Creating art has always had its fair share of risks. It’s often time-consuming, thankless, and sometimes, a financial black hole. However, when it comes to game design, developers are subject to a risk that many other artists don’t have to worry about– clones. Sure, off-brand cereals and knock-off movies that exist only to cash in
It’s not a mystery that Xbox One doesn’t get all that many Japanese games. It’s not only the one console on the market that is from a company based outside of Japan, but with 96,371 units sold in the country in almost four years, its hold on the Japanese market is negligible, discouraging many local
Since the series debuted in 2014, Stoic Studio’s The Banner Saga series has presented players with making tough decisions under tougher circumstances. While the series is set to come to a conclusion next month with the upcoming release of The Banner Saga 3, Stoic Studio has said that it does seem to have interest in going back
Since its release back in September, Bungie has been adding and implementing plenty of new features, missions, and more into Destiny 2, and now for PS4 owners that have yet to take the plunge and become a Guardian, you’ll get the opportunity to do just that (for free) starting this weekend. Over on the PlayStation Blog, Bungie
Originally revealed during Microsoft’s press conference at E3 2018, the newly-released The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit acts as a spin-off in the Life is Strange series (and serves as a bridge into the series’ upcoming sequel), and now the game is available to play completely free. In celebration of the release of The Awesome Adventures of Captain
Today marks a day to be celebrated for Xbox fans, as they’re finally getting one of the best games of last year, NieR: Automata. The game is now available in the Become As Gods Edition, and even if it’s only in digital form, it comes with all the DLC that was previously released on PS4. Considering
This year has been a sort of revival for tennis video games. Unfortunately, it has been represented poorly — if you want to see what I’m talking about, you can check out our review of Tennis World Tour. As such, there is still room for a serviceable tennis game. Nintendo and Camelot’s newest iteration of
Polish indie developer Robot Gentleman revealed today that its breakout indie hit 60! Seconds, which released back in 2015, has surpassed 1 million copies sold, and impressive feat for any indie game. To celebrate, Robot Gentleman detailed its future plans for both new 60 Seconds! content and its upcoming spiritual successor 60 Parsecs!. Later this year,
Iceberg Interactive and Chilean indie developer IguanaBee announced their quirky part game Headsnatchers for PC and PS4 back in March. Today, the pair released a brand new trailer for the game, which reveals that Headsnatchers will be hitting Steam Early Access on July 10. When it hit Early Access, Headsnatchers will include a single player
The truck driving simulator genre is a popular one on PC that is dominated by SCS Games and its Truck Simulator on series. That being said, this niche has yet to make it way to consoles. Today, Soedesco and Triangle Studios, the studios behind Real Farm, announced Truck Driver for PC, PS4, and Xbox One,
This year’s cover athlete for the 2019 edition of NBA Live was revealed tonight and it is none other than The Process himself, Joel Embiid. Embiid, who was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in 2014, has quickly risen through the ranks to become one of the league’s best players since finally making his debut in 2016. This past
Today Compile Heart released a new batch of screenshots of its upcoming JRPG Valneer of the Dragon Star. We get to see a couple more looks at the protagonists, alongside an environment of the game. On top of the screenshots, we also get plenty of illustrations. If you’re familiar with this kind of artwork, you’ll
Back in January, Square Enix and Nintendo announced The World Ends With You: Final Remix for the Switch, and today we know when it’ll release in Japan. The game will launch on the local shelves for 4,800 yen plus taxes on September 27th. A special edition (Which you can see in the gallery) will cost 17,000
On tonight’s Monday Night Raw, a new trailer for WWE 2K19 was revealed announcing that Rey Mysterio will be a bonus playable character when you pre-order the game. The trailer shows a slew of WWE Superstars including Daniel Bryan, The Miz, Bobby Roode, Asuka, and Charlotte Flair, and taking off a familiar looking mask stating
As one of the first Wii U-to-Switch ports to arrive for the Switch when it launched last year, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gave players the ability to race on the go, and now the game is getting some new (and creative) ways to race, thanks to Nintendo Labo. Nintendo has announced that a new update
Originally released last fall, Wolfenstein II earned critical acclaim for its gripping story set in its distinct alternate history version of a Nazi-occupied America, and while Switch owners are getting their first taste of the series later this week, it appears unknown at this time if we’ll see more from the series on Nintendo’s platform in
Last month we found out about a brand new limited-time mode coming to Fortnite, which would essentially be the games biggest shakeup to date, but at the time we didn’t know when it would launch. Fast forward to a month later, and it seems like we won’t have to wait too much longer as a
Last month we found out that the Switch version of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy would be launching at the end of June. Now that date is mere days away and to celebrate, publisher Activision and developer Toys of Bob have released a brand new trailer to celebrate this occasion. While it is short, clocking in at
Originally released at the end of last month, the brutal console and PC title Agony gained a lot of attention for some of its graphic content that had to be cut from the game in order to avoid an AO rating at the time of its release. While its developer Madmind Studio had plans to integrate
Today Square Enix released a gameplay video of the upcoming JRPG Dragon Quest XI. The video provides a look at the English localization via the E3 demo played and commented by Producer Hokuto Okamoto and Director Takeshi Uchikawa. We get to see plenty of gameplay, including exploration and battle, and get to hear about each
Last week, the next Call of Duty: WWII DLC was revealed, The United Front, and just like the other map packs for the game, it includes three multiplayer maps, a new War mode map, and a new Nazi Zombies experience, but at the time we didn’t know anything about the latter, which is unusual for the series. Now, however,
Anime games, or games dedicated to anime IP, are becoming more and more common nowadays, with publishers like Bandai Namco, Sega, Koei Tecmo and more creating titles that bring interactivity to many fans’ favorite anime and manga franchises. Yet, more often than not those games aren’t that great. In this week’s episode, we discuss the
Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido from indieszero, a developer best known for its work on the NES Remix collections and Theatrhythm series, oozes the quirk and charm usually associated with Nintendo games and hardware. It takes the weird concept of a puzzle game centered around eating Sushi and fleshes it out to creates something that is
We learned late last year that MMO developer Gazillion Entertainment had shut down after the studio’s relationship with Disney ended abruptly and Marvel Heroes was shut down. Today, over half a year later, Defiance 2050 developer Trion Worlds revealed to VentureBeat that they have acquired Gazillion Entertainment’s assets and plan on expanding their MMO publishing
Earlier today, British publisher PQube announced the cancellation of the western release for PS4 and PS Vita of D3 Publisher’s Omega Labyrinth Z. While the original statement mentioned that there would be no further comment on the issue, the publisher is actually providing plenty on Twitter, shedding further light on the issue. First of all, we get
Square Enix recently hosted its General Meeting of Shareholders, and while the official transcript has not been posted yet, we got a report from Twitter user ゆず, a professional investor who was at the event. In the quick recap, we learn information shared during the questions and answers session of the event. スクエニ総会。DQ11 Switch版にはPS4版にない追加要素が入る。FF7リメイクに関して進捗状況は外部からあれこれ言われているが、開発はしっかり進んでおり安心してほしい。DQ3のHD化(11のような)は現状開発していないが検討している、ただDQ12の開発が先になると思う。 — ゆず
DRM, especially the always-kind, has been a major point of contention for gamers recently, whether it be due to its reliance on possibly poor severs (in SimCity’s case), or the fact that if its servers shut down, the game is now longer playable. The most recent victim of the latter appears to be the Mac
PQube Games announced last year that they would be releasing D3 Publisher’sdungeon crawler Omega Labyrinth Z in the West on both PS4 and PS Vita in Spring 2018. Unfortunately, the game ran into trouble with several ratings boards around the world as they claimed it “promotes the sexualization of children,” so Omega Labyrinth Z’s western
Ubisoft posted quite an unconventional interview in anticipation of the Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: Donkey Kong Adventure DLC that is set to be released this week. In the video, Composer Grant Kirkhope and Creative Director Davide Soliani interview each other while playing kazoos and slinging good-natured insults at each other. With some gameplay footage thrown in,
Today Compile Heart released a new trailer for it upcoming JRPG Kamigokuto Mary Skelter 2, the sequel of Mary Skelter: Nightmares. This is a game by Compile Heart, so you know that you can pretty much expect some fenservicey features, and that’s what the “purification mode” is all about. Basically, you’ll purify the game’s many waifus by cleaning