Today D3 Publisher released a gameplay trailer focusing on its upcoming JRPG Maglam Lord.

The trailer is narrated by Mami, the inspector general for the protection of endangered species, which the protagonist is.

She walk us through the features of the game, from combat to the dating part.

You can check it out below.

Maglam Lord is developed by Summon Night 5 studio Felistella, while the scenario and the world view are by Summon Night series writer Kei Miyakozuki.

The character design and illustration are by lack, who is known for having worked on Fate/Grand Order (for instance, the art for Izou Okada).

The soundtrack is by Puresound, which worked on the Summon Night and Metal Max series.

The main theme is by Chiaki Fujita of Sing Like Talking, who previously worked on the theme of Summon Night 2.

In a collaboration set to rock the foundations of the very galaxy itself, Compile Heart has announced that goofy adventure series Hyperdimension Neptunia is getting set to crossover with cheeky cheesecake franchise Senran Kagura for a brand new, sword-and-sorcery, action RPG.

As revealed by Famitsu, the succinctly titled Senran Nin Nin Ninja Taisen Neptune: Shoujo-tachi no Kyouen is currently in development for PS4, and is tentatively scheduled to launch in Japan later in 2021. An expectedly silly premise sees two ninja schools - one trained in the art of "Command" attack and the other in the art of "Action" attack, combine forces when the land is invaded by a mysterious third school of unknown origin, kicking off the world-shaking "Super Ninja Wars."

Phasmophobia quickly became a horror sensation when it released on Steam early access late last year, and Kinetic Games is still pushing out updates to make it even better. A couple months back, a beta branch was released that would allow ghosts to actually hear player voices and track them based on that. The official update is out now, and it makes quite a few tweaks to increase the game difficulty.

For starters, here’s how the ghost AI works now:

• The ghost will now follow your around corners if it has lost sight of you rather than searching a random location.
• The ghost will now listen for player voices when hunting and will search those locations. This will not work if you are not the banshee target.
• The ghost can now open lockers and closets outside of a hunt.
• The ghost will now open doors, closets and lockers during hunts. This can be stopped by holding the door however the ghost can still walk through room doors like usual.
• Slightly increased the ghosts chance to wander on all difficulties.
• The ghost will now search around the location it last saw a player rather than searching a random location.
• The ghost will now target any player that gets close to it whilst it’s already chasing another player.

In addition to that, Professional difficulty changes also make the game a bit more challenging:

Just a couple weeks back, Ubisoft announced that the online multiplayer mode would be releasing for Watch Dogs: Legon on March 9. It was originally slated to come out in December 2020, but was delayed till early this year. However, it looks like Ubisoft’s going to need some more time to work out some issues that have cropped up.

For starters, PC players won’t be able to enjoy the online multiplayer mode until a later, unspecified date. Over on Twitter, Ubisoft stated that there were issues that caused the game to crash for players on certain GPUs, and they’ve decided to hold off on launching the mode on PC until it’s stabilized.

There’s no word on when that could be, though Ubisoft promises to provide more details at a later date.

In addition to that, the Tactical Op missions will be pushed back to March 23 on consoles as well due to crashing issues, and there will be “limited text chat” on PS4 and PS5.

Pikkon and Toppo are playable characters in the new content.

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Teenage Neptune Ninja Girls might be a better title, though.

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Dragon Ball Super Gogeta and Dragon Ball GT Gogeta can spark a Dramatic Finish when they fight.

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I hope this DLC contains a lot of good news and cool moments for the oft-overlooked Gohan.

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Persona 5 Royal is certainly very popular, so it’s not surprising that Japanese figure manufacturers are portraying its characters more and more.

Megahouse’s brand Lucrea is releasing a rendition of best girl Makoto Niijima in her Queen version.

It’s currently available for purchase on Ami Ami for 15,180 yen, which translates approximately into $140.

It comes additional parts to give you options for face (with and without masks) and arms.

The prototype is sculpted by Inui and painted by Ekoshi and stands about 230 mm tall.

The lead time isn’t as atrocious as for many other figures. Megahouse expects to ship Makoto in late September 2021.

You can see what she looks like below. Incidentally, this follows another Persona 5 Royal figure from the same brand, featuring new character Kasumi.

More like Sengoku Fashionistas, right?

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Even "Green Mario" gets some love during the sale!

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Shao Jun had the best game out of the Assassin's Creed Chronicles, and it's pure magic to see her come to life in manga form.

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Third-party developers are continuing to work hard on content for Microsoft Flight Simulator, including aircraft and scenery.

We get a note from PMDG, which is working on developing its 737 add-on package on Microsoft Flight Simulator. This is a very complex study-level add-on, so it’ll take a long time to release, but we should get a progress update in a couple of months.

“I don’t have any guidance change on the 737 moving to MSFS yet- but I am likely going to show you a progress update there in… two months or so? Timeline is a bit spongy- but the 737 is taking longer than anticipated. The folks at Asobo are champions and they take time out of every working day to engage with us, offer suggestions and map out changes/fixes that we need in order to move PMDG products into the MSFS platform. I cannot speak highly enough of the Asobo team- and once we clear a few more hurdles I hope to be able to show you what their input has meant to PMDG’s version of the future simming. 737 for MSFS is still a long way out- but…”

Next is a video from SimSkunkWorks featuring the sound of its TF-104G Starfighter.

When I think of Assassin’s Creed games, I often remember big cities, cool assassinations, climbing tall towers, and maybe some sea shanties. Rarely do I remember how these games end because they often have forgettable or boring endings, sometimes with bad boss fights. So Assassin’s Creed Syndicate stands out as an…

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Sega released new artwork and screenshots of the upcoming Phantasy Star Online 2 spin-off Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis.

The images were, as usual, provided by the official community Twitter account Rappy.Commu with notes translated via the official PSO2 global Twitter account.

The artwork showcases four outfits that appear in the opening video and are actually available in the game, Allaia Quartz, Viola Marill, Mates Quarter, and the Di Giant set of CAST parts.

On top of that, we take a look at a batch of screenshots showing different dynamic weather conditions, which actually affect the enemies you’ll encounter.

Eustace will bare his fangs in April.

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Artifact is dead, or at least it won’t be updated anymore which for online games is basically the same thing as dead. That means the two imps seen in Artifact, both in-game and in promo artwork, need a new gig. Let’s help ‘em out!

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Kinetic Games, developer of indie smash horror Phasmophobia, has unveiled a raft of changes coming to the ghost detective game, including a new accessibility feature and quality of life improvements.

"Over the past few months there has been a beta branch running with regular experimental updates," the developer said in an update shared over the weekend. "With these updates the game has been fixed, optimised and changed in various ways to improve the gameplay for everyone.

"Some of these changes are quite significant however these changes are made to improve the overall gameplay experience. This update now puts the game into a much more stable state which will allow for new content to start being worked on."

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Square Enix announced earlier this week that over 5,000 Final Fantasy XIV players were banned after they were caught using or advertising real money in-game.

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While the Famicom saw release in the middle of 1983, most of North America wouldn’t see the NES until sometime in 1986. There’s actually a good few games that came out before the NES landed that never really got localized, such as Challenger, Chack’n Pop, and Antarctic Adventure. Being on the wrong side of The Legend of Zelda's and Metroid’s releases, most are cyclical arcade jaunts, but some are still worthwhile places to visit.

On this Famicom Friday, we’ll be taking a look at one of these primordial games that would go on to spawn its own franchise. Perhaps not a series as landmark as Ganbare Goemon, but one that has a place in gaming’s history. Japanese gaming history, anyway, we didn’t get too many of them over on this side of the pond.

Ghost of Tsushima and Sakuna also won many awards in the 2020 Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards.

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Square Enix has banned over 5000 players for what it deems as "illegal activities" in Final Fantasy 14.

In an update to the official website, the publisher reminded players that "real money trading (RMT) and other illicit activities upset the balance of the game and, as such, are prohibited under the Terms of Service".

Having reportedly "confirmed the existence of players who are engaging in these illicit activities", Square Enix has now terminated 5037 accounts for participation in real money trading and prohibited activities, and another 814 for advertising real money trading.

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It took me a bit, but after the urging of many Destructoid readers, I finally checked out the If Outriders demo.

It's better than I thought it would be!

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Is your baby ready for the Final Examination? Make sure they are with these adorable Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba onesies. Dress them up as Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Nezuko, or Inosuke!

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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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Gogeta SS4 is coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ later this week.

Though we knew the fighter - a fusion of both Goku and Vegeta - was on the way to the third DLC pass, his release date was only confirmed during last night's Bandai Namco's Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour stream.

Gogeta SS4 will drop for FighterZ Pass 3 holders on 10th March, and be available for everyone else on 12th March. Here he is in action:

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Fortnite's excellent Zero Point event continues to add characters from other universes. Just a week after introducing Ripley and a Xenomorph from the Aliens films, Epic Games is dipping  into the nearly bottomless Marvel Comics well again to bring Ant-Man to the battle royale.

Epic Games says the Ant-Man suit is designed but Hank Pym, but doesn't say who is in it. We have to assume it's Scott Lang because he is joined by friend Ant-Tonio Banderas, who formed a tight bond with the growing and shrinking hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. This is Fortnite after all, so there could be a sentient banana in the suit as well. Who knows.

Ant-Man also comes with a toopick pickaxe with a large olive on it. The oversized item (and ant friend) are sadly the only items that are the wrong size. Ant-Man can't grow or shrink like he does in the comic books and films. Epic Games is asking its player base to take photos that make him look microscopic in size. If you are up for such a challenge, tag your shots with the Twitter hashtag #Fortography.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has revealed he thinks gamers are "ready" for $70/£65 video games.

Talking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference this week and transcribed by our friends at VGC, Zelnick was asked to expand on why the publisher had decided to add $10 to the price of NBA 2K21.

The first publisher to confirm a price hike for next-gen video games, Zelnick said the decision came because the game offered "an array of extraordinary experiences" and the last frontline price increase in the US was fifteen years ago.

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Rewind to the turn of the century - the next generation of console gaming was in its infancy with the arrival of Sega Dreamcast and the promise of PlayStation 2, but Rare was busy finishing up its latest Nintendo 64 projects. Perfect Dark was set to arrive that summer after multiple delays, Conker's Bad Fur Day would arrive the following year, but it was Dinosaur Planet that would perhaps be the most exciting title of the lot.

Magazine articles teased a multi-character, Zelda-style action adventure set in a beautiful dino-inhabited world. It was shaping up to become one of the largest games Rare had ever produced but before it reached the finish line, the game was cancelled and development shifted to the Nintendo GameCube, where it became Star Fox Adventures. Dinosaur Planet became a 'lost' game then, never properly seen outside of Nintendo until recently, when a surprisingly complete build salvaged from development hardware appeared.

Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife is shaping up to be quite an underwhelming trudge through a beige world that's full of beige horrors and beige gameplay mechanics.

Billed as a 'horror exploration game', Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife is light on jump scares and heavy on those most boring of VR moments - the ones where you just have to stand around and twiddle your thumbs while you listen to other people explain the story to you.

I recently played a preview demo that covered the first 20 percent of the game and during that time I encountered the bare minimum in terms of frights or interesting puzzles. I did however do a lot of walking through sparsely decorated and barely interactive locations with my arm outstretched like a half-arsed zombie looking for brains.

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Combat is a central feature to many games. We’re not very good at depicting conflict resolution in an interactive way unless it involves swinging a sword or firing a gun. A debate is difficult to simulate, but ballistics are not.

Recently, there’s been some effort spent at coming up with other ways to have the player solve their problems without resorting to violence. Many games are eschewing combat entirely or giving you more options about just what kind of monster you want to be. It’s refreshing, since we’ve kind of been stuck on this one note for action games since the ‘80s.

I’m going to say right off the bat that Everhood is perhaps my favourite depiction of not-quite-fighting that I’ve encountered in a long time. It contains all the excitement of a good dust-up but without any real blows being exchanged. It’s just too bad it also finds new and innovative ways to frustrate me.

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Today Aerosoft released a new video focusing on the operation of its upcoming Bombardier CRJ add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The video, as usual narrated by a veteran CRJ pilot, showcases the many features of the EFB.

The EFB, or Electronic Flight Bag, is a tablet pilots usually use to access documentation and a variety of tools. In flight simulators, it’s often used for settings, animations, and additional features that can’t be implemented within the cockpit’s avionics.

On top of taking a look at the many options available in the EFB, we get to take a look at the various animations of the doors and the air-driven generator which is actually modeled on the aircraft. This is a pretty rare feature.

You can watch it below.

The CRJ add-on by Aerosoft will release on March 16 including the 700 and 550 versions of the aircraft. An optional further add-on will follow 6-12 weeks later including the 900 and 1000 variants.

An unannounced Tomb Raider bundle has popped up on Microsoft's Xbox store.

Tomb Raider: Definitive Survivor Trilogy bundles all three games of the rebooted series - Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - and looks set to release on 18th March 2021.

Although there's no mention of a next-gen upgrade, features listed on the store include HDR and 4K, as well as all the DLC and the online multiplayer and co-op modes, too.

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