Caseplay announced on social media that it will start making its Hatsune Miku and other Vocaloid phone cases available for overseas customers. You can check out the official Caseplay website to make sure that your phone is one of the 130 devices compatible with its products.

Aside from phone cases, you can also get accessories like earbuds cases, Apple Watch bands, and phone rings. You can only get the six Piapro Vocaloid characters in this collection, which are Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Len, Kagamine Rin, Megurine Luka, Kaito, and Meiko. Miku is the one who appears on the most products, and some items are only available with her on them.

Here’s how much all the Vocaloid phone cases and accessories cost at Caseplay:

• Apple Watch Band: $43
• Earbuds Case: $43
• MagSafe Card Wallet: $57
• Phone Ring: $29
• Slim Protection Case: $85
• Smart Grip Stand: $43
• Stand & Ring Ribbon Case: $99

Prices do not differ between brands, which means an Apple phone case costs the same as a Samsung one. Aside from the big global brands, you can also get items for Motorola, Xiaomi, and Huawei. Caseplay will not deliver to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Iran, North Korea, or Israel. As well, shipping costs differ depending on the country. You can use this chart to assess how much it’ll cost to have it deliver to you.

The Vocaloid phone cases and accessories from Caseplay are now available worldwide.

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HoYoVerse announced what we can expect from the 2.0 update to Zenless Zone Zero and, in addition to the Xbox Series X version, new story, and new region, we each will get to choose a free S-Rank character and S-Rank W-Engine. There will also be activities that essentially give players enough currency and items for three ten-pulls on the gacha, as we can earn 1,600 Polychromes that could be put toward either the Star-Studded Cast Stable Channel banner or limited Signal Searches. Free costumes for Belle and Wise will also be available to earn as rewards in Zenless Zone Zero as well. Everything kicks off on June 6, 2025.

First, we actually get to pick which free S-Rank character and W-Engine we want in Zenless Zone Zero after 2.0 arrives. Here’s the list of all playable units we can choose from, as well as their factions, attributes, and specialties:

• Grace - Belobog Heavy Industries - Electric - Anomaly
• Koleda - Belobog Heavy Industries - Fire - Stun
• Lycaon - Victoria Housekeeping - Ice - Stun
• Nekomata - Cunning Hares - Physical - Attack
• Rina - Victoria Housekeeping - Electric -
• Soldier 11 - Obol Squad - Fire - Attack

As for the free S-Rank W-Engines, it looks like the image showed the ones associated with each of those six characters may be available to choose as your free one. Here’s the list of those possible options:

• The Brimstone - Attack
• Fusion Compiler - Anomaly
• Hellfire Gears - Stun
• The Restrained - Stun 
• Steel Cushion - Attack
• Weeping Cradle -

We also got to see and learn the names of the two Zenless Zone Zero costumes for Belle and Wise. Belle’s is called Delicate Sunlight. Wise’s is Soaring Crane. Both are based on attire seen by people in the new Waifei Peninsula, and they each have a white, yellow, and black color scheme.

Here is how the Zenless Zone Zero Belle and Wise costumes look, and there’s also a screen capture of the free S-Rank characters being given away.

New and returning characters appearing in 2.0 also came up, as the next Zenless Zone Zero Agents were confirmed. The three Yunkui Summit characters, as mentioned before, are Yixuan, Ju Fufu, and Pan Yinhu. Pan Yinhu is the only A-Rank one, as the others are S-Rank. Yixuan, returning character Astra Yao, and Pan Yinhu will be available at launch in 2.0, while Ju Fufu and returning Agent Caesar will appear in the second part of the update.  

The trailer for the new update can be watched below, and it focuses on the new story before showing off playable Agents.

Here’s the full 2.0 Zenless Zone Zero Special Program on YouTube.

Zenless Zone Zero is on the PS5, PC, and mobile devices, and the Xbox Series X version and 2.0 update comes on June 6, 2025. 

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A new system in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will allow players to use a technique to travel between worlds and timelines to pursue additional romance options with the bachelors and bachelorettes you can marry. You’ll be able to go to an "alternate future," where you have a new partner, all without losing any of your progress.

While Marvelous didn't update the English version of Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma website yet to include the localized name of this mechanic, the Japanese name literally translates to “Technique to Travel Between Worlds.” With this feature, you can go to alternate timelines with a new partner, all without having to lose your current family, level, or inventory. You can travel freely between worlds, and each save data can have up to thirty different timelines. This gives you the opportunity to explore the twelve different romance options in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma without having to completely restart your progress or give up a current love affair with one of the other bachelors or bachelorettes.

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is the latest entry in the long-running Rune Factory series. This spin-off features a Japanese-inspired setting, and there are two protagonists you can choose from. The gender of your protagonist does limit romance options in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, as all love interests can be married regardless of your choice. Marvelous first revealed this game during the August 2024 Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. 

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will come out for the Nintendo Switch and WIndows PC via Steam on May 30, 2025.

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Shift Up showed exactly how some of the Stellar Blade Goddess of Victory: NIKKE costumes and the minigame based on the mobile game will look in a trailer for the crossover DLC. This also featured a peek at the Scarlet boss fight as well. There's also a Doro Dorothy cameo at the very end.

This video began with a look at the Stellar Blade minigame gameplay, as that involves shooting down foes in the same way someone would when playing NIKKE. As it starts, Shift Up quickly cycles through a few of the character costumes for Eve in the add-on. First, she’s dressed as Rapi. Then, she looks like Modernia. A quick peek at Anis’ attire comes after. Her Alice outfit appeared after that. She’s briefly dressed like Dorothy after that, before returning to her normal appearance.

From there, we see the cover-based shooting familiar from NIKKE. What honestly look like Rapture robots, in addition to Stellar Blade foes, descend on her location. We hide behind cover and emerge to shoot at them, and the UI suggests the Burst system from NIKKE may be present. 

After that we see some familiar faces. Volt the dog shows up and interacts with Eve. We then get a better look at her in the different NIKKE costumes in Stellar Blade. Eve meets Scarlet after that, and that leads into a peek at the boss fight between the two characters. Things close out with Eve encountering Doro Dorothy at about the 1:27 point.

Here’s the full trailer:

Stellar Blade is available for the PS5 and comes to the PC via Steam on June 11, 2025, and the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC debuts the same day and is a part of the complete edition of the game. NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices now.

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Square Enix shared some details about the process of deg the CG renders and models for Cait Sith in FFVII Rebirth. Despite having a brief cameo in Episode INTERmission on FFVII Remake Intergrade, the character made his full appearance in the second title of the remake trilogy.

The company explained that the final touch ups to the fur were very challenging when deg the full-body CG, but the team at Square Enix was satisfied with the soft-textured feel of Cait Sith for his model in FFVII Rebirth. For the close-up bust, the developers explored several pose ideas inspired by the image of playing with a plush or a stuffed animal toy, with movable legs and arms.

One of these ideas involved Cait Sith using both of his hands to imitate cat paws raised up to his ears and slightly tilting his face to create a sly expression. The aforementioned pose was shown on the third image in the post shared by the company, which you can check out in more detail below.

Square Enix has been sharing details about the CG renders and character models of various characters in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, with the most recent ones talking about the ninja Yuffie Kisaragi, and Barret Wallace.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is readily available worldwide on PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam.

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Yostar announced the closed beta test dates for its new game Stella Sora, and that kicks off on May 28, 2025. It will run for over a week, ending on June 8, 2025. This comes after registration to participate opened in April 2025.

This announcement also included a full timeline for this phase. As a reminder, the cut-off to try and get into this test ended a while ago. We could only for a chance to play until May 16, 2025. 

Here’s the timeline for the closed beta phase:

• May 22, 2025: Picked players will be emailed and told they will get to participate.
• May 26, 2025: Closed beta test participants will be able to the build. 
• May 28, 2025: The closed beta begins.
• June 8, 2025: The closed beta ends.

Alongside the closed beta test dates for Stella Sora, there’s also an update on pre-registration progress. It currently ed 2,500,000 people. As a result, everyone gets 10,000 Dorra, the in-game earned currency, and 200 Stellanite Dust, another type of currency, for free. The next tier is 3,000,000 people, which unlocks a Tranquil Retreat Disc for everyone. We will get 600 Stellanite Dust if the pre-registrations hit 4,000,000, the four-star Trekker: Ann character if the game hits 6,000,000, and 10 Cerulean Tickets for the gacha if the 8,000,000 hallmark is hit.

Stella Sora is in development for PCs and mobile devices, and Yostar will hold the closed beta test for the new game between May 28, 2025 and June 8, 2025. 

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HoYoVerse confirmed in the official patch notes for the 3.3 Honkai: Star Rail update that it changed the English Trailblazer voice actors for Caelus and Stelle. It did not reveal the new performers behind either character. Previously, Caleb Yen played the male option and Rachael Chau voiced the female one. 

The official patch notes for 3.3 noted the Trailblazer English voice actors change in the section discussing changes to Honkai: Star Rail audio. It noted that for now, the snippets that come up when using the Remembrance version of the character in battle or going through the Trailblaze Mission story quests in 3.3 will sound different. It then confirmed that future updates will change the lines for other paths and quests. HoYoVerse offered no explanation in the update and didn’t announce who the new actors are.

This change for the Caelus and Stelle English voice actors isn’t the first time Honkai: Star Rail performers ended up being changed or just disappearing. Starting in 2024, we began to see alterations. In the case of Dan Heng and Himeko, voiced lines for both stopped appearing. So while others would speak during story segments, there would be silence if someone used the English language option. All of this started happening after the SAG-AFTRA strike started in July 2024, with performers striking about concerns regarding AI being used to train or replicate people’s performances. 

We’ve also seen English voice actors changed with little or no notice like this for other HoYoVerse games as the strike continued. Most recently, it also occurred in Zenless Zone Zero. Lycaon ended up being replaced in 1.6. There’s a new English performer for Soldier 11 as well.

Honkai: Star Rail is available for the PS5, PC, and mobile devices, and the 3.3 update is now live for the game worldwide.

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The Final Fantasy XIV Mobile version is set to release in China in June 2025, offering a different take on the FFXIV experience. At the time of writing, Square Enix has yet to reveal when the global version of the MMORPG will release. [Thanks, GameSpark!]

An announcement video revealing the game’s release window appeared on the Chinese video site Bilibili on May 19, 2025. FFXIV Mobile will be an Android and iOS version of the popular MMORPG developed in collaboration with Tencent’s LightSpeed Studios, and Square Enix announced the new mobile adaptation on November 2024.

FFXIV Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida said of FFXIV Mobile that it will be a companion piece to FFXIV, aiming to recreate the original’s story and combat in a mobile format. On its original announcement, it was revealed that the game will include the content found on A Realm Reborn on launch, including the original nine jobs and five races found on the 2.0 release. As a reminder, a trailer for the game showcasing the mobile UI and the playable jobs appeared on December 2024.

Final Fantasy XIV Mobile will release in China on June 2025. More information on the exact date will appear in the future. Square Enix has yet to share information on the global release of FFXIV Mobile.

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Shift Up shared the May 16, 2025 IR Presentation pdf on its official site in English, and it mentioned a Stellar Blade sequel is on the way. In the Strategy section of the presentation deck, it appears in the IP expansion area. [Thanks, Shinobi602!]

The IP expansion section features all three of Shift Up’s current and games. In the Stellar Blade section, there are two sections noted. One mentions “platform expansion.” This refers to the PC port, which debuts on June 11, 2025. There is also a sequel mentioned in the same section. No date is shown, but the timeline at the bottom started in 2024 with Stellar Blade PS5 and Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, then ended in 2027 with the Project Witches title mentioned at the end of the timeline. 

Here’s the image from the May 16, 2025 Shift Up IR Presentation:

In the deck, the company also pointed out a timeline of Stellar Blade updates. This didn’t hint at any future additions for the title, however. The last items mentioned there are the PC port and NIKKE DLC debut both happening in June 2025.

While Shift Up hasn’t discussed a Stellar Blade sequel yet, we have seen more details about the PC port and NIKKE DLC. A trailer highlighted PC version features. As for the add-on, the company confirmed Scarlet will be in it as a boss and Volt, Liter’s dog, will be a shopkeeper.

Stellar Blade is available on the PS5, the PC version debuts on June 11, 2025, and a sequel is apparently in development. 

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holo Indie has revealed Kindred Interactive's Holoidle as a new Hololive-themed idle game coming to PC via Steam in June 2025. The now retired Gawr Gura will also appear as a playable character in Holoidle.

The game will have three playable characters in total. The other two Hololive , besides retired Vtuber Gawr Gura, will be Calliope Mori and Houshou Marine.

After selecting a Vtuber, the player will be tasked to tend to her by doing things like cooking meals and patting her head. The Vtuber will regularly generate Holocoins, which the player can spend to obtain equipable Collab Cards. Just like other idle games, Holoidle will have a Rebirth feature where the player can restart the game with more buffs while retaining all collected Collab Cards.

holo Indie has also published a new trailer featuring Holoidle on its YouTube channel:

Gawr Gura had already graduated from Hololive Production on May 1, 2025, and is thus no longer active. However, by having a formal graduation event (as opposed to a contract termination like Uruha Rushia), fans creating Hololive indie games can still include Gura in the roster.

Meanwhile, Calliope Mori and Houshou Marine are still active as of May 2025. Marine also recently celebrated a new milestone of reaching 4 million subscribers on May 5, 2025.

Holoidle will be available worldwide for PC via Steam in June 2025.

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The 2.0 Zenless Zone Zero special program stream time and date is set, and we don’t need to wait long to learn about the latest update. It happens at 3:30am ET/6:30am ET/12:30pm CET, the usual time, on May 23, 2025. We can likely expect a lot more news than usual, due to this being a full 2.0 release and marking the launch of the Xbox Series X version of the game. Also, there will be a free Polychrome code again. We can watch on Twitch and YouTube.

As part of the 2.0 reveal, a whole new faction and region will appear in Zenless Zone Zero. The place is called the Waifei Peninsula, and the first characters in the update will all be from the Yunkui Summit Faction. When we’re visiting in Waifei Peninsula, we don’t run and stay in a Random Play video store branch. Instead, we work at Subian Temple. Yixuan is an S-rank unit who seems like she may act as head of the group. The other two are Ju Fufu and Pan Yinhu. There will also be a new system for our daily quests and rewards. 

Another big change will involve Belle and Wise in Zenless Zone Zero. In the 1.0 series of patches and story, as well as area, we only see them enter the Hollows via the Hollow Deep Dive System and their unique Bangboo. In 2.0, they’ll be able to enter the Hollows themselves. We'll have to wait for the showcase to see how that works.

Zenless Zone Zero is available for the PS5, PC, and mobile devices, and it will come to the Xbox Series X alongside the 2.0 update on it seems like June 6, 2025. This is due to Hugo’s banner ending on June 5, 2025, which tends to be the hint for when the next one and update starts. The Zenless Zone Zero Special Program stream for 2.0 airs at 3:30am ET/6:30am ET/12:30pm CET on May 23, 2025.

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Type-Moon has revealed a release window for Fate/hollow ataraxia Remastered. The studio plans to release the remaster of Fate/hollow ataraxia for Nintendo Switch and the PC gaming platform Steam sometime within the year 2025.

The studio first announced the confirmation of the remaster's development back in August 2024. It revealed that the remaster will appear on Steam and Switch. The visual novel will also be available worldwide with English language . However, the remaster's release window was not known prior to this new announcement.

The new release window appeared first on pamphlets sold during the Fate/stay night 20th Anniversary Concert Finale. The concert was held at the Tokyo International Forum on May 18, 2025. It was the last one made to celebrate the anniversary milestone of the visual novel, of which Fate/hollow ataraxia serves as its fan disc expansion.

The new announcement tweet is available to view right below:

The original Fate/hollow ataraxia was available for Windows PC via a standalone DVD-ROM in late 2005. Type-Moon later worked with Kadokawa Games and HuneX to bring the visual novel to PlayStation Vita with full voiceovers in late 2014.

Fate/hollow ataraxia Remastered will be available worldwide for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam in 2025.

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Sony updated the page for the Stellar Blade DLC on the PlayStation website, and it goes over some of the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE character costumes and a Scarlet fight. It also noted there will be a specific shop, fishing for NIKKE items, and a shooting range minigame.

In the case of Scarlet, the NIKKE character will be a boss. It noted on the site that you get a costume, hairstyle, and song for beating her. While it didn’t specify what these might be, in a past trailer we did see a tease that suggested Eve can dress as Scarlet, so perhaps someone would need to defeat the boss to earn that attire.

As for the shop, it will sell costumes and cosmetics in-game. A NIKKE character will run it. Those familiar with Liter will recognize her dog Volt, which will appear as the vendor there.

The March 2025 Stellar Blade Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC didn’t show the Scarlet boss fight, but it did tease outfits based on characters from Shift Up’s other game for Eve. For example, at the start of the video there’s a Rapi outfit. (Not her Red Hood variant.) Alice, Anis, Dorothy, and Modernia outfits seem to be in the crossover add-on too.

Here’s that trailer, as a reminder:

Stellar Blade is available for the PS5 and comes to the PC via Steam on June 11, 2025, and the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC debuts in June 2025 too and is a part of the complete edition of the game alongside the NieR: Automata add-on. NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices now.

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Back in 2024, Ayaneo released Ayaneo FLIP KB and DS models of handheld PCs designed to resemble the Nintendo DS and 3DS line of handhelds, and now it confirmed a FLIP 1S DS is in development. While it confirmed a new one is on the way, only a teaser appeared on social media so far. This comes after it confirmed the “ongoing development of the FLIP product line” on Indiegogo. 

The initial teaser for the Ayaneo FLIP 1S DS doesn’t show how this new take on handheld gaming PC inspired by the Nintendo handheld’s design will look just yet. It only confirmed that it will involve an entirely new design. So it will not only involve upgraded specs compared to the original Windows device and again involve dual screens, but it will look different from the original KB and DS designs.

Here’s the initial infographic Ayaneo shared online.

As a reminder, the original models involved the KB, which had a screen on the top and keyboard on the bottom, and DS, which featured screens on the top and bottom. Both involved a clamshell design, so when not in use someone could close it to protect the screens. At the official site, the base 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD DS model starts at $1,139. The base 16GB RAM and 512GB KB model starts at $839.

The Ayaneo FLIP 1S DS is in development, though we don't know if it will resemble the Nintendo DS as closely as the original release did.

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Wargaming has revealed that it will add even more Azur Lane crossover content to World of Warships. This will be the seventh time the company has added crossover content from the closely related game. It has regularly made crossovers almost every year, starting from 2018, with the preceding sixth wave having appeared in 2024.

The new Wave 7 will add the following shipgirls as commanders, whom players can assign to any playable ship:

1. KMS Hindenburg
2. USS Kearsarge
3. RN Gorizia
4. KMS iral Graf Spee
5. KMS Scharnhorst

In addition, Wargaming will add new ships based on the Azur Lane versions of KMS Hindenburg, USS Kearsarge, and RN Gorizia—as well as KMS Bismarck, whose character had appeared earlier in Wave 4.

As a side note, Hindenburg and Kearsarge are getting double-imported back to World of Warships. Manjuu and Yongshi had previously created Azur Lane shipgirl versions of the original ships Wargaming created for World of Warships. The first character to be double-imported was HMS Neptune in Wave 2.

Wargaming has also published a trailer showing the new content on YouTube:

In the same press release, Wargaming also revealed the new Azur Lane content coming to the console and mobile releases of World of Warships: Legends. People who play the latter version will be able to get unique ships based on the Azur Lane versions of BB-45 USS Colorado, RN Zara, KMS Scharnhorst, and KMS iral Graf Spee.

The original World of Warships is available for PC. World of Warships: Legends is available separately on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, iOS, and Android.

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