October 2021

A few months have passed since Square Enix announced the new mobile game Echoes of Mana, and they revealed a new trailer today.

The new trailer showcases the gameplay, on top of providing a look at the characters in action. Since this is an all-star game including characters from all Mana games (on top of new ones), they should prove familiar to fans of the series.

You can watch it below.

Echoes of Mana (in Japanese the title is Seiken Densetsu: Echoes of Mana) is coming in spring 2022. We already know that it’ll also arrive in the west.

If you’re not into mobile games, we know that Square Enix is working on a new mainline Mana title, but we don’t really know anything about it.

On top of that, an anime version of Legend of Mana titled Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal is being developed by Warner Bros. Japan.

It appears that the future is bright for the Mana series, and we’ll keep you posted on any news as soon as it’ll be shared.

During the Square Enix Presents broadcast from Tokyo Game Show 2021, the publisher showcased news and a brand new trailer of Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin.

First of all, we learn the release date of the game, it’ll be out on March 18th, 2022 PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

On top of that, a new demo for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S will be released today including a new stage. Part of the player feedback from the first demo has also been implemented in this one.

In the trailer below, we get to see new characters and plenty of gameplay. Also, no one mentioned killing Chaos.

If you’d like to see more about Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin, which is actually developed by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja, you can check out the original trailer and the first screenshots and art.

Today, at the Square Enix presentation during Tokyo Game Show 2021, Ateam revealed a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier. The game is set 30 years prior to the events of Final Fantasy VII, placing players in the shoes of a fresh-faced Soldier candidate who must use their abilities to fight to the death in a battle royale. Check out the new footage for yourself below.

Revealed back in February, Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier is a free-to-play battle royal game coming to iOS and Andriod later this year. You can check out an official description below.

In FINAL FANTASY VII THE FIRST SOLDIER, players will embark on an intense battle royale experience where they must fight to be the last SOLDIER standing. To do so, players will use magic and special abilities along with ranged and melee weapons to triumph on the battlefield. Players can choose between various styles, such as Warrior, Sorcerer or Monk, each of whom boast unique special abilities.

Bandai Namco also announced an Ace Combat-themed DLC costume for the new Idolmaster game at TGS 2021.

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Hololive Myth's Calliope Mori has a new song out called "End of a Life." It is available to stream and buy, and there's a music video.

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Stranger of Paradise will also explore Jack's transformation into Chaos.

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A brand new trailer for Triangle Strategy showed off both allies and their abilities during combat.

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There’s a scene near the start of the first episode of Korean Netflix phenomenon Squid Game where main character, Seong Gi-hun, is repeatedly trying and failing to get a prize from a claw machine. He’s just been beaten up, lost gambling winnings he’d only possessed for a few minutes, and he’s trying to win a…

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The Touryst, first released on Switch in 2019 and Xbox in 2020, has finally made its way over to PS4 and PS5. But the PS5 port of this tropical, adventure-filled puzzler carries a special distinction: It’s the first 8K/60 FPS console game ever officially released. But don’t go rushing out to buy an 8K TV just yet.

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Halo Infinite's latest technical tests are in full flight. Last weekend, the action kicked off with the trio of maps we saw in the initial preview, backed by new game maps, offline training options and the surprise debut of a new 'Behemoth' map. The testing continues this weekend, and the arrival of big team battles is enticing. Based on what we played, the console versions are looking more impressive overall - and there's good news in terms of improvements to the game's performance modes on Xbox Series X and, perhaps surprisingly, Xbox One X.

However, the truth is that for the most part, the technical make-up of Halo Infinite is mostly unchanged from the game's multiplayer test debut. So, to recap, Xbox One S is clearly the most challenged version. It attempts to run at 1080p but has aggressive dynamic resolution scaling, independently shifting pixel counts on both the horizontal and vertical resolutions. This can look rather rough, a situation not helped by a 30fps cap that sees new frames delivered unevenly, adding extra choppiness. However, it is Halo Infinite, it is playable and while you'll be disadvantaged playing against Xbox users on any other console, it is still enjoyable.

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Everyone's doing the multiverse these days. Fortnite. Tom Holland. Next up is What Lies in the Multiverse, a story-focused side-scroller from indie developers Studio Voyager and IguanaBee.

A press release accompanying today's trailer promises a dramatic comedy story and 2D platforming, but it's the game's seamless transitions between dimensions which truly catch the eye.

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Bandai Namco has inflicted a new company logo upon the world.

Here's the logo the company behind Tekken, Gundam and Pac-Man has now:

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A remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 is reportedly in the works, with Konami handing development to Virtuos Studios.

That's according to a VGC report that also lists a number of other upcoming, unannounced Konami projects, such as remasters of other Metal Gear Solid titles, and a new Castlevania "reimagining" being worked on internally, all due to be announced next year.

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Konami has issued a statement on eFootball following its disastrous launch this week.

If you've read our impressions of the game, which launched in extremely limited form this week as a free download, you'll know of the many issues currently affecting Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer follow-up.

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With Black Friday 2021 just around the corner retailers are starting to go live with their deals for this year's sale. Some of the most popular deals to pop up in Black Friday sales are those on gaming monitors, and whether you're buying for a new desktop, replacing a monitor or buying a second one for dual-screen gaming and work, we've listed the best deals you can grab on gaming monitors along with any early Black Friday discounts that are live right now.

Don't forget to bookmark this page as we'll be updating it regularly as soon as new deals get announced.

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Bloober Team has most recently became known as the studio behind The Medium and Observer, but it all started with its Layers of Fear franchise. The studio announced during Tokyo Game Show that it is returning to its roots with a third game in the series slated for 2022.

The new game remains untitled for now but is being made in Unreal Engine 5. A teaser trailer establishes an unsettling atmosphere while ostensibly showing off the game’s presumed graphical fidelity. 

Square Enix’s Tokyo Game Show presentation provided a chaotic new look at Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. A beefy new trailer delivered confirmation that Team Ninja’s wacky spin-off/prequel to Final Fantasy 1 arrives on March 18.

The new trailer shows off more the game’s action-heavy combat as Jack and his fellow warriors of light, Ash and Jed, are joined by a new party member named Neon. The foursome is on a journey to kill Chaos, employing a flashy moveset of melee and magic attacks to get the job done. Today’s trailer provided additional story teases and revealed some of the strange personalities you’ll encounter during your journey. One of them is a pirate. In addition to today’s video, Square Enix is planning a dedicated Stranger or Paradise livestream for October 2.

This week's episode of the Ultimate Audio Bang is marked by competition. Imogen and I quiz each other on all things shooter trivia, and someone knows more than the other. Anyway, before that, there's plenty of news to catch up on. Call Of Duty: Vanguard has fixed a weird dognado glitch, time-loopy shooter Lemnis Gate is out, Halo: Infinite tech preview number two arrives very soon, and Overwatch 2 announces some reworks. Spoiler alert: Bastion now has a hat.

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The Forza Horizon 5 PC system requirements are out in full, and hoo boy, are you gonna need the best graphics cards to max it out. Revealed in a blog post, the new specs both update the previously listed Minimum requirements on Steam, and include an “Ideal” tier on top of the Recommended requirements. This doesn’t specify a particular resolution, but does ask for either an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon Radeon RX 6800 XT as the GPU – two of the most powerful, expensive, difficult to buy graphics cards on the market.

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I accepted long ago that If the yoof ever do the right thing, I'll probably be dragged out into the street and shot along with all the other old bastards, despite hating them just as much.

That's sort of what Svoboda 1945 Colon Liberation is about. Dynamics like that happen, especially as fascists and collaborators lie and deny everything, so there'll always be collateral in the wake of revenge on a large enough scale.

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I immediately fell in love with Strange Horticulture when I played the demo, and now I've had a few hours with a longer, more polished preview build I am even more in loverer. I do not understand why this is not everyone's most anticipated game ever. Imagine if all the horrible shouting griefers playing war games put down their weapons and picked up a strange plant and a taxonomic tome. What a world that would be! Certainly a world with more plant shops, anyway, though probably not (m)any as strange as Strange Horticulture.

You inherit this shop, along with its secrets, a folding map of the area to go exploring, and shelves of odd plant specimins. Sometimes it is raining. It is a real October vibe. There is a strange mystery, involving cultist and murder - a stranger in a beautiful jade mask comes to the shop, sometimes, as well as the detective struggling to solve a number of troubling murders in the area. But what care I for that? I am deep role-playing as a horticulturist.

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Wondering how to transfer your character to a different server in New World? Amazon's titanic MMORPG New World is full to bursting with players across its various servers and realms, but as with all such games, some servers are going to be more preferable to certain players than others. Whether it's about dodging long wait times and lag, or just joining the same realm as your friends, most players want to know sooner or later about character transfers and how they work.

Read on to find out how and when you can transfer your character over to another server in New World.

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Square Enix today announced new game Dungeon Encounters, and surprise, it's launching in only a fortnight. The dungeon crawler is directed by Hiroyuki Ito, who directed Final Fantasy VI, IX, and XII, as well as creating the Active Time Battle system. Some other FF veterans are onboard too. But more important than all that is: along with all manner of warriors, possible party members include a giant cat named Sir Cat, a dog holding a sword in its mouth, and a hamster. Yes, thanks.

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Square Enix today announced a release date of March 18th, 2022 for Stranger Of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin, the curious action-RPG spin-off made by the studio behind Nioh, Team Ninja. A new trailer is here too and I have to say it looks more Final Fantasy-y and less less ha-ha-hilariously edgy than June's announcement trailer. It still looks plenty edgy, mind: watch out for the poor wee cactrot which gets... turned into a blood crystal and exploded?

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During the Tokyo Game Show earlier today, Forspoken Co-Director Takefumi Terada and Creative Producer Raio Mitsuno both sat down to talk about their upcoming action RPG. In the interview, the Luminous Productions developers detail plenty of information about the game’s world, characters, and magic system, including a lot of background on the game’s protagonist Frey.

Played by Ella Balinska, Frey Holland is a smart, but slightly immature 20-year old woman that lives in New York during the events of Forspoken. Due to a difficult upbringing, she doesn’t trust the world much at all and tends to use sarcasm and humor to deflect attention from her own vulnerability.

When she is one day transported into a mysterious world, called Athia, Frey finds that she not only has powers but that a talking magical bracelet, named Cuff, is attached to her arm. Together, the two beings must work together to help get Frey home.

While Mitsuno stated it’ll be a bit longer until more information can be revealed about Cuff, he did explain that the bracelet’s relationship with Frey will be an interesting and important one.

Cuff is actually very important to the story, as it guides the player and Frey to their next destination. What is interesting is that Cuff and Frey are two peas in a pod.

They are both extremely blunt and will say whatever they think. This means the two of them are constantly bickering and I think that is one of the game’s highlights.

Forspoken Creative Producer Raio Mitsuno

The Forspoken Creative Producer ended this question by stating that both Frey and Cuff will have a lot of lines of dialogue. In fact, conversations will even spill over into battle, resulting in some pretty chaotic conversations.

If a metric ton of trailers of Shin Megami Tensei V weren’t enough for you, Sega revealed new gameplay today during its livestream from Tokyo Game Show.

We get to see some battle gameplay and the traditional negotiations. On top of that, the video showcases the demon combination menu.

You can check it out below.

Shin Megami Tensei V releases for Nintendo Switch on Nov. 12, 2021. If you’re unfamiliar with it, you can enjoy and a brief official description below, hinting at the story.

“When a grisly murder scene in modern-day Tokyo blocks our protagonist’s walk home, an unplanned detour leaves him buried and unconscious.

He awakens in a new Tokyo, a wasteland ravaged by apocalypse now called Da’at… but before bloodthirsty demons can claim his life, a savior emerges, and they unite to become a mighty being neither human nor demon: a Nahobino.

Earlier today during the Square Enix Presents Tokyo Game Show 2021 stream, the dungeon-crawling title Dungeon Encounters was revealed. This is the first game that Director Hiroyuki Ito (FFVI, IX, XII) will be heading up in quite a few years.

Dungeon Encounters appears to have a fairly simplistic aesthetic with a flat, almost textureless ground that a 3D character moves through. Each square space in a dungeon is blank until the player character takes a step there and then it fills in the space.

Besides just moving in straight lines, it looks like there will also be abilities in Dungeon Encounters that let your character move to nearby paths that are adjacent or on a diagonal. But there are plenty of pitfalls and enemies to get in the way while traversing the dungeons.

The battle system appears to be straightforward. On either side of the screen, there are portraits of your party and enemies. In the display, you can see levels and HP meters, but there are no animated enemies or characters. The only battle animations are from attacks by you or your enemies.

Throughout the trailer, there were multiple classical music arrangements played on electric guitar. However, there’s no indication that any of the music in the trailer will be in the game at all.

You can pick up Dungeon Encounters when it releases very soon for PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Steam) on Oct. 14. And don’t forget to check out the official reveal trailer for Dungeon Encounters down below.

Today during the Tokyo Game Show 2021 presentation, we got a look at a new, extended trailer for the upcoming tactical RPG from Square Enix, Triangle Strategy.

The trailer shows us that 30 years have passed since the Saltiron War ravaged the land of Norzelia. Three nations enjoyed a brief moment of peace.

We meet Serenoa Wolffort, a young lord of one of Glenbrook’s high houses as well as Frederica, a lady of Aesfrost. The two are engaged to be married, though their nations once again find themselves in war with each other.

We’re also introduced to characters such as armmaster Erador Ballentine of House Wolffort, spy Anna Pascal of House Wolffort, kingsguard Hughette Bucklar of Kingdom of Glenbrook, and tutor Geela Breisse of Aesfrost.

The trailer emphasizes that the convictions of these characters will shape the battles that lie ahead, using their abilities to gain victory.

Triangle Strategy will feature branching paths where your choices and actions determine your conviction, affecting the fate of you and your allies.

Finally, the trailer shows off a collector’s pack that will be able to be preordered on the official Square Enix store. It includes a metallic nano puzzle to represent the scales of conviction, transparent playing cards with pixel character art, a four-disc soundtrack, and a deluxe handkerchief.

Last week during a Nintendo Direct, we learned that the developers of Triangle Strategy made changes to the game based on a demo and player feedback from earlier in the year, with improvements such as difficulty selection and improved on-screen visuals.

The next Persona Love Live! School Idol Festival event announcement revealed how nine Aqours members' Persona SSR designs will look.

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Heal yourself with Medislime slippers, or feel like royalty while standing on a King Slime bathmat.

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The latest character to join Square Enix's FFVII Remake plush collection is Yuffie, who is wearing her Moogle hood from INTERmission.

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Nintendo shared a sample of one of the new pieces of Splatoon 3 music we'll hear in-game. It's from a new "band" called C-Side.

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The developers behind Chain Chronicle are working on this new mobile RPG.

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Whenever I think about the Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins E3 trailer, the lasting impression of the game isn’t the fact that it is a Final Fantasy game or even its admittedly cool combat. No, the only thing that comes to mind is how the protagonist just really wants to kill chaos. But after seeing the…

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Yesterday, Twitch announced it will test a new feature that allows streamers and their audiences to pay for heightened visibility. Currently, only a select number of accounts participating in Twitch’s research initiative have access to the feature. Despite this, streamers are, unsurprisingly, not very happy about this…

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