November 2020

Today Square Enix released a set of new trailers of its upcoming Masterline set of NieR: Automata figures.

The figures have been created in collaboration with Prime1 Studio which is known for extremely high quality and extremely high prices.

There are three different options: the first comes with 2B, A2, and 9S in their normal uniforms. The second is the “DX version,” which includes all three characters but with different poses and clothes.

The third focuses on heroine 2B on her own, and includes an option to display her with her visor removed.

The scale is 1/4, so you can expect them to be very large.

You can watch them all in the trailers below, and likely join me in crying because we’ll never be able to afford them.

Today Sony Interactive Entertainment dated and detailed the 2020 edition of the PlayStation Partner Awards 2020 Japan & Asia.

If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you may know the event simply with the name PlayStation Awards, which it had until last year.

The event aims to honor the developers that have created the best-selling games across the PlayStation ecosystem with a on Japan and Asia.

This year, the name isn’t the only thing that has changed. The awards themselves have been overhauled.

A Grand Award will be given to the top-three games by developers from Japan and Asia that sold the most worldwide from October 2019 to September 2020.

Partner Awards will be provided to games by developers from Japan and Asia that ranked high in worldwide sales and had particularly noteworthy activity figures (like the number of players).

Special Awards will be given to developers from outside Japan and Asia who had top-selling games in Japan and Asia and to the games jointly developed with SIE Worldwide Studios in Japan and Asia that had the highest worldwide sales.

The show will air on December 3, 2020, at 7:00 PM Japan time. The audio will be in Japanese with English, traditional Chinese, and Korean subtitles.

If you’re curious, you can check out the results from the 2019 and 2018 editions.

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Spoiler alert! The Fire Emblem Heroes Book 4 ending movie is here. It sums up the latest chapter and hints at things to come.

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The Ghost of Tsushima Jin Sakai figma appeared! You can add The Ghost to your desk or shelf next September.

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I’ve never really played many dating simulator games. Back when Dream Daddy first came out, I gave it a go, and had a solid time overall. I went on some nice dates with a handsome coffee shop owner and he introduced me to the band PUP, who have a load of absolute angsty bangers.

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Today Sega announced a release date for Japan of the upcoming Sakura Wars mobile game Sakura Revolution: Blooming Maidens.

The game will launch its service on December 15 for iOS and Android.

Unfortunately, at the moment there is no mention of a possible western release.

Alongside the announcement, we also got an extensive gameplay trailer showing how this gacha JRPG actually plays.

You can enjoy it below.

If you’re unfamiliar with Sakura Revolution: Blooming Maidens, it’s set in the 100th year of the Taishou era (71 years after the latest Sakura Wars game). Japan has been devastated by the Imperial Capital’s Great Disaster 16 years before, and it was rebuilt thanks to the energy based on spiritual power named “Mirai.”

Yet, following the building of the New Tower of the Imperial Capital, cherry blossoms have stopped blooming and attacks from demons have intensified. 

[cms-block] hasn’t been particularly kind on the old graphics card and CPU deals front this year, but with just two weeks to go until the launch of CD Projekt Red’s Keanu Reeves RPG Cyberpunk 2077 and not a single fresh sighting of new RTX 3070 or RTX 3080 cards anywhere to be seen, the window for making any necessary PC upgrades is closing pretty fast.

But I’m here to help. While I can’t magic up one of Nvidia’s new RTX 30 GPUs or any of AMD’s hot new Ryzen 5000 chips, I can tell you how to build a PC from today’s crop of Black Friday deals that will still meet Cyberpunk 2077’s ‘High’ PC spec (that’s 1440p Ultra settings) and its minimum ray tracing requirements. And it won’t cost you an absolute fortune to get it all, either, as I’ve picked out components that cost less than £900 / $1000. So let’s jump in and see what my one-stop shopping list has to offer.

The excellent and RPS-approved wireless gaming headset, the Steelseries Arctis 7, is always one of the most hotly sought after items during [cms-block] and finally this year’s deal has arrived. It’s been stuck at a very stubborn £159 for the last six months or so, according to my price tracker, but now it’s finally fallen to a much more agreeable £100. Both the black and white versions are on sale, too, matching their previous Black Friday prices from last year.

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GreedFall is getting a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S version.

Spiders' plucky pirate-themed role-playing game is also getting new content, although we don't know the nature of it yet. We don't know when the next-gen version will come out, either.

GreedFall, which came out in September 2019, ended up selling over a million copies. Malindy reviewed GreedFall for Eurogamer, awarding it a recommended badge. "GreedFall has more than its fair share of faults, and its curious mix of the sweet and the sour is far from a roleplaying revelation," Malindy wrote. "But the elements that matter have been imbued with such love and care - so much so that I quickly forgave this ambitious RPG its shortcomings."

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There are some games whose first encounters with you'll always remember. For me - and I'm sure for many others - it's Ridge Racer. First contact was made the summer of 1994 in a Hastings arcade, a whole week spent pushing 20p pieces into a machine that felt like it had been transported from some shiny new future (later that same week I'd get laughed out of a seafront dance record shop when I asked if they had any copies of Shinji Hosoe's incredible soundtrack).

And then, six months later, there was the future shock of seeing this phenomenal thing running in a friend's living room on a Sony PlayStation that had been imported from Japan at great expense. The arcade had properly made it home, and it started a tradition of PlayStation hardware being christened with a sterling new racer from Namco - Ridge Racer V! Ridge Racers! Er, Ridge Racer 7 maybe? - that was sadly broken by the launch PlayStation 4, and we've been waiting for a proper new entry ever since. Oh how I miss those razor-sharp slides, those fictional sports cars that teetered on the edge of sci-fi with their outrageous designs, those thumping beats and dizzying synth lines of its turbocharged techno.

Arcade racers haven't gone anywhere - indeed, we've had something of a resurgence recently - but games as stylish and slick as Ridge Racer? That's something that's sorely missed. So too is the future shock that Ridge Racer provided at the dawn of the PlayStation generation, and for all the pizazz of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, it's something that's missing a little from both launch line-ups. And that's what made Ridge Racer so special. It wasn't just a great launch title - it felt like an entire paradigm shift.

Another week, another bucketload of next-gen console news - and so plenty for Eurogamer news editor Tom Phillips, reporter Emma Kent and me to discuss in this week's news cast.

We kick off by talking about the PS5 being the biggest console launch ever - an impressive feat during a pandemic. We then move on to Digital Foundry's analysis of some multiplatform games, which are shown to run better on PS5 than Xbox Series X - a surprise given all the talk about Microsoft's console being the world's most powerful. Microsoft has issued a statement on this, and it looks like developers are still getting to grips with the Xbox Series X, which reportedly came in quite hot.

Talking of company statements, Amazon promised to "put it right" for customers whose PS5s never turned up. But has Amazon put it right? Not exactly...

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The newest PlayStation VR headset bundle is released today, compatible with both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, sold along with separate games to make the most of this cutting edge new tech.

Those games include Astro Bot: Rescue Mission, Everybody's Golf VR, Moss, Blood & Truth and PlayStation VR Worlds. It's a very solid starting pack, not to mention that it includes the new camera adapter that'll enable the whole thing to be PS5-friendly.

No, it's not been discounted for Black Friday, but that's probably not too surprising, considering it came out only hours ago. If you're planning on getting VR in the future, now might be the time. After all, PSVR is considered one of the better headsets on the market, it's got a decent library of games that's growing constantly, and though there's no Black Friday deal attached to it right now, this is still a decent price for the whole bundle.

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The foundation's Electronic Gaming Development Company has become the new largest shareholder of SNK.

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I already own three VR headsets and yet I still find myself considering a fourth. That’s because of the standalone Oculus Quest 2, which ditches the heavy cables of the Vive and Index and allows you to roam in VR without fear of getting tangled. I’ve been keeping an eye for deals on the headset over [cms-block] and the best I can find is $299 at Newegg with a $15 gift card.

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Earlier this month in Japan, Square Enix held a briefing for investors. This week, the Tokyo-based game company finally released an official transcript of the meeting.

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Japan's annual PlayStation Awards gets a new title and format for the 2020 edition.

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Red Dead Online's community had often looked for ways to amuse itself while waiting for further content updates, and the latest obsession across Reddit and YouTube is... a bridge. But this isn't just any sort of bridge, as this one can hurl you across the map - or even into Mexico and beyond.

Although it's unclear who exactly discovered the glitch (it looks like this post by user jaitom may have been the first), for the past few days the Red Dead Online subreddit has been filled with videos of players using the bridge to launch them high into the air and out of bounds. It's even become slightly competitive, with friends attempting to outdo one another's launch distances, and see who can fly the furthest. The bridge has launched some players to Mars-like landscapes, while others have taken the opportunity to explore some of the unused buildings in Mexico.

I've spent a lot of time in Nuketown lately.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War got its version of the fan-favourite competitive multiplayer map this week, alongside a Nuketown 24/7 playlist, and I've jumped in each evening since to enjoy the close quarters chaos.

But there's another reason why I've set up shop in Nuketown: playing it is the only way I'm going to get anywhere with the Cold War grind.

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Surprise! The six-part Bit.Trip series arrives on Nintendo Switch next month, developer QubicGames has announced.

Originally released individually as some of the first downloadable games for Wii, Bit.Trip became a cult favourite franchise of diverse rhythm-infused puzzling and platforming.

The series will again be launched individually via the Switch eShop, albeit with the extra challenge levels added in the series' previous "Complete" Wii compilation.

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Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red will no longer detail the game's forthcoming expansions ahead of its launch.

We were due to hear how and when Cyberpunk 2077 would evolve after its release, but CD Projekt will now hold off discussing its post-launch plans until Q1 next year.

It's perhaps a wise move, considering the continually-delayed release of the main game. Despite game boxes already appearing in the wild ahead of its 10th December launch, the game is still being worked on amid more talk of crunch at the studio.

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In the past couple of weeks, the internet has been full of Smart Delivery-this and DualSense-that. No one can escape the buzz surrounding the launch of the two new video game boxes.

That’s why this week’s Mystery Steam Reviews — a quiz segment on a weekly video podcast called The PC Gaming Weekspot — revolves around all things PlayStation and Xbox.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!

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In the past few years, there have been a handful of popular anime turned into live-action films. A few have been good, but many have not.

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Today Square Enix released the official trailer of the upcoming update 5.4 for Final Fantasy XIV, titled “Futures Rewritten.”

We also gets a release date for the update, which will launch on PS4 and PC on December 8.

The trailer showcases on the content that we can expect from the patch, including the beginning of a new storyline after the end of the one started with the Shadowbringers expansion.

You can check the trailer out below both with English and Japanese voice overs, depending on your preference.

The new Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.4 trailer shows the Emerald Weapon fight and more from the major update.

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The RPS treehouse has been filled with that most festive of activities: arguing. We’ve been selecting games for the RPS Advent Calendar, which means both trying to decide what games we loved most in 2020, and also trying to remember even a single game we played in 2020.

To help with both of these things, I’m asking you: what was your favourite game this year?

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[cms-block] has no cultural relevance for someone who doesn’t celebrate American Thanksgiving, but I’m up for good games going cheap. Itch.io is the latest digital PC games store to launch a big Black Friday sale, and it’s the one that interests me most for all of Itch’s indie goodies. The store mostly sells DRM-free downloads, but plenty do come with keys you can slam into Steam too. I have some recommendations.

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American publisher Tinybuild has invested $3 million into Secret Neighbor developer Hologryph. ...

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The excellent trampolinists at Eurogamer report there’s a bridge in Red Dead Online players are using to fling themselves out of the map. Bear with me a moment, I’m workshopping Facebook taglines:

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