Square Enix released a new trailer of its brand new mobile JRPG Bravely Default Brilliant Lights.

The trailer shows gameplay and cutscenes, on top of presenting some of the main characters of the game.

You can check it out below.

On top of the trailer, we learn via the game’s official Twitter account that it has been rather successful following its launch in Japan.

Apparently, it has already passed three million players.

Nintendo has released the trailer of a new series of short videos titled “Sweet Winter with Pokemon,” and it’s adorable.

The video series will be released starting from early February on the official YouTube channel of the franchise and it’s described as “depicting the warm and delicious everyday life of a man who loves cooking and Pokemon.”

You can see the video below.

If you know me, you’re likely aware that I am not the biggest Pokemon fan, but even I cannot resist the extreme cuteness of this video. It’s just off the charts and it also made me hungry.

For more Pokemon news, you can take a look at the Slowpoke-flavored attractions of Kagawa Prefecture in Japan, which just revealed a ferry ship, buses, and even hotel rooms inspired by the sleepiest of Pokemon.

Medicos Entertainment revealed that two new Nendoroid figures of Weather Report and Narciso Anasui from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are currently in development. The two side characters are the fifth and sixth Stone Ocean characters to appear in Nendoroid form. They join Ermes, Foo Fighters, Jolyne, and Jotaro. There is no confirmed release date or price. Additionally, Medicos Entertainment revealed the first images of a prototype Jotaro Nendoroid.

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Much like Ermes and Foo Fighters before them, the Weather Report and Anasui Nendoroid figures will be based on the two characters' default appearances in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean. As the illustrations are basic designs, there will likely be other bonus parts included in the final product. The recently revealed Jolyne Nendoroid, for example, comes with a miniature mouse version of herself. Furthermore, Jolyne comes with additional hand parts that recreate her Stone Free stand ability, as well as optional face plates.

After what feels like an eternity, the well-known Japanese figure exhibition Wonder Festival was back in presence today at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, near Tokyo with the 2022 Winter edition.

While it was smaller than pre-covid exhibitions for obvious reasons and some big players weren’t there, there were still plenty of new figures portraying video game characters revealed for the fans.

You can find all the pictures below, courtesy of AmiAmi, Nidy-2D-, spiritale, Union Creative, Mimeyoi, and QuesQ.

As usual, some are painted prototypes, some are unpainted “grey” prototypes, and some are announcements limited to an illustration.

Most will become available for pre-orders in the coming weeks and months, and we’ll definitely do our best to keep you posted on when they do.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to be on the show floor next time, if the Japanese borders reopen in time, but without further ado, here are the goods!

If you've been struggling to download Sifu on PS5 this afternoon, you're not alone. Sloclap has confirmed that unspecified "issues" are preventing some from downloading the Early Access version of the fighting game.

"We are aware that there are issues preventing the download of Sifu through the early access on the PlayStation Store, and are very sorry for the inconvenience," the development team explained via a tweet posted to the game's official Twitter account earlier today. "We're looking into it with PlayStation to fix it asap, and will update you on the situation very soon!"

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Dying Light 2 is the latest big-budget open-world game blowing up on Steam and other platforms. I enjoyed it, less for its narrative and more because it features excellent parkour and fun combat. Oh, and there are zombies and other undead mutants. But that’s not the most hard-to-believe part of Dying Light 2. No,…

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Indie developer Sabotage Studio just released another teaser trailer of its upcoming turn-based RPG Sea of Stars.

The trailer is very short as usual, but it showcases a beautifully-crafted level created for the Elder Mist Trials. It certainly brings back memories of RPGs of old.

Sea of Stars, which is a prequel set in the universe of the developer’s The Messenger, has been funded with a very successful Kickstarter campaign and will feature music by Yasunori Mitsuda.

You can enjoy the video below.

Delightworks has revealed the five most popular Fate/Grand Order SSR characters that players leveled up to level 120. It revealed the ranking during the Chaldea Satelite Station 2021-2022 (Kochi) Stream. It's based on player data from the Japanese version of the game. Additionally, Delightworks provided design documents for Sakamoto Ryoma (Lancer) and Oryo, as well as Arahabaki. Some of the characters appear in Lostbelt 6, so those who wish to avoid spoilers should proceed with caution. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

Getting a servant to level 120 requires a significant amount of resources. In order to bring a character from level 100 to 120, users must have 300 servant coins, 10 Holy Grails, and 4,180 Gold All embers. As such, the characters that appear in the top five are likely to be the most valuable in a given player's roster.

Below are the top five SSR characters to get to level 120:

Co-op has finally arrived in Age of Empires 3.

Players can now band together to experience "story-driven historical narratives and objectives", including all the same gameplay you know "but tailored for the cooperative experiences", as well as fully-voiced dialogue and enemy AI that can take on two opponents instead of just one.

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Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.

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‘Peace’ In case you were wondering Itch.io‘s stance on NFTs, they’ve made things very clear in a tweet this weekend!...

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Spiritale released new images of some of its upcoming figure designs, one of which is Shionne from Tales of Arise. It's not just any figure of Shionne though, as the character is wearing a special costume only included in the Premium Costume Pack DLC. The scale figure is in development, and there is no confirmed release date.

The costume, titled "SW-EQ02F" in-game, is one of a pair of Bandai Namco-commissioned costumes. Popular Japanese freelance illustrator SWAV designed costumes for both Alphen and Shionne in a futuristic style. Bandai Namco included the outfits in the Premium Costume Pack DLC along with matching hairstyles.

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Spiritale announced the figure as part of the ongoing WonFes Winter 2022 event. However, details are still scarce. For now, we know that it will be a scale figure based on the released design. Other announcements from Spiritale include various figures of Hatsune Miku, as well as characters from My Hero Academia and Atelier Ryza 2.

Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks' action-horror title Ghostwire: Tokyo will reportedly take up just 20GB of space on your PC hard drive.

Surprised? Me, too. I spend a lot of time here reporting on new games taking up more and more space on our PCs and consoles, so it's a thoroughly pleasant surprise to be able to report that despite its "next-gen" tag - Ghostwire: Tokyo is a timed PS5 console exclusive - Ghostwire demands comparatively very little space.

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I've put about as many hours into MMORPGs as I have fingers on both hands, so perhaps I'm not the best person to pass judgement on Zenith: The Last City. Nevertheless, this incredibly ambitious VR exclusive from indie developers Ramen VR has been creating quite a buzz over the last week or so, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about for this week's VR Corner.

You can watch me bumble my way through the first few hours of this epic online quest-em-up in the video below. In it, you'll get a taste of some of the early missions, a lot of the melee combat and also maybe a little bit of romance too.

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Ubisoft has reportedly awarded the efforts of its Ghost Recon Breakpoint development team with an NFT Ghost Recon 20th anniversary cap.

After hosting a workshop held to assuage concerns about the company's pivot to NFTs - non-fungible tokens recorded in blockchains - Ubisoft reportedly issued the tokens as a thank you for the Breakpoint team's sustained efforts to improve the beleaguered shooter.

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Takara Tomy Arts will start selling its “Forest Pokemon” capsule toys line starting in mid-February 2022. It will cost 300 JPY (approximately $2.60) per spin. This series will have four Pokemon to collect. In addition, you can use the capsule they come in to create a little plastic tree for them to pose with. [Thanks, Hobby Watch!]

The four Pokemon in the Forest Pokemon capsule toys collection are: Pikachu, Buneary, Starly, and Munchlax. Of these four, only Pikachu and Buneary have a berry to eat. Starly is resting in its nest. Meanwhile, Munchlax appears to be waiting for more berries to drop out from the trees. Its arms are out as if in preparation to catch something, and it is looking upwards to where the treetops presumably are. Each figure stands at around 36 millimeters, and the tree that you can construct is 88 millimeters.

Here are some more pictures of the capsule toys:

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Sifu on PC

Growing up, I absolutely loved martial arts films. Whether it was the wax on wax off educational fun of Karate Kid or the chaotic action of Jackie Chan in Rush Hour, I found myself obsessed with these types of movies often in my youth. And while I might not be as transfixed with the artform as an adult, seeing Sifu for the first time back in February 2021 really brought back that child-like whimsy. 

Sifu is a classic revenge tale, with the nameless protagonist vowing vengeance on the five people who killed their father when they were a child. Now 20, they’ve finally tracked down each member and learned enough martial arts to start their revenge mission. 

Instead of an open world, though, Sifu follows a linear, level-by-level structure. The protagonist must make their way throughout each area, fighting a mix of different enemies, in order to make it to and defeat the boss at the very end and unlock the next mission. 

I liked this approach, as each area was distinct and felt like its own isolated experience relevant to its boss. One level is a drug den covered in overgrowth that fits the botanist boss; another is a popping nightclub filled to the brim with vibrant colors and EDM music that blends perfectly with its boss’s fast-paced fighting style. You can tell a lot of thought was put into each setting in Sifu. 

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be Jackie Chan. Not the actual guy, but the version of him in those movies, where he could clear out entire rooms using luck, martial arts and whatever he had within arm’s reach. Well, with Sifu, my childhood dream is now a reality. You don’t need to be a kung fu film fanatic to appreciate this action game, though. It’s not a tired bundle of tropes packaged together with an ironic detachment. It’s a passionate celebration of what makes the genre so good. It looks at the classics, then the modern descendants of that style, and finally puts its own unique twist on the whole thing.

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A secret bike has been uncovered in Dying Light 2.

Thought to have found it by using NexusMods' developer menu on PC - although they're being a tad coy about it, and won't reveal how other players can get on their bikes too - Redditor Taki 7o7 shared their discovery online.

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It’s not much? It’s nothing! Batman Beyond was an awesome cartoon series. It’s like if Spider-man was mentored by Batman...

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Details of a new Batman collection - called Batman Arkham Collection, predictably enough - has popped up online.

Without confirmation from Warner Bros. we can only chalk this up as a rumour for now, but details of the bundle - reportedly coming to Switch for €60 at the end of August, although that could be a placeholder date - are online at French retailer, WTT.

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Sundays are for having a nice tea and a little biscuit. Before you sip and/or dip, let's read this week's best writing about games (and game related things).

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In the 30 years since Akihiro Suzuki started at Koei, he's spent 20 of them overseeing Dynasty Warriors - progenitor of the musou genre, one of gaming's longest-running series, and one whose every entry bar the fifth Suzuki has been involved in. It's a success that the team could never really have anticipated - how could they, given how the series had its start in a different genre entirely.

Released on the original PlayStation back in 1997, the first Dynasty Warriors was a Soul Calibur-like one-on-one fighting game and was met with positive reviews - so much so that Omega Force, the division within Koei Tecmo that Suzuki was a part of, stuck with the genre with its next project Destrega. "Within the team we all thought it was really good, but it didn't really sell well," says Suzuki.

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Acclaimed developer PMDG released a development update about its upcoming Boeing 737 add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is one of the most anticipated by the userbase at the moment.

CEO Robert Randazzo provided information on what the team has been doing over the past week, and share that an internal beta date and release window have been set.

Of course, the fact that it’s internal means that they know, but they’re not telling us just yet.

Below you can check out the full update:

As we wrap up this week of development on the PMDG 737 for Microsoft Flight Simulator, I wanted to share a progress update to give you an idea where we are and how things are going.

This week’s primary focus fell into a couple of areas:

Rocket Panda Games released a new gameplay trailer of the upcoming 2D fighting game Phantom Breaker: Omnia showcasing a match.

This time around we take a look at a battle between Mei and Itsuki with English voices, taking a good look at their moves.

This follows a string of character trailers of which one featuring Mikoto, one showcasing Itsuki herself, one featuring Waka, one starring Yuzuha, one showcasing Ren, one focusing on Ria, one revealing Maestra and Artifactor, and one focusing on Sophia.

You can check it out below.

If you want the HARD NUMBERS on the staff's GOTY lists and the many guest lists on the site, check out @marino's Data Dump: GOTY 2021 Staff & Guests Breakdown. If you want to know what would be the site's 2021 GOTY if it relied on HARD SCIENCE, then this is the post for you! Additionally, remember to check out Superkenon's Giant Bomb GOTY MEGATHREAD where they annotate and compile all of Giant Bomb's GOTY content into a single post!

Speaking of the site's GOTY content, if you tined into it and a the Bombcasts after it, you might have noticed a new version of the Giant Bomb theme song! This music is spectacularly brought to you by Vektroid/Macintosh Plus. Oh, and the Community 2021 GOTY voting results are up for you to marvel over! Read which game the community thinks should have been the site's 2021 GOTY!

Path Of Exile's latest expansion Siege Of The Atlas is out - and smoothly, it seems. It simplifies the Atlas endgame while making it more customisable, while also adding new eldritch bosses to smash through.

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Meta is adding a new system called "Personal Boundary" to Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues, two of their virtual reality apps. It's designed to curb creepy behaviour within the company's much-hyped metaverse by preventing other player's from invading your personal space.

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Wordle is a genre now. Its rapid success has caused a proliferation of browser games in which all players are presented with the same puzzle each day, limited guesses, and easy options to share their results.

My new favourite is Worldle. It meets all the criteria, including being free and playable in your browser, but instead of guessing a word you're attempt to identify a country by its silhouette.

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Older iPhone Masters take heed: Fate/Grand Order may no longer support the version of iOS on your device. As of February 4, 2022, the game has officially ended support for devices still running iOS version 10.2 and below. If you're playing FGO on an iOS device, you'll need to upgrade iOS to 10.3 or better to continue playing. Further details can be found at this page on the official site.

The announcement of the change to Fate/Grand Order iOS support was first made on January 13, 2022. Prior to the change, FGO required iOS version 10.0 or higher. Given that iOS 10.0 released back in 2016, long prior to the global release of Fate/Grand Order, it's unlikely that even fairly old devices will be completely unable to play FGO. Fate/Grand Order's oldest supported iPhone model, the iPhone 6S, can still upgrade as far as iOS 15, the latest version of the operating system. Meanwhile, Fate/Grand Order supports Android devices running version 4.1 and above. The game works with any version of the OS, including the latest Android 12.

Fate/Grand Order is immediately available on devices running iOS 10.3 or Android 4.1 and above. The game is currently running its Valentine's Day 2022 limited-time event. Aniplex is acquiring the game's development team from DelightWorks, with the purchase wrapping in Spring 2022.

My eyes unfocused partway through the trailer for Genshin Impact's 2.5 update. There was some sort of mystical calamity and it was all very dramatic. Then, almost after the real trailer was finished, there was a minute or more of the actual game, as a character gathered herbs in a pretty field at night, mixed a drink, and unlocked some items.

I was immediately focused back in. Update 2.5, "When the Sakura Bloom", will launch on February 16th with three new characters.

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Yesterday, the world got a new Jackass film. After two years of covid-19, I’ll admit I’m happy to see the old gang back, wild and dumb as ever. It feels like a small piece of normality, one which I’m happy to have in 2022. But back in 2007, following the release of the second film and five years after the show ended,…

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Developers offer free weekends with their games all the time, but it feels more like a trap when the game is The Sims 4. Become immersed in EA's dollhouse creation kit and what awaits you is a world of costly DLC.

But then heck, I like the game and I've only bought a handful of content packs because I liked the look of the kitchen cupboards. So play The Sims 4 for free on Steam this weekend, and buy it at 88% off if you like it.

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It’s 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic is still a problem. Nobody’s life is what they expected it to be. Which is why now is the perfect time for Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan. The show follows an approaching middle-aged man in his not-ideal job with often idiotic coworkers. He can put on a happy face, but sometimes he’s just barely getting by. Just like us! Except with the juxtaposition of a children’s show star making do, it becomes a bit easier to laugh at the situation. (Even if sometimes it does get a little too real.)

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan is a slice-of-life show. But it isn’t necessarily one filled with heartfelt, sweet moments. Rather, it’s more about what life might actually be like for people in their 30s. Things aren’t as they expected. Uramichi Omota is a talented gymnast. But instead of doing something in sports… he’s one of the cast members on Together with Maman and tends to handle the exercise segments. Both Iketeru Daga and Utano Tadano hoped to find major roles as singers. But the former failed as a musical actor and the latter couldn’t make it in a variety of other genres like idol or enka. Tobikichi Usahara and Mitsuo Kumatani went to college with Uramichi and also went into athletics. Now? They wear animal costumes and play Usao-kun and Kumao-kun on the show. They’re also all dealing with other issues, like being unmarried, buried in debt, depressed, or immature. They have to be “cheerful,” because it is a kid’s show! But stuff bleeds through! (And is often ironic, given that the failed singers are played by Nana Mizuki and Mamoru Miyano in Japanese!)

Cblogs of 1/29 to 2/4/2022 –Fuddymus Prime played Final Fantasy VII for the first time and wasn’t overly impressed. –Seymour...

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Today third-party developers have showcased new assets of their upcoming aircraft add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We start with MilViz, which lately is having a lot of fun releasing single screenshots of its upcoming aircraft.

That’s quite the tease, but below you can see the A-1H Skyraider in all its glory.

Developer miHoYo released a trailer for the new Honkai Impact 3rd Palatinus Equinox battlesuit for Durandal. The battlesuit is set to release alongside the upcoming Honkai Impact 3rd 5.5 update scheduled to launch February 24, 2022. The S-rank battlesuit will have a Guardian and Knight form, which allows Durandal to ride on a mechanical horse named Krishna. Furthermore, the trailer gives fans a brief glimpse into Durandal's life before the events of the game.

Note: The trailer contains major spoilers for Chapter 28 of Honkai Impact 3rd.

The trailer shows Durandal aka Bianka Ataegina watching a vision of her childhood. Titled "Forever True to Yourself", the trailer shows the Kaslana family enjoying a normal day at home. Kiana Kaslana appears as a child with her father Seigfried Kaslana and mother Cecilia Schariac. Towards the end, Kiana uses an umbrella as though it's the Abyss Flower and prompts Durandal to hold it. The Palatinus Equinox battlesuit then appears and Durandal heads into battle.

The battlesuit itself also appeared in a making-of video released earlier this week. In the video, developers at miHoYo went over the Guardian and Knight versions as well as each form's abilities. Similarly, the video also gives some exposition about Durandal's mysterious background.

You can check out the Honkai Impact 3rd Palatinus Equinox Durandal battlesuit trailer below.