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One of the big announcements coming out of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival events in 2026 involved a FFVII Remake raid series called Beyond the Lifestream for the FFXIV Evercold expansion. In addition to the MMORPG Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida and his team working on it, the FFVII remake trilogy team and Director Naoki Hamaguchi are involved in its development. Siliconera got a chance to check in with Hamaguchi to discuss development of the raid series, the upcoming crossover, and remake trilogy characters he’d like to see as possible

The 23.0.0 Switch 2 firmware update is live and adds support for a system transfer to another Switch 2 and create Mii QR codes for sharing.

Bandai Namco opened tons of pre-orders for new anime and game Look Up figures based on Bleach, Hunter x Hunter Naruto, and Persona 5 Royal, with all of the characters due out between March 2027 and May 2027. While each of the anime series will get two people from each one, there are four major characters from the game joining the lineup. Premium Bandai is the pre-order place for residents in Japan at the moment, and the MegaHouse Amazon store will carry them after that. This could happen in the next few weeks, as the The Disastrous Life of Saiki K Look Ups are already showing up there.

Sega is once again selling a Luminasta figure of Frieren being eaten by a Mimic, but this new variant is a Plus option that gives the monster that looks like a treasure chest a tongue. It is now available as a prize figure in Japan. The US listing isn’t live on the company’s Amazon storefront

The standard and nun Bayonetta looks and a Jeanne costume are all coming to Stellar Blade on every platform.

Image via Japan National Tourism Organization and Keisuke Itagaki

Both English and Japanese social media posts confirm we will see each Fire Emblem: Three Houses Seteth voice actor return to reprise the role in Fortune’s Weave. Takehito Koyasu and Mark Whitten are both back as the character. He’s one of the folks from Fodlan in Dagda.

A while back, we saw that Square Enix was working with Hibino to create a replica of the iconic 2B Virtuous Contract sword from the NieR: Automata game and anime

While Wash It All Away is a slice of life manga series, it also features a bit of a mystery regarding heroine Wakana Kinme and her unexplained amnesia. It comes up in the first volume, and later ones suggested it is tied to her past. Now with volume 9, we’re seeing the condition brought to the forefront again. And, as before, Mitsuru Hattori suggests there’s something more going on that affected the lead character deeply.

Always a Catch is one of those shojo manga and anime series that always pushes back a bit against typical tropes due to Maria Annovazzi being such a strong and forthright woman and Prince Renato di Rubini so completely and utterly devoted to her. (It’s not unlike series like The 31st Consort and The Small-Animallike Lady is Adored by the Ice Prince