Housemarque wants Saros to follow the same path as FromSoftware’s games. Studio CEO Ilari Kuittinen says the team hopes that, over time, their fast shooter style can grow from a niche genre into something as popular and respected as Soulslike games. “We hope that, over the years, we can do the same thing FromSoftware did with Soulslikes,” He explained that games like Saros and Returnal are designed to help players reach a “flow state,” where dodging enemy attacks and reacting to bullet patterns starts to feel natural. Via interview with Kotaku.

Soulsline Enemy Combat - v3.0.1 Comes with transition conditions for enemy action combos. It can be simply a bonus for scoring, or immediate trigger, you can now mark actions to trigger only from a chain action. #gamedev# #ue5# #unrealengine# #fab#

Lords of the Fallen 2 Female Armor Sets Revealed CI Games has released five new female character designs for Lords of the Fallen II, created in collaboration with artist BGroundNPC. The Souls-like sequel is planned for 2026. Did CI Games’ CEO Marek Tyminski deliver on his promise to feature ‘attractive female characters’ wearing ‘revealing outfits’?

Pokémon HeartGold is now fully decompiled. A new GitHub project has decompiled all 4.1 MB of compiled code from Pokémon HeartGold into readable C/C++ source code. The project says the work took around one month and cost roughly $56,000 in API usage. The decompilation was carried out with the help of LLM agents. instead of manually reverse-engineering the entire game, AI agents were used to analyze and reconstruct the compiled code. The repository also covers Pokémon SoulSilver and claims it can reproduce the original game code closely enough to generate byte-for-byte identical ROMs.