Today, during the Granblue Fantasy 4th Anniversary Livestream hosted by Cygames, two prominent crossover events were announced. The first is with Atlus’ super-popular JRPG Persona 5, and in the gallery below you can check out an illustration that will be used for the event, featuring Joker and his persona, Arsène. The second collaboration is with the
Month: March 2018
Cygames’ popular mobile JRPG Granblue Fantasy sparked a rather lovely anime series that aired last year in Japan, and a second season is coming, but today’s news come from the United States. The local arm of Aniplex announced that the series is getting the English voice acting treatment with an upcoming Blu Ray release in
Nintendo General Manager of the Entertainment Planning & Development Division Shinya Takahashi is certainly one of the men responsible for the success of the Nintendo Switch. Since the console celebrated its first anniversary just yesterday, Takahashi-san took the time to answer a few questions in a video published today by Nintendo. We hear him commenting on the
The American Bill of Rights guarantees the citizens’ right to bear arms, but apparently, Ubisoft has a different idea with Far Cry 5. In line with the series’ tradition of weaponizing animals, in the game, you have the right to “arm bears,” as displayed by a new trailer released by the publisher. And that’s not
The mobile TCG market has been expanding and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links claimed 40 million downloads last year. The game features a speed format that features three monster and spell/trap card zones each and is populated by 20 card decks. While this format has excelled on mobile and on the Steam version of the game, Konami
Many will probably remember Adam Boyes for his many appearances on stage at Sony Interactive Entertainment’s conferences during various trade shows, during his tenure as VP of Third Party Relations. Currently Boyes is the CEO of Chicago-based developer Iron Galaxy Studios, and today he took to Twitter to send Capcom an interesting proposal. Boyes recognized that
Sony Interactive Entertainment released its sales charts for the week February 19th and February 25th in Japan, and it’s a rather interesting week due to quite a few debuts on Sony’s console. You can check out the full ranking below. Metal Gear Survive Monster Hunter World Girl Und Panzer Dream Tank Match NieR: Automata Senran Kagura
Girls Und Panzer Dream Tank Match released in Japan on February 22nd, and as announced by Media Create on Wednesday, it sold 46,411 copies in its debut week, coming just a bit short of dethroning Monster Hunter World from the first place in software sales. While the pure sales number is quite high for one of Bandai Namco’s anime games
Today Sega released a brand new TV commercial of its upcoming Fist of the North Star-meets-Yakuza game Hokuto Ga Gotoku with quite a few new screenshots. The commercial shows protagonist Kenshiro in action, alongside quite a few familiar characters, including Raoh, Shin, Rei, and Souther. At the end we also take a look at some of the many minigames that
Square Enix announced that their free-to-play mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius has reached over 30 million downloads worldwide and to celebrate the publisher has launched a special event. Titled “30 Million Downloads Raffle”, players are about to participate in a special in-game event beginning on March 21 until March 31. While the event is active,
XSEED announced that the Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash crossover event with Compile Hearts’ Neptunia series will release in the west for PlayStation 4 and PC on March 7 for $5.99. The crossover event unlocks Neptunia series protagonist Neptune as a playable character along with some in-game items, including: Neptune’s D-Clips Neptune’s N-Charm Neptune’s X-Choker Neptune’s
Xbox One’s Spring update is upon us adding a slew of new features to Microsoft’s game console. While it won’t be open to everyone quite yet, the update will roll out for people in the Xbox Insider program, starting with those in the Alpha Ring. The Spring update will add support for 1440p video output
Destiny 2‘s upcoming patch, Update 1.1.4, will be making a number of changes to the Iron Banner, as well as adding some modes to a weekly rotating playlist. From a post on Bungie.net, the Iron Banner will be going back to its roots with some “old-school” implementations. One of the biggest tweaks is the increase
DMM launched a new event within its Muv-Luv mobile and browser game Muv-Luv Alternative: Strike Frontier. The event is titled “Implacable Cherry Blossoms – Hell Class” (which is quite appropriate, as Japan is about to enter the Sakura season), and by playing the event missions players can drop or unlock (via cumulative score) two SSR units.
Since it released last year, the indie roguelike platformer Flinthook grabbed attention with its grappling hook-based gameplay that has players swinging their way through its inventive levels, with the game now on the way to the Nintendo Switch in the very near future. Developer and publisher Tribute Games announced that Flinthook will be released for the Nintendo
Star Citizen has passed an important milestone with the launch of alpha 3.0 in December, and the team is preparing to implement relevant changes with regular quarterly releases of incremental updates. In order to get a better insight on the future of the massive crowdfunded game, DualShockers had a chat with Global Head of Development
There’s a lot of debate over developers porting previously released title to Nintendo Switch. Some see it as a great way for developers to show support, while others think it results in an underwhelming game library, needless port-begging, and half-heartedly made ports. Botched releases like WWE 2K18 and RiME may make some people hesitant about third-party ports, but
Merge Games assists developers in releasing physical retail versions of their game on a variety of different platforms. Recently, they partnered with Angry Mob Games for Brawlout on Nintendo Switch and Red Hook Studios for Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Edition on PS4 and Switch. Today, they announced that they have partnered with Polish developer and publisher
Ubisoft is set to release Far Cry 5 in just a few weeks, so they are beginning to hype up the game in full force. Today, they released five new videos about the game, all of which focus on the different characters, allies and enemies, that players will run into along their journey. villains The
The social experiment and real-time tactical RPG from Abyssal Arts mixes fighting game mechanics with that of traditional RPG gameplay. Players can combine powerful abilities into real-time combos using the game’s Combo Wheel. City of the Shroud forces players to execute their enemies using the quick reactions of a fighting game while balancing strategy at
If you live in the Old Continent and want to subscribe to PlayStation Plus on the cheap, Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe had a timely announcement today via press release. Starting today and until March 23rd (at 11:00 CET), a twelve-month subscription to Sony’s premium online service will be sold at a 25% discount for European
Otusun Land launched a Kickstarter to assist in the creation and localization of the classic horror visual novel 隣人-Neighbor-. Originally released in 2009 by developer Rosalia, -Neighbor- is set in an inescapable haunted apartment. The game features a story full of Japanese horror elements with the use of monochrome background art and added effects to the set the
Free-to-play fighting game Brawlhalla from Atlanta-based developer Blue Mammoth Games has been a huge success since it hit launched on PC and PS4 last October. This, along with the developers online and eSports expertise, is why Ubisoft announced today that have fully acquired Blue Mammoth Games. While we know the deal was closed on March
Today Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that the recently-revealed Switch port of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy is heading west. As an additional bonus, the game will be released in North America and Europe day and date with the Japanese release on April 26th. The bundle includes Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, which was originally launched back in 2008, Naruto Shippuden:
I know. I know. The headline is a terrible pun… or maybe it’s a nightmarish one… Ok. I’ll stop while I’m ahead. Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released the latest trailer of its upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI, and it’s all about classic villain Nightmare. Like in other character-dedicated trailers, we get to see gameplay and
Cygames announced today via press release the new expansion for its popular free to play strategy card game Shadowverse. The expansion is titled Dawnbreak, Nightedge, and will release at the end of March. This won’t probably surprise many, considering that Cygames has been extremely timely in launching expansions every quarter. It will come with plenty
Koei Tecmo released a bunch of trailers and a few screenshots of its upcoming action game Attack on Titan 2. The first two trailers come from the American arm of the publisher. The first shows the game’s combat features, including new ones that weren’t in the first titles like the scope that lets you perform surprise
Today Atlus released two new trailers of the upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The first trailer focuses on Mitsuru Kirijo from Persona 3, while the second showcases Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5. As usual, we see them show off their moves and some of their
Today Sega released a brand new trailer of the upcoming strategy JRPG Senjou no Valkyria 4: Eastern Front that will be released in the west as Valkyria Chronicles 4. The trailer focuses on the mechanics included in the game’s battle system. Most will prove familiar to veterans of the series, considering that Valkyria Chronicles 4 is very similar to
Following the announcement of the release date of Detroit: Become Human by Quantic Dream, Sony Interactive Entertainment published a new trailer. The trailer has not yet been published on PlayStation’s own YouTube channel, but it appeared only on the European PlayStation Store directly on PS4, but here you can see a recording. The video showcases