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Five Nights At Freddy's (FNAF) creator Scott Cawthon has announced their retirement from game development after coming under fire for making donations to polarizing U.S. politicians. ...
The Aqua Nendoroid that Good Smile Company showed off at WonHobby 33 is now available for pre-order.
The post Kingdom Hearts III Aqua Nendoroid is Ready for Action appeared first on Siliconera.
Call Of Duty: Warzone Season 4 has finally crash-landed, like a number of satellites into Verdansk. Capture one of these smouldering space spheres and you'll earn rewards, one of which is only a flipping Armoured Truck. These metal stallions were previously only available in Armored Royale, a limited-time mode, but now they're a reward in normal matches. So, err, hey there buddy?! It's so good to see you again! Oh truck. Oh trucky truck, how I've missed you.
Ynglet is proof that great things can come from terrible, world-ending disasters. As you and your fellow microbe-like pals watch a meteor hurtling towards your tiny home on the TV, a new world erupts the carnage - and it looks awfully like a cartoon town map you might find at your local tourist office. As you slither across this newfound land, portals gradually open up to eight worlds of floating shapes that fizz and pop with light, music and colour. It's a platformer without any platforms, and it's probably the most delightful 90 minute adventure you'll play all year.
Call of Duty: Warzone has become the first PlayStation 4 backwards compatible game to support 120hz on PlayStation 5.
Season 4 launched this morning, and buried within the patch notes is word Warzone now has 120hz support for PS5. This requires HDMI 2.1.
It's a surprise but welcome addition, and hopefully heralds similar updates from other PS4 games running in back compat form on PS5.
The Tokyo-only official Nintendo store will be heading to five major cities this summer, including Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Nagoya.
The post Nintendo TOKYO Pop Up Stores Are Coming to Major Cities Across Japan appeared first on Siliconera.
D.C. Comics and Japanese publisher Kodansha are teaming up for a new gourmet-themed comic called Superman vs. Meshi: Superman no Hitori Meshi or Superman vs. Food: Meal For One. In it, the Man of Steel flies around, eating at different restaurants in Japan at lunchtime.
Nintendo's upcoming Metroid Dread will be accompanied by a pair of amiibo figurines you can buy in a pack for $30 (UPDATE: UK pricing has gone live at £25.99 on Amazon).
Now, we know what these figurines will do when you first scan them into the game.
The pack's Samus amiibo will add an extra energy tank to your health, increasing its overall capacity by 100 HP. These permanent power-ups are often hard to find in Metroid games, but you'll get one easily here.
Facebook Gaming has launched Streamer Fan Groups to help content creators grow their communities on the social media platform. ...
A fifty-year-old man has been arrested in Osaka for filming the anime feature Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet with his smartphone at a shopping mall movie theater.
Perhaps not one of the biggest, but one of the most pleasant surprises of E3 2021 was the unveiling of Forza Horizon 5 in a relatively substantial gameplay demo during the Xbox showcase - with a November 2021 release date to boot. It was a given that this enormously polished and entertaining open-word driving series by Playground Games would return, but we didn't know when; for its first four entries it had been on a strict biennial schedule, but the UK-set Forza Horizon 4 has now been entertaining people for almost three years with little sign of flagging, thanks to a well-judged and assiduously maintained weekly and monthly update schedule, as well as easy accessibility on Game Pass on both Xbox and PC.
It was to be expected that Horizon 4 might break the rhythm. While still emphasising beautiful and optimistic open-world driving fun and esoteric car collection, 4 brought a cautious but deliberate shift in emphasis towards 'live' gaming, with its constant updates and its living map populated by default with other players. It was more successful in some areas than others; the game is constantly rewarding to dip into, but (as with many previous Forza Horizons) it has struggled to make its rather chaotic online multiplayer offering as sticky as its solo challenges.
This is where Forza Horizon 5 enters the scene. Moving the action from Playground's home turf of Britain to the deserts, cities and rainforests of Mexico, Horizon 5 looks set to be another technically refined and thoughtfully put-together diversion from the master craftsmen at Playground. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to talk to creative director Mike Brown - who presented the E3 demo - about the game, and Playground's hopes for it.
Word is Dano spends her downtime knitting and her uptime hitting. Best to approach her when her hands are empty, either way.
Whenever you meet someone new during a playthrough of Griftlands, Klei Entertainment's masterful deckbuilder, the first thing you get is a short box of flavour text that often summarises their demeanour, their line of work, and their attitude towards you all at once, and rarely ever resorts to actually stating those things outright. It's so much easier said than done to write one of these sentences, and yet Klei makes it look effortless.
It's little things like this that make Griftlands easily the most enjoyable deckbuilder for someone who doesn't enjoy deckbuilders.
Scott Cawthon, the independent developer best known as the creator of the Five Nights at Freddy series, has announced his retirement from professional game development.
So, this mini-investigation started after a developer GameDiscoverCo knows started asking questions about his Steam game†s sales in Argentina. The results? Intriguing... ...
Kadokawa Games has released a new video, a new picture and new details about its strategy simulation JRPG Relayer.
With this new round of assets, we get to know a little better Sun and we get the introduction of her voice actress Mie Sonozaki
The image you can see below shows both Sun and the cockpit of her mecha, while the video prompts TSonozaki-san to introduce herself to the fans. You may be familiar with her as Ashe in Final Fantasy XII, Jeanne in the Bayonetta series, Oichi in Nioh 2, and Subaru in Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love.
The tweets reveal that Sun is the squadron leader of the Stella Gear stationed on the supergravity navigation test ship Asterism. She is a lady who can be counted on for her outstanding combat and leadership skills in the battles against the Relayer, but it appears that she is haunted by a bitter past experience in battle.
Developer Troglobytes Games revealed a brand new trailer of its upcoming action game Blind Fate: Edo no Yami.
We get to see a really stylish mix of gameplay and cutscenes, including a skill tree that lets us unlock new ways of bring destruction upon our enemies.
You can check it out below.
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is coming this year for PS5, PS4, Xbox (which I imagine means Xbox Series X, Series S, and Xbox One), PC, and Nintendo Switch.
Below you can read an official description. You can also watch another trailer and a look at its enemies.
“Welcome to the New Edo period, a dark era ruled over by cyborgs and merciless machines!
Close your eyes and picture a cat. A fuzzy feline, purring away in the afternoon sun. Now, imagine that cat can talk. What does it sound like? Cute as a button? Perhaps a little sassy? Nothing like Shao Kahn, former emperor of Outworld and major antagonist of the Mortal Kombat franchise, right? Well, that’s the path …
If you†re an indie developer interested in making a Disney video game, Disney might want to talk? ...
With the next big set release still a month away, Magic: The Gathering Arena players are in waiting mode for the next update to the Standard and Historic formats. While there was a significant banning of the blue extra-turn spell Time Warp this week in Historic, the meta is still settling. However, there’s a lot to do leading up to the release of the next Standard set, Dungeons and Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. Wizards of the Coast dropped a blog post today about their short-term roadmap for events in Magic Arena in the coming weeks.
This year—for the first time since 2006(!!)—I didn’t have to cover E3 for Kotaku, so I got the chance to experience the event as a reader and a fan, watching presentations and press conferences for stuff that excited me, instead of what needed to be written about.
E3 2021 was a pale imitation of its former incarnations, but that didn’t stop us from pumping our fists over several big game reveals and exciting indie game announcements. We polled the staff and rounded up our favorite games from the show.
Razer's intensely Chromatic RGB desk pad is half-price on Amazon UK right now, dropping from £60 to £30 - a historic low price. If you're at all a fan of RGB lighting, and especially if you're already in Razer's ecosystem, this is a great deal for a mouse pad of this size and quality.
Yet another giant Fallout 4 modding project has released a trailer for an ambitious expansion-sized campaign. Fallout: London is planning to take players to see how the war affected things in the UK. London may change, but war doesn't. Things look just as irradiated, divided, and gritty as you'd expect from a major Fallout 4 mod project. There's no release date yet, and it's certainly looking like there will be plenty of infighting between its new, British factions. No Enclave or Brotherhood of Steel here.
Microsoft's Xbox One controller was already one of the very best PC gamepads, and its Series X|S era refresh made it even better with a massive upgrade to the d-pad, face buttons and reduced latency. Today you can pick up a 'open box but never used' (read: seller refurbished, but excellent condition) Xbox controller for only £35.62 with the code XBOXSAVINGS2021 - more than 33% off the usual price of £54.99.
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There are pros and cons to Bethesda's next big IP becoming an Xbox console exclusive following Bethesda's acquisition by Xbox. ...
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge came out last April and chronicles the journey(s) of its titular protagonist. A sequel, called Battle of the Realms, is set to drop this summer, and while news about what the movie will focus on is practically nonexistent, we do have casting information by way of The Hollywood Reporter.
Many of the voices from Scorpion’s Revenge are returning. Some of the voice actors listed here will reprise multiple roles in the film:
Joel McHale (Johnny Cage)
Jennifer Carpenter (Sonya Blade)
Jordan Rodrigues (Liu Kang)
Patrick Seitz (Scorpion)
Artt Butler (Shang Tsung)
Robin Atkin Downes (Shinnok)
Dave B. Mitchell (Raiden)
Ikè Amadi (Jax)
Grey Griffin (Kitana and Mileena)
Fred Tatasciore (Shao Kahn)
But when will the ‘Switch Pro’ be revealed?
It is not uncommon for people to put on performances in Grand Theft Auto Online. These days, there are entire role play servers with special modifications that allow players to better strut and fret their hour upon the stage, and they’re hugely popular. But players don’t usually do much acting in regular old,…
Replaced was easily one of the best-looking indie games on display at E3 2021. It came out of nowhere and had our eyes glued to the screen during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. Its 2.5D pixel-art style provided some of the best visuals of any game shown on that stream. Replaced is a sci-fi action platformer that has players in the role of an AI named R.E.A.C.H. trapped inside a human body.
We got to see a bit of its combat, platforming, and retro-futuristic 1980s world in a short trailer. This seems like one that you should keep an eye on if you’re at all interested in the genre. It’s being developed by Sad Cat Studios and published by Coatsink, and it’ll be coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
A multiplayer game for friendship
When Eidos Montreal revealed Guardians of the Galaxy at E3 2021, many were surprised to see the upcoming Marvel game will be a single-player, Star-Lord-focused experience rather than offering multiplayer with the whole ragtag squad. But the developers have since made clear that taking a different route than Marvel’s…
Metroid Dread was officially announced for the Switch during the Nintendo Direct at E3 2021, surprising many people. It received a trailer as well as a gameplay showcase during the Treehouse Live segment of the show, but there is a lot of history behind this game that many people might not know about. Here are five things you probably didn’t know about Metroid Dread.
If the title Metroid Dread sounded familiar to you when it appeared on the screen during the trailer, there’s a reason why. It was a game that was originally in development for the Nintendo DS, and set to release in 2006.
They had a school, an island, and now...
