August 2022

With the two-part film gradually approaching, you may be wondering, does Karasuno ever win Nationals in Haikyuu!? To answer this question, we’ll go through their timeline within the manga and what you can expect to see in the anime once it releases.

***Spoilers for the Haikyuu! Manga Below***

Does Karasuno Ever Win Nationals in Haikyuu!? Answered

Although Karasuno has gone to the Spring Tournament a few times in the Haikyuu! series, the team has never won Nationals. However, they have gotten relatively close to victory and reclaimed their status as a powerhouse school thanks to the efforts of Shoyo Hinata, Tobio Kageyama, Kei Tsukishima, and everyone else that played during this period.

In the anime, Karasuno is currently facing their rivals, Nekoma, where we can finally see the long-awaited “Battle at the Garbage Dump.” By the end of this showdown, they defeat the highly defensive team and go on to battle Kamomedai High School.

Back in June, Capcom announced that the trio of Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard would be receiving next-generation upgrades. This was released for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S and saw the introduction of new-gen features like 4K, high framerate, ray tracing, and 3D audio.

Following in the footsteps of the next-gen patch, Capcom has released a follow-up patch to address a bevy of issues such as trophy transfer progress as well as various glitches and typos. You can check out the notes for yourself right down below.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

• Correction of typos in the porting credits.

PS5:

Today, Netflix has just released a brand new clip for its upcoming original anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Titled the NSFW trailer, the video features plenty of flashy action and violence, highlighting the beauty and chaos that fans have come to love about its setting Night City.

When Does Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Come Out?

Alongside this new look, a release date of Sept. 13, 2022, was also confirmed for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, which is set to come out on Netflix all at once. You can check out the exciting trailer and a brief description of the upcoming Netflix anime right down below.

CD PROJEKT RED, the company behind the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, is producing the series with Rafał Jaki (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher: Ronin) as Showrunner and Executive Producer, with Satoru Homma, Bartosz Sztybor and Saya Elder serving as producers. The team at CD PROJEKT RED has been working on this new series since 2018.

For years, every Paradox game-related stream or video I've seen has had "where's Victoria 3?" and "Viccy 3 when?" in the comments underneath. The grand strategy sequel was finally announced last year, more than ten years after the release of Victoria 2, and now we have a release date as well: October 25th. What will people put in the comments underneath Paradox game trailers now? Hop below for the answer (and a release date trailer).

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Square Enix has announced that it will shut down Deep Insanity: Asylum on October 31, 2022, at 12:00 JST. The company has also disabled real money purchases for the in-game currency at the same time it announced the Japan-exclusive game's end of service.

The Deep Insanity title first appeared in public when Square Enix registered its trademark in November 2020. The company then formally revealed the media-mix project in June 2021. The project consists of the Nirvana manga, The Lost Child anime, and the free-to-play game Asylum.

The Lost Child anime show ran through one full season with twelve episodes aired on Japanese television from October to December 2021. The Nirvana manga only had four volumes, with the last one released in March 2022, and a new chapter has not shown up in the 9th volume of Monthly Big Gangan magazine published in Japan in late August 2022.

Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth, the protagonist lawyer and rival prosecutor from Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, will receive Pop Up Parade figures. Good Smile Company has opened pre-orders for both figures on its North American and international web stores.

The Pop Up Parade figures will depict both Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth on a smaller scale. Both of the immovable figures will have similar heights at approximately 17cm (~6.7 inches).

Good Smile Company will close pre-orders for both figures on September 28, 2022. It will ship the packages to Japan in February 2023 and North America in April 2023. While both figures have the same schedule, the company will sell them separately at $34.99 each.

The Pop Up Parade figures are not the first items Good Smile Company had produced for Ace Attorney characters. It previously revealed Nendoroids of Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth. While the company closed pre-orders for these chibi movable figures in January 2022 and has already released them in Japan, it will ship them to North America in October 2022.

Management sims are games that I love to hate. You face an endless onslaught of extremely demanding customers who want you to perform your services in a very particular way, and pronto. If you leave them unattended for too long, then they make disgruntled faces. Mess up enough times, and they might even dock your pay.…

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Avid Valve fan and collector David McGreavy just shared a large trove of unseen concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode Three and other unreleased Valve projects as part of his effort to preserve this history for the future.

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Lead combat designers Mihir Sheth and Denny Yeh have over 17 years of God of War experience shared between them, and both played prominent roles in the previous game’s success. The series’ current direction is inspired by an old studio motto: Playing with your food.

“That’s an internal philosophy that we’ve had since back in the day,” Sheth says. “Kratos plays with his food. We tried to create systems you want to engage with that are fun, very playful, lots of different routes. And when we looked at the combat in the last game, we were like, ‘We can push this further; we can find new toys and ways of playing with enemies and strategies.’ That’s been the guiding principle more than anything else.”

Netflix's animated Cyberpunk 2077 series, Edgerunners, is right around the corner, with the streaming service having now slapped it with a 13th September release date and celebrated the announcement with the launch of a "NSFW" trailer.

Announced back in June 2020, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a 10-episode collaboration between Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt and Japanese animation studio Trigger (Little Witch Academia, Kill la Kill) that tells the story of a street kid trying to survive in the technology and body modification obsessed Night City.

"Having everything to lose," explains Netflix, "he stays alive by becoming an Edgerunner - a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk."

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In a surprise announcement, North American esports organization Sentinels have announced that Tarık “Tarik” Çelik has been signed to the organization.

Tarik has had a storied career in esports. Starting his competitive career in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Tarik competed in the North American scene for 7 years. Aside from providing plenty of memorable plays, his shining moment was helping North America win the region’s only major at the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 over FaZe Clan.

Tarik retired from CS:GO in 2021 and pursued a career in content creating. Being a big name in the Counter-Strike scene helped him rack up a large following, but when he fully committed to playing Valorant later that year, his streams exploded in popularity. He’s been a regular co-streamer for Valorant competitive events, and with Champions starting, he will again be streaming Valorant’s biggest event of the year.

Third-party developers revealed new assets about upcoming add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator and released a new airport.

Aero Dynamics provided new screenshots of its McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender, which will also come with the civilian DC-10-30 in both passenger and freight versions.

If you’d like to follow the project’s progress, you can check out the developer’s Discord server.

Tic Tac Toe and its variations have been played for thousands of years, even as far back as BC, and it still retains a good bit of fun, especially for children. It’s simple, easy to understand, and can be played just about anywhere, from your phone to a table napkin. You can wing it and place your marks anywhere or you can learn how to always win at Tic Tac Toe with the best Tic Tac Toe strategy.

All the way back in 2014, Kevin Smith made a film called Tusk. This horror comedy centers around a man named Howard Howe (Michael Parks) who ends up turning a podcaster named Wallace Bryton (Justin Long) into a walrus. The concept was odd and interesting, and even fans of the beloved director were confused by the film.

Critics and general audiences alike didn’t care for the flick, with it tallying disapproving review scores of 45 and 36 percent, respectively, while also failing to make its budget of $3 million back, grossing just $1.9 million at the box office. Yet it must hold a special place deep in the heart of Smith, because he wants to make a sequel to it.

Speaking recently with SlashFilm, Long discussed Smith’s earnest desire to embark on Tusk 2, saying:

“He texted us all the other day, Haley [Joel Osment] and Genesis [Rodriguez], and he told us that he wanted to do it, and I thought it was a joke. And then I realized he was being serious. And then one of the [other] interviewers said, ‘Yeah, he said the same to me.'”

This isn’t the first time Smith has discussed the potential for Tusk 2. Two years ago, during a Twitch stream, the Clerks director had this to say, via Bloody Disgusting:

As the only known member of the human race, you—The Breeder—are tasked with catching Nephelym and breeding them in order to create interesting combinations. It’s a very relaxed experience right out of the gate, so you won’t ruin any of the fun if you use cheat codes. In that case, here’s all cheats for Breeders of the Nephelym and how to enter them in-game.

Full List of Breeders of the Nephelym PC Cheat Codes

The following list is the full list of Breeders of the Nephelym PC cheat codes. If you aren’t sure how to enter cheat codes in Breeders of the Nephelym, those steps are in the next section.

Rocksmith+ was announced and intended for release last year, only to be delayed after beta feedback. It has now resurfaced, and the new subscription service for Ubisoft's guitar-teaching series will instead launch next week on September 6th.

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The Last Of Us Part I's remake is heading to PlayStation 5 on September 2nd, which I assume is of modest interest if you want to play Joel and Ellie's story over from the beginning with prettier graphics. It's more interesting to us in PC land because it'll be the first time the heart-and-zombie smasher makes its way to PC - albeit "very soon" after its console release.

Below, a new seven-minute clip of the remaster in action.

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Most 'realistic graphics' mods make games look worse, but that's not the case with NaturalVision Evolved. The long-in-development Grand Theft Auto 5 mod is a comprehensive revamp of lighting, textures, models and much more, but it remains faithful to the art direction of the base game.

You can now download a Single Player Beta of the mod - and even if you don't plan on doing that, it's worth watching the trailer below.

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The Pokemon Company has revealed that the Singaporean airliner Scoot will receive an official Pokemon-themed jet. The plane will be known as Pikachu Jet TR, and it will begin its maiden flight from Singapore to Tokyo on September 9, 2022.

The Pikachu Jet TR's livery will feature Pokemon from the series' first two generations. Lapras, Meganium, Psyduck, Pichu, and Celebi will accompany Pikachu in decorating the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The same Singaporean plane will also fly to destinations other than Tokyo, such as Seoul in South Korea.

The Japanese press release added that The Pokemon Company will hold more Pokemon events in Singapore. The three-day "Pikachu Weekend in Singapore," set to run on November 18-20, 2022, will include a Pikachu night show at Marina Bay and a Pokemon GO Safari Zone at Gardens by the Bay.

Splatoon 3 fans were treated to a nice surprise this past weekend when Nintendo staged a special Splatfest event before the game’s official release. This gave folks a chance to download and play a demo of the colorful shooter ahead of its September 9 release date. However, players bold enough to “fuck around and find…

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Just over a month after the launch of The Sims 4's High School Years expansion, EA has announced another round of bite-sized Kit DLC releases, this time with a focus on children's wear and desert-inspired furnishings.

Both Kits launch next month, starting with The Sims 4 First Fits Kit on 1st September. This one's all about expanded child Sims' clothing options with a bunch of 'fashionable and cute' outfits, some of which you can see in the header image above.

"Dress child Sims in trendy looks that are perfect for birthday parties, the classroom or just hanging out with friends," explains EA. "Start your child Sims on a lifetime of trend-setting fashion and allow them to express themselves with the kinds of leopard-print jackets, patterned leggings and colorful shades they’ll want to wear when they grow up."

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The 2-D adventure game, Terraria, achieves the milestone of having over one million reviews on Steam with an overwhelmingly positive score of 97 percent.

Since its release in 2011, fans have praised the developers, Re-Logic, for consistently updating the game throughout the years, including its Steam Deck integration earlier this year.

The Twitter user, demizegg, was one of the first to notice this accomplishment by looking over the Top Rated Games on the platform:

The yearly release of EA Sports’ longest-running franchise promises plenty—get your jokes out of the way now—but tops among them is new player ratings to salivate over. Gameplay, graphics, and glitches aside, players love themselves a fiery debate over ratings. That’s why we’re here to talk about the rookie ratings in Madden 23.

Madden 23 Rookie Ratings Breakdown

Now, much unlike the ’99 club in the franchise’s latest installment, there are plenty of rookies in Madden 23 to keep an eye on. To make them easier to find, we’ve assembled the following table for you. That said, we’ve decided to limit this particular table to the top 25 rookies in the game:

Several of the Disney+ Marvel shows have included scannable Easter Eggs that fans have tried to decipher with each passing episode. So, now that a new series has been released, we’ll explain what these QR Codes do in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and where you can find them.

QR Codes in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Explained

The She-Hulk QR codes are previews of comics that are available on the subscription service, Marvel Unlimited. For example, the first episode had a hidden QR Code when Jennifer Walters ends up at a bar, while the second can be seen when she is looking for jobs on her computer.

Halo: Infinite is the sixth main installment in Microsoft’s flagship first-person shooter franchise. Released for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC in Dec. 2021, it promised to be a “soft reboot” of the franchise after the disappointment of 2015’s Halo 5: Guardians.

Between offering its multiplayer as a free-to-play option and major campaign improvements, Halo: Infinite brings the series closer to its peak than 343’s previous attempt did. Some may wonder if Halo: Infinite offers an open world, or more linear, level-based gameplay.

Is Halo: Infinite Open-World?

It may be surprising to learn, but Halo: Infinite is the first time the series has delivered an open-world experience. There are still linear sections that act as main story missions, but these are accessed by traversing Zeta Halo, the game’s open world.

343 Industries has never released an official size of the Zeta Halo open world. It appears, though, that Halo: Infinite’s map is on the smaller end compared to other open-world games in AAA franchises. Shortly after Infinite’s release, it was reported that its map was initially on a scale similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. However, due to development problems, 343 cut down the map by about two-thirds of that game’s size to streamline its production.

Realm Royale Reforged features four distinct classes to play, mixed together with battle royale mechanics to create a unique experience. It’s a welcome change to the battle royale formula, due to the nature of each class having their own abilities that encourage certain playstyles. Of course, Realm Royale has its own competitive scene, so here’s Realm Royale ranks and ranking system, explained.

Realm Royale Ranks and Ranking System, Explained

Realm Royale has a ranking system that uses a combination of tiers and ranks within said tiers, which are, from lowest to highest:

• Bronze
• Silver
• Gold
• Platinum
• Diamond
• Master
• Grand Master

Excluding Master and Grand Master, each tier has five ranks that follow a descending order; for example, you start at Bronze V and work your way up to Bronze I, then the cycle restarts at Silver V, and so on.

How to Rank Up in Realm Royale

Ranking up in Realm Royale is fairly straightforward, and this is because your rating is only determined by your 50 best matches, win or lose, in one particular game mode. That means, in order to improve your rank, you have to increase your average KD per match.

Another great aspect of the ranking system in Realm Royale is how forgiving it is. If you have a few bad games or take a break for a few weeks, you’ll still retain your rank.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a history in video games that spans decades since the 90s. A true pop culture phenomenon of the 80s and 90s, it was no surprise there were numerous video games made that were based on the turtles. Of all the TMNT games made up to this point, here are the 10 best you need to play, whether you’re a fan of the original cartoon, beat-em-ups, or retro games in general.

TMNT Arcade

When the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game first hit arcades, beat ‘em ups reached a whole new level. Kids and teens happily gathered around this machine wherever it was found. Being able to play with a total of four friends simultaneously made this the ultimate coop experience. It also became one of the best ways to collect quarters from players.

Today D3 Publisher released a new gallery of screenshots of its upcoming “Girls Sword-fighting Action” game Samurai Maiden.

Specifically, we get to see the game’s titular maidens.

Tsumugi Tamaori is our isekai protagonist, transported from the modern era to the Sengoku period. She has been studying the katana since her childhood and she’s single-minded and hot-blooded.

She’s accompanied by three ninjas who support her.

Iyo is a shinobi in service of Oda Nobunaga. She is strong but not very good at being stealthy. Yet, she has tools and weapons hidden all over her body.

Hagane is the older sister-type Ninja and her artificial right arm can extend and shock enemies with electricity.

Komimi is a catgirl ninja who can use Onmyoji powers and wields a giant hammer that she can surround with freezing energy. Her sense of direction sucks so she always gets lost when she’s on her own.

The battle system is centered on Tsumugi, who is extremely strong and can easily dispatch rank-and-file enemies. She can also use powerful special techniques. Yet, she cannot win alone, and she’s supported by the three ninja.

They can use various attacks depending on their weapons and powers. They also have other utility features besides pure attack. For instance, Hagane’s arm can pull enemies and hold them for Tsumugi or even rappel across chasms.

You can check out all the screenshots below.

Samurai Maiden will release this winter for PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC both in Japan and in the west.

As the Heroes for Hire season begins to wind down this week, developing studio Second Dinner has hit Marvel Snap players with yet another Featured Location to throw a wrench into their plans. Dubbed Project Pegasus, this new location in the game gives players five extra energy for that turn, and that turn only.

The tagline is “Use it or lose it!” which suggests that players should absolutely make full use of that extra energy before that turn ends, or risk their opponent getting a huge advantage over them. As your max energy only goes up by one with each subsequent turn, getting five extra energy during your first three turns can be absolutely huge, allowing you to play 6-cost cards in those turns when you otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

In the past few weeks, cards like Mr. Negative and Sera have started to dominate the meta, though the potential of those cards are usually only fully realized if players use Magik to extend the game, thus allowing them an extra turn to push more power onto the board. Project Pegasus lets players drop Negative and Sera much earlier, which will also allow them to play the rest of their cards much more efficiently.

Project Pegasus will be the Featured Location for the next couple of days before it shuffles back into the regular rotation, which means that you’ll have a 40% chance of getting it to pop within this time period.

Marvel Snap is now in closed beta on mobile devices.

Academy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley is set to reprise the role of Trevor Slattery in the upcoming MCU Disney+ series Wonder Man, a story that Variety broke. The decision to include the the struggling actor makes sense given that the series will follow Simon Williams, AKA Wonder Man, who also finds himself to be a struggling actor.

Along with this parallel, another reason why the false Mandarin will appear in Wonder Man is likely due to the heavy involvement of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ director, Destin Daniel Cretton. Kingsley and Cretton are the only known connections between Shang-Chi and the Wonder Man series thus far; however, given Cretton’s involvement, there is reason to believe that more links may be in store.

As fans of the MCU may recall, Slattery first appeared in Iron Man 3 as the fake Mandarin and didn’t reappear in the MCU again until last year’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. For those curious about seeing the gap of what was going on with Kingsley’s character between the two films, the Marvel One-Shot, All Hail the King, has the answers for you.

We last saw Trevor Slattery in Ta Lo, where after briefly participating in the film’s final battle, he decided to stay behind with the adorable Morris. If Wonder Man plans on taking place at least sometime after Iron Man 3, this means that Slattery had left Ta Lo at some point –the reason for which will hopefully get explained at some point during the series.

Dream Cycle is the first game I've played that puts a fresh spin on Blink, Dishonored's widely imitated short-range teleport spell. Admittedly, it's less about the ability in itself, than how it works with and against the game’s sporadically coherent terrain. In Dishonored, Blink is sort of headshots but for movement, snapping you between points with toe-curling specificity. It takes the stodge out of vertical exploration and edits plodding stealth into a series of catlike pounces. It plays that role in Dream Cycle, too, especially when combined with levitation and silenced SMGs. But it's also, here, a means of spelunking through a world that doesn’t quite want to be explored.

If you've done any caving yourself, you'll be familiar with the mingled temptation and dread when you spot another chamber through a gap you're not sure you can fit through. A beautifully banded sandstone channel, screened by stalactites. A hint of crystal in the dark, or the seductive glimmer of running water. Can you find a way to that glimmer, and rather more importantly, can you make it out again? Dream Cycle is made up of horribly tantalising spaces like these. It’s a third- and first-person action-adventure based on Lovecraft’s own “dream cycle” stories, set in procedurally generated biomes that consist of small, ruined overworlds and a concluding, separately loaded dungeon. You play Morgan Carter (yes, as in Randolph) - a young mage who’s as handy with a sword or pistol as she is a bolt of lightning. She’s searching the Dreamlands for her friend Erin, one of many victims of a mysterious sleeping sickness.

September's PS Plus Essential games will be Need for Speed Heat, Toem, and Granblue Fantasy Versus.

That's according to reliable source Dealabs, who routinely leaks the games in advance.

Need for Speed Heat was the 2019 entry to the series and the last to be developed by Ghost Games before being handed back to original developer Criterion.

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Sony and Tencent have increased their shareholding in Elden Ring developer FromSoftware.

Sony now owns 14.09 percent of the Japanese company, while Tencent, via its Sixjoy subsidiary, now owns 16.25 percent.

Existing majority shareholder Kadokawa still owns most of FromSoftware, at 69.66 percent.

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Kadokawa has announced that Sony Interactive Entertainment and Tencent subsidiary Sixjoy Hong Kong Limited have bought a minority stake in developer FromSoftware. The purchased stock amounts to approximately ¥36 billion (about $260 million), making up 30.34% of the company's stock.  [Thanks, PR Times!]

The purchase was finalized on August 31, 2022, after a meeting of executives at FromSoftware. Specifically, both companies are spending a combined ¥36,399,550,000. After the purchase, Sixjoy will own 16.25% of the company while Sony will own 14.09%. FromSoftware's parent company Kadokawa will continue to remain the majority stakeholder, holding 69.66% of the developer's shares.

Founded in 1986, FromSoftware has created numerous award-winning titles across several generations. Notably, the company has had a close relationship with Sony since the release of the PlayStation 3 exclusive Demon's Souls in 2009. Since then, the company has created several popular franchises including Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and, most recently, Elden Ring.

Compile Hear revealed several brand new trailers of its upcoming JRPG Fairy Fencer F: Refrain Chord.

First of all, we get two trailers introducing four members of the cast, Efol, Karin, Rinne, and Renne.

Another trailer shows the “Dramatic Resonance” mechanic.

It’s a positional element where the songs of the opposing divas overlap and in which both the buffs created by the friendly diva and the debuffs created by the enemy diva are doubled in effect. Basically, you can step into that area for some high-risk, high-reward plays and you can check out more of how it sounds in previous videos.

Lastly, speaking of divas, two more trailers introduce two of their songs and show more gameplay.

The first is “Chiya Noroi” performed by Glace and one of her singing voices, Yuhki Aira.

The second is performed by Fleur and one of her singing voices, Luna Haruna, titled “Eien no Monogatari.

Dead by Daylight has an ever increasing list of Killers, Survivors, perks, add-ons, items, props, and so on. That also means status effects, which can be beneficial or negative—”buffs” and “debuffs,” respectively—and can be applied to both Killers and Survivors. When you’re affected by a status effect, a symbol appears, but since there are so many symbols, here’s all Dead by Daylight status effects and symbols, explained.