Sega announced its next new Sonic the Hedgehog game is called Sonic Blitz, and it is a card collecting and battling game from Rovio. However, not everyone can play it. Only the technical launch happened. This means it is in limited release, with only people in the Philippines able to play it.

While the game is only available to people in one region at the moment, the product pages on Apple’s App Store and Google Play are live. How it works is players build a deck of cards based on classic characters and opponents from the series. Each one has a set number of health and attack power. Major characters can also possess special abilities. During a match, you’ll play cards in one of two lanes, then decide if they “dash” at the end of a turn. Up to four cards can be played in each lane. Your goal is to whittle down your opponent’s health before yours falls to zero in order to win. 

Since people in the Philippines can play Sonic Blitz now, there are already some videos online showing footage of the new Sonic the Hedgehog game. MDGamestation shared an initial look at how a match works on YouTube.

There’s another new mobile game based on the IP on the way too. However, it’s currently delayed. We don’t know exactly when Sonic Rumble will debut.

Sonic Blitz is heading to Android and Apple iOS devices, and the technical test for the new Sonic the Hedgehog game is live in the Philippines.

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A new 5.7 Genshin Impact Special Program will appear on June 6, 2025, and the image HoYoVerse shared teased the appearance of Dainsleif and the Traveler’s sibling again. It will air at 5am PT/8am ET/2pm CET. This is expected to be one of the last 5.0 series updates before we head to Snezhnaya with the 6.0 updates.

The new Genshin Impact teaser image features the male version of the Traveler, Aether, alongside Dainsleif as his sibling Lumine appears tearing through the darkness. Since Aether is used as the default protagonist for this imagery, Lumine could replace that in a player’s story. As the storyline with all three of these characters appears during the interludes that come after the main storyline of a region concludes and leads into a new one, that’s likely what is happening here. For example, the “Caribert” act showed up as a break between Sumeru and Fontaine, and “Bedtime Story” came between Fontaine and Natlan. 

 We know the two characters who will appear in 5.7 and be a big part of this Special Program. Skirk and Dahlia will both appear. Skirk is the five-star unit who is tied to Childe, as she helped train him when he fell into the Abyss. Meanwhile, Dahlia is a new Mondstadt character.

Genshin Impact is available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, and the Special Program for 5.7 airs at 5am PT/8am ET/2pm CET on June 6, 2025.

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Myethos announced its next Genshin Impact figure will be a take on the five-star Electro character Keqing in a Resplendent Feast costume. It will cost ¥7,260 (~$51). Worldwide shipping is available from the official online store via Buyee. It is expected to ship sometime in February 2026. Pre-orders will remain open until July 31, 2025. 

This Genshin Impact Keqing figure in a Resplendent Feast costume is part of the Myethos Gift+ line. She is a static figure at 1/8 scale. This means she’s almost eight and a half inches tall (215mm). There’s a base included, and it’s made of translucent plastic. There are also some translucent elements to her bows in her hair and on her dress. 

Here’s a closer look at her from various angles:

Other HoYoVerse characters in the Myethos Gift+ line include Mobius: Daughter of Corals from Honkai Impact 3rd and March 7th: The Hunt from Honkai: Star Rail. 

While Keqing can’t wear this outfit in-game, there are two costumes for her in Genshin Impact. One is her default look that you get if you get the character. That’s called Piercing Thunderbolt. The other is called Opulent Splendor. That debuted in 2.4 in 2022. It’s a Lantern Rite look, and it costs 1,680 Genesis Crystals. 

Genshin Impact is available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, PC, and mobile devices, and the Keqing Resplendent Feast Myethos figure will debut in February 2026. 

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Atlus started releasing profiles and art for different Persona 5: The Phantom X characters and Phantom Idols ahead of its June 2025 launch. The characters are of our avatar’s immediate group who attend Kokatsu Academy high school alongside us. Meanwhile, the Phantom Idols are summoned by Merope in the Velvet Room when we go to visit Igor and also act as additional playable characters.

The five main profiles go over the Persona 5: The Phantom X characters who all go to the same school. Our avatar has Janosik as a Persona. He’s voiced by Koki Uchiyama and has the Phantom Thief name Wonder. Lufei the owl mascot is voiced by Ai Nonaka, has the Robroy Persona, and has the code name Cattle. Kaede Hondo plays Motoha Arai, who has the Awilda Persona and is known as Closer. Katsuyuki Konishi voices Shun Kano, aka Soy, and uses Mandrin. Finally, Riko “Wind” Tanemura is played by Atsumi Tanezaki, and she possesses the Chiyome Persona. 

Here are all the profile images showing the characters in their Kokatsu Academy uniforms.

As for Phantom Idols, Atlus revealed five on the official site and official art for two of them on social media. Here is a list of details going over each one, their codename, and their Persona.

• Kotone “Mont” Montagne, with the Persona Terpsichore
• Leo “Leon” Kamiyami, with the Persona Erytheia
• Seiji “Fleuret” Shiratori, with the Persona Leucothea
• Yaoling “Rin” Li, with the Persona Meng Po
• Yukimi “Yuki” Fujikawa, with the Persona Styx

And here is the official art for Fleuret and Yuki.

Persona 5: The Phantom X will come to the PC and mobile devices on June 26, 2025.

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Back in April 2025, Nexon announced that we’d be able to play Blue Archive on a PC via a new launcher, and the Steam product page for the client is now online. Note that it is age-gated, so you will need to be logged into your Steam to view it.

Details are still a bit slim about this PC version of Blue Archive on Steam. The listing does note it is a single-player title with in-app purchases. You will need a Nexon to play. There will be a EULA to sign as well. The ed languages for that client are English, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Traditional Chinese. Steam Deck compatibility isn’t confirmed yet too.

However, the page does note there is a Blue Archive Steam Wishlist Doki Doki Heart Milestone event in effect. This runs until the game’s launch. If certain numbers of people wishlist the game, everyone gets in-game items when it launches. Here’s the list of possible rewards:

• 25,000: 20 Superior Activity Reports and 50 Advanced Activity Reports
• 50,000: 15 Advanced Tech Notes Choice Boxes, 20 Normal Tech Notes Choice Boxes, 25 Beginner Tech Notes Choice Boxes
• 75,000: 4,000 Expert Permits
• 100,000: a 10-Recruitment Ticket

Blue Archive is available for mobile devices, and the PC client is headed to Steam in 2025. There is also an anime based on it.

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Square Enix announced it will sell three different kinds of pixel art game merchandise with sprites of NieR, NieR: Automata, and NieR Reincarnation characters in Japan on August 30, 2025. These include a mug, a package of flake stickers, and two sets of rubber keychains. The US storefront isn’t taking pre-orders for any of the items yet. 

The set of flake stickers is the cheapest of the new items. It costs 1,100円 (~$8). There are 18 stickers in each package. All of the leading characters from each of the three NieR games appear, as well as side characters like 2B and 9S’ Pods and Mama and Carrier who assist The Girl of Light Fio. Each sticker is under an inch tall at around 18mm. 

The glass mug with the NieR pixel art sprites is second most expensive at 3,300円 (~$23). This doesn’t feature every character in this collection on it. In the top row are NieR characters Kaine, Nier, and Emil, in that order. The middle row features NieR: Automata leads 9S, 2B, and A2. Finally, the third row puts Fio between Mama and Carrier. The back of the cup has Emil’s head on it.

Finally, there are two sets of NieR pixel art keychains made of rubber and featuring sprites of the characters. Volume 1 features adult Nier, Kaine, and Emil from NieR, Pod 042 and Pod 153 from NieR: Automata, and Hina Akagi, Yuzuki Kurezome, and 10H from NieR Reincarnation. (I can’t tell who the final character in this set is meant to be.) Volume 2 features young Nier and Yonah from NieR, Fio, Mama, and Carrier from NieR Reincarnation, and 2B, 9S, A2, and a machine lifeform from NieR: Automata. Each set consists of nine pieces in the box. Each box costs 6,435円 (~$45).

Here’s how all the new NieR merchandise looks:

The NieR, NieR Automata, and NieR Reincarnation merchandise with characters from each game will debut in Japan on August 30, 2025. It’s likely we’ll see them worldwide after. NieR appeared on the PS3 and Xbox 360, then later on the PS4, Xbox, and PC one as NieR Replicant. NieR: Automata is on the Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and the anime is on Crunchyroll. NieR Reincarnation appeared on mobile devices, but is no longer available. 

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Enish announced that it will end service for its mobile puzzle game themed after The Quintessential Quintuplets on June 30, 2025, at 10 PM JST. The full title of the mobile game is Gotoubun no Hanayome: Itsutsugo-chan wa Puzzle wo Gotoubun Dekinai, which can be translated to The Quintessential Quintuplets: The Quintuplets Cannot Evenly Divide the Puzzle by 5.

The company launched the mobile game exclusively in Japan on October 27, 2020. It branded the genre as a "new sensation love comedy puzzle game." The game lets people play puzzles while gradually unlocking visual novel stories that are brand-new or taken from the original manga and anime.

Some of the stories from the outgoing mobile game are already being preserved in the form of console game releases. Mages has made two Gotopazu Story releases that compile stories from the first two years of the mobile game for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in June 2023 and October 2024. However, the outgoing game shall have a total lifespan of around four years and eight months. It remains to be seen whether Mages will also cover the remaining stories in the years to come.

The Quintessential Quintuplets: The Quintuplets Cannot Evenly Divide the Puzzle by 5 is available for iOS and Android mobile devices in Japan until June 30, 2025.

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Timi Studio, Activision and Square Enix announced that the Call of Duty Mobile NieR: Automata event is about to begin, and they also shared the various character skins based on 2B, 9S, and the YoRHa Commander White. Everything starts at 5pm PT/8pm ET on May 30, 2025. 

There are three NieR: Automata character skins in Call of Duty Mobile, though only one can be earned for free. By playing, we can get the 9S costume for Ryotaro "Kui Ji" Nagashima. The 2B and Commander White outfits will show up for Lizbeth "Kestrel" Warnholdt and Fiona St. George, though both of those will appear via the Draw banners. The 2B one also will feature Legendary PP19 Bizon, while the Commander one will have AK47 - Final Apocalypact. 

Here’s Kestral as 2B: 

And here’s St. George as Commander White: 

The Kui Ji as 9S costume shows up at the very beginning of the general crossover trailer:

The 9S skin isn’t the only item people can earn by playing Call of Duty Mobile during the event. There are also five weapons. Four of these are based on ones that appeared in NieR: Automata. These are Cruel Blood Oath, Cruel Oath, EM2: Initieno Atonement, Virtuous Contract, and Virtuous Treaty. The remaining item is a Smoke Grenade design to look like the Machine Lifeform enemies from Square Enix’s game.

There’s an official image showing off all of those rewards we can earn, which you can see below.

Call of Duty Mobile is available on Android and Apple iOS devices. NieR: Automata can be found on the Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and the anime is on Crunchyroll. The crossover between the two starts on May 30, 2025, and some rewards are free to earn.

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HoYoVerse announced the first sign that the 8.3 update is on the way for Honkai Impact 3rd by announcing the beta test phase that introduces elements like the new Erdos Helia Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime Battlesuit. Applications are now open for all of us who play the game.

Gaining access to the test server for 8.3 works in the same way as previous ones offered for Honkai Impact 3rd. You need to be an active player, for one. This is because the only way to access the application is via the client. It’ll show up as a news item under an announcement labeled “Recruiting v8.3 Tester.” After clicking on that, you can fill out a form. HoYoVerse will then email anyone picked to participate in the beta.

While the official YouTube hasn’t shared any Honkai Impact 3rd footage of the Erdos Helia Battlesuit Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime, multiple videos appeared on the official Bilibili one. Some of these were story-based, while others looked more at gameplay. Given the past trends and release schedules, we’ll likely start seeing English of those closer to the global launch of the 8.3 update.

This will mark the second Battlesuit available for the character. Erdos Helia debuted in Part 2. When she did, her Valkyrie Boltstorm unit appeared. 

Honkai Impact 3rd is available for the PC and mobile devices, and the new story missions and Erdos Helia Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime Battlesuit will appear in 8.3 in the near future. 8.3 beta test recruitment is open until June 3, 2025.

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Cygames released a number of new trailers for the English release of Umamusume, with one of them going over the notable unit Mejiro McQueen and the other highlighting what we can expect from the Anime Expo 2025 appearance of the title. There are four new unit trailers to watch total, and all of them should be in-game when it launches worldwide at the end of June 2026. 

First, the Anime Expo 2025 Umamusume reveal video featured Silence Shizuka and Oguri Cap voice actresses Marika Kohno and Tomoyo Takayanagi in-costume discussing what we’ll see at the convention. Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era, the 2024 movie, will be shown in Room 403AB at 1:45pm PT on July 6, 2025. That’s not streaming anywhere, so it being shown at the event is notable. Cygames will give away Silence Shizuka, Special Week, and Tokai Teio pins at its booth throughout the event. Mini cushions will be present there. Takayanagi introduced Oguri Cap and Kohno shared details about Silence Shizuka to close out that video.

As for the new Umamusume character trailers, they featured Grass Wonder, King Halo, Mejiro McQueen, and Mejiro Ryan. Grass Wonder is the star of the thirteenth trailer. She’s voiced by Rena Maeda. She is a part of Team Rigil alongside units like El Condor Pasa and Taiki Shuttle. 

King Halo’s trailer showed up after that. Iori Saeki plays that heroine. She’s not associated with any team.

As for Mejiro McQueen, she’s considered one of the better characters to use in Umamusume even after all this time. She’s also prominently featured in the game and anime adaptation. She’s played y Saori Onishi. While her team affiliation varies based on what you’re playing or watching, she’s on Team Sirius in the game. Oguri Cap used to be on that team, and characters like Narito Brian and Rice Shower are on it with her. 

Finally, the most recent trailer goes over Mejiro Ryan. Yes, she is related to Mejiro McQueen. She isn’t associated with any particular team. Afumi Hashi voices her.

Cygames regularly shares new horse girl trailers ahead of the English Umamusume launch. One of the latest batches included major ones like Daiwa Scarlet.

The Umamusume: Pretty Derby English release date is June 26, 2025, and we’ll be able to pre for the global version of the game on the PC via Steam and Android and iOS mobile devices on April 28, 2025. It is already available in Asia. The new Umamusume: Cinderella Gray anime is on Amazon, and other anime adaptations are on Crunchyroll. Anime Expo will be held July 3-6, 2025, and Cygames will have a booth and show one of the movies based on the series there.

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Good Smile Company and miHoYo announced the release of a new Nendoroid figure of Dr Ratio from Honkai: Star Rail. The figure costs 349 yuan (or about $48.44), and it is expected to release first in China on December 2025. At the moment, there is no information regarding a release date for other regions, though past ones like Aventurine and March 7th appeared worldwide.

The Dr Ratio Nendoroid figure is approximately 100mm (or about 3,94 inches) tall and is articulated. The figure comes with three different faces plates, as is common with Nendoroids. These will be a standard smiling face, a thinking face, and a closed-eyes face plate. In addition to the faces, the figure comes with 4 other parts, including his signature Book of Truth, a rubber duck, a pistol, and a bathtub. The bathtub pose appears on a Light Cone in-game.

Furthermore, a special acrylic stand will be added with the Chinese release. It’s still unclear if the stand or a different bonus will be included once the global release of the figure is announced.

You can check out the figure in more detail, alongside its optional parts, here:

As a reminder, the Honkai: Star Rail Nendoroids figures of Robin and Sunday are expected to release on August 2025, and an Aventurine Nendoroid was recently announced and it will be coming out in Japan on February 2026 and in North America sometime in Q3 2026.

The Honkai: Star Rail Nendoroid figure of Dr Ratio costs 349 yuan (~$48.44) and will release in China on December 2025. Honkai: Star Rail is readily available for the PS5, PC, Android, and iOS devices.

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HoYoVerse shared details about the Zenless Zone Zero Beard Papa cream puff crossover that will feature Anby and Burnice. The promotion will run in the US starting on June 8, 2025, and it will end on July 15, 2025. In addition to exclusive merchandise, there will also be Perfect Taste Bundle codes for in-game items.

Essentially, the Beard Papa promotion guarantees Zenless Zone Zero merchandise and codes if you get certain collaboration sets. The basic one is called ZZZ x Beard Papa’s Operation Yum Collab 2-Puff Set. This gives you the Anby Key Lime Crumble Puff with vanilla bean filling and key lime topping and the Burnice Royal Raspberry Puff with vanilla filling and raspberry glaze. You also get one random pin with either of the two characters or a Bangboo mascot in the restaurant’s costume and the Perfect Taste Bundle code. The 4-puff set comes with both of the limited edition cream puffs, two Original Vanilla ones, an acrylic standee of one of the two heroines and the code. Finally, a 6-puff set comes with two of the Anby puffs, two of the Burnice ones, two Original Vanilla ones, a standee, a random pin, and the code. 

Here’s how all of the Zenless Zone Zero cream puffs and merchandise will look. The Bangboo mascot is paired with the Original Vanilla option.

As for the Perfect Taste Bundle code, that gives anyone who claims it a Bangboo Beard Papa avatar, collectible, and namecard, a Stamina Item, three Senior Investigator Logs, and 30,000 Dennies.

This is the second recent Beard Papa crossover with a popular series. At the start of 2025, a Mashle event appeared. This involved both merchandise and specific cream puffs inspired by characters from the anime and manga.

Zenless Zone Zero is on the PS5, PC, and mobile devices now. The Xbox Series X version and 2.0 update comes on June 6, 2025. The Zenless Zone Zero Beard Papa Anby and Burnice 

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Now that the FFVII Ever Crisis high school AU event Ever Crisis Academy Seven is about to end, Square Enix shared concept art of the uniforms Aerith and Tifa wear in it. It highlights Tifa’s more traditional “honor student” design and Aerith’s modified sukeban delinquent attire. They appeared alongside two-koma FFVII comics based on the event.

Here’s the FFVII Ever Crisis concept art showing the high school uniforms for Aerith and Tifa and gym teacher costume for Barret. 

As for the two-koma comics based on this FFVII Ever Crisis high school event, four showed up on social media. They all offered peeks at the characters going through their school days. The one released the evening of May 27, 2025 also referenced characters who didn’t appear during this storyline, suggesting Cid is a janitor at Midgard Seventh High School and Reeve might be the vice principal.

Here’s all four of those comics. The first to appear was "Grooming? Not Interested." "Dream Come True" appeared after that. The third was "Mr. B's Secret." Finally, the fourth was "Seven Wonders of Seventh High."

Previously, Siliconera spoke with FFVII Ever Crisis Producer Shoichi Ichikawa about the Ever Crisis Academy Seven high school event and character designs. Ichikawa told us, “Tifa is an honor student and Cloud/Zack are delinquents, so while we were wondering what we should do with Aerith, the art team proposed a rough sketch of Aerith as a sukeban. It was visually impactful but also showed a side that was very Aerith-like, such as her fondness for flowers, and we thought we could depict the relationship between Zack and Aerith that is unique to this world setting.”

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis is available on PCs and mobile devices, and the Ever Crisis Academy Seven event ends on May 28, 2025.

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Nintendo and The Pokemon Company International announced the next Pokemon Presents showcase that will go over new games, but we won’t see it for about two months. It will air on July 22, 2025. There’s no exact time for it or placeholder yet, but it will appear on YouTube like past presentations.

A major focus in this stream will likely be Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Nintendo shared the October 2025 release date for it on May 28, 2025, and it being closer to the actual launch day probably means new gameplay footage and reveals. We’ll likely see a lot more to do with the Pokemon Champions title as well. It is possible that the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet mainline installment will debut during this presentation for the first time too.

These Pokemon Presents streams also involve announcements for ongoing games based on the series, as we saw with the Pokemon Day entry in February 2025, so this one should offer a number of announcements tied to the mobile games. Pokemon Unite, Pokemon GO, and Pokemon Cafe Remix updates often come up, and those often involve new characters coming to the game. We also sometimes learn about what is on the way for titles like Pokemon Sleep and Pokemon Masters EX, though the other games feature more prominently. Now that Pokemon TCG Pocket is also live and active, it’s likely a new expansion for that mobile game could show up during the event. 

The next Pokemon Presents showcase will go over games and announcements for existing titles on July 22, 2025. 

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Lasengle worked with the ACN “Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs” Egypt exhibition at Crevia Base Tokyo to release limited time merchandise of the Egyptian Servants from Fate/Grand Order. Not only can visitors learn about history, but they can also pick up goods like pins and cushions.

The Servants who are part of this collaboration are Ozymandias (Ramses II), Nitocris, Nitocris Alter, Cleopatra, and Tutankhamun. If you want to buy the ticket that includes some limited time goods (a ticket holder, a card, and a clear card), you’ll have to pay 5200 JPY ($36.05). The earliest date you can go to the exhibition if you have this ticket is June 14, 2025. If you want to go to the exhibition, and you’re not that interested in the goods, the adult ticket costs 3800 JPY ($26.35) on weekdays and 4000 JPY ($27.75) on weekends.

All the merchandise depicts the characters as chibis. You can purchase them from June 14, 2025. As for the items and prices, they are:

• A4 clear folder: 660 JPY
• Acrylic keychain: 770 JPY each / 3850 JPY per box
• Big acrylic stand: 1650 JPY
• Cushion: 3300 JPY
• Die-cut stickers: 495 JPY
• Handkerchief: 990 JPY
• Pin: 550 JPY each / 2750 JPY per box

The cushions resemble a pyramid, while the clear folder’s background has the same pattern as the limestone on the pyramids in real life.

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices. The “Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs” exhibition will run until September 7, 2025, and the Fate/Grand Order goods that are part of the collaboration will be available from June 14, 2025.

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