Today in Gaming News – February 4, 2025

The gaming industry has delivered some more interesting gaming news today, including news from a Capcom showcase that will make Onimusha Fans’ day.

Here at Simulation Daily, we publish roundups with more gaming news that couldn’t be covered in individual articles, to keep you up to date with the work and games from a wider variety of developers than we otherwise could.

Before we get into the news here are handy links to gaming news that did get its own separate coverage.

• Electronic Arts CEO Hints to Possibility of Apex Legends 2.0 and Comments on Nintendo Switch 2.
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Debuts With Almost 160,000 Peak Concurrent Players on Steam
• EA Announces Declining Financial Results But is Confident to Return to Growth Next Fiscal Year
• iRacing 2025 Season 1 Patch 2 Brings Changes to Cars, Tracks, and More
• Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Has Sold Over 5 Million Copies Worldwide
• Helldivers 2: Servants of Freedom Warbond Arrives This Week
• Fireshine Games Welcomes Brian Foote as CEO
• Sumo Digital No Longer Working on Own IP, Will Focus on Development Services for Other Companies

You can check out all the news below. Incidentally, if you’re interested specifically in flight simulation news, we have a dedicated roundup.

Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Remaster Announced

Capcom announced a remaster of the 2022 classic Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny. It’s coming for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2025.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Gets Development Update

We also get to hear more about the recently announced Onimusha: Way of the Sword. The developers themselves provide a development update and confirm that dismemberment and blood will be fully featured in the game.

It’ll release on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5 in 2026.

Capcom Fighting Collection 2 Gets a Release Date

Capcom announced the release date of Capcom Fighting Collection 2, which will come on May 16, 2025, for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. Pre-orders are already available.

The following games are supported including rollback netcode:

• Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro
• Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
• Capcom Fighting Evolution
• Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER
• Project Justice
• Power Stone
• Power Stone 2
• Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein

Civilization VII Introduces Napoleon and his Personas

Firaxis showcased Napoleon and his two personas for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII.

His Emperor persona will be unlocked by linking a 2K account to your platform account, while the Revolutionary persona can be unlocked in the same way, but you must have used that platform account to play Civilization 6 as well.

You can find out what each persona does on the official Game Guide.

The game releases on February 11, 2025, for PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.