While Dragonite is of course a fixture here, the star is Hana. She’s adored the Pokemon mail carrier who brings her letters her whole life and wants to do that same job. So much so that she joins the Paldean Post Office as an employee. At the moment, she only sorts mail alongside her partner Fuecoco. When they find a letter with no address, the two get a chance to find out who sent it and where it is supposed to go. 

Here’s the full English version of the Pokemon special episode “Dragonite and the Special Delivery.” If the style looks familiar, it’s because Comix Wave Films previously worked on Suzume and Your Name. 

We’ll need to wait until 2027 for the next mainline entry in the series. That will be Pokemon Winds and Waves. However, while that is still a bit away, Nintendo has teased it. We learned what the starters for it will be, and the main theme song appeared online.

The most recent games in the series are Pokemon Pokopia for the Switch 2 and Pokemon Champions for the Switch, Switch 2, and eventually mobile devices.

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Here’s the announcement post, which only confirms that a new FuRyu game will be revealed later this week and shares the AnomalyZCO account. It included a single image with obscured images. There are no clues as to what kind of game this might end up being.

As for the AnomalyZCO account, it shares videos about unusual products design to “help” people. One of the first videos involved a candy bar that could affect emotions and someone’s mental conditions. Another involved a frozen ice bar treat that could affect a person’s body temperature. The May 19, 2026 post noted that the products showcased may be regulated, suggesting a temporary end to reveals. 

This means there are three titles from the company on the way. First, it confirmed a remaster of the former 3DS and Vita JRPG Exstetra. That will appear worldwide on PCs. Then it announced a new entry in the Crystar and Crymachinaseries called Crymelight.

The new FuRyu game will be revealed on May 22, 2026. 

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In the case of Avatar Arcade, heading into it lets someone Spar with a Master or start a Battle Tour. The former is a single match where you set the difficulty to take part in one match. It’s a means to get items, gears, and moves. The latter involves a course with multiple battles, endings from past Street Fighter games, and other rewards. Entering one shows you how many stages, the course and opponent levels, and proficiency you can expect. New Challengers can also pop up during a run. This allows you to earn Outfit 2 costumes for masters by filling Acquisition Gauge by fighting them. 

If someone selects Random Avatar Match, they can immediately jump into matchmaking or head into Training Mode. Here, people can access every Master Style, Special Moves, and Super Arts to create a character, with the Breakneck Brawler Outfit also available. Entering a random match tosses you into a fight where Level Sync ensures parity and fixes levels and base parameters. Fighting lets you earn more equipment, with the Avatar Points being able to be spent in the Avatar Room Rewards.

Here’s the trailer showing what to expect from the Avatar Arcade and Random Avatar Matches modes in Street Fighter 6. 

This is one of two major updates arriving at the end of May 2026. That same day is when the Ingrid DLC will appear. This marks the next major appearance of the Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max heroine.

Street Fighter 6 is readily available on the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch 2, and Windows PC, and Avatar Arcade and Random Avatar Matches modes appear on May 28, 2026.

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The video explains that Elliot is traveling to different time periods in the hopes of finding a way to save a doomed kingdom. He travels alongside a fairy who helps with unique abilities. Since this is only a sample, we can’t explore all four ages found in-game, but can at least sample some of the story and combat. 

Here’s the full trailer looking at what to expect from the demo. 

This is the second The Adventures of Elliot demo to appear, with the first being a debut trial that came out alongside the July 2025 Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. It was followed by a feedback survey. In the past, it did something similar with Bravely Default II. 

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales will come to the Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC on June 18, 2026, and the prologue demo is available now. 

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This game will place the player in the role of Nozomi, who has a younger sister named Hikari. The latter has been studying at a college in the Nagano prefecture, but she has not been in touch around the time news broke out that another student from the same college was murdered. As an armchair detective, Nozomi will have to scour two sites in the fictional internet—the search engine Glome and the social media platform Z—for clues about Hikari’s whereabouts.

One of the promotional images for this game hints that it is also coming to Xbox Series X|S. However, Zakuzaku sent the press release to numerous Japanese outlets—namely Gamer, Famitsu, and DenFamiNico Gamer—and all of them only mention Switch, PS5, and Steam as the release platforms. The game’s release for the Xbox platform is therefore not confirmed yet.

RD’s Remote Deduction will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam in 2026. A new playable demo build of the game, featuring the Glome website, will appear at BitSummit PUNCH in Kyoto’s Miyako Messe on May 22-24, 2026.

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While the Petit Planet Stardrift Test beta is ending, HoYoVerse did explain two ways to preserve “memories” of the experience. One involved Nalo’s memories. It noted that if you go to the Cafe Untamed Feedback Survey and take it, Nalo will remember. This is optional, so someone who does want to start fresh in 1.0 can by opting to not take it. 

The other event is called Share Your Planet Memories. This runs until March 25, 2026. To take part, a person must go to HoYoLab and create a post either with a written record of the beta or a screenshot. Then, use the #Stardrift Test Check-In hashtag. This earns someone a Oumuamua profile background.

We still don’t know when 1.0 of Petit Planet will launch. It’s possible news could come around Summer Game Fest 2026 or the 2026 Tokyo Game Show. 

Petit Planet is in development for the PC and mobile devices, and HoYoVerse’s Stardrift Test beta will end on May 25, 2026.

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Though this is a Yoshi game, things kick off when Bowser Jr finds an odd book in his father’s library. After reading about some creatures in it, he heads off in his Clown Car in search of one of them. However, this leads to him inadvertently getting sucked into it, the vehicle crashing, and the Yoshis all finding the book left behind. It’s then that the book wakes up and  introduces itself as Mister Encyclopedia. (Mr. E for short.) It explains that it chronicles different creatures in its pages, but can’t actually read itself. Since that information is gone, it asks if the Yoshis would like to read through and investigate the creatures it chronicled to recover the discoveries.

Rather than a typical stage and world structure, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book adopts a structure that ties in with the book theme. Each chapter is associated with a different biome, and the levels are entries for each entity. We use Mr. E’s monocle as a magnifying glass to read, then teleport into, the book to get firsthand experience with the characters inside. Some are friendly! Others don’t seem to pay the Yoshi much mind. (You can choose which color character you control, so it isn’t always Super Mario staple Yoshi.) There are hostile ones too! Rather than the goal being to get through an entire stage, it’s to trigger certain reactions or happen upon different discoveries via interactions with the beings in the book to fill up the article associated with each one. 

It’s that experimentation that makes Yoshi and the Mysterious Book so fascinating, since the ways of acquiring information aren’t always obvious. Yes, Yoshi licking the folks he encounter is always one of the first things on the to-do list, as are things like trying to pop them on the back for a ride or ground pound them. But other situations can involve leading characters somewhere, forcing them into certain encounters, pairing them up with other established creatures, and going through certain situations. These gives you entries that can be worth a certain number of stars and fill up their section, with said stars being put toward the hallmarks needed to unlock new Chapters in the Table of Contents so you can learn and unlock more. Getting the three-star discovery in an area unlocks a portal to hop out, but you can also head to the in-game menu and choose to leave it at any time. 

What ends up making it feel even more special is the way in which Yoshi and the Mysterious Book grows. There’s a lot of depth to it. In each Chapter biome, there will typically be one or two creatures immediately accessible. Others won’t show up until you start to chronicle those other characters. Once they do appear, their emergence might add more encounters or options to existing stages, making it worth revisiting those locations for more details. There are constant excuses to pop back and revisit. And, since there is a hint system tied to stars we’ve collected and a living ink blot creature that nudges you toward beings you should revisit for new insights that open up additional things, it also feels like it is impossible to get lost or overlook anything truly important. 

I also didn’t expect the narrative to be woven in so well, considering this does feel more like an adventure where the goal is to learn about creatures. It is woven into everything in a natural way. At the same time, when Yoshi does encounter Bowser Jr and Kamek the execution provides opportunities to learn more about the character that is the “star” of that Yoshi and the Mysterious Book level. It’s not only advancing the story. It’s introducing a new puzzle and chance to learn. 

Another thing I loved is how the way it is all handled means you can unlock so much so early on, allowing you to approach the additional Chapters in the way you’d like. Now, when I went into it, I decided I want to max out as much of the first biome and its critters as I could. As a result, but the time I was done, I had actually unlocked the second, third, and fourth due to the number of stars accumulated. So I could then hop around and prioritize investigating creatures I found most interesting or cutest, which felt like a really fun and unexpected way to play. 

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is not only an unusual platformer, its experimental nature can make it feel like an entirely new type of experience. I’m delighted by the idea of popping in and out of levels to investigate new finds about creatures and learning about what to expect from them based on an array of interactions. Especially since each case feels quite different from the other, turning every character into a puzzle to solve. It feels like a casual, relaxed sort of safari. 

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book will come to the Switch 2 on May 21, 2026. 

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The official Japanese trailer offers an example of how it looks. People will take photos of peoples’ faces or uses ones on their camera roll. This will then be used in a WarioWare style minigame that is only a few seconds long and involves using a touch screen to achieve a result. For example, one instance in the video involved eating corn, and another getting critters off of a person’s face. Another minigame involved unwrapping two people who’d been covered in bandages like a mummy, with only their eyes visible. Even some of the sound effects bear similarities to WarioWare ones.

Here’s the full Japanese trailer.

The last entry in the WarioWare series was Move It, which appeared on the Switch. That entry’s minigames involved motion controls, as the name suggested. Prior to that, WarioWare: Get It Together’s gimmick involved multiplayer, with up to two people in the campaign and four otherwise each using a Joy-Con to pick a character and play through the microgames. 

Pictonico will come to Android and iOS devices on May 28, 2026. 

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Over the past few years, Square Enix has been replacing the old Final Fantasy XI servers with newer and stronger ones. Fujito explains that the newer servers allow for virtualization, which makes them easier to maintain. Instead of physically restarting the server, they can just run a process for that.

Fujito adds that these server replacements are for letting the game continue service, rather than so that the team can add more content without overloading them. If they wish to update the servers to further develop the game, they would need to make proper plans to do so. Currently, even though the servers have been virtualized, they’re still the same as before, so they’re simply maintaining the systems and programs.

At the end of the interview, Fujito floated the possibility of new developments to the game once he secures more resources. Since there hasn’t been any new story since the Voracious Resurgence, he would like to do something about that. However, the people he needs are working on other projects, and so he would have to wait until they’re free. At the same time, he is asking engineers to look at the middleware for resource management, so once they’re done with that, they can make new cutscenes again. Right now, they’re laying the groundwork for more potential content.

Final Fantasy XI is readily available on the Windows PC.

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Most of The Shorekeeper’s accessories involve the butterflies she’s known for. We only get two face plates with her. One features a rather blank and neutral expression, while her eyes are closed in the other. Her Stellar Symphony Rectifier, which itself resembles a butterfly and is her signature weapon, is included. So are two blue butterflies with their own stands that can be posed around her.

Here’s how she looks:

The Shorekeeper ended up being a rather popular Wuthering Waves character following her release, leading to multiple figures of her. One of the last ones was a standard scale figure. It debuted back in 2025. There are also a number of acrylic standees of her. Orders direct through the company will come with a special illustration, but we don’t know what that will look like yet.

The Wuthering Waves The Shorekeeper Nendoroid will show up in Japan in October 2026, and we’ll see the figure appear worldwide in Q2 2027. The game is available on the PS5, PC, and mobile devices. 

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Two types of PlayStation Plus subscriptions are affected by this price increase. The first is the one-month option. That currently costs $9.99 / €8.99 / £6.99, and that will go up to $10.99 / €9.99 / £7.99. The three-month one is also going up, with the cost there going from $24.99 USD / €24.99 EUR / £19.99 to $27.99 / €27.99 / £21.99. If someone is subscribed now, they will still have access to the original lower price unless they live in India or Turkey.

When bringing up why prices are changing, Sony only cited “ongoing market conditions.” It didn’t explain if this is due to costs on their end going up regarding games and promotions. Currently, costs of items in the tech area are going up due to RAM shortages caused by AI and data centers, lingering tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, and issues tied to the Iran War. 

This also comes after PS5 and PlayStation Portal prices went up again. Sony increased those costs at the beginning of April 2026. When that happened, it blamed “continued pressures in the global economic landscape.”

PlayStation Plus one-month and three-month subscriptions will cost more starting on May 20, 2026 worldwide.

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A tentative schedule for the showcase is set, since it won’t only feature announcements regarding future updates for Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy. When the presentation starts, it will first focus on the final round of a beta test tournament. About two hours later at 2am PT/5am ET/6pm JST, the actual updates will appear. Producer Naoya Matsumoto will be present for this portion and discuss things to come.

Here’s the placeholder for the Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy first official update broadcast.

The only upcoming event we’re aware of for Dissidia Duellum is a Final Fantasy Record Keeper one. That shows up at the end of May 2026 and only involves new Abilities. The last characters added were Rikku from FFX and Clive from FFXVI. This presentation could provide a roadmap for future updates regarding more characters. It might also go over plans to remedy certain issues. For example, one problem the game had lately had to do with Bursts and Abilities triggering when facing bosses.

Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy is available for mobile devices, and the first presentation going over game updates will air in Japan on May 23, 2026.

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Namco Legendary Mountains follows the same principles as Suika Game, but with the element of 3D as in Fruit Mountain. Different icons from the company’s series’ appear in clear bubbles. We toss them at a black plate from different angles, and we can also move around the edges of it to shoot from different positions. If we combine like items, they merge to create a new, bigger one. Using the official trailer as an example, tossing two Pac-Man items at each other will cause them to combine and become Taizo Hori from Dig Dug. If two Taizos hit each other, they become Mappy the mouse. 

Here’s the official trailer that shows exactly how the process works. It also confirms appearances of items from Druaga and Xevious.

This is one of many takes on this particular type of puzzle game from Bexide. Fruit Mountain was first in March 2024. It was followed by a Hololive Vtuber variant called Hololive Treasure Mountain. A multiplayer version called Fruit Mountain Party showed up in April 2026.

Namco Legendary Mountains will come to the Switch, Switch 2, and PC worldwide in Summer 2026.

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These FFVII Ever Crisis wallpapers are divided into two types, with some being replicas of the in-game home screen backgrounds of Aerith, Cloud, and Tifa in their dresses and some being original ones of official art of them. The home screen ones are divided into two parts. One of them features Aerith and Tifa together in their Gorgeous Dress and Elegant Dress (Mature Dress), respectfully. The other features Cloud in  the Classic Dress we’d earn from the Chocobo Sam sidequests in FFVII Remake. The mobile versions of the wallpapers feature them each alone and then all together.

Here’s how those wallpapers look:

Square Enix hasn’t suggested what the next event or crossover could be in FFVII Ever Crisis. The company brought back the FFXIII items in April 2026. Before that, it continued the ongoing Dirge of Cerberus storyline with its second part, so we could see the third portion of that start in the near future.

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis is available on PCs and mobile devices, and FFVII Remake is available on the Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. The Corneo Cup: Open Bridal Audition event ends in FFVII Ever Crisis on May 27, 2026. 

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To start, someone needs to enter the email tied to their Sega Account. They’ll then be emailed a code that grants them access to the survey and continue. The first questions in the Persona 3 Reload localization survey are fairly typical and ask where someone played the game, which translation they used, how far they got in the JRPG, if they enjoyed the game, and which elements they did and didn’t enjoy.

It’s once you get to the seventh question of the Persona 3 Reload localization survey that Atlus actually asks what you thought about the translation. It starts by asking if things sounded natural and was grammatically correct and then if the tone was correct. After that, a question comes up asking if people sounded like they were “in-character.” The follow-ups to that ask if certain characters were handled especially well or poorly, and we’re able to select as many options as are applicable. This includes major and minor characters, and there is a write-in section. After asking about characters and dialogue, we’re asked our opinion about the menus and UI. The final few questions are all write-in ones where we can cite specific situations we liked and didn’t like, as well as leave feedback on other Atlus games. 

We’ll see Persona 3 Reload in another game soon. An event featuring protagonist Makoto and other characters will show up in Persona 5: The Phantom X worldwide. 

Persona 3 Reload is on the Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC. 

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