September 2021

Clouded Leopard Entertainment reached out with a press release to introduce Oni, a new game by Kenei Design revealed at Bitsummit.

The publisher will launch the game in Asia (including Japan), North America, and Europe in 2022. Platforms are yet to be announced.

The audio will be in Japanese, while subtitles will be included in Japanese, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Korean, and English

It’s worth mentioning that “Oni” is still a working title.

Kenei Design was formed by Kenei Hayama, who used to create artwork for Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker, which recently released Fantasian.

On top of that, we learn that Masami Yamamoto joined as a producer. Yamamoto-san is one of the several veteran developers who used to work at Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Japan Studio and quit during the recent restructuring of the team. He’s a veteran of the industry who worked at Sony for 25 years.

You can check out a trailer introduced at BitSummit and screenshots below.

Earlier today, the Diablo YouTube channel followed up the release of the Barbarian trailer with a brand-new video that takes a 37-second look into the Paladin class in Diablo II: Resurrected. This melee-focused character appears to have all of the same tools from the original, just with a shiny new coat of paint.

The Paladin class is known for its physical strength and that’s on display right away in this trailer. At the start, we see the Paladin bashing an enemy with their shield in their left hand and slashing at another with the sword in their right. But as any Diablo fan knows, there’s much more to this class than running into a crowd of enemies and defeating them all with brawn alone.

There are many skills that the Paladin can learn to augment the class’ already formidable physical strength. Skills like Holy Bolt, Fist of the Heavens, and Blessed Hammer make this class arguably one of the best in classic Diablo II. In the trailer, a few of the skills are shown off absolutely laying waste to entires screens of enemies.

There’s no way to tell for sure if the Paladin class will be as good in the remake as it is in the original game, but so far this trailer is making these versatile warriors look incredibly powerful.

Diablo II: Resurrected is available for pre-order right now and is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Nintendo Switch in just a few weeks on Sept. 23. You can find the official Paladin Class trailer for the game down below.

During a panel at BitSummit in Kyoto, PlatinumGames’ Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba had news to share about Sol Cresta.

The video showcases the fact that the game actually includes storytelling, and the scenario is actually written by Hideki Kamiya himself.

There is a mode focusing exclusively on the shooting, but there is a mode dedicated to the story. We also get a release date, and it’s December 9, 2021.

Incidentally, Sol Cresta is currently playable at BitSummit with its own arcade cabinet.

You can watch it below and enjoy this small glimpse at the story.

Sol Cresta is coming this year for PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, it’s a retro-style vertical shooter with Gattai (combination) elements.

If you’d like to see more, you can enjoy the previous gameplay video from an event broadcasted a few days ago.

Today developer Polygonomicon released a new trailer of its upcoming fighting action game Varvarion.

The trailer showcases a nice look at the demo that is being currently presented at BitSummit in Kyoto, Japan.

You can enjoy it below.

Varvarion does not have a release window or firm announced platforms, but the developer expects it to come “most likely” on PC via Steam.

It supports local split-screen, but the developer is also planning to implement a single-player campaign. Online multiplayer will “hopefully” come as well, but it’s not seen as a priority for now.

Here’s how the developer officially describes the game.

“VARVARION is a 3D sword fighting action game currently in development, which puts you at the center of playable, anime-styled sword fights. Flipping and dodging to evade ferocious attacks, parrying at the last possible split second to reposte with a deadly blow, and doing it all with the style and flare of an anime battle; this is what VARVARION is setting out to achieve. 

Today Sega released two new trailers of its upcoming Judgment sequel Lost Judgment.

Both trailers focus on introducing the story and cast, also showing some really spiffy cinematic action.

You can check them out below.

Lost Judgment is coming for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One on Sept. 24, 2021.

It was announced a while back that Legendary would be working on a TV adaptation of Square Enix’s Life Is Strange, and it looks like the project is still alive and well. According to The Hollywood Reporter, singer and songwriter Shawn Mendes has been brought on to work on the project.

Along with his partner at Permanent Content, Andrew Gertler, Mendes will be overseeing music for the series. Considering that Life Is Strange has always favored more indie folk artists, it’s interesting to see what Mendes will bring to the table, as he’s primarily known for mainstream pop music.

The first game in the series was focused on Max Caulfield and Chloe Price, the former having to deal with time travel powers and using them to save people from a natural disaster in her hometown. The latest game in the series, True Colors, features a new protagonist named Alex Chen, who wields the power of empathy and is able to tell what people are feeling, and why.

The original game is available on PC and consoles, and True Colors is set to be released next week.

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Today SNK released a new trailer and screenshots showcasing another fighter that will be playable in its upcoming fighting game The King of Fighters XV.

This time around we get to see another returning character, Ash Crimson. The press release mentions that the purpose of the return is a mystery.

You can check out the trailer just below and see Ash in action alongside a few screenshots from the press release.

What's that? Look closer. It's water: a little eruption of it, a hopping splash of droplets. With each building you place in Townscaper, each new disturbance on its flat ocean, you get a splash of water to go along with the brisk, genial popping sound as you press the button. Pop! A ripple on the surface. And onto the next one.

Townscaper is a simple thing, as simple and clear as the face of a wristwatch. But like the face of a wristwatch, it pulls you in, its own little universe for you to peer down at and ponder for who knows how long. This is a game-like toy, an art tool in which you create - and erase, if you wish - little towns, starting with a still stretch of water and ending with busy centres, suburbs, cathedrals, tower blocks, hamlets, burgs, you name it. One button to place a building, one to remove it. Zoom in, change the colours of the next blocks you put down, drop the whole thing out to white box to make it look truly sculptural, change the position of the sun, take a screenshot, tinker away some more.

It's brilliant.

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The arcade classic shooter will launch at the end of 2021 as a download-only title.

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YouTuber MillkunTV specializes in making flipbook recreations of popular anime scenes. His work is hand-drawn and, well, time-consuming.

Since I’ve been a kid, I’ve always been fascinated with flipbooks, and even went through a phase trying to make my own. They were awful! MillkunTV’s creations, on the other hand, are…

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Former Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester has returned to the throne of the company behind games including Crusader Kings 3 and Stellaris. He stepped down in 2018, replaced as CEO by then-board member Ebba Ljungerud, but now he's back. Paradox say that Ljungerud has quit "due to differing views on the company's strategy going forward", which certainly is mysterious.

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Want to learn how to create the best build for Aloy in Genshin Impact? Aloy is Genshin Impact's first crossover character: you'll probably recognise her as the protagonist of Horizon Zero Dawn and its upcoming sequel Horizon Forbidden West. In honour of her origins in what was initially a PlayStation exclusive franchise, Aloy will only be available to Genshin Impact players on PS4 and PS5 for a few weeks, but she'll be coming to other platforms (including PC) with the Version 2.2 update that's scheduled for October 13th.

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Coffee Talk is the very definition of a chilled out game. It's a visual novel where you serve hot drinks in a late-night coffee shop to all sorts of fantasy-creature customers while listening to their dramas. It's relaxing and great, so it's wonderful news that developers Toge Productions have announced a sequel, Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, which is set to release next year.

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Pokémon Go developer Niantic has published a frank blog post in the wake of last month's enormous community upset.

Earlier this week, Niantic dramatically U-turned on players' main sticking point - the removal of increased interaction radius in the game implemented at the start of the pandemic. Now, it has promised further changes in how it interacts with fans.

"We've been listening to player feedback and also set up four roundtable conversations where I spoke with over 30 community leaders from around the world (thank you all for your participation!)" the game's executive producer Steve Wang wrote. "The two main themes we heard were: The 80m interaction radius for PokéStops and Gyms has been an incredibly positive quality of life improvement over the past year and a half. Niantic has a lot of room to grow when it comes to communication with our players."

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Sol Cresta, the upcoming vertical shooter from Platinum Games, will launch for PC, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on 9th December priced $40 (£TBA).

Platinum's infamous Hideki Kamiya has also written a story for the game to be released as DLC, it was revealed today at this week's BitSummit event (thanks, Wccftech).

Sol Cresta is being demoed at BitSummit via its own work-in-progress arcade cabinet which Platinum has put together, although it's unclear when this will see a wider release.

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A new looter shooter has entered the stage. Korean developer Nat Games released some footage yesterday that showcases jaw-dropping visuals and explosive cooperative combat. There are even some obvious sci-fi and fantasy inspirations throughout. Project Magnum (working title) might not have a release date. Still, based on its first official trailer, the RPG/third-person shooter combines visual and mechanical aspects of prevalent titles like Final Fantasy and Destiny.

The green flame user is back in action.

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Each can is filled with Kanpan hard tack biscuits and some rock sugar.

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Atlus has released another trailer showing off the gameplay of one of the over 200+ demons that will be featured in its upcoming JRPG Shin Megami Tensei V.

The demon showcased today is Bishamonten, another demon that has been part of the franchise basically forever.

You can watch the trailer below.

Sony has announced PlayStation Showcase, a livestream event set to "look into the future of PS5".

You'll be able to tune in next Thursday, 9th September at 9pm UK time (that's 4pm Eastern or 1pm Pacific) for around 40 minutes of announcements.

Expect news from PlayStation studios, as well as "some of the industry's most imaginative developers", on games releasing this year "and beyond". Sounds promising.

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Yesterday's planned #ADayOffTwitch protest appears to have made an impact on the platform's overall viewer totals, as users aimed to make their voices heard to support marginalised streamers who regularly face hate speech and coordinated attacks from bigots on their channels.

Stats site Twitchtracker shows around a million fewer viewers were tuned into the streaming giant during its daily peak yesterday, when the platform's average peak of 4.5 million concurrent viewers sat at around 3.5 million instead.

Many streamers voiced their support for the protest yesterday, although there was squabbling among some channels which did continue to broadcast for various reasons, including some seemingly taking advantage of big names being offline.

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Marvel’s Midnight Suns was first announced during Gamescom 2021 – it's also the latest game on the cover of Game Informer Magazine. Developer Firaxis Games is known for its tactical turn-based XCOM series, and Midnight Suns’ combat loop will follow suit, albeit with a few surprises. A new gameplay trailer delved into the loop that players can expect when the game launches. You’ll utilize decks of cards to defeat adversaries with flashy hero abilities.

Sony has confirmed its new PlayStation Showcase 2021 broadcast, scheduled for next week while offering small insight into what fans should (and should not) expect to see. The latest PlayStation event will be going down on September 9, 2021, at 1 p.m. PDT. 

Teasing a new look "into the future of PS5," the latest showcase promises to be around 40 minutes long and will provide players with updates on PlayStation Studios, a few updates from beloved developer teams, and what the holiday period is shaping up to look like. Then, post-show, Sony confirmed that there will be deeper dives into some of the things shown with the studios themselves. 

One aspect of the showcase that PlayStation fans should not count on seeing is anything to do with Virtual Reality. Sony promises that the future of PlayStation VR, PSVR 2, will not be featured in next week's event, but that there are "plenty of great PS5 games" to talk about instead. 

The latest Genshin Impact Collected Miscellany video focuses on Sara and what she's capable if you bring her to a fight.

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The new Tsukihime remake character also makes her debut in the Melty Blood series.

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A 40 minute PlayStation Showcase will help kick off September 2021, and Sony confirmed that people can expect to see PS5 games.

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I may be a tea-stinking dirty colonialist Brit, but thankfully the paucity of UK cartooning meant my childhood was Americanized (with a z) enough to at least include the first generation of the Transformers cartoons. However, worry not if it were never a part of yours, as Hasbro has added the entire first season of…

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We’ll finally get a better picture of what lies ahead for the PS5 during a September 9 showcase, Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog today.

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Earthquakes are a part of life in Japan. And they have been for thousands of years. But that doesn’t mean you get used to them, or that they don’t remain truly terrifying.

In Japan, Professor Tomoki Itamiya of Aichi University of Technology has been specializing in computer modeling to simulate disasters in VR and, in…

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If you’ve ever wanted to know what it would look like if famed author and co-founder of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki got his hands on the Legend of Zelda series, then you’re definitely going to want to check out the amazing Breath of the Wild artwork that Lyndon Willoughby created.

While it was made two years ago for New York City Comic Con, Willoughby’s artwork recently came up on the Breath of the Wild subreddit in the form of a post by user tweetage. You can see the post below, which depicts Link gliding through the air around a mountain-sized Guardian.

For anyone that is a fan of Studio Ghibli or Miyazaki, one look at the poster, and the first thing that’ll come to mind is the old artwork for Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Heck, the Guardian even looks like the giant laser turrets that appear in the film.

With the release of version 2.1 of Genshin Impact, MiHoYo launched two new trailers introducing one of the new characters coming today.

First of all, we get another look at the Kujou Sara, this time around including an extensive look at her gameplay following her previous trailer.

The second trailer does the same with Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn, who is available only for PlayStation platforms for now. Everyone else will get her for free with the next update (2.2).

You can them out below in both the English and Japanese trailers depending on your language preference.

Today Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a “PlayStation Showcase” event that will happen next week.

To be precise, the event will happen on Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 1:00 pm PDT, 4:00 pm EDT, 9:00 pm BST, or 10:00 pm CEST depending on where you’re located.

It will include 40 minutes of content dedicated to PS5 “from PlayStation Studios and some of the industry’s most imaginative developers, for games releasing this holiday and beyond.”

The announcement cautions that there won’t be any announcement related to the next-generation PlayStation VR.

No further information was shared about which games will be showcased during the event, or from which developers they will be, but we do know that they will be by “big and small” studios.

With this, it’s almost confirmed that PlayStation won’t have a relevant presence at Tokyo Game Show at the end of the month. Sony Interactive Entertainment has pretty much steered clear from big events in the past couple of years, opting to do its own thing, and this appears not to be an exception.

Incidentally, the announcement does thank fans for having been “awfully patient.” You’re welcome, Sony. You’re welcome.

Of course, you can expect to read all the news here on Twinfinite as soon as they are shared.

Big Brain Academy is back with a brand new game nearly 15 years after the franchise’s last release. Nintendo has announced that Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain will be coming to the Nintendo Switch this holiday season with a multiplayer twist.

The series is all about testing your brain in various academic minigames. There are various puzzles and problems that you must use your wit, reaction time, and memory to solve as quickly as possible. It’s pretty similar to the slightly more well-known series Brain Age.

This time, in Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain, your smarts are put to the test against other players. This game will have you competing directly against family, friends, and other players online.

In the trailer, we see players engaging in various challenges in the game against each other in order to “flex their brainpower” and solve the minigames as quickly as they can. There are matching games, memory tests, math problems, and more that can be played with up to 4 players.

In addition to the multiplayer challenges, there is a single-player mode in the game that can be played to increase your best scores. You can also battle other players asynchronously using ghost data that can be saved and uploaded online.

Here’s how Nintendo describes the game:

Today, South Korean-based developer NAT Games and Japanese publisher Nexon revealed their brand new looter-shooter for PS5, PS4 and PC. Yes, a teaser trailer confirming the game’s release platforms just hit, which you can check out in all its glory down below:

From the looks of things, Project Magnum – which is currently just a working title – appears to be a co-op looter-shooter that pits a team of players against futuristic robots that are reminiscent of the squid-like sentinel critters from The Matrix. The third-person shooting action looks slick and cinematic, and the project appears to be a AAA-tier title with echoes of Destiny, The Division and Devil May Cry.

While Project Magnum was announced back in August, specific platforms were not yet confirmed. Today, we now know that the title will be officially coming to PS5, PS4 and PC.

For more information about the game, here’s the rundown courtesy of Project Magnum’s latest video description:

Ten years after it was first released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron has finally arrived on Steam as a PC port. It's a strange re-emergence for a game that wasn't exactly a smash-hit back in the day, but hey, it had sweet visuals. And I'm happy to say it still looks ridiculously good, even if it remains shallow beneath its glossy surface.

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The robotic gentry are returning, gunning for your hide as you try to escape the horrors of the English countryside. And in the game, wahey! Which is to say that Big Robot, the studio of RPS co-founder Jim Rossignol, have announced a remaster of their 2014 sandbox survival shooter Sir, You Are Being Hunted. That'll be a whole separate game but the original isn't forgotten, receiving a big ol' patch which spruces up the look and technoguts while restoring multiplayer.

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Sony revealed different Horizon Forbidden West Collector's Edition options, and some of them don't include physical copies of the game.

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The new Pokemon anime web series will be Pokemon Evolutions from series veterans OLM Studios. The first episode will appear next week.

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On September 15, ILMxLAB is releasing the final episode of Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge for Oculus Quest. Titled Last Call, this episode explores a variety of stories, giving players a deeper look at the inner workings of Batuu, the chance to see Ady'Sun Zee grow into a Jedi Knight, and a bounty to settle through the mechanical eyes of IG-88.

This feared bounty hunter is voiced by Rhys Darby, known for his work on Yes Man, Flight of the Concords, and as the pilot in the Jumanji movies. He also brought Russell to life in Half-Life: Alyx. You can see IG-88 in action in the trailer above. As you can see, this droid can quickly lock onto targets and packs quite the arsenal. IG-88 is tasked to explore the moon of Nar Shaddaa and track down his target, Boggs Triff.