The Pokemon Twilight Wings episode 2 focuses on Bea, Galar's fighting-type gym leader who appears in Pokemon Sword.
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Swedish developer-publisher Paradox Interactive has published its financials for the full-year ended December 31, 2019, and both revenues and operating profits are up. ...
You can pretty much always find something you need on sale at Amazon, but when notable PC gaming sales roll around, they usually appear as a one-day-only promotion. That's the case with today's Deal of the Day, which features Logitech gaming accessories and audio equipment for up to 50% off.
The sale features Logitech gaming mice, like the G602 wireless gaming mouse with 11 programmable buttons and up to 250 hours of battery life. Normally sold for $80, that mouse is down to just $23.
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Update: The Witcher 3 for Switch has now been updated to version 3.6 in the west, with full patch notes from CD Projekt Red. In addition to the PC save functionality, you can also use touch controls for the HUD and menu controls, and for playing Gwent. The full patch notes are below. Original story follows.
If you already have the PC version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt but want to play it on Nintendo Switch without losing progress, a new update could be the answer. A patch released in South Korea appears to have added cross-save with Steam alongside other graphical features, though there is no indication of when it will release elsewhere.
GameSpot has reached out to CD Projekt Red for clarification.
Continue Reading at GameSpotNintendo Switch Online members will have two new SNES games to play starting tomorrow, February 19. Pop'n TwinBee and Smash Tennis break the months-long drought of new classic games in the Switch's SNES library. If you're still looking to get your hands on the official SNES Switch controller, Nintendo has replenished its stock, but you'll probably want to hurry.
Each time the controllers have been available over the past few months, they've sold out extremely quickly. The latest restock has been live since yesterday, though, so it appears Nintendo may have more available than usual. Still, it'd be smart to snag one as soon as possible if interested.
Official SNES controllers for Switch mimic the original design while adding updated features, including wireless functionality, a pair of shoulder buttons, and USB-C charging (cord included). The gamepads cost $30 each--not including shipping--and they are exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. There's a four-controller limit per account as well.
Continue Reading at GameSpotNintendo has added another color to its lineup of Nintendo Switch Lite variations. On April 3 you can get the handheld-only system in coral--though it's bound to be shorthanded to simply "pink."
Nintendo announced the new color in a tweet, showing the coral system next to the existing default colors--turquoise, gray, and yellow. It will cost $200 just like the other colors. That date puts it just after the March 20 release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which is getting its own snazzy Switch system.
The Switch Lite was introduced as a handheld-only version of the hybrid Switch console, trading its TV connectivity for a smaller and lighter form factor, better battery life, and a lower price. We've seen small sales on Switch Lite systems but it generally sticks pretty closely to the $200 MSRP.
Continue Reading at GameSpotIn a sudden and succinct message, Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it will be pulling down the shutters on the official PlayStation Forums, bringing an end to well over a decade of conversation, online support and community activity.
"Hello," begins Community Manager Groovy_Matthew. "Beginning 27th February, the PlayStation.com forums will no longer be available. "We invite you to continue the conversation via PlayStation.Blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. For product support, please visit the support site."
It's undeniably a bit of a quiet and ignoble end for a hangout that not only gave the PlayStation 2 community a regular home during its heyday, but has also provided years of quick-search answers to a vast array of troubleshooting issues. As noted by GameSpot, Sony also intends to shut down its Xperia Support forums, so this may be a brand-wide decision on have to present communication with its audience.
While it's true that the PlayStation forums have seen much less activity in recent years - a trait which can be attached to many far more popular conversation boards - it's still a shame to see any long-life community pull down the blinds.
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A rough beast indeed, Hunt: Showdown, slouching toward the daylight after a couple of years in Early Access. A genre chimera, blurring survival horror with boss rush shooter and battle royale, not quite one thing, not quite another. At a glance you might confuse it with Far Cry 2 - there's the same malarial background hum, the same flammable brown palette - but in motion it's closer to PUBG, shunning the clear ground, ears pricked for proximity chat. It has the vivid markings of a Monster Hunter, but those patterns are really just for show, like the eye-whites of a killer whale - masking the gunsights protruding from its abdomen. You certainly wouldn't call it handsome, but you can't seem to drag your gaze away. How did something so... multiple ever survive the evolutionary process? But alas, you've looked for too long. It knows you're there now. No, don't try to run! The creature's girth is deceptive. We'll have to see if we can bring it down.
If Hunt: Showdown's unusual - and, as it turns out, fantastically exhilarating and engrossing - mixture of inspirations has a single guiding principle, it's that predators become prey. It's a game in which stepping on a twig while chasing a zombie can get you shot from a hundred yards off, and the time-honoured ceremony of a bossfight offers zero defence against the player lobbing dynamite through a window.
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Another EVE Online spin-off has bitten the dust. Project Nova, CCP’s latest attempt to put their expansive universe in front of the barrel of a rifle, has joined Dust 514 and EVE: Valkyrie on the intergalactic scrapheap. The devs haven’t quite given up on a boots-on-the-ground galaxy entirely. They’ve still got a team down in London plugging away at that problem. But for all intents and purposes, Nova is no more.
We all done tossing coins at mutant sellswords yet? Word on the street is there’s an Overwatch animated series and Diablo anime in the pipeline over at ActiBlizzion HQ. Look, there’s a rumour about a game series floating about every other month (what’s up, Halo?), so take all this with a pinch of salt. But if this one’s true? Then yeah, I can see those franchises working on the telly.
‘Course, I also liked the Warcraft movie, so what the hell do I know?
You can keep your trendy meditation apps and your Himalayan pilgrimages to remote temples where ascetic monks ding little bells and dispense timeless wisdom, because I’ve just discovered something a thousand times more effective at achieving a semblance of inner peace. The absolute best salve for an overheating brain is to quietly dismantle a Martian rover. Just sequester yourself away in the spare room for an evening with a warm glass of oat milk, before methodically unscrewing the approximately four hundred screws that keep a tiny robot’s wheels from whizzing off into a crater.
Annapurna Interactive and Simogo have announced that the pop album arcade game, Sayonara Wild Hearts, will be coming to Xbox One on Feb. 25. The news was revealed via an announcement trailer on Annapurna’s YouTube channel and on Twitter.
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a sort of rhythm arcade game that has you going through a variety of levels, with each one representing a different song on the fantastic soundtrack. Some levels will have you riding motorcycles and skateboards while others will put you on a dragon and place a sword in your hand.
After a young woman goes through a terrible breakup, she finds herself in this colorful and vibrant dream world where she discovers another version of herself with a mask.
I reviewed Sayonara Wild Hearts when it launched on Apple Arcade last year and had a fantastic time with the music-based arcade title.
The title will be out on Xbox One at the end of the month but you can also purchase it on Switch, PS4, and PC. And if you’re an Apple Arcade subscriber, you can play it on your Apple devices as well.
You can check out the Xbox One announcement trailer down below to see what the game is all about:
Today, during a livestream from Tokyo, Square Enix announced the end of active development for its fighting game Dissidia Final Fantasy NT and its arcade counterpart Dissidia Final Fantasy.
We hear that the next major update will be the last, effectively bringing to a close the long run of the latest Final Fantasy fighting game.
The update won’t include new characters, but it’ll come with new skins and weapons for Cloud of Darkness and The Emperor, respectively from Final Fantasy III and II.
You can check them out in the trailer and artwork below.
Larian Studios has been fairly secretive about the upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 following the reveal in June 2019, but it’s finally about time to lift the veil.
Today the developer released a video providing a few sneak peeks on development assets and the usual inevitable comedy, but the juicy part comes at the end.
Larian Studios Founder Swen Vincke reveals that the gameplay reveal will happen really soon at PAX East, on top of a Q&A that will be hosted on Thursday, February 27 at 3:30 PM ET.
No further details were shared of what and how much will be shown, but this is quite promising and exciting.
You can enjoy the video below, and dream of the upcoming reveal. Hopefully, the game will be worthy of its glorious legacy.
If you want to see more about Baldur’s Gate 3 you can check out the original announcement trailer, a clip introducing the project, and a video celebrating the announcement and explaining what was going on in the original trailer.
Persona 5 Royal's worldwide release will receive an updated localization for specific scenes.
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At PAX East, people will learn about Baldur's Gate 3's story and gameplay.
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Atlus warns people to follow Persona 5 Scramble streaming restrictions or face a rather cruel and unusual punishment.
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Bandai Namco released a new trailer for My Hero One's Justice 2 that highlights new characters, its different game modes, and story scenes.
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Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions has a story mode called "Episode of Tsubasa" that is set when Tsubasa Ozora was in middle school.
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A brand-new Pokemon for Sword and Shield will soon be unveiled. The Pokemon Company had previously announced that it will reveal a new Mythical Pokemon this month on Pokemon Day (February 27), and now we've gotten our first glimpse at the monster.
The official Pokemon Twitter account recently shared a silhouette of the mysterious new Pokemon. The tweet doesn't provide any more details about the monster, but it does tell fans to "stay tuned," so more information will be revealed before long. You can take a look at the teaser image below.
New Pokémon Discovered?!
— Pokémon (@Pokemon) February 15, 2020
Stay tuned, Trainers... pic.twitter.com/UBKI2CfQHz
All we know so far about the new Pokemon is that it will feature in the upcoming Pokemon film, Pokemon the Movie: Coco, which is set to premier in Japan on July 10. The Pokemon Company hasn't shared any details about the film's plot, but a brief teaser trailer shows Ash and Pikachu meeting a mysterious jungle boy, who seems to bear a strong resemblance to the above Pokemon.
Continue Reading at GameSpotLast week former Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski revealed that his former studio, Boss Key, were working on an Aliens game before Disney purchased Fox. Today, Duke Nukem developer 3D Realms says the same thing happened to its own Aliens project.
Vice President of 3D Realms, Frederik Schreiber, replied to Bleszinski's original tweet with his own story of a failed Aliens pitch. The idea, detailed briefly by some pitch slides, paint the picture of a co-operative shooter where players would face off against waves of Xenomorph enemies before confronting one of many Xenomorph Queens.
Yup. Game was called Aliens: Hadleys Hope. We went quite far into pre-production before the Disney/Fox acquisition, and then we had to cancel it, and move on with something else.
— Frederik Schreiber (@Freschism) February 11, 2020
Maybe some day! I bet yours was very different than ours? pic.twitter.com/brpq4FgwWT
It all sounds a bit like Left 4 Dead in the Aliens universe, which seems like a good fit. Schreiber explained that the project was far into pre-production when the deal between Disney and Fox went through, which then ultimately lead to its cancellation.
Continue Reading at GameSpotDissidia Final Fantasy NT is officially coming to an end after a last round of updates. For the arcade version, the update will hit February 20 and for the console versions, March 5. After that, Dissidia NT will be kept online and available to play in the near future. According to RPG Site, the game as a whole will eventually be taken down too. GameSpot has contacted Square Enix for confirmation on this.
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT won't receive any future updates after the final one
— Nibel (@Nibellion) February 18, 2020
There are no plans for a sequel
Game will still be playable online https://t.co/gkVlimNbKI
Dissidia NT will also not be receiving a sequel. "We don't want to make false anticipations, so we want to make it clear that right now there are no plans for a [Dissidia Final Fantasy] 2 at all," director Takeo Kujiraoka explained in a livestream.
Remember Empire of Sin? That gangster-centric simulator that was revealed at E3 2019 during a Nintendo Direct, helmed by Romero Games? Maybe? Well it's been delayed.
According to the official Twitter account, citing "quality over speed" (always a virtue) the studio has decided to push back Empire of Sin into fall 2020. Empire of Sin was originally slated for release in the second quarter of 2020 on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch, but fall is decidedly in the back half.
In case you missed it, the strategic-oriented game puts you right into the thick of things during Prohibition in Chicago (circa 1920s). This is definitely one of those "wait and see" kind of projects, but as someone who used to eat up all these '90s-era strategy games, it's most definitely on my radar.
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This weekend was an absolute bonanza of exciting news for Rainbow Six Siege fans. We heard details of the upcoming Void Edge event, plans for Years 5 & 6, and mouths were left agape at the coming of Holy Tachanka. As if all this wasn't enough, Ubisoft Montreal also revealed that Siege is set to pay tribute to one of gaming's most famous characters: Lara Croft.
This crossover will manifest itself in the form of a new Elite skin for Siege's lead gal, Ash, and will see the SWAT operator get her cosplay on as the iconic tomb raider. The dev team have gone for Ms. Croft's '90s look - comprised of vest, shorts and tinted shades - rather than the more contemporary outfit of modern Tomb Raider titles. You can see Ash in her fancy new duds in the trailer below.
It's hard to believe that I've been following Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for nearly five years, but that's roughly how long it's been since it was announced and arrived in Japanese arcades. Three years later it would arrive on PS4, and Square Enix would bend over backward supporting both versions, as well as attempt to foster some semblance of an esports scene: until today, that is.
Announced by way of a livestream for the game, Square Enix has confirmed that development on Dissidia NT would cease. Right now there are no plans for a follow-up, and all three editions, arcade, PC and PS4, will not get further updates after Ardyn (Final Fantasy XV's polarizing antagonist) is added as DLC. Square Enix says the online component will remain up for the foreseeable future though they would "eventually end."
Square Enix really tried with this one: you have to give them that. In the end it feels like I was one of the only people who regularly played it in the west, and it seems like the homegrown arcade support in Japan just wasn't enough to sustain it.
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The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea has recently added two new entries, suggesting that Nintendo Switch ports are en route for Atlus' Catherine: Full Body and 2K Games' XCOM 2 Collection.
As spotted by YouTuber GameXplain, the two titles quietly appeared as part of a list of games newly-rated by the Korean body. While this is no official statement of release, it has become increasingly rare that titles listed by game rating boards do not eventually see the light of day.
Catherine: Full Body is the 2019 revamp of 2011's bizarre platform-puzzler, Catherine. Full Body includes overhauled gameplay, an online battle mode, new story elements and a selection of difficulty levels. The Japanese release also included Persona 5 crossover DLC.
XCOM 2 is the latest entry in the famous sci-fi strategy series, and sees players attempt to overthrow Earth's alien oppressors through adaptation, smart decision-making, careful planning, and even budget management. XCOM 2 Collection launched in 2018 and includes the original game plus four DLC expansion packs; Resistance Warrior; Anarchy's Children; Alien Hunters
If we hear of an official confirmation of either port, we'll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, Catherine: Full Body is available now on PS4, while XCOM 2 Collection is available now on PS4, PC, and Xbox One.
Catherine: Full Body & XCOM 2 Collection rated for Nintendo Switch [Game Xplain]
Empire of Sin, Brenda and John Romero's intriguing mobster-themed strategy game, will no longer release this spring as originally announced, and is now scheduled to arrive in a hail of sharp suits, fancy hats, and tommy gun fire sometime this autumn.
If you've yet to receive the elevator pitch, Empire of Sin drops players into the seedy side of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago, where the goal is to create a formidable crime empire from the ground up and become mob king or queen of the city.
That involves a combination of business smarts and, inevitably, violence, as you "schmooze, coerce, seduce, threaten, or kill" your way to success. Oh, and you can expect a healthy dose of turn-based tactical combat, reminiscent of XCOM, when there's blood to be shed.
What's on the menu? A Cooking Mama game for Switch, apparently, and if a newly-discovered trailer is to be believed it could be arriving as soon as March. Emphasis on could.
The unlisted video was first posted on YouTube in November, but was only unearthed today thanks to a listing on Dutch store Nedgame. Publisher Planet Entertainment has now made the original video private, but you can watch a re-upload below. Judging by the fact half the video original video was just a black screen, it was clearly unveiled a little early.
The trailer gives a release date of March, and lists a retail price of $39.99 (£30.71), but as the video is a few months old and the linked website leads nowhere, it's worth taking this with a pinch of salt.
A range of Samsung, Asus and Razer phones will soon support Stadia.
Google's game-streaming service will, on 20th February, become compatible with nearly two dozen Android devices. The full list lies below.
Up until now, Stadia has been confined to Google's own Pixel smartphones - as well as on PC and on TVs with a Chromecast Ultra.
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