If EA’s Squadrons wasn’t quite to the scale you were hoping for from your Star Wars flight game, never mind: you can always replay 1994 classic TIE Fighter, which now has vastly-improved visuals and some other modern tweaks instead.
With this fourth collection, that makes 44 indie games covered on Kotaku today! I committed, and in all seriously, each one of them contains just extraordinary-looking games that you’d never have read about anywhere else. No difference here. Another collection of fascinating projects you’ll likely never see on another…
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Kadokawa Games has released another new video, two images, and new details about its upcoming strategy simulation JRPG Relayer.
This time around we learn more about two characters, Mintaka and Media (shown respectively with her mecha and in a corridor within the hypergravity starship Asterism), who have the voice actress Ayano Yamamoto in common.
Mintaka is a Star Child who leads the space pirates named “Star Association.” She is surrounded by a dignified atmosphere and she believes that she can conquer what she wants thanks to her own power.
Media is the communications officer of the Asterism and she provides solid support to the protagonist Terra and the rest of the Stella Gear squadron. She is also the mood maker on the bridge, so you should pay attention to her lines.
Their voice actress, Ayano Yamamoto, is known for her roles as Shiki in Senran Kagura, Sumia in Fire Emblem Awakening, Nae Tennouji in Robotics;Notes and Steins;Gate, and Naho Saenoki in Corpse Party.
You can check them out below.
A Reddit user has found an early copy of the unannounced Animal Crossing edition of Monopoly, and while for the most part this is unremarkable news, I thought the game’s accompanying miniatures were worth a closer look.
Last month, Ubisoft decided to end online support for a bunch of older games, but in doing so also brought down the DRM servers for Might and Magic X - Legacy, meaning players couldn’t access the game’s single-player content or DLC.
According to ex-BioWare producer Mark Darrah, Mass Effect: Corsair was set to be a first person adventure on Nintendo DS where you’d fly around in a ship, exploring a far-away galaxy.
The War for Cybertron trilogy tells an exciting new story about the conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons in the Transformers universe. The final part in the trilogy, titled Kingdom, is set to start airing on Netflix on July 29, and a new trailer has just been released.
You can check it out for yourself down below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Now the Autobots must team up with the Maximals to confront the Decepticons, who have joined forces with the Predacons, in the race to find the missing AllSpark. However, the Predacons are in control of the Golden Disk, a mysterious artifact which has a personal connection to Megatron and gives him an untold advantage over his enemy, Optimus Prime. Which faction will triumph in the final battle that will decide the fate of Cybertron’s future?”
Transformers: War for Cybertron – Kingdom will air on Netflix on July 29.
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At Nintendo’s 81st annual general meeting of shareholders, a Q&A section allowed those present to ask all kinds of business-related questions. One, however, was so obvious I cannot believe it hasn’t been asked before: someone simply wanted to know what everyone’s favourite video games were.
Like many, Theme Hospital was a mainstay of my middle childhood. Bullfrog's appreciably wacky approach to a hospital management sim has ensured that, to this day, management sims are one of the only strategy-adjacent sort of strategy games that I really enjoy. And a few years ago, a new stuidio emerged to take up that odd torch, providing us with Two Point Hospital.
In 2021, doors continue to be amongst the best things in video games. Take Severed Steel's doors. One kick and they burst open, sure. But then they keep on going, freed from their hinges, racing outwards from the force of your blow, rushing for freedom. Fascinating - and useful. Catch a door in the stomach and it can be bad news. Your day will be thoroughly crimped. Oof. The end.
I read about Severed Steel in a recent issue of Edge. Mirror's Edge with a bit of Superhot, a bit of Black. Also, I would add, something of The Club. You know what this means, anyway: movement and combat, swish, sliding, thudding violence, the welcome embrace of a combo system for chaining kills. There's a sense throughout the current Steam demo that things can be maximised, that doing things stylishly and extravagantly is not enough. But doing things efficiently is not enough either. One must be stylish and extravagant and efficient. Is that possible?
Severed Steel suggests it is. Its action has been bitten down into little chunks - perfect encounters playing out in first-person across rooms built from sheeny voxels. Each level is a scattering of rooms and corridors that you race through with a simple objective: kill everyone, smash the pistons, find the exit, grab the prototype. You have slow-mo on one trigger, but it's far better to get used to stunting - wall runs and ground slides and exaggerated hops of all kinds. You're invulnerable when you're in a stunt, as you should be, and it's the best way of moving between oncoming forces, picking them off one at a time - gunshot, a good hard kick, a door well placed and flung in anger.
The special broadcast will also celebrate the manga reaching over 80 million copies sold worldwide.
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How many times when you’ve tried to download games to your Switch have you gotten a message about a lack of space? Not everyone knows off the top of their head how much space they have available! But in Nintendo’s latest Switch update, there’s now a helpful feature.
Atari's gaming division has announced a significant re-jig of its strategy, moving away from free-to-play and mobile games in favour of premium PC and console games.
Five of Atari's free-to-play games will be discontinued or sold, it said. These are RollerCoaster Tycoon Stories, Crystal Castles, Castles & Catapults, Ninja Golf, and Atari Combat: Tank Fury.
"Successful" games with a "loyal user base" are not affected, Atari insisted.
Smash hit mobile game Pokémon Go celebrates its fifth anniversary today. Yes, it really has been that long.
The game is celebrating with a new event featuring a flying Pikachu held aloft by birthday balloons, a new Collection Challenge, the return of the Mythical Shiny Meltan and more.
Since its huge pop culture moment in the summer of 2016, Pokémon Go has accumulated $5bn in player spending. Five years on, the app is still setting new records.
Nintendo has released a new update for the Switch that makes patching games easier when your storage is full.
Here are the patch notes for version 12.1.0:
A minor update for Switch then, but a useful one. Prior to this update, users would sometimes need to delete games to make room for big patches.
Sometimes when I'm reading a book or doing the dishes, I need a bit of ambience to carry me through. Lo-fi music often does the trick, so when I spotted that Riot Games Music had released a League Of Legends themed lo-fi compilation, I hesitantly dipped my ear in. And I didn't recoil! In fact, I added it to my saved albums. Now that's a seal of approval.
Crank your gamma up. There’s some new System Shock footage here for you to squint at. The remake of the 1994 classic has taken some twists and turns in its development, even rebooting itself, but it’s now at a place where they’re happy to take you through the Research level of Citadel station. The seven minutes of footage below shows off sneaking, shooting, and some hacking. You need to turn your lights down to see it, though.
The broadcast will feature new information regarding Version 2.0 of Genshin Impact.
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From Phantasia to Arise to Crestoria, this Blu-Ray will let you travel down memory lane for the Tales of series' 25th anniversary.
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In contrast to the brightness of the movie, these Promare figures are in muted monochrome.
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The dynamic figure shows Neku posing in the middle of Shibuya crossing surrounded by high-rise buildings.
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Before the latest Nintendo Switch update, if a player's memory was full on the hybrid system, a new patch would not work. Now with version 12.1.0, Nintendo has made a change to how downloads register with a new prompt about the state of the hardware's memory and microSD status regarding older versions of games.
The latest update targets game updates as its main concern outside of the usual small enhancements, allowing for a prompt to urge users to delete previous versions of games before installing a newer, more improved version. This will allow for updates to download and work as intended, making the user experience much more fluid and operational.
Outside of the "general system stability improvements" that are always included with Nintendo's patch notes, the rest of the update can be seen below:
From the original trilogy to the remaster, there has been a longstanding Conrad Verner glitch that has carried over into the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, a glitch that messes with the potential outcomes for Super Fan Conrad Verner. The glitch in question messes with how the game remembers certain decisions made regarding Verner, which can completely eliminate him from future games.
Players first meet the Super Fan back in Mass Effect one where Verner tracks down Shepard several times to ask for an autograph only to later just fawn all over them. If players play their cards right, they can meet up with Mr. Verner in Mass Effect 2, and then later in Mass Effect 3, but one glitch in Mass Effect 2 tampered with how the game registered certain decisions. Regardless if players went the Paragon route or not, Mass Effect 2 always seemed to register that players instead aggressively rebuffed Verner's attentions, instead choosing to stare him down the barrel of a gun to intimidate him into backing off pretending to be an N7 recruit.
With the Mass Effect Legendary Edition bringing newcomers and veterans of the franchise back to the Normandy that we all know and love, a galaxy filled with turians, quarians, and those jerks at Cerberus is on a lot of people's minds, but what about a canceled Nintendo DS project called Mass Effect: Corsair? Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah recently revealed details about the spinoff that never quite made it off of the ground.
Today, during a livestream from Japan, we got the reveal of the opening cutscene and theme song of the upcoming Judgment sequel Lost Judgment.
We get to take a good look at the opening movie of the game, which also serves to introduce its cast. This includes the theme song “Rasen” by jon-Yakitory featuring Ado.
Incidentally, you can activate English subtitles in the video via the “cc” button.
You can watch it below.
Lost Judgment releases globally on Sept. 24 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, & Xbox One.
Both English and Japanese options will be available for voice-overs, while subtitles will be English (two options), Italian, French, German, and Spanish.
I’m not being pithy for the sake of a headline. Space Punks really does look a lot like Borderlands: it’s a cartoonish, co-op looter shooter. The key differences are that it's top-down (like Borderlands' original inspiration of Diablo), the shooting looks a lot more fun and OTT, and the comedy begins and ends by adding the word ‘space’ to everything.
Get to know the cast of Blue Reflection: Second Light.
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Nintendo finally confirmed that a Switch Pro system is on the way, and it is called the Switch OLED model. Find out more about the upgrade.
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Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed is a look back at what Acquire managed to accomplish on the PSP and the start of a niche series.
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Additionally, details regarding two special editions have been revealed.
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Additionally, a shield counter system will appear in Melty Blood Type Lumina.
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The Lore filmmaker on telling a story that grapples with Avengers: Endgame
Metroid Dread launches the same day as the new Nintendo Switch model, and though the game is not a Switch-OLED exclusive, Nintendo hopes its fancy enhancements will drive players to the new console.
In a complete surprise move, Nintendo just announced the new Switch, called the Nintendo Switch (OLED model), because of course it is.
Nintendo today (finally) officially revealed the next hardware iteration of its highly successful Switch. ...
Click here to watch embedded media Ubisoft today released Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline, a standalone expansion that puts players in control of Aiden Pearce, the protagonist from the first Watch Dogs game. The expansion is a prequel story to the conflict between DedSec and Zero-Day within the core Watch Dogs: Legion game. If you purchased the Gold or Ultimate editions of the game, you can download the expansion now; otherwise you can purchase it on its own for $14.99 or in the season pass for $29.99. Even though it is a standalone experience, you will need the base Watch Dogs: Legion game to play it.
Bloodline sees Aiden trying to secure a prized technology from a Broca Tech laboratory, but he isn't the only one who eyes it. Wrench, one of the protagonists from Watch Dogs 2, also wants it and actually beats Aiden to the chase and gets his hands on it first. Aiden finds himself in a jam and calls upon his nephew Jackson to try to help him track down Wrench as they keep Broca Tech at bay. In a twist, Wrench is also a playable character, so you'll see the story's events unfold through both of these fixers.
Sony has just announced that a brand new PlayStation State of Play is on the way later this week for July 2021. This Thursday, PlayStation fans can look forward to a few different announcements as well as a deeper dive into Deathloop's gameplay before Arkane's new release hits.
The upcoming State of Play is set for July 8 at 2 p.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. Eastern. The showcase is expected to last approximately 30 minutes long and will include nine minutes of new Deathloop footage, a game we extensively dove into with our previous cover story. Also included will be a lineup of indie titles that are on their way, as well as more news on upcoming third-party adventures, as well.
Sony was also careful to temper expectations, letting interested fans know that no, there will be no new God of War 2 information revealed and that there will be nothing to share on Horizon Forbidden West. The company also confirmed that PSVR 2, this generation's iteration of VR on the PlayStation platform, will not be present either, though Sony did add that it will have "more updates soon" regarding the aforementioned properties throughout the Summer.
Microsoft has just announced even more titles coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, including Bloober Team's The Medium for Cloud and the adorable Dragon Quest Heroes 2. Here are the latest games coming soon to the rotating library for those with Xbox Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate.
Before diving into what's on the way, here is a brief refresher on what Game Pass even is. The Xbox Game Pass library continues to change with new additions. From day one launches of hit games to indie treasures that deserve their time to shine, the Game Pass membership allows players a chance to have instant access to a wide variety of games without having to shell out 60 bucks for each experience.
So, what else is on the way?
