Last week at PAX East, SNK’s latest title Samurai Shodown was on full display. DualShockers had the chance to try out the new fighting game and really enjoyed it. Following our time with the game, DualShockers was able to discuss reviving this series for a modern era with some of the game’s developers. Specifically, DualShockers
Month: April 2019
Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are receiving Labo VR support, Nintendo announced recently in a video. Using the Toy-Con VR Goggles you can play bonus levels of Super Mario Odyssey. In these missions, you collect music notes and coins to complete certain objectives. Additionally, you can visit the Cap, Seaside and Luncheon Kingdoms
I’ve always had a thing for mini golf: Both the real deal and video games. I think it’s all because my older cousin Jake showed my brother and I this online flash putt-putt game based off Live Savers candy. We were obsessed. I’ve been a sucker for mini golf style games ever since. I actually
When it comes to the depiction of war in media (and with games specifically), World War II in particular is a period in history that has been pretty well-trodden in a variety of different genres. From several Call of Duty titles and even to last year’s Battlefield V, the events and conflicts that have shaped World
After 11 years, Devil May Cry 5 finally fell into the palms of gamers on March 8, 2019, for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. It suffices to say that the reviews for the title were extremely positive – including our own review where we gave it a 9/10. As the positivity flowed in, Capcom producer Matt Walker posted
It seems like Acquire and Square Enix’s JRPG Octopath Traveler will eventually be ported to PC. According to Gematsu, Octopath Traveler was rated by the Korean Ratings Board on PC. Games which get rated this way usually are properly officially announced a few days later. Meaning there’s a very high chance Square Enix will announce that a port of
Famitsu announced that Hideo Baba has resigned from his position as head of Studio Istolia, a studio formed by Square Enix. Hideo Baba has left Square Enix as well as of the end of March 2019. Studio Istolia is currently working on a PS4 RPG, Project Prelude Rune, which got a new trailer during PlayStation Lineup
The official launch date of SNK’s highly anticipated return the Samurai Shodown series has been revealed. The game will come to Xbox One and PS4 on June 27. Alongside this news, players were given their first look at three original characters and the game’s season pass. You can check out new screenshots down below. The newly announced
Microsoft has started emailing current Xbox Live Gold subscribers in the United Kingdom to notify them that the recurring subscription price will be increasing soon. Those who pay for the service month-to-month will have to pony up £7 instead of £6. Quarterly subscriptions will cost £18 instead of £15. And annual subscribers will have to dish out £50 instead of £40
From what we currently know, Nintendo has no plans to make a new entry in the boxing series Punch-Out!!. Outside of the appearance of the franchise’s main protagonist Little Mac in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a new installment for Punch-Out!! hasn’t come about since the 2009 release on the Nintendo Wii. According to legendary boxer Mike Tyson though, Nintendo
Publisher Bigben Interactive and developers Black Shamrock and Cyanide Studios have announced Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory a new “darkly humorous CRPG. The game will be coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One on a 2019 release date that’s listed as “when Friend Computer feels like it.” Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory is the official adaptation of the tabletop
Sony Santa Monica continues to pick up praise and hardware for their hit 2018 release God of War. The action-adventure tour de force scooped up yet another Best Game award from the BAFTAs this afternoon in Central London. God of War actually swept most of the British award show. The game scored wins in the
Today marks the two year anniversary of the release of Persona 5, our 2017 Game of the Year here at DualShockers, and to coincide with this date, we happen to have now learned more about the game’s lifetime sales. In a translation by way of Persona Central, a new interview with Atlus’ console games director Naoto
Of all the games I checked out last week during PAX East, Splitgate: Arena Warfare was one game that I was extremely curious to try out for myself. I had first started hearing about the multiplayer shooter at last year’s PAX when it was still known as Wormhole Wars. The pitch of combining the arena shooting of Halo–arguably
While the follow-up to the beloved indie Super Meat Boy was planned to finally arrive at some point this month, it seems this will no longer be the case. As announced by developer Team Meat today on Twitter, Super Meat Boy Forever has now been pushed out of its April 2019 window. The developers didn’t provide a
As soon as I got the green light from the Editorial Team here at DualShockers that I’d be one of the staff writers going to and covering PAX East 2019, there was only one studio that I had to see while I was there—Yacht Club Games. I simply love Shovel Knight and each free expansion
Coming into Kitfox Games’ booth at PAX East, I thought I knew what dating sim/dungeon crawler Boyfriend Dungeon had to offer. Even so, and even as just a demo, to have the concept as a tangible thing was unexpectedly delightful to me. After a bit of hands-on time with a demo of the game, I felt
Nearly 10 years after initially releasing to the public, Mojang’s Minecraft is still setting new sales milestones. Just recently, Minecraft’s PC version specifically has now passed 30 million copies sold worldwide. The official Minecraft website keeps track of this data in a ticker at the bottom of the webpage stating how many copies of the title have been
Yesterday, we saw developer Gearbox Software unearth a Borderlands 3 announcement trailer alongside the long-awaited September 13 launch date, but PC fans weren’t a bit happy about this exclusivity decision that it will be available on the Epic Store for the first six months. Angry steam players have been so enraged by this news that they have taken
Ubisoft announced today that it is stopping production of physical toys for its toys-to-life game Starlink: Battle for Atlas. The modular toy technology was one of the main selling points for the game originally. However, due to sales that “fell below expectations”, they will be shutting that portion of the product down and focusing on
iam8bit is currently taking pre-orders for the music of Florence. Florence is a mobile game on iOS and Android created by Monument Valley Designer Ken Wong. Playing as a young woman named Florence, you journey through her adult life and a romantic relationship. When the game came out on Valentine’s Day last year it received high acclaim for it’s simplistic yet
In Super Crush K.O., not only is there a massive invasion of AI swarming the Earth, but your cat has been kidnapped. You as the player character certainly have your priorities straight. From Vertex Pop of Graceful Explosion Machine fame, this beat-em-up/shoot-em-up follows that title’s philosophy of remixing familiar game genres with a colorful and
If you’re like me, you’ve been hoping that Remedy Entertainment would at some point create a sequel to its 2010 action-adventure title Alan Wake. Turns out, Remedy was working on that exact project at one time, but unfortunately, it just didn’t work out. This news comes by way of VG247 who recently spoke to a representative from
Marvelous revealed new information on Rune Factory 5 today on the Rune FaChannel stream. The stream featured multiple Japanese streamers and Marvelous producer Maikawa. Let’s get this out of the way first: The new information concerning Rune Factory 5 is how players will have “something extremely nice” happening in Rune Factory 5 by linking their save
In the two years since the Nintendo Switch launched, more and more developers and publishers have been jumping on the bandwagon, especially when it comes to indie games on the eShop. Today, ARTE announced its plans to bring three games to Switch on April 25. The three games in question are Homo Machina, Vandals, and
There’s no question about it that Fortnite is a cultural phenomenon that brings in players of all ages. With its ever-changing challenges and allowing gamers to access it for free, its no wonder that so many people play it – especially the younger generation. But there has always been a cloak of disapproval that hangs heavily over the title
Civilization VI now supports cross-platform saves between players on Steam and Nintendo Switch, all you have to do is link your 2K Account in both versions. In-game make sure the multi-platform cloud save box is selected. Build a new expansion to your city on your desktop PC, save your game, and load it up on
Respawn Entertainment has released a fix for a bug that appeared in the Apex Legends 1.1 update that was causing some to lose their progress in-game. The explanation for this problem came from Respawn in a Reddit post on r/apexlegends that stated, When the 1.1 update went live, players were unintentionally moved to the wrong
Famitsu published an interview with Tanita’s Business Planning Department Representative Akiko Kubo. Tanita is the manufacturer of the new PlayStation 4 compatible Twin Stick controllers made for Virtual On games. These Twin Sticks controllers were funded via crowdfunding. In the interview, Akiko Kubo mentioned that the development of the Twin Sticks is currently at around
Well, here’s a story I’m sure you weren’t expecting to read today. It seems that over in China, Valve president Gabe Newell is known for a bit more than just helping to release games like Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and Portal. In a new post from Reddit’s r/PCMasterRace, user ChggnNggts shared a photo of a package of underwear from