Ubisoft are "decommissioning" another slate of games next January, including Assassin's Creed Revelations, R.U.S.E., and Trials Evolution. These games will remain playable, but their online services will be switched off meaning leaderboards, online multiplayer, co-op and other features will stop working.
Narrative clambering adventure Jusant, which Alice B just labelled a masterpiece, has arrived on Xbox Game Pass today. Grungy, low fantasy stabbing sandbox Wartales has also arrived, several months after we labelled it thrilling.
But there are several more big hitters due across November including the latest Football Manager, Like A Dragon Gaiden: Really Long Subtitle, and bathhouse management sim Spirittea. To my mind, basically every major, interesting game from November is on the way to the subscription.
The official account for Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade has uploaded a short video introducing what the game will be about. Though the release window was not in the trailer, the Twitter account posted that Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade will come out in late November 2023.
Gojo explains what Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade will be like in the trailer on YouTube. While the story will mostly follow the first season of Jujutsu Kaisen, there will also be an original plot and characters. A brand new and original story, the Fukuoka Sister School Arc, will be exclusive to Phantom Parade.
Toei Animation has announced that the One Piece Film: Red has grossed over 20 billion JPY domestically. That would be around $131 million in Hollywood box office numbers.
This number only takes into account how much money it made at the box office. It doesn’t count the money that the movie earned through other revenues, such as online rentals or television broadcasts. Since it came out, One Piece Film: Red has been a highly popular movie.
Within its first month in Japan, it sold over 10 million tickets and was the most-watched movie in 2022. At the time of writing, One Piece Film: Red is the eighth highest-grossing movie in Japanese history. For reference, here are the top 10 highest-grossing films in Japan:
The Nitroplus Twitter account has posted a teaser for its upcoming new PC game, Dolls Nest. The project will come out on Windows PC via the Steam store.
There is not much information as of yet in regards to what the genre or story of Dolls Nest will be. It’s still in development, after all. In the trailer, though, we can see a girl with mechanical parts attached to her body.
The character is standing in a post-apocalyptic world while facing a large cross-like structure in the distance. Many comments on both Twitter and YouTube note similarities between the trailer and Armored Core. In particular, some comments have noted that the girl looks like a gijinka version of the 03-AALIYAH.
Bandai Namco announced that service for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans G will end on January 11, 2024. The mobile game launched for Android and iOS devices in November 2022 in Japan.
The announcement was made on the game’s social media, as well as through its official website. Producer Yasunori Fujiwara and the development team thanked fans for their support, and announced that sales of paid in-game currencies, as well as sales of monthly subscriptions passes finished at the same time of the announcement. However, the in-game effects of the monthly passes will be valid until their expected expiration.
The game includes an exclusive chapter titled Iron-Blooded Orphans Urðr Hunt that is set between the first and second season of the original anime series, and it features a new character and protagonist called Wistario Afam.
Overwatch 2’s latest balance patch ahead of the upcoming Le Sserafim collaboration event is hitting Support heroes hard. Blizzard said this was its plan in a developer update earlier this month, but looking at the actual patch notes, it definitely looks like medics are feeling the latest nerfs most.
Rollerdrome, the acclaimed (and ridiculously stylish) skater shooter from OlliOlli developer Roll7, is launching for Xbox Series X/S and Game Pass on 28th November.
Rollerdrome, which debuted on PC and PlayStation toward the end of last year, is set in the far-flung future of seven years from now, where, in a world ruled by corporations, the public is kept placated by a brutal blood sport known, as, yes, Rollerdrome.
Thrust into this dystopian set-up, players, in the role of Kara Hasson, don rollerskates and raise weapons - specifically, dual pistols, a grenade launcher, shotgun, and eventually, a laser-crossbow - for some high-speed third-person shooting action, where performing tricks restores ammo and bullet-time-style slo-mo can be deployed for greater success against opponents.
Cities: Skylines 2 launched last week and Colossal Order have spent the time since combatting performance issues and teeth conspiracies. Today they released a first video of its upcoming editor tool, however, and it looks neat.
Your character in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 isn't a blank slate and will speak during dialogue scenes. New developres The Chinese Room introduced the protagonist in a new video, in which they show a couple of interactive conversation and then layout the backstory underpinning the troubled narrative RPG.
Now that Paradox has, after much secrecy, revealed Everybody's Gone to the Rapture developer The Chinese Room as the new team working on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, the information floodgates are open, and the studio's latest development update has unveiled a new fully voiced playable protagonist, Phyre.
As per The Chinese Room's latest developer stream, Phyre is a somewhat pre-defined Elder vampire recently awoken after a 100-year slumber and slightly bewildered by modern-day Seattle. Phyre, for reasons initially unknown, carries a mysterious brand on their hand which is somehow connected to a voice in their head - belonging to a modern vampire known as Fabien - who's bound to them, serving as an ever-present companion as the adventure continues.
While Phyre's loose backstory might already be in place, there's some flexibility as to how they present in-game, with players able to choose their gender, clothing, and clan.