Month: December 2018

Nintendo Switch owners want physical copies of their favorite independent games and goodies to come with them, and Super Rare Games wants to bring them to you. Details leaked for the London-based company’s plans to roll out a membership program called the “Super Rare Club” for their most loyal fans. Super Rare Games released several
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As 2018 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2018 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just 2018
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It’s already 2019 in Japan, so The Pokémon Company decided to celebrate the new year by releasing the first trailer for the upcoming Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution. While the trailer is quite short, it should get fans of the Pokémon movies excited. The brief trailer begins with some footage from the original premiere back in
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Before chicken dinners were the must-have meal for gamers, deliciously moist cake was the dish that players would strive for instead. And who wants to wait in line for cake? Not speedrunner CantEven; that’s for sure. Instead, they’ve taken it upon themselves to rush through classic puzzle game Portal at an eyeball-spearing pace. The vomit
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Whether you consider Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu! and Eevee! to be a core Pokémon title or not (Nintendo certainly does), it certainly added many quality-of-life improvements to streamline the usual experience. This may have led to a shorter game for many players, and director Junichi Masuda acknowledged this in the game’s strategy guide. Essentially, Masuda wanted
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DeAndre Cortez Way, also known as Soulja Boy, is a rapper from Chicago who has recently made the news after selling his own range of products under the “Soulja” brand. These products, which consisted of watches, earphones, phones, tablets and consoles, were all quickly found to be knock-off products of existing brands, or emulation software.
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The roguelike Metroidvania (or whatever genre you’d assign it to) Dead Cells was a huge success in sales, especially on the Nintendo Switch, but don’t expect a direct follow-up any time soon. In an interview with Game Informer, Motion Twin game designer Sébastien Bénard tempered expectations about a possible sequel. When asked about a hypothetical Dead
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The developers of SoulCalibur VI discussed recent and future balance changes and the upcoming Create-A-Soul DLC during a live stream with the Japanese video game magazine Dengeki Online. Interestingly, the developers had to split the balance changes between the already released 1.10 update and the upcoming 1.11 update because DLC character 2B from NieR: Automata ended up causing a delay
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At a recent event in Japan, Nekopara developer Neko Works revealed that the popular visual novel games will be getting a TV anime series. Few details about the anime were released other than an official poster which came alongside the announcement. Nekopara will be adapted as an anime series! We have just made this announcement
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Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine, was recently accused by a user on Reddit of making their Epic Games Store “literal spyware” and sending data to the Chinese government due to being owned by Tencent, a Chinese giant which controls 40% of the company. The post received almost 30,000 upvotes and multiple
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Before the release of critically-acclaimed indie game Celeste, some of its developers were working on a procedurally generated Metroidvania project titled Skytorn. This was announced back in 2016 with a release window for the following year. On Saturday, the team took to Medium to announce the cancellation of the project. “We’re no longer going to be finishing Skytorn
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Fans of Black Mirror gathered around their television screens yesterday to see what the hullabaloo over this new Bandersnatch interactive movie was. Through Netflix, viewers were able to choose between branching paths in a story that followed a video game programmer (Fionn Whitehead) working for a company called Tuckersoft in 1984 England. One of these
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Grasshopper Manufacturer revealed a new trailer for Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes showcasing a new level that’ll be included in the game. Throughout the trailer, we see some more conventional hack-and-slash gameplay as Travis and Bad Man run through various locations. Of course, doughnuts do make an appearance and they’re used as platforming objects for the
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As 2018 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2018 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just 2018
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