Last night, the 2018 winners of the SXSW Gaming Awards were announced. Over 500,000 gamers around the world cast their votes for the awards ceremony held in Austin, Texas. While there were no dominating winners this year like last year’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, the two games with the most awards were The Legend of Zelda: Breath
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Sony Interactive Entertainment released its weekly PS4 digital sales chart for the Japanese PlayStation Store, related to the period between March 5th and March 11th. You can check out the full top-twenty below. NieR: Automata Hokuto Ga Gotoku The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I: Kai – Thors Military Academy 1204 Monster Hunter
Today Square Enix released a new video featuring NieR: Automata Director Yoko Taro, and Producer Yosuke Saito. The video intends to thank the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences for the D.I.C.E. Award given to the game as Best RPG of 2017. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Yokyo Taro video without an hilarious part,
Sony Interactive Entertainment published its sales chart for PS4 digital sales on the Japanese PlayStation Store, related to the period between February 26th and March 4th. Below you can read the full chart. NieR: Automata Monster Hunter World Metal Gear Survive Girls Und Panzer Dream Tank Match Rainbow Six Advanced Edition Yonder: The Cloud Catcher
Images from Wonder Festival 2018 Winter are coming hard and fast, and here is a treat straight from NieR: Automata. Today FLARE showcased a new figure of protagonist 2B created by Mitsumasa Yoshizawa and officially licensed by Square Enix. As you can imagine, she looks absolutely fantastic. Yoshizawa-san is well known in the figure community
Today Square Enix announced its financial results for the nine months ended on December 31st, 2017. As you can see in the table below, all numbers are firmly in the black and show a considerable boost to operating and ordinary income. A specific breakdown of results for the Digital Entertainment business, which is the segment
A few days ago, we asked you to vote for your best waifu and best husbando of 2017, and as always the turnout was great. It always makes me smile when so many of you rally to support even a slightly crazy and tongue-in-cheek initiative like this. Well over a thousand of you voted for their
It’s the end of the year, and it’s time for rankings and awards. The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu prompted a hundred Japanese developers and industry personalities to rank their favorite games of 2017, and here you can find a translation of the full top 100. Yeah, that’s a lot of titles to translate. You
As 2017 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games for our official Game of the Year awards. In the lead up to the New Year’s Day reveal, each member of the staff will give their personal top 10 games they played this year. 10. Muv-Luv Alternative
NieR: Automata has been one of 2017’s surprise hits and the game’s eccentric director, Yoko Taro, has been consistently been at the center of conversation surrounding it. In a recent interview with Game Informer, Yoko Taro opened up a bit more about his reaction to the success of NieR: Automata as well as discussing his partnership with PlatinumGames
Today Square Enix released its financial results for the first half of the current fiscal year, ended on September 30th, 2017. All relevant revenue and income figures are in the black, showing significant increase year-on-year. In the field of digital entertainment, which includes games for consoles, releases of big games generated a rather sharp increase
Today, you can pre-order an adorable chibi-style 2B plush from Platinum Games’ hit action role-playing title, Nier: Automata. If you pre-order the plush before November 2, you’ll be given a 10% discount. 2B is the android main protagonist of the game. She has accumulated quite the fan following since the title’s launch. Nier: Automata launched earlier this
The crossover event between NieR: Automata and Director Yoko Taro’s new mobile game SINoALICE is continuing, and two new characters have been released. Players will have access via gacha to a new version of 2B named 2B/Crusher and 9S/Paladin. You can see both in the gallery at the bottom of the post. A2/Breaker and Emil/Cleric were
Today the traditional awards ceremony for CEDEC 2017 (Computer Entertainment Developers Conference 2017) was held at the Pacifico Yokohama Hotel in Japan. For those unfamiliar, CEDEC is basically the Japanese equipment of the Game Developers Conference in the United States. The Engineering Award was won by PlayStation VR for offering a low-cost and high-performance VR
Today the traditional awards ceremony for CEDEC 2017 (Computer Entertainment Developers Conference 2017) was held at the Pacifico Yokohama Hotel in Japan. For those unfamiliar, CEDEC is basically the Japanese equivalent of the Game Developers Conference in the United States. The Engineering Award was won by PlayStation VR for offering a low-cost and high-performance VR
Today Enterbrain released issue 1,500 of the popular Japanese magazine Weekly Famitsu, and it included the culmination of a few weeks of surveys conducted by the publication. This time around, Famitsu simply asked its readers to vote their favorite game of all time, without any restriction of release date, genre, or platform. In addition to
Today Enterbrain released issue 1,500 of the popular Japanese magazine Weekly Famitsu, and it included the culmination of a few weeks of surveys conducted by the publication. This time around, Famitsu simply asked its readers to vote their favorite game of all time, without any restriction of release date, genre, or platform. In addition to
Pretty much every branch of Sony Interactive Entertainment loves its live action trailers and commercials, and today the Taiwanese arm of PlayStation launched a new concept teaser of a longer trailer that will come down the line. We get to see YoRHa 2B from NieR: Automata, a soldier, a bunch of basketball players invading the
The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu included the results of a survey that asked the popular Japanese magazine’s readers to vote for their favorite RPG of all time. The survey gathered 2,295 votes, 56% from males, 43% from females (1% didn’t specify their gender). 9% of votes were in their teen years, 36% in their
Today Square Enix announced its livestream schedule for E3 2017, and there will be quite a lot of content to enjoy. The livestream will happen on the publisher’s own Twitch channel, and on its Square Enix Presents YouTube channel, and will include “developer interviews, announcements, gameplay sessions, and much more.” Featured are plenty of games