August 2022

Cygames shared more information on the One Piece Film: Red crossover event that will run in Granblue Fantasy. It will launch on September 14 and run until September 25, 2022. The event will grant players two new playable characters, as well as a new summon. There is also a trailer for the event available on YouTube.

Luffy will be a playable character, while Nami and Robin will team up as a single unit. Hijikata and Okita in the Gintama event worked the same way, as do some of the units native to Granblue Fantasy. You can uncap Luffy to unlock two more pieces of artwork for him. Uta also appears as a summon, with Kaori Nazuka reprising her role.

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The trailer is part of the Granblue Fantasy live-stream and features voice actor jokes. For reference, Rackam’s voice actor Hiroaki Hirata also voiced Sanji in One Piece. During the trailer, Rackam is a good cook and calls the women of the crew ‘mademoiselles,’ just like Sanji does. Walder is also prominent in the trailer, serving as the sane man to Rackam. Walder’s voice actor Kappei Yamaguchi also voices Usopp in One Piece.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has been five years in the making and it shows. Monolith Soft’s latest open-field JRPG odyssey has more systems and more to do than either previous game in the trilogy (not to mention the often overlooked Xenoblade Chronicles X). I’m enjoying it a ton so far. I’m also learning lots of useful…

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The Evolution Championship Series, commonly shortened to EVO, took place over the weekend. Dedicated to all things fighting games, during this year’s EVO I saw copious hype moments, from amazing comebacks to unstoppable combos and everything in between. Just as you’d expect. But there was one instance during the …

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Just when you thought Assassin’s Creed Valhalla couldn’t get any bigger, it does. Last week, Ubisoft added a free roguelike mode called “the Forgotten Saga,” which is basically the size of a whole game unto itself. Even worse, it’s genuinely really good. Dammit!

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UPDATE 11/8/22: After a whole lot of leakage, Fall Guys' Sonic the Hedgehog event - first teased back in June - is now live on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC.

There's a new trailer to celebrate Sonic's arrival in developer Mediatonic's knockabout battle royale game, but there's not a lot in there that previous leaks haven't already revealed.

To recap, though, Fall Guys' Sonic the Hedgehog collaboration brings a new set of challenges and associated rewards (including a "fancy and sassy" emote), a new stage inspired by Green Hill Zone, plus five themed skins - based on Sonic, Super Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Dr. Robotnik - found in the premium store.

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Project Baki 2 is one of the most popular anime fighting Roblox games based on the Baki series by Keisuke Itagaki. The game puts you in the shoes of a fighter whose primary objective is to learn different fighting styles such as karate, taekwondo, and boxing. Similar to other Roblox games, the developers have set up a Trello board for Project Baki 2, containing the detailed info of the game, including controls, story, maps, and more. Here’s how you can access Project Baki 2 Trello link, along with instructions to use it.

What Is the Project Baki 2 Trello Link?

You can click this button to visit the Project Baki 2 Trello page:

Gamers often forget that video games are made by real people. In the case of Valorant, Riot Games’ developers are rather quick to issue out bug fixes or compatibility issues when they crop up. Sometimes it’s a problem with the game; other times, your own PC had a hiccup, and now you have to restart the game. If you’ve experienced an issue with Valorant, here’s how to restart the Valorant client.

How To Restart Valorant Client

When you’re in the middle of a match and Valorant freezes, the quickest and easiest solution is to press Alt + F4. What this does is immediately shut down the program you are currently tabbed to.

It’s important to ensure that you tabbed to Valorant when you press the key combination; otherwise, you could be closing an important browser or document by accident.

Though this option is indeed the easiest, it doesn’t always work. In the event that Valorant doesn’t close, you’ll have to force quit the client.

Force Quit the Valorant Client

There are some instances, rare as they are, where the Valorant client won’t even respond to the key combination. The number of reasons are a mile long, but it’s almost always due to a background process that is refusing to cooperate. In this case, you’ll want to kill the process.

In Digimon Survive, you won’t be experiencing the world on your own. Multiple characters appear as a way of creating comradery between you and the other personalities. Throughout the story, you’ll be given plenty of opportunities to speak with the other members of your party via dialogue options, which are directly tied to Affinity. With this guide, you’ll learn what Affinity is and how to raise Affinity in Digimon Survive.

How to Raise Affinity in Digimon Survive

To make a long story short: to raise a party member’s Affinity in Digimon Survive, you have to pick the correct dialogue options. Any time you speak with a party member, and there are dialogue options available, how you choose to respond will either raise their Affinity or nothing will be gained. Think of Affinity as how much that party member likes you.

The Haikyuu! official website has launched a mysterious countdown that could potentially reveal the release date for the highly-anticipated Season 5. However, information about this countdown is still vague, and we will have to see what happens on Aug. 13, 2022, when the timer ends at approximately 5 AM EST. You can check the countdown from the Twitter post here:

Today Square Enix released a new video of its upcoming JRPG The DioField Chronicle.

The video features the officer Lorraine Luckshaw (voiced in Japanese by Miki Itou, the voice of Android 18 in Dragon Ball) as she explains the mechanics behind the game.

The DioField Chronicle features interesting and rather unique gameplay. At first sight, it looks like a quasi-Final Fantasy Tactics, but it’s actually played in real-time.

We get to see how battles are fought and the various ways in which you can progress the characters in your band of mercenaries.

You can watch it below.

If you’d like to learn more about The DioField Chronicle, you can check out the original announcement, the first screenshots and plenty of details revealed back in March, alongside a ton of gameplay showcased last week.

The game promises “deep, strategic, real-time tactical battles” in which combat is decided by the assessment of battlefield conditions and issuance of decisive orders that take advantage of troops’ strengths and weaknesses.

Digimon Survive is such a tense game that it makes sense you’d want to keep yourself secure by saving as much as possible. In order to do that, though, you’re going to need to know the right place to go in the menus. Here’s everything you need to know on how to save in Digimon Survive.

Saving in Digimon Survive

Seeing as Digimon Survive offers some level of save scumming possibilities, it is a reasonable expectation that you will want to keep on top of it. There are two methods when it comes to saving as well as an autosave that saves periodically.

Kingdom Hearts celebrated its 20th anniversary back in March, and to celebrate, Square Enix put on an event in Japan this past April that showcased the series’ past and a bit of its future.

Months after promising that it’ll release a video celebrating the series, the official Kingdom Hearts YouTube account has finally did just that, with it primarily summarising the event from a few months ago.

The video shows notable contributors to the series giving speeches about what the games have meant to them throughout these 20 years. This includes people like series director Tetsuya Nomura and singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. The clip also includes a montage of all the Kingdom Hearts entries with their release dates, showcasing all the games that have been released over the 20 years.

The video also gives a look at the audience’s reaction to the games that were announced during the event, Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, and most notably, Kingdom Hearts IV.

Finally, we get a brief new look at Kingdom Hearts Dark Road while also revealing that the app will be getting its long-promised final update on Aug. 26.

Kingdom Hearts Dark Road was released over two years ago, attached to Kingdom Hearts Union X, but unfortunately, the app ended its online service last year. The game was set to release its offline version, with its final story update included, back in September 2021 but was delayed to the winter of 2021-2022.

While that didn’t materialize either, the recap video confirms that Kingdom Hearts Dark Road’s final story update will be coming this very month, hopefully with no more delays in sight.

Type-Moon and French Bread have confirmed the launch date for the Melty Blood: Type Lumina Summer 2022 update. The free patch that primarily adds Neco-Arc and Fate/Grand Order's Mash Kyrielight as new playable characters will appear on August 19, 2022, at 6 AM UTC (2 AM ET).

French Bread also revealed more details about the Summer update during the EVO 2022 Melty Blood tournament. Development director Kamone Serizawa explained the additions and changes that the team will bring with the new patch in a six-minute-long video.

Serizawa revealed that the Summer update will also include changes to the game's battle balance. The video includes a detailed list of changes made to combat features, such as Shields, Dashes, Combos, and Moon Skills. The update will also add more features to the Replay Mode and improve the network matching system.

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EVO Japan will return in Spring 2023 after a pandemic-induced hiatus. The event's general manager Rick Thiher has confirmed that EVO Japan 2023 will take place in Tokyo from late March to early April 2023. The group has also updated the Japanese event's official website and set up a new Japanese Twitter account.

Four titles will feature prominently in EVO Japan 2023 as main tournaments. They will be Arc System Works' Guilty Gear Strive, SNK's The King of Fighters XV, Capcom's Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, and Bandai Namco's Tekken 7. The organizers will reveal more titles in the lineup and details for tournament registrations in Fall 2022.

EVO Japan is the first event in the Evolution Championship Series to appear outside of the US. The inaugural event launched in January 2018. The organizers managed to hold the event annually in 2019 and 2020, but it was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Since last year, Netflix has offered its subscribers access to free video games. Now, data shows that less than one percent of its users are actually playing any of these games. And while the streaming giant has announced more games coming to its service, very few of its over 200 million subscribers will likely care.

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Here’s a brief, non-exhaustive list of things that take less than four minutes and 55 seconds. Me devouring a plate of loaded nachos. Me eating an entire bowl of pasta (maybe a carbonara?). Me writing a lede while preoccupied with lunch. And a speedrunner blitzing through Super Mario Bros., setting a new time to beat…

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With Hollywood's hunger for video game adaptations still seemingly insatiable, it's now Bandai Namco's turn to get in on the action, shunting Pac-Man - arguing gaming's most iconic mascot - onto the the big screen in a live-action movie adaptation.

That's according to the Hollywood Reporter, which says Bandai Namco is teaming up with Wayfarer Studios (the company behind Disney+ biopic Clouds) to bring Pac-Man to cinemas.

Details are limited right now, but the movie is said to be based on an original idea by Chuck Williams, who'll produce alongside Tim Kwok on behalf of Lightbeam Entertainment.

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There’s nothing worse than logging into Spotify to relax and listen to some tunes to be met with deafening silence. Yes, the popular audio streaming platform is great to catch up on the latest and greatest music, but what happens when the service goes down? In this guide, we’ll outline how to check Spotify outages & outage reports in your region. Let’s get into it!

Is Spotify Down Right Now?

[UPDATE: Aug. 8, 2022] At the time of writing, in the US, it appears that a lot of users are reportedly currently experiencing issues trying to log into Spotify, according to DownDetector.

How To Check Spotify Outage & Outage Reports

If you’re wondering how to check the status of Spotify, there are several avenues you can explore.

Digimon Survive is a visual novel with a variety of outcomes depending on how you play. The endings you get and the characters who survive through the story will change depending on how you engage with the karma system. Here is everything you need to know about the Digimon Survive karma system, which affects the story and evolutionary paths of partner Digimon.

Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the upcoming card-based strategy RPG by Firaxis, as been hit with its second delay. A Take-Two earnings report revealed that the game had been pushed out of its October 7 date to an unspecified release within the 2023 fiscal year. That means it will now arrive sometime before March 31, 2023.

The game’s Twitter account confirmed the delay with a message, embedded below, that also revealed that the game will now have a staggered release. Midnight Suns will come to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC first within the fiscal year. The PS4, Xbox One, and Switch versions arrive sometime after that. 

Important update from the Midnight Suns team pic.twitter.com/79yVfzpDED

Did you watch the latest Sonic live-action movie and think to yourself: “This is cool and all, but what about a movie like this, but starring Pac-Man from the Pac-Man video game franchise?!” Well, first off you got a weird brain. Secondly, I got good news for you as it has been reported that the world is indeed…

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EVO 2022 came with an assortment of hype moments over the weekend, including the most incredible “Cell Yell” I’ve heard since Dragon Ball FighterZ’s first season in 2018. Sprinkled throughout the tournament were a few announcements, too, such as the welcome reveal of rollback netcode for more fighting games. But…

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2K has announced a second delay for developer Firaxis' Marvel-themed tactical RPG Midnight Suns. The title will no longer launch this October as previously announced and will instead now arrive on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC at some point before the end of 2K's current fiscal year. Other versions are now "TBA".

Announced last August, Marvel's Midnight Suns is superhero strategy game that - drawing inspiration from the Midnight Sons comic book run of the mid-90s - follows a roster of familiar faces, including the Avengers, on an adventure that blends card-battling turn-based combat and Fire-Emblem-style relationship building.

It was originally due to launch this March, but last November saw Firaxis and 2K make the decision to push its release back toward the end of 2022 in order to "add more story, cinematics and overall polish". June then bought the news that the end was almost in sight, with the game receiving a launch date of 7th October.

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While you might not recognize the name, this looter-shooter from publisher Nexon was actually announced a year ago. However, it first was revealed under the name Project Magnum. The most recent thing released on Project Magnum was a teaser trailer last September, but it’s finally time to get to see more of this game as well as the final title: The First Descendant. The game will be free-to-play and is being developed in Unreal Engine 5.

Before we get into more on this game, feast your eyes on the new teaser trailer below.

The First Descendant will be releasing for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. There is currently not any sort of release date known.

A press release accompanying the teaser trailer announcement has this to say about the story:

Originally scheduled to release on Oct. 7, it has been announced that the upcoming tactical role-playing title Marvel’s Midnight Suns has been delayed. More specifically, the delay has pushed back the Windows PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 to “later this fiscal year” which means sometime before March 2023 while the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch versions have been pushed back with no targeted date.

The news of the delay comes from the Take-Two Financial Earnings conference call and was shared on the official Marvel’s Midnight Suns Twitter account:

The delay comes as a bit of a downer as this isn’t the first delay the title has received since it’s reveal during Gamescom 2021. As it took a spot on our feature for top ten games releasing later this year, developer Firaxis Games’ commitment to making the “best possible experience ever” is a welcome sight that will keep the hype going.

Digimon Survive on Nintendo Switch

Digimon Survive has surprised me in more ways than one. When I picked it up, I was excited for a Digimon game more akin to tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics with some visual novel elements. However, the game is primarily a visual novel with tactical RPG elements on the side, which was exactly what I was expecting.

While initially taken aback by the genre type, the brief moment of disappointment I felt was quickly washed away by a delightfully dark story, gorgeous presentation, and loads of fan-favorite Digimon to befriend. The more I dug into the game, the more it felt like it was made for people with a connection to the series.

As a novice to the genre, I was worried about how I would feel about the gameplay, especially after a rather slow prologue. But it doesn’t take long for the story to pick up and engross you because by the end of “Part 1,” the mysterious situation our protagonists find themselves in is more than enough to keep you going.

Player First Games has been consistently advocating MultiVersus’ free-to-play mechanics. However, fans wonder if the game is free on the PlayStation 4, primarily because it seems too good for this component to be true. So, with this in mind, we’ll provide you with an answer to this question and other purchasable options of the MultiVersus.

Today Take-Two Interactive Software announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2023, related to the period between April and June 2022.

Below you can check out a summary of the results which it defined “strong” and “above expectations,” despite having reported a net loss due the acquisition of Zynga.

On the other hand, GAAP net revenue increased 36% year-on-year to $1.1 billion, while Net Bookings grew 41% year-on-year to $1.0 billion.

The table below may be helpful to understand the angle since it offers the figures including the acquisition of Zynga and not counting its influence.

We also find the revised guidance for the full fiscal year that ends in March 2023.

Haikyuu has it all: friendship, volleyball, and even death. Now we know what you’re thinking, how could this anime possibly feature such an aspect? To answer this, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the sorrowful day that Daichi Sawamura died in Haikyuu.

Is Daichi Dead in Haikyuu?

It all started in Season 2, Episode 16, when Karasuno played in a volleyball match against Wakutani Minami High. During this episode, Coach Ukai fears that this opposing side will cause some trouble for the team, especially with the leadership skills of Captain Takeru Nakashima.

As the game progresses, Ukai’s nervous intuition turns out to be correct when Daichi collides with his fellow teammate, Ryunosuke Tanaka. As a result, the meme “RIP Daichi” was created by fans, causing many others to believe that he actually passed on in Haikyuu.

The truth of the matter is that Daichi didn’t actually die in the anime, and the rumor was purely for amusement. However, this “fatal” event proved difficult for Karasuno, as their captain had to leave the game temporarily, and Chikara Ennoshita had to step in while he recovered.

Here is one of the prominent memes that have been floating around the internet:

If you have made it to the end of Part 3 in Digimon Survive, you’ve likely been met with the surprisingly dark demise of Ryo. At this point, you are surely wondering if there was anything you could have done differently to change the outcome. Can you change the effects of your actions, and can you save Ryo in Digimon Survive?

Can You Save Ryo in Digimon Survive?

The answer to this is yes and no. You can save Ryo in Digimon Survive, but you will have to play the game more than once to do so. Unfortunately, there is no way to save Ryo in your first run-through of Digimon Survive, and he is set to meet his end in Part 3 no matter what actions you take. However, you do have the opportunity to save Ryo in New Game Plus.

I don't spend a ton of time testing gaming laptops these days, but one of my recent favourites was the Zephyrus G14. This laptop is slim and compact, yet sports a brilliant 14-inch 2560x1600 120Hz display, a powerful RX 6700S graphics card and a top-end Ryzen 9 6900HS processor. This is backed with a 1TB NVMe SSD and 16GB of DDR5 RAM (!!), an impressive loadout that uses basically the fastest and latest-gen components you can fit into a laptop of this size.

Today Best Buy in the US are doing a great price on this spec of the Zephyrus G14, charging $1399.99 for it rather than the launch price of $1649.99 - a $250 reduction. That's the best price we've seen for this model and an awesome deal on a compact yet powerful all-AMD laptop.

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Graphics cards are falling in price rapidly, and nowhere is this more true than on the bleeding-edge end of the market. After seeing discounts on AMD's first 6000-series graphics cards last month, we're now also seeing deep cuts to the more recent 6X50 models - including the subject of this piece, the Radeon RX 6950 XT. This particular card is the very fastest that AMD make, and offers rasterised performance on par with Nvidia's RTX 3090 and 3090 Ti.

Today, it's been discounted to £850 at Scan, a big reduction from its original UK RRP of £1065 earlier this year.

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Super Punch-Out!!, the 1994 SNES game released as a sequel to the 1987 NES original, is a single-player game. You play as Little Mac, and fight your way through a succession of cartoonish boxing opponents, and every single battle is just you against the computer. Or it was, until now!

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Last month, we all fell in love with Lala, the adorable voice actor for the cat in Stray and her excellent purrformance in the game. But it seems that Lala isn’t the only cat voice actor to be featured in a video game this year.

Isabella Gates, also known as Izzy, is a beautiful black and white feline who plays the role of Snickerdoodle in Saints Row, which releases later this month.

The official YouTube channel for Saints Row has been posting videos of cast interviews ahead of the game’s launch, and earlier today, Izzy had her time to shine. The video is incredibly adorable; it features Izzy meowing her responses with helpful subtitles in English for us to understand her.

Snickerdoodle is the pet and mascot of the Saints in the game, and of course, there needed to be an authentic voice behind this character. That’s where Izzy comes in, and in the video, she meows to explain how her “butler” Larry helped her land the role.

The whole “interview” is incredibly cute, so you’ll have to watch it for yourself to get the full effect.

If you’re not familiar with Saints Row, here’s what the developers have to say about the game:

Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the heart of the American SouthWest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.

Experience the biggest and best Saints Row playground ever created; the unique sprawling world of Santo Ileso is the backdrop for a wild, larger than life sandbox of thrilling side hustles, criminal ventures and blockbuster missions, as you shoot, drive, and wingsuit your way to the top.

Third-party developers have released a relevant airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator and revealed new images of another.

First of all, FSimStudios released Edmonton International Airport (CYEG) in Canada.

It can be purchased on the developer’s own store, Orbx Direct, and Contrail for $16.

Digimon Survive can be rather bleak at times; the game handles tones that are far more darker than what many older fans might remember of the Digimon universe. As a visual novel, Digimon Survive weaves choices into the mix, which greatly affects the following events. Party members, for example, can actually die, such as Shuuji. But does he always have to die? Can you save Shuuji in Digimon Survive?

Can You Save Shuuji in Digimon Survive?

The short answer is: yes, you can save Shuuji in Digimon Survive. However, that answer comes with a big asterisk. Shuuji’s death is inevitable during your first playthrough. With that said, his untimely death can be prevented during New Game+.