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
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Today Compile Heart announced via Dengeki Online the development of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1+. The game is a PS4 remaster of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 for PS Vita and PC, which was in turn a remaster of the first Hyperdimension Neptunia game that was released for PS3 in 2010. The game will be fully unveiled in issue
Today Compile Heart released a brand new trailer of its upcoming JRPG Death End re;Quest. While the game may seem to be your usual waifu-filled Compile Heart JRPG at first sight, there appears to be more than meets the eye under the surface, in the form of some rather interesting combat mechanics. Since it’s set
Hopoo Games and Code Mystics announced its sophomore release Deadbolt is coming to PlayStation consoles in just a few weeks. A launch trailer was released flaunting some of the game’s bloody gameplay. In Deadbolt, you play as the reaper set out to kill the undead. Although you’ll have all the tools and skills you’ll need
Idea Factory International released new screenshots for Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms, coming to PlayStation Vita on March 13 in North America and March 16 in Europe and PC this Spring. Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms has new features that fans will be able to learn throughout the romantic visual novel. One of which is the ability to alleviate characters’ pain by
Virtual reality gaming is one of the most entertaining forms to play video games, whether you own an HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift, there a slew of video games that are worth trying on your VR headset. With that in mind, if you are looking to add a few new VR games into your
Today Bandai Namco released a new “pre-launch” trailer for its upcoming action fighting game The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia. The trailer showcases a lot of action fighting and familiar scenes from the anime series. We also see some characters from the new season “Revival of The Commandments” that just started airing in Japan.
One of the most discussed aspects of Dragon Quest XI is the decision by Square Enix to go without voice acting on both PS4 and 3DS, and I mean, any voice acting at all, to the point that its characters didn’t even need to be assigned voice actors…until now. The publisher revealed a new card
Coming from the lead designer of Monument Valley, Ken Wong, the upcoming indie game Florence will bring players into the world of a young woman as she experiences the ups and downs of love and luckily, the game’s release date happens to coincide with its theme perfectly. Developer Mountains has announced that Florence — which is the studio’s
Football season is officially over which means one thing: it’s time for baseball season to kick into high gear. To celebrate the nearing arrival of spring training, Sony San Diego today released the first gameplay trailer for the upcoming release of MLB The Show 18. The trailer doesn’t show much in terms of what might be
There was a moment during the middle of the PS3/Xbox 360 generation where niche RPGs were tough to find in the West. Instead, it seemed publishers released these games on popular handheld devices at the time, the Nintendo DS and PSP. It was around this time in 2010 that Atlus released a unique and interesting
Since its release last September, Middle-earth: Shadow of War has regularly expanded on its core gameplay of amassing your own Orc army, and now with one of the game’s story expansions on the way, more changes will be arriving through a new update. Over on the official forums for Middle-earth: Shadow of War, developer Monolith Productions revealed
Today Bandai Namco released a new commercial of the upcoming JRPG/third-person-shooter hybrid Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet. The brief video starts with the image of a selection between the two new characters, our hero’s childhood friend Kureha, and the beautiful femme fatale Zeliska. Between them the message “you can choose only one”. Looks like our custom
Last October, Moonray Studios soft-launched the single-player portion of its underwater survival game Debris on both PC and Mac. Now, over three months later, the studio has announced that a co-op mode will finally be added to the game on both PC and Mac on February 26. For those of you who don’t know, in
On January 27, 2015, Techland released its open-world zombie game Dying Light on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Three years later, the game is still going strong and receiving new content. We have passed the games third anniversary, and developer Techland has revealed that they have several plans to celebrate the game’s anniversary this month.
Last December, developer Angry Mob Games released their Super Smash Bros. inspired fighting game Brawlout on Nintendo Switch. It wound up doing quite well, selling over 50,000 copies in just two weeks on the Switch’s eShop. Today, Angry Mob Game announced that they will be expanding Brawlout’s reach by partnering with Merge Games to release
With Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition a month away, PC gamers will be happy to know that they will have the option to play with their Xbox One friends at launch. According to the Microsoft Store listing page, those who purchase the PC port of Final Fantasy XV from Microsoft will have the option to utilize cross-platform co-op
Today Compile Heart announced that its upcoming PS4 exclusive JRPG Death End re;Quest has been hit by a delay. The game was supposed to release in Japan on March 1st, but it will instead come a bit over a month later, on April 12th. While the press release included an apology for the delay, it did
Yesterday was the 8th anniversary of the launch of the first God Eater game, and Bandai Namco promised news for today. They kept the promise…kind of. We get the announcement of the God Eater 8th Anniversary Thanksgiving Day event, which will actually be held on March 24th. The event will be broadcasted on YouTube Live, Nico
Today Sega updated the official website of Valkyria Chronicles 4 with a new batch of screenshots, art, and information. This time around, it’s all about the Snow Cruiser Centurion that will play a central role in the story. It’s a ship that the Edinburgh Army of the Atlantic Federation built secretly to win its decisive battle. Three
If you want to see the recently-announced open-world adventure game One Piece: World Seeker with a lot more pixels, Bandai Namco delivered today, with a 4K version of the first trailer of the game. The video showcases a view on the open world of the game, that isn’t exactly what we saw in the anime and
The Asian branches of Sony Interactive Entertainment are always good at creating rather engaging commercials, ranging from epic to funny. Today, PlayStation Taiwan came up with its own for Monster Hunter World, and it’s quite cool. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary, as the actors don’t “speak” besides singing the typical Monster Hunter fanfare. The
Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan and Asia released the PS4 digital sales ranking on the Japanese PlayStation Store, and this week is Monster Hunter World‘s week. You can check out the full top-20 ranking just below. Monster Hunter World Simple DL Series G4U Vol. 1 The Mahjong Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes inFAMOUS: Second Son
It’s been a few months since the release of the Xbox One X, but Overwatch recently got a 4K update to give a boost for those invested. Slipped nonchalantly into some patch notes, there were obvious questions in how the performance would compare to high-end PCs or the PlayStation 4 Pro update of the game. And that is
Today Square Enix released a batch of screenshots of its upcoming JRPG code-named Project Octopath Traveler. The screenshots highlight the visual style of the game, which the team named “HD-2D” mixing traditional pixel art and a 3D effect. More interestingly, we get to see the already mentioned improvements that the team is working on following
Nintendo has released a short new Bayonetta 2 trailer on their official YouTube channel. The trailer features some minor plot points from the second title as well as gameplay showing Bayonetta herself in action against some large enemies at 60 frames per second (with cutscenes apparently running at 30). You can check out the trailer for yourself
The leadup to the release of Monster Hunter World saw a lot of discussion on whether the game had the potential to be successful in Japan, especially in light of the fact that it was to be released on a home console and not on a portable console. Many argued that, given the Japanese gamers’ widespread
Humble Bundle has been nothing but strong in 2018 — while February subscribers are getting Civilization VI, Tacoma, Life is Strange, and Owlboy, March is going to be a whole new beast. According to Humble Bundle, the top-billed slot for March goes to Dark Souls III and the accompanying Ashes of Ariandel DLC. Even better, you can grab both games now for only
There has been some back and forth about sales numbers for indie games on Nintendo Switch. While Jools Watsham of Atooi (formerly Renegade Kid) mentioned that Mutant Mudds Collection only sold “OK” with a cool 7,500 copies, other studios like Matt Makes Games (Celeste) and Team Meat (Super Meat Boy) have been screaming the Nintendo Switch’s sales
Last year, I reviewed Pokémon Silver when it was re-released on 3DS. While I did feel that the game has dated in some areas, I also believed that the Generation II games were when the Pokémon series cemented itself as a mechanically solid series that was here to stay. That being said, Pokémon Crystal was surprisingly absent from the initial