February 2021

Today Focus Home Interactive released a new trailer of its upcoming multiplayer medieval heist game Hood: Outlaws & Legends.

The trailer showcases one of the playable classes, the Ranger, who is basically Robin Hood not Robin Hood.

The Ranger is the master of the longbow, basically making it your medieval sniper. He also has plenty of other gadgets and abilities to bring to bear against enemies.

You can check him out in action below.

Hood: Outlaws & Legends releases on May 10 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Pre-orders grant an early access period starting on May 7.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can read an official description below and check out a series of previous trailers.

This week's retro re-release certainly offers something a little different, history-wise, as the retro fans over at Hamster having chosen SNK's on-foot jungle shmup Guerrilla War as its newest Arcade Archives entry, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.

Originally released in arcades in 1987, before being ported to numerous home computers, Guerilla War follows two UNNAMED commandos as they fight through an UNNAMED Caribbean island in order to free it from an UNNAMED dictator. Similar in style to SNK's earlier Ikari Warriors, gameplay sees one or two players battle through the undergrowth against an army of enemy soldiers. The arcade was notable for featuring rotatable joysticks allowing for simultaneous eight-way movement and directional fire.

Check out the action in the video below, courtesy of YouTuber GameingfromTwo.

Did you hear the big news? Sit down, folks. I’m happy to tell you that the United States Postal Service is getting...NEW TRUCKS! They look kind of dorky, but cute. Let’s have some fun with them.

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Hamilton is one of the most popular musicals in the world. Animal Crossing is one of the most popular games around right now. I guess it only makes sense that someone would combine them, but I didn’t expect it to be so damn good.

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A 4-pack of Nutale Findthing trackers and a 50-pack of 3-ply colorful face masks lead Sunday’s best deals.

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Be the Chocolate Guy!

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Rocket Panda Games released a new gameplay video of the upcoming 2D fighting game Phantom Breaker: Omnia.

The video showcases a match between Mikoto and M, providing a good look at what the game looks and plays like.

You can watch it below.

If you want to learn more about Phantom Breaker: Omnia, you can read an official description below and check out the original announcement.

The western release will come in 2021 for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC

Microsoft is reportedly testing 1080p for Xbox Game Pass cloud streaming.

According to Windows Central, anonymous but "trusted" sources sent screenshots of Hellblade running via xCloud, alleging that the streaming resolution was 1920x1080.

Up until now, the hardware had previously only been able to run in 720p, but it seems Microsoft is now planning to refresh the streaming servers from "Xbox One architecture" to that of the Xbox Series X. If successful, it will bring xCloud in line with other streaming services such as GeForce Now and Google Stadia, which already offer 1080p (thanks, VG24/7).

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MSI 27" Full HD 144Hz Gaming RGB Monitor | $235 | Amazon

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The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters.

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Grab your swords, daggers and amazing sense of fashion. We have a fight to win.

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Italian Zerg phenom, Riccardo Romiti, better known in the community as Reynor, has won the StarCraft 2 Masters Championship at IEM Katowice. This marks the end of the 2020 StarCraft 2 tournament circuit run by ESL and is now effectively the grand finals of StarCraft 2 since Blizzard passed the reigns over to ESL.

Reynor went through a gauntlet of the world’s best players to secure his win, defeating Korean StarCraft II legends: Stats (P), Dark (Z), Maru (T), and finally Zest (P) in the grand finals. Reynor had to get a win in all three matchups in the playoffs before eventually facing off and beating Zest 4-2.

Reynor’s win is the second time a player from outside of Korea has become StarCraft 2 grand champion; the first time was when Serral won back in 2018.

This development shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that has been following the StarCraft 2 esports scene closely over the last few years. He was the runner-up in the 2019 world champion losing that year to Dark.

If you like the Yakuza series but also only own a PS5, then you seem like a strange person. Also, some good news: Yakuza: Like A Dragon releases on PS5 later this week.

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The past six months (or more) have been a whirlwind of shit news, terrible events, and moments of pure absurdity and horror. It’s been bad, is what I’m saying. Because of this, I often get lost doomscrolling on Twitter or reading another horrible news story about something dreadful. Meanwhile, my patient Roku TV…

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Who could this knight with the deep voice be?

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Get your shoujo on with Ichiban Kuji's Cardcaptor Sakura and Magic Knight Rayearth inspired make-up palettes released for CLAMP's 30th Anniversary!

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Kaeya and Jean take their eyes off Paimon for one second, and...

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There has been speculation floating around about an Xbox event, especially in relation to a reveal of From Software’s Elden Ring.

After growing on social media, it was also reported as possibly credible by a variety of media outlets.

Turns out that said speculation was false. Xbox Games Marketing general manager Aaron Greenberg took to Twitter to debunk the rumors.

“Just to set expectations: this is not happening. There are always things we have in the works, but nothing coming soon that would feature game announcements or world premieres like this.”

This doesn’t mean that no event is coming, but whether it is or it isn’t, we shouldn’t expect world premieres of this kind of magnitude.

Of course, Twinfinite opted not to report on the rumors and speculation when they surfaced.

As usual, this kind of speculation is very hit and miss, and should always be taken with a large grain of salt, regardless of its source.

Elden Ring has been announced at E3 2019 during Microsoft’s press briefing, but actual news about it has been very space since, excluding the confirmation of its composer last year.

It’s not unlikely that the times are mature for a new reveal, but we should likely wait for something official before we build expectations.

As soon as said official information is revealed, you’ll be able to read it here for sure.

Like I’ve said, it’s a little rough going back and playing older Yakuza games in 2021, and not just because of the stiffer animation and lack of first-person perspective. The PC versions of Yakuzas 3, 4 & 5 also have (or had) a few technical hiccups as well.

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Stardew Valley is a timeless game. It's something I'll be playing for decades to come, so I'm glad it's on as many platforms as possible: way easier to preserve it!

Pictured above is one of my first farms, which I started years ago and still come back to every so often. This past week, Stardew celebrated its fifth anniversary. That's...forever ago in gaming collective consciousness!

While so many projects these days are forgotten a week after release, Stardew has endured. In part, mind, due to the tireless efforts of the creator, Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone. They've been instrumental in the game's success, not only crafting free updates to keep the game interesting, but also interacting with fans, adding an allure of endearment to everything Stardew related (including a heartfelt thanks over the anniversary celebrations).

At this point it's far exceeded the reach of the PC original, with countless fan mods, pieces of merch, and most recently, a board game. The gaming sphere is better with Stardew Valley, and Barone, in it.

ConcernedApe [Twitter]

A lot of people have probably forgotten by now, but in December of 2018, it was announced by studio Forever Entertainment that both Panzer Dragoon and the sequel, Zwei, would be getting full remakes. That latter bit was lost in the shuffle, as we haven't seen nor heard anything from the project since then.

Thankfully, the outfit changed that this past week through a Twitter announcement. As plain as day, Panzer Dragoon Zwei remake is slated for release "this year," in 2021. It's still vague, but at least we know that work is heavily underway and it is coming.

Although the original Panzer Dragoon remake started out rough, the team laboriously patched it until it was in a better state. With the hindsight they have now, it stands to reason that Zwei will be in better shape.

It would behoove them to put their best foot forward on this, too, to avoid a hit to their reputation.

Panzer Dragoon [Twitter]

It's an announcement about an announcement, sure, but that's one of my greatest joys these days.

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The figure is accompanied by a BJ the robot companion.

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Watari does not know what will happen to the Virtual-On series in the future.

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Gary Meyer, an artist who has worked on so many projects, from Star Wars to theme park rides to video games to album covers, has died at the age of 86.

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Want to see a Gyrados jump over Post Malone?

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Just yesterday, Stardew Valley celebrated its five year anniversary, which sounds pretty insane if you think about it. It’s already been five years since the game’s release, yet it still feels consistently fresh and exciting with how much work has been put into it post-launch.

Eric Barone, AKA ConcernedApe and the creator of the game, took to Twitter on the game’s five year anniversary to thank fans and players for sticking with the game for so long. And with how the game has been constantly improving over the years, it’s entirely possible that Barone will continue to work on patches and updates to add more content to it.

Just a few months ago, we got update 1.5, which was the biggest content drop Stardew Valley’s seen in quite a while. It added new dungeons, new animals, tools, along with new early and late-game goals for players to work towards, and the patch got released for consoles just a couple weeks ago.

Aniplex revealed another gameplay trailer of the upcoming Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba game Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hinokami Keppu Tan.

Today the new trailer shows Giyu Tomioka in gameplay action as he beats Inosuke Hashibira into a pulp.

Unfortunately, the original trailer is region-locked to Japan, but you can check out a reuploaded version below, alongside a gallery of screenshots and art.

Nomadland, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, and Pixar’s Soul were among the night’s winners in a controversial year

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Today Genshin Impact developer MiHoYo released another new trailer for the massively-popular free-to-play RPG.

Following yesterday’s introduction, we get to take another look at the next character joining the game, the cute Hu Tao, the 77th Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.

This time around the video is all about her battle gameplay, so we get to see her in action. She really tries hard to look cute when she fights.

You can check her out below, including both English and Japanese voice acting, depending on your preference.