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Umamusume: Pretty Derby fans in the U. S. were supposed to be treated to their first home concert this week during the game’s world musical tour. But an issue with getting visas granted in Trump’s America forced the last minute cancelation of the anime horse girl event. Fans have been distraught, but gacha game maker Cygames is trying to make it up to them with an unusually gracious refund policy. Umamusume: Pretty Derby is a game where you bet on races except instead of horses running it’s anime girls. The game has been a huge success and a passionate fan base has grown up around in since the 2025 release. Having won mobile GOTY at last year’s Game Awards, this fall’s concert tour was something of a victory lap for fans to be able to celebrate over 12 months of sports anime life sim gambling. But Cygames announced at the last minute that it was unable to get all of the paperwork necessary for its performers to enter LA for the concert series this week. “Thank you so very much for trying, it’s heart-breaking but we know you tried until the very end,” one fan wrote on X. “This is not the America I wanted to live in,” another wrote. Some blamed the Trump administration.

Christofer Sundberg's already thinking about life beyond Liquid Swords Over the weekend, Swedish reports revealed that Samson studio Liquid Swords have gone bankrupt less than a year after releasing their debut crimebrawler. Founder and former Just Cause lead Christofer Sundberg subsequently confirmed that Liquid Swords are headed for closure. However, he was also quick to make clear that he won't be disappearing from game development, announcing plans to form a new studio that he's now offered a bit more insight on.

Right, let's get one important thing out of the way first: I've played a fair bit more of Dawn of War 4's main campaign, after my initial impressions of a single mission last year, and I think it is very good. The action is as screen-filling as ever, the Orks are a delight, and the combat director, which sees individual combatants lock onto each other with bespoke animations when groups fight in melee, remains a genuine feat of RTS engineering. I'll have much more to say on that front soon, though I'd like a little more time with it first. And so, in the meantime, I bring huge* news.

I may have set my expectations for Dawn of War 4 too high, but it's a series that, to my mind, never retreads the same ground. It's therefore been disappointing to feel, having played it across two its campaigns that this long-awaited sequel may have taken too few risks - or been too reverent of the games that came before. Back in the hands of Relic Entertainment, the original Dawn of War was closest to a traditional RTS game. Yet its use of cover mechanics, unit customisation, and onscreen violence felt distinctly new compared to other games I was playing at the time. As someone who'd grown up on Age of Empires and Command & Conquer, seeing units pair off and take part in animated scuffles brought the battlefield to life, especially after spending years of Saturday afternoons sliding static Warhammer figurines around a tabletop.

The furore over Sony's decision to effectively kill physical games on its PlayStation platform appears to have died down (for now), and new data from Alinea Analytics shows how wide the split between physical and digital PS5 games is in 2026. As Alinea's head of market analysis, Rhys Elliott, notes , PlayStation's top new 2026 games by physical copies are mostly single-player AAA titles, with Resident Evil Requiem the best-seller. Capcom's hit Resident Evil game is estimated to have sold 1.3 million units on PS5, and it's also estimated to be the only game on the list to have broken the 1 million sales milestone. Other games like 007 First Light (873,000) and Marvel's Wolverine have come close (799,000), but overall, digital currently has a 70/30 sales lead. Top PlayStation games by physical copies sold and revenues Resident Evil Requiem -- 1.3 million units sold 007 First Light -- 873K units sold Marvel's Wolverine -- 799K units sold EA Sports FC 27 -- 705K units sold Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced -- 613K units sold Crimson Desert -- 511K units sold Pragmata -- 442K units sold Onimusha: Way of the Sword -- 423K units sold As Elliott explained, PlayStation first-party and Ja