A third collaboration pop-up store involving merchandise of Jujutsu Kaisen and Sanrio characters is about to open in Japan starting on February 17, 2024. The collaboration will include items featuring six characters from the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime movie. [Thanks, Manga Watch!]

The new pop-up store will appear at the Ikebukuro Parco store in Tokyo from February 17, 2024 to March 1, 2024, and then again later at the Nagoya Parco East store from March 2, 2024 to April 7, 2024. There are no details yet regarding what merchandise will be available at the pop-up store, and news will appear at a later date. However, the Jujutsu Kaisen and Sanrio character pairings have been revealed in a new illustration.

Here are all the pairings:

• Nya Ni Nyu Ne Nyon x Yuta Okkotsu
• Kero Kero Keroppi x Maki Zenin
• Kirimi Chan x Toge Inumaki
• Kuromi x Panda
• Cinnamoroll x Satoru Gojo
• Lloromannic x Suguru Geto

Toho Animation released a new trailer revealing the release date and title of the new My Hero Academia: You’re Next anime movie. The movie will premiere in Japan on August 2, 2024.

The plot of the movie will focus on professional hero All Might, the students at U.A. High School, and an as-of-yet unknown character who seems to be obsessed with the aforementioned hero. The trailer teased that the character will adopt All Might’s identity, albeit in a villainous capacity.

The key visual for the new My Hero Academia anime movie features protagonists Deku, Bakugo, Ochako, Todoroki, and Iida facing off against this villainous version of All Might. You can check out the new trailer for My Hero Academia: You’re Next below. The trailer is only available in Japanese without subtitles.

You can get a closer look at the key visual for the movie below:

SuperGroupies announced a brand new collection based on Ghost of Tsushima featuring a jacket, watch, and backpack based on Jin Sakai. The SuperGroupies Ghost of Tsushima line pre-orders will be open until February 18, 2024.

The Ghost of Tsushima line of SuperGroupies products will be made to order, meaning they will be produced for those who order during the pre-order period. There may be remaining items available for purchase after they release but there is no guarantee fans will be able to obtain them after release. The watch is planned for release in early October 2024, and the jacket and backpack will ship early August 2024.

Although players are given a total of 90 days to complete the Diablo 4 Season 3 Battle Pass, there are faster ways to go about getting those late-level cosmetic rewards before they disappear. This guide breaks down the best ways to grind through the Diablo 4 Season 3 Battle Pass.

The Best Ways to Grind through the Diablo 4 Season 3 - Season of the Construct Battle Pass

Below are some of the most efficient ways to work through your Season 3 Battle Pass.

• Complete Seasonal Tasks in Your Season Journey Tab
• Complete Vaults
• Engage in Hell Tides (Late-Game)
• Complete Nightmare Dungeons

Last year, we saw the rise of video game publishers offering a few days of early access to big AAA games for a price. This year, it’s only going to get worse as it seems every large game publisher is holding games hostage and charging players a ransom fee to play a few days early. But what happens when you pay $80,…

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Bandai Namco revealed that certain versions of Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash will include a variant of RBI Baseball called Jujutsa 2024 and Jujutsu RBI. Only people who get the $79.99 Digital Deluxe or $99.99 Digital Ultimate version of the fighting game. 

This minigame is basically a reskinned version of RBI Baseball for the NES. Players will go through typical games. However, the players will all be characters from Jujutsu Kaisen’s Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu High branches. This means their names and their sprites’ appearances will be designed to resemble the familiar faces. 

There’s a trailer offering a hint at how it will look. However, it is also more of a joke one, as it features a moment when Aoi Todo gets hit by a ball and Yuji Itadori runs out to cradle him while everyone else says, “Nice pitch!”

Here's the Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash Jujusta 2024 footage of the RBI Baseball minigame variant.

AMD's RX 7800 XT is arguably Team Red's best value graphics card from this generation, offering great performance for 1080p and 1440p gaming with the ability to stretch to 4K in titles that offer FSR 2 upscaling.

Relatively few cards have been available at the launch RRP of £479, but today you can pick up the excellent Sapphire Pulse 16GB model for exactly that much rather than the £519.99 it debuted at. Is that a deal worthy of an RPS deals post? Sure, why not?

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Corsair's MP600 Core Mini SSD is a solid option for upgrading a PC handheld - devices like the Steam Deck, ROG Ally and Legion Go and so on. It's a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, so it offers slightly faster speeds on the latter two devices than on the Steam Deck, but it's compatible with all three major options. It originally retailed at £230 for the 2TB model, but now it's at a much more reasonable price: £155.

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Nearly seven years after the release of NieR:Automata, fans are still clamoring for a third entry in the series helmed by Yoko Taro. While we are all eagerly awaiting another AAA console game in the DrakenNier universe, it’s easy to forget that a sequel is already available to play—but it won’t be for much longer.…

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It doesn’t take long for people to add characters from one game into another via mods. New Hoshinoyuuko Palworld mods uploaded by HirohikoHoshino to Nexus Mods add Topaz and her Warp Trotter Numby from Honkai: Star Rail to the game on PCs. 

The Topaz and Numby mods are two separate files. The one for Topaz is a female character replacement that is about 11.1mb in size. If someone grabs the Numby one, it replaces Rushoar in-game. That’s a 475kb file. 

Here are the screenshots shared by HirohikoHoshino, to offer us a better idea of how the mods look when installed in the game. 

Today, Square Enix announced that after seven years, Dragon Quest Builders is, for some reason, arriving on PC in early February.

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Bandai released a Shokugan Modeling Project plastic model kit of Voltes V. The kit is now available to purchase at stores across Japan with a price tag of 9,350 yen (~$63).

The kit will first let the owner construct the five machines that constitute the Voltes V. They are the Volt Crewzer, Volt Bomber, Volt Panzer, Volt Frigate, and Volt Lander. But other than the Voltes V, the owner can also reconfigure the machines to form the Heavy Tank Mode.

The package also includes stickers and additional parts for the completed Voltes V, including the signature Heaven Sword. As the Japanese term Shokugan can mean 'food toy' or 'candy toy,' Bandai completes the set with a soda-flavored gum.

The Pokemon Company International and The Wand Company announced mini Poke Ball replicas are on the way. The official page for it shows the standard Poke Ball, which will debut on February 27, 2024. 

A price hasn’t been announced for the unit yet. However, The Wand Company announced it will be sold at places like Amazon and The Pokemon Center. Like the full-size models, they will be die-cast metal replicas with an LED stand and a glowing button on the Poke Ball itself. There are also proximity and touch sensors on them. Each one comes with a Bulbasaur silver token you can use as a display ring.

Here’s a gallery of images The Wand Company shared with us of the latest mini replica.

I am notoriously early for flights. I consistently get to the airport more than two hours before a domestic trip, even during off-peak times. Because of my arrival anxiety, I have a lot of downtime at airports which I can (and often do) spend boozing at an overpriced “Irish pub” or relaxing in a lounge. But on my…

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This past weekend, I traveled to Tampa/St. Peterburg, FL, to attend WWE’s Royal Rumble and to play WWE 2K24 at a special preview event. You can look for my hands-on impressions and video footage of my gameplay on Thursday, February 1. But while I was there, I had the chance to chat with one of 2K24’s cover stars and the winner of the 2024 Men's Royal Rumble match, Cody Rhodes.

The “American Nightmare” is a lifelong gamer and professed Zelda fanatic (fun fact: during his early WWE run in ‘07-’08, his wrestling boots sported the Triforce logo). So I decided to forgo any wrestling questions and spent the few precious minutes I had with Cody getting his take on Tears of the Kingdom, how Majora’s Mask stacks up compared to his favorite Zelda game, Ocarina of Time and asked what game he’s most looking forward to playing in 2024. 

Game Informer: I know you're a big Zelda fan, so I gotta ask: did you play Tears of the Kingdom, and if so, what do you think? 

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The Palworld community has been hard at work with the ever-growing breeding system, producing some of the fastest mounts out there. Now, the players have shifted over to another crucial part of the entire game: the base, an area that can be both time-consuming and entertaining to build.

Out of all of its features, crafting can certainly take up a lot of your time, but fortunately, one Reddit user has discovered a way to pick up the pace. Using breeding, they created an Anubis that put other Pal’s work to shame through their fast work speeds. You can see a perfect example of this when the creature makes 201 Pal Spheres in a mere few seconds.

Looking for some fun games to play on the AYANEO Slide after checking out our review? It runs a whole host of things, of course, but we thought we’d dig in on the sorts of games that the Slide does better than other handhelds out there.

Steam Deck compatibility? Who needs it!

The biggest difference between a native Windows handheld and a Steam Deck is the compatibility layer the Deck uses to run games on Linux. It works remarkably well for most games, too! But most ain’t all, and Slide owners can take advantage of incompatible games like the ones below.

Atelier (franchise)

Whether it’s Atelier Ryza 3, Atelier Remake, or some (though not all) of the older titles, the Atelier franchise is full of games that aren’t Deck-compatible but would run great on an AYANEO Slide.

Grandia HD Remaster, Grandia II HD Remaster

Day of the Devs, the folks behind the yearly showcases spotlighting indie games and creators, have officially become a non-profit organisation. Alongside the news, the group have launched their first fundraising campaign and detailed dates for multiple events this year.

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Blizzard Entertainment has selected Johanna Faries as its new president following Mike Ybarra's departure from the studio last week alongside news that Microsoft was laying off 1,900 employees across its Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax teams. Faries worked for the National Football League for 12 years before working at Activision starting in 2018, as reported by Bloomberg. She started as the head of Call of Duty esports before eventually working as a Call of Duty franchise manager at the company Microsoft acquired last year for $69 billion. 

In Faries' introductory email to Blizzard employees today, she addressed the layoffs that occurred at the company last week. 

HoYoverse released a new character trailer for the upcoming Genshin Impact character Gaming. The company also announced that he will be voice in English by Caleb Yun and by Shohei Komatsu in Japanese.

Gaming will be a Pyro character that wields a claymore, and his playstyle will emphasize plunging attacks. He is set to become available in the game alongside Xianyun in version 4.4 of Genshin Impact. As well as showing off his attacks, the trailer also details his job as a guard for the Sword and Strongbox transport service. After that, it shows how he performs as part of a Wushou troupe.

Gaming's English voice actor Caleb Yun is also known for voicing the male protagonist of HoYoverse's Honkai: Star Rail, as well as Hathaway Noa in Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway. Meanwhile, his Japanese counterpart Shohei Komatsu has previously performed as Cappy in Super Mario Odyssey and Land in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.

You can watch Gaming's character demo trailer via Youtube below:

Is there any greater scientific endeavour than the unending quest to get Doom to run on everything? From teletext to pregnancy tests to tractors to literal rat brains in a jar, every time you think that we’ve exhausted the possibilities, someone finds a new way to play the seminal 30-year-old shooter on something new.

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Embracer Group has canceled a new Deus Ex game in development at Eidos-Montréal, according to a new Bloomberg report. Alongside this cancelation, Eidos-Montréal, which is the studio behind 2021's Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy and both Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, has revealed it is laying off 97 employees. 

Bloomberg reports that Eidos-Montréal had been working on this new unannounced Deus Ex game for two years, and it was set to enter production later this year, according to sources familiar with the studio. It seems the studio's canceled game and subsequent layoffs are another casualty of Embracer, which has been purging studios after a planned $2 billion deal with Saudi Arabia-backed Savvy Games Group fell through last year. 

It’s that time again: PlayStation’s State of Play is back on January 31, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET to show off more games you can expect to be playing soon on that pretty PS5 of yours. And with a 40-minute showing, it’ll be a bit longer than usual this time. Here’s where you can watch it and what you can expect to see…

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Square Enix shared new details from FFVII Rebirth, revealing that the Shinra ferry between Junon and Costa del Sol features a Queen's Blood tournament for players to enjoy. It showed a screenshot and character art of the boat's captain.

The Shinra-8 is a cruise ship that transports travelers between the eastern and western continents and is operated by the Shinra Electric Power Company. The vessel is captained by Captain Titov, a captain who is well-respected by the sailors who serve under him. He also has a good reputation for being hardworking and passionate. Captain Titov also serves as the host for the various entertainment events held on the Shinra-8, which includes the Queen's Blood tournament. He is voiced by Tsuyoshi Koyama in Japanese and Jonathan Lipow in English.

Open Roads, the story-driven game about a mother and daughter embarking on a road trip to learn about their family’s past, has seen its release date delayed by a month.

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Last week, Microsoft laid off 1900 video game workers across its various studios. This included cuts at recently acquired Activision Blizzard. And one employee, before being laid off, used a Blizzard company perk to walk away with nearly 10 years of World of Warcraft subscription codes.

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At the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2024, Bandai Namco and Toei Animation showed off both a Dragon Ball Daima Goku trailer and new Akira Toriyama art of various characters from the show. That will air in Fall 2024, as a reminder.

While the new character designs are listed as Toriyama ones, the artist also was involved in the design of the trailer and the story for the show. There’s no voice acting, so we can’t figure out what’s being said in the scenes, but there is an orchestral score. A part of the video seems dedicated to showing Goku trying to eat, with his meal interrupted by enemies. The other shows a fight.

The latest Embracer studio to suffer under the megacorp’s ongoing restructuring efforts are Eidos Montreal, with a new Deus Ex title two years into development reportedly cancelled and dozens of staff confirmed to be laid off.

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Before releasing 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts, Activision studio Neversoft had been working on a sci-fi spin-off in the everlasting FPS franchise. Called either Future Warfare or NX1, footage of the unreleased shooter leaked online over the weekend—first spotted by CharlieIntel—revealing both cinematics and in-engine…

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The latest Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion in the Scarlet & Violet series is Paldean Fates, which brings new Shinies into the mix, plus various type-shifted Tera Pokémon and new special-illustration cards. Unfortunately, you can't buy these booster packs individually; instead, you must purchase special collections like the Elite Trainer Box or the Tech Sticker Collection. 

Embattled gaming company Embracer Group has cancelled an in-development Deus Ex game that Eidos-Montréal was working on, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The untitled and unannounced RPG was reportedly in pre-production for two years and was set to “enter production later this year,” an anonymous source told B…

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Build-a-Bear is now taking orders for its latest Sanrio plush of Keroppi in North America. People can purchase him alone or in a bundle with an outfit.

The Keroppi costs $34 on his own, and the bundle is $47.50. The outfit, which is a shirt with the frog surrounded by balloons and red and white striped shorts, is $13.50 on its own. The bundle doesn’t include any kind of sound chip with it.

Here’s a full gallery showing off how the Build-a-Bear Sanrio plush of Keroppi looks:

Palworld isn't just about capturing non-copyright-infringing Poke-fied wildlife, slaughtering the poor creatures and/or setting them to work in terrible gun factories. There's also the frightful question of Pal breeding. Every Pal in the game can be bred with every other Pal to produce a Pal subspecies with a chance of inheriting traits from its parents.

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There’s almost never any Bloodborne news. Whenever the game does get talked about online, it’s either copium or hopium as fans of FromSoftware’s gothic Soulslike chomp at the bit for a remake or remaster of the 2015 action RPG. While no such thing is in the works as far as we know, there is a PS1-style Bloodborne…

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UPDATE 6pm UK: A statement from Eidos Montreal has confirmed 97 jobs have been lost at the studio, following the previously-reported news that its Deus Ex project has been cancelled. The studio employed 481 people, as of 2022.

"For the last 17 years, our teams at Eidos have worked on some of the most beloved brands in the industry, combining deep storytelling and innovation into unique games," the studio wrote in a statement posted on social media. "We have created memorable multi awarded experiences that we are proud of and we know our teams members have put their heart and soul in all of them.

"The global economic context, the challenges of our industry and the comprehensive restructuring announced by Embracer have finally impacted our studio. The difficult decision has been made to let go 97 people from development teams, administration, and support services.

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Sony announced that the next State of Play will take place on January 31, 2024 at 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm GMT. The first State of Play of 2024 is set to feature over 15 new PS5 games, including extended looks at Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin.

The first State of Play in 2024 will feature looks at new games coming to the PS5 and PlayStation VR2 in 2024 and beyond. The company did not reveal what titles would be shown during the broadcast beyond Stellar Blade, which is slated for release in 2024, and Rise of the Ronin, which is set to release on March 22, 2024.

Although Sony did not revealed who will be in attendance, the company noted that the first broadcast in 2024 will have special guest appearances from "some of the most talented minds in gaming." The stream is planned to run for over 40 minutes and will stream on YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.

The YouTube stream will be available to be viewed through the video linked below:

Vtubers from Nijisanji's EN branch will be a part of a collaboration event with the anime series Code Geass, which will launch on March 1, 2024. While details on the exact form of the collaboration are sparse, the involvement of anime apparel company Iijan suggests it may involve merchandise of some kind.

The collaboration will involve seven Vtubers from Nijisanji EN's Noctyx and Ethyria units, including Alban Knox, Fulgur Ovid, Uki Violeta, Sonny Brisko, Enna Alouette, Reimu Endou, and Millie Parfait. Reimu in particular is known to be an avid fan of the Code Geass series.

Iijan limited is an anime merchandise and apparel company based in Hong Kong, that has previously produced licensed merchandise for Tamagotchi, Tekken 8, and Akira Toriyama's Sand Land. The official collaboration page is already live online.

Between Tekken 8, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and the impending release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, 2024 is off to an explosive start, but the rest of the year is still up in the air. Luckily for PlayStation fans, Sony is pulling the curtain back on some games coming soon to its platforms this Wednesday, January 31, at 2 P.M. Pacific/5 P.M. Eastern. Check out the X announcement below.

Get ready for a new State of Play! https://t.co/KDyuY2Uvfq

Tune in on YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok this Wednesday at 2pm PT / 10pm GMT for 40 minutes covering 15+ games, including extended looks at Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin, plus more from talented game developers from… pic.twitter.com/MQg76iv8Tt

Co-op survival action RPG Enshrouded has welcomed over a million players since its release in early access last week.

Sharing the news, developer Keen Games said it was "completely blown away" by the game's reception in just four short days.

"From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank all our players," it wrote in a statement shared with Eurogamer to accompany this milestone.

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