The eight playable characters of Astria Ascending take center stage in a new trailer for the game. Each one is a demigod.
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This vinyl album will feature unique artwork from Yoshitaka Amano.
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There's a lot more to Sony's PlayStation investor relations document than confirmation Uncharted 4 is coming to PC.
The document, published as part of Sony's 2021 investor relations day, focuses on the company's Game & Network Services Segment. It's penned by PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, and includes a number of interesting bits of information that reveal Sony's masterplan for its money-printing video games business.
At the beginning, Sony mentions it's "building our biggest-ever platform" with PlayStation 5, and that it's working to ensure "our longest-ever tail" with the PS4. PS5 has delivered PlayStation's highest-ever launch sales, with 7.8m units sold as of the end of Sony's last financial year (ending March 2021).
Pokémon Go has detailed Go Fest 2021, its massive summer event weekend, which will offer an eye-catching array of creatures to capture for a particularly eye-opening price.
This year, tickets for the two-day affair cost just £5 (or $5), a third of 2020's fee. Once again, there will be no physical event, and all players will be able to take part wherever they are.
There will also be plenty to do for people who don't purchase a ticket.
The premise is exquisite: a peek beyond the gates of that curiously nondescript Kyoto office block that Nintendo calls home to see how the magic is made; not so much getting a golden ticket for the factory tour and more about getting a step-by-step guide from Wonka himself on the process, so you might see where all that sweetness and light comes from. The execution seems typically Nintendo; often inspired, at other points frustrating but never anything less than fascinating.
After its reveal earlier this month, Nintendo recently afforded us another, more detailed look at Game Builder Garage. At its very heart are the Nodons, anthropomorphic embodiments of the building blocks of each creation, and each with a distinct personality. The Nodon that controls the camera function, for example, is a luvvie, while the Nodon assigned to each button is a hardy little thing. Elsewhere the Nodon that governs the in-game timer is a thing of strict logic, while the retry button is an old-timer filled with regrets wishing he could do things over again.
If the Nodons are the heart of Game Builder Garage, its backbone is provided by the seven lessons that guide you through the game making process. There's Tag Showdown, a side-on two player affair; On A Roll, a marble madness-esque tilt puzzle powered by motion control; Alien Blaster, an old school shooting game; Risky Run, your garden 2D platformer; Mystery Room, which introduces the third dimension into your toolbox and Thrill Racer, a driving game with AI elements for your opponents.
For the second straight year, Pokémon Go Fest is worldwide, meaning anyone can purchase a digital ticket and participate from the comfort of their homes and neighborhoods. Last year's tickets cost $14.99, but this year's will be just $5, and it gives you access to two full days of Pokémon catching on July 17 and 18.
This year's festival is themed around music. Most Pokémon Go players don't have the sound on when they're out in the wild, tracking down rare critters to add to their collections, but you'll want to turn it on this year, as longtime Pokémon music producer Junichi Masuda put together new tracks just for this event. In a blog posting, Niantic details two of the songs. One is a "rock-and-rolling track for Pikachu Rock Star fans," and the other is a "high-energy electro-pop song for Pikachu Pop Star stans." At the fest, you'll have the chance to catch newly outfitted Pikachus that represent the rock and pop star forms.
Similar to last year's event, the day of catching unfolds across rotating habitats. Every hour a different habitat comes online with different spawns. For instance, for the jungle habitat, you can catch a Aipom, Froakie, Scyther, and other critters that fit the theme. For the Cave, Roggenrola, Deino, and the Galarian Stunfisk will spawn. You'll need to play all day (from 10 to 6) to catch everything that the fest has to offer.
Kiev-based studio Starni Games have been knocking out the Strategic Mind series since 2019. From a slightly rocky start with The Pacific (rockier still if you count 2018's Panzer Strategy) they've hit their stride with Fight For Freedom, an entry showing off the American and British led chapters of the Great War reboot.
The Western front is frankly overdone in any media, not just games, and I'll admit I was hesitant. How many times have you run around Normandy with tanks and paratroopers? How many Cockneys and Ohio farmboys have you heard yelling about bunkers and stukas, versus exactly zero Australians or Kenyans or the literally millions of Indian soldiers propping us up? I'm not even talking about this in a political sense. It's just, yknow, it's been done. I've probably left more tank debris in France than the entire US Army.
I gripe, but I'm talking about Fight For Freedom because I've had a great time with it anyway.
I was going to write this as a whole bit where it was like a narrator describing you reading this post and then listening to the podcast, but I respect you too much to lie to you: it is after lunch on a Thursday and I had a very big sandwich. There is simply no way I could be expected to write that bit. But anyway, this week's episode of the Electronic Wireless Show podcast is all about our favourite narrators!
Today is the day for announcement streams, it seems. Segaaaaah (I’m so relevant) will be hosting a Sonic the Hedgehog stream tonight at 5pm BST (6pm CEST / 12pm PDT). This is to tie in with the cobalt erinaceinae’s 30th birthday, and promises a first peep at projects and partnerships for 2021, the year of Sonic.
You ever just wanna mash your tabletop right into your computer? You're having a delightful session of Dungeons & Dragons, but man, you wish you could just watch it virtually rather than have to make up all these call images in your brain. If that's the case, D&D-based RPG Solasta: Crown Of The Magister might be the game for you. Developed by Tactical Adventures, it left early access today, and invites players into a fantasy world based on the D&D 5e ruleset.
Acer have just announced a brand-new prototype laptop that's essentially a giant Nintendo 3DS. Their new, creator-focused ConceptD Spatial Labs device has a 15.6in stereoscopic 3D display to let animators and artists view their creations in proper 3D without the need for special glasses. It's not really geared up for gaming, but a YouTuber they got in to demonstrate the laptop during their press conference called it "the future". Sorry, I think I hear the phone ringing, let me just get that. "Hello? Is that 2011? Yes, let me tell you about this cool new thing!"
You no longer have a good excuse to turn your friends down for a round or eight of Among Us. Innersloth’s enormously popular subterfuge game is free via the Epic Games Store through June 3.
More than a year after it was released, Gearbox’s cartoonishly violent loot-shooter Borderlands 3 is apparently soon getting crossplay for all platforms…except for PlayStation.
There are 39 games coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop this week. One of them is called Color Dots Connect. Another is called Connect Color Dots. They are two different versions of the same sort of puzzle game. Nintendo really needs to rein this nonsense in.
"You're too slow!" Wait, I'm right on time!
In just 30 minutes we'll see what the future of Sonic the Hedgehog entails. The official teaser for what Sega calls "Sonic Central" involves: "upcoming projects, partnerships, and events." The occasion is Sonic's 30th anniversary, so hopefully the publisher has something interesting up its sleeve.
The unveiling of a Sonic Colors re-release project is undeniably in the cards, as well as a potentially new Sonic game altogether, on top of whatever other merch Sega is going to peddle us. Maybe we'll see footage of the new Sonic Prime Netflix show? Or a film teaser? Sonic is wrapped up in all sorts of cross-media projects these days, so anything is possible.
You can catch the stream here on YouTube or here on Twitch. We'll embed it once it's live (Sega seemingly hasn't figured out the whole "scheduled video" thing).
Last year, EA released Rocket Arena, an online multiplayer competitive shooter from developer Final Strike Games. If you don’t remember it, I don't blame you. It dropped off the gaming radar faster than its price dropped in stores.
When Knockout City was first revealed earlier this year, I was pretty pompous in my assurance that it would face a similar fate. It just didn’t seem like something anybody would be talking about after it dropped. But now that I’ve played it, along with at least two million other people, I don’t think that’s going to be the case. I think this one has staying power.
We're getting the second part of the Steel Dawn questline fairly soon in Fallout 76, but before that larger update arrives, we just got a smaller patch that paves the way for that hefty amount of content.
A new patch is live for all versions of the game, ranging from 2.46GB to 9.40GB depending on the platform. As usual these are sort of catch-up updates, squashing lingering bugs, mostly with armor effects and CAMPS: a classic source of bug fixes.
In terms of raw gameplay, VATS attacks are fixed in PVP, Daily Ops markers now will display the correct quest, enemies will now spawn correctly, and three quests have been fixed so you can finish them properly (Cheating Death, Disarming Discovery, Over and Out).
There's just so much to fix in this game it's kind of insane, especially when you account for some of the bugs that Bethesda is catching up on from launch. Thankfully the foundation has been getting upgrades in the last year or so, allowing for quality of life changes like more inventory space and additional CAMP and perk slots.
You can find the full patch notes below!
Update Notes [Bethesda.net]
Get ready to strike alone or with friends this fall, as Aragami 2 has a September 2021 release date.
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The latest round of Legend of Mana screenshots looks at two story arcs and UI elements from the remastered version of the game.
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The new My Hero One's Justice 2 DLC adds Gentle and La Brava. They mark the end of the first season's add-ons, but season two is on the way.
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Rub out your foes with the power of Dragon Quest.
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Stealthy undead swordsman sequel Aragami 2 launches for Playtation, PC and Xbox on 17th September, developer Lince Works has announced.
Our first look at polished Aragami 2 gameplay lies in the new trailer below, which shows a new threat for the Rashomon Valley and various ninja-inspired fights.
The original Aragami sold 700k copies and helped grow Lince Works as a studio, the developer said in a release today, meaning Aragami 2 is now the work of a more experienced and larger team. Combat has been overhauled, and looks sneakier than ever. Here's a peek:
Raven has stepped in to nerf Call of Duty: Warzone's "Big Bertha" meta.
Today's update reduces the cargo truck spawn rates for the battle royale's solo mode to five (static) from a range of 16 to 20.
As Eurogamer reported earlier this month, Call of Duty: Warzone players have been using the 6x6 cargo truck vehicle to great effect in what's dubbed the "Big Bertha meta".
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has said PlayStation cross-platform support has been cut from an upcoming Borderlands 3 patch - though without explaining why.
In a tweet sent this afternoon, Pitchford said that while a Borderlands 3 update had been prepared for release "that includes full crossplay support across all platforms", PlayStation will ultimately not be included.
Pitchford did not detail why, upon submitting the patch for certification, Gearbox was then forced to remove crossplay by the game's publisher 2K. Did Sony suddenly decide to take issue with the game's long-promised crossplay becoming a reality? Or did Gearbox and/or 2K decide not to play by Sony's rules? Pitchford has so far chosen not to elaborate.
Creative Assembly has wrapped up work on Total War: Three Kingdoms.
The 1.7.1 patch, which goes live today, marks the end of the British studio's post-launch support for the popular strategy game, which saw seven DLC releases over the course of two years.
The development team has transitioned onto another project based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, Creative Assembly said in a video to fans, below.
GQ’s fashion writer Rachel Tashjian gives Jonah and Dave a masterclass in punk iconography
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Livestream will feature new game announcements and 30th anniversary details
