December 2021

Alan Wake’s studio is trying something new

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Where fun is always experienced against a looming danger

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Is it hypocritical to make a sequel about sequels? Who cares?

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Fan-inspired Green Hill Zone set goes up for sale soon

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$80 million to female workers, plus ‘substantial systemic changes’

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The daily game giveaways are still underway When I say “couch co-op,” I mean it! Moving Out is a fumbling...

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‘New Age Space Opera’ preparing to raise the curtain Kadokawa Games has announced that its cool-looking strategy battler Relayer will...

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The League of Legends publisher agrees to settle the 2018 class-action suit Riot Games announced on Monday that it will agree to...

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Gotta build fast It’s the Blue Blur’s turn to get brought to life in Lego form. Lego has announced an...

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I hear you like to watch There seems to be no stopping the steamroller success of the internet’s premier live-streaming...

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Ambitious plans for the Japanese studio With 2022 bearing down on us this week, developers and publishers will be gearing...

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You ever do something in your home and think it’s cool, then share it with people online only to get roasted for ruining someone else’s happiness? That’s what’s happening to internet personality Logan Paul, who encased a bunch of beautiful Game Boy Colors in resin to make a Pokémon tabletop.

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Back in 2018, Hajime Tabata left Square Enix to form his own studio JP Games. Apparently, he’s ready to return to the genre that made him well known, JRPGs.

Tabata-san’s latest release in the genre is Final Fantasy XV, which he directed. He also worked on previous titles of the series, like Final Fantasy Type-0.

After forming JP Games, he released something completely different in the form of the virtual world connected with the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics The Pegasus Dream Tour.

Yet, he has also been working on a new JRPG, and he talked about it within an extensive article published by Japanese website 4Gamer, in which local developers shared their plans for next year.

Tabata-san mentioned that looks like he’ll be able to reveal his new JRPG in 2022. His goal for the year is to expand JP Games’ business in games and in the metaverse.

Speaking of the metaverse, JP games is also working on that kind of application for the airline All Nippon Airways (ANA), with the recently announced “Sky Whale.”

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Koei Tecmo had a quite active 2021, with several new releases, but it appears that 2022 holds some interesting potential as well.

Today Japanese website 4Gamer published an extensive article in which local developers shared their plans for 2022, and that includes several from the Yokohama-based developer.

We hear from Yosuke Hayashi, whom you may remember for his work on the Dead or Alive series, currently working as the general manager of the entertainment division.

He mentions that in 2022 Koei Tecmo will reveal games that have been in the works for several years and that will pave the way for the future of the company. According to Hayashi-san, they will show the “full power of the current Koei Tecmo.”

President and CEO Hisashi Koinuma echoed him by mentioning that 2022 will mark the release of several games developed by the company.

Team Ninja brand director Fumihiko Yasuda asks fans to look forward to future titles, including the action game set in the Three Kingdom era and another that he is personally directing, that is finally taking shape after years of planning.

Last, but not least, producer Yosuke Kikuchi, known for the Fatal Frame series, mentioned that in 2022 his team will challenge the development of something that they have never done before. It will take a long time before it can be announced, but he’d like to create something fun via trial and error.

Like the prior year, 2021 turned out to be unusual for the tabletop role-playing hobby. Many gaming groups began or continued to play remotely over video, while others made tentative steps back into in-person get-togethers. But regardless of the extenuating circumstances affecting weekly playgroups, publishers continued to release a bevy of superb new game systems, setting books, adventures, and supporting products.

Below are 10 of the very best RPG products of 2021. To discover more awesome tabletop games of all kinds, including lists featuring the best board games of this year or the top games from previous years, feel free to peruse our entire Top of the Table hub. And don't miss this feature's companion article, highlighting the Best Board Games of 2021. 

Square Enix has found success with its retro-style JRPGs like Octopath Traveler, and apparently, there is more coming down the line from the same developers.

Octopath Traveler producer Tomoya Asano and Masashi Takahashi, both of whom have also worked on the Bravely Default series and are currently laboring on Triangle Strategy, dropped some teases within an extensive article published by Japanese website 4Gamer, in which local developers shared their plans for next year.

Asano-san mentioned that 2022 will see the release of Triangle Strategy and the 10th anniversary of the Bravely series, but there are multiple announcements and releases coming. According to him, it may be the biggest year ever for the team.

Takahashi-san also echoed that sentiment, mentioning the hope to make a number of announcements in 2022.

No further hints were provided about the nature of said announcements, but considering the developers’ resumes, there are certainly plenty of reasons to be excited.

Could we hear about a new Octopath Traveler game (this time for consoles, hopefully), of something else entirely? We’ll likely know later next year.

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"On behalf of the entire NFL family, we extend our condolences to Virginia, Mike, Joe and their families," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "We all know him as the Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders and broadcaster who worked for every major network, but more than anything, he was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.

"Nobody loved football more than Coach. He was football. He was an incredible sounding board to me and so many others. There will never be another John Madden, and we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the NFL what it is today."

John Madden was born in Austin, Minnesota on April 10, 1936, and quickly became a star in the world of football. He was drafted in the 21st round of the NFL draft in 1958 to the Philadelphia Eagles, but he injured his knee during his first training camp and never had the chance to play in the NFL.

Legendary commentator, broadcaster, and NFL Hall of Fame coach John Madden has passed away today at the age of 85.

Madden was best known for his role in the NFL as head coach for the Oakland Raiders from 1969–1978, where he led the team to a Super Bowl XI victory in the 1976 season. He later became an unforgettable, bombastic broadcaster for CBS, Fox, ABC, and NBC, covering and commentating on NFL games every week. Along with his memorable advertisements for companies like "Tough Actin'" Tinactin to his various cameos in film and television, he was a nearly inescapable part of American culture for well over 30 years following his successful coaching career.

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John Madden, an NFL legend who is in the Hall of Fame and is the namesake for EA's Madden NFL video game series, has died. He was 85.

Madden died Tuesday morning, the NFL confirmed, as reported by the Associated Press. Madden coached the Oakland Raiders to great success, including a Super Bowl victory in 1976.

After retiring from coaching with the second-highest winning percentage of any coach (behind the legendary Vince Lombardi), he moved on to become an NFL analyst and has won several Emmy awards, we reported in 2009. The heavy travel demanded by Madden's broadcast job was aggravated by a severe fear of flying, leading the analyst to drive from destination to destination in a tricked-out RV called "The Madden cruiser."

As of 2016, Madden was still helping out with the video game series.

What a pleasant surprise Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish are coming back — again! While a bunch of ’90s edutainment adventure...

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After spreading on Twitter, this browser-based game is quickly becoming a daily distraction I have a 100 percent win rate...

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Hello! Over the next few days we're going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!

This Christmas I'm going back to the house where I grew up. It's been more than 15 years since I moved out, and so it is now very definitely my parents' house and not my own - but part of me will always think of it as home.

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Legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden died Tuesday morning, the NFL announced. For fans, no one is more synonymous with football than Madden, and perhaps no one person has done more to bring new people into the game.

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Every year our clone forms degrade, and Katharine spends the winter break copying each consciousness into a new body. Don't worry: we can't feel a thing! Since our new forms are still coming online from their time spent in the primordial flesh soup vat of the RPS Treehouse, we can't post over Christmas, so we've prepared some Christmas Cracker jokes instead! You can help fund the research into longer-lasting clone bodies with the RPS supporter program.

Now, time to enjoy your nice joke!

Q: Which game involves taking a spirit-guide on a magical journey to find a whole grain with excellent health benefits?

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Yoshinori Kitase of Square Enix also commented on series he wanted to work on in 2022.

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Remedy Entertainment, the developer best known for its story-driven third-person action games, such as Alan Wake and Control, has agreed on a partnership with Tencent to develop and distribute an upcoming cooperative shooter codenamed Vanguard. The news comes by way of a press release published yesterday.

The IP is a Remedy original, a free-to-play, co-operative PvE shooter that combines Remedy’s narrative expertise and action gameplay. The game is developed with the Unreal Engine for PC and console platforms. Remedy will develop and publish the game worldwide, excluding selected Asian markets, where Tencent will localize and publish the game.

The game’s development is currently in the proof-of-concept phase. Its development budget up to the end of the first year of live operations will be in the range of a typical Remedy AAA game budget. This development will be co-financed by Remedy and Tencent. In addition, Tencent will localize the game for the selected Asian markets and cover the related localization costs.

As part of the agreement, Remedy has also licensed Tencent worldwide rights to develop and publish a mobile version of the game. Tencent will cover the costs for developing and publishing the mobile version. The parties have agreed on a separate revenue-sharing scheme for the mobile version.

Tero Virtala, CEO of Remedy Entertainment said of this week’s news:

Objection, your Honor! They say that a lawyer with a suitcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns – pretty deep, right? – but if you’ve ever wanted to test that proverb out, then developer ManyDev Studios‘ newly-announced court case murder mystery, The Lawyer, may be just what the, well, attorney ordered.

Feel free to check out the debut trailer for the The Lawyer’s first case down below:

As you can see in the footage above, the first episode is dubbed The Red Bathtub and focuses on the strange murder of young lady whose body is found dead in a – you guessed it! – bathtub.

Of course, each episode will focus on a separate case for players to unravel. Furthermore, players will have to visit the crime scene and piece together the evidence, interview the witnesses, and most importantly, cross-examine the suspects in a courtroom setting to help get to the bottom of the mystery.

Players can roll for Reisalin, Klaudia, and Lila in the new collaboration gacha.

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Immersive sims are tricky games to get right. The spaces need to have incredibly tight design so they feel fun to explore, and lots of ways to get around them. And one of the best games of the year just happens to be one that does that expertly. Hang on, Deathloop? What are you talking about? No, no, the real best immersive sim this year is co-open by lowpolis, obviously!

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Hello! Over the next few days we're going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!

It's not easy finding games to play with other people in the same house. You'll know this if you've tried. It's one of the reasons I was so impressed with It Takes Two earlier in the year. It's not only playable in local co-op but entirely designed for it, which means gameplay solutions require two people rather than can also be played by two people. For instance, one person throws giant nails into a wall while the other person uses the head of a giant claw hammer to swing on them. It's just one example and there are many - the ideas keep changing and they keep coming - and it's brilliant. It Takes Two is probably the best example of dedicated local co-op gaming in years, if not ever.

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With desktop GPUs still hard to come by at standard retail prices, it may be that a gaming laptop is your best bet for PC gaming. And there are some great deals to be had when going portable: the Asus ROG Strix 15 is currently down to £1200 on Amazon, a saving of £200.

The two-hit headline for this laptop is that it packs a high-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor. This means you'll get excellent visual quality when playing the latest games, with DLSS and ray-tracing support, but also the speed that only a fast CPU like the Ryzen 9 can provide.

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This is perhaps the first Genshin Impact web event with the promise of something happening in the real world.

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New games are great, but we also like to honor efforts to preserve and revive older classics! These remakes and remasters did just that.

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A Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster whose name became synonymous with America’s No. 1 sport

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Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
Publisher: PlayStation Studios
Developer: Guerrilla Games
Release: February 18, 2022
Rating: Teen

Horizon Forbidden West’s new setting is teeming with exotic, dangerous, and never-before-seen machines. We already broke down the fearsome Slitherfang, and Guerrilla divulged some additional details on previously revealed robotic creatures. But, for those who haven’t kept track of the game’s fearsome new faces, here’s a handy round-up of the new machines that have been revealed thus far. 

If you’re excited to kill Chaos in Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin, experiencing everything the adventure has to offer will require jumping through an extra hoop. Square Enix has announced that the game will feature additional, downloadable missions that won’t be available at launch. The catch? You can only get them by pre-ordering the game digitally. 

The missions in question are called Trials of the Dragon King, Wanderer of the Rift, and Different Future. There are no details on what they entail content-wise, only that they won’t be available to purchase separately. The only way to access them is via the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game, which runs for $89.99. This means that pre-ordering the physical edition does not include the extra missions, so fans on that side of the fence will be missing out. 

DMM and Koei Tecmo released another trailer of their upcoming Musou game Touken Ranbu Warriors.

The trailer introduces another of the playable characters that we’ll find in the game, Tomoegata Naginata, including both gameplay and cutscenes. It’s the latest of a series of trailers introducing several characters, on top of Ichigo Hitofuri, Namazuo Toushirou, Hyuuga Masamune, Heshikiri Hasebe, and Yagen Toushirou.

He’s voiced by Hirofumi Nojima, who previously voiced Ampel in Atelier Ryza, Shuuya Gouenji in Inazuma Eleven, and more.

You can check the trailer out below.

Halo Infinite is currently facing a bug where bots join multiplayer teams to fill empty slots and then stick around after their actual-human replacements join the match, resulting in unbalanced teams for multiplayer matches.

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Between Smart Delivery, cross-gen optimization and a wealth of Game Pass options? Xbox One owners had a lot of new stuff to play in 2021.

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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi says that he's looking forward to Matsuno's work.

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