I’ve been a long-time fan of the Shin Megami Tensei series ever since I picked up Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor and Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne out of a bargain bin when I was a little Emily Jr. The complex themes, the DnD-style morality structure, the mythological focus, the phallic chariot monsters… all of them had me coming back to
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If you’re excited about Fortnite’s crossover with Avengers: Infinity War like I am, then you may want to go turn on your system now. Developer Epic Games has officially released a brand new update for Fortnite and it, of course, adds the highly anticipated Infinity Gauntlet game mode, amongst other things. For those that don’t know, the Infinity Gauntlet mode
Nintendo finally revealed more details about the Nintendo Switch’s online service last night. In addition to features like cloud saves, subscribing to this service will also net players access to, at launch, 20 classic NES games. While this is a great feature for the online service, it left many wondering about the fate of Virtual
Today Famitsu released the tease of an article coming in tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, announcing Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Prism of Eyes. The game is the latest episode of the long-running series of hard-boiled mystery adventure games dating back to 1987 known as Jake Hunter in the west. It also marks the debut of the series on
Famitsu just posted its preview for the article coming tomorrow bringing the first details about Warriors Orochi 4 ( titled Musou Orochi 3 in Japan). Not only we get the platforms for Japan, which will be PS4 and Nintendo Switch, but the game will include 170 characters, which is the highest number ever appeared in the
Today Koei Tecmo released a brand new trailer of Dynasty Warriors 9, showing the new DLC pack coming for the game. The “New Weapons Pack” will include three different weapons, the Claws, the Sword & and Hook, and the Emei Daggers. The first trailer showcases the claws, while the trailer for the Sword & Hook will be
Today Capcom released its financial results for the fiscal year 2017, which ended on March 31st, 2018. As you can see in the table below, all the relevant income figures are in the black, also showing a massive increase year-on-year. According to the announcement, this is the “highest level of profitability” in all of Capcom’s
Today Square Enix announced a new livestream covering both Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for PS4 and the arcade original Dissidia Final Fantasy. According to the announcement, a new character will be revealed during the broadcast, which will happen on May 15th at 8:00 PM Japan time. As far as we know, if Square Enix follows
Summer is just around the corner, and E3 2018 is just over a month away. With the second quarter of the 2018 gaming year in full swing with several big titles, including Detroit: Become Human and State of Decay 2 launching later this month. Those looking to take a break from AAA titles and build a backlog
Today, Nicalis, Inc announced new information for its 2D fighting title Blade Strangers. According to the developer, the upcoming title is adding guest character Gunvolt “The Azure Striker” to its roster of fighters. This news comes from the Nicalis, Inc’s official Twitter account, which confirmed the character will be appearing in the game. The titular character, Gunvolt
Today Nintendo released some more details on the upcoming Nintendo Switch Online Service. Subscribers will get the following: Online gameplay, NES games at no additional cost, cloud saves (and this is the big new element), the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app, and Nintendo eShop deals. Everyone (including subscribers, of course), will get system software and
Monster Hunter: World has easily been one of the most popular games of 2018 so far, and Capcom has been fantastic with dealing out new content regularly since release. According to one noteworthy developer though, there’s one new monstrous addition that he’d soon love to see in the monster hunting title. Earlier today, The Coalition’s Rod Fergusson,
Overwatch League team Boston Uprising announced that Dae-hee “Crusty” Park will no longer be the coach for the east coast based team. In the update from Boston Uprising, it explains that after some “internal conversations” between Crusty and the team’s staff, it was in both party’s interest to part ways. The update continues, “Crusty has
When Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition was announced to be coming to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, we knew it would be coming in May, but we just didn’t know what specific day. Well, it seems like Natsume will be waiting until the last possible moment to fulfill that promise, as the developer and publisher have
While gaming livestreams range from everything to eSports to Let’s Plays on Twitch, one of the more intriguing livestream phenomena of the past few years have been the rise of “Twitch Plays” livestreams where Twitch users can control a select video game through the chat, and now The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is
Since its debut last year, developer PUBG Corps have been working diligently to add new maps to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and now players will get a sneak peek at the next upcoming map later this week, which is now going by its official, final name. Developer PUBG Corps has revealed that the upcoming 4x4km map, which was
Nintendo recently confirmed its intention to keep pushing both the Switch and the 3DS family to different segments of the audience, and today they released a trio of trailers. The first video, which you can see below, advertises the Switch, while the other two push the latest entry in the 3DS family, the New 2DS
The WeebCast is our weekly podcast dedicated to all thing Japanese, and today you can listen to its fifth episode, focusing one of the most iconic genres of Japanese games, visual novels. We talk about some of the games that left a lasting impression, and some that you might not know about, alongside the genre
If you didn’t get to be a part of last year’s Pokemon GO Fest, or you were just disappointed by how it was handled, then you’re in luck. Today Niantic announced two brand new, real-life events for the popular mobile game, and one of them is the return of the Chicago-based event. While the event originally
Today Activision and Bungie released the launch trailer of Destiny 2‘s expansion Warmind. The expansion is set to officially release tomorrow, May 8th, and will bring a lot of new content for existing and new players to enjoy, alongside new story focused on a guardian named Ana Bray, and the warmind Rasputin on Mars. We’ll get
Portal Knights was released on Nintendo by Keen Games and 505 Games last November, but did not have an accessible free demo for players to check out like the other versions of the game had. That changed today though, as a free Portal Knights demo has made its way onto the Nintendo Switch eShop. According
Only a day into the Weekend Special Event, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds new War Mode had been taken down the following day after being the cause to the game’s server instability. For those out of the loop, the new gameplay in War Mode over the weekend event would have offered players a fresh take on PvP action
Being a temporary crossover event in Fortnite: Battle Royale, Thanos of Avengers: Infinity War will be a playable character starting on May 8. This will be part of a new gameplay mode, and it is titled the “Infinity Gauntlet Limited Time Mashup”. Players will have an opportunity to be Thanos, the villain from Marvel’s Avengers:
We are 15 days away until Undead Labs’ highly anticipated title State of Decay 2 launches, as the official release date draws near, those intending on picking up the title on PC may now view the system requirements needed to run that particular version of the upcoming zombie game. A closer look at the PC configuration requirements shows
Today Spike Chunsoft released a batch of screenshots of its upcoming JRPG Zanki Zero: Last Beginning. The first element that we get to see is the “Shigabane system.” When your character dies you can extend his life by cloning him. The Shigabane system strengthens the new cloned body according to the cause of death of
Today Compile Heart released a new trailer for it upcoming JRPG Kamigokuto Mary Skelter 2, the sequel of Mary Skelter: Nightmares. The trailer focuses mostly on the many waifus that populate the title. Interestingly, we also get to see their transformations, that not only make them definitely violent and pretty crazy, but they also lose
Today Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker Corporation and Arzest announced that its new mobile game set in the Terra Battle universe Terra Wars will soon enter a closed beta test phase. We haven’t heard much about the game since last Summer, but apparently, it’s close to completion, and today the developer started recruiting applicants. The beta test
Today, the New York Excelsior defeat the Boston Uprising to win the Stage 3 Finals of Overwatch League. The first match of the day featured the Boston Uprising against the Los Angeles Gladiators where Mistakes and crew shut down the opposition in a clean sweep. A similar story was told in the next match between
Haruki Satomi may be young, but he carries quite a few titles. He is chairman and CEO of Sega, President and CEO of Sega Games and of Sammy Corporation, and more. As such, he’s one of the men with the most influence in determining the direction of the popular Japanese publisher. Considering his position, you’d
Final Fantasy XIV has a fantastic story, which found a climatic point in the latest expansion Stormblood. Recently, DualShockers had a chat with Main Scenario Lead Writer Natsuko Ishikawa and Localization Lead John Crow, and we were able to ask them about their feelings on writing the narrative and localizing it for the English audience.