Heroes of the Storm, the MOBA of all things Blizzard, has added a number of new characters this year. Malthael from Diablo III was added in June, while Overwatch’s D.Va joined the ranks in May. The latest addition, announced yesterday with a spotlight video, is Maiev Shadowsong from Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and the various expansions of World of
Originals
Gear.Club Unlimited came to the Nintendo Switch back in November, making it the Switch’s go-to content for car enthusiasts. The move to the Nintendo console wasn’t a decision made lightly, and developer Eden Games has finally spoken up about the process and reasoning behind the move. Talking with publication Nintendo Everything, Eden Games explained: We are huge
In a surprise announcement for the indie-developer friendly Twitter hashtag #ScreenshotSaturday, Fabio Ferrara — Co-founder of Milan-based indie studio Chubby Pixel — revealed that his game Suicide Guy would be coming to Nintendo Switch. Even better, fans of the game will see it release as early as this year. Now what is Suicide Guy? Despite the name, it
In an interview with IGN, developer Matt Makes Games gave fans of TowerFall Ascension some new updates about the game’s upcoming Switch port. According to Matt Thorson, the development team wanted to focus on polishing Celeste and getting it out to the public before they began working on the Switch port of TowerFall. “Our plan was always to wrap up Celeste
Numantian Games has recently released their latest title, They Are Billions, on Steam to much celebration from the indie gaming crowd. It’s made quite a stir for an indie game, mostly due to its strategic nature and ability to approach situations in a multitude of ways. As such, Numantian has updated the game to include community challenges.
Earlier this week, Limited Run Games announced that they’d be giving two indie titles from Tribute Games physical releases on the Nintendo Switch. The two titles are Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition and Flinthook. If you follow Limited Run Games already you probably know that Flinthook already received a Limited Run release with the PS4 version. Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition will be getting additional physical releases
Today Gran Turismo Sport Director Kazunori Yamauchi was at Taipei Game Show, and he was questioned by media during a round-table interview that the Japanese site GameWatch published. First of all, Yamauchi-san mentioned that he thinks the current updating plan with new cars, courses, and GT League events is going to continue in the future.
Metroid-vania-style turned indie hit Axiom Verge has been out for a while now, but its jam-packed collector’s edition has not. Now, the game’s Multiverse Edition is available physically in the UK. The Multiverse Edition includes the physical game in its case, a 32-page art book with pixel-art goodness and character sketches, a double-sided poster with
Nintendo took to Twitter yesterday to reveal some brief new details about the version 1.3.0 update coming to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Players who have completed the main campaign can check out a new game plus mode when the update drops. As of right now, we only know that the new mode is coming, Nintendo has yet to
Furi is everything I could ask for in a pocket-sized boss rush. It’s challenging, dynamic, beautiful in both audio and visual facets, and most importantly, challenging; there’s no fluff to be found. That matters a lot especially when you’re on the go. Having had Furi in my backpack the past couple of days has turned
Today Xseed Games announced the release date of the PC version of Nihon Falcom’s popular JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II. The game was previously available only for PS3 and PS Vita, and will launch on Steam, GOG.com, and Humble Store for PC on February 14, which is just north of
Today, during a stage event at Taipei Game Show in Taiwan, Bandai Namco Entertainment showcased about fifteen minutes of gameplay of the upcoming JRPG/third-person-shooter hybrid Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet. First of all, we get to see the customization of the heroine, and some of the features that we can change in game thanks to ArFA-sys AI
Today, during a stage event at Taipei Game Show in Taiwan, Bandai Namco Entertainment showcased a brief clip of the upcoming turn-based strategy JRPG Super Robot Wars X. We get to see C.C. from Code Geass as she performs an attack with her Lancelot, in the usual fashion that Super Robot Wars games got us
Waifu lovers, it’s finally time to rejoice! It’s been a long while since the Englis release in Asia of the first Summer Lesson game, Summer Lesson: Hikari Miyamoto and many were losing hope for the second and third games, Allison Snow and Chisato Shinjo. Yet, they’re coming. Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia announced that both games are
Today, during a stage event from Taipei Game Show, Bandai Namco showcased the first look at PS4 gameplay of its upcoming anime-inspired game Full Metal Panic! Fight! Who Dares Wins. We get to see how battle actions will be executed (the game is turn-based strategy RPG somewhat similar to Super Robot Wars, also developed by
Today, Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released a brand new trailer. The video walks us through the many features included in the recently-released alpha 3.0 version, that is currently available to backers. This includes many goodies that are completely new to this update and quite a few that were available before. There’s a lot
Today Koei Tecmo revealed a new batch of screenshots and a trailer of its upcoming open-world Musou game Shin Sangokumusou 8, which will be released in the west as Dynasty Warriors 9. First and foremost, we get the reveal of four more characters, Xiahou Ji, Dong Bai, Hua Xiong, and Yuan Shu. This time around, they’re actually NPCs, and
After first debuting in Early Access back in 2016, Epic Games’ Paragon brought players a unique mix of the ever-popular MOBA genre with a variety of other gameplay flavors, though the studio has now acknowledged that the game will be shutting down within the next few months. Epic Games announced in a blog post today that Paragon will
Today Level-5 updated the official site of its upcoming JRPG Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, showing off a ton of new screenshots of the game. We get to see images of three cities, Goldpound, Thalassea, and Broadleaf, a look at combat, and Broadleaf’s new Kingmaker, who is named Balmodeen. On top of that, we get quite
Today Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe released a new trailer of the upcoming JRPG by level-5 Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. The video is basically a featurette featuring gameplay, lovely cutscenes, and narration from the developers, who explain how they brought the game’s characters to life. We hear how achieving their visuals is a difficult
During a press event in San Francisco, DualShockers was allowed to record a nice chunk of gameplay footage of the upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI. What’s even more interesting is that we tried out the new and returning characters that were revealed yesterday, including newcomer Grøh, and familiar faces Nightmare, Xianghua, and Kilik from the previous chapters
It seems like the time is upon us to suffer many deaths at the hands of countless beasts in Bandai Namco’s upcoming action game Code Vein. Like other entries in the genre, it does not shy away from torturing players with narrow corridors filled with enemies and the occasional jump scare. During an event hosted by
Monster Hunter fans have eagerly been awaiting the release of Monster Hunter: World, the first true next-gen game in the series, ever since it was announced during Sony’s E3 2017 Press Conference. Today, the game has finally hit store shelves, both physically and digitally, so it’s finally time to go hunting. Still, that hasn’t stopped
Today it was announced that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has hit four million players on Xbox One. To celebrate, PUBG Corp. is giving away tons of in-game currency to Xbox One players for loot crates. Xbox One players will be receiving 30,000 Battle Points to use on in-game cosmetic items. The catch is that you must have
After just over seven months of anticipation, Dragon Ball FighterZ has finally released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The game has already received a launch trailer, so Arc System Works and Bandai Namco Entertainment released a video that is a bit different to celebrate the game’s launch. In it, Producer Tomoko Hiroki and Arc
Fortnite has been receiving some very frequent updates lately, and today is no exception. Battle Royale mode recently got an update on its map, and today it gets a new item on top of some bug fixes. Update version 2.3.0 introduces the new Chug Jug. It allows players to fully recover health and shields. It
Last year, Nintendo and Game Freak finally re-released Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver, two incredibly nostalgic and well-remembered games for many, on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console. After playing Pokémon Silver again on 3DS, I determined that the Generation II games still hold up after all these years, so I was glad when it was announced that Pokémon
Today Atlus released an extensive survey in which they asked the opinion of the fans on several rather intriguing questions. The questionary is fully in Japanese, but it does touch some interesting points, beginning with whether the fans would like a new Persona board game, a fighting game, an online RPG, a strategy RPG, an action RPG, a
Today Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe sent in a press release with a new batch of screenshots and artwork of its upcoming Souls-Like JRPG Code Vein. The image showcase the home base that was also included in yesterday’s Famitsu article, and we get an official description directly from the publisher: “This old remodeled chapel is actually a sort
Today Arc System Works released a giant batch of new screenshots of its upcoming crossover fighting game BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. The screenshots showcase raw gameplay, including all the characters that will be included in the game at launch. We see Ragna the Bloodedge, Jin Kisaragi, Noel Vermillion, Rachel Alucard, TR-0009 Tager, ν-13, Hazama, Makoto Nanaya, Azrael,