ForwardWorks added collaboration content from Ape Escape into Everybody's Golf mobile app in February 2021.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake and Square Enix's mobile division helped Square Enix see profits.
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Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, let’s tune into Celeste, one of the literally coolest (get it? because frozen...mountain?) game soundtracks of all time.
The PlayStation 5 had sold-through 4.5 million units as of December 31, 2020. The figures add some context to Sony's previous claim that the console delivered its "biggest console launch ever." ...
The launch of the PlayStation 5 in November contributed to a "significant" sales increase within Sony's Games & Network Services segment. ...
Over the past couple of years, the beat ’em up genre has seen a bit of a resurgence. In 2018, Capcom came out with the Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle which included a host of classic beat em’ ups like Final Fight, Knights of the Round and Captain Commando to name a few. River City Girls, a spin-off of River City Ransom, saw a release in 2019, and 2020 saw the return of Streets of Rage and Battletoads.
With the growing resurgence of the beat ’em genre, we have to ask, what other classic beat ’em up franchises could use a comeback?
Gearbox Software, the esteemed studio behind the Borderlands franchise, has this week become the latest studio to join forces with Embracer Group, the Swedish publisher whose six other subsidiaries include THQ Nordic and Kock Media.
The terms of the agreement are explained in today’s press release: The day one purchase price was $380 million, of which USD 175 million was paid in newly issued Embracer B shares and the residual in cash. An additional $1,015 million will be paid over the next six years, of which a maximum of $360 million in issued Embracer B shares and the residual in cash.
Moving forward, Gearbox Founder and CEO Randy Pitchford will continue to lead Gearbox, and Randy Pitchford and the employees of Gearbox will jointly become a significant shareholder in Embracer.
Lars Wingefors, Founder and Group CEO of Embracer Group said in a statement:
“Gearbox is arguably one of the most creative and valuable independent developers in the world. We believe that the resources offered by Embracer will position Gearbox for continued significant growth in the years to come.”
Randy Pitchford, founder of The Gearbox Entertainment Company also weighed in:
“Lars’s vision of Embracer as an allied partner group committed to fueling and accelerating the ambitions of a series of decentralized, successful entrepreneurial member companies while magnifying the collective value and advantages of diversification across the entire group is the most brilliant strategy and design for short, medium, and long-term success in this industry that I have worked in during 30 years.
Remedy's Control Ultimate Edition is out now for next (current?) generation console systems, delivering a substantial revamp of its 2019 classic. Bundling up the original release with its DLC, plus 60 frames per second performance and 30fps ray tracing modes, Control is a game made for the new machines. The technological limitations of the last-gen machines are effortlessly overcome and the new console editions offer more than a taste of the fully enabled PC rendition of the game - but are we looking at platform parity between the new Sony and Microsoft systems?
Remedy itself has already revealed the full specifications of the new versions, which essentially boils down to this: PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X run at a native 1440p resolution (with no dynamic resolution scaling) with a temporal upscale to 2160p output. Graphics and performance modes are essentially a toggle for ray tracing support, which adds RT reflections on opaque and glass surfaces. RT locks users to 30fps gaming, while disabling it removes the frame-rate cap, with performance only limited by 60Hz v-sync. There is an interesting aside to this though: engaging photo mode in-game removes the 30fps cap in RT mode, opening the door to a potential benchmark of sorts, something we'll take a closer look at in due course.
The PlayStation 5 has sold 4.5m units, Sony has announced.
It's an impressive figure for the supply-constrained console, which was released in November 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The sales figure, accurate as of 31st December 2020, is roughly in-line with the launch sales of the PlayStation 4 at the same point in its life. But it's worth noting demand for the PS5 has heavily outstripped supply, and it remains out of stock at a raft of retailers who have faced trouble with scalpers and bots.
The new Genshin Impact Xiao trailer is designed to get you thinking about the Yaksha's moveset and possible builds.
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Children and babies can now also sleep with Demon Slayer heroes with these new pajama sets from Bandai.
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This new video showcases a handful of costumes players will be able to wear in the upcoming farming dungeon crawler hybrid.
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The release date for The Idolmaster: Starlit Season will finally be announced this Saturday!
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Among Us has been all the rage since its surprise resurgence last year, and independent development studio VestGames hopes to court some of the enthusiastic following of the massive hit. Eville is a social deduction title that combines elements of Among Us with the card game One Night Ultimate Werewolf and wraps it up with RPG elements and a fantasy village setting and aesthetic.
Click here to watch embedded mediaAfter a series of murders upends the peaceful and quiet town of Eville, it's up to players to take matters into their own hands. The residents must deduce who the killer is and put a stop to the murders. The citizens of Eville must work together to stop the killings before they end up as the next victims.
Each character has unique skills and roles to help figure out the identity of the murderer. Once someone is identified, you put them on trial as either a means for finding the murderer or as a way to turn villagers against one another in a fit of mistrust. Villagers can also assume the role of Conspirator and help the murderer by removing barriers to clear the path for the killer.
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Though introduced in the future, DC’s new star will soon lead her own Wonder Girl book
Creative Assembly’s real-time strategy series is sticking it out in the Old World
Gearbox Entertainment joins the massive company formerly known as THQ Nordic AB
Strategy game makers Creative Assembly announced Total War: Warhammer 3 today, and it’s coming out sometime in 2021.
PlayStation 5 system update version 20.02-02.50.00 is now live, featuring a fix that keeps PlayStation 4 discs from installing old game versions after they’ve already been upgraded.
[Update #2: Eggman is still in.
Voice actor Mike Pollock, who has been the voice since basically since 2003, is not being replaced. Their statement on Twitter makes this clear: "You know what they say: the more the merrier! You've not yet heard the last of me as Dr. Eggman in Sonic the Hedgehog video games! Kindly prepare your ears accordingly. If you guessed otherwise, SURPRISE!!!! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to stock up on lozenges."
They also go on to comment on all of the recent casting shifts, diplomatically stating: "On a personal note, I know you'll want to speculate about what happened, and possible casting choices, but please bear in mind that, IRL, actors' careers are steered by auditions, callbacks, bookings and rejections. It's a bit more complicated than choosing sides for kickball."]
[Update: Amy is out too, it seems. The voice of Amy for around a decade announced that she is not going to be working on Sonic Prime with the rest of her crew. As she puts it: "It’s true. I’m loading out with my brilliant compadres."]
As you may have heard, there's a new Sonic show in town called Sonic Prime, and it's headed to Netflix in 2022. But it will be moving forward without Roger Craig Smith, the former voice of Sonic.
Last week, we reported on how Valve was facing a lawsuit over the design of its Steam Controller hardware, with manufacturer Ironburg Inventions, (acting on behalf of subsidiary SCUF Gaming), alleging that the discontinued gamepad infringed upon its patents. Yesterday, a jury voted unanimously in favor of Ironburg.
The patent in question concerned the implementation of rear triggers - located on the underside of the Steam Controller and operated by the player's middle fingers. This simple invention was patented back in 2011 by Simon Burgess and Ironburg CEO Duncan Ironmonger. While the design has been officially sub-licensed to brands such as Xbox, Ironburg stated that Valve had no such license and was therefore infringing upon its patent with the Steam Controller's design.
After the jury found in favor of Ironburg on all seven of its patent infringement claims, the court ordered Valve to pay damages to the amount of $4 million. Ironburg had been initially pushing for $11 million, reduced to $6 million (comparable to the Xbox sub-licensing contract). Importantly, however, the jury found Valve's patent infringement to be "willful," and as such, the District Judge could potentially raise the damage amount.
As an interesting aside, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the trial was conducted remotely via online calling tool Zoom, making it the first completely socially distanced jury trial in the United States.
Borderlands and Brothers in Arms developer Gearbox Entertainment has been acquired by Embracer Group in a deal worth up to $1.38 billion. ...
Over five months have passed since the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator, the critically acclaimed latest iteration of the long-standing series which has brought the genre back under the mainstream spotlight — perhaps, to its greatest extent ever.
Yet, there is much more to come: another release is coming up, with the Xbox Series X|S version in the summer, which promises to garner an even wider audience of new players on console. On the other hand, the PC version is receiving large monthly updates.
To know more about what Microsoft has in store for flight simulation enthusiasts and gamers alike, and to gain a better appreciation of the enormous complexity involved with running such a large piece of software and consistently updating it, Twinfinite spoke with the Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, Jorg Neumann.
Giuseppe: Five months have passed since the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator. How do you feel about it now that things had time to settle at least a bit?
Jorg Neumann: It’s been awesome. We announced at E3 2019 and I think it was a big surprise, but ultimately, as we opened up more and more between alphas and betas, we got a lot of input. A lot of that was positive and validation, but the proof is always in the pudding, really.
We launched and we knew that people were excited about the release, but then they played it and gave us a lot of feedback. The group that we always focused on is the core simmers because they’ve been here in many cases for decades and they know a ton.
Many of them were in the beta, but when you’re out in the market you get even more feedback and I oftentimes say that it’s incredible and a blessing that there are so many people who truly care about flight simming and that they’re so interested in sharing their knowledge to truly make the platform as good as it can be.
As teased over the past few days, Creative Assembly and Sega finally announced Total War: Warhammer III.
The last chapter of the trilogy will partly tread uncharted territory. Not only it will bring to the battle the four chaos factions, Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch, but also Kislev and Cathay.
According to a FAQ published by the developer, the developers partnered with Games Workshop to expand these factions for the game.
The game is coming this year for both Steam and Epic Games Store, but there won’t be any exclusive content for either storefront.
A Mortal Empires-like free DLC combining all three games will also come, and unsurprisingly, the End Times campaign and Age of Sigmar will not be involved (Thank the Lady!)
“As with Total War: WARHAMMER and Total War: WARHAMMER II, Total War: WARHAMMER III is set around the reign of Karl Franz. Our primary source is Warhammer Fantasy Battles 8th Edition, although we have and will continue to use older editions for inspiration where appropriate.”
An early adopter bonus in the form of a race pack will be provided, but for now its nature has not been shared.
Below you can find the announcement trailer and a comment from Game Director, Ian Roxburgh.
Ashes of Creation is among the most ambitious game on promising upcoming MMORPGs hopefully coming in 2021, and that’s because of its potentially revolutionary Node System.
Nodes are designed to give players an incredible amount of agency on how the world of Ashes of Creation evolves and changes over time. Nodes are areas on the map that players can settle into and build up to over time. As players gather, organize, and do quests, nodes will develop from small villages to massive cities that will have considerable influence and power. If player interest drifts elsewhere, the cities will degrade over time.
PvP will be an important part of the gameplay as well. Players with like-minded goals will influence a cities development, and groups with different views that have a need for that city’s resource may decide to siege it and forcibly take control.
Star Wars Battlefront 2, it turns out, is really quite good. I've been playing - the new one, this is - a little obsessively over the last week, an obsession launched about three-and-a-bit years too late as far as poor DICE is probably concerned, and one which I feel a little guilty about, not least because I got it for free.
Battlefront 2 was handed out for free for about a week on the Epic Games store in January, you see, and it's also bundled in with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, thanks to the recent inclusion of EA Play with that, too. The result has been a late, but seemingly quite sustained second wind. Servers are full, and quite nicely balanced, with the end-of-round scoresheets showing everything from max-level players with 60-plus kills to low-level newbies holding their own. On PC at least, people are quite chatty, via the in-game feed, in that very Battlefield kind of way, and unlike Battlefield it's quite chill, as far as multiplayer shooters go - because Battlefront 2 is quite a chilled game.
Blink, one of Doctor Who's best ever episodes, is getting a mobile game sequel.
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins launches for iPhone and Android on 19th March, and has been designed as a "found phone" game with new live-action performances from Doctor Who characters.
UNIT expert Osgood is investigating the events of the legendary Blink episode, and the subsequent disappearance of Larry, one of its characters. (Blink star Finlay Robertson returns as Larry, alongside Ingrid Oliver as Osgood.)
Mass Effect Legendary Edition looks to be a lavish package that lovingly restores much of the spirit and content of BioWare's beloved trilogy - except for one single-player DLC that's missing.
Pinnacle Station, an add-on that brought a small hub and combat simulator to Mass Effect 1, isn't included.
If you're familiar with the saga of this DLC's inclusion in other versions of the game you may know what's coming - but, if not, BioWare has now confirmed why.
Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Warhammer 3.
The strategy game revolves around the battle with Chaos, and sees a number of new races make their series debut, including Kislev and Cathay. The factions of Chaos are present and correct, so expect to run up against Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh and Tzeentch.
The debut trailer is below:
Additionally, Sanrio and Sailor Moon crossovers are in the works.
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A free Valentine's Day Veronica Tempest Trial+ unit is on the way to Fire Emblem Heroes, as is a Love of a King Banner with a Lif and Thrasir Duo.
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Try out Gal Gun Returns before you buy it, thanks to a Steam Games Festival demo. However, it will only be available for a limited time.
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Koei Tecmo has opened pre-registrations for the new Dynasty Warriors mobile game in Japan.
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