Marvelous Europe is today excited to announce that DEAD OR SCHOOL, a fast-paced, side-scrolling adventure from Studio Nanafushi is coming to the West on 13th March 2020 for both Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. This 2.5D zombie-infested adventure will be released in North America and Europe.

Joining the likes of the Final Fantasy VII remake and SquareEnix’s The Avengers game, CD Projekt Red has announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will also be delayed and released later in the year. The massive open-world sci-fi adventure title based on tabletop RPG of the same name was originally set to release in April, a month stacked with a ton of big releases already and will now release this coming September 17th.

A new character for Smash Bros. Ultimate was revealed today and leading up to this early morning announcement, many fans had all sorts of predictions going into it. Everyone from Travis Touchdown to Dante from Devil May Cry, to new Fire Emblem to Pokemon characters were only some of the guesses or wishes that many people had.

UK Studio has announced that not only are we getting Zombie Army 4: The Dead War in just a few short weeks, but we are also going to get our Zombie killing hands on the Zombie Army Trilogy on Switch as well, release in the first half of 2020.

Nintendo kicked off 2020 with a Nintendo Direct exclusively for its Pokemon series of games today detailing around 20 minutes of information. This including a new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game, the long-awaited Pokemon Home, and an expansion pass for Sword and Shield.

With 2020 about to explode with a sea of Game of the Year worthy titles, my first real contender is the sequel to the Zombie Army Trilogy in Zombie Army 4: Dead War. The title releases in just under a month on February 4th for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.  

The Game Awards are far from being the only outlet for seeing the best games of the year get their due, but it is by far the most prestigious. It’s also an outlet for showing off new footage of highly anticipated games, as well as the few world exclusive looks at brand new never before seen future releases.

Sony wrapped up 2019 with a series of announcements with a December State of Play today, revealing that the leaked Resident Evil 3 is, in fact, real, and will include the multiplayer spin-off, Resistance. We also got an update on long-awaited 1st party Sony title, some DLC for Kingdom hearts, and much more.

This week, Valve did something that fans have wanted for years; announced it’s making a new Half-Life game. However, it’s not what many were expecting. Titled Half-LIfe: Alyx, the game will take place between the events of the first two games and will be a VR only title releasing next March for nearly all PC applicable headsets.

Among the recent news of The Last of Us: Part 2 and Bloodlines seeing a delay, Watch Dogs Legion will also see a delay from its early 2020 date. While a new date was not announced, it joins a few other Ubisoft titles in having their release dates pushed back.

Just being announced a few weeks ago, Sony revealed that The Last of Us: Part 2 would release this coming February. This release date was much anticipated and fans were happy to know that it was only a few months away. Those dreams; however, were shattered today as Naughty Dog’s creative director, Neil Druckmann announced that the sequel will now release on May 29th, 2020.

Hardsuit Labs has recently announced that Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will see delay from Q1 2020 to “sometime in 2020”. While a new date has not been announced per this statement, it’s possible we may hear more details via PDXCON on Saturday, October 21st. The developer has also stated they will hold a Reddit AMA the following Sunday to aid in answering several fan questions.

Revealed at this year’s New York Comic-con, the upcoming Avenger’s game from SquareEnix detailed its next joining character; Ms. Marvel. While to some people this may have come across as Captain Marvel, it’s actually that of Kamala Kahn, a Muslim hero that’s been around since 2013.

While the CEO of Gearbox, Randy Pitchford stated that Troy said he turned it down the chance to come back as his character, Rhys, the popular voice actor, and one of the creative minds behind Retro Replay, fired back on Twitter indicated that wasn’t the case at all.

With Nintendo’s recent trend of cash grab mechanics in their latest mobile games, Mario Kart Tour saw its release on iOS and Android this week and what Nintendo has done here borders on insanity. For a company that earlier this year stated they would lessen their direct approach to microtransactions in their mobile games, had fundamentally done the opposite.

This summer, news broke that Spider-Man, a character who’s film rights belong to Sony, would exit the Disney fueled MCU due to negotiations failing between the two companies. This comes off of the stellar release of Spider-Man: Far From Home, which went on to become one of Sony’s highest grossing movies of all time.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched a trailer during Sony’s State of Play and in case you missed it as many did, small text popped up after the Special Ops Survival Mode segment ending with “timed exclusive content until October 1, 2020." Indicating that the entire mode will be exclusive to the PlayStation 4 platform for an entire year

Like Sony, Microsoft dumped a decent chunk of game announcements without really setting the world on fire. While nothing here is world exclusives or sought after releases, there is still a good bit to go over and detail just what exactly Xbox had to show off today.

Sony held a State of Play today announcing several key releases and a few smaller titles to its already stellar lineup. While there were not any big surprises, especially considering that Batman: Court of Owls supposed leak, we did finally get a release date for The Last of Us: Part II.

Publisher 2K has stated that its long-awaited release in Borderlands 3 has sold over five million copies during its first five days since the game released on September 13th. This makes the game its fasting selling game in the company’s history.