For as long as we've been giving you reviews on Gamersyde, we've encountered every conceivable scenario in the press world: very restrictive NDAs, short/long preparation times, various technical problems, as BlimBlim would have said, it's a tough life for us reviewers sometimes. When a title as eagerly awaited as Death Stranding 2 is sent out so early, when the publisher and studio give us twenty days to prepare some worthy content, while even giving us permission to offer a sixty-minute video review containing extracts taken from the first thirty hours of the game, there really is no possible complaining. For the following review, we haven't skimped on the number of pages, but don't worry about the video equivalent: we never intended to hold your leg for an entire hour. We therefore hope that the fruit of our hard work of the last few weeks will live up to your expectations.

2K and Gearbox Software released the story trailer for Borderlands 4, offering players a glimpse into the world of Kairos. Borderlands 4 will be available on September 12, 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, while a Nintendo Switch 2 version will arrive later in 2025.

The Blood of Dawnwalker, the open-world RPG developed by ex-CD Projekt RED employees who had worked on The Witcher series, got a proper video presentation yesterday. We're sharing it with you this morning, in its YouTube version only unfortunately. With a character who is human during the day and vampire at night, the promise is clearly to offer the player two totally different approaches to gameplay, which, on paper at least, seems to promise a good degree of freedom in tacking missions. It makes sense then that the studio would call their title a sandbox RPG. The game is scheduled for release next year on PC and consoles.

Chinese studios are clearly showing increasing ambition to compete with Japanese and Western triple-A titles. Blood Message has just been announced by NetEase Games for PC and consoles, and it takes the form of a single-player, linear action-adventure game whose main aim seems to be to pack impressive visuals and epic set pieces. This first trailer more than fulfills that part of the contract, but we'll wait to see more before getting too excited.

Released exclusively on Nintendo Switch last April, Star Overdrive is now available on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. After spending a few hours on the game, we are happy to share a 4K gameplay video revealing the area that follows the Steam demo content.

As the Nintendo Switch 2 is now available, we took some time to capture some 4K videos from Mario Kart World, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, Yakuza 0 Director's Cut, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, Fast Fusion and Arcade Archives 2 RIDGE RACER.

Nintendo invites us to discover Donkey Kong Bananza in a new Direct. As a reminder, the game will be available on Nintendo Switch 2 on July 17.

You may not have heard, but this week, Still Wakes the Deep is getting a paid DLC entitled Siren's Rest. Set ten years after the events of the original game, this expansion lets you plunge into the depths of the North Sea to try and understand what happened to the oil rig on which Caz McLeary had to face the worst atrocities in the main game. Some of the gameplay mechanics (rather limited given the genre) of the main adventure are retained, but as you are also regularly underwater, new ones are introduced, such as the use of a blowtorch to force your way inside the different areas of the wreckage. With a lifespan of between two and three hours, this new content seems rather solid in terms of atmosphere, but we hope it will be more memorable from a narrative point of view. Siren's Rest is priced at €11.04 on Steam until July 2 (with a 50% discount on the main game until June 26), but the recommended retail price is €12.99.

The Alters will be available tomorrow on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and it's been a couple of weeks since we received our review code. After seriously embarking on the adventure and failing miserably to save Jan Dowski and his clones from certain death, we had to reluctantly put the game aside, due to another game by a certain Hideo Kojima, which we also had to deal with over the same period. Given the relatively demanding nature of the game developed by 11 bit Studios and the organisation required to see it through to the end, it was indeed difficult to meet the deadlines for both titles. Nevertheless, as we really enjoyed our time spent on this unknown planet at the verge of destruction, we've prepared a thirteen-minute presentation video looking back on our experience with the game, as well as a spoiler-free gameplay video revealing a few extracts from the beginning of the adventure (set after the demo content). Note that the presentation video is presented in French only but automated English subtitles are available for those of you who do not understand our barbaric language.

In a week and a half, we'll finally be able to unveil our verdict on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, but in the meantime Sony and Kojima Productions invite you to enjoy a new video of this eagerly-awaited second installment in the series. As usual with promotional videos, we're clearly seeing a bit too much, including sequences that we clearly won't be showing you in our video review, and which we'll only mention vaguely enough not to risk spoiling the surprise. So we'll leave you to watch today's video at your own risk, even though it contains no story-related spoilers.