Category: Mobile

We’re entering into a season of spooky farming sims this summer, with games like Moonlight Peaks joining others such as Grave Seasons and Village in the Shade. This one, however, actually casts players as vampires moving into a town with other supernatural and magically gifted beings. To better understand what sets this apart and what to expect, Siliconera caught up with Little Chicken CEO and Moonlight Peaks Director Yannis Bolman to discuss the upcoming life sim. How did existing games farming life sims, such as Story of Seasons, Stardew Valley, and Sun Haven shape Moonlight Peaks? Yannis Bolman: We looked…

Image via Hotta Studio and Perfect World Following NTE: Neverness to Everness players finding examples of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) usage in visuals and graphics in the game after launch, Hotta Studio and Perfect World Games issued a statement on social media admitting the team used AI in the game. It also claimed it is “reworking” two of the video examples people caught while playing the game. The statement did not include an apology for not using artwork created by human beings.  Here is the text from the full statement the Hotta Studio team released on social media. It referred…

A number of manufacturers shared details about upcoming Zenless Zone Zero figures, with the new ones being a Lighter Nendoroid, Astra Yao scale figure, and SH Figuarts ones of Soldier 0 Anby and Trigger. Three of these will start showing up in 2027. The only one with no release window is Trigger, as Bandai Namco only just revealed her. All of these will appear worldwide, though only the Good Smile Company pre-orders are live and the Amazon Tamashii Nations and Apex-Toys pages don’t feature those ones yet. AmiAmi is selling the Astra one already.  Of the figures with release dates,…

The promised Genshin Impact To Snezhnaya and the Future presentation is live, and in it HoYoVerse also shared the release date for the version update that will add the new region. That will launch on August 12, 2026. It featured developers like R&D Engineer Xiaodan and Combat Designer Aquaria explaining some initial details about the location and its gameplay elements. It also included the “Snezhnaya20260812” Redemption Code to use in-game for 200 Primogems.  Initially, things started with a quick summary of things we know about Snezhnaya in Genshin Impact. Namely that it is the Cryo nation, which means it’s a…

Square Enix, you’ve been doing so well with mobile games. So many of your gacha-based titles didn’t feel terribly exploitative! Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis means you get characters for free, and there are great event pieces of equipment. Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia featured tons of characters, major and minor, tied to campaign missions and side stories, and the gacha involved weapons. It’s so easy to point to one of these types of titles and point out an example that was worth playing. But now the company released Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy, and it’s one of the most pay-to-win,…

HoYoVerse shared a new video with members of the Zenless Zone Zero development team discussing what we can expect from the Season 3 update once it arrives. Currently, we’re on version 2.7, and the 2.8 patch is expected to arrive on May 6, 2026. This is actually a pretty lengthy discussion going over Zenless Zone Zero Season 3, as it is over 17 minutes long. It starts by bringing up where the story will go in the campaign. Things begin with Peng saying the Helios Academy legacy power the Proxies Belle and Wise first showed after facing Bringer are coming…

Shift Up announced the 3.5 Goddess of Victory: NIKKE anniversary update arrives on April 23, 2026, and that includes the alts SSR Anis: Star and SSR Neon: Vision Eye, as well as an entirely new SSR unit called Avistar. There will also be new costumes present, which are Dreaming Lake for Liberalio, Luna Light for Dorothy, Shining Light for Rapi: Red Hood, and the Starlight and TT Star ones for Anis: Star. The Star Anis event will also run during the update and feature a Tracing the Stars rhythm minigame, and the main campaign will get Chapters 45-46.  In terms…

Image by Efrem Efre on Pexels. | Published: Apr 19, 2026 08:00 pm Apple’s rumored iPhone Fold is already shaking up the smartphone market, prompting rival manufacturers to rethink their foldable designs before the device officially launches. A sudden rush of wide foldable phones from several Android brands signals a clear shift in consumer and industry preference. As detailed by Forbes, Apple is effectively standardizing a new widescreen foldable form factor, something earlier devices from Google, Microsoft, and Oppo couldn’t quite achieve on their own. For years, foldable phones, especially the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series, largely stuck to a…

Samuel Gutierrez helped build something special. Tales was a place where writers could create rich, visual, branching stories. A genuine competitor to Episode Interactive and Choice of Games, with higher production values and tools that actually respected the people using them. Then, in early 2023, it was gone. Not because the product was bad. Not because the community abandoned it. Tales died because the money ran out at exactly the wrong moment, right when the entire tech funding world stopped caring about anything that wasn’t AI. Now Gutierrez is back. And the same technology that helped kill Tales is the…

Version 4.2 of Honkai: Star Rail arrives on April 22, 2026 and, in addition to the new Planarcadia storyline and Silver Wolf alt adds 3rd anniversary events. An official site also opened to share all the upcoming merchandise and worldwide events to celebrate the third birthday of the game and contest. There are also other special releases to honor the game, like a Honkai: Star Rail anime concept trailer from Mappa, a theme song for the event, and planned Round1 releases in May 2026. There will be many new characters and reruns present in Honkai: Star Rail 4.2. When the…