November 2022

Today 2K Games and Firaxis Games released a new trailer and showcased plenty of gameplay of the tactical RPG Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

This time around, the first video is of the Launch Trailer kind, since we’re just a few days before release. It actually is a cinematic trailer showcasing what happens just before the game’s story, with the destruction of the Sanctum Sanctorum.

Even more interesting is the gameplay showcased during a livestream accompanied by plenty of developer commentary.

First of all, we get to take a look at the Hulk in action, which is great since we haven’t seen much of him just yet. On top of that, another segment of gameplay shows off an extremely high-level and super-challenging mission that players will be able to enjoy when they reach the endgame.

These missions are so hard that you really can’t afford to make any mistakes according to the developers.

Speaking of the endgame, that’s when you unlock Hulk, as he becomes available just before the end of the story and then you can play with him post-ending.

We also learn that all DLC characters are fully featured, they have their own story, you can hang out with them at the Abbey, and they unlock really early in the game so you can play with them nearly immediately in a playthrough.

You can check out the videos below.

Throughout the years, the Pokemon franchise has introduced us to vast worlds full of uniquely-designed creatures and thrilling challenges. But, when it comes to voice acting in cutscenes, it’s a void of silence.

It may be surprising to hear that one of the best-selling games of all time has never included this feature, despite its cast of many beloved characters. Fortunately, a new video from the YouTuber Dr. Bonehead shows proof of why this much-needed aspect should be in the Pokemon franchise, where you’ll be able to see a comparison between the normal cutscenes and voice-acting versions of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

Here is a snippet of the video from Dr. Bonehead’s Twitter account:

The sequel to the famous Tom Cruise movie Top Gun was a smashing success over the summer after a Memorial Day release, flying its way up to Paramount’s top-grossing film of all time. To celebrate earning $716 million domestically at the box office, Top Gun: Maverick is returning to theaters from Dec. 2, 2022-Dec. 15, 2022.

According to President of Domestic Distribution Chris Aronson (via The Hollywood Reporter), “This feels like the perfect time to bring Top Gun: Maverick back to theaters so audiences everywhere can once again experience how special this film is.”

Director Joseph Kosinski managed to capture the magic of the original Top Gun while not relying on nostalgia alone to keep viewers interested. Tom Cruise, of course, reprises his role as Pete Mitchell, but with a new crew and an exciting adventure.

If you want to rewatch the original Top Gun before going to see Maverick, it’s streaming on Paramount+. Top Gun: Maverick has a 99% audience score and a 96% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, so if you can’t decide on a movie to go see, this is a strong contender.

On Dec. 22, 2022, the film is available to watch on Paramount+, and you can watch it as much as you want after that. While you’re here, be sure to check out the rest of Twinfinite for more content on new movies and TV shows, including plenty of fun quizzes to take and guides to read.

A reliable leaker has revealed that Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Biomutant, and DKO: Divine Knockout will be next month’s trio of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. These games will be available on both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. So if you purchased Sony’s games subscription service at any tier,…

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Gather round ye gamers, for Nintendo and Illumination Studios have revealed a second Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer for us to gawk at, make memes from, and turn into fuel for our speculations and heated online debates about what next April’s theatrical release may have in store.

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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury will see one of its voice actresses replaced. Haruka Shirashi will replace Yume Miyamoto as Nika Nanaura in the Japanese dub of the series. The reason for the change is a result of Miyamoto's poor health. Shirashi will debut as Nika Nanaura in Episode 10 of Mobile Suit: Gundam The Witch from Mercury on December 11, 2022. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

An official announcement regarding the change also appeared through the official The Witch from Mercury Twitter account. It is fairly straightforward, just highlighting that there will be a change in voice actress for Nika Nanuara going forward. There is no indication that Miyamoto will return to voice Nanuara going forward if her condition improves.

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Nintendo promised a The Super Mario Bros Movie Direct on November 29, 2022 with a second trailer. As expected, it delivered a detailed look at more characters and scenes from the film. Most notably, it showed how Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Luigi would look in The Super Mario Bros Movie. Immediately after the Nintendo Direct, Illumination uploaded it to YouTube.

Here's new The Super Mario Bros Movie Direct, showing Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Luigi in trailer 2. Before the presentation of it began, the voice actors for Princess Peach and Donkey Kong, Anya Taylor-Joy and Seth Rogan spoke about their roles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJrpHUoZ10&ab_channel=NintendoofAmerica

The first trailer didn't feature as many characters. It started with a detailed look at Bowser invading a penguin kingdom with his minions. After that, Mario ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom after coming down a pipe. He then met Toad, and the two headed off to the "city" proper. This also provided the first opportunity to hear Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, and Chris Pratt as Mario.

Nintendo and animation studio Illumination shared the latest trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie today. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto was on hand to introduce the new trailer; Anya Taylor-Joy (who is playing Princess Peach) and Seth Rogan (who voices Donkey Kong) also shared selfie videos of themselves sharing their contractually obligated excitement about participating in the film.

The trailer showed more of the Mushroom Kingdom and primarily focused on Donkey Kong and Princess Peach. We also heard more from Chris Pratt's Mario, Charlie Day's Luigi, and Jack Black's Bowser (who explicitly refers to Mario as being a human). The trailer shows Mario training, fighting Donkey Kong, driving a kart on a rainbow road, traveling with Peach, and there was also one quick moment where we saw the human world.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie arrives in theaters on April 7, 2023. You can see our live reaction to the trailer below.

After a £69 discount (nice), the Crucial P3 has become the most affordable 2TB PCIe 3.0 SSD on Amazon. You'll now pay just £105 for this drive, a great deal that works out to just 5.3p per gigabyte.

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The developers of the Yakuza series say that the beloved cabaret mini game will return in Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. That's good news for anyone who played Yakuza 0 and found it weirdly compelling to wring salarymen from their wallets by plying them with drinks.

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The 28-in Gigabyte M28U is one of the most affordable 4K 144Hz HDMI 2.1 monitors, ideal for use with PC, PS5 and Series X alike. Normally it is available for high but understandable-for-its-specs figure of £669, but for Black Friday (and its aftershocks), it's been reduced to £399 which is a rather fetching price.

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Far Cry continues to take a liberal approach to its expansions with Lost Between Worlds. The DLC for Far Cry 6 takes Dani Rojas, the protagonist from the base game's daft revolutionary narrative, and traps her within a kaleidoscopic and extraterrestrial version of Yara. There you'll need to work with an alien AI to collect crystals and defeat crystal people. It's out on December 6th and you'll find the first trailer below.

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After a solid first showing for the long-awaited Super Mario Bros. Movie in October, Nintendo has returned with a second action-packed trailer, this time giving us a first proper look at Peach, Donkey Kong, and a delightful karting cameo for Rainbow Road.

In fact, it's a bit of a treat for Mario fans all-round, casting its net wide to introduce a host of familiar faces, places, and power-ups, all given a vibrant movie makeover. It's the first time we get to hear Anya Taylor-Joy's no-nonsense Princess Peach, for instance, as well as Charlie Day as Luigi, and Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong, even though the latter's debut was mainly just a grunt.

Elsewhere, the trailer delivers a breakneck tour of the movie's beautifully reimagined Mushroom Kingdom, giving us a stroll across a bridge amid of flurry of Cheep Cheeps, a glimpse inside Peach's castle, and, of course, the crowd-pleasing addition of karts hurtling across Rainbow Road.

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Xbox Games with Gold still trundles on, and Microsoft has now confirmed December's titles for Xbox Live members as Colt Canyon and Bladed Fury

Colt Canyon is described as an "atmospheric and punchy" rogue-like shooter set in a pixel-art Wild West, where players can root and toot their way toward saving their kidnapped partner from ruthless bandits. "Take your gun and TNT," explains developer Retrific, "and shoot your way through a hostile canyon full of hidden treasures, weapons, obstacles and all kinds of bloodthirsty scum."

Eurogamer hasn't scanned a critical eye over Colt Canyon, but with a Very Positive rating over on Steam, the masses appear to think this one is pretty good!

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Today third-party developers shared relevant news about add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator, including both aircraft and scenery.

We start with an announcement from Cockspur, which will release a Gulfstream G650 made by an indie developer. It’s coming “very soon” and more info has been promised “shortly.”

While we wait for that, you can check out a single screenshot below.

After the reveal yesterday of Pokemon GO Season 9: Mythical Wishes, Niantic released a massive amount of information for the upcoming GO Tour 2023 event. Like the past two years, this event will feature a global component. However, this is the first year there will also be an in-person event similar to the GO Fest events held annually during the Summer.

The first in-person GO Tour will take place in Las Vegas one week before the global version of the Hoenn-themed event. Players who live in the area or would like to travel there will be able to join in on the fun from 10 AM to 6 PM on Feb. 18 and 19. The global version of Pokemon GO Tour: Hoenn will take place at the same time of day as the in-person event on Feb. 25 and 26.

Typically, the ticket for the live event will cost $30, but players who purchase it before Dec. 31 will receive an early bird discount of $5. It’s worth noting that each ticket only entitles players to access a single day of the event. Anyone who wants to enjoy the bonuses and features on both days must purchase the extra day add-on for $25. Unlike the regular ticket, no add-ons are discounted for purchasing them early. As of right now, the cost of the global event ticket has not been released.

Besides the extra day add-on, players can also pick up Raid Lover and Egg Egg-thusiast add-ons for $15 each.

Raid Lover gives players up to 18 free raid passes by spinning gym photo discs, a 5000 XP bonus for completing raids, six extra Candy for catching Pokemon in five-star raids, and three extra Candy XL for catching Pokemon in five-star raids.

The Egg-thusiast add-on gives players a 1/4 hatch distance bonus, triple hatch XP, triple hatch Candy, triple hatch Stardust, and an increased chance of getting 10km eggs from Gyms and PokeStops. The 1/4 hatch distance bonus does not stack with other similar bonuses.

The organisers of the Smash World Tour have today announced that they are being shut down, after Nintendo—“without any warning”—told them they could “no longer operate.”

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Soccer Story, out this week, is a new RPG from PanicBarn, the team behind Not Tonight. It is an RPG devoted entirely to the sport of football. It is not, as the combination of name and art style might have you initially believe, a sequel or successor to Golf Story.

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's pre-order beta has drawn to a close, because tomorrow the full game will release proper. That's also when our opinions on Darktide will start to flow across these pages like so many heretics across the streets of Tertium. Perhaps you'd like to enjoy one last dose of concentrated marketing before that happens, in which case you can hop below to watch the Darktide launch trailer.

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Universal Pictures and Nintendo announced the official Japanese voice cast for The Super Mario Bros Movie, which will come out in 2023. There are also some new trailers for it, as well as a Japanese version of it. You can get your first listen to the Japanese voices from there. [Thanks, Oricon!]

So far, we know the Japanese voice actors for five major characters. They are:

• Mario: Mamoru Miyano (Light from Death Note, Ryuji from Persona 5)
• Peach: Arisa Shida (Amanda from Little Witch Academia, Thor from Wise Man’s Grandchild)
• Luigi: Tasuku Hatanaka (Yuma from Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal, Gorou from Genshin Impact)
• Bowser: Kenta Miyake (Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist, All Might from My Hero Academia)
• Toad: Tomokazu Seki (Kougami from Psycho-Pass, Kanji from Persona 4)

The majority of this cast are highly prolific and award-winning voice actors. You can check out what the cast sounds like in the Japanese version of the The Super Mario Bros Movie trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSFep5yAvjk

Crunchyroll Games announced a game adaptation of novel and anime series The Eminence in Shadow (a.k.a. Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!) launched. Formally titled The Eminence in Shadow Master of Garden, the game is available to download on iOS and Android devices.

Check out the game's launch trailer below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUI66uvo3SI

The Eminence in Shadow Master of Garden is based on the anime and novel series created by author Daisuke Aizawa. The story begins with a young man living in modern-day Japan having an ambition to become as strong as possible. His desire for strength comes not from wanting attention, but to be a power that blends in with the crowd and operates from the shadows. Those ambitions are cut short when he's run over by a truck. Fortunately, though, he is reincarnated into a magical world as Cid Kagenou, scion of a noble family. From there he takes on a pseudonym, "Shadow," and lives out his fantasies by founding Shadow Garden, a group dedicated to fighting a sinister cult that he also thought up himself. Or so he thought. The cult he thought was a mere roleplay gambit turns out to be real, and before long, Cid must become a true shadowy mastermind and fight back against the darkness of a new world.

The Core i5 12400F is a surprisingly excellent gaming CPU, offering the power of Intel's new Alder Lake architecture in a simple six-core twelve-thread configuration. The CPU supports PCIe 5.0 and DDR5, but it also works with cheaper DDR4- and PCIe 4.0-based hardware.

It's normally £200, but it's down to £167 on AWD-IT which is a pretty decent deal if you want to build a powerful gaming PC on a budget.

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Nintendo has now released its second trailer for the Super Mario Bros. Movie, giving us our best look yet at the upcoming animated film from Minions maker Illumination.

The trailer showcases a good look at the film's version of Princess Peach (voiced by Anya Tayor-Joy) while Chris Pratt's Mario only gets a couple of lines of dialogue. Overall, it's a fun glimpse at some familiar Mario locales and characters, translated for the big screen.

If you're a Nintendo nerd like me, you've probably rewatched the trailer more than once to spot everything going on in the background. And there's some cool Easter eggs - particularly if you like the extended Donkey Kong family. Let's give it one more watch and dive in.

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More glitches have been discovered in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (who would have thunk it) which allow players to duplicate items, and even their legendary Pokémon.

Plenty of bugs and exploits have already been found, whether it's creating body horror or duplicating shiny Pokémon, but this is on a different level. In the game, you're supposed to only have one of the legendaries, whether that's Koraidon or Miraidon, but now you can fill up your boxes with them.

These new-found glitches have been widely discussed in the Pokémon community, and they're not that difficult to pull off. One has been tested by yours truly, and I can confirm it works. The other requires you to have beaten the end-game, which I've not reached yet so I can't confirm at the moment whether it works or not. Beware some spoilers ahead!

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Did you meet Nurse Miriam in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet? There's a chance someone might not. The NPC is someone who appears at Naranja Academy and Uva Academy, but only once someone gets started on their adventure in earnest. The only reason you might even find out she exists is if you're stopping by regularly to visit campus. If you do, you can get a reward for taking the time to visit and inspire her.

How to Find Nurse Miriam in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

Head to the academy in Mesagoza. After entering, go to the directory to choose a place to visit by heading to an inside door. When you do, you'll see the Nurse's Office is an option. There will be an exclamation point next to it and her icon showing she's there. Talk to her to introduce yourself and find out a bit about her and her dreams.

The Crucial P5 Plus is the best value 'second-gen' PCIe 4.0 drive, with sequential speeds up to 6600MB/s that make it ideal for anything from mid-range to high-end gaming rigs or the PS5. Its TLC NAND and DRAM cache also mean that performance remains high even in sustained write scenarios, unlike cheaper QLC/no-DRAM drives.

The Crucial P5 Plus normally costs £100+, but today it's down to £92.51 on Amazon UK - one of the best prices we've seen for this model although not quite the best ever.

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Free to play hero shooter Overwatch 2 welcomes Season 2 early next week, and with that comes some more hero balance changes and a new theme. This season, the game’s taking its inspiration from Greek mythology with a new time-limited mode, Battle For Olympus, giving the heroes some godlike powers early next year. You can take a look at some of what’s lined up for Overwatch 2 Season 2 in the trailer below.

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One night last week I went to a book club with Blade. It was Blade's idea, actually. Captain America and Captain Marvel were there, so we were pretty much knee deep in captains. Blade had arranged the whole thing to spend time with Captain Marvel, but then the other captain overheard and wanted in too, and Blade was too shy to say no. We read The Art of War. It was Blade's pick. We talked about the strategies and wisdom in the text, and someone mentioned how funny it was that Blade's favourite book was written by someone named "Sun". Funny because Blade is a vampire, right? After the book club was done I went foraging for mushrooms with Iron Man. Incredibly, these are not the ramblings of someone who's just banged their head on a shelf.

This is Marvel's Midnight Suns, a game to be excited about because it's also Firaxis' Marvel's Midnight Suns. It's a tactics game in which you pick Marvel heroes and engage in turn-based, card-heavy battles against Hydra and whoever. But it's also a game about cementing the friendships of a bunch of disparate, bickering super-people, who have been brought together by the threat of ancient evil and forced to live outside of time and space in a mysterious abbey. It's XCOM and Fire Emblem. It's a blockbuster about the apocalypse, but it's also the story of a particularly taxing house share.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet!

There's a lot of emotional beats in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. And fans have noticed how empty it feels when the cutscenes have no voice acting, but could really benefit from some.

A group of Pokémon fans, who are also voice actors, have come together to dub over some of the game's cutscenes to imagine what the game would be like with voice-over.

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Well, this is a nice surprise. Not only is the final content update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla now live on all platforms - a week earlier than planned! - but it includes a surprise tie-in to next year's Bagdhad-based Assassin's Creed Mirage.

We were expecting this last chapter of Eivor's story to arrive next week, on 6th December. Announcing its early release last night, Ubisoft blamed "an unforeseen glitch in the Animus".

As expected, this final dollop of Valhalla storyline sees Eivor wrap up her time in England and head off to North America one last time - where the game's opening shows she is buried. There's time for a few final goodbyes with some noteworthy people from Valhalla's long campaign, and then it's off to find out more about what Odin has been up to.

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The Alba Abyss Secret Pack is now available in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel. Like all of the other packs in the game, a single pack costs 100 gems and 10 packs cost 1000 gems. Because this is a new pack, it will be available for all players until December 25, 2022. Afterwards, players will need to unlock this Secret Pack in the same way as others like it.

Alba Abyss will mostly contain cards that are from the Albaz Dragon series. As such, there are cards from the Branded and Tri-Brigade archetypes available in the pack as well. Some of the UR and SR cards that you can obtain from the Alba Abyss pack include:

• Albion the Branded Dragon
• Branded Fusion
• Alba-Lenatus the Abyss Dragon
• Dogmaika Ecclesia, the Virtuous
• Fallen of Albaz
• The Golden Swordsoul
• Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous
• Lubellion the Searing Dragon
• Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon
• Nadir Servant
• Titaniklad the Ash Dragon
• Tri-Brigade mercourier

Players do not necessarily need to make an entire deck using the Alba Abyss Secret Pack. It is possible to use some of the cards in Dragon-themed or Fusion-focused decks as well. For instance, a deck focused on the Dragonmaid archetype can take advantage of cards such as Branded Fusion.

The Version 3.3 update for Genshin Impact arrives in December 2022, and HoYoVerse released a new trailer focused on Genius Invokation TCG. Genius Invokation will appear as a new permanent activity in the next update. The trailer implies that you will play against characters like Cyno, Diluc, Fischl, and Diona.

You can watch the trailer for Genshin Impact Genius Invokation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSZOjmD_1U

Aside from the characters you may play against, the trailer also features characters like Ayaka, Xingqiu, and Noelle. The cards in Genius Invokation will use cards based on playable characters, NPCs, and monsters. It is unknown if the cutscenes that we see in the trailer will appear when you summon a character or attack with them.

HoYoVerse has not yet released concrete information on how Genius Invokation TCG will actually work in Genshin Impact. However, we do know that there will be a PvP aspect, as well as rewards for the PvE mode. You will never need to play against another player unless you want to. You will also be able to obtain all the cards in-game for free.

Genshin Impact is available on the PS4, PS5, Windows PC, and mobile devices. Genius Invokation TCG will debut in Version 3.3, along with the new playable characters Wanderer and Faruzan, on December 7, 2022.

Kenshi Yonezu’s “Kick Back,” which serves as the first opening theme song for Chainsaw Man, placed first on the Oricon Weekly Chart. It also sold 310,000 copies in its first week. This is the third song from Yonezu to reach number one on the Oricon Rankings. [Thanks, Oricon!]

According to Oricon Music, “Kick Back” is the first single to reach number one on top of selling over 300,000 copies in its first week since Reiwa began in 2019. It is not the only song to have a strong first week. However, the other song (“Uma to Shika”) that accomplished this is one that Yonezu sang. In fact, the Top 5 First Week Sales list has four Yonezu songs on it. The only song on the list that isn’t Yonezu’s is “Night Diver,” which released posthumously after Haruma Miura’s death in July 2020.

You can listen to the TV version of the “Kick Back” opening theme song as it appears on Chainsaw Man here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFlDRhvM4L0

Sony launched a new community feature for PS5 owners: PlayStation Tournaments. These officially sanctioned online tournaments will also award prizes to their winners. The details were revealed in a post on the PlayStation Blog. The first set of tourneys will involve Guilty Gear Strive, NBA 2K23, and FIFA 23.

Sony held what it calls "on-console" tournaments since 2016, but 2022 marks the day PlayStation Tournaments launch officially for the PS5. The official launch comes following three months of beta testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvKg_iaMQ8

The first PlayStation Tournaments for PS5 will be open to the "global PS5 community," and benefit from some new features. The new experience is "streamlined" from the PS4 era, with shorter tournament times, easy sign-up from the PS5 itself, and a new UI. Tournaments will also be easier to find, and have real-time updates. Sony also launched a Discord-based community hub for tournaments, accessible at this link.

Sony will celebrate the launch of PlayStation Tournaments on PS5 with what it's calling the "Win-a-Thon" promotional event, too. From December 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023, players on both PS4 and PS5 can compete for leaderboard positions in tournaments, with prizes like cash, PS5 consoles, and controllers up for grabs.

Say what you will about the performance issues with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (PSV), it can’t take away from some of the Pokédex entries. While it’s so easy to just glaze straight past the in-game descriptions as you send another new Pokémon’s book spinning to the virtual shelf, it’s often worth pausing to take a…

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Today Bandai Namco released a new trailer of the upcoming JRPG Tales of Symphonia Remastered.

The trailer focuses on the game’s story, which is loved by many fans of the genre and will finally be brought back for those who have never played it. We get to meet the cast and take a look at the narration.

Tales of Symphonia is one of the most classic and beloved chapters of Bandai Namco’s Tales series, originally released in 2003 for GameCube and then ported to PS2 in 2004.

In 2013 it was also ported to PS3, and then the same version made its way to PC in 2016.

It tells the story of Genis Sage and Colette Brune, who start a journey to replenish their world with Mana alongside Raine Sage and Kratos Aurion. They meet Sheena Fujibayashi who comes from a parallel world and together they discover that the fate of both worlds hangs in the balance as they compete for Mana.

As a result, they set out to save both worlds, within an epic story that has been appreciated by JRPG fans around the world across multiple console generations.

The trailer provides a glimpse of that, and you can watch it below.

Tales of Symphonia Remaster will arrive on PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on Feb. 17 in both North America and Europe.

Arguably one of the most popular first-person shooters is Overwatch; the more concisely dubbed “hero shooter” was released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2016 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows, in October 2019 for the Nintendo Switch, and just this month the massively overhauled “sequel” Overwatch 2 was released for free on all major platforms.

The game divides players into two teams of six, with each player choosing from a large roster of characters with unique abilities. These teams work together to complete map-specific objectives in a short amount of time. But one of the things that makes the game unique and has attributed to its popularity is the astounding cast of voice actors that give life to the large cast of characters.

Of these characters, one of the most iconic is that of Pharah, a highly decorated soldier who soars through the air in a Raptora combat suit armed with a launcher that fires high-explosive rockets. Actress Jen Cohn has been the voice of Pharah since the game’s release in 2016 and, along with her co-stars, has been a darling of the Con scene ever since. Jen was gracious enough to join me in a conversation about her career, her love of the gaming community, and her upcoming new projects.

Entertainment Writer G.A. Lungaro: Jen Cohn seems to be the title. Do they actually call you Jen or is it just Jen Cohn?