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Today the Japanese website 4Gamer published an interview with Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura who talked about the upcoming game.

First of all, Nomura-san mentions that the game has already gone gold.

If you’re unfamiliar with the industry lingo, it means that the development of the data that will be shipped on the disk has been concluded, and the game is ready for its release.

Nomura-san also added that while the delay allowed the team to improve the quality of the final game, there won’t be any more.

Interestingly, we learn more about the story elements that have been added on top of the original game.

For instance, we’ll be able to visit Jessie’s parents house to have a meal there. Nomura-san explains that the individual members of Avalanche aren’t really fleshed out in the original game, but the Remake will be different.

In order to make that part more solid, there is also an event that places Jessie under the spotlight.

This is not part of a subquest. It’s part of the main story, and according to Nomura-san, fans will be satisfied by when they finally leave Midgar.

While the story of the first game includes only Midgar, he feels that once you have played it, we’ll be satisfied, and you’ll definitely want to continue with the next.

Pulling Weeds

Pulling weeds isn’t fun in real-life. Who wants to sit there and pull tiny green strands out the ground. They’re normally in really annoying places, too. Weeds are the nuisance of the world, and gardeners are the saints doing the lord’s work clearing them away.

So why oh why is pulling weeds so damn satisfying in Animal Crossing? We have no idea. Perhaps it’s the feeling of having a spotless town after clearing the 10 bajillion that spawn each day.

There’s always that little manhunt for the last one, too. You know there’s one hiding precariously behind a tree, and you’re the weed-seeking missile about to rip it out of its comfy home.

Today, Famitsu posted an interview with Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura, at it included a few interesting details about the game.

First of all, we learn that there are multiple items that you can use to crossdress as Cloud in the iconic scene returning from the original. That way he can display a different look depending on your choices.

Tifa and Aerith also have different outfits on top of those that have been publicly shown so far.

Interestingly, we learn that the new Barret was designed first among the characters. He had a very deformed physique in the original game, so his new realistic design served as a guideline for the visual feel of the remake.

Red XIII used to have headdresses as his weapons, but for the Remake they have been changed to collars in order to enhance their visibility.

The Turks have been designed by Roberto Ferrari (an Italian character designer who previously worked on Final Fantasy XV and Final Fantasy Type-0). While they all wear suits, which normally would hinder the expression of their personality, they have been given differences and details to make it stand out.

The new character Roche was also designed by Ferrari. We also learn that there are many additional new characters that will appear in the side stories.

While characters from the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII don’t appear directly in the game, it touches on some elements. On the other hand, we’ll see characters from Kazushige Nojima’s novel Final Fantasy VII Gaiden: Turks ~The Kids Are Alright~.

Nomura-san also mentions that sidequests have been created with a focus on quality, in the same way as the main story. Since the city of Midgar is quite big, there are areas where you can travel by vehicle.

505 Games and Kojima Productions have announced via a new trailer that Death Stranding, the third-person adventure game, will be coming to PC via Steam and The Epic Games Store on June 2, 2020.

The PC edition will be coming with some extra features that were not available in the PS4 version of the game such as a photo mode, high frame rate mode, ultra-wide monitor support, and even some content from Valve’s Half-Life franchise, which you can spot towards the end of the trailer.

If you purchase Death Stranding on launch day, you will get the following:

• Selections from ‘The Art of Death Stranding’ digital art book (by Titan Books)
• Death Stranding Original Score Expanded Edition by Ludvig Forsell (including 10 unreleased tracks)
• Ludens mask sunglasses (chiral gold and omnireflector)
• Gold and silver power skeleton
• Gold and silver all-terrain skeleton
• Gold and silver armour plate (LV2)

And if you pre-purchase the PC version right now, you will be gifted with:

• Death Stranding HD wallpapers
• Chiral gold and omnireflector sunglasses
• Chiral gold and omnireflector cap
• Gold and silver speed skeleton
• Gold and silver armour plate

You can also download some mobile wallpapers and ringtones for free from the official website.

You can watch the release date trailer down below:

Riot Games has been busy as of late. The company started production on a slew of new games —as well as animated shows— that take place in their legendary (pardon the pun) League of Legends universe. Riot is also hard at work on a “precise tactical shooter” that until recently was simply called Project A. The company is finally ready to pull back the curtain on this upcoming game, now known as Valorant.

Over the weekend, Riot Games released an internal development playtest video of Valorant, which reveals tons of juicy details about the game. Judging by the gameplay video, Valorant mixes mechanics from Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Rainbow Six Siege, turning them into a sort of non-battle royale version of Apex Legends.

Just like in Overwatch and Apex Legends, different characters have unique abilities that impact their roles. While one character might deny enemy movement by laying down poisonous smokescreens, another could provide important recon information by revealing the locations of opponents.

However, Valorant switches up the classic hero shooter formula with a wide selection of purchasable weapons. Players can use in-game currency to buy shotguns, SMGs, assault rifles, heavy weapons, sniper rifles, sidearms, and shields.

Final Fantasy VII Remake is due to hit PS4 on April 10. Fan hype is palpable, and Square Enix knows this. That’s why, to really raise the roof with hype levels, the developer and publisher dropped a Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo taking players through the first chapter in the Mako Reactor.

To get you suitably hyped for the game’s full release, we played through the Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo and made notes of some of the most impressive details we spotted as we played through.

Please note, we’ve done our best to get images that show the details we’re talking about, but it’s not always possible to see the details as clearly in the images than when playing the game in real-time on a crisp 4K OLED display.

Today Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss released a brand new trailer of the game, focusing on new content coming soon. 

The trailer focuses on the new region of O’dyllita, that will be released on March 4 on the Korean servers.

As for the western servers, for now, we know only that O’dyllita is coming in the first half of 2020, at least on PC. The console versions will likely get the region at a later time. 

You can check out the trailer below and see the usual gorgeous environments that are pretty much the trademark of Black Desert Online.

More content is coming to the game in the first half of the year, including succession updates for more classes, the island of Papua Crinea, and the ability to compose and perform music in game. 

The PC version of Black Desert Online just received the new Guardian class and her awakening.

Earlier today Square Enix announced that downloading the demo of the Final Fantasy VII Remake will net fans a free PS4 theme, and they just revealed what it looks like.

The Japanese branch of the publisher reached out with a press release including an image of the theme, which reproduces the key artwork revealed for the game at the beginning of February.

It’s not like we need a further incentive to download and play the demo, but can’t complain about additional bonuses.

Today Square Enix is rolling out the massively-anticipated demo of the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake.

The demo can be downloaded right now on the North American PlayStation Store, on the European one and on the Japanese PlayStation Store.

This means that it’s likely going to release on all stores later today. If it’s not yet available in your region, you should try later at the links showcased above. 

Of course, if you can’t wait, you can also make a quick account bound a region in which it’s already available and grab the demo that way.

We also get an official description explaining what you can expect.

“Enjoy the first chapter of FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE─the iconic Mako Reactor 1 bombing mission─with this demo version.
– Progress cannot be carried over into the retail version of the game.
– Content may differ from that of the retail version.

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE is a bold reimagining of the original FINAL FANTASY VII, originally released in 1997 for the PlayStation®, developed under the guidance of the original key developers.

This grand adventure filled with memorable characters and crafted with cutting edge technology was an instant worldwide hit, and now it is reborn for a new era.

With a mix of traditional command-based combat and real-time action, fans can explore the world of FINAL FANTASY VII, recreated with today’s technology.”

On top of that, downloading the demo abefore May 11 will net you an exclusive PS4 theme when the game releases.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV on PC

Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV is the latest entry in the venerable historical strategy series from developer Koei that debuted before I was born, all the way back in 1985.

Over 14 installments, the Japanese studio has reiterated upon the basic strategy formula that has been at the core of each game in the series: build, expand and conquer.

ROTK XIV takes place during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, a setting that it shares with both the Dynasty Warriors series and the latest Total War game from Creative Assembly, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

And it is hard not to compare ROTK XIV to Total War: Three Kingdoms. Both are set during the same historical conflict, both come from long-running and well-respected strategy franchises, and both were released within a year of each other.

Today Marvel Games and Netmarble hosted a panel at PAX East in Boston and announced Marvel Future Revolution.

The game is a mobile multiplayer open-world RPG for iOS and Android.

The gam’s story is about the “Convergence,” a multiverse catastrophe in which universes collide, which means that we’ll be able to play plenty of versions of beloved superheroes. 

The players become members of Omega Flight based in New Stark City, which is the universe’s last line of defense. Basically, it’s a group of heroes that came together from multiple realities to defend the universe.

The game includes plenty of customization for your heroes and it’s being developed both for hardcore and casual games according to Netmarble. We also hear that it’s going to be triple-A in quality. 

Here’s the announcement trailer.

A second trailer showcases the villains that we’ll have to fight. 

Today Owlcat Games had more updates to share about its upcoming RPG Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

First of all, we get word about a new class that will be introduced to the game, the Shaman. 

Shamans can interact with the spirits and take advantage of their power. Here’s how Owlcat describes them:

“A person becomes a full-fledged shaman after bonding with one of the spirits and forging a special permanent connection with it. This bond takes the form of a spirit animal, the living embodiment of the chosen spirit. Through it, the shaman not only becomes a divine spellcaster, with the ability to use the forces of nature similar to that of a druid, but also gains the power to channel their bonded spirit’s power into supernatural phenomena.

A shaman who has bonded with a bone spirit can kill enemies with a bone-shattering touch, or even temporarily become incorporeal, shedding their physical form. A wind shaman gains control over lightning, making it strike enemies, and can even become a huge wind elemental, unleashing their power as a tornado. Or, if you like a more personal approach, you can be a battle shaman, bolstering your allies with your rallying cries, making your weapon a bane to enemies, and even turning yourself into an avatar of war with supernatural battle prowess.

That’s not the only thing shamans get through their spirits: they also gain access to hexes similar to those of a witch, such as cursing an enemy with only a glance, making an ally lucky beyond measure, or growing powerful claws. While some of the hexes are available to any shaman, some of them are unique to the shaman’s bonded spirit.

Today Xseed Games and Cygames released new assets about the fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus developed by Arc System Works.

First of all, we get to see a trailer about the RPG mode of the game, which is basically a story mode born as a hybrid between the original narration style of the mobile game and fighting gameplay, with RPG elements sprinkled on top.

You can watch it below.

Secondly, the official Twitter account showcased artwork for the DLC character Narmaya, also comparing her size with Gran. We also hear that she comes with both her Genji and Dawnfly stances, so she has more animations than other characters.

Koei Tecmo has been collaborating with the Legend of the Galactic Heroes anime for Romance of the Three Kingdom XIV, but now Dynasty Warriors 9 is joining the party.

While the Musou game has been released over two years ago, Koei Tecmo is still actively supporting it with DLC, and on March 5, another package will turn famous officers into sci-fi heroes from the recent LOTGH remake Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These.

The DLC will include a “Reinhard Costume” for Cao Cao a “Kircheis Costume” for Xiahou Dun, a “Yang Costume” for Zhuge Liang, and a
“Julian Costume” for Jiang Wei.

On top of the costumes, horses with barding portraying battleships Brunhilde and Hyperion will be distributed for free.

You can check out what they look like in the gallery below.

Today Capcom hosted the Monster Hunter World: Iceborne USA Championship in Boston and and there were news in store for the fans.

We learn that the update including the previously-revealed Raging Brachydios and Furious Rajang now has a release date. It’ll come on March 23 for PS4 and Xbox One. We also know that the PC version will get the update in April when it’ll finally catch up with the console versions. 

On top of the release date, we also get the first gameplay of the Raging Brachydios variant, which you can watch below.

At the moment we don’t know when Capcom will announce the content of additional update beyond this one, but it’s nice to see that they plan to continue supporting the game in the long run. In fact, we already know that updates will continue beyond June. 

Today, during a livestream from Tokyo, Square Enix had a couple of interesting announcements related to future content coming to Final Fantasy XIV.

Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida revealed two portraits created by lead concept artist Yosuke Mogi that will soon be available “pretty soon” portraying Aymeric and Estinien. Players will be able to hang the portraits in their in-game houses.

You can see them below.

Today Square Enix hosted a livestreamed panel focusing on the art created for its popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.

The panel was supposed to happen at PAX East, but Square Enix opted to do it from its headquarters in Japan due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

The artwork was presented by producer and director Naoki Yoshida and lead concept artist Yosuke Mogi. You can see it all at the bottom of the post.

We learned that the art for the Blue Mage’s outfit was inspired by the movie “The Greatest Showman.”

When designing the Dancer’s outfit, Mogi-san really wanted to design a male character like a Hrothgar, but there was no other outfit that would fit the Viera as well, so in the end, he had to design a Viera.

The outfit itself was inspired by Maya from Dragon Quest IV.

Interestingly, we also hear that we may see more variation in the design of the chakram in the future. Originally, the idea was to have dancers wield fans. While that would become a bit too similar to Dragon Quest, the team still liked the idea of them to be able to throw a lot of different things.

Most of the weapons we have so far were designed very early in the Shadowbringers’ development process. That’s why they’re all chakrams. In the future we might see different items, and things like giant shuriken could be a possibility.

The Gunbreaker’s outfit had to look a bit more modern in design. It was challenging to make it fit into the world. The pillar from the ruins of Ronka was added to balance the modern with the past.

The original design had a gunblade resembling a light machine gun. Mogi-san was playing a lot of Overwatch at that time. That design was rejected.

Today, during a panel from PAX East, Bethesda showcased new gameplay of the upcoming FPS Doom Eternal, focusing mostly on the Master Level single-player feature.

We start by taking a look at the Fortress of Doom, which is basically your home base and hub area.

It looks like our Slayer is a nerd with a rocking gaming setup.

Yes. The developers like to pause videos a lot. 

We then get to see an example of the Master Level feature, which is a more challenging version that gets unlocked after completing a default level in the campaign. 

Of course, you can still set the difficulty level.

Today the Japanese state TV NHK announced the results of a massive survey related to the Final Fantasy series, in which 468,654 fans voted for their favorite games, characters, and more.

The voters were fairly evenly split between men (50.8%) and women (49.2%).

4.7% of respondents were 19 years-old or younger, 27.3% between 20 and 29, 44.5% were betwen 30 and 39, 19.3% were between 40 and 49, 3.6% between 50 and 59, while 0.5% were over 60.

The ranking for the most popular games of the series was as follows, with Final Fantasy X managing to beat Final Fantasy VII.

Today PlatinumGames hosted a panel at PAX East with Director Hideki Kamiya and Producer Atsushi Inaba, who talked about Project G.G. and more.

First of all, we get to see a video showcasing 101 interesting facts about the studio. It’s actually 97 in the video itself, and you can read the rest under the clip.

You can see it below.

Inaba-san and Kamiya-san talked about the Kickstarter campaign for The Wonderful 101: Remastered, mentioning that the reasons they resorted to crowdfunding included wanting to start on a new path with players and fans, to provide an assortment of cool stuff with the game, and a more robust game experience thanks to the stretch goals.

Ths game includes a lot of music and the soundtrack is five disks.

When they want to created a lot of goodies and interesting things associated with a game, normally developers have to go through a lot of approval steps and formalities, but Kickstarter allowed PlatinumGames to skip many of those issues.  

We also hear more about the new development studio that is being opened in Tokyo. The studio will focus on creating new content and will be hiring international developers for multiple roles.

Today Square Enix and People can Fly hosted a panel at PAX East focusing on the newly re-revealed cross-generation co-op RPG shooter Outriders.

The developers in charge of storytelling including lead writer Joshua Rubin and lead narrative designer Szymon Barchan talked about the game, the story, and the process of creating the world of the game.

We also get to see some brand new footage showing the world and another focusing on the guns and their gameplay.

Below you can read a summary of what the developers shared.

Today Koei Tecmo and Sony Interactive Entertainment released a new gameplay video of Nioh 2. 

The video features the Mount Tenno stage and stars producer Fumihiko Yasuda as he walks us through the level, providing tips.

He also mentions that the version showcased here is slightly different than that featured the “Last Chance Trial” demo that’s going o until tomorrow, possibly implying that it’s from the final game.

You can listen to his useful tips and tricks and enjoy the gameplay below.

Bandai Namco released more new screenshots of its upcoming MMORPG Blue Protocol.

The screenshots have been shared on the game’s official Twitter account (sources: 1, 2, 3).

First of all, we get to see a Neko character. The tweet mentions that differently from those shown before, which had white and black ears, this one has golden ears.

The second picture showcases the environment out in the field, looking really vast and majestic.

The third image portrays a raid boss, which is designed to be fought by up to twenty players.

If you’ve been keeping up with news updates regarding the annual Game Developers Conference for this year, you’ll know that multiple companies and developers have been pulling out of the event over the past couple of weeks. Because of that, it’s unsurprising to hear that GDC 2020 has officially been postponed from its original March start date.

Over on the official site, it’s been announced that the event will be pushed back to some time in summer. While the reason for the postponement wasn’t explicitly stated in the announcement post, it seems fair to infer that this was primarily due to the Coronavirus concerns from Wuhan, China, along with the fact that so many companies have pulled out of the event.

“We want to thank all our customers and partners for their support, open discussions and encouragement. As everyone has been reminding us, great things happen when the community comes together and connects at GDC. For this reason, we fully intend to host a GDC event later in the summer. We will be working with our partners to finalize the details and will share more information about our plans in the coming weeks.”

The post ends by stating that more information on GDC 2020 will be shared in the coming weeks, and we’ll keep you updated as more news comes our way.

In addition to that, if you’re a developer originally intending to go for the event, gamedev.world has launched a relief effort to help alleviate travel costs and losses.

Today, during a panel from PAX East, Bethesda showcased new gameplay of the upcoming FPS Doom Eternal, focusing on Battlemode.

Battlemode is an asymmetrical multiplayer mode pitching a Slayer against two player-controlled demons and an army of AI demons.

We get to see both the point of view of the Slayer and that of the demons, including the Marauder in the third match, which is pretty awesome. 

While the demons only need to kill the Slayer once (which isn’t easy), the Slayer has to kill both demons to win a round. A match victory is decided with a best of five rounds rule. 

When one of the demons dies, the other has to stay alive for 20 seconds before the first can come back (at half health).

The news of a Borderlands film being in development has fans excited for what’s to come, but also curious as to which part of the series the movie will adapt. We’re no exception, and that’s why we’re here with our top five Borderlands storylines that could work in a film adaptation.

The First Game’s Vault Hunt

Though a boring choice in some regards, sticking to the first Borderlands’ storyline would save the upcoming film’s creators many a headache across a wide swath of areas.

The game’s conceit is a simple one: After hearing of a legendary Vault full of treasure, four Vault Hunters journey to the dangerous planet of Pandora to claim it as their own.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released more videos of its upcoming space simulator, which passed another crowdfunding milestone.

The first video showcases the Actor Status System, which introduces survival elements in the game. On top of that, we also get to hear about the quarterly go/no go meetings, which determine if a feature or content is ready for prime time.

The second video showcases the tools behind Planet Tech v4, showing how developers can pretty much “paint” planets to create their environments and biomes.

Last, but not least, we get to see the trailer of the Anvil Carrack, which has now been released as playable in the game. 

GOLF Magazine Presents 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples

Dumbest Video Game Titles

Golf games aren’t strangers to having names in their titles. The PGA Tour games have seen Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy on the cover and in the title.

The thing is, the 1995 game goes a bit further. Not only does it focus on 36 particularly great holes, rather than something generic and golfy, but it’s sponsored by GOLF Magazine.

It sounds more like an issue of GOLF Magazine, with Fred Couples guest editing a feature on 36 great holes, or something like that. As it is, it just seems like a few titles mangled together, acting more like a piece of marketing for the magazine and Fred Couples himself.

All of that and we haven’t gotten into the innuendos… but we’ll just leave it at that.

The more modern Golf Club games have boring titles in hindsight.

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Black Desert Online, the popular MMORPG from developer Pearl Abyss, is offering up their game completely free starting now through March 2 at 10:00 A.M. You’ll be free to keep and play it it from that point on as long as you claim it before the deadline.

The MMORPG is normally a buy to play title with no mandatory subscription but lots of microtransactions options if that’s something that interests you.

This is a similar model to The Elder Scrolls Online, and differs from Final Fantasy XIV which is buy to play and has a monthly subscription, and Phantasy Star Online 2 which is totally free to download and play but features cosmetic microtransactions to make up the cash.

Although Black Desert Online’s microtrasanctions have turned some people off, a positive aspect about the game is that all major content additions such as expansions and new classes are free.

So if you nab it now while it’s free on Steam and end up liking it, you’ll at be able to enjoy the meat and potatoes of future content at no cost. In other words it’s a pretty low risk commitment if you’re at least intrigued by the now six year old action-heavy MMORPG.

If you end up diving in this weekend or have your own opinion on the game let us know in the comments below.

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With the Sonic movie killing it, and the Uncharted movie floundering I completely forgot that the Monster Hunter movie was even a thing. But yeah, well um, it is and you can check some new promotional posters released by Sony Pictures today that give a feel for what the movie and its weapons/actors will look like.

Larian Studios has been very quick in its delivery of the first gameplay of Baldur’s Gate 3 since the original announcement. It Looks like they’ve had help. 

Today Wushu Studios announced that they have been working alongside Larian Studios on the new game as one of their “several” projects in the works.

They also promised to share more about those later this year. 

You may be familiar with Wushu Studios as they were formed among others by veterans from Evolution Studios (known for the Motorstorm and Driveclub franchises) following its shutdown by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

They’re led by Alan McDermott, Driveclub’s Audio Director.

We know that the studio has been working on a primarily single-player, narrative-driven sci-fi game, but nothing else has been shared about their main project so far. On top of that, they’ve partnered with Lucid Games on Switchblade.

Today Paradox Interactive released another video of its upcoming grand strategy game Crusader Kings 3.

This time around the video goes a lot more in-depth in the lifestyle choices you can make to build up your character. 

There are several trees you can explore, unlocking a ton of perks that will let you fine-tune your ruler over the years.

Whether you want to be a pious theologian or a seductive scoundrel (or anything in-between), Crusader Kings 3 seems like it has you covered.

You can watch the video below.

Crusader Kings 3 is set for a Steam release in 2020.

If you’d like to know more, you can enjoy the original announcement, another video of the series, one focusing on Schemes, The Council, Character Portraits, Courts, and More, and the previous video that introduced lifestyles.

The Pokemon Company has seemingly caught the art collab bug. Earlier this month, they teamed up with skateboard craftsman Bear Walker to produce some sick custom boards, and a few days later, they announced a line of adorable Eevee and Eeveelution figures that will be made by Funko. Starting today, The Pokemon Company has joined forces with another artist to produce actual, bona fide art installations.

According to a press release, The Pokemon Company is collaborating with American artist Daniel Arsham to produce “fictional archaeology” sculptures of Pokemon icons. The concept behind the upcoming art pieces is that people in the future unearth the weathered and decayed remains of Pokemon statues, and Arsham depicts what those hypothetical anachronistic sculptures would look like.

The collaborative Pokemon art pieces will be large bronze statues that, much like Arsham’s previous works, feature missing chunks that simulate natural wear and tear over thousands of years, as well as growing crystals that fill the gaps. Moreover, judging by an associated video, Arsham’s work will potentially include famous characters such as Eevee, Pikachu, Charmander, a trainer (either Ash or Red), Jigglypuff, and Mewtwo.

Your choice of video game genre is essentially like how you take your tea or your coffee. One person could love the style of God of War while someone else could prefer The Sims. Maybe you like a little action with your platformer or maybe you prefer some horror with your visual novel. lookin at you Doki Doki Literature Club.

Video game genres are just as unique as our own characteristics and personalities so let’s turn this into a little game. If, out of curiosity, you ever wanted to know which genre you’re like most, take this fun quiz to know the answer.

Today Sega released a new English trailer and a batch of screenshots of Sakura Wars, known in Japan as Shin Sakura Taisen and previously code-named Project Sakura Wars.

The trailer focuses on the world of the game and on the characters that we’ll meet, also showcasing a glimpse at localized gameplay.

The same can be said about the screenshots, that you can enjoy just below the video, showing all the playable characters and a hint at the localization.

Here’s what Sega itself says about it.

“From the large clock tower atop Ginza train station, dominating the city skyline, to the captivating Imperial Theater standing tall at the heart of Tokyo, Sakura Wars exudes a world rich in historical inspiration and enriched with fantastical steampunk technology.

The Taisho era represents a time of prosperity and optimism for Japan, an intersection of eastern and western cultures that creates a vibrant framework in which to take on the mantle of Seijuro Kamiyama and bring the Imperial Combat Revue back to glory!  

Sakura Wars is a reboot that retains many of the features that made the genre-defining series such a hit in Japan, including a poetic vision, a strong cast, and a compelling story filled with intrigue, action, and romance. Our latest trailer puts this portrayal of 1940s Tokyo front and center as it introduces your mission to restore your squad and the theater to prestige.”

Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a brand new trailer of the upcoming battle action anime game My Hero One’s Justice 2.

The trailer focuses on the game’s villains, that will also have their own story arc. This also include Kendo Rappa, who is the latest character that has been revealed for the game.

You can check it out below.

If you’d like to see more of My Hero One’s Justice 2, you can enjoy the first announcement trailer and the second one, showing a bit of gameplay, more gameplay, and the previous trailer.

Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a brand new duo of trailers of the upcoming Musou-style game One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4.

This time around, we get to see two more playable characters who will appear in the game, Donquixote Doflamingo and Issho, also known as Fujitora.

As usual, we get to see plenty of examples of their flashy moves, as they demolish entire platoons of marines with little to no effort.

You can check them out below.

Today Bandai Namco released a new trailer of its upcoming anime soccer game Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions.

To be more precise, this is the extended version of the story trailer released a couple of weeks ago featuring the Tsubasa Episode mode. 

This time around on top of the epic action on the field, we get to see many of the familiar scenes from the original anime and manga that happened outside the field, including a few of the secondary characters like our heroes’ mentors and  Hikaru Matsuyama’s girlfriend Yoshiko Fujisawa.

Add to that the game’s own version of the theme song Moete Hero, and the effect is complete.

If you grew up with the anime as I did, prepare to tear up as you watch the trailer below.

While the franchise is certainly very well knon, you may not be familiar with it, as its popularity varies a lot from region to region. 

In North America the original Captain Tsubasa anime never rose to similar prominence, I don’t think I’m exaggerating by arguing that in many European and Latin American countries (and of course, Japan) almost every kid grown up in the past forty years knows about it. 

Today Nihon Falcom rνeleased a batch of screenshots and details of the upcoming JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki, which is the next game of the Trails series. 

This time around, we get to see another of the three branches that will form the game’s story. The focus is on Trails of Cold Steel protagonist Rean Schwarzer and the other veterans of Class VII from Thors Military Academy.

Do keep in mind that since Trials of Cold Steel IV hasn’t been published in the west, the information under the gallery includes spoilers for those who haven’t played it. You may want to just enjoy the images and skip the explanations.

Today Compile Heart released the first screenshots of the upcoming Hyperdimension Neptunia spinoff game VVVTune. A release date was also announced.

The game will launch in Japan on July 2, 2020, exclusively for PS4. Of course, a western release has not been announced just yet. We’ll have to wait for an announcement from Idea Factory International.

The game will be priced at 7,600 plus taxes for the standard edition, 9,600 yen plus taxes for the limited edition, and 7,300 yen plus taxes for the digital download.

The limited edition will include an artbook, the soundtrack, and four posters.

The images included in the press release plus more published on the official website show familiar waifus from the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, plus plenty original to this game. On top of them, guest virtual YouTubers will appear.

Interestingly, the gameplay will include two different battle systems. The four goddesses from the Neptunia series will feature third-person shooter gameplay, while the virtual idols will fight in action-JRPG style.

The guest virtual YouTubers have been sent to the game’s world and have been captured by an anti-intrusion system. By defeating the evil anti-Vtuber hunters and releasing them, you can unlock them as support.

The game also features a dancing minigame called “BeatTik” in which you can have them wear the accessories earned in the game.

You can check out all the screenshots below.