With a slate of titles of recent titles like Monster Hunter: World and several upcoming games like God of War and Marvel’s Spider-Man, the PS4 Pro will make for an enticing purchase to truly show off these games at their highest potential, with a new commercial (literally) singing the praises of the system’s enhanced 4K capabilities. A new
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Last year, Haemimont Games, who are known for the recent Tropico games, and Paradox Interactive announced Surviving Mars, a space management/strategy game, for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. We haven’t heard too much about the game since then outside of a new trailer at Gamescom, but today it was revealed that the game will be releasing
Last year, LKA and Wired Productions released The Town of Light, a thought-provoking psychological horror adventure game, on PS4 and Xbox One following its release on PC in 2016. Today, the game’s developers announced that the Nintendo Switch will be added to that console lineup when The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition releases later this Spring.
Falcom has been increasingly making its mark on the Action RPG market in the west over the years. Now as we enter 2018, it didn’t take long for the first game by the developer to release in the West titled Zwei: The Arges Adventure. Now, it’s true that this isn’t one of Falcom’s more recent
Last year, developer Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA announced the Total War Saga series. Titles within this sub-series are set up to be shorter spin-off games based on specific moments throughout history and will help fill the space between major Total War releases. The developers had previously unveiled the first of these titles, A Total War
Psychological is one of my favorite horror game subgenres; with notable franchises such as Dead Space and Dead Space fading into obscurity, one independent developer is looking to fill in the void with its upcoming title Forbidden Forgiveness. Forbidden Forgiveness is a first-person horror game developed by Geeky Mouse. Although details on the game’s story are scarce, the developers
Dontnod has been churning out weekly episodes of a behind-the-scenes webseries for their upcoming title Vampyr. The third episode, Human After All, dives into the NPCs of their world. The action-RPG will take a much closer approach than most games, diving more into the human element of a vampire story. In the latest episode, the developers talk about how
Last summer, we heard from Song of Memories developer Pure Wish that the visual novel would come west, but then they simply went under the radar. Today British publisher PQube finally lifted the curtain on the localization of the game, that will come to both North America and Europe in 2018 for PS4 and Nintendo
There are many video game fans that may roll their eyes at pre-order bonuses, remembering the days of physical rewards for such early buy-ins. But there are also some who just want to support a game, or are already sold on the idea and want to pre-order, but don’t have the shelf space for another
Infinite Dreams has been developing a follow up to the classic Sky Force. Not to be confused with Sky Force Anniversary, now available on PS4 and PS Vita, the latest version for the Nintendo console is called Sky Force Reloaded. Released to the public today, the title launched with a trailer to go along with it. Sky Force
Today Koei Tecmo released a brand new gameplay trailer of its upcoming anime-inspired action game Attack on Titan 2. The trailer showcases a variety of combat features that we’ll be able to take advantage of while fighting against the titans. We get to see the omni-directional mobility gear, the “hook drive” maneuver that lets us
Today Sega and Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan and Asia made the client of the upcoming mecha third-person-shooter Border Break available for pre-download on the Japanese PlayStation Store. The beta will be accessible to anyone that downloads the client (even if we don’t know whether there will be IP blocks in place), and weighs 7.81 gigabytes.
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment released a brand new TV commercial for the PS4. The video is brief in the usual TV commercial format, but it does show quite a few games, including Star Wars Battlefront II, Far Cry 5, God of War, and Call of Duty: WWII. It ends with one of PlayStation’s favorite slogans, claiming
Move over Detective Pikachu — Nintendo has a brand new movie partnership with animation studio Illumination Entertainment that will get you hooked on the brothas’! According to a recent Tweet from Nintendo, the game and film studio are partnering up to create a new movie Super Mario movie. Even better, we know that Nintendo will hopefully not
Today Bandai Namco released a new batch of screenshots and a video of its upcoming Souls-like JRPG Code Vein. This time around we get another look at the ruined chapel that the revenants have converted into their base of operation. The video is similar to the one we showcased a few days ago, but we get
It’s been quite some time since we heard about Nintendo Switch’s fabled paid-online play. Although information on Nintendo Switch Online has been around since the system’s reveal, it seems the actual product itself has went through a few reboots. Following a delay earlier last year, Nintendo has officially revealed that Nintendo Switch Online will be
With Nintendo dutifully hitting their plans to release an Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, and Pokemon game for mobile systems, the Kyoto-based publisher is now expanding their mobile plans to more iconic series — namely, Mario Kart. In an announcement moments ago, Nintendo revealed by Twitter that they will be crafting a brand new application titled Mario Kart Tour. This news is
Today, during Nintendo’s corporate strategy meeting, CEO Tatsumi Kimishima gave a few updates about the performance of the Switch and the manufacturer’s plans for the console and the rest of its lineup. The information was provided on Twitter by the Wall Street Journal’s tech reporter Takashi Mochizuki. We hear that sales-through to customers are at roughly 13
Today Level-5 released a brand new trailer of its upcoming JRPG Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. The trailer focuses on the gameplay systems, starting with the battle system and the use of skills, then moving on to the Kingdom Mode that lets Evan build his own kingdom SimCity-style, also scouting several NPCs as citizen.
The most powerful console now has another notch to add to its belt: Overwatch. The latest patch brings 4k support for the Xbox One X and updates and bug fixes for all. You can find a full list of changes below. Alongside the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth announcement come some in-game goodies for
During Microsoft’s quarterly financial conference call, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood talked about the performance of the Xbox and gaming business. Nadella started the call by mentioning that Xbox is reaching new customers with new offers. He explained that the Xbox One X was the top-selling premium console in
Destiny 2 has had a rough couple of months admittedly, but there are forces at work who are attempting to reinvigorate the game’s fanbase through content updates, feature reworks, and constant communication. Today, the Destiny Dev Team released a “Development Roadmap” which details plans for the game for the next few months. You can check out a
Koji Igarashi’s Artplay released a new video of the upcoming Igavania game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The trailer showcases the crafting system, that allows the player to visit Johannes, an alchemist who protagonist Miriam can befriend. Johannes will be able to combine various elements to create new items or equipment. In the video we
Today Microsoft announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, which is related to the period between October 1st and December 31st, 2017. The related press release and presentation included relevant information on the state of the Xbox business. Below you can check out the results of the “More Personal Computing”
Playism launched the first trailer for the upcoming adventure game Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-, coming to PC on February 23. Yume Nikki -Dream Diary- is not a remake of the original game released in 2004. Instead, it is a complete reimagining of the original release with influences from recent indie juggernauts to create an experience that
Alongside an exposé into the inner machinations of indie sales, marketing, and success on Nintendo Switch, developer Atooi’s founder Jools Watsham has a lot to say about his upcoming projects. Aside from the known commodities — Xeodrifter and Totes the Goat on the horizon — Watsham has revealed two new projects for Nintendo Switch and fleshed out what we
PlayStation Plus has continued to offer PlayStation console owners the chance to explore a back catalog of tons of games, and with January coming to an end, Sony has revealed the lineup of new titles that players can expect to download next month in February, with a long-awaited title finally heading to gamers as part
While Final Fantasy XV is well over a year old at this point, the game has shown no signs of waning interest as numerous DLC add-ons and more have been brought to the game, while a very different (and portable) take on the game is arriving next week. Square Enix Japan (via Siliconera) has announced that Final Fantasy
Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included a spread on the upcoming wtin rhythm games by Atlus Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The article focused on four characters, Morgana and Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5, and Mitsuru Kirijo and Akihiko Sanada from Persona 3. We also get some really stylish new artwork for them all, drawn
Death Road to Canada, a co-op Oregon Trail-inspired roguelike zombie game, made waves when it first released on PC in July of 2016. It had since made its way to iOS, but many were still eagerly awaiting console versions of the game. Those of you waiting won’t have to do so for much longer, as UKIYO