matches Will Return
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Ranked Matches Will Return Back on July 1, 2025 , Bandai Namco announced Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Ranked Matches bugs were causing three issues and Spike Chunsoft would start maintenance to repair them. Now the company announced on social media that the mode will return on July 10, 2025. All three problems will be completely fixed after maintenance that day, though there will be a three hour period during which all online interactions will be unavailable before that.  The three issues that appeared at the outset of July 2025 affected Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Ranked Matches in such a way that people were being unfairly ranked or awarded. For example, even if someone lost, they wouldn’t see their win streak bonus end. Your streak from Season 0 would still affect the current season and folks’ positions. Also, if you ended up demoted after Season 0, you ended up in D5 regardless of your performance during that season. All three of these issues will be resolved after the update. This also means Bandai Namco and Spike Chunsoft are starting the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Season 1 from scratch again. If you took part when the issues affecting ranking and performance happened, you’ll find any progress made during Season 1 wipde out and back at the start. Before this issue came up, another major addition appeared in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero . Bandai Namco added Shallot DLC to the game. The Dragon Ball Legends character appeared alone, outside of any of the larger packs.  Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero  is available worldwide on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam, and Ranked Matches will return on July 10, 2025. The post Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Ranked Matches Will Return appeared first on Siliconera .
SiliconeraJul 9
This indie title just dethroned a Valve classic as best-rated game on Steam
This indie title just dethroned a Valve classic as best-rated game on Steam Stardew Valley , a beloved indie classic developed by a single person, has recently become the best-rated game on Steam, ever. Being so, it has dethroned Valve's own stellar title, Portal 2 , proving that big budgets and teams do not necessarily make the best game. As tracked by Steam Top 250 , Stardew Valley is now the number one game on Steam, with an average rating of 8.87 out of nearly 900,000 total ratings. With so many people grading the game, it's genuinely wild to see such a high rating, as massive audiences tend to dilute the average. This puts it just a bit above Portal 2 , which, with over 436,000 ratings, has an average score of 8.85. The fact that a game produced by a single person now reigns supreme over Steam is more than enough proof that good games aren't a product of multi-million dollar budgets and massive corporations. All it takes is passion, dedication, and creativity, even if it's just one dude behind a desk coding away in his spare time. Stardew Valley is a beloved indie game, continuously drawing in countless players to its wonderful world. Image via Skellady Indies constitute about half of the top 10 games on Steam Top 250. These include Schedule 1 , Vampire Survivors , Terraria , and, of course, Stardew Valley . Hades is there as well, which, to some extent, can be considered an indie title, developed by a small but dedicated team with no shareholders hanging over their heads. In fact, three of these indie games are single-developer productions, while every single studio that produced the best 10 games on the list is a private endeavor and not a publicly-traded company. This adds another layer to the notion that corporate gaming is, more often than not, more trouble than it's worth. After all, if it were so capable of producing the best possible games out there, the question stands: why are none of them at the very top? It isn't before number 23 that we see a publi cly traded company's game, Resident Evil 4, the remake version, which goes to show how rarely these massive corporate studios actually produce stuff of lasting, transcendental value. What do you think, Destructoid? Should corporatism finally depart from gaming, having been beaten time and again by single-dev games and small team productions? Let us know below. The post This indie title just dethroned a Valve classic as best-rated game on Steam appeared first on Destructoid .
Steam Archives – DestructoidJul 9
Next Persona 5: The Phantom X Character Is Minami “Marian” Miyashita
Next Persona 5: The Phantom X Character Is Minami “Marian” Miyashita Atlus and Black Wings announced the new character Minami “Marian” Miyashita and her Persona Thalia will appear in Persona 5: The Phantom X 1.1. She will be a five-star Blessing character who acts as a Medic. We’ll see her on a Phantom Idol banner after the July 10, 2025 update, just like characters such as Kotone “Mont” Montagne . Marian is one of those characters who proved to be quite a popular and useful character due to her healing capabilities and ability to deal light-based damage to enemies in the Asian release. The only other Medic characters you can really turn to, aside from her, are Cattle and Mona. She’s voiced by Satomi Sato, who also played Escoffier in Genshin Impact, Corrin in Fire Emblem Fates , and Magilou in Tales of Berseria . In the Asian version of the game, she joined the general pool of characters after her debut, but it is unknown if that will be true for the worldwide release. In Japan, two trailers are also available for her that shows her in and out of battle. First, here's the combat-focused one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv0e24aqwr8 You can see more story-focused scenes with her below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXGAVUB-KQ And here’s the official art of the character: Image via Atlus We know the other character debuting in this update as well. Yui, who goes by the code name Bui , will appear with her Persona Apseudes on a Persona 5: The Phantom X banner just like Marian and Thalia. She’s more of a damage dealer, as she’ll be an  Assassin who deals Thunder element damage to foes. Persona 5: The Phantom X is available on the PC via Steam and mobile devices, and we’ll see Minami “Marian” Miyashita with Thalia after 1.1 arrives on July 10, 2025.  The post Next Persona 5: The Phantom X Character Is Minami “Marian” Miyashita appeared first on Siliconera .
SiliconeraJul 9
LoveR Kiss Endless Memories Will Include English Localization
LoveR Kiss Endless Memories Will Include English Localization Dragami Games has revealed that it will release LoveR Kiss Endless Memories for Nintendo Switch and PC in late November 2025. The newly upgraded version of the Japanese dating simulator game will also be available worldwide with additional language support in English and Simplified Chinese. For the record, LoveR originally appeared for PlayStation 4 in Japan in March 2019. It is the latest iteration of a long-running dating sim game series that launched with the 1996 PS1 entry True Love Story and also comprises KimiKiss , Amagami , PhotoKano , and RecoLove . LoveR Kiss , an upgrade to the original LoveR , appeared on the PS4 and Switch in February 2020. Endless Memories will bring even more updates to LoveR . There will be a new Pro Photo Session mode, where the player can immediately access additional photography and decoration features like frames and stamps. In addition, the English localization for Endless Memories will be human-translated. Frontline Gaming Japan's Johann C.K. revealed that he had provided translations of the game's scripts that contain around 750,000 Japanese letters. Dragami Games has also uploaded an announcement trailer for LoveR Kiss Endless Memories in Japanese on its YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOuV2zDFUk LoveR Kiss Endless Memories will be available worldwide for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on November 27, 2025. The post LoveR Kiss Endless Memories Will Include English Localization appeared first on Siliconera .
SiliconeraJul 9
Call Of Duty: WW2 Pulled From Microsoft Store Just Days After Joining Game Pass Because Of Players Getting Hacked
Call Of Duty: WW2 Pulled From Microsoft Store Just Days After Joining Game Pass Because Of Players Getting Hacked Call Of Duty: WW2 joined Game Pass on June 30, including for PC subscribers who could now access the game through the Microsoft Store. Days later, that version of the game had to be taken offline amid reports of players getting hacked and trolled with pop up messages on their PC, which seems very, very bad. Players… Read more...
KotakuJul 9
'Stop Killing Games' Comes Roaring Back After YouTube Drama And Now Industry Lobbying Groups Are Pushing Back
'Stop Killing Games' Comes Roaring Back After YouTube Drama And Now Industry Lobbying Groups Are Pushing BackLast year, Ross Scott who runs the Accursed Farms YouTube channel posted a video about Ubisoft taking The Crew offline and not only making it unplayable for everyone who purchased it, but also revoking people’s digital copies. He used it to launch the “Stop Killing Games” initiative which calls on companies to invest… Read more...
KotakuJul 7
Review: Umamusume: Pretty Derby on Steam Makes the Game Even Better
Review: Umamusume: Pretty Derby on Steam Makes the Game Even BetterThe Umamusume: Pretty Derby global version is an addictive game that mixes the frustration of raising sims with excitement of horse racing.
SiliconeraJul 7
Happy Indie-Penance Day! Here Are 10 Amazing Indie Games You've Never Heard Of Before
Happy Indie-Penance Day! Here Are 10 Amazing Indie Games You've Never Heard Of BeforeI’m so incredibly pleased to welcome you to the fifth—fifth!—annual celebration of unknown or under-known indie games, Indie-Penance Day. It’s the day Kotaku completes the sacrament of forgiveness for AAA coverage by dedicating large amounts of space to smaller games. It’s also a good pun. Read more...
KotakuJul 4
Have you picked up anything good from the 2025 Steam Summer Sale, Destructoid?
Have you picked up anything good from the 2025 Steam Summer Sale, Destructoid? Another Steam sale has arrived, and with it, big discounts on countless big-name games and indie hits alike. Red Dead Redemption II is 75 percent off, Ghost of Tsushima is 33 percent off, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion - Remastered is 20 percent off, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is 45 percent off, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II is 40 percent off, to name a few. The sales are all over the place. Image via Rockstar Games As I usually do in Steam sales, I picked up several very cheap games instead of one or two moderately priced ones, which is why my backlog is so massive. I picked up Furi, Gris, Little Nightmares II, Voidigo, Akimbot, Forgive Me Father 2, Lightning Katana, and 16BitSurvivors all for about $40. My Steam library numbers in the 600s because of sales like this, so I'm curious as to what your number looks like. How many Steam games have you got in total, and what's the damage been like in this Steam sale in particular? Sometimes, I just can't help myself. If I see a bunch of games for two or three bucks, I'll add them all into my cart and then watch them sit in my library as I tell myself, "I'll play you one day, I swear." Damn you, Gabe Newell. So, what about you, dear reader? Got any good deals from this sale? What have you picked up, plan to pick up, or are trying to control yourself from buying? (You are stronger than me.) Let us know in the comments below what's piqued your interest in this year's sale before it ends on July 10. The post Have you picked up anything good from the 2025 Steam Summer Sale, Destructoid? appeared first on Destructoid .
Steam Archives – DestructoidJul 4
Some Of Our Favorite Hidden Indie Gems Are In The Big Steam Sale
Some Of Our Favorite Hidden Indie Gems Are In The Big Steam SaleThe Steam summer sale is an annual opportunity to add vast numbers to the teetering pile of games you’ll get around to playing someday. With bonkers 90-percent-off deals, you can grab recent big-name games for under $5, all of which you’ll definitely remember to load up someday. But it’s not just the AAA blockbusters… Read more...
KotakuJul 1