Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a large batch of screenshots of the upcoming strategy JRPG Full Metal Panic! Fight! Who Dares Wins. We get to see several event images, and conversation scenes, and some fighting scenes in the southeast Asian city of Namsaku. More screenshots showcase some of the weapons we’ll be able to use,
Degica Games and Crypton Future Media announced that Hatsune Miku VR will release for PC-via Steam on March 8. Hatsune Miku VR stars the famous vocaloid idol, Hatsune Miku, and allows players to play the rhythm game in virtual reality. The game currently has eight songs available to players, listed below: Ievan Polkka (by Otomania) Singularity
Today Sega released a new TV commercial for its upcoming strategy JRPG Senjou no Valkyria 4: Eastern Front, which will be released in the west as Valkyria Chronicles 4. The commercial provides another look at the game’s valkyria, Clymaria Lewin. This time around she seems to be really pissed off. We’ll have to wait and play the
Today Valkyria Chronicles 4’s official Twitter account “Nikola and Kiara’s Infiltration Diary” disclosed gameplay footage of three new characters of the game. The first is Vuanti (or maybe Wanty, depending on how her name will be transliterated), who is basically a constantly intoxicated drunkard shocktrooper. The second character is Odin, a scout that appears to
Today Marvelous Entertainment announced a collaboration with Compile Heart that will result in the addition of another guest character to Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash. The character is the popular Neptune from the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, and she is scheduled for release on March 8th. In Japan, she will be sold for 700 yen (just
Pixie is one of the most recurring elements of the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series, and Goodsmile Company revealed today that her image is going to be immortalized in one of the manufacture’s Figma action figures. The figure is made of pre-painted ABS and PVC, and it’s 125 mm tall. It comes with two different
Good Smile Company revealed today a new entry in its Figma line of posable action figures, and that’s Widowmaker from Overwatch. The figure is approximately 160 mm tall and includes parts made with flexible plastic in order to preserve the deadly sniper’s proportions without compromising posability. Two face plates (standard and aiming) are included, alongside the iconic
Ash of Gods: Redemption has a brand new trailer highlighting storytelling. The Kickstarter-funded indie title is filled with hefty levels of consequence as your decisions, both in and out of the battlefield, may likely change the ending — if not the entire playthrough. Evolving every time the player begins the story again, we can expect
Today Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella provided more color on the company’s gaming business and outlook during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco. Nadella explained that the company is building a gaming service in which the console is going to be important, as it continues to be the place where
Square Enix revealed an upcoming patch the for the remastered version of Secret of Mana. Patch 1.02, detailed below, will launch for PlayStation 4 in early March and has been scheduled to head to the PlayStation Vita and PC version soon after. Patch 1.02 contains a myriad of gameplay improvements and bug fixes including an error
Today Koei Tecmo released a brand new update for Dynasty Warriors 9 on PS4 and PC, numbered respectively 1.04 and 1.02. The update comes with quite a few goodies: It eases the conditions for unlocking officers and for sending them letters, and it improves the movement of soldiers and officers during battles since they often
Today Microsoft dropped some juicy news about the Xbox Game Pass, but there is more, in the form of a funny new ad. The commercial brings back the drive-through owner with whom we’re already familiar, and this time around he talks about… dumplings. The comparison of the day is that asking only for one game
Stage 1 of Overwatch League has ended in a series that did not go entirely as expected. From the beginning, the Seoul Dynasty was the favorite to win; for most of the first stage, they were incredibly dominant as they defeated the Los Angeles Gladiators, Dallas Fuel, Boston Uprising, and more with ease. It wasn’t
Five years after it released on consoles and PC, Payday 2 returns to bring heisting on-the-go to the Nintendo Switch this week, while its publisher, Starbreeze Studios, is looking to iron out a way to give players the chance to communicate and organize their heisting wherever and whenever. In a statement to Kotaku AU, a spokesperson from
Hazelight Studios’ upcoming co-op EA Originals title A Way Out certainly caught gamers’ attention after its intriguing reveal at EA’s E3 2017 Press Conference and creator Josef Fares’…memorable appearance at The Game Awards 2017. We are just under a month away from the game’s release, and Josef Fares has revealed on Twitter that the game has finally
Since its introduction, Xbox Game Pass has given Xbox gamers essentially the “Netflix of gaming” by allowing users to pay a monthly fee for access to a large wealth of games, and now that library of games has expanded even more with the newest games announced that will be heading to the service. Over on Xbox
Since its introduction, Xbox Game Pass has given Xbox gamers essentially the “Netflix of gaming” by allowing users to pay a monthly fee for access to a large wealth of games, and now that library of games has expanded even more with the newest games announced that will be heading to the service. Over on Xbox
There is something unquantifiably striking about Zoink Games’ indie project Fe — even the still images give an air of mystery about the game’s natural landscape covered in purple tint. The creatures that inhabit Fe‘s rich world manage to be both familiar and alien, strange yet natural. And, perhaps the most important element: the perplexing nature of Fe digs deeper
Different cultures and their mythologies have survived for generations through storytelling, both orally and visually. Unfortunately, a side-effect of globalization is the loss of tradition and the intriguing stories of smaller peoples like Mexico’s Tarahumara, which has a very distinct and creative mythology surrounding it that not many people know about. That’s why developer Lienzo took
Today Kadokawa Games reached out with a press release to reveal new details and screenshots of its upcoming JRPG Metal Max Xeno. First of all, we get a reveal of a new character named Itika. She is voiced by Yuri Yamaoka (who recently voiced Obrona in Xenoblade Chronicles 2). Her age is unknown, and she has lived
Today Bandai Namco revealed the first details and the Japanese release date of the recently revealed Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy for Nintendo Switch. The bundle will launch in Japan on April 26th, with both digital and physical releases costing 6,800 yen plus taxes. All three games support between one and two players locally on
The demo of Valkyria Chronicles 4 is currently available on the Japanese PlayStation Store, which means that we could finally get our hands on the return of one of the best JRPG series of all times. Unfortunately, not everyone can enjoy the demo. Some don’t want to make a Japanese PSN account, while others simply
Today Sega released two new trailers of its upcoming Fist of the North Star-meets-Yakuza game Hokuto Ga Gotoku. The first video introduces Eden, the city where the game is set. We get to see fights against thugs, minigames, bounty hunting, the inevitable rhythm game, the nightclub, and plenty of store. The second video focuses on
TodayDseries developer Arika hosted a livestream making quite a few announcements and providing more details about its upcoming game Fighting EX Layer. First of all, we get the announcement that the game will launch worldwide on PS4 before the end of June, with final certification by Sony scheduled to begin in May. The release will
Today, Sega released the PS4 demo of the upcoming strategy JRPG Senjou no Valkyria 4: Eastern Front, that will be titled Valkyria Chronicles 4 in the west. As is the tradition for the demos of the series, this also marked the reveal of the opening cutscene of the game, that is absolutely lovely. The video
As announced on Saturday, Sega just released the playable demo of its upcoming strategy JRPG Senjou no Valkyria 4: Western Front, which will be released in the west as Valkyrua Chronicles 4. The demo was released exclusively for PS4, and can be downloaded now from the Japanese PlayStation Store. The full download weighs 5.33 gigabytes. The demo
Today Koei Tecmo released a gameplay video about its upcoming action game Attack on Titan 2. The video, introduced by Producer Hisashi Koinuma himself, showcases an early mission of the game, and a few of the new features introduced with the second game of the series, including the hook drive move, and the scope that enables
While it by no means ends the string of sub-par video game adaptation feature films, the short film PAPERS, PLEASE — based on Lucas Pope’s indie darling Papers, Please — is ten minutes of cinematic gold. Perhaps this is in part to Lucas Pope’s involvement in script writing, but everyone who has played the bureaucratic-based title (and anyone
Hats off to Berlin-based developer inbetweengames. Their self-labeled “very gay, very Berlin, Tech-Noir Tactics game” All Walls Must Fall is making its way out of Steam Early Access, and is celebrating with a brand new “coming out” trailer. All bad wordplay aside, All Walls Must Fall shows off the tactics-based gameplay and time-manipulation fun that the title has
At the end of a Death End Re;Quest behind-the-scenes video recently released by Compile Heart, President Norihisa Kochiwa had an interesting reveal to make. He showcased nine files belonging to nine different projects planned at the Japanese developer. Five of those projects are JRPGs, the first of which has a specific theme, “desert.” Kochiwa-san even went