Today, during a panel at Bitsummit held at the Miyako Messe venue in Kyoto, publisher Nicalis and developer Pikii presented their upcoming puzzle fighting game Crystal Crisis. The gameplay showcased a fight between Atom from Tetsuwan Atom and Curly Brace from Cave Story, giving us a good look at what the game looks and plays like. Crystal Crisis is a color-matching puzzle game
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Yesterday, indie developer Auroch Digital released a trailer announcing Mars Horizon, their upcoming space strategy game. It will put players in charge of a major space agency from the start of the space age to humanity’s eventual journey to Mars. While responsible for their space agency, players will research new technology to expand their base and
Nicalis just released the full version of the cinematic opening to the indie-crossover arcade brawler Blade Strangers, which you can watch below. Set to a rockin’ generic pop anime track, the opening cinematic explores some of the characters both new and old. The game crosses titles from Studio Saizensen games (Code of Princess, Sayonara Umihara Kawase, etc.),
Nintendo has been releasing Character Highlight trailers to hype up Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition as it approaches its Switch release. So far we’ve seen series regulars, older favorites, friends from the high seas, and interlopers from the Twilight, and now, we get a chance to visit some old friends and foes from Skyward Sword and A Link Between Worlds…plus
Earlier this morning, Inti Creates and Artplay announced Castleva… ahem… Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, an 8-bit spin-off game born from Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Following the announcement, the publisher released a large batch of screenshots providing another look at the nostalgic game. For those unfamiliar with the game, Bloodstained: Ritual of the
Today NIS America released a brand new trailer of the upcoming dungeon-crawling JRPG Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. It’s been a little while since we heard of the game, but today we get to see the foxy witch Dronya as she deals with a shifty-eyed drunkard named Newt. Not only we get to see more of
Showing a release date for May 24 on the Nintendo European eShop, Punch Club will soon be added to the Nintendo Switch lineup. The news comes a few months after tinyBuild Games announced their intentions on a Nintendo Switch livestream event. Punch Club is a boxing management simulator and it shows off its true nature
Today, during BitSummit 2018 in Japan, Inti Creates unveiled Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. It is an 8-bit spinoff title of the notable KickStarter game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and is releasing on PC, PS4, PS Vita, 3DS, Switch, and Xbox One later this month. This 8-bit title is reminiscent of the earliest Castlevania games, and
Developer Inti Creates announced Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX, the newest title in the popular Azure Striker Gunvolt series, for Nintendo Switch today during BitSummit 2018 in Japan. In Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX, players actually don’t control the series’ titular protagonist up until this point; instead, they will play as Copen, the anti-hero of
Today, during a panel at Bitsummit in Kyoto, Inti Creates and Artplay announced Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. During the Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, an 8-bit game was promised as a stretch goal, and Curse of the Moon is exactly that game. Basically, it’s a nostalgic 8-bit Igavania that fans of
Following the announcement of Square Enix’s fiscal year 2018 financial results this morning, the publisher provided the presentation slides for their briefing, and they included some interesting information on the plans for the upcoming fiscal year, which end on March 31st, 2019. First of all, we learn that in the that the publisher intends to expand
Video game retailer GameStop announced this morning via press release that the company’s current CEO Michael K. Mauler has stepped down. Mauler cited personal reasons as his purpose for leaving from his CEO role. His departure comes as quite a surprise considering that he had only just started as GameStop’s CEO in February of this year. Mauler’s
Following the top-twenty ranking released on Wednesday, today Media Create released its traditional weekly analysis. This time around it’s a special case because the Japanese firm analyzed two weeks instead of one. More precisely, we get a look at the period between April 23rd and May 6th, which is dominated by the Golden Week. It’s a
After being revealed back in March and recently getting a demo, Q-Games and Spike Chunsoft have released more details on the DLC and Season Pass of their upcoming tower defense game PixelJunk Monsters 2. The game’s Season Pass will consist of three pieces of DLC: the Golden Outfits Pack, the Encore Pack, and the Danganronpa
Even though Capcom recently announced that its crossover mobile title Puzzle Fighter would be closing in a couple months, puzzle-fighting fans shouldn’t be worried about the future of the genre. Nicalis has announced Crystal Crisis, a color-matching puzzle fighting game hybrid and crossover of several prominent Nicalis characters that is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall. Crystal
The epic strategy series The Banner Saga is coming to a close with the game’s third and final chapter this summer, but for those that have yet to jump into the series, the franchise’s very first chapter is coming to the Nintendo Switch just on the horizon. Over on the game’s Twitter page, publisher Versus Evil
With the release of the first game in 2014, The Banner Saga has taken players through an epic and heartbreaking journey through Viking battlefields and mystical landscapes, and now the trilogy’s conclusion, The Banner Saga 3, is giving another look at one of the series’ races, the legendary Horseborn. Publisher Versus Evil has released a new character
Today Square Enix released its financial results for the fiscal year ended on March 31st, 2018. The first table below showcases the relevant revenue and income figures which are all in the black. While sales were slightly lower year-on-year, income shows significant growth. The second table shows that the publisher’s income exceeded predictions. This is
Today Sega announced its financial results for fiscal year 2018, which ended on March 31st, 2017. As you can see in the table below, all the relevant income figures are in the black. Unfortunately, the results for the company as a whole aren’t as positive as in the previous fiscal year. The press release also
Almost a week after its release date was announced, Solar Sail Games and Curve Digital have released a developer diary highlighting the different mechanics of their upcoming survival RPG Smoke and Sacrifice. For those of you who don’t know, Smoke and Sacrifice follows a mother who live in a mostly peaceful farming community; unfortunately, parents
Since its release in 2016, Darkest Dungeon has been challenging players to explore increasingly eerie and horrifying chambers with monsters and travesties, and now a new experience is coming to players with the upcoming “The Color of Madness.” Developer Red Hook Studios has announced that the next DLC for Darkest Dungeon, called “The Color of Madness,” will
tinyBuild and Dynamic Pixels revealed earlier this year that Hello Neighbor would be coming to both PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Today, both iOS and Android were also added to that platform lineup, and all of these versions of Hello Neighbor received a release date: July 27. For those of you curious about the mobile versions
Western Nintendo Switch owners have been left out of the Monster Hunter World party, but they’re still getting a Monster Hunter game soon. Today Capcom announced that the Switch version of Monster Hunter XX is coming west with the title Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate. The game is the port of the original Monster Hunter XX for 3DS, so it doesn’t share the
Delayed release dates have become common-place in the gaming industry but every once in a while we get a unicorn: the pushed-up release date. And Activision looks like they are going to be the next one to offer that welcome news, as they are advancing the release date for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy for all consoles.
When Milanoir was originally announced a few months ago, we knew that it would be launching sometime this year, however, we didn’t have an exact release date. Well now that all changes, as indie developer Italo Games has officially announced that the Italian crime movie-inspired top-down shooter will be making its way to all your favorite platforms on
If you’re tired of using your dock to charge your Nintendo Switch and you don’t want to buy any third-party products like me, then up until now you’ve been kinda screwed. That changes today, however, as the house of Mario officially revealed a brand new charging stand for the popular portable gaming console. The design
Following the reveal of the western release of Warriors Orochi 4, Koei Tecmo released quite a few more assets of the upcoming game. First of all, we get the box art for PS4, Xbox One, and Switch, followed by a nice batch of screenshots. We get to see returning characters and some of the environments
Following the reveal for Japan, Koei Tecmo opened the North American and European official websites of its upcoming Musou title Warriors Orochi 4. With that comes the reveal of the platforms for the west, which will be PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. Predictably, the publisher decided to add the Xbox One to the platforms for Japan.
Today Arc System Works released a new trailer for its upcoming crossover fighting game BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. The trailer features the game’s opening animation that is basically a celebration of the four series that will be included in the crossover, BlazBlue: CentralFiction, Persona 4: Arena, Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[st], and RWBY. There is certainly a lot of
Today Koei Tecmo opened the official website of Warriors Orochi 4, revealing the first direct-feed screenshots and most of the 170 characters that will be present in the new chapter of the crossover Musou series. On top of the first screenshots, we also get to see the artwork for the first 164 characters that will