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Following the announcement of the upcoming western release of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, NIS America released a stylish trailer.

The trailer finally marks a reveal that many fans of the series have been waiting for a long time and features familiar heroes whose adventures will finally come to a (temporary) conclusion in Eglish.

You can watch it below.

We already know that the game will come to PS4 in the fall of 2020, while fans on PC and Nintendo Switch will have to wait for 2021. 

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, here’s how NIS America describes it officially.

The Erebonian Empire is on the brink of all-out war! 

Taking place shortly after the ending of Trails of Cold Steel III, the heroes of Class VII find themselves against the full force of the Empire in an attempt to stop its path of total domination. Further, the hero of the Erebonian Civil War and Class VII’s instructor, Rean Schwarzer, has gone missing. Now, the students of Class VII, old and new, must unite with heroes from all over the continent to create the only chance the world has to be spared from total destruction.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, which was originally released in Japan in 2018 for PS4, is officially coming to the west in the fall of this year on the PlayStation 4, as well as for the Nintendo Switch and PC in 2021.

This announcement comes following the release of the predecessor, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, for PS4 and PC, with a Nintendo Switch release coming June 30th, 2020.

This JRPG franchise has been in circulation dating back to 1992 in North America with a TurboGrafx-CD release, with the Trails of Cold Steel sub-series starting in 2011.

In an interview on Game Informer, Nihon Falcom President and Producer, Toshihiro Kondo, discussed this title’s relation to the series as a whole:

A few days ago, a leak revealed the lineup of games be provided to PlayStation Plus subscribers at no additional cost in April. Today Sony Interactive Entertainment provided official confirmation. 

The two games included in the lineup are the critically acclaimed and massively popular Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End by Naughty Dog and Codemasters’ Dirt Rally 2.0. 

We also get a trailer showing them off.

If you’re unfamiliar with the games, here’s how Sony itself describes them:

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed adventure epic arrives on PS Plus! Several years after his last adventure, retired fortune hunter, Nathan Drake, is forced back into the world of thieves. With the stakes much more personal, Drake embarks on a visually stunning globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure.

Today is April 1, which means that we can expect a lot of April Fools jokes and pranks all over the internet, and yet we see things that should be jokes but are indeed disturbingly real. 

Today a new ordinance pushed by the prefectural assembly of Kagawa Prefecture, in the Japanese island of Shikoku, went into effect, and it definitely could qualify as a great April Fools prank. Only, it isn’t.

The “Net Game Addiction Measures Ordinance” was passed on April 18 and forbids minors under 18 years of age from playing games more than 60 minutes a day, with the limit increased to 90 minutes in the Holidays.

On top of that, students up to junior high school cannot use their smartphones after 9:00 pm, while older students (but still under 18) have that limit increased to 10:00 pm.

While the title of the ordinance mentions “net games,” it actually applies to all internet and computer games played at home and in public, including home and portable console games, online games, and arcades.

Reacting to the ordinance today is (among others) Tekken series producer and director Katsuhiro Harada, who took to Twitter to blast the regulatory action. 

Square Enix has published the third episode of its Inside Final Fantasy VII Remake video documentary series, and this time it details the creative processes behind the game’s action-RPG combat.

Specifically, we hear from producer Yoshinori Kitase, battle director Teruki Endo, co-director of game design & programming Naoki Hamaguchi, and leader battle designers Kosuke Sakane and Tomotaka Shiroichi.

The team provides some fascinating insight on how they arrived at the idea to balance traditional ATB battle system mechanics with some more akin to a modern action game.

If you aren’t up to speed already with the options that Final Fantasy VII Remake gives you to adjust the game’s combat to your preference then all of that is explained, too.

You can check out the new episode for yourself below.

To watch a previous episode of the Inside series, here’s one on the origins of the game’s development.

Today Compile Heart released two new videos of the upcoming DLC for Azur Lane: Crosswave. 

To be more precise, we get to see Episode Taihou, which is the first DLC featuring the ultra-yandere aircraft carrier. 

Incidentally, the second video also showcases Saint Louis, who is one of the three support/secretary only shipgirls who will come with Taihou.

We already know that five DLC have been announced: the second DLC will be Formidable, the third will be Roon, the fourth will be Le Malin, and the fifth will be Sirius.

In the video, we get to see both battle gameplay and storytelling similar to the base game. The main difference is that Taihou is the protagonist, but the DLC doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It’ll be released this month, but the precise date is still unknown. Idea Factory International hasn’t provided info about the western release either.

Persona is bigger now in the West than it has ever been before. The 2017 release of Persona 5 sent the franchise to new heights. But that also means there are a lot of you out there who don’t know their Persona trivia.

Persona 5 Royal is finally available, so there’s no better time than the present to get caught up on the franchise with this quiz.

Do your best to get a high score and if you get a few wrong then maybe you could even use this trivia quiz to figure out where there are gaps in your Persona knowledge.

Take a shot at this quiz to see what you know about these games and don’t forget to gloat about your amazing results in the comments and on social media.

Gears 5 launched its third season of content with Operation Gridiron today, adding more characters, maps, and more alongside a huge update of changes and fixes.

Revealed last week, Operation 3 adds four new characters to earn or buy, such as Gears’ favorites Augustus Cole and Clayton Carmine, alongside a new Tour of Duty with new cosmetics.

The playable multiplayer characters can be unlocked in-game by earning 30,000 XP, bought with premium currency Iron, or purchased in the Operation 3: Gridiron Bundle which also includes the Hot Rod weapon skin set, 1000 Iron, and 30 days of boost for $19.99.

The Operation adds four multiplayer maps with returning favorite Canals, open jungle Pahanu, and two smaller maps for the 2v2 mode. The Escape mode will introduce six new hive throughout the season as well.

Gears 5 is also receiving 32 new achievements, totaled at 290 gamerscore, that can be retroactively. The list of challenges is split between Versus and the Horde/Escape modes.

Title Update 5 is dropping alongside the Operation, bringing a huge list of changes for all modes. The full patch notes include fixing Jack’s abilities in co-op campaign, improved bot behavior, physical changes to the Icebound map, and more.

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Today Kotobukiya made a brand new plastic model kit available for pre-order that will please fans of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.

The model kit portrays the same X-02S Strike Wyvern released last year, but this time around it’s in Osean color as opposed to Erusean.

You can find it on Ami Ami for 3,960 yen, which translates into approximately $37.

It’s prepainted and assembly can be done without glue thanks to pieces that will snap into place, so it’s a fairly easy kit. Yet, you should keep in mind that it comes with water-based decals, so that could be slightly more challenging for newbies compared to simple stickers.

Various “moving” parts like the variable wings, engine nozzles, and landing gear are simulated simply by replacement parts.

Incidentally, if you prefer the original version in Erusean colors, which has been sold-out for a while, that is also being reprinted and has its own pre-orders available.

The scale is a fairly small 1/144, while the release window for both models is August 2020.

You can check out a few pictures below.

Speaking of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, we just learned that it’s getting more DLC aircraft, even if we still don’t know any details.

It’s that time of the year again, and developers are having fun while bringing a much-needed smile to their fans. The popular shipgirl-focused mobile game Azur Lane is no exception. 

Today Yostar released a video showcasing a romantic visual novel starring our favorite shipgirls. More precisely, it focuses on a recent fan-favorite, Baltimore. 

It pretty much looks like exactly what you expect from any romantic visual novel. Only, it isn’t real.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be real. I’d totally pay to play it, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. 

You can check it out below.

If you’re unfamiliar with Azur Lane, it’s is a free-to-play mobile horizontal scrolling shooter/RPG hybrid currently available for iOS and Android.

If you’d like to learn more about it, you can read our recent interview with Yostar’s director of operations.

Earlier this week, Niantic released a statement detailing their plans to make their games playable from home. This includes the ability to let you take part in Pokemon GO raids from the comfort of your own home.

Among these promised changes included a way to allow players to join in on raid battles from the safety of their own homes. Just today, the first step in that change seems to be taking place.

It was announced earlier today that the distance you need to be away from a gym in order to interact with it is going to be doubled. This is sure to help many players reach gyms that were previously too far away to be accessed from their homes.

However, this obviously doesn’t do much for players who aren’t within a few blocks of a gym. We’ll have to keep our ear to the ground about any rumblings of a more extensive raid from home system coming in the near future.

For now, it looks like you at least won’t need to walk as far to reach gyms if you don’t have any nearby. Besides raids, this means you can also spin the gym’s photo disc, battle the gym or defend the gym from further away.

Obviously, this will only be a temporary change. And Niantic has understandably not given a timeline on when any of these changes will return to normal.

They also noted that these changes will only apply to the gyms in Pokemon GO. Pokestops that are out of reach at the standard distance will remain that way.

There are a lot of different ways to make Bells in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can make a Tarantula island and then catch them to then sell them; you can grow fruit that’s not native to your island or you can accrue interest by putting all of your Bells in your savings account on the last day of the month, which is something that I just found out about today.

You might have been wondering what exactly is the point of having a savings account in Animal Crossing: New Horizons if there’s no way to lose the money you already have in your wallet. Well, what If I told you that you could make 0.05% interest on your Bells in just one day?

The infamous Phantom Thieves of Hearts are made up of some of the greatest team members the Persona series have ever seen.

Whether you run track, turn into a van, or are obsessed with pancakes, you are an important member of the leather-clad crew.

The question is: which one? Take this Persona 5 quiz to find out!

Humble Bundle is offering a new bundle with all proceeds going to organizations currently fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Humble Conquer COVID-19 Bundle contains 44 PC games, the Double Fine Adventure documentary series, Music Maker EDM Edition software, and 23 eBooks including graphic novels and nonfiction titles.

The entire package is pay what you want with a minimum of $30. Humble Bundle said that 100% of all proceeds from the bundle will go to organizations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: Direct Relief, Doctors Without Borders, International Rescue Committee, and Partners In Health.

Like previous bundles, those buying can choose how the money from the sale is split, but the only options with this bundle are the four organizations. The bundle begins today and will be available for one week.

The 44 games in the bundle can all be redeemed on Steam with three titles offering DRM-free versions. Only one game, Zombotron, has a set number of keys remaining. Here is the full list of games available in the bundle:

Nintendo has released a new video onto its YouTube channel that highlights some of the biggest moments and highlights of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The video showcases the DLC fighter reveal trailers and some reactions from popular Twitch streamers and YouTubers alike such as The Completionist and RogersBase.

Ever since the launch of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch back in 2018, every new fighter announcement has been met with a considerable amount of hype and attention such as Joker’s reveal at The Game Awards 2018 and Banjo Kazooie’s at E3 2019.

You can watch the video down below:

Risk of Rain 2 is trying to keep us all busy, rolling out the Artifact 2.0 update today on PC. This update is filled with new content to keep players occupied during quarantine, and if you don’t have it yet, the game will both be on sale and have a free trial weekend in the coming weeks.

On top of the new content, developer Hopoo Games launched a poll today on the Risk of Rain 2 Discord to let the community chose the new Survivor that will be playable in the game when it launches in 1.0 this Spring. The winner will be announced on April 8.

In terms of the update, Artifact 2.0 is bringing a lot to the table. A whole new stage was added alongside new enemies, items, challenges, skills, and more. The artifacts themselves are a big return addition; artifacts are sixteen unique items that can be equipped to add variety or mayhem to Risk of Rain 2.

For full notes on all addition, read up on Hopoo’s Development Thoughts. Check out the new update’s trailer here as well.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s remastered campaign is official and it’s announced today with an explosive trailer typical of the franchise. The sequence reminds us of the story’s high stakes, as Soap, Shepherd, Ghost and other familiar faces fight back against Vladimir Makarov and the inner circle.

The remaster comes somewhat out of the blue after rumors of its release came thick and fast over the past few days. Now the details are out and its release set in stone — available first on PS4 from today, while other platforms launch later on April 30 (pre-purchase is available from today).

The remaster is set to feature improved graphics and performance; presumably, that includes tweaks to its lighting, frame rate, and sharpened textures as is typical. Full details are yet to be disclosed by Activision.

Notably, No Russian, the controversial level in which players walk through an airport massacring civilians, is reportedly still in the game.

You can check out the launch trailer below.

With the Coronavirus pandemic continuing to spread, relevant gaming events are being canceled across the words. Today Bethesda announced that QuakeCon 2020 has been canceled.

The notice was delivered via the official Twitter account of the event, citing logistical challenges and uncertainties due to the pandemic. 

While August is still far, Bethesda mentions that it would not be possible to complete the work and planning involving partners, vendors, and volunteers required to make the event a success. 

That being said, the note ends with a hopeful note as it mentions that the developer hopes to come up with other ways to celebrate the spirit of QuakeCon in August.

Of course, no details have been provided, so we’ll have to wait and see. Hopefully, Bethesda and id Software will manage to organize an online event that their fans will be able to enjoy.

You can read the full announcement in its original Tweet below. 

Handy Games, the German studio behind the mobile game Rebel Cops, has dropped an announcement trailer for Airhead, a new Metroidvania-style platformer where two parts of a whole person have to save each other as they try to solve their way through the bleak yet beautiful world of cold-hearted machines and air tanks.

A symbiotic being named Head is left to die after a machine of unknown origin steals its air supply. Body, another being, witnesses its breath literally being taken away, and it decides to help by carrying the weight of Head’s fate on its shoulders, thus becoming Airhead.

As Airhead searches far and wide for the machine that stole Head’s air-giving heart and rendered it asthmatic, deflating and reliant on air tanks along the way, they’ll come to discover that the machine and Head may be two small pieces connected to a far grander scheme than either Body or Head could’ve ever imagined.

Throughout your journey, the game will give you puzzles that make you determine whether to use Head and Body separately or together, exploring the unique mechanics of Head’s detachability. You will also encounter other machines and creatures that will serve as roadblocks delaying Head’s survival or allies aiding you along the caverns to uncover the secrets behind the connection of Head, the air tanks that it must consume like candy — this, as well as the game’s title, is a clever callback to the colorful taffy we were all addicted to back in the 1990s and early 2000s — and the technology that comprises the world in which they live in so that Body can save Head’s life even if it may have to sacrifice itself in the process.

Check out the mind-blowing announcement trailer below.

The Suicide of Rachel Foster

The first great 2020 game on our list is The Suicide of Rachel Foster, a story-driven walking simulator. After discovering that her father was having an affair with a woman named Rachel Foster who was the same age as his daughter, a young woman and her mother leave to live out a better life somewhere else.

Ten years later and with both of her parents dead, the young woman returns to the family hotel to sort out its property. However, a storm strands her in the hotel and she is forced to explore the building and discover some pretty dark secrets.

It’s not April Fool’s Day just yet according to my calendar but Blizzard Entertainment seems to be partaking in the comedic festivities a day early. Overwatch players have begun to notice today that all of the heroes’ eyes have been replaced with cartoonish googly eyes.

One of our writers, Haley, discovered this today while she was enjoying a few matches of Overwatch and shared a couple of photos of the characters such as Symmetra, Orisa, and Widowmaker, sporting the new googly eye look.

You can see some of the images down below or just hop into Overwatch right now to check it out for yourself:

Death Stranding’s upcoming PC release was originally set to debut an all-new photo mode, but two months ahead of that launch it’s been added to PS4 in a new update.

Available today, Update 1.12 is around 1GB in size and is said to make various performance improvements as well as add the much-requested photo mode.

A Tweet from Kojima Productions earlier today celebrated the photo mode’s launch:

I know you all have been waiting for this. The latest update (v.1.12) for #DeathStranding is now available, and features Photo Mode! Change angles, colors, frames, expressions and more! What will you snap?#TommorrowIsInYourHands pic.twitter.com/whPvRDVG2u

— Kojima Productions (@KojiPro2015_EN) March 31, 2020

If you haven’t as yet seen any of the sample images showcasing the function, then you can check them out in a previous report we wrote on the photo mode.

Publisher Xbox Game Studios has today revealed the launch date of Minecraft Dungeons, the anticipated dungeon crawler spin-off set within the popular Minecraft universe. The game will launch on May 26 for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

It’s a slight delay from the April launch window originally disclosed back at X019, which the publisher blames on logistical challenges brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Xbox Game Studios cites wanting “to guarantee the health and safety of our teams, and empower them to deliver the best possible experience to the community.”

Pre-orders of Minecraft Dungeons will kick off from today for some platforms. There are two editions of the game available Standard Edition” for $19.99 USD and “Minecraft Dungeons – Hero Edition” for $29.99 USD. The Hero Edition contains a Hero Pass that includes a Hero Cape, two player skins, a chicken pet and two upcoming DLC packs.

Other information included with today’s press release includes confirmation that cross-platform play will not be available at launch. The team is apparently working to bring the feature to the game as a free update in the future.

For more on Minecraft Dungeons, you can watch a recent dev diary that offers some insight into the lore and story of the game’s universe.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons doesn’t have any competitive multiplayer components or game modes built into the experience but that’s not stopping creative players from figuring out different ways for people to win money by competing in a variety of games.

Yesterday, I reported on a Reddit video that popped up over the weekend that shows players enjoying a game of musical chairs in which the winner would acquire a huge bag of Bells to help pay off their loans but today, a user that goes by SkeletonwhisKey posted a video of them and their friends going head-to-head in an obstacle course.

It was created by using the terraforming tools that you obtain once you surpass several key narrative points in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and it looks like a lot of fun.

SkeletonwhisKey spent about two-three hours to design this course so if you want some inspiration for things you can do with friends online, make sure to watch the video down below:

Persona 5 Royal is finally out today, and it adds a lot — and I mean a lot — of new story content. As if the 100 hour playtime of the original game wasn’t enough already, Atlus thought adding even more new stuff on top of that would be a great idea. I’ve played and beaten Persona 5 Royal. I’ve seen the new stuff. It’s quite good, but not as impressive as a certain dungeon from the vanilla game: the Pyramid of Wrath.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the Pyramid of Wrath dungeon and Futaba Sakura’s character arc in Persona 5.

By far the biggest issue with Persona 5 was the weak main cast. As I outlined in my review of the original game, they all just felt like reskinned and less interesting versions of characters we’d already seen in past games in the series. There are a couple of standouts, but far and away the best and most well-written character in this game is Futaba Sakura.

The reason for that is simple: she’s the only character in the game (for base Persona 5, at least) who gets an entire dungeon dedicated to her and her inner self. The theme of Persona 5 centers around stealing the hearts of bad guys and criminals, and because of that, the dungeons are designed around the psyches of these villains that we’re only going to see for a short while before they disappear for the rest of the game.

That, in and of itself, is already an issue with the very foundation of Persona 5 because the game spends so much time focusing on these minor villains, all without pushing the main plot forward until a little more than halfway through its runtime, and without giving real development to the main characters.

inXile Entertainment’s upcoming RPG Wasteland 3 has been delayed until summer as a result of logistical challenges brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The game will now launch on August 28, moved 3 months from its original May 19 date.

The news comes by way of a note from studio head Brian Fargo, who conveys his disappointment over the delay but points to positives as a consolation. He explains the team plans to use the extra time “acting on Beta feedback and suggestions, optimization, polishing and refinements, and making sure we have an awesome co-op experience.”

You can read the statement in full below.

As with most companies, we moved to a work-from-home environment some weeks ago, and that’s of course introduced new challenges that many of us throughout the world have been learning to manage. We’ve been excited to see the Wasteland 3 Beta so well received, but the reality is that with these new logistical challenges our release was going to be impacted.

We’re in a great position with both Microsoft and Deep Silver supporting our desire to ensure the game launches in the best possible circumstances, and to add a few extra months to ensure this is a stellar product on day one. With that, Wasteland 3’s new release date is August 28, 2020.

That’s time we’re putting into acting on Beta feedback and suggestions, optimization, polishing and refinements, and making sure we have an awesome co-op experience. We’re pouring our hearts into this game, and the last thing we want is to have anything but an amazing launch for a product we truly believe in.

We appreciate everyone’s excitement and continued support as we put a few more months into ensuring that on launch day Wasteland 3 is the experience you’ve been waiting for.

The survival game Hello Neighbor has been a big success for publisher tinyBuild, as proven today in a press release that highlights so impressive figures. Most notably, it’s been played over 30 million times and, thanks to strong sales of its spinoff book series, has earned $16 million in the process.

An accompanying infographic details various key facts and figures, including its audience of mostly 8-16 years old located in the US, China, Russia, Germany, France, South America.   

CEO at tinyBuild Alex Nichiporchik provides some supporting commentary, explaining that the current trend of the video game market is not in favor of publishers. Instead, success depends on the publisher innovating ways to create a long-lasting IP:

The Persona games are long. I mean, they’re really ridiculously long. One playthrough of any of the recent three Persona games can easily take up to a hundred hours, and with Persona 5 Royal, that playtime is about to go up even further.

I won’t mince words here. When I first played the original Persona 5, I managed to clear the game in about 85 hours, and that was with me rushing and skipping voiced dialogue once I’d finished reading the text. When Atlus claimed that Persona 5 Royal would add another 20 to 30 hours of content on top of that, they weren’t lying. My playtime is at 120 hours right now, and again, I was definitely rushing a little to get my review out in time.

Atlus certainly went all out with the new content: two new Confidants, expanded stories and events for certain characters, new abilities for everyone, improved combat mechanics, huge Mementos overhaul… the list goes on. The amount of new content in Persona 5 Royal is insanely staggering and overwhelming, and even before you dive into the meat of the actual new story stuff, you’ll have a lot of new mechanics and little additions to contend with.

So, is all that stuff worth playing through this massive JRPG yet again? The answer, as much as it might sound like a total cop out, is that it depends.

You see, I wasn’t the biggest fan of the original Persona 5. You can read my review to find out why, but my complaints centered around the main cast of characters being underdeveloped and feeling like missed opportunities. I went into Royal believing that this would be the definitive version of the game, and that all the new content would make me finally love Persona 5.

Alas, it wasn’t quite meant to be.

Many gaming events have already been cancelled or postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but the organizers of Gamescom in Germany aren’t giving up just yet.

Today they reached out with a press release to announce that the event will not be postponed and will definitely take place at least online in its scheduled dates from August 25 to August 29. Yet, the format remains to be seen.

The plan is being revised by “significantly expanding” the online portion of the event, with Gamescom: Opening Night Live and Gamescom Now receiving new modules.

The same goes for the Devcom developer conference to be held between August 22 and 24 August.

As for the physical event at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany, it might still happen. An evaluation will take place in mid-May as to how it can take place “based on the latest developments of the corona pandemic at that time together with the responsible state authorities.”

If holding the physical event is possible, more information will be released at that stage on which changes may need to be made in order to ensure the health of all visitors. This has already been arranged with the largest exhibitors.

On the other hand, if gamescom or devcom cannot take place physically, both visitors who already purchased tickets and exhibitors will be refunded.

Managing director Felix Falk accompanied the press release with a statement:

Microsoft announced the April lineup for the Xbox Games With Gold program, offering four free Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles to Xbox Live Gold members.

Beginning April 1, Project Cars 2 will be free to download for Xbox One throughout the month of April. The racing game features 180 vehicles, 140 tracks, dynamic weather physics, and multiple game modes.

The other Xbox One game is Knights of Pen and Paper Bundle, which includes Knights of Pen & Paper +1 Deluxier Edition and Knights of Pen & Paper 2 Deluxiest Edition. These console versions of the popular mobile series will be available between April 16 to May 15.

For the Xbox 360 games of the month, the games are Fable Anniversary and Toybox Turbos. Fable Anniversary is an HD remaster of the original Xbox game, and Toybox Turbos is a racing game with 35 table top cars and 18 tracks.

Fable Anniversary can be downloaded from April 1-15 and Toybox Turbos from April 16-30. Both are backwards compatible with Xbox One.

Meanwhile, Xbox Live Gold members can still grab a few of March’s Xbox Games With Gold games such as Batman: The Enemy Within – The Complete Season, Sonic Generations, and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.

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Today Sega released another new trailer of its upcoming game Sakura Wars, focusing on the art behind the title.

To be more specific, we take a look at the character design of the three rival revues that we’ll encounter in the game, all of which are designed by well-known artists.

The Shanghai Revue has been designed by Yukiko Horiguchi, known for the character design of K-On! and Lucky Star.

The Berlin Revue has been created by Fumikane Shimada, known for the character design of Girls und Panzer, Strike Witches, and more.

The London Revue’s designs are by BunBun, whom you may recognize for his work on Sword Art Online and Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru.

You can check out the video below.

Sakura Wars is already available in Japan and it will launch in the west on April 28, 2020, exclusively for PS4.

Today NIS America announced the western release dates of one of Nippon Ichi Software’s most recent games, void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium.

The game will launch on July 14 in North America, July 10 for Europe, and July 17 in Oceania. 

On top of the release dates, we also get a new trailer focusing on the tender and slightly creepy story of the game, which prompts the player to take care of a sick kid in a post-apocalyptic world.

You can check it out below, alongside the limited edition that will be released for both PS4 and Nintendo Switch priced at $59.99.

The Outer Worlds is coming to Nintendo Switch both physically and digitally later this spring, June 6.

The announcement comes by way of an official blog post earlier today by developer Obsidian Entertainment, which not only confirmed the date but also detailed the physical package. The Outer Worlds’ physical edition comes on a cartridge, and it’s “accompanied by a day one patch that could be up to 6 GB.”

It’s explained that the patch “will optimize gameplay, provide additional hi-res textures, and include other fixes to provide the employees of Halcyon with the best gameplay experience.”

Both digital and physical editions of the game cost $59.99.

The Outer Worlds is an action-RPG played from a first-person perspective. It’s heavily inspired by the Fallout series, a franchise that Obsidian Games has previously been involved with as the team behind Fallout: New Vegas.

The Outer Worlds launched on PS4, Xbox One, and PC last year to critical acclaim. Twinfinite reviewed it and was similarly impressed, scoring it 4/5 and concluding that “its story and narrative were consistently engrossing.”

The game has gone on to record notable commercial success; publisher Take-Two Interactive confirmed sales of The Outer Worlds were 2 million as part of its financial report last month.

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It’s only been a couple of years since the release of the original Persona 5, but Atlus is already back with a new and improved version of the game. Persona 5 Royal comes packed with so much new story content that you can be prepared to add another 20 to 30 hours to the already long playtime. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new in Persona 5 Royal.

Persona 5 has some of the most visually pleasing aesthetics and UI art in any game, ever. With Persona 5 Royal coming out today, it’s a great time to add some of that visual flair to your desktop with Persona 5 wallpapers.

There’s sure to be something below for P5 fans, no matter who your best girl or best boy happens to be. Let one of these Persona 5 wallpapers be a constant reminder of your love for Atlus’ JRPG.

Today aNCHOR opened a brand new official website for its popular Muv-Luv series.

The website is available both in Japanese and in English, and it includes a rather extensive introduction to the Muv-Luv worlds, its games, and additional products like manga, books, and more.

We also get a handy timeline in English, which you can find in the gallery at the bottom of the post. Considering that the setting is rather complex and branching, it’s good to have a visual guide.

The site also includes news like the shift of the content scheduled for Comiket to an online event, with a questionnaire for Doujinshi circles (only in Japanese) which would like to take part in such event, titled Comikeaid.

Last, but not least, we also get a teaser page for the recently-announced Muv-Luv Alternative anime, including two stylish pieces of artwork (portraying a Type-00 Takemikazuchi TSF) that you can enjoy in the gallery.

Today Arc System Works reached out with a press release to announce the cancellation of Arc World Tour 2020.

CEO Minoru Kidooka decided to cancel the tour due to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic.

Below you can read a statement that came with the press release:

“The health of our competitors, staff members and community members is our top priority. This decision also comes at the face of increased difficulty in facilitating a fair competition throughout the tour. We regret to inform those who have been eagerly anticipating this tour of its cancellation. We thank you for your understanding.

We will be making decisions regarding future ARC WORLD TOUR events (2021) based on global conditions as Coronavirus news develops.”

That being said, the developer is considering holding Arcrevo Japan 2020 and Arc World Tour 2020 finals as independent events, while keeping in mind participants’ safety as the top priority.

A decision and possible details on this will be provided at a later date.

If Arcrevo Japan 2020 is held, it’ll be on July 18, and the finals of Arc World Tour would also be hosted in their original time frame.

Arcrevo Korea and Daredevil events are canceled entirely, while Arc System works plans to facilitate online tournaments independently of the World Tour.

Speaking of Arc System Works, the studio is currently developing Guilty Gear -Strive- for PS4.

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Koei Tecmo’s fighting game Dead or Alive 6 already had four season passes, but apparently it won’t come close to Dead or Alive 5: Last Round’s record. 

Today Koei Tecmo announced via Twitter its plans to release two DLC packages in mid-April alongside update 1.22, but we also learn that they will be the last.

The new DLC costumes will be part of the “revival” series. That indicates costumes recycled from the previous game and repurposed for 6, sold outside of the season passes.

To be more specific, we’re getting the High Society set and the School Uniforms set. 

As mentioned above, this will be the “final” set of DLC, even if online features and the store will still remain available.

J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series has the most in-depth stories, characters, and world that literature has ever seen. And it was from those building blocks that Peter Jackson was able to adapt the series into incredible movies as well.

Being huge Tolkienites, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to create a quiz devoted to the vast well of info and trivia that appears throughout both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Do you think you’ve got what it takes?

Keep in mind that this quiz features questions from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie trilogies. That means some answers may be different from what Tolkien wrote in the books versus what Peter Jackson adapted into the movies.

(Image Credit New Line Cinema)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons lets you customize pretty much every aspect of your island life. You can change your clothes, your town tune, your island’s structure itself, and you can even change your island’s flag design with pretty much any image that you want.

If you’re struggling to come up with a great idea for your island flag, here are the best flag designs for Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Pikachu – Pokemon

The surprised Pikachu meme deserves to be the first thing that people see when they arrive in your town, especially if your island is Pokemon-themed. This excellent flag design was created by Canielele.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog’s design is instantly recognizable by most, so why not put up this custom flag design in your town to praise the blue blur in all of his glory? This one was created by Asancu.

Nintendo 64 Logo

Oh man, I can hear the startup sound of Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time right now. This Nintendo 64 flag design comes courtesy of Shawn.

Tom Nook – Animal Crossing

We all know that Tom Nook owns us on this deserted island so you might as well put his face up on the town flag. This one is made by a user named Tom Nook –how suspicious.