October 2021

Bandai Namco released another trailer of the upcoming mobile JRPG Tales of Luminaria.

The trailer showcases another of the Federation-aligned characters available in the game, Lisette Regnier. If you’re wondering, she’s the teacher in charge of an elite class at knight school (the one attended by the other characters from the Federation).

This follows more trailers introducing Leo Fourcade and Celia Arvier, one showcasing Michelle Bouquet, one featuring Maxime Hasselmans, and more introducing Yelsy, Vanessa Morax, and Lucien  Dufaure.

You can check her out below, with both English and Japanese voice acting depending on your voice-over language of preference.

Wondering how to get a house in Genshin Impact? Genshin Impact’s Serenitea Pot system grants you the ability to decorate your own realm with characters, furniture, plants, rocks, and even pets. Some players have carefully crafted gardens with elegantly decorated houses. Other players have simply used their teapots to trap Venti in an empty room filled with animals — whatever you want to do with your house, we can’t judge.

Whether you haven’t unlocked the housing system yet or you’re looking for ways to improve your Serenitea Pot, this guide will show you everything you need, including unlocking housing, placing characters, choosing a layout, getting furniture, and increasing your Trust Rank and Adeptal Energy.

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Not just the best songs. These are the best songs performed by characters in-game. In other words, if it's not sung by a fictional band, hollered by a karaoke-obsessed protagonist, or purred by a honey-tongued vocalist who also shoots at you with a ridiculous firearm, then it doesn't count. For this reason, in-game radios are also out. It's too easy, video games. Sorry. That means no rock station classics from Grand Theft Auto and no 80s bangers from Metal Gear Solid V. Learn to accept it. The best music is diegetic, baby.

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Want to know how to save in New World? MMOs can be complicated beasts, and you could easily spend hours just mining iron or strolling along the shores of Aeternum in New World. The last thing you’d want is that time to be wasted by failing to save your game.

This guide will tell you how to save your game in New World, so that you don’t need to feel unsure about whether all your progress will be waiting for you next time you log on.

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Eiyuden Chronicle Rising will be an action RPG.

The post Eiyuden Chronicle Rising Will Release in Spring 2022 appeared first on Siliconera.

The NieR creator was also surprised at how limited MMORPGs were compared to console games.

The post Yoko Taro Wanted FFXIV YoRHa Dark Apocalypse to be Meaningful on its Own appeared first on Siliconera.

In 2005, Bandai and Namco merged, and the following year, Bandai Namco was born. To mark the new conglomerate, the company got a yellow, red, and orange logo with the company’s name in white font. It’s not a bad look, and stands out among Japanese game companies. But next year, Bandai Namco is getting a redesigned…

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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Original Sin, a classic from the real old days, and something strange and wonderful.

If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive.

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A new development roadmap for Assassin's Creed Valhalla has highlighted four content drops coming this autumn.

Several things stand out. First, the upcoming Oskoreia Festival due sometime later this season. Interestingly, this is not the Halloween Samhain festival fans were expecting - an event which also forms part of Valhalla's main campaign.

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EA "unintentionally released" FIFA 22 OTW pre-order player packs before OTW player items were in the game, it's said.

This Ultimate Team-focused pre-order bonus relates to coveted Ones to Watch cards - special versions of players who made high-profile summer transfers. Examples this year include Lionel Messi, who moved from Barcelona to PSG, and Cristiano Ronaldo, who left Juventus for Manchester United.

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A film version of hugely-popular horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy's has been delayed due to controversial creator Scott Cawthon, and the project's director has now left.

Harry Potter and Home Alone director Chris Colombus was on board to direct the FNAF film adaptation, which was set to begin shooting in spring this year.

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eFootball's disastrous launch has gone from bad to worse - it's currently the most-hated game on Steam, according to user reviews.

Yesterday Eurogamer published impressions of the free-to-download football game, which launched on PC and console in extremely limited form.

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To fire some of Destiny 2's guns at their fastest possible rate, you need to click six times per second. This sucks. This especially sucks if you have physical issues which impede rapid clicking. Honestly, with these semi-auto weapon archetypes I've often looked for rolls with the Full Auto Trigger System perk to spare my hands. So it's grand to hear from Bungie's new accessibility initiative that yep, they're planning to add some sort of accessibility option enabling automatic fire. In some way.

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The Ninja class features a throwable ability that allows players to teleport in a puff of smoke.

The post FFVII The First Soldier To Add a New Ninja Class appeared first on Siliconera.

This RPG had several Final Fantasy series alumni's working on it.

The post Dungeon Encounters Announced, Release Date Set for October appeared first on Siliconera.

The company's new purpose statement is "Fun for All into the Future."

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Atlus is continuing to release its long series of trailers focusing on the over 200+ demons of its upcoming JRPG Shin Megami Tensei V.

This time around we get to see the gameplay of Cereberus, another demon that has been around for basically forever in the series.

You can watch it below.

During a livestream from Tokyo Game Show 2021 in Japan, developer Light revealed a brand new visual novel title Magatsu Barai.

Light is pretty well known among visual novel fans for its previous series like Dies Irae, Silverio Ragnarok, and many more.

The new visual novel will be released on Nintendo Switch and the Japanese release date is January 27, 2022.

Below you can check out the first trailer and a few images from the accompanying press release.

During a livestream from Tokyo Game Show 2021 in Japan, Kadokawa Games presented new gameplay of its strategy JRPG Relayer.

We get to see various gameplay mechanics and options, on top of the beautiful animations for the attacks which may be reminiscent of games like Super Robot Wars, but in 3D.

You can check it out below.

If you’d like to learn more about Relayer, we recently published an extensive interview with producer and director Yoshimi Yasuda.

Shirakami Fubuki, Shirogane Noel, and Omaru Polka will exercise their acting chops in this game.

The post Hololive VTubers Will Voice Characters in Little Witch Nobeta appeared first on Siliconera.

Naturally, this logo features artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

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The new trailer unveils some memorable characters reimagined for a new audience.

The post Final Fantasy Origin Release Date Announced at TGS2021 appeared first on Siliconera.

The most beautiful Magus of Flowers is ready to cast her spell on you next year.

The post FGOAC Merlin Prototype Nendoroid Available for Pre-Order appeared first on Siliconera.

“You are a little mouse with a sword! And you really hate crystals!” Is how I would pitch Beast Breaker if I were in a loud bar and a mysterious stranger asked me for a game recommendation. This has not happened to me yet, but maybe it will someday.

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At this point in the series' life, what exactly is a Final Fantasy game? Sometimes it's nice to be reminded, as we've been a couple of times in recently, it's whatever the hell it wants to be: a colourful karter with chocobos and moogles going wheel-to-wheel across lysergic race tracks, or a dour action game smeared in early noughties edginess.

I'm not here to talk about Chocobo GP today I'm afraid - though good lord am I looking forward to trying that out - and rather to provide a brief update on Stranger of Paradise, Team Ninja's muscular Final Fantasy spin-off that debuted to much bemusement at Square Enix's E3 show back in June.

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Amazon has asked new New World players to join servers with low wait times as it works on increasing the population caps of existing servers.

New World had a huge launch this week, reaching a peak of 758,543 concurrent players on Steam. It's the fifth most-popular game ever on Steam, according to peak concurrents.

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The chaos-filled Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin arrives for PC via the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 18th March 2022.

Square Enix just announced the date during its Tokyo Games Show 2021 livestream, and also showed a fresh (and overall, much better) trailer for the much-memed game.

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Desperate to find out how to get unstuck in New World? It's always a good thing when developers add an "unstuck" feature into their game - particularly a sprawling MMORPG like New World where getting your character stuck in bits of landscape is more common than you might think. Fortunately, it is possible to get unstuck in New World, and this quick walkthrough will explain how to do it.

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Spin-offs are dead handy. You take an established character that's already known, stick them in a new environment full of fresh characters, and you've got yourself a Frasier. Bingo bango, job's a goodun. It's a format that's done the business in television, so no wonder video games have followed suit.

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Action adventure Dream Cycle certainly feels like an early access game. Animations are stiff, the audio mix is a bit funky, and it doesn't really have a save system yet. But look past the jank and I reckon there's a bright future ahead of Cathuria Games' latest. The studio was set up by Toby Gard, one of the folks who helped create Lara Croft, the tomb-raiding OG, so there's adventure pedigree at the helm, even if Dream Cycle bears no real resemblance to Tomb Raider. However, if you're into Skyrim and Dishonored, I'd definitely urge you to keep an eye on its progress.

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Want to know if you can change your name in New World? It's a common tale of woe among MMO players: your ideal name is already taken, so you have to settle for an inferior moniker. Then later you realise that it just doesn't sit right and you need a name name to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies. But can it be done? Find out whether you can rename your character in New World below.

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How long is New World's AFK timer? Amazon's gigantic new MMO New World has had quite a launch week — with players reporting hours-long queue times before they can even set foot on the island of Aeternum — and we've not even had the first weekend yet. Amazon have promised more and bigger servers to handle the demand, which they say will begin rolling out within the next two weeks.

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Today Koei Tecmo released a new trailer of the upcoming remaster of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water.

The trailer provides an extensive overview of the game, including both the gameplay and its dark story.

You can check it out below.

If you’re unfamiliar with Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, you can read an official description below and watch the first trailer.

The game releases for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam on Oct. 28.

During Bandai Namco’s livestream from Tokyo Game Show, the publisher had new reveals to make about the upcoming idol management and rhythm game The Idolmaster: Starlit Season.

We get to see a brand new trailer showcasing all the idols available in the game, on top a music video with the brand new theme song titled “GR@TITUDE.”

On top of that, we also take a look at gameplay featuring the song “ToP!!!!!!!!!!!!!” That’s quite appropriate since the song debuted in Stella Stage.

We also learn that an Ace Combat collaboration will be launched as DLC to celebrate the recent sales milestone for Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. Previous collaborations between the series saw the Idolmaster’s idols painted on Ace Combat’s aircraft. This time it’s the opposite, with the idols getting to wear an ADF-11F Raven-inspired costume.

You can check out all the videos and the costume below.