Today Sony has begun rolling out invites to the beta of the PS4 system software 5.50, and quite a few interesting elements are starting to leak online. First of all, PS4 Pro is getting Supersampling Mode, basically letting you brute force supersampling on 1080p monitors for games that don’t officially support the feature. That being
Today Atlus released a new trailer of Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. And yes, I’m sorry, I could fit only one in the headline, Atlus is driving me crazy with these twin releases. The video brings back Tanaka’s Amazing Commodities (Jika Netto Tanaka) to as the perfect medium to advertise the various
Today Bandai Namco released three new screenshots of the recently-announced action game New Gundam Breaker. The images reveal that the Gundam AGEII Magnum mobile suit from the Gundam Build Divers anime series that was announced by Sunrise earlier today. On top of that, a new map has also been revealed. It’ll be based on the
Today Sega released a brand new trailer of the upcoming Strategy RPG Senjou no Valkyria 4: Eastern Front, or Valkyria Chronicles 4 as it’ll be titled in the west. The trailer presents a view on the world and setting of the game, also giving a brief look on the main characters belonging to Squad E and Squad F of
Following the reveal of the top-twenty sales chart related to last week on Wednesday, Media Create released today its weekly analysis, giving further information on the performance of Monster Hunter World in the country. The game was sold locally only for PS4, so the data listed below does not involve the Xbox One version. We
A few days ago, we reported of a number of pieces of concept artwork of the Final Fantasy VII Remake that appeared at the “Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Exhibition – Farewell Story Exhibition –” in Tokyo. Unfortunately, back then we managed to get only some really blurry pictures, since taking shots was apparently forbidden. At last, we got some
We already knew that the Final Fantasy XV team went really over the top with the details and the visual fidelity of the game, but I never realized the full extent of it until Square Enix released the benchmark of the Windows Edition for PC. Turns out that the benchmark is compatible with Nvidia Ansel,
The concept of “style over substance” is a real dilemma for the broader indie game scene. While finding a novel and satisfying gameplay hook is the bedrock of many smaller games, the task of finding that gameplay loop gets more difficult every year with thousands of indie releases across console platforms and Steam Greenlight. Because
Today Square Enix released the benchmark of the Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, but if you don’t have a gaming rig handy, and you still want to see what the game looks like on PC, we’re here to help. Below you can watch a quick and dirty capture of the benchmark running on a PC
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
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