The Pokémon Company has released the Pokémon DP Sound Library.
The library features music and sounds from the 2006 original Diamond and Pearl DS games, available to listen to and to download for use in personal video and music creation.
Sony says that Bungie wants to turn its games into multimedia franchises – and the PlayStation creator says that it could help the developer make movies.
A lot has been made of how much Bungie will offer Sony, after a $3.6 billion acquisition was announced this week. However, speaking during an earnings call Q&A, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki was asked what benefits Bungie itself saw in being acquired by Sony.
Totoki's answer covered areas such as hiring and employee retention, but moved onto Sony's position as a multimedia company: "[It's] not just for [the] gaming area, but the multi-using of IP and merchandising of IP – like a game title maybe put into movies.
"Bungie want to nurture the IP they have in a multi-dimensional manner, and that's their hope. For that, we believe we can help that – we have [Sony] Pictures and [Sony] Music, and Bungie can leverage our platform so that their IP can flourish and grow big."
It's not the first time we've heard about Bungie's multimedia aspirations. Last year, the studio began hiring for a development role to "drive projects that extend the Destiny franchise into new categories including TV, films, books, comics, and audio formats."
As part of Yacht Club Games Presents 2022, the company announced both new projects and new additions to existing titles. Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is a good example, as it is getting a free update and DLC packs that will do things like add characters and online multiplayer.
It seems the Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon free update will arrive first, as it was billed as “coming soon” during the announcement. It will include five major additions, aside from the typical fixes you expect from an update. Random Knight, a randomized character option, will be added. He transforms into another unlocked character at the start of each run. Respawn Turn Speed can be altered in options. All objects and opponents will have portraits and enhanced descriptions, to help people better know how to deal with them. You’ll see how strong the CPU is, so you know what to expect. There will also be multiplayer tips to help you improve you skills.
As for the DLC, three packs are on the way. It also has a “coming soon” date. Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon online multiplayer is coming. (Only local is available now.) It will include a ranking system and matchmaking. The PC version will get mod support. The example shown hinted at people creating custom characters. More playable characters, enemies, relics, and bosses were also teased. During that segment, Mona showed up.
The latest Final Fantasy XI We are Vana'diel interview is now online and in it Tetsuya Nomura and Akihiko Matsui talked about Nomura's art and designs, particularly in regard to FFV. The interview talked about how Nomura got started with Square Enix. While things kicked off with an aside about his first day working on FFIV, it also went into his work on characters like Gilgamesh from FFV. A common theme that comes up is discussing how he'd make characters look "cool."
This came up as an explanation for why Tetsuya Nomura’s monsters’ designs for FFV were too big. He mentioned getting “no guidance whatsoever” when getting started as a designer. He said the following.
I was less than half my current age and was just drawing illustrations without any professional knowledge. When I was drawing monsters for FFV, a senior colleague from the graphics team instructed me to make my designs smaller because they were larger than the specified size. I pouted, “Okay, but it looks cooler if it’s bigger,” which made them furious.
Matsui also brought up the thought of Tetsuya Nomura striving for “cool” designs when working on Final Fantasy games like FFV.
The Pokemon Company international announced a means of listening to and using Pokemon Diamond and Pearl music. The Pokemon DP Sound Library is now available online. This includes access to the soundtrack from the game. It means people can use both its sound effects and songs in playlists or their own mixes.
The official Pokemon DP Sound Library site offers different means of accessing the tracks. If you head to the Music Box, you can directly access the 149 Pokemon Diamond and Pearl songs and sound effects. These can be viewed in groups based on topics like iconic locations, characters, and events. You can save six to a list to make a “party track.” There are also pre-made playlists with Adventurous, Challenge, Power-up, and Relax themes. While you can share the songs online, you can't download any of the items.
The site also will offer examples of creations from other people. Only one is available at the moment. EXILE’s Alan Shirahama’s “On My Way to Glory” is a track that samples songs used in the Pokemon Center and in Trainer Battles.
Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are available on the Nintendo DS. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are available on the Nintendo Switch.
The Pokemon Company, along with the Wand Company, has announced a new series of their die-cast Poke Ball replicas that will soon be available for purchase through the Pokemon Center website. Throughout 2022, the series will feature Poke Balls with the Heal Ball, Friend Ball, Quick Ball, and Cherish Ball designs.
This new series will start with the Heal Ball design, which can be preordered now at a cost of $99. Later in the year, the other designs will launch exclusively at the Pokemon Center for a limited time before becoming available at other retailers.
Each of the die-cast Poke Ball replicas have a motion-sensing, multicolor light and come inside a uniquely numbered case. You can see some pictures of what this new series, including the Heal Ball replica, looks like below.
Matt Reeves‘ The Batman is almost a month away, and fans are eagerly awaiting this dark depiction of The Dark Knight. To satisfy that hunger, some brand new character posters of Batman, Riddler, Falcone, and Selina Kyle have been revealed.
You can check out these cool new posters for yourself down below.
Today 2K Games and Visual Concepts released a video showing new gameplay of the upcoming wrestling game WWE 2K22.
The video has the team at Visual Concepts showcase some new and renewed aspects of this year’s iteration of the franchise, both in the field of visuals and in that of gameplay mechanics.
We also get to see Rey Mysterio as he beats the crap out of Damian Priest, which is always a good time.
Here’s a breakdown directly fro the accompanying press release:
You can watch the video below.
Following on from the whimsical chaos of its Dead Island IP, Techland’s original Dying Light stood apart from its open-world counterparts for its pleasing combination of parkour traversal and melee combat. It shined as a true gameplay-driven sandbox experience, one that felt clunky, awkward, and slightly unpolished at times but uniquely satisfying and immensely entertaining to control. It was big fun, plain and simple. For its anticipated sequel, though, which has been many years in the making, the developer has sought to add new layers to the formula for something deeper, more engaging, and more complete in nature.
Its solution, as has been the case for so many large-scale open-world games these days, is a dialing up of the role-playing mechanics and the introduction of branching dialog story elements. There are a host of other fine-tunings and gameplay improvements, too, of course, but it’s these two features that are at the core of what makes the sequel grander and more ambitious than its predecessor. Dying Light 2’s open-world is still every bit the exciting playground of the original, but there’s a greater context to its existence and a much larger degree of interaction with the story and characters that bring it to life.
If you’ve ever wanted a way to listen to Pokemon music directly through official means, your wish just came true. The Pokemon Company has just announced a sound library featuring the music from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl that you can listen to and download.
The free sound library allows fans to listen to 149 tracks of music and sound effects from the two DS games, which served as the basis for the music in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends: Arceus.
Six favorite songs can be selected to create a “party track” playlist. There are also existing playlists for moods titled “adventurous,” “power-up,” “challenge,” and “relax.”
This sound library has been available in Japan since December, but now it is rolling out to the west in 13 additional countries.
The website states that the music here can be used in creative videos and compositions as well as at non-commercial events. This gives fans a bit more freedom to use the music from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl in their own personal projects.
Here’s what the official website says about the sound library:
Pokémon DP Sound Library is a place to both listen and download the music and sound effects from the 2006 Nintendo DS™ games, Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version. Explore the world of incredible sounds for Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version, which serves as the roots for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Pokémon Shining Pearl, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus games.
Sony released its quarterly financial results yesterday and in it, CFO Hiroki Totoki revealed that PlayStation plans to launch 10 live service games by March 2026.
This isn’t surprising, considering the company essentially just invested $3.6 billion in developing live service games by acquiring Bungie earlier this week. However, 10 games is a lot. Ten live service games in four years is very ambitious, but it seems Sony and PlayStation are going to rely on Bungie’s expertise in the genre a lot, not to mention, Bungie has its own original IP in the works too.
“The strategic significance of this acquisition lies not only in obtaining the highly successful Destiny franchise, as well as major new IP Bungie is currently developing, but also incorporating into the Sony group the expertise and technologies Bungie has developed in the live game services space,” Totoki said, as reported by The Verge. “Through close collaboration between Bungie and PlayStation Studios we aim to launch more than 10 live service games by the fiscal year ending March 2026.”
343 Industries revealed last year, before the launch of Halo Infinite, that the game would not ship with campaign co-op or a Forge mode. Halo Infinite creative director Joseph Staten said around that time that an update regarding these two modes, and a seasonal roadmap for the shooter, would arrive in January, but that didn’t happen.
Staten has now revealed that the planned Halo Infinite update on the game’s seasonal roadmap, co-op, and Forge has been delayed. The reason why is so that the team can have more time to share concrete plans.
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As the consolidation of the games industry continues, Sony buying Bungie is the acquisition that might most directly affect me, someone who has played over 2000 hours of Destiny 2. Bungie have said things will continue as normal on all platforms. But beyond the usual issues with consolidation and platformholders buying studios, the concerns I have for Destiny 2's future stem from the same old source: Bungie's own decisions. The grind needs to end.
Since Halo Infinite’s launch, players have used the grappling hook in both the campaign and multiplayer to pull off all kinds of feats. From using the tool in a no-damage run to clipping out of the story mode’s first level, the grappleshot has been one of the standout additions to 343 Industries’ latest first-person…
Most wild Pokémon are incredibly standoffish in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. When trying to catch them, I’m used to having to sneak up to them in the tall grass, or pelt them with food until they look somewhere else. They’ll often run away or attack trainers if provoked. Mr. Mime, on the other hand, wants to give you a…
Following a smattering of leaks over the past few weeks, Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks' action-horror title Ghostwire: Tokyo has finally been given an official release date, and will be making its way to PlayStation 5 on 25th March.
Ghostwire: Tokyo got its first (and decidedly enigmatic) showing back at E3 2019; one year on, Tango Gameworks revealed the game to be some sort of action-focussed first-person horror experience unfolding on the rain-slicked streets of Tokyo, where players must energetically thrust their supernatural abilities at strikingly designed spirits known as The Visitors.
Warner Bros has reportedly delayed developer Rocksteady's video game take on DC Comics' Suicide Squad series, with the game now expected to launch some time in 2023.
Rocksteady's Suicide Squad, officially titled Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was announced last August, with publisher Warner Bros confirming it to be an open-world co-op game (and a continuation of Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Universe) set within an open-world version of Metropolis, and designed for up to four players. It was initially slated for a PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X release some time this year.
Another long-awaited game is joining the stacked release lineup of February and March, as PlayStation has announced Ghostwire: Tokyo will launch on March 25, 2022. In addition to the release date news, PlayStation is also holding an official showcase for the game tomorrow, February 3 at 2 p.m. PT. You can watch the showcase on PlayStation's YouTube page.
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— PlayStation (@PlayStation) February 2, 2022
Ghostwire: Tokyo is the next game from Shinji Mikami's Tango Gameworks, developers of The Evil Within. It was first announced as a PlayStation exclusive during Bethesda's E3 2019 conference. Since then, Bethesda and all studios under its umbrella have been acquired by Microsoft, but the game is still launching as a timed console exclusive on PS5 and PC.
The title is an action-adventure game that will see players take on paranormal threats called The Visitors. These creatures take on forms like a child in a yellow raincoat, a bride who never got married, and other manifestations of loss and separation.
Dying Light 2's day one patch will include more than 1,000 bug fixes on top of the thousand made since the game went gold.
Bugs present in the pre-release version of the game included dialogues that blocked story progression, regular crashing, and missing sound and voice-over audio.
IGN's review of Dying Light 2 came with a Bug Alert recommending players with a low bug-tolerance to avoid the game until it had received such updates.
Developer Techland said in a statement: "Within the last two weeks we added over a thousand fixes and improvements on all the platforms.
"You can expect the day one patch with another thousand tweaks to go live on consoles within the next few days, and of course, we are continuing our efforts to improve the PC version in real-time."
IGN said Dying Light 2 was "good", and "an ambitious zombie action adventure that's packed with top-notch parkour, an awesome open world, and every painful bug in the book."
Techland recently delayed the Nintendo Switch version of the game, saying it will no longer release on February 4 but instead "within six months".
It also promised that Dying Light 2 will receive five years of post-launch content on top of the supposed 500 hours it takes to fully complete the game.
The Pokémon Company has released an online sound library allowing users to listen to music tracks and sound effects from the original Pokémon Diamond and Pearl games.
The sound library has 149 different tracks and sound effects from the original 2006 versions of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl but doesn't feature any of the updated music from last year's remakes.
Users can select their six favourite songs to combine in a "party track", a reference to the Pokémon games' six-character party system. A number of curated playlists are also available to play, named Adventurous, Power-Up, Challenge, and Relax.
It's not clear if this is a one-off project, or if other Pokémon (or Nintendo) games' tracks could be released as their own libraries in future.
Users can also download the music to use in their own creative pursuits and performances, and a single from Japanese performer and DJ Alan Shirahama has already been released, which samples elements of the library.
Shirahama, who became popular in 2012 as a member of Japan's Generations pop group, has created a song from the music called "On my way to Glory" that was released alongside the sound library itself.
He said: "To be given an opportunity to arrange Pokémon game music like this is such a fulfilling and wild experience for me. My younger self would have been overjoyed by the very idea. I like my beats to roll with a story-like structure and momentum, so I started off by conceptualizing how a Pokémon Trainer's everyday life would play out."
Rocksteady's next DC game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been delayed until 2023.
As reported by Bloomberg, the upcoming Suicide Squad game has been pushed back a year after initially announcing a 2022 release window. Warner Bros. Games is gearing up several releases for this year including Hogwarts Legacy and Lego Star Wars.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was first announced in 2020 and Rocksteady's first DC game since finishing the Batman Arkham trilogy. The title can be played single-player or as a co-op multiplayer game where players will work together as different members of the Suicide Squad to take on a brainwashed Justice League, including evil Superman.
The first in-game footage for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League premiered at DC FanDome 2021. So far the Suicide Squad includes Harley Quinn, King Shark, Deadshot, and Captain Boomerang. Each character can be customized with unique weapons and abilities.
A Ghostwire: Tokyo Showcase will air on February 3, 2022, and the YouTube description for it revealed the game’s release date. As expected, it will show up in March 2022. The exact release date is March 25, 2022. There is also a chance to get early access on March 22, 2022 and extra items if someone gets the Deluxe Edition.
A Ghostwire: Tokyo Showcase will air on February 3, 2022, and the YouTube description for it revealed the game’s release date. As expected, it will show up in March 2022. The exact release date is March 25, 2022. There is also a chance to get early access on March 22, 2022 and extra items if someone gets the Ghostwire: Tokyo Deluxe Edition.
It seems the Ghostwire: Tokyo Deluxe Edition primarily consists of cosmetic items. People who get that version will be able to dress Akito differently with a Shinobi Outfit or Streetwear Fashion Pack. There will also be a Kunai in the pack for him to wield. The announcement confirmed that people will need to get a digital copy of that edition to play three days early.
Here’s the official link to the Ghostwire: Tokyo February 2022 showcase.
The Fire Emblem Heroes 5th anniversary is upon us in 2022, and to commemorate it Intelligent Systems and Nintendo shared art in honor of it. All of the designs are from artists who previously worked on the game. They depict a number of characters who've shown up over the years as units. In many cases, their "alt" designs are used. There are 15 images total.
In each case, the artists who designed these Fire Emblem Heroes 5th anniversary works of art previously contributed character designs. For example, Daisuke Izuka contributed a work featuring Fire Emblem Heroes original characters Gustav and Henriette in their Days of Devotion (Valentine’s Day) outfits. Izuka contributed art for both the mobile game and Cipher card game. Senri Kita contributed art of Marth. In addition to her work here, she worked on mainline installments like Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and its direct sequel Radiant Dawn.
Here's the full gallery of Fire Emblem Heroes 5th anniversary art.
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According to Bloomberg, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice league, is being delayed into sometime in 2023. The game, which is being developed by Rocksteady the team behind the acclaimed series of Arkham Batman games, was originally slated to release sometime in 2022. Considering the lack of news since its announcement back in August of 2020, it shouldn’t come as a total shock to many that it will release in 2023 instead.
The game is a co-op multiplayer game where players control members of the Suicide Squad, a group of antiheroes and villains that are being forced to work together to stop former heroes, such as Superman, now turned villains. The exact reason isn’t explained yet, but the villain Brainiac is rumored to be in the game, so that’s a likely reason.
Watch the initial announcement trailer if you want a little reminder of what you’re waiting an extra year for.
Earlier today, 505 Games revealed that the hit Match 3 RPG Puzzle Quest 3 would be heading to PC, iOS, and Android on March 1, 2022. This news comes by way of a press release, in which Infinity Plus Two CEO and Creative Lead Steve Fawkner had the following to say.
“Over a decade ago, we introduced Puzzle Quest to gamers, innovating a new puzzle-RPG hybrid genre, and created a franchise that is still going strong today with millions of players globally,” said Fawkner. “I am thrilled for the opportunity to finally continue the series and globally debut Puzzle Quest 3 this coming March. We have a big roadmap ahead with some big surprises that I’m sure will excite fans, both old and new.”
You can check out the official gameplay trailer and description for Puzzle Quest 3 right down below:
Earlier this week it was announced that MLB The Show 22 will feature the 2021 American League MVP, Shohei Ohtani, on the cover. We also got a release date of Apr. 5 and it was revealed that the game will come to a Nintendo console for the first time. But the MLB The Show news didn’t stop there. Today, a new trailer revealed the manga-inspired cover art for the MVP Edition of MLB The Show 22.
The trailer begins by showing two animated baseballs players. One is standing with a bat on their shoulder on the right side of a brick wall and the other is a pitcher standing to the left of the wall. Then a question appears, “How do you achieve the unachievable?” Then the words more power appear and the baseball player smacks a ball through the brick wall. After that, the words more heat pop up and the pitcher hurls a ball through the wall.
The two players keep going back and forth with different words appearing like more discipline, more determination. At this point, it’s revealed that both the pitcher and the batter are Shohei Ohtani. They eventually completely demolish the brick wall between them with the power of their hits and pitches. Then it cuts to real MLB footage of Ohtani pitching and hitting with fire superimposed over the ball and his bat.
After showing some highlights of Ohtani, the manga-inspired cover is revealed. The back features the manga version of Ohtani with a bat on his shoulder. And from the front, you can see the Japanese ballplayer holding a bat in his left hand and tossing a baseball up in the air with his right. He also appears to have a second bat tucked into his belt almost like where a samurai would sheath their sword.
Just a few days after celebrating Final Fantasy VII’s 25th anniversary, Square Enix has revealed a brand new digital clock that they are making that fans are going to love. Coming by way of the Square Enix Official Goods Twitter account, the clock is shaped after the Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII Remake.
While the image is only of a prototype of Cloud’s famous weapon, you can still get a general feel for what it will look like from the tweet, as it features the time on the hilt of the sword’s beautiful black design.
While a specific release date wasn’t revealed, a window of 2022 was at least confirmed by the Square Enix Official Goods store in the tweet. For info on the clock’s price and size, be sure to check back to Twinfinite at a later date.
Today DMM and Koei Tecmo had a few treats to share with those eagerly awaiting the upcoming Musou game Touken Ranbu Warriors.
First of all, we get a new trailer introducing Yamanbagiri Chougi and showing him in action.
It’s the latest of a series of trailers introducing several characters, on top of Ichigo Hitofuri, Namazuo Toushirou, Hyuuga Masamune, Heshikiri Hasebe, Yagen Toushirou, Tomoegata Naginata, Tsurumaru Kuninaga, Shokudaikiri Mitsutada, and Ookurikara.
Nex, we got a livestream that showcased plenty of gameplay showcasing minigames, battle, modes, and more.
On the road to WWE 2K22’s March release, 2K released the first of its Ringside Report series. These developer commentary videos are designed to showcase in-game footage while providing developer commentary on the game’s systems. This first installment hones in on the in-ring action itself, detailing the redesigned combat system and streamlined philosophy.
For the first time, we got to see footage of an actual in-game match between cover star Rey Mysterio and current United States Champion, Damien Priest. The 2K team spends much of the video emphasizing the game’s increased accessibility thanks to a more simplified control scheme that makes 2K22 easier for newcomers to grasp. Though the game is more of a pick-up-and-play experience, there’s still plenty of depth for veterans in learning how to execute strike/grapple combos (which can be customized) and time reversals.
Click here to watch embedded mediaWhile standard reversals can negate most actions, combos and grapples can only be stopped by executing a new counter called the Breaker. This manever can only be triggered by hitting the same strike or grapple input being used against you. That means predicting your opponent's attack works to your advantage.
Sony’s PlayStation 5 is selling quite well, but it is still lagging behind the PlayStation 4’s shipped numbers at this same time in its lifetime.
The company released its quarterly results today and it revealed that 17.3 million PS5s have been shipped so far, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. At this same point in its lifetime, the PS4 had shipped 20.2 million units, representing a lag in shipped numbers for the PS5. However, the PS4 had virtually no supply issues at this point in its life cycle whereas getting a PS5 is still extremely difficult.
Click here to watch embedded mediaOverall, for Sony’s last quarter, sales for its games division dipped 8% year-over-year, ending on December 31 at $7.1 billion versus $7.7 billion on December 31, 2020. Sony attributed this dip in sales to a decrease in hardware and peripherals sales, which is not surprising considering PS5 supply issues (not to mention, people aren’t going to be buying DualSense controllers and other accessories if they haven’t yet been able to buy a PS5).
Yesterday, Halo Infinite’s samurai-themed “Fracture: Tenrai” event returned for a third round, looking much like it did for its second outing. For some players, it’s another excuse to hop into a fun event with meaningful rewards. But for others, it’s an underbaked game spinning its wheels.
MLB two-way star Shohei Ohtani will grace the cover of MLB The Show 22, and a superhero manga version of the athlete will appear on the game's collector's editions. In a fun collaboration, the art was done by Afro Samurai creator Takashi Okazaki.
Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, MLB The Show developer Sony San Diego said it wanted to use the collector's editions as an opportunity to incorporate Ohtani's love of manga and anime. Fittingly, Ohtani grew up reading "Major", a manga series about a baseball pitcher who could also hit home runs. It also turns out Okazaki is a huge Shohei Ohtani fan, which led him to partner with Sony to create an anime-style superhero version of the MLB star for the steelbook cover. You can take a look at the result below.
NEWS: Afro Samurai Creator Takashi Okazaki Illustrates Shohei Ohtani for MLB The Show 22 ⚾️
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Popping out for a bite to eat took on a brand-new meaning with 2015’s Dying Light, and now again with its bigger, darker, and even more dystopian sequel. Light and dark plays a big part in this vampiric tale, including ray tracing editions for new-gen consoles and higher-end PCs. So, let’s sample the bits and bytes of Dying Light 2 Stay Human.
Parkouring our way through the console & PC versions, we have a collection of modes and settings to work through. The last-gen versions weren’t ready in time for coverage in this review, so we instead will concentrate on the Xbox Series X, Series S, and PS5 along with our AMD-powered PC with an RX6800 GPU. First up, let’s examine the three modes Techland’s proprietary Chrome engine (or C-engine) offers – on Series X and PS5, at least.
Two of the three modes are 30fps, with Quality mode boasting ray tracing that adds full-contact hardening sun shadows, enabling soft dithered shadows across both static and dynamic objects. These are a big increase in the quality and accuracy of shadows and can drastically change certain scenes due to the upgrade, but they are expensive. In addition, ambient occlusion of a screen space variety and screen space shadows all combine to create more accurate lighting and darker tones in recessed areas in both indoor and outdoor sections. Reflections also offer better quality than other modes, but are still screen space in nature. All these are identical in quality and coverage on Series X and PS5, but some other minor bugs do crop up.
Arceus summoned you! You’re chosen to take on a task! It means going to the all new Hisui region! What do you do? Well, apparently it means getting a job. Pokemon Legends: Arceus is Game Freak’s latest spin-off experiment. It asks what happens when elements of the traditional formula are mixed with Pokemon GO and Monster Hunter. The result might sometimes feel a bit tedious and not quite be what you’d expect, but it’s promising!
Almost immediately after (literally) dropping into Pokemon Legends: Arceus, players are put to work. Professor Laventon, this region’s researcher, lost three starters. After easily catching them, the people of this world realize you have a remarkable trait. You aren’t afraid of Pokemon. To stay in Jubilife Village, you need to make yourself useful to the Galaxy Expedition Team. That means helping them in their goals. Namely, you research Pokemon by battling, catching, and interacting with them to complete the first Hisui Pokedex, help the Diamond and Pearl clans to encourage relations between them and Galaxy, and maybe complete the requests of some folks in the village.
Click to watch embedded media Gran Turismo 7 is the first mainline entry in the series since 2013's Gran Turismo 6 back on the PlayStation 3. Sure, Gran Turismo Sport was released during the PlayStation 4 generation, but that game left fans wanting more and also equally excited about what was in the pipeline. It turns out, what was in the pipeline was the next full Gran Turismo and after watching a behind-closed-doors preview of it recently, Game Informer editor Wesley LeBlanc came away excited for "the real driving simulator."
As someone who's never dabbled in the Gran Turismo series beyond a few hours each entry, he was looking for something in GT7 to entice him to stick around. What he found was a couple of new modes and features that seemingly aim to do just that, although we won't know until the full release in March. However, if you're a hardcore GT fan, don't worry – all the bells and whistles you've come to expect in these games are present, looking (and sounding) better than ever.
In this New Gameplay Today, Wesley is joined by fellow Game Informer editors Ben Reeves and John Carson, all hosted by video editor Alex Stadnik. They talk about new features, returning favorites, being funny on the racetrack, and more. Thanks for watching, and be sure to let us know what you think of this upcoming racing game from PlayStation and Polyphony Digital.
The first State of Play of 2022 was all about Gran Turismo 7 and if you're even mildly excited about Polyphony Digital's upcoming simulation racer, this showcase is a must-watch. Not only does it showcase some of the bleeding-edge graphics the Gran Turismo series is known for, but it reveals that GT7 is much more than just a racing game.
Of course, it is absolutely still a racing game first and foremost but if competitive racing isn't your jam, GT7 seems jam-packed with other things for you to do and enjoy.
"Over its 25-year history, the Gran Turismo series has demonstrated a serious love and respect for cars," GT7 producer Kazunori Yamauchi said at the top of the showcase. "What's more, Gran Turismo 7 represents the 25th anniversary of the series. Gran Turismo 7 will represent the pinnacle of our journey. We have designed GT7 so that those who have never come into automotive culture until now can really get to know the deep, rich world of cars."
This State of Play touched on that easy introduction into the world of cars for newcomers, too. Let's break down everything show in it:
Gran Turismo Sport was released in 2017, and although some aspects earned praise, it left fans wanting more while also exciting them about what’s to come in the next game. The DNA of Sport, which was mostly focused on competitive multiplayer, seems to be present in GT7, but after previewing the game, it’s clear that this sequel offers so much more.
And that’s exciting for someone like me who has never really made it beyond a few hours into a Gran Turismo game. I went into this preview looking for reasons to be excited for Polyphony Digital’s latest love letter to cars and came away with enough to feel like GT7 is worth checking out.
Click here to watch embedded mediaLet me get this out of the way right up front: if you’re a GT fan, you are in for a treat with GT7. It features more than 400 cars, 34 locations, 97 layouts, more than 100 racing events, over 650 aerodynamic parts, 130 types of wheels, 1200 colors of measured paint data, and so much more. All the bells and whistles are here, and of course, they’ve never looked better thanks to the PlayStation 5. Plus, the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers are sure to make races through Trial Mountain, Deep Forest, and Daytona more immersive than ever before. Producer Kazunori Yamauchi says these additions will make it feel like you’re holding a car in your hands with the track beneath you.
If you’ve been anxious to see more of Ghostwire: Tokyo, the supernatural action game by The Evil Within masterminds, Tango Gameworks, you’ll want to set aside some time on February 3. Sony is hosting a special PlayStation 5 showcase for the upcoming title, and the festivities begin at 5:00 p.m. Eastern.
Additionally, the YouTube video’s description reveals Ghostwire: Tokyo’s release date of March 25. It also reveals pre-order bonuses and a Deluxe Edition, which grants early access to the game three days early (for digital purchases only). The following bonus items are Shinobi Outfit, Kunai Weapon, and Streetwear Fashion Pack. We’ll likely get a look at these goodies and more during the broadcast, which you can bookmark below ahead of time.
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There’s a bunch of anime packed into the winter season but not a lot of time to watch them all. That’s where the otaku of Kotaku have your back. Welcome to Kotaku’s Anime Revolution, presented by Acura. Each week, we’ll take a look at one of the hottest shows of the winter season and put them through the three episode…
Yesterday, Bungie revealed a bonkers new Exotic gun coming to Destiny 2 later this month in The Witch Queen: a grenade launcher called Parasite that shoots live Worm rounds (alien parasites shaped like giant slugs). It was an instant hit among the loot game’s faithful and has also ignited a debate over whether Destiny…