Just to provide some clarity on Monday updates: Monday versions of Daily Gaming News will also include snippets from over the weekend, when I’m usually too tired (or there’s just not enough interesting stories) to write something up.

Sorry, Junji Ito and Hideo Kojima aren’t working on a project together

It looks like it isn’t happening, folks: famed horror mangaka [mangaka: manga/Japanese comic creator] Junji Ito and Hideo Kojima aren’t working on a project together, officially or not.

Twinfinite reports that Ito met Kojima at a party and had a casual conversation where the latter said he may ask Ito to collaborate on a future project if the opportunity arises.

Hideo Kojima shouldn’t really need any introduction here, but Junji Ito is well known for shorter-form manga such as The Enigma of Amigara Fault.

Persona 5 Scramble confirmed headed for a Western PS4/Switch release

PersonaCentral (if you can’t trust a site with that name on anything Persona-related, who can you trust??) noticed that Koei Tecmo’s financial statements, released today, also included a slide that mentioned an upcoming release of Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers was headed for the west. It’s the first real confirmation that we’ve seen for a western release. Now can we get Persona 5 Royal on the Switch?

Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikes is a musou/warriors action RPG that takes place four months after the events of Persona 5.

Superhot: Mind Control Delete forces you to wait for 2.5 hours to play it again after finishing it

File this under idiotic game dev move of the week: SUPERHOT Team, developers of the time-moves-only-when-you-do Superhot game and its VR off-shoot, added a fun feature to its sequel Mind Control Delete: when you finish a game, you need to wait 2.5 hours before being able to play it again.

That might not sound too bad – after all, couldn’t you just close the game and come back a couple of hours later? – but the game actually forces you to keep the game running the entire time. According to the developers, it also used to be on an 8 hour timer.

Source: Eurogamer

The Steam store now has an option to join a game playtest

Twitter user @thexpaw discovered a new option that’s been popping up on Steam store product pages:

That’s right, you can now pre-register for an upcoming playtest.

Analogue Pocket preorders open August 3, 2020 8am PST, shipping May 2021

As expected, Analogue Pocket announced that preorders for their Pocket console will begin on August 3, 2020 at 8 am PST.

The Pocket plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges out-of-the-box and can also run other pocket consoles with a cartridge adapter. The preorders will be going for $199 and start shipping in May 2021.