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During the Grand Finals of Granblue Fantasy Versus at EVO 2022, Cygames provided a new glimpse at the gameplay of the action-JRPG Granblue Fantasy Relink.

Director Tetsuya Fukuhara appeared in a brief video in which he introduced Granblue Fantasy Versus, but he actually moved on to talk about Relink as well.

He mentioned that the game is “at the peak of development” and confirmed that the release window is slated for 2023 (we know it’s coming for PS5, PS4, and PC).

Interestingly, he showcased a glimpse of off-screen gameplay in which we can see Gran, Catalina, Lancelot, and Percival in the party, with Lyria who appears to be following along as an NPC.

While this isn’t much, it’s an extra look at the game that never hurts since Cygames had mentioned that the next reveal would come in December at Granblue Fantasy Fes.

You can watch it below.

Incidentally, there was pretty much no news for Granblue Fantasy Versus itself besides the announcement of the online Granblue Fantasy Versus Community League (which you can also see below right after the Relink segment).

Incidentally, the tournament at EVO 2022 was won by Gamera, who defeated Tororo in the grand finals coming from the losers’ bracket.

Today, during the celebrations for EVO 2022, MultiVersus game director Tony Huynh was on stage to deliver news.

He presented a slide with the content of the upcoming Season 1. You can see it below.

On top of Rick & Morty, there will be more characters, new cosmetics including icons, banners, and variants, a classic arcade mode, and a new ranked mode.

The classic arcade mode includes co-op support, and that’s pretty much all Huynh shared. The presentation was very brief.

The adventurous life of Hiiragi Seiichi continues in The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made Season 2.

News about the second installment was released earlier in the year, and now fans are excited about the latest trailer, showcasing an intense battle between Destra, Saria, and Hiiragi. You can view the official trailer from HOTLINE here:

At the beginning of Season 1, Hiiragi is constantly bullied by his fellow students from school, until one day, they are all transported into a video game world. This mysterious dimension features all the qualities of a classic RPG with the powers of sorcery and a mission to take down the Demon King.

Unfortunately, Hiiragi is still deemed a loser in this world, with his classmates leaving him behind to fend for himself. But, everything changes when he takes a bite out of the Fruit of Evolution, and his life is never the same again.

The Fruit of Evolution 2: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made will further Hiiragi’s journey as a “winner” and feature exciting new battles in the series. Furthermore, the animation production will change to HOTLINE, with Studio feel. (feel. inc.) and Children’s Playground Entertainment being credited for Season 1.

Seeing as the Crunchyroll Expo 2022 train has no intention of stopping, a new video has hit the internet. This time, it’s a special promo video Jujutsu Kaisen showing off both the first season of the anime and scenes from the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film.

This cut of both the anime and the film is presented as a pretty cool extended music video. If you’ve never seen the show and are worried about spoilers, this is 90% action scenes that offer just about zero context.

If you wanna kick back to some great tunes and watch some terrific anime action, the Jujutsu Kaisen video can be found below.

Jujutsu Kaisen first premiered in October 2020 with the dub starting on Crunchyroll a month later. Jujutsu Kaisen 0, a prequel film based on the same numbered volume of the manga, premiered in December of last year in Japan, with the English theatrical release back in February.

Also in February came the announcement that Jujutsu Kaisen will be getting a second season.

Crunchyroll has unveiled The Reincarnation of The Strongest Exorcist In Another World with a teaser trailer, and the show offers at least a few elements to break the Isekai mold with.

Revealed during the streaming platform’s Crunchyroll Expo 2022 event, the trailer offers the usual array of teasers and story info. Following an unknown tragedy, a man is reincarnated into a world full of magic, monsters and female characters for him to befriend and pursue romantically. He’s also blessed with special powers thanks to his reincarnated body, allowing him to stand out in his new life in ways that he otherwise couldn’t in his past life.

However, there are key elements that set the series apart from other Isekai. The main character appears to trigger his own reincarnation via a technique he learned as a renowned exorcist. Likewise, those around him don’t seem to flock to him without good reason, actively doubting whether or not he’s fit to be in their world without certain skills necessary to fend off the many threats that beset them daily.

Top this off with the concept of incorporating exorcism techniques into the plot, and there’s plenty to find intriguing about the story this series could tell.

As for the animation, it’s better than most might have expected. The character designs are clean and polished, helping them to stand out during the small animated snippets that hint at larger action set pieces and battles.

It’s worth a look for both Isekai fans and anime fans in general, and the full trailer can be viewed down below.

Crunchyroll Expo 2022 has been dropping crazy announcements left and right today, such as the confirmation of a season 2 for the Tower of God anime and more. Alongside all of those announcements, we now finally have the official confirmation for season 2 of Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, which came in the form of a brand new trailer.

While no new footage was shown in the trailer, it did, however, give us a release date for sometime in 2023, though speculation seems to point to early 2023. You can catch the trailer and an official synopsis of season 1 below.

Two enemies on opposing sides of a conflict find common ground, potentially making them traitors to their countries and war-torn lovers!

We last left Alice and Iska after they rescued Alice’s sister from the Empire at the end of Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World season 1, placing them on somewhat mutual ground when it finished airing back in late 2020. How their relationship will continue to grow and see their chaotic world begin to unfold in season 2 is anyone’s guess right now.

The light novel series, I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss, made its debut as an anime during the Crunchyroll Expo 2022. The story will follow Aileen Lauren Dautriche when her fiance cancels their engagement, resulting in her moving on to the notorious Demon King.

You can watch the trailer from MAHO FILM on the official Crunchyroll Collection YouTube channel here:

According to the Crunchyroll description, Aileen is a villainess in an otome game, Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens. In the show, she gets in the way of the main character’s love life and learns that her destiny is to be killed as an enemy of the story.

The only way she can live is to get the Demon King, Claude, to fall in love with her even if she has no feelings for him. However, Aileen must do what’s best for her and begins the journey when she asks him for his hand in marriage.

The soundtrack of the anime will feature most of the team that composed Season 2 of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! In addition, the voice cast includes many notable actors and actresses, such as Rie Takahashi (Emilia in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-), Yuichiro Umehara (Kimura in Heaven’s Design Team), Toshiki Masuda (Porco in Attack on Titan), and many more.

Life continues to be fraught with dilemmas in the latest trailer for Mob Psycho 100 Season 3, and protagonist Mob is at the center of it all.

Released by Crunchyroll during Crunchyroll Expo 2022, the trailer offers a new glimpse at what the series’ cast will face in the next portion of the story. All of the mainstays like Mob, Reigen and Dimple make appearances in the animation bits on display, while several others provide vocal clips hinting at a series of dilemmas that could push them into further danger.

It doesn’t start off slow and then ramp up either. Instead, the trailer jumps from moment to moment, offering glimpses of a cult worshipping Mob, Dimple expanded to a massive size due to some phenomenon and other characters attempting to make a fresh break into a better life following their defeat at Mob’s hands.

Tying everything together, though, is a central theme: Mob is currently attempting to figure out what to do once he finishes school. The stress of this mixed with everything else has him edging toward a blow-up the likes of which no one has seen before, and it’s anyone’s guess as to who or what will bring him back from the brink.

Needless to say, the animation is still as impressive as ever and provides plenty of smooth movement to marvel at even in the brief seconds of footage.

It’s a sight to behold, and the full trailer can be viewed down below.

A slate of anime films are being added to Crunchyroll in the coming months, and they run the gauntlet from old classics to new hits.

During Crunchyroll Expo 2022, it was revealed that the streaming platform would be adding a variety of anime movies to its catalogue over the next few months. These titles include established classics like Akira and Wolf Children as well as newer works like Jujutsu Kaisen 0 or Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish.

Likewise, movies tied to big series like Psycho-Pass, Fairy Tail and Code Geass are also set to join the platform at a later date. However, it hasn’t been confirmed if these films will run the full range of movies made for each series or will only include select titles. On the plus side, Crunchyroll did say that more news on each of these films’ releases would be made available in the coming weeks.

The films currently confirmed for release will see staggered launches over the course of the next few months, with each release batch ranging in size from one film to several. The release dates for the confirmed films can be found down below.

August 11:

• Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish
• The Stranger by the Shore
• Human Lost

August 18

• Akira
• your name.

August 25

• Wolf Children
• The Boy and the Beast
• Sing a Bit of Harmony

September 21

Big things are coming out of the Crunchyroll Expo 2022 today. Plenty of news to keep all anime fans extremely happy. Among those announcements is that Tower of God will be getting a new season. This news even came with a trailer that should adequately hype up fans of the series.

The second season is in production now, but there isn’t a known date when episodes will actually start hitting Crunchyroll.

You can see the trailer below that gives a hint of where things are going for Rachel and Bam.

For those many unsure what Tower of God is about, Crunchyroll summarizes it as:

Reach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours. You can become a god. This is the story of the beginning and the end of Rachel, the girl who climbed the tower so she could see the stars, and Bam, the boy who needed nothing but her. 

Today, during Crunchyroll Expo, the animation localization and streaming giant revealed Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon.

If, like me, you thought you had seen the bottom of the isekai rabbit hole, this anime will likely prove that we were all very naive.

It’s an adaptation of the novel and light novel series “Jidouhanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu ni Samayou“ written by Hirukuma and illustrated by Ituwa Kato, published in Japan between 2016 and 2017.

It then sparked a manga illustrated by Kunieda which debuted last year on Dengeki Daioh and is still ongoing, and it’s finally getting an anime adaptation by VAP Video which will air on Chrunchiroll when it debuts at some time in the future.

This probably won’t surprise you, since Crunchyroll appears to have made a specific point of slapping in our faces pretty much every Isekai anime they can get their hands on.

If the term “isekai” is unfamiliar to you, it indicates a popular narrative trope that has the protagonist reincarnated or somehow translated into another world.

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon tells the story of a Japanese vending machine otaku (yes, they exist) killed by a falling vending machine, because of course he would.

He reincarnates in the usual fantasy world as a… vending machine that can see and hear but cannot move. and can only use vending machine soundbites to communicate.

He meets a young girl named Lammis who is completely unable to control her own strength, and after he gives her food, they create a symbiotic relationship where she carries him on her back and his weight allows her to keep her power in check. Yes. It’s as crazy as it sounds.

You can see the trailer below, even if it doesn’t show that much.

Atlus has released another trailer revealing one of the demons that will be featured in the upcoming JRPG Soul Hackers 2.

This trailer features Nigi Mitama, one of the infamous demons of the Mitama family inspired by Japanese mythology. It debuted in the original Soul Hackers’ predecessor, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner, in 1995

Like in most daily trailers, Atlus also provided a daily horoscope, which has Taurus at the top of the fortune ranking and Libra at the bottom.

You can check the trailer out below.

Soul Hackers 2 launches for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC ( both on Steam and on the Windows Store) on August 26, just one day after the Japanese release on August 25.

Today third-party developers had news and releases to share about aircraft and airport add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We take the first look at the exterior of the de Havilland Canada Dash 7 by SimWorks Studios and PILOT’s, alongside a development update.

“Our full attention is focused on the Dash 7 in cooperation with PILOT’S GesmbH. The exterior model is undergoing decal placement, so we are placing rivets, panel lines and de-ice boots. After that, the aircraft will be ready to receive its last coating of dirt and grime over the detail, which will complete the exterior textures. The liveries are awaiting their “use marks” but other than that they are done, and some screenshots can be seen here. The liveries included will be British Antarctic Survey, Air Greenland, Brymon, Berjaya Air, Tyrolean and Continental. The cockpit is undergoing decal placement. Right now, all the flight instruments are marked enough for us to do flight testing. We are working on placing the rest of the labels and correcting some model flaws before falling head-first into the textures.

The flight model of the aircraft is complete, and focus on that front is on engine tuning. Right now, the engine produces the right amount of torque and RPM, so we have work to do with the propellers to get her up to speed.

Today Cygames hosted its Granblue Fantasy summer livestream, and it included a treat for manga and anime fans.

The popular fantasy mobile game is getting a crossover event with the upcoming One Piece: Film Red movie.

The collaboration will debut on September 14, 2022, and will feature Luffy as a playable character. You’ll also be able to unlock the new character Uta as a summon and Nami & Nico Robin teamed together as a single character.

Below you can check out all the art revealed today, alongside a trailer for the event.

If you were waiting for news about Granblue Fantasy Versus, only an artbook was mentioned. We’re likely to hear the actual news related to the game at EVO, where the game is one of the main attractions.

On the other hand, we always knew that there would be no Granblue Fantasy Relink news, as the much-awaited JRPG for PS5, PS4, and PC has been delayed to 2023 and more information will be shared in December at Granblue Fantasy Fes.

Sega and Creative Assembly released a new video teasing the fourth legendary lord for Total War: Warhammer 3’s upcoming DLC Champions of Chaos.

The trailer is very brief but it does focus on the forces of Khorne, and the description says “she leaves nothing but death in her wake…” indicating that the new legendary lord is female.

If Creative Assembly follows its usual pattern, we’ll get a reveal cinematic trailer at the beginning of next week, followed by a much longer gameplay showcase full od dad jokes. It’s just what their schtick is like nowadays.

Of course, you can expect to see the full reveal here on Twinfinite as soon as the developers open the floodgates.

You can check the teaser out below and start guessing.

Total War: Warhammer 3 is currently available exclusively for PC.

During the celebrations for EVO 2022, the development team at A Few Rounds Games revealed a new video of its fighting game Umbral Core.

The game is a dark fantasy 2.5D fighting game created by a new indie team and looks very promising.

It’s coming for “PC and PlayStation” at some point in the future and the developers plan to further finance development with a Kickstarter campaign later this year.

It features rollback netcode and uncapped frame rate (only for visuals, the game logic is capped at 60 FPS).

More features like online training, in-game frame data, visible hitboxes, preferences for combat stance, online input delay, and more.

The game has a 4-button layout activating light, medium, heavy, and unique attacks. You can either have manual combos or auto-combos.

There are two gauges. One is “Power” which is your main resources, that can be used for different things depending on how many bars you use.

The other gauge is Fury and Control, that lets you go offensive or defensive.

You can watch the trailer below.

In other EVO news, yesterday Capcom revealed two more announcers for Street Fighter 6’s real-time commentary feature.

A new trailer has hit for the downright strangest will they/won’t they anime, Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro. If you enjoyed the first season of Senpai getting harassed by the occasionally adorable but very sadistic Nagatoro, there will be more upcoming from Crunchyroll in the form of a second season. Fittingly, season two of Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro is actually called “2nd Attack”.

You won’t have to wait all that long to be able to watch this new season for yourself, either. Episodes will start airing (subbed only at first, presumably) in January 2023.

You can see the very heavily “Senpai!” filled trailer for yourself below. There’s quite a bit of hitting. There might be more hitting than you can find in a trailer for the upcoming Dragon Ball Super movie.

2K Games and Firaxis Games revealed another trailer of the turn-based tactical game Marvel’s Midnight Suns, dedicated to one of its playable superheroes.

This time around we can enjoy a deep dive into the gameplay behind Carol Danvers, A.K.A. Captain Marvel.

Unlike the previous video and her brief introduction, this time around we get to take a good look at how Captain Marvel fights and her “Binary” mechanics, which you have to get into as soon as you can and then try to maintain by holding onto some of your block stat.

You can also counter enemy attacks for whole turns, which isn’t an ability to sneeze at.

As usual, with this kind of trailer, we also see what happens if your custom hero tries to befriend Carol.

You can check out the trailer below.

The Bungo Stray Dogs anime is officially coming back for a fourth season, and the new cour’s trailer shows that all is not well for the Armed Detective Agency.

Revealed as part of Crunchyroll Expo 2022, the trailer doesn’t waste time establishing that the series’ protagonists are in danger. Voice bits from several characters paint a scene of the Agency being set up for a crime via a job they accepted, resulting in their arrest at the hands of another organization.

This group is the Hunting Dogs, a collection of Gifted military police members who will capture anyone that doesn’t adhere to human ethics. They’re ready and willing to chase down every member of the Armed Detective Agency to the ends of the Earth, and make a less than subtle declaration of war against the members who they aren’t able to arrest right-off.

All of this is paired with plenty of visuals and animation which hint at what’s to come. Some key highlights include what appears to be Dazai’s arrest at the hands of the Hunting Dogs, Atsushi and Kyouka trying to evade their pursuers and some clear glimpses of the Hunting Dogs’ heavy hitters. Everything looks to be animated in the same style as the past seasons too, maintaining its distinctive style while also offering plenty of movement and action.

It’s a lot to process, but also a great glimpse at what’s to come. The full trailer can be viewed down below, both via the official Crunchyroll Twitter and the official trailer released by Kadokawa.

Today Good Smile Company hosted its Smilefest 2022 event in Shinjuku, Tokyo, revealing a ton of upcoming figures.

As usual, many of the figures showcased, which come from all of the the brands under Good Smile’s umbrella, portray characters from video games, which you can see below.

We start with a summary video published directly from Good Smile.

The manufacturer also published plenty of pictures on Twitter.

As usual, a few of the figures exhibited are painted prototypes, while most are unpainted “grey” prototypes and reveals limited to an illustration.

Most will become available for pre-order in the coming weeks and months, and we’ll do our best to keep you posted on when the most relevant ones do.

Yesterday, Bioware posted an interesting short story that provides some interesting lore about Sa’har Kateen, a force-sensitive Twi’lek padawan that has been a big focus of the Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) story ever since the most recent 7.1 patch update.

The short story focuses on Kateen’s journey stowing away on a transport, as she hopes to find her missing brother while also battling some heavy and emotional internal conflict. You can check out a brief excerpt from the story right down below.

“When you are ready, break free.” Darkness closes in…

She opened her eyes, but the darkness was still there. The heat and the noise told her she was still on the floor of her space on the transport. The holocron was lit by a soft glow again, dim, but steady. The overwhelming, suffocating defeat she’d felt since she escaped Elom was gone… instead, she could feel a pull in the Force, a bond connecting her to her brother, a compass guiding Sa’har to Ri’kan.

Sa’har stood, grabbed the tattered cloak she’d been hiding the holocron in, and draped the cloth over the relic. She bundled it up and stashed it with her few other belongings so she could snatch them up and run as soon as the transport reached its destination, in a few days’ time.

When they arrived, she’d have to sneak aboard a new ship, but this time, she knew where she was heading. This time, she knew what she needed to do, and who she needed to be: a warrior, a liberator, a friend… a sister.

Unreal Cinema has debuted the teaser trailer for an unofficial fan Star Wars series, Knights of the Old Republic: Episode One – The Spire. In this game recreation, we see the famous characters Avren (a variation of the main character) and Trask Ulgo on the Endar Spire, a familiar event within KOTOR’s beginning.

The first episode will feature other members, including Carth Onasi, Lt. Saran, and Darth Bandon. You can check out the trailer from Unreal Cinema here:

Since KOTOR was made in 2003, the graphics weren’t exactly top-tier, but now we can experience the story in a new light through modern technology. The team achieved this feat by utilizing AI Motion Capture, Unreal Engine’s Virtual Production Capabilities, and Reallusion animation software.

The fan-made show will be divided into three seasons, with Season 1 releasing 10 episodes every few months. Furthermore, the series’ voice cast has already been chosen and expressed their love for the Knights of the Old Republic.

Shueisha and Kodansha are two of the biggest names in manga publishing in Japan, but they have another element in common. Both have solid indie developer incubator programs.

Today both publishers presented the games under their umbrella at Bitsummit 2022, the popular indie event which is in full swing in Kyoto, Japan.

We start with Shueisha Games, which started with a video showcasing its whole lineup and promising a reveal of new information in September. Considering that Tokyo Game Show will be in September, we may get more information then.

The first game is Oni: Road to be the Mightiest Oni by Kenei Design, which gets a new trailer. We learn that the game will be localized by Clouded Leopard Entertainment and will come for PS5, PS4, and PC in 2022

My Hero Academia Season 6 is still a few months away from release, but the latest trailer shows there’s plenty to look forward to in the upcoming season.

Revealed during Crunchyroll Expo 2022, the trailer provides snippets of dialogue and action from the new season. Most all of it takes place during the operation that was being prepped during season 5, and most every major or minor character looks to be involved.

The trailer starts with the heroes gathering for the operation. Many speak of the importance of succeeding and thinking about what is at stake, while others gear themselves up for the fierce battle ahead. Deku and his classmates are among both these groups, and sound both determined and desperate to come out of the mission unscathed.

The villains, meanwhile, are just as determined. Some speak of the hypocrisy of the hero-focused society, while others only care about causing as much destruction as possible. Both members of the original League of Villains and the new paranormal Liberation Front make appearances, and look less than threatened by their adversaries.

This is all paired with bits and pieces of animation. While it starts off with more serene shots, the footage slowly becomes more action-packed until glimpses of brutal fights start to become apparent.

It all leads into some dire dialogue about how they can’t let a certain person get out, with animation of Shigaraki grinning menacingly at the camera.

Though brief, there’s plenty to unpack and dig into for fans. The full trailer can be viewed down below.

Today Capcom hosted a panel dedicated to Street Fighter 6 at EVO 2022 and a new trailer has been revealed.

The trailer reveals two new commentators that will be added to the real-time commentary feature that is coming with the game out of the box.

The two additional voices revealed are Tasty Steve and James Chen. They add to the already revealed Vicious and Aru.

Tasty Steve will play the role of the play-by-play commentator, while James Chen will play the role of a color commentator, providing analysis to complement the action.

The trailer also showcases some bonus gameplay featuring Guile, Luke, Chun-Li, and Jamie.

If you’re unfamiliar with the real-time commentary feature, it’s similar to what has been included for a while in other sports games, with the comment track adapted dynamically to what’s happening on screen.

You can see it in action in the trailer below.

Street Fighter 6 will release in 2023 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It was teased in February and fully revealed in June.

Today, during the celebrations of BitSummit in Kyoto, popular indie studio Q-Games announced PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe.

The game is the latest installment of the PixelJunk franchise and an expanded version of PixelJunk Scrappers originally released only on Apple Arcade.

You play the role of a scrapper, a humanoid trash collector of the future. You have to clean up a city following the end of humanity. In the meanwhile, rival scrappers will try to beat you to the rewards.

Up to 4 players online are supported on top of couch co-op, and you can unlock a ton of different characters, weapons, and truck parts as you progress in your scrapping career.

The PC version includes new combat methods, additional weapon drops, level adjustments, and score challenges across all stages.

The game will come on Steam and the Epic Games Store “soon.” You can watch a trailer below.

The press release included a comment from creative director Kazushi Maeta.

Today Atlus has released another of its daily trailers of Soul Hackers 2, focusing on the demons that you can befriend in the game.

Specifically, we get to see a Sabbath, a special post-turn attack activated when the conditions are fulfilled that lets you unleash your whole team of demons on the enemy.

We get to see Norn, Doppelganger, Byakko, Hell Biker, Nekomata, Strawberry Frost, Mithras, Orthus, Pyro Jack, Principality, Inanna, and more.

Like all daily trailers, we get a horoscope, but those with Sabbaths have a “almost everyone is lucky” setup. So today’s gonna be (according to Atlus) a lucky day if you’re Cancer, Gemini, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces, Virgo, Capricorn, Scorpio, Leo, Aries, or Libra.

You can watch the trailer below.

Soul Hackers 2 launches for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC ( both on Steam and on the Windows Store) on August 26, just one day after the Japanese release on August 25.

Today SNK’s own Yasuyuki Oda was on stage at EVO 2022 to provide news about The King of Fighters XV and Samurai Shodown.

Starting with The King of Fighters XV, the game is getting cross-platform gameplay. There is still some work to do in order to implement it, but SNK plans to have it ready sometime next year.

On top of that, a new DLC season (Team Pass 3) has been confirmed to come down the line. We’re still waiting to know what the second team of Team Pass 2 will be, and today we learned that it’s going to be revealed on Sunday (August 7).

The upcoming Team Awakened Orochi DLC will include a BGM dedicated to the team itself, two special BGMS for specific matchups (Shermie vs Awakened Shermie and Chris vs Awakened Chris), and two additions for the DJ Station, King of Fighters R-1 and King of Fighters R-2.

The DLC also received an official release date on August 8.

Oda-san also had news in store for Samurai Shodown. The game is receiving rollback netcode with a release date targeting spring 2023.

SNK is teaming up with Code Mystics for this update, which will be free. It’s based on the existing solution for The King of Fighters XV using GGPO.

It’s not coming for all platforms. We’re getting it on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. As usual, the Switch is left out.

The King of Fighter XV is currently available for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

Samurai Shodown is currently available for PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch, and PC.

Third-party developers shared new assets of upcoming aircraft and airport add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We start with DC Designs, which provided a development update about the AV-8B Harrier II, which should be released in September.

“Hi folks, more cockpit images of the Harrier in this week’s update as work progresses on the detailing and PBR texturing. It takes quite a while to go through this phase of building an aircraft, and with the Harrier’s office being a busy little place it will be at least two more weeks of work before it’s all finished.
Decals for all markings are about 50% complete, and most of the switches are now animated, with their respective functions being coded alongside the modelling work. CodenameJack is doing sterling work once again with displays and functions, broadly similar to those found in the SC Designs F-16 Fighting Falcons but tweaked to be more relevant to the Harrier.

Asobo’s pilot has been refined to move more naturally with the controls – it turns out the contact points for the controls are via the pilot’s wrist and ankles, rather than the hands and boots. Unless users have a preference for my own pilots, I’d like to start using the Asobo pilot in future products as it’s pretty good and already matches up well with everything.

There will be no update next week as I’m away for five days on a family holiday, so this will be the last you will see of the Harrier progress until August 19th. By then, I would like to have finished most of the cockpit and be underway with liveries and the AV-8B+ / GR9 variant. Sim Acoustics have said they can do the sound package in September, which ties in well with the planned release date, so it seems everything is coming together fairly well.”

A new “exclusive” cinematic for Gotham Knights gives a sweet moment between Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon. While nothing is directly mentioned in the video description, it is likely this will be an in-game cutscene. It doesn’t necessarily spoil anything, but there are hints on where the story could go.

So, anyone who doesn’t want to know more ahead of the game’s release is now warned. Just to be safe, we will post the video below before talking more about it as a spoiler warning buffer.

This tender moment is obviously sometime after the death of Bruce Wayne that will kick off the events of Gotham Knight. While in the comics Dick Grayson was quick to don the Cowl after the apparent death of Bruce Wayne at the hands of Darkseid in Final Crisis, it appears this universe is a bit more tricky.

This video also confirms that Dick and Barbara were once an item but don’t seem to be anymore for reasons we might learn later on. They are an iconic couple in the comics, so it makes sense that they were together at some point.

It is likely we will see other cinematics pop up showing off Tim Drake and Jason Todd in the next couple months before release.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has been out for a week now, so Nintendo went ahead and dropped a brand-new trailer on YouTube for the extensive Monolith Soft RPG that focuses on the many high review scores the game received last week.

The game is currently sitting at a score of 89 on Metacritic, making it one of the most highest-reviewed titles on the Switch and tied with Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.

For those unfamiliar with this new game, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is all about a group of unlikely friends who are on opposing sides of an endless war. Noah, Mio, Eunie, Taion, Lanz, and Sena band together to help free colonies across the world of Aionios from the

The trailer itself features quotes from multiple websites as well as yours truly. In our review of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Twinfinite gave the game a 4.5/5. Down below is a short excerpt from the review.

“All things considered, it’s incredible to think about how far Xenoblade has come in the last decade. With the help of a devoted fanbase, it went from being a niche game on the Wii that was only sold at GameStop in North America to being a core Nintendo franchise. The good news is that it looks like the hard work at Monolith Soft has paid off yet again.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is an absolute must-buy for Switch owners who are looking to pick up their next game. No matter if you’re a longtime fan of the franchise or a first-timer, this game is one of the best RPGs on the Switch that can easily last hundreds of hours for players who never want to leave the world of Aionios.”

The Xenoblade Chronicles 3 accolades trailer can be found down below.

Earlier this week on Twitter, the Pokemon GO data mining account, @Poke_Miners, broke some potentially massive news for the popular AR mobile game from Niantic. This account run by a group of data miners is well-known among the Pokemon GO Twitter community for being very meticulous in their search for the latest pre-release information about the game.

Pokemon GO Battle Pass Leak

Further below you can see the official Tweet from PokeMiners about the existence of a new item called the Battle Pass Ticket. As of right now, there’s no information on what a battle pass for Pokemon GO might contain or even if anything will be done soon with this recently added asset.

Quite often, new Pokemon, items, and features will not appear in Pokemon GO for players until months after their data has been added to the game.

EVO brings together the very best of the best in the fighting game community as they duke it out for cash prizes in tournaments for each game featured. The tournament operates a little differently from most though and has its own unique system for deciding prize pools. Here’s everything we know about the EVO 2022 prize pool.

How Much Is The EVO 2022 Prize Pool?

According to the official EVO rules, cash prizes will be awarded to the top eight competitors. The collective prize pool is determined by each competitor in the tournament who pays a $10 entry fee.

While the entry fee is pretty low, EVO tournaments can attract hundreds or thousands of competitors, so the prize pools can end up at a reasonably high total. The example provided by EVO states that if 300 people entered a tournament, then the prize pool would end up at $3000 as a result of the 300 competitors paying the $10 entry fee.

EVO then implements its system to split up the prize money between the top eight competitors at different rates, which are as follows:

Today, during the celebrations for EVO 2022, Atlus revealed an update for PS4 and PC versions of its fighting game Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.

The update adds the much-loved rollback netcode features to both versions of the game, promising “to ensure that players across the world can experience the smoothest possible online experience when playing matches against one another. “

The best part of it all is that the update is already available, so whether you are on PS4 or PC via Steam, you can fire up the game, download the patch, and enjoy the smoother online gameplay.

At the moment, there is no mention of the Nintendo Switch version getting the update. The press release did not say a word about that. Of course, there’s no dice for the older PS3 and Xbox 360 versions either.

On top of the announcement, Atlus also released a trailer to advertise the addition of rollback netcode, which you can watch below.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is currently available PS4, Switch, and PC on March 17, alongside the older release on PS3 and Xbox 360.

If you’d like to see more, you can enjoy another trailer showing Labrys & Sho Minazuki in Action.

Korean holding company KRAFTON announced today that active development has started on an “unnamed game project” that will be based on the popular Korean fantasy novel series The Bird That Drinks Tears. It is unknown what shape or form this game project will take at this exact moment, but there’s plenty of promises of a “whole new experience.”

KRAFTON recently launched the game’s official website as it ramps up its efforts to recruit top global talent to help it realize its ambitious vision. Additionally, new game concept work and lore details were revealed to further illustrate the project’s overall visual identity and tone.

For those maybe unaware of the subject of this adaptation, it’s certainly a massive deal in terms of Korean literature.

The Bird That Drinks Tears is a novel series that was created and written by Yeong-do Lee, who is widely acknowledged as the pioneer of the Korean fantasy genre. As one of the best-selling fantasy authors in Korea with millions of copies sold, Mr. Lee is an exceptionally imaginative writer who builds elaborate worlds and fills them with complex characters.

If you’ve got a taste for high-fantasy, a game being made from this IP should certainly entice you.

KRAFTON is the holding company of big developers such as PUBG Studios, Unknown Worlds Entertainment (Subnautica), and Striking Distance Studios (The Callisto Protocol).

A new trailer for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, the next games in the Pokemon series, was shown earlier today, and we learned after that fact that a familiar composer helped make some of the music possible. Toby Fox, the developer of hit indies Undertale and Deltarune, confirmed that he composed the field music for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet as well as some other tracks in the game.

Fox revealed this information on Twitter a few hours after the trailer launched:

Fox has some experience with working alongside Game Freak on music for the Pokemon series; back in 2019, he was asked to compose a track for Pokemon Sword and Shield. His song became one of the Battle Tower themes in the game.

Funko Pop figurines come in wildly different sizes, from tiny miniatures to large, elaborate display pieces the size of your head. Some even have bases to attach them to. But you may have noticed a few Funko Pops labeled as “flocked.” What is a flocked Funko Pop? Here’s what it means and why you should take special care of them.

A large portion of what makes the best gun comes down to familiarity and dedication. There are many factors that lead to what gun should be given the time and which can be fully ignored. We’re hoping we can maybe lead you to a new favorite to rack up both the kills and wins. Here’s our answer to what is the best assault rifle in Call of Duty: Warzone.

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, there were a wealth of creepy comedy-horror movies designed specifically to scare the heck out of kids. These days, however, the sub-genre has largely fallen by the wayside.

Sure, we have 2009’s The Hole and 2015’s Goosebumps, which were both *this* close to making the final list, but it’s fair to say that getting your mitts on scary movies aimed at a young adult demographic is getting harder and harder. With that in mind, then, here are our picks for the top 10 best scary movies for 13-year-olds. Let’s get into it, shall we?

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released a new video showing new features being added to the game.

The first part of the video showcases the Snake Pit race track on Clio released as a surprise in alpha 3.17.2, which is quite cool, but even more interesting is what comes in the second part of the video.

We see that alpha 3.8 will mark the addition of Mario Kart-style race tracks within the convention centers to be used with the small but cute Greycat PTV buggies.

You can watch it below.

In other Star Citizen news, the crowdfunding total just passed $492 million and it’s currently sitting on $492,012,019.

The number of registered accounts has recently passed 4 million, having reached 4,029,068 at the moment of this writing.

As usual, you should keep in mind that it’s known that not all of them are paying players. The number includes free accounts created for a variety of reasons, including Free Fly events like the one that recently concluded.

Recently, creative director Chris Roberts provided an overview of the state of development and of the plans for 2022 and beyond.