Month: August 2018

Since the first Overwatch animated short released back in 2016, it has become the main storytelling device for the popular team-based first-person shooter. Many fan-favorite characters like Widowmaker, Winston, and Hanzo have had the spotlight on them showing their origin stories in a well-made video. Yet, arguably the game’s most popular character had yet to
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Today Bandai Namco made another surprise reveal for the upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI.  The new announcement is about a brand new character, named Azwel, and defined “the leader of humanity.” Azwel wields a weapon named Palindrome and is able to materialize more weapons from thin air. As you can see in the trailer, he definitely
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The SoulCalibur franchise has been dormant for a long time, with six years passing between the latest mainline title, SoulCalibur V, and the upcoming release of SoulCalibur VI. At Gamescom 2018 DualShockers talked with Producer Motohiro Okubo, who was quite frank in explaining through a translator that the brand was in dire straits when asked
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Bethesda has a very proactive stance towards cross-play between platforms, and at Gamescom, DualShockers had a chat with Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communication Pete Hines. We asked Hines to elaborate further on how Bethesda is approaching the discussion with first parties, and he was keen on clarifying that he isn’t singling any of them
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Democracy in the Netherworld can be brutal, and that’s what the new trailer of Disgaea 1 Complete is all about. Today NIS America revealed another video of the upcoming Disgaea: Hour of Darkness remaster, and it shows the popular (even if it became less popular in following games) “Persuasion by force” option that lets you beat your senators into
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Square Enix announced during a livestream from Tokyo that its arcade fighting game Million Arthur: Arcana Blood will come to PS4. The game will release in Japan on November 29th, and it will add Yamaneko Arthur from Han-Gyaku-Sei Million Arthur, alongside two crossover characters. Koume Saiyama will be added from Square Enix’s own Lord of Vermillion IV, and Iori
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MercurySteam shared a trailer showcasing Valeria Robespierre, a badass character who is now available in Spacelords for all players to recruit. With a powerful combat chassis inspired by her doll collection and designed to cause pain to anyone who crosses her, Valeria is definitely a force to be reckoned with. As the daughter of a wealthy patron
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Bandai Namco Entertainment has shared a trailer featuring the powerful music of Jump Force as it brings several scenes alive from the game. The brief video intercuts clips from the anime crossover fighter game with shots of the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra recording the game’s gorgeous soundtrack. While the music definitely adds intensity to the scenes shown in the video, the whole
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At this year’s Xbox E3 Showcase, we saw Microsoft make some big moves announcing they acquired five developers, one of which was a brand new team based in Santa Monica: Playground Games (Forza Horizon series), Compulsion Games (We Happy Few, Contrast), Undead Labs (State of Decay series), The Initiative, and Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword, Hellblade:
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I often find myself scrolling through media outlets–like Twitter, for instance–shaking my head and breathing long sighs of disappointment when I come across posts that seemingly point the finger at video games for the world’s mental health problems. The vast majority of research on the effects of “gaming” has been on its negative impact: namely,
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In a recent interview with VG247, Yasuhiro Kitao, FromSoftware’s communications manager, gave some insight as to just how big the world of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will be. While Kitao-san didn’t necessarily give the specific amount of time players can expect to find themselves in this world, he did mention that it’s obviously going to be very different
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Atlus has revealed a new trailer for their upcoming Persona crossover title on 3DS, Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.  The trailer features the female detective from Persona 4, Naoto Shirogane. In it, you can see her interacting with lots of other characters from past and present Persona games, as well as the one that she’s from. You can check out the video
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Today Ubisoft released a new trailer of its upcoming open-world action-RPG Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The video presented in 4K, and that’s definitely a good thing since it’s all about the game’s environment. The beautifyl vistas of Greece that you’re going to see in the trailer definitely shine with the higher resolution (not that they’re bad in
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Dead or Alive 6 generated a lot of discussion about its implementation (or lack of thereof) of breast physics, which are pretty much a staple of the series, and are normally present in many fighting games in general. Early reports from multiple outlets mentioned that they were gone, but Producer and Director Yohei Shimbori then mentioned
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Ahead of the start of PAX West next week, publisher Ubisoft has today announced the games that they’ll be bringing with them to Seattle. Nearly every major upcoming release in Ubisoft’s catalog will be appearing at the show with upcoming releases such as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Starlink: Battle for Atlas being the marquee titles that are due out this
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