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Following the reveal of version 2.1 of Genshin Impact, MiHoYo launched a new trailer introducing one of the new characters coming soon.
We get another look at the Raiden Shogun, this time around including a glimpse at her gameplay following the previous trailer.
She will be released on September 1 alongside the update.
You can check her out below in both the English and Japanese trailers depending on your language preference.
Do keep in mind that MiHoYo warns that “this video contains flashes of light that may trigger discomfort in patients with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewers are advised to watch with caution.”
SNK has shared a new trailer of its upcoming fighting game The King of Fighters XV.
This time around, it’s all about the story, also showcasing cutscenes and a few key characters. We get to see some familiar faces and some new ones, which are likely to pique the curiosity of the fans.
You can watch it below.
Developer Playtra has released a new trailer for its upcoming tactics-style shoot ’em up title, Grid Force: Mask of the Goddess ahead of its release later this year.
The trailer shows off some of the fast-paced shmup, grid-based gameplay, which looks set to give players the opportunity to strategically combine their characters for devastating attacks.
Speaking about the evolution of grid-based gameplay in Grid Force, Dan Bernardo, Founder of independent studio Playtra Games said “We love the grid-based game genre because of how deeply tactical and character-driven it can be, but we also saw an opportunity to bring more players to the genre with combat that was faster and more dynamic. We’re betting everything on Grid Force, and we’re excited to bring players along for that adventure.”
Grid Force will also feature a deep narrative which will change depending on choices made by the player along the way. Story sections and cutscenes will play out with a hand-illustrated comic book style, also showcased in the new trailer which can be found below.
Grid Force will feature more than 30 playable characters each with their own unique stats, active and passive abilities, and skills. Each character can also be leveled up and equipped with new gear and Masks of Power to help you take on the tougher challenges that lie ahead.
Ryza from the Atelier Ryza series has certainly become one of the most portrayed JRPG characters by figure manufacturers.
Today Good Smile company partner brand Phat Company revealed a brand new figure from Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout.
She is now available for pre-order at Good Smile’s Japanese and American stores respectively for 23,800 yen and $237.99.
The release window is quite far: November 2022 for Japan and all the way in January 2023 for the United States.
The 1/6 scale means she’s rather sizable, 165 mm in height despite the sitting position.
You can check out a few pictures and an official description below.
Men in Black. Independence Day. After Earth? Will Smith is no stranger to fighting aliens. Now, he can do so in Fortnite.
To presumably celebrate the game's genuinely very enjoyable alien season, you can now purchase Will Smith in Fortnite. The only downside? He's called Mike Lowery, and this is Will Smith's character from the decidedly non-alien focused Bad Boys trilogy.
Digital rights weirdness aside, Smith's arrival in Fortnite comes after a series of high profile stars arrived via the game's Icon Series as themselves: Ariana Grande, J Balvin and LeBron James.
We'll get a "very early look" at the new Dead Space project tonight, developer Motive Studios has announced.
The action will take place over on Motive's Twitch, and is due to kick off at 6pm UK time (that's 1pm Eastern or 10am Pacific).
It's perhaps a little surprising to see Motive showing more of the project so soon after its announcement at the end of July, and with a fair while still to go (it can be reasonably assumed) until the project launches. But we won't say no.
Children in China will only be able to play online games for three hours in a typical week - an hour a day on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, between 8pm and 9pm.
This lone gaming hour will also be allowed on public holidays, The National Press and Publication Administration announced (thanks, BBC News).
These new curbs are the latest steps in the Chinese state's battle against online gaming, which has been dubbed "spiritual opium" for the country's youth.
Happy birthday, vocal legend!
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The 3-foot tall, $600 plush is reportedly one of the largest Hatsune Miku plushes ever made.
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The September roadmap has been revealed in full, and the first update will arrive soon.
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Additionally, the official website has update to include a Team Story for Team Hero.
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Epic Games has rolled out the Fortnite 17.50 update, adding a new Fortnite Crew Legacy Set, a bunch of new cosmetics and also changes a named location to Sludgy Swamp.
The news comes via popular dataminers and leakers on Twitter, Guille_GAG and iFireMonkey.
First up is the new Fortnite Crew Legacy Set, which has also been detailed over in a post on the official Fortnite website. The Legacy Set will be available to all Fortnite Crew subscribers, and includes a Back Bling and unlockable pickaxe, both of which evolve for each month you’re an active subscriber.
There are six stages, with each unlocking on the 14th of each month you’ve got an active Fortnite Crew subscription. All stages are detailed below:
I was incredibly annoyed when 2019 arrived. In fact, I've been annoyed ever since. It's not that I'm the most well-informed K-pop fan by any means, but I did immediately recognise the charm of then-new boy band Verivery with their 90s throwback single "Ring Ring Ring". The bright colours, random shapes and yo-yos transported me back to my youth. Unfortunately, very few others have come along for the journey back to the era of California Dreams and The Battle of Seattle, but I imagine many more will jump towards that same magical time period presented via The Big Con.
You play as Ali, a 17-year-old stuck helping her mum (sorry, "mom") out at the video rental store. Deep breath: before internet-based streaming and downloading, people used to buy - or simply rent - films on chunky, plastic video cassettes that were the size of a book. A cassette is a thing that stores data on a roll of thin magnetic tape. They were a pain in the ass. Phew. Unfortunately, while your friends and classmates are all busy with much more interesting summer plans, your mom is sending you off to band camp for a fortnight so you can fulfil her wishes of becoming a famous trombonist.
Unfortunately, again, just before you're set to go, you overhear your mom dealing with loan sharks who are urgently wanting their money back, or else it'll be goodbye to Linda's video shop. Despite the motherly assurances, Ali is so bummed out about what the future may hold by the time she returns from music camp.
The long-awaited Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will get a fresh airing at DC Fandome 2021, to be held on 16th October 2021.
We'll also get details on Fortnite's next DC Comics crossover, following its previous and very popular Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point mini-series.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is the next game from Rocksteady, developer of the main Batman Arkham trilogy, and a continuation of the studio's Arkham-verse. You play as a roster of characters including Harley Quinn, Deadshot, King Shark and Captain Boomerang. It's in development for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S only.
Today, in Japan, convenience store chain Lawson launched Final Fantasy XIV chicken. What flavor is it? The Crystal of Light and Darkness, as the box states.
Or, as noted in the parentheses, “Pepper and Tartar Sauce Flavor.” The light part must be the tartar sauce, while the dark park must be the pepper.
The…
With Gundam, Yoshiyuki Tomino created one of the greatest space operas ever. The anime has inspired generations to look towards space. However, don’t count him as someone cheering on modern-day space exploration.
This summer, Virgin billionaire Richard Branson and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos launched themselves into…
Square Enix is gradually shutting down its remaining arcade games, and Starwing Paradox is next in the line.
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The concert will be available both physically and digitally, but only in Japan.
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Take the quiz and learn what Final Fantasy XIV Job Class quest suits you best.
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The broadcast will include the latest information and a look at gameplay.
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If you’re a fan of the Batman Arkham games, you’ve likely been eagerly awaiting news on Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. You won’t have to wait too much longer. The DC FanDome will return for a 2nd edition this October, and Warner Bros. Interactive plans to show off both games during the event.
Neither Gotham Knights nor Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League are traditional sequels to the Arkham games, but they are both exciting titles in their own right. Gotham Knights is a co-op-friendly action game from WB Games Montréal. Players won’t be able to play as Batman, but they will be able to jump into the capes of Batgirl, Red Hood, Nightwing, and Robin to protect their beloved city after the death of Batman. Gotham Knights continues the vein of the Arkham games but features a greater emphasis on RPG systems.
Microsoft has confirmed the release date for Windows 11, which will become available to download from 5th October.
If you're an eligible Windows 10 owner you'll be able to upgrade for free, though Microsoft is using "intelligence models that consider hardware eligibility, reliability metrices, age of device and other factors" to determine exactly when your device is prompted to upgrade.
"We expect all eligible devices to be offered the free upgrade to Windows 11 by mid-2022," Microsoft explained. "If you have a Windows 10 PC that's eligible for the upgrade, Windows Update will let you know when it's available. You can also check to see if Windows 11 is ready for your device by going to Settings > Windows Update and select Check for updates."
StarWars.com has announced a new Lego Star Wars game, but it's for mobile and, also, it's not new at all.
Lego Star Wars Battles is described as a "new PVP strategy game" coming soon to Apple Arcade, the iOS-exclusive game subscription service.
But this is, of course, the same Lego Star Wars Battles which shut down back in July after two years of testing in soft launch (thanks, Pocket Gamer).
Nintendo is somewhat known in the gaming world for being the company that takes the most risks releasing unusual hardware, especially when it comes to peripherals and accessories. These gadgets typically come in the form of quirky controllers or add-ons that are designed to enhance the way you play certain games.
Whether you believe these peripherals tend to be gimmicky or are truly inventive, there’s no doubt that Nintendo isn’t afraid to try something different in order to give players new ways to play games.
This isn’t just a recent concept for Nintendo; the company has been releasing unusual peripherals to complement their consoles since the beginning, and they show no signs of stopping. But how well do you remember the names of the accessories they’ve released through the generations?
In this quiz, we’ll show you pictures of some of Nintendo’s quirkiest peripherals and accessories from their history as a video game company. You have to select the correct name of each one. Think you can identify them all? Let’s find out!
Today, Colombian developer Dreams Uncorporated and California-based indie publisher Modus Games have confirmed that their colorful retro JRPG, Cris Tales, has received its first patch for PS5 and PC.
The new update is available to download now and will add a bunch of tweaks, bug fixes as well as some extra PC-specific graphical options. As of the time of writing, the patch is currently only available for PS5 and PC. There’s currently no word yet on when it will be deployed to other platforms.
The news comes by way of a blog post over on Modus Games’ official site. The most eye-catching addition that this update will bring is some much-needed endgame balancing. Specifically, the patch will stop the game’s difficult The Empress Of Time endgame boss from constantly healing herself.
For a full breakdown of the new additions this new update will bring, here are Cris Tales’ full patch notes:
For the tenth anniversary of its Chinese server, League of Legends is dressing up the Hangzhou Metro in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Subway cars, for example, have been done up to look like different LoL regions.
As League of Legends (via Twitter user lolweibo) announced through its official Weibo account, ten…
Want to learn how to create the best build for Rosaria in Genshin Impact? Cryo Polearm wielder Rosaria joined Genshin Impact's hero line-up with the v1.5 update in April 2021. A member of the Church of Favonius in Mondstadt, Rosaria is extremely bored by her religious devotions and would much rather be following her own path instead. In-story she's not much of a team player, but nevertheless she'd probably jump at the chance to join your adventuring party if it means getting out of daily prayers and choir practice.
Gun to your head, if you were forced to staff a post office with flightless birds, which kind would you pick? Personally I'd go with ostriches, because they are both tiny of brain and aggressive of temperament (plus their long necks would reach high shelves and they would be very fast at delivery). But the good people at Stonewheat & Sons are clearly cowards, because they picked kiwis, the little avocado-shaped birds of New Zealand. Although, bonus points for featuring cassowaries as mail carriers, a species whose first Google autocomplete suggestion is "cassowary attack".
KeyWe feels like a name that was generated pun first and ask questions later, which is a design method I have immense respect for. In this case, your two little kiwi pals must run a small regional Telepost office that has almost terminal levels of whimsy. The telegram machine is split into separate groups of keys that spin, swap places, and, worst of all, do not follow the standard QWERTY layout. Packages are labelled according to the personal notes enclosed with them: set up this scarecrow as soon as possible, but remember his stick body is very fragile. The mail room is also run by an octopus.
EA will today give a wee work-in-progress peek at their remake of Dead Space, 2008's sci-fi horror shooter about removing legs from monsters like a cruel child playing with a spider, except here sometimes the monster is a cruel child who's also a spider. Dead Space is a good'un but, like so many other games getting remakes and remasters these days, still basically fine. I'll be curious to see what's dramatic enough to warrant a full-on remake. This Twitch stream will be at 6pm today (10am Pacific), and you can watch it here below.
Out of all the games announced at this year's Geoffscom, action adventure game DokeV was easily my highlight of the show. Unlike everything else, which made some sort of sense, this game took a bold choice and made none. It made no sense at all. All we got was a barrage on the senses, and I respect that rogue attitude. Instead of opting for a PowerPoint presentation like its peers, it just blared K-pop at everyone for three minutes and then moseyed off like it was nothing.
Taito will offer FFXIV quest icon magnets representing three sorts of markers people will encounter as they go through the game.
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Calling the thunder.
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Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku will go by the much shorter Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage in English later this year.
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The next Good Smile Company and Phat Atelier Ryza figure is a more relaxed take on the character.
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The Big Con transports players back to the ‘90s when video rental stores dotted the land, tacky bright colors were in like Flynn, and you could unironically describe something as “radical” and be considered, well, pretty rad. The game launches today, and I've found the game's first few chapters to be as enjoyable as drawing that cool "S" symbol over and over again. That's a compliment in case you're a young 'un. That thing is weirdly entertaining to make.
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain's online services for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are being terminated by publisher Konami.
Beginning today, players will no longer be able to make purchases within the game. Metal Gear Online-related DLC will then be withdrawn from sale from 30th November.
Next year, the whole game will be removed from digital storefronts beginning on the 1st March 2022. All online services will then be switched off from the 31st May 2022.
Eurogamer's Far Cry expert Ian has been busy blasting away at no less than five hours' worth of Far Cry 6. He's tried the game's co-op mode and got properly stuck into its story campaign starring Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito, and uncovered a number of other interesting revelations along the way.
Did you know, for example, that the game transitions to a third-person view when visiting one of its base camps? This lets you spend a bit of time seeing resistance fighter Dani Rojas, the game's playable character, who is otherwise only shown in cut-scenes and special attacks.
Speaking of base camps, Ian has more in the video below about Far Cry 6's foray into base building mechanics - which look like they'll feature here for the first time in a non-spin-off Far Cry game.