Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu revealed the first screenshots and artwork of Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Prism of Eyes, the latest chapter of the series known in the west as Jake Hunter Detective Story. The game will be released in Japan by Arc System Works on August 9th, 2018, and marks the debut of the ancient series on
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Over on the US and European PlayStation Blogs, Sony has revealed the top-selling titles on the PlayStation Store for April 2018, and it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that the recently-released and critically-acclaimed God of War took the top spot for digital sales on the PlayStation Store last month. For Sony’s other platforms, Rick and
Star Wars Battlefront II is about to get a whole lot more content next week and developer DICE recently divulged the specifics of just what players can expect to see. Just like Season One which focused on content related to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Season Two of Star Wars Battlefront II will again be associated with the upcoming
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment released a brand new TV commercial of Quantic Dream’s upcoming game Detroit: Become Human. The video is quite short since it follows the usual TV ad format, but it still manages to include new footage. Like yesterday’s commercial, it focuses on the fact that all the choices the characters will make in
Today is Wednesday, which means that it’s time for the Media Create charts related to the week between April 30th and May 6th. That was the much awaited Golden Week, which means that sales were expected to go up a bit, despite the fact that the only new release was Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Below
Today Bandai Namco announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended on March 31st, 2018. As you can see in the table below, both sales and profit showcased growth year-on-year. On top of this, the publisher achieved better-than-expected results compared to the latest forecast. According to the press release, this is partly due to
Capcom held a presentation showcasing its business strategy for the fiscal year that will end on March 31st, 2019, and it included some really interesting pieces of information. Forst of all, we get a breakdown of the growth strategy that the publisher intends to employ. For the console business, they aim to regularly release new
Sony Interactive Entertainment just announced that some changes have been made to the warranties of PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, PS Vita, and PS3 consoles in the United States and Canada. Our previous warranties stated that the warranty does not apply if the product is used with a peripheral that is not supplied or licensed by SIE.
Now available for purchase, Middle-earth: Shadow of War‘s Desolation of Mordor DLC brings players the story about Baranor, the Captain of Mins Ithil in the Eastern desert of Lithlad. The DLC lets you tackle the were-wyrms beneath the sands, conquer the Marauder fortress of Shindrâm through new tools and abilities, and deliver a message back
Whether you love it or hate it, developer Fullbright’s Gone Home was nothing short of an anomaly among the core gamer contingency. Simultaneously praised as the best game of last generation and derided as a walking simulator that can be beaten in under a minute, the genre-bending first-person experience title instantly gave the star developer
During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson responded to a question concerning the fact that a few regulatory bodies in Europe classified loot boxes in some games, including FIFA 18, as gambling. Wilson mentioned that the publisher is working with all of the
During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen talked about the company’s predictions about console sales in the current year. The publisher expects PS4 and Xbox One to “continue to be strong,” and the combined installed base of the two consoles to grow to
During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen framed the release window of Anthem more precisely. Until now, we knew that the game would come in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, but now we know the month. Jorgensen announced that the game
During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson talked about the new Battlefield and Anthem. We hear that both of will “introduce new dynamics” that will change the way fans interact with the games and with each other. First of all, we hear more
As part of its presentation for investors related to the end of fiscal year 2018, Electronic Arts announced the release windows of its main games for the current fiscal year, which will end on March 31st, 2018. As you can see in the table below, in the second quarter, which spans the summer months from
Today Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, which is related to the period between January 1st and March 31st. You can check out the relevant figures in the table below. As you can see, all the income figures are in the black, showing growth year-on-year. The results
Blizzard Entertainment has partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to release a special charity skin for Overwatch‘s winged healer, Mercy. A few videos give you a look at the new skin in action as well as some details about the developer’s partnership with the BCRF. From now until May 21, you can purchase the
Today Funcom released its survival game Conan Exiles after a bit over a year of early access on Steam and several months on the Xbox One Game Preview program. Release comes with two new biomes (jungle and volcano), and a brand new PS4 version. Users of Sony’s console had to wait quite a while to
Today, Rocketcat Games, Madgarden, and Ukiyo Publishing finally released Death Road to Canada, an Oregon Trail inspired zombie survival game, on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. To celebrate, a launch trailer was released for the game, showcasing what players can expect from the title. Death Road to Canada was originally poised to release on consoles
If you’re excited about Fortnite’s crossover with Avengers: Infinity War like I am, then you may want to go turn on your system now. Developer Epic Games has officially released a brand new update for Fortnite and it, of course, adds the highly anticipated Infinity Gauntlet game mode, amongst other things. For those that don’t know, the Infinity Gauntlet mode
Today Famitsu released the tease of an article coming in tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, announcing Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Prism of Eyes. The game is the latest episode of the long-running series of hard-boiled mystery adventure games dating back to 1987 known as Jake Hunter in the west. It also marks the debut of the series on
Famitsu just posted its preview for the article coming tomorrow bringing the first details about Warriors Orochi 4 ( titled Musou Orochi 3 in Japan). Not only we get the platforms for Japan, which will be PS4 and Nintendo Switch, but the game will include 170 characters, which is the highest number ever appeared in the
Today Koei Tecmo released a brand new trailer of Dynasty Warriors 9, showing the new DLC pack coming for the game. The “New Weapons Pack” will include three different weapons, the Claws, the Sword & and Hook, and the Emei Daggers. The first trailer showcases the claws, while the trailer for the Sword & Hook will be
Today Capcom released its financial results for the fiscal year 2017, which ended on March 31st, 2018. As you can see in the table below, all the relevant income figures are in the black, also showing a massive increase year-on-year. According to the announcement, this is the “highest level of profitability” in all of Capcom’s
Today Square Enix announced a new livestream covering both Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for PS4 and the arcade original Dissidia Final Fantasy. According to the announcement, a new character will be revealed during the broadcast, which will happen on May 15th at 8:00 PM Japan time. As far as we know, if Square Enix follows
Today, Nicalis, Inc announced new information for its 2D fighting title Blade Strangers. According to the developer, the upcoming title is adding guest character Gunvolt “The Azure Striker” to its roster of fighters. This news comes from the Nicalis, Inc’s official Twitter account, which confirmed the character will be appearing in the game. The titular character, Gunvolt
Monster Hunter: World has easily been one of the most popular games of 2018 so far, and Capcom has been fantastic with dealing out new content regularly since release. According to one noteworthy developer though, there’s one new monstrous addition that he’d soon love to see in the monster hunting title. Earlier today, The Coalition’s Rod Fergusson,
Overwatch League team Boston Uprising announced that Dae-hee “Crusty” Park will no longer be the coach for the east coast based team. In the update from Boston Uprising, it explains that after some “internal conversations” between Crusty and the team’s staff, it was in both party’s interest to part ways. The update continues, “Crusty has
When Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition was announced to be coming to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, we knew it would be coming in May, but we just didn’t know what specific day. Well, it seems like Natsume will be waiting until the last possible moment to fulfill that promise, as the developer and publisher have
The WeebCast is our weekly podcast dedicated to all thing Japanese, and today you can listen to its fifth episode, focusing one of the most iconic genres of Japanese games, visual novels. We talk about some of the games that left a lasting impression, and some that you might not know about, alongside the genre