The Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates Vita game is heading to the Switch worldwide as Seven Pirates H. People can get digital or physical copies.
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The Genshin Impact Alps web event Enchanting Journey of Snow and Stars passed its goal, and a Teleport Waypoint lighting ceremony is coming.
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I briefly posted before the new year about WorldBox - God Simulator, and Graham wrote about it over the weekend, too. It is a world simulation game that has no resource costs or goals, just simulated events. You make a world, plop some animals and fantasy races into it (and if you want, a bunch of dragons and wizards) and see what happens. I cannot stop playing it. And I wanted to give some more detailed examples of how the simulation works, especially if you just leave it running with little intervention.
I am a WorldBox scientist, you see (though merely a BSc at the moment), and my first experiments suggest that every civilisation, along a long enough time scale, is basically doomed. Big 2022 energy. In the case of WorldBox, this may be because at some stage the scientist running the experiment will get bored and drop in e.g. a tornado. That's okay, because there are almost infinite experiments to run. I hope that isn't how the simulation I am living in is being run. Oh no. Don't think about it.
Elden Ring is seemingly the hype train that just won’t stop and with less than two months to go until release, it is now officially Steam’s most anticipated title.
That’s because From Software’s upcoming action RPG is now the most wishlisted game on Steam. It’s an impressive feat for Elden Ring as Techland’s highly-anticipated sequel to 2015’s Dying Light held that spot for 12 months, as reported by Eurogamer. Steam’s “Top Wishlists” page is a great indicator for Steam player hype, but unfortunately, it does not reveal any specific numbers.
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Following this past weekend’s reveal that doing every single thing in Dying Light 2 Stay Human will take 500 hours (and less than 100 hours to beat the story, complete all side quests, and explore the map), Techland has told Game Informer that the main story of Dying Light 2 can be completed in about 20 hours.
“Completing all the side quests, learning about the world’s history, and engaging with all characters can easily take 80 hours or more, depending on playstyle,” Techland says. “Dying Light 2 takes place in a complex world filled with content and built both broadly and vertically.”
For comparison, Techland says that in the original Dying Light, finishing the main story and all side quests took about 30 hours.
“According to our internal QA testing, it takes about 500 hours to see everything the game offers – find every collectible, listen to every dialogue, fetch every easter egg, finish every possible ending, and visit every corner of the world,” Techland says. “We are fortunate to have a very passionate community of fans who have been returning to the original Dying Light throughout the last seven years, and we know they can’t wait to truly lose themselves in our latest work.”
It’s award season here at Twinfinite. Throughout the month of January, we’ll be taking a look at the very best games from 2021, and in this post, we’ll be revealing the big winner of the best sports & racing game 2021 category.
Voted on by our staff, these were the games that did things a little differently from the usual annualized affairs we’ve seen from some big publishers. These are the games that stuck in our mind long after playing them and had us coming back for more throughout the year.
After announcing one of the biggest acquisitions in game industry history, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick named his company's biggest franchises. It contained some expected names, and one outlier – Midnight Club, which hasn't seen a new release since October 2008.
Speaking in an investor call, Zelnick was laying out how he wants new acquisition Zynga to help bring its biggest franchises to mobile. Before doing so, Zelnick named some of the company's key properties: "Our labels are home to some of the most iconic brands in the world, including Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Midnight Club, NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Sid Meier's Civilization, Mafia, and Kerbal Space Program."
It's a list of heavy-hitters from across Take-Two's developers, but Midnight Club feels a little out of place. Every name on that list has seen a new release in recent years, or is currently seeing development of a new one – except the Rockstar-developed Racing Series, which saw the release of Midnight Club: Los Angeles in 2008, before going dormant.
It's not clear exactly why Zelnick brought the game up in this context, although it's possible he's alluding to the series getting a mobile version in future. Within Zelnick's presentation to investors, Midnight Club is also included on a list of console and PC franchises that Take-Two sees as potential opportunities for mobile development.
Sony's rumoured reboot of Twisted Metal is reportedly no longer under the remit of Lucid Games and instead has been handed over to one of Sony's first-party studios.
In a report by VGC, sources told the outlet that a reboot of the car combat series is still on the cards but that it is no longer being developed by UK-based studio Lucid Games – which created PS5 exclusive Destruction All-Stars – and instead has been handed over to one of its first-party studios in Europe.
Sony's European studios include Guerrilla Games (Horizon: Forbidden West), Housemarque (Returnal), London Studio (Blood & Truth), Media Molecule (Dreams), and new acquisitions Nixxes and Firesprite.
At present, neither Sony nor Lucid Games have inclined to comment in regard to the report. VGC states that the sources providing the information did not give a reason for Sony's change in developer, though one person did suggest that the mixed reception to Destruction AllStars could have factored into the decision.
AllStars was met with muted reviews when it launched last year. In our very own rundown of the game, we awarded it a 6/10, stating that it contained a "disappointing lack of depth beneath the loud crashes, bangs, and wallops that feel so exciting at first."
Grand Theft Auto parent company Take-Two just bought Zynga in a practically unprecedented $12.7 billion deal, and part of the reasoning is that it wants the opportunity to bring some of its biggest console and PC game properties to mobile.
In an investor presentation following the announcement of the deal, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick discussed the deal and presented a slideshow to investors. Under a slide titled, 'Product Portfolios are Highly Complementary', Take-Two shows how the company's respective games and studios can be used in tandem.
Of particular interest to many fans will be the line-up of Take-Two games, with the likes of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, BioShock and Mafia listed alongside a caption reading, "Opportunity to bring Take-Two's console/PC properties to mobile & add new game modes". Those games are paired with a list of Zynga's in-house studios, which are listed as having a "track record of successfully executing mobile game development."
We've known it's coming for some time. Initial press and controller imagery from Sony was swiftly augmented by leaked specifications, now fully fleshed out via an announcement from Jim Ryan himself at CES 2022, along with more details from the PlayStation Blog. PlayStationVR 2 is now official and it's looking hugely exciting. In fact, from our perspective, high-end VR gaming in general needs a shot in the arm in a world where the mobile-based Oculus Quest 2 reigns supreme and the success of PlayStationVR 2 is our best chance of this happening.
The specs reveal a headset that pushes back boundaries in many directions, building significantly upon the successes of the first PSVR, radically improving screen fidelity, boosting immersion and ridding the platform of the complicated set-up that proved so frustrating for PS4 owners. On that latter point, PSVR2 should literally be plug and play: there's no breakout box, no external camera, no mixture of various USB and HDMI cables - everything is routed through USB-C, meaning that PSVR2 should simply plug directly into the front of the console and you're good to go.
It's a new year and I've got a whole bunch of interesting people lined up for the Eurogamer Podcast already. Last year was great, relaunching the show, and the six episodes we've had should really give you an idea of where I want it to go. (Remember to check out the episode with departing editor-in-chief Oli Welsh if you haven't already, and then chase it with the Martin Robinson episode, because he's our new editor-in-chief.)
But remember, this is a show I want to consistently improve, so if you have any suggestions, I would genuinely love to hear them. Your support of the website is why I'm able to spend time on this so your opinion really matters. I hope you're enjoying the series so far.
Sci-fi muder mystery Among Us saw its popularity soar again last month after it finally came to Xbox and PlayStation. On PS4 and PS5 specifically, it was the most downloaded game for December, beating out Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Call of Duty: Vanguard for the top spot. Nothing sus about that.
As we get closer to Elden Ring’s February 25 launch, footage of its character creator has leaked, and fans of the upcoming action-RPG think it looks dope. In fact, folks are saying it looks better than the character creators in FromSoftware’s previous games, like Bloodborne and Dark Souls III.
While the cast hasn't been announced yet, Sega revealed the Sonic Frontiers voice acting and subtitle languages.
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Ahead of the Alchemy Stars Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid event, details about all five characters who will appear were revealed.
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In August 2022, the Street Fighter series will turn 35, and Capcom shared the official art for its 35th anniversary logo.
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The RPS team is expanding! With Imogen's departure at the end of last year, RPS is now looking for a new News Reporter to join us - and you can apply right here.
The first-paced first-person face-shooting of Serious Sam 4 will soon spread to Siberia in a standalone expansion, publishers Devolver Digital announced today. Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem will launch on the 25th of January, boasting newness including new missions, new monsters, new weapons, new vehicles, and more. See some of the violence in the announcement trailer, below.
As we’ve already seen from the demo, the PC version of Monster Hunter Rise spruces itself up considerably from the Nintendo Switch original. It’s not a match for Monster Hunter World on overall visual fidelity and detail, but the upside is that it’s easy to go a-huntin’ at high frame rates even if you’re on low end hardware. To whit, Monster Hunter Rise’s PC requirements go even lower than World’s, only asking for a GT 1030 or Radeon RX 550 at minimum.
After the roaring success of Monster Hunter: World back in 2018, the idea that the next big PC entry in Capcom's dino pants craft 'em up is a game that originally started life on the Nintendo Switch is bound to ruffle a few feathers. But far from being a step down from World, Monster Hunter Rise is every bit its equal - and Capcom's stellar work with this PC port has given it a much-needed buff and polish to really make it shine. Not only does Rise offer the same seamless and expansive environments as World, but it also adds a few new twists to make tracking down its titular titans even more enjoyable.
Zynga, the company whose games made being Facebook friends with your family even more annoying, are selling to Take-Two. The owners of Rockstar and 2K plan to buy up Zynga shares in a deal that'll value the company at $12.7 billion (£9.4b). Take-Two hope to use Zynga's social and mobile expertise to make more games based on their games. Sure sure, #business and all, but I'd rather spend that much money on 9.8 billion Greggs sausage rolls instead of Grand Theft Autoville or something.
One of the presents I got for Christmas this year was a copy of PS5 exclusive Spider-Man: Miles Morales. I had about a week where I was completely by myself this year, and I spent it being Spidey and self-yeeting around New York. It's a great game on many levels, and I especially liked that one of the outfits you can unlock through story missions is a scarf and ear warmers. Mostly though, it's just made me think that web-swinging is the most fun way to get around in games, and more games should do it. By "more games", I mean "every game".
Netflix is developing a "Scott Pilgrim" anime with creator and graphic novel artist Bryan Lee O’Malley.
This news comes by way of The Hollywood Reporter, which reports that O’Malley will also write and executive produce the series based on his cult-classic graphic novel series (and subsequent film). Netflix is developing the adaptation with UPC, the group behind Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy and SyFy’s Chucky TV series.
Click here to watch embedded mediaO’Malley is writing and and executive producing this Scott Pilgrim anime alongside the showrunner for Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? series, Ben David Grabinski. However, it’s important to note that a series order has not been made, so the anime isn’t entirely off the ground just yet – it’s simply in the works for now. If it’s picked up for a full series order, O’Malley and Grabinski will serve as the showrunners.
The Riddler is an infamous Batman villain and one of the smartest in the world's greatest detective's rogues gallery. Having been around for decades, first appearing in Detective Comics #140 back in 1948, the character has been through countless iterations.
There’s the green tights version the world first met in 1948 and that slowly evolved into a green suit with purple accents. We also got more on-the-nose versions with some Riddler iterations dawning a costume covered in question marks and sometimes carrying a question mark cane.
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Frank Gorshin’s Riddler from the 1960s Adam West Batman series (and movie) played with both the green suit look and the green tights look. Then, we saw Jim Carrey step into those tights in 1995’s Batman Forever and that was the last silver screen appearance of the villain. However, we saw another take on the Riddler in that Gotham TV show years back, and that put Edward Nygma back in the flashy suit.
***Warning the following video contains major spoilers for Attack on Titan. We’d recommend simply listening to the video instead of watching it if you haven’t seen up until the events of Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2.***
After what feels like an eternity, Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2 finally arrived last night, starting off the second half of what appears to be the end of this amazing journey. To celebrate the second half of the final season, MAPPA released a brand new opening theme song for the show; and man is it ever a banger.
Titled The Rumbling, this OP is fully voiced in English, featuring a metal vibe to it. You can check it and the lyrics for yourself down below.
Rumbling, Rumbling, it’s coming
Rumbling, RumblingBeware
coming for you
all I ever wanted to do was do right things
I never wanted to be the king, I swear
all I ever wanted to do was save your life
I never wanted to grab a knife, I sweartearless, fearless, burning, burning
you tell me what have I missed
still wandering in the deep mist
With only a few days left till the premiere of the next installment in the Scream franchise, horror fans are sitting on the edge of their seats in anticipation of getting to see the return of Ghostface, Gale, Dewey, and Sidney. As a means of celebrating the upcoming release of the film, Paramount allowed well-known horror Youtubers Dead Meat an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of the most iconic houses in horror.
As you can see in the video below, hosts James and Chelsea explore the house where memorable scenes occurred, as they explore the bedroom where Sidney realizes Billy is the Ghostface killer, the kitchen where Billy and Stu reveal their master plan, and the living room where Randy lays out the rules of horror.
There are a bunch of other cool things about Stu Macher’s house shown off in the video, including some awesome stain glass windows that feature everyone’s favorite killer, Ghostface. For more fun horror videos, be sure to check out Dead Meat’s official channel, including plenty of great ones that go through every kill in your favorite horror movies.
Today, Devolver Digital announced Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, a “stand-alone expansion” to the series will be launching exclusively on Steam. This announcement also comes with a release date, January 25 2022. You certainly read that right, just announced today and will be out in a tiny bit over two weeks.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is being jointly developed by “longtime series modders” Timelock Studio and Serious Sam creator/developer Croteam.
The Steam page for Siberian Mayhem describes the game as:
Welcome back to the world of Serious Sam in ‘Siberian Mayhem’ – a new standalone chapter in the adventures of ‘Serious’ Sam Stone. Make your way through the vast Russian landscapes on a quest to catch up with the traitorous General Brand, who remains one step ahead of Sam at every turn. The road is long, and there is oh so much to see.
As to be expected from the name Siberian Mayhem, the story finds Sam very deep in the “heart of Russia”:
Today EastAsiaSoft made a surprise announcement, revealing that the newly-announced Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates H by Felistella is actually coming west.
It’ll be released in North America and Europe, on top of Asia, for Nintendo Switch in Spring 2022. It’ll include Japanese voiceovers, while subtitles will be in English and Traditional Chinese.
The title for the west will simply be “Seven Pirates H.”
If the name is unfamiliar, Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates was originally launched in Japan for PlayStation Vita in 2016 and never localized. This is an enhanced port for the Switch which will launch in Japan in February.
You can check out the new trailer and a bunch of screenshots below, alongside the first look at the physical Limited edition.
Riot Games has supported Valorant with a steady stream of new content since its launch in 2020, but new lore highlighting the relationships between each of its various Agents has been few and far between. So, every time there’s a new cinematic it’s hugely exciting, and for the upcoming launch of Episode 4 there’s a meaty one to enjoy.
Published today, it’s called Warm Up, and it showcases the team in action as they attempt to each take down Killjoy’s latest training dummy one by one. As you’ll see, and somewhat unsurprisingly, it’s teamwork that ultimately proves the winning formula. The real question is whether Cypher actually survives this time around! Check it out:
For more on Valorant’s Episode 4, you can take a look at all the details on the latest Agent, Neon. You can also check out the latest weapon skin bundle, Protocol 781-A, and what’s coming in the new battle pass.
We may be sinking into 2022, but that just means we’re at the start of announcing Twinfinite’s 2021 best of picks across all genres. It’s time to buckle up and maybe pick a new game to play. Every RPG on on our best of list is a massive adventure, but they all have a common thread to them. In each game you play as characters that find themselves among friends that become family. These parties are faced with impossible odds while leaning on each other for support when things are at their hardest. Let’s reveal the best RPGs of 2021 as voted on by Twinfinite staff and editors!
Reviews Editor Zhiqing Wan: NieR: Automata cast a huge spotlight on series creator Yoko Taro and the NieR series as a whole. People just couldn’t get enough of the sad philosophical robots, and it was only a matter of time before the first NieR game got its time in the sun once again.
Navigating your way up to the top of Maze Bank in GTA V and GTA Online has become an insane competition of one-upmanship over the years, as players do their best to reach the helipad of this skyscraper in the craziest ways. Despite having seen some pretty amazing attempts of the years, though, I’m not sure there will ever be anything that can beat the most recent attempt.
As you can see in the post the GTA Online subreddit below, user Accomplished_Mix_475 has just pulled off the impossible, as they managed to land on the top of the Maze Bank starting all the way from Mount Chiliad.
This insane act of witchcraft seems like it can only be done on the Faggio in GTA Online. Not only is it a motorcycle, allowing players to use the lean back method to inexplicably get more air, but it also is the lightest vehicle that can also pick up the necessary speed.
It’s finally award season here at Twinfinite! Over the month of January we’re going to look back at our favorite games of 2021. We’ll also be taking the time to celebrate some of the strongest voice acting performances in games throughout the year, from the field of modern combat to space-faring adventures. These are the best voice actors of 2021.
Voted on by our editors, these were the voice actors that delivered performances worthy of any screen, silver or otherwise. We look for a range of emotions in performances, and ones that really helped bring their fictional character to life.
Lucid Games, the UK developer behind Destruction All-Stars, is reportedly no longer working on a new Twisted Metal game for Sony as previously claimed, with the project now said to have been handed over to an unnamed first-party studio.
Word of a new Twisted Metal game first surfaced last September, when GamesBeat journalist Jeff Grubb claimed the project was in early development. Shortly after, VGC offered additional details, reporting Lucid Games would be the studio handling the new instalment and that the project would follow Destruction All-Stars' lead as a free-to-play game.
In a small but significant win for accessibility advocates within speedrunning, it was announced last Thursday that the Metroid Dread leaderboards on speedrun.com will now allow runners to make use of rapid-fire assists, commonly referred to as turbo, during their runs, and that those runs will be placed on equal…
If you’ve played Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode, you know how good the mangler is. The sidearm has recently sparked debate among Halo’s community, highlighting a divide as old as time. Pros want its efficacy reduced. The Halo hoi polloi doesn’t exactly agree.
While the games industry has recently taken some excellent steps forward in terms of accessibility, one area that still has a way to go is recognizing the needs of those with limited mobility. Especially when it comes to PlayStation. Thankfully, the community is stepping up, thanks to innovative ideas like this 3D…
This trailer offers a look at the Hisui region and its various Pokemon.
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The next Genshin Impact chibigurumi plush characters to appear in Japan will be Mondstadt's Albedo and Klee and Liyue's Ganyu and Xiao.
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These days, you can't shake a stick without bouncing brown beams around the room. Raytracing has been a hot high-end graphics trend for a few years, with new games boasting support for the complex lighting simulators and old games being retrofitted with shine. This year, a new Half-Life mod will add raytracing support to Valve's seminal shooter, and even as someone usually perfectly happy with old games looking old, I think it doesn't look half-bad. See for yourself in the new video, below.
Happy Monday, folks! It's January 31st, so you're likely still working towards those resolutions from earlier in the month, searching for the perfect restaurant for Valentine's Day (you're welcome), or just clocking in to start the workweek. Regardless, we're here to keep you company, so strap in for some puzzle-solving shenanigans as the crew plays Escape Simulator on today's Multiplayer Monday stream!
Hosts Alex Van Aken and Alex Stadnik will be trapped in a virtual room with returning guest Jesse Vitelli when the party starts at 9:00 a.m. Central. Tune in to Twitch.tv/GameInformer to watch our Escape Simulator multiplayer session or bookmark this page if you'd prefer to watch the livestream in the video player below!
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