Month: October 2018

Today, Marvelous published a new trailer for the Switch port of Fate/Extella Link, showing the “Funi Funi” versions of Nero Claudius, Tamamo no Mae and Altera. These alternatives, cute SD versions of the characters are included in the Switch version. They will also be added to the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita versions of the
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Third-person shooter Morphies Law from Cosmoscope GmbH has been struggling to retain a player base, the developers admitted upfront in a candid blog post, but they are “determined to fix the situation.” The Splatoon-like Nintendo Switch indie game, which has players take control of size-shifting robots in a Mexican Día de Muertos environment, released last August to
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While anyone who casually follows and plays Fortnite is likely used to seeing news of tournaments with professionals, new in-game tournaments will allow anyone to join the fray. Initially leaked by accident on October 11, Epic Games officially made the announcement today on their blog that In-Game Tournaments for Fortnite are beginning tomorrow, October 16. The
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Today Bandai Namco released a brand new trailer of its upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI. The video, narrated by Mark Julio, explains the basics that those who are unfamiliar with the SoulCalibur series may want to know before getting into the game. We hear about movement, the various kinds of attacks at your disposal, critical edge, soul charge,
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The first proper Nintendo Switch entries in the ridiculously-popular Pokemon series, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! are now about a month away from release, and with that comes the latest trailer for the Pokémon Go-inspired game. This colorful trailer demonstrates some new features that we’ve previously seen, including having Pokémon follow your trainer
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With a game as large and ambitious as Red Dead Redemption 2, it is fair to assume that the project entailed a massive, gargantuan effort from the developers at Rockstar Studios. Co-founder of the studio Dan Houser recently quantified the effort, saying in an interview that during development, Rockstar worked “100-hour weeks” several times in
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We learned yesterday that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 became the best-selling digital entry in the franchise’s history and now, unsurprisingly, we’ve also learned that it was last week’s top-selling game in the UK. Black Ops 4 unseated FIFA 19 to claim the top spot in UK sales for the 41st week of the year. This has become old
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Developers Ground Shatter and Ant Workshop has today announced that the multiplayer fighting game, SkyScrappers will hit the Nintendo Switch on October 29th.  The game was inspired by trips to the seaside arcades by James Parker, who is the founder and director of Ground Shelter. SkyScrappers hurls players into the world of exploding skyscrapers, in
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Today, Famitsu’s official Youtube channel streamed Grasshopper Manufacture director Goichi Suda, playing his upcoming Switch exclusive, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes. Suda51 played the game for a good fifteen minutes in co-op mode. We got to see another stage of the game and a boss battle. You can watch the gameplay below. Incidentally, Suda51 also shared that he quite
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Today, Atlus revealed another character trailer for Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, the new Persona spin-off inspired from the Etrian Odyssey series. This time’s star is Goro Akechi from Persona 5. The trailer shows a glimpse of Goro’s interactions with past Persona characters in the game, mentioning how he’s honored to meet Naoto Shirogane from Persona
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Developer Level-5 has released some new gameplay footage as well as a trailer of their upcoming Nintendo Switch title, Yo-kai Watch 4. The content was originally only seen by those who attended 2018’s Tokyo Game Show. Now, it’s available to all, and you can check it out for yourself down below. Yesterday, Level-5 announced that they’d be
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Nintendo has often been called “out of touch” when it comes to their online strategy, but I tend to use the less reductive term “idiosyncratic,” or perhaps even “incoherent.” It isn’t new for the company to be practicing with “Nintendo-like solutions” rather than industry standards but in this day and age, their online infrastructure with
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Today Koei Tecmo released a new trailer of its upcoming Musou game Warriors Orochi 4.  The trailer features the serpent goddess Nu Wa, coming back from Warriors Orochi 3 to join the game’s absolutely massive cast of 170 playable characters. You can check the trailer below, and see her in action as she beats down the usual army of goons
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A new MMORPG is coming from Couch Studios titled Ember Sword. The game is shaping up to be free and have cross-play availability. Ember Sword draws many inspirations, including from classic games like Runescape, and Ultima Online, in its combat system, open-world PVP, and economy. The game also promises to put together an engaging and persistent
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Back in January, DMM and Koei Tecmo introduced Luna in Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation. She was the second new girl released for the game, that now sports an additional four compared to the Dead or Alive series. Yet, Luna’s birthday isn’t in January. As a matter of fact, it’s tomorrow, October 15th. The game is
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PS4 users are advising others to set their messages to private after they received a message on their console. When viewed, the message freezes the consoles and forces players to factory reset their PS4 to get it working again. According to numerous Reddit users, the message can’t even be deleted from the mobile app, but some did say it
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