Game developer Dimensional Ink Games announced that DC Universe Online will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X this holiday season.

The free downloadable MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) will launch on both consoles in its original form, and the development team is working on gameplay and quality-of-life improvements that will come alongside this update.

These fixes will roll out in the coming months ahead of release on current-gen consoles, and several more coming next year.

Dimensional Ink Games said that players will remain on the same server with the same characters and friends regardless of version.

Gamers who don’t want items or purchases in their account to be lost can simply log in with the same PSN or Xbox account after downloading the game.

Dimensional Ink Games didn’t mention the Xbox Series S in its announcement. In all likelihood, this update isn’t just for the Xbox Series X, but IGN has asked for further clarification.

DC Universe Online first launched in January 2011 for PC and PlayStation 3, before arriving in November 2013 on PlayStation 4, then in April 2016 on Xbox One, and in August 2019 on Nintendo Switch.

The Xbox One version is already playable on Xbox Series X and S through backward compatibility, and the PS4 version is playable on PS5.

Apparently, there will be a reboot of Mortal Kombat: in the past few hours, the official YouTube channel of the legendary fighting game franchise has released a very short teaser that doesn’t show anything of the game in development but suggests in a rather obvious way that in terms of plot, it opted to start from scratch, or rather, from one.

It’s quicker to see the video than to read the explanation, but for those who can’t: you see an analog clock whose second-hand moves slowly up to 11 (note that the last Mortal Kombat released so far is right there ’11), and when it’s time to move to 12 it “teleports” quickly to 1. The video ends with a rather clear message: it’s almost time.

The announcement of a new chapter of Mortal Kombat had already been given by Warner Bros. last February: the company had said that it will arrive by the end of the year. At that stage, there was express talk of a Mortal Kombat 12, but it is not known whether it was a simple internal communication error or if the mind was changed during the work.

The times are clearly ripe: not only MK11 (from which the opening image comes) was released four years ago now, but the new chapter of one of the historical rivals of the saga, Street Fighter 6, is also about to be released.

Over 20 Mortal Kombat-themed games have now been released since that distant 1992; the saga immediately stood out for its frenetic gameplay and above all for the high rate of exaggerated splatter, accentuated above all by the complicated and highly spectacular end-of-match moves known as Fatalities.

Warner has also recently decided to bring the franchise back to the big screen, after the two live-action films released in the 90s. The reviews have always been a bit so-so, but the receipts have not been bad – so much so that Warner has decided to approve a second film, whose release date is not yet known.

Last Friday the approvals of the Lego Ideas program appeared. Two sets received the green light to go into production and one of them was the fantastic Sonic Mania: Green Hill Zone confirmed just a few hours ago. From the Danish company, they reported that they had reached an agreement with Sega to be able to produce the design created by fans that for now has no release date or defined prices.

The set will include a number of Sonic Mania characters, with Dr, Robotnik, and the beloved blue hedgehog leading the way. As if they were supporting artists, there are also some creations of the mad scientist always in search of chaos emeralds and some creatures of the forest to brighten up the scene a bit. The cherry on the cake is, without a doubt, Robotink’s wick that has two gigantic drills for hands and the possibility of placing the enemy figure inside the cockpit.

Sega, Sonic, and Lego Ideas and grateful fans

For those who do not know the Lego Ideas program, it is an initiative of the most famous company of mini plastic bricks where they ask their fans to send their ideas of sets so that the community can vote for them. If the number of votes reaches 10,000, Lego evaluates them and considers them to launch. Achieving that achievement is very strange and even more so when there is a licensed product in the middle as was the case with Sonic.

However, in this case, the set based on Sonic Mania , acquired such relevance that Lego was able to make an agreement with Sega so that in the future the first set based on the franchise in history reaches the homes of many fans.

With this great step between the two companies, can we be excited about a Lego Sonic on consoles and PC? Just thinking about it is already moving me to tears.