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Following today’s announcement of the release date of Dead or Alive 6, Koei Tecmo revealed the Special Editions for the Japanese market. On top of the Digital Deluxe Edition that we’re getting in the west, Japan is also getting a physical Collector’s Edition and the traditional “Strongest Package.” The Collector’s Edition costs 12,800 yen plus taxes
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Today Ubisoft released a brand new trailer of its upcoming open-world action RPG Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The trailer showcases how player choice can affect the game, from the character one chooses to play, to dialogue choices, abilities, ways to approach battle, and even style of armor. It’s actually really epic, and it makes me feel
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Team Reptile first announced Lethal Leauge Blaze, a sequel to the studio’s arcade projectile-fighting game breakout hit, over a year ago. Little has been heard about the title since then, but the developers changed that today by releasing a brand new gameplay trailer, revealing the PC release date, and giving a release window for the
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Today Bandai Namco Entertainment announced with a press release the launch date of Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition. The game will release on January 11th, 2019, for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch. The Definitive Edition will come with upscaled resolution and plenty of costumes and events never released in the west. It will include two
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Today, Game Freak dropped another new trailer for Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!. In addition to showing off Celadon City for the first time, it covers several new features like partner-exclusive moves, secret techniques, and befriending partner Pokémon. Celadon City is mostly intact, still prominently featuring the Department Store and Grass-type Gym Leader Erika.
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Good news VN fans! Developer Otomate and publisher Idea Factory announced multiple new Visual Novels games on Nintendo Switch, at the Otomate Party 2018 event on Sunday. In total, six brand new Visual Novels games were announced for Nintendo Switch: Olympia Soiree Gensou Kissa Enchanté Shiritsu Belle Bara Gakuen ~Versailles no Bara Re*imagination~ Vilshana Senki
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Following the announcement of the Japanese release date of Dead Or Alive 6 at Sony Interactive Entertainment’s pre-Tokyo Game Show PlayStation Lineup Tour, the western arm of Koei Tecmo reached out with a press release confirming the worldwide release date. The game will launch in North America and Europe day and date with Japan on February 15th
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Gameindustry.biz reported that Marvel’s Spider-Man is doing gangbusters as it has been crowned the fastest-selling game of the year in the United Kingdom. Far Cry 5 previously held the record, but what’s even more impressive is that Far Cry 5 was available on multiple platforms. Furthermore, Spider-Man nearly doubled the number of copies God of War sold when it launched back in
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Spyro turns twenty today, and boy do I feel old. I remember way back when I used to help save all the dragonflies scattered all across the Dragon Realm in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly on our purple Gamecube. Good times. On Twitter, a brief video was posted to celebrate the anniversary of everyone’s favorite purple dragon. Happy
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Earlier this year at PDXCON 2018 in Stockholm, Paradox Interactive announced Age of Wonders: Planetfall, an empire building game that takes the series into sci-fi territory. Recently, they shared a first look at some gameplay during a livestream with help from Triumph Studios, the game’s developer. Age of Wonders: Planetfall gives players the chance to build a future
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11-11: Memories Retold certainly looks like a game that would be very suitable for the Nintendo Switch, but for the moment it has been announced only for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. In order to gauge the possibility for a Switch port, we asked Creative Director Yoan Fanise and Aardman Animation Studio Producer George Rowes at Gamescom whether
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Marvel’s Spider-Man has several plot points that Insomniac Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment made great efforts to keep under wraps not to spoil the surprise for the fans. For example, the documentation sent to reviewers had a rather long list of moments that we were strictly forbidden to mention, for good reason. Yet, many fans
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Today NIS America released a brand new trailer of its upcoming dungeon-crawling JRPG Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. The trailer focuses on the creation of puppets, that you can customize in several ways (including personality, voice, class, gender, skills, appearance, lucky number, and more) in order to create your personal army to explore the labyrinth.
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The incredibly popular mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is celebrating the launch of Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age with in-game content from the Dragon Quest series.  On top of the new content, past limited time Dragon Quest collaboration content will be available for all players. From now until September 20th, a new raid event is
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The team over at Bandai Namco Entertainment are creating a developer diary series for its upcoming episodic game Twin Mirror and the second in the series was just released. The video begins with Matthew Ritter, lead writer, going over some of the backstories of the game. Twin Mirror tells the story of an investigative reporter Samuel Higgs,
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Surfing Pikachu isn’t anything new in the Pokémon series. The iconic yellow mouse put battles on the back-burner way back when in Pokémon Yellow. Players could unlock a mini-game where they’d get to play as Pikachu riding on a surfboard in 1998. This could only be unlocked through a special Pikachu that could only be acquired in Pokémon Stadium or
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Yesterday Pure Wish updated the Steam release of its charming visual novel Song of Memories to include English and French subtitles. The game was launched back in February, but back then it only included Japanese and Chinese support, but at least we can all play in a language easier to understand to the average westerner. The developer followed
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Earlier this year, Ubisoft began cracking down on toxicity in Rainbow Six Siege, following the game’s upwards growth in popularity over the years since its launch. In an interview with PC Gamer, Rainbow Six Siege’s brand director Alexandre Remy spoke a bit more in detail about the new system. Remy did mention that PVP titles tend to be adversarial,
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