Today SNK released two videos of the upcoming fighting game The King of Fighters XV, including the launch trailer.

The trailer focuses on showcasing its fighters, celebrating the return of the franchise to the spotlight, and it’s a franchise that many have considered for a long time the “king” of fighting games, especially older iterations.

The second video focuses on revealing the team music of team Krohnen, titled “Liberty.”

Everyone’s favorite trash-talking Letterkenny hockey player is almost here, as a brand new teaser for Shoresy has just been released. In the trailer, we not only get a release window of “coming soon” for the show, but we even get to see Shoresy’s face for the first time.

While that may not sound like a huge deal, anyone who has watched Letterkenny knows why that’s a huge deal.

Throughout the entirety of the series, Shoresy has existed as a minor background character that only shows up during hockey segments of Letterkenny. Every time he does show up, usually trash-talking Jonesy and Riley, his face has been hidden. This was obviously done so as not to draw attention to the fact that the character is also played by series creator and lead actor Jared Keeso, whose main role is Wayne.

Today is Valentine’s Day, and Microsoft released a rather funny trailer to advertise its popular Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

The trailer encourages you to find your “own true game” among the many included in the services, like Halo, Hitman, Among Us, and Forza Horizon 5.

Of course, we all know that Agent 47… pardon… Lord Sinclair is the ideal beau.

The ad is certainly funny, and also rather appropriate since the discoverability of games you may not otherwise get to play is definitely one of Game Pass’ major perks.

You can check it out below.

We recently heard that Xbox Game Pass has passed (pun entirely intended, and I’m not sorry) 25 million subscribers.

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One of the Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreams Edition remaster options will be the ability to choose between the old and update models for characters. To help provide a better idea of how this would look, Square Enix shared a few screenshots to illustrate the changes. The four images shared look at protagonists Serge and Kid.

First, here are the new and old Chrono Trigger character model screenshots for Serge. This is how the original model looks in the remake.

This is the updated one.

Here is how the original Kid model looks.

With the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film prequel getting announced for U.S and Canadian theaters just last month, it seems like the perfect time to strike while the iron is hot for the series and announce season 2. That is exactly what the series official Twitter account did earlier this week, revealing that the sophomore season of this curse-hunting epic would be coming in 2023.

While there isn’t an exact release window for Jujutsu Kaisen season two quite yet, you can check out the tweet for yourself down below for a bit more context.

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Platinum Games
Release: March 3, 2022
Rating: Teen

Babylon’s Fall, Platinum Games’ upcoming multiplayer action RPG, is getting a free demo on February 25. 

The free demo will only be available on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 (sorry, PC players) and lets players roam the game’s opening section. Publisher Square Enix states the demo features “multiple hours” of story content that you can tackle alone or alongside buddies in four-player co-op (with cross-play enabled). Demo progress carries over to the full game, which launches on March 3. 

Welcome to another edition of Kotaku’s Anime Revolution, presented by Acura, a weekly show where the otaku of Kotaku look at the hottest shows of the winter season and put them through the three-episode test to see whether they’re worth your time. This week, we’ll be taking a look at My Dress-Up Darling, which is…

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Creative Assembly is finally about to release Total War: Warhammer III, concluding a trilogy that provided dedicated fans with nearly six years of non-stop entertainment, with support and new releases for the first two games continuing almost uninterrupted.

Similar to its nearest predecessor, Total War: Warhammer III’s main campaign is centered around a specific narrative scenario that requires the players to focus on precise victory conditions.

I actually won’t spoil the story, because that would reduce your enjoyment of the prologue, which is actually a mini-campaign in its own right that will likely last you a full evening. It has its story and characters, and it’s likely one of the most extensive and enjoyable “tutorials” I’ve played in a while. Don’t make the mistake of skipping it.

The focused nature of the main campaign should not trick you into believing that it is short. It really isn’t. While I did not rush it, it took me exactly 200 turns to complete it, which translates into roughly a week playing every night. It can be done quicker, but not by much.

If you’d rather have a less focused approach, you can aim for a domination victory, but this feels more like an afterthought, and I wouldn’t advise it unless you want to challenge yourself and don’t really care for the story. Its conditions are really quite hefty.

The 2.5 update is about to come to Genshin Impact, and it will bring the chapter one Yae Miko story quest and Raiden Shogun’s story quest second act with it. To help people prepare, miHoYo explained how to unlock each one of them. While both will require one story key, as is typical, there are additional prerequisites for taking part in each one.

Let’s start with the Raiden Shogun Imperatrix Umbrosa Chapter story quest act 2 details, since it is part of the prerequisites for Yae Miko’s. People need to complete the Inazuma Archon Quests, which end with Chapter 2 Act 3: Omnipresence Over Mortals. (You need to be at Adventure Rank 30 to unlock that.) In addition, you need to have hit AR 40 and gone through the Imperatrix Umbrosa’s first act.

As for Yae Moko’s Divina Vulpes Chapter act one, it can only be viewed after Raiden Shogun’s story’s second act. Which means it also requires AR 40 and the Inazuma Archon questline to be finished.

Genshin Impact is available for the PS4, PS5, PC, and mobile devices. It will come to the Nintendo Switch sometime in the future. The 2.5 update will arrive on February 16, 2022, alongside the new Yae Miko banner and story quest and next act of the Raiden Shogun story questline.

Late last year, Sony finally added the ability to install your own SSD in the PS5. Before this, only external drives could be used on the PS5, and these were limited to playing last-gen games. Now, it's easy to add gigabytes or even terabytes of storage for PS5 games in just a few minutes - and this article shows you how.

This explainer is necessary because, unlike Microsoft, Sony isn't making its own official drives in a unique form factor. Instead, standard PC NVMe SSD drives from a wide range of manufacturers will work - as long as the drive is fast enough and physically fits inside the PS5. This should make upgrading your storage cheaper in the long run, but the requirements are a little complicated - so we've prepared this blog to recommend the best SSDs for the PS5. We've also covered the best PS5-compatible heatsinks, dug into the requirements in more detail and answered your questions - all accessible via the quick links below.

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Video game sales are less of a novelty now that a giant sale is running on one store or another almost all the time but hey, this just means you can get cheap games almost all the time. This week, look to GOG for your game shopping, where their 'We Love Games' sale has over 3000 things going cheap. Discounts include 50% off Cyberpunk 2077, 60% off Disco Elysium, and 80% off The Witcher 3 GotY. Not bad!

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***The following article contains considerable spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett Season 1. If you haven’t watched up until this point and don’t want the plot point for the current state of Tatooine spoiled, I’d suggest coming back after you watch the most recent episode.***

If you’ve seen the first season of The Book of Boba Fett, then you know there are some interesting moments in it that have gotten fans talking. Whether it is the fight between Krrsantan and Boba, teaching Tuskan Raiders to ride speeders, or an impromptu game of Mario Kart, there were a lot of unintentionally hilarious moments in the show’s debut.

As of episode seven, though, all anyone can talk about is the spin is the exaggerated spin move that Skad, the Mod with the eye implant, pulled off in the middle of a gunfight. The clip caught a lot of people off guard, as it doesn’t seem to fit the nature of the show or the battle that is occurring – even though it is actually just a nod to one of director Robert Rodriguez’s old films.

Due to the exaggerated nature of the clip, one fan even went to the effort of extending it in the most hilarious way. As you can see below in the post to the Star Wars subreddit, user xlDirteDeedslx showed what it would look like if Skad’s spin was in a few other epic moments throughout the show and franchise as a whole.

Abermore is a newly-announced RPG where you play a legendary thief known as "The Unhanged Man".

Set in the titular "neo-Edwardian" city of Abermore, this is the latest game from the studio behind 10 Second Ninja X, and tasks players with planning a daring heist in just 18 days.

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A documentary celebrating the 30th birthday of Lemmings has premiered on YouTube.

Lemmings: Can You Dig It? explores the legacy of the game with its original creators and its impact on Scottish and UK games culture.

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Something is going on with the Resident Evil series, as Capcom teased a new announcement. The official Twitter account for the series’ website teased something at its portal site. Whatever is coming next will be revealed at 2am ET/8am CET/4pm JST on February 15, 2022. (That’s 11pm PT on February 14, 2022.)

Here's the tweet hinting at Resident Evil news.

Oh, there's something suspicious activity going on at the Resident Evil portal...
It seems that this was the reason why all the staff around me worked busy lately. There's something going on tomorrow at 4PM(JST), so we hope you all enjoy it!#REBHFun pic.twitter.com/tiwvlAhTI5

— RESIDENT EVIL/BIOHAZARD PORTAL Official (@REBHPortal) February 14, 2022

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Total War: Warhammer 3 is an extremely hard game to review in isolation. It’s utterly massive in itself, with eight hulking single player campaigns at launch, not to mention a greatly expanded range of multiplayer and PvE skirmish options. But that’s just the start of it. For indeed, just like beloved Warhammer villain Ebeneezer Scrooge, any attempt to form an opinion on this game has to contend not just with the present, but with the bedevilments of its past and future to boot.

While it is very much a game you can buy and enjoy on its lonesome, TWW3 is perhaps better considered as the last, grand instalment of a game whose release began nearly eight years ago with Total War: Warhammer. It’s a genuinely epic construction; a proper Pillars-Of-The Earth-level feat of game development. And here’s where the future sticks the boot in. Because while the last stones of this electric cathedral have been lowered into place, the phone line to God hasn’t been wired in yet.

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Tutorials! I am a fan. Good tutorials are rare and actually enjoyable ones rarer still, and Total War: Warhammer 3's is a treat. This is helpful, because there is a lot of Total War out in the world now - this is the third game in its little high-fantasy sub-series and something like the fifteenth full-sized Total War overall - and that means it might be just a tad intimidating for new players.

It's intimidating for me, at least, and I've been bumbling around these turn-based overworlds since the Medieval era. Warhammer 3, as a likely result of those decades of iteration, has an extraordinary amount of systems to it. It's overloaded at times, caught up in the fun of all that Daemonic excess.

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Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
Publisher: PlayStation Studios
Developer: Guerrilla Games
Release: February 18, 2022
Rating: Teen

Horizon Forbidden West hits PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 this Friday – you can read Game Informer’s review of it right now – and in the leadup to its launch, Guerrilla Games has released a detailed look at its accessibility settings. 

Fortunately, there are a lot of them too ranging from general accessibility to controller-specific settings as well as audio and visual options, too. The game even includes multiple difficulty settings so that you can tailor Aloy’s latest journey to be perfect for you. 

It’s hard to believe that CBS’s The Big Bang Theory ended way back in 2019. From its loveable camaraderie between the oddball gang of misfits at the heart of the show, to its nerd culture geek-speak gags, to its surprisingly poignant heartfelt moments, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady’s hugely popular sitcom continues to be a resonant force in our hearts and minds.

And with Valentine’s Day hitting today, we thought that now would be the perfect time to find out who your Big Bang Theory soulmate is. Is it the socially awkward child prodigy, Sheldon Cooper? Is it the confident and streetwise, Penny? Or is it the calm and loyal, Leonard Hofstadter? Well, all you’ll need to do is answer these ten meticulously crafted questions and we’ll be able to figure out who your Big Bang Theory crush is.

So, without further ado, grab your Star Trek uniforms, laminate those roommate agreements, and come join us as we take a trip back to Apartment 4A in Twinfinite’s latest quiz. Oh, and please make sure to share who your Big Bang Theory soulmate is in the comment section below. And don’t forget: That’s my spot!

Sega's ongoing Japanese mobile game Chain Chronicle will receive guest characters from Bandai Namco's Tales of series. The company has set up a new webpage dedicated to the crossover event.

The Chain Chronicle collaboration event will add multiple characters from the Tales of series. Reid Herschel, the protagonist of the 2000 title Tales of Eternia, was the first character announced for this crossover. Reid's original Japanese voice actor Akira Ishida will reprise the role. Sega will reveal more characters coming from the franchise in due time.

Chain Chronicle is a mobile RPG with a tower defense-styled gameplay system. Other than Tales of, the game had also received guest characters from various franchises, including the Atelier series. A western release of the title appeared in December 2014. However, it later shut down shortly after a year in February 2016.

Popular comedian-turned-horror filmmaker Jordan Peele is at it once again with another dose of skin-crawlingly disturbing and dread-inducing spectacle. Yes, the Oscar-winning writer-director of 2017’s Get Out and 2019’s Us has just released the debut footage of his next horror pic, Nope.

As to be expected, Nope isn’t exactly a film for the faint of heart, so if you’re not in the mood for a scary film, you may want to give this latest trailer a miss:

Teasing a twisting narrative, a band of Hollywood horse trainers, and an extraterrestrial invasion, set against the backdrop of an isolated American town, Nope appears to be an epic sci-fi horror flick that’s equally mind-bending as it is terrifying.

Scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 22, 2022, Nope features Get Out and Black Mirror alumni, Daniel Kaluuya, as well as Scream Queens’ Keke Palmer. It will be published and distributed by Universal Pictures.

For more information about Nope, here’s a rundown courtesy of Universal Pictures and Monkeypaw Productions:

By now, I'm sure you have your Wordle strats down pat. You solve the daily puzzle on the pot during your morning wee, and have posted your boast to the family WhatsApp group before you even wipe (another three-solve? yawn!). Friendo, what you need is Quordle. This Wordle variant makes you guess four words on four grids at the same time. That'll get you thinking again.

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The person behind the Hololive VTuber Amane Kanata has tested positive for COVID-19. She first reported on Twitter that she had a fever of 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) around midnight JST on February 14, 2022. Although she tested negative on February 13, 2022, a new test taken the day after resulted in a positive case.

The VTuber had been preparing to move into a new residence. In her statement, Kanata claimed that the only close contact at risk was her roommate. She kept a distance from staff members that helped her move, in accordance with the social distancing rules. Kanata also assured fans that she had not come into contact with other Hololive VTubers within two days before she started having symptoms.

Amane Kanata published a new video explaining her positive COVID-19 case:

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We first saw Horizon Forbidden West at the climax of the PlayStation 5 games reveal showcase, a fitting 'just one more thing' to an effectively debut for Sony's vision for the new console's launch window. It looked phenomenal, it possessed detail beyond anything we'd seen in the prior generation, but a key question had to be asked: how could Guerrilla Games deliver something this good with a title that also had to run on the standard PlayStation 4? With final code in hand, we finally have answers.

How Sony tackles the generation divide is intriguing and similar in some respects to Playground Games' approach to another cross-gen masterpiece - Forza Horizon 5. There are two distinct tiers of features, one for PS4 consoles, the other for PlayStation 5. Each of these tiers is deployed in two different scenarios: base PS4 and Pro feature a substantially pared back visual experience, running at dynamic 1080p on the standard PS4 and a dynamic 1800p checkerboard on Pro, both operating at 30fps. Meanwhile, the PS5 feature-set is run at native 4K in its 30fps favour resolution mode, dropping to checkerboarded 1800p at 60fps in the favour performance mode (DRS is also implemented on PS5, but quite difficult to pick up on).

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Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
Publisher: PlayStation Studios
Developer: Guerrilla Games
Release: February 18, 2022
Rating: Teen

A new cinematic trailer for Horizon Forbidden West released today by Guerrilla Games and PlayStation showcases both the stunning locales in Aloy’s newest journey and her greatest hunt yet. 

Korean developer Smilegate’s launch of CrossFireX on Xbox consoles has been long-awaited, but its arrival has been plagued by a number of frustrating performance issues. So much so, in fact, that executive producer Sooro Boo has issued an apology to fans and delivered an update as to the immediate future of the game.

‘Mr. Boo,’ as he’s known admits in this latest update that Smilegate has “inadvertently disappointed many of our players and fans” by launching CrossFireX in its current state before highlighting the developer’s plan of action to tackle a number of key concerns. Here’s the overview:

1. Controller Sensitivity Issues

What’s Happening:

Random fluctuation of the dead zone radius, input delay, acceleration instability with the right analog stick, aim dropping with no change to the sensitivity settings

What We’re Doing:

All of the development work to resolve the issues is complete and we expect to be able to apply this patch few weeks earlier than our previously announced date of early March (pending update process).

Explanation

The current controller issue is an unfortunate combination of the added difficulty inherent to Crossfire with its stronger recoil compared to other shooters and the bugs/issues mentioned above. While the bugs and issues will be fixed shortly, the difficulty level of the stronger recoil will still remain. We are planning to lessen the impact of this with making the aim assist slightly stronger (slightly wider radius), but some players may still feel that it’s difficult to account and adjust for the recoil.

Square Enix released new details regarding Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden. This includes a break down of some features that will be available in the card game. Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden will have a high speed function that will increase how quickly the player can progress. It won't apply to all aspects of the game, though. The settings for the high speed function in Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden can also be tweaked slightly through the menu. Additionally, the game will feature collaboration skills, character card stories, and enemy card stories. [Thanks, Gamer!]

In regards to the high speed function, players can choose how to activate it, but there is little else you will be able to customize regarding this feature. As for other elements of the game, collaboration skills will be available. Each shrine maiden and their servant can use a unique collaboration skills. Different skills will activate depending on whether or not the servant or maiden is using the skill.

Additionally, players will be able to unlock character and enemy card stories. The mechanic is fairly straightforward. These individual stories will unlock by progressing in the game or fighting enemies.

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: Capcom
Release: May 7, 2021
Rating: Mature

A Babylon's Fall demo will release on February 25, 2022, and it will allow players to carry over their data into the full version of the game. During the demo, players will be able to play the introduction of the game. However, the Babylon's Fall demo will only be available for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game. Square Enix also confirmed that the PlayStation 4 version of the game will be playable on the PlayStation 5 through backwards compatibility. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

The developers also revealed that the number of participants present during a quest will determine its difficulty. This means players can potentially play the entire game by themselves. Additionally, players will be able to skip cutscenes in multiplayer. However, the cutscene will only skip if every person within the party agrees to skip it. The developers also stated that players will not be able to change the name of their account at any point.

Additionally, while paid currency will be available, the developers have no intention to sell more powerful equipment through paid currency. The paid currency will strictly be used to obtain cosmetic items, emotes, and to purchase the premium version of the battle pass.

One of the producers of Mother 3 has said he'd love to see an English localisation.

Fan interest in the game has risen following the release of Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings on Nintendo Switch Online, announced at the recent Direct.

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