Shueisha Games will appear at Jump Festa 2024. Games that it will promote are unVEIL the World, Dousei Fudousan, Haikyuu En, Bleach: Songs of the Soul, and One Piece Vivre Rush.

The only one of these games that’s a video game is unVEIL the World. It’ll appear on mobile devices some time in the future, and it’s a collaborative work between Shueisha Games and NetEase. All of the other games are board games. During Jump Festa 2024, you’ll be able to purchase advance copies of Dousei Fudousan and Haikyuu En at the Shueisha booth. There will also be promotional material for unVEIL the World, such as concept art and comments from the main character designer.

Fortnite’s much-touted crossover with Lego is almost upon us - and it’s showing off a pretty darn impressive transformation. Lego Fortnite won’t just add a few minifig skins or some blocky guns, but a completely new co-op survival and crafting game mode with more than a touch of Minecraft about it.

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Nosebleed Interactive and Wired Productions announced its laundromat and arcade management simulator Arcade Paradise is getting a VR version for Meta Quest headsets. It is “coming soon” to the systems, and the product page is already live.

The premise in Arcade Paradise is that players are tasked with working at a laundromat. You wash and dry people’s clothing for them, while also tending to the place. However, in the back room you can set up an arcade. Profits from the arcade cabinets and laundry can be reinvested back into the business, allowing you access to new cabinets. There are 35 cabinets available to “buy” in-game, though DLC expanded the range of the original release, and these are playable minigames inspired by actual arcade games or other titles in various ways.

Here's the first trailer for the VR version of the game. It offers an idea of what to expect from the new approach to the title.

So, how many times have you watched the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer thus far? To be honest, I’ve fully lost track for myself, but as the internet pores over it for the 98-millionth time, folks are starting to point out that many scenes of life in the fictional state of Leonida look quite familiar. It turns out those…

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HoYoVerse revealed that the 4.3 update for Genshin Impact will make two requested Artifacts and Expeditions quality of life changes. These will make it easier to sort or finish tasks.

When it comes to the Genshin Impact Artifacts, there will be new filtering and locking options. For example, you can sort by which set, then choose to search by lock state, level status, and if it is equipped. It will be easier to sort by set when in the equipping screen. It will also be possible to search and lock based on the main affix and minor affixes, so you could make sure ones that focus on attack or critical rates could be locked.

As for the Genshin Impact Expeditions, there will be two new buttons when you visit Katheryne at an Adventurers’ Guild location. If everyone is dispatched, you can select the Claim All button to claim all of the items when these assignments are done and call folks back. Once you do, there will be a Dispatch Again button. Pressing that will send everyone out on the exact same Expeditions again.

Here’s a gallery going over all of the new gifs HoYoVerse shared.

Diablo 4's latest update went live on December 5. It added a new end game pinnacle dungeon challenge where players rush to defeat bloodseekers in the Abattoir of Zir, with the goal of spawning an even more difficult boss. It’s meant to be one of the hardest fights in the game, aimed at players who have already reached…

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Aww yeah, now we're talking. One of my personal highlights from tonight's Day Of The Devs Showcase, developers SFB Games have just announced they're making a sequel to their excellent detective puzzle game, Tangle Tower. Called The Mermaid's Tongue, this latest locked room mystery will see Detective Grimoire and his assistant Sally return for an altogether more watery adventure as they solve the strange murder of one Magnus Montuga, who's met their unfortunate demise after being seemingly spat out by a cursed cauldron that's never been opened. Come and watch the reveal trailer below - and then why not hop over to Steam to play its free teaser demo while you're at it?

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The Day Of The Devs showcases are always some of the brightest spots in the biannual trailer'thon gauntlets, and this year's inaugural edition for The Game Awards is no exception. There were 20 fresh-faced indie games highlighted in tonight's 90-odd-minute stream, and cor, there are some right old gems in here, too, with brand-new game announcements from the devs behind Genesis Noir, Kind Words and Tangle Tower to name just a few. We also got more in-depth looks at some of this year's most intriguing indie games that previously only had an enigmatic teaser snippets attached to them. So come and join us below, where you'll find a digest of all 20 announcements from this evening's showcase, as well as the stream in full if you'd prefer to watch it all as it happened.

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On December 5, Rockstar Games dropped the official Grand Theft Auto VI trailer following a leak. On that same day, we asked you, Kotaku readers, to share your opinions on what you saw of the upcoming crime sim. The responses were…chaotic, but there was one major theme throughout: the trailer looks stunning, so y’all…

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Well, this is a lovely surprise, isn't it? Chill letter writing game Kind Words was a lofi hit back in 2019, encouraging players to share over 5 million anonymous notes of support and, well, kindness since launch. Now developers Popcannibal are back with a full-blown sequel, Kind Words 2 (Lofi City Pop). You're probably thinking, 'How could they possibly have made a sequel to this perfectly formed note 'em up? Have they added emails? Carrier pigeons? Inscribing on stone tablets?' Well, as the reveal trailer below shows, it's gone for more of an Animal Crossing-style city to enjoy, letting you connect with fellow players and express your deepest feelings in new, more directed settings. That's right, it's time to get out of your bedroom and touch some virtual grass.

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Pour one out for Mimimi Games today, readers. Despite announcing they were shutting up shop following the release of this year's fantastic Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, today marks the grand finale for their stealth strategy masterpiece in the form of a new free Treasure Hunt update, and the release of their two paid expansions. Each brings a brand-new pirate to The Red Marley's undead crew, as well as their own half-dozen story missions to play through spread across islands old and new, and once you've begun each of their respective questlines, they're readily available to play in any of the game's regular plunderings, too.

Mimimi have kept the identity of these pirates a secret until now, but after playing both DLCs for a big chunk of the last week, I'm confident in saying this is exactly the swansong Shadow Gambit deserves - with one of the expansions in particular bringing a poignant touch of coming full circle on Mimimi's work as a studio. Naturally, spoilers circle these waters like hungry sharks, but if you're resigned to such a fate, let's dive in below.

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Square Enix announced that it will collaborate with Tsutaya (the pottery brand, not the rental stores) on maki-e plates to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV. The plates will be available to pre-order from December 12, 2023 until January 15, 2024.

Wajima-nuri is a type of Japanese lacquerware that differentiates itself from other lacquerware with the usage of multiple layers of urushi in the undercoat. Though the precise details of when this particular style of lacquerware came about, historians believe that the current version of it came about during the early Edo period. The reason why Square Enix and Tsutaya will work together to release wajima-nuri plates is to try and interest younger people in the ancient art.

There will be two wajima-nuri plates available for the Final Fantasy XIV collaboration. The first one focuses on Bahamut and the second references Meteion. The Bahamut plate costs 66,550 JPY ($451.75) and the Meteion plate costs 40,700 JPY ($276.30). Another Bahamut plate will be on display at the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival in 2024.

UPDATE 08/12/23: The remake of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons was officially announced at this evening's Game Awards.

Word of this remake leaked earlier this week, but now it has been confirmed with a new and fantastical trailer (see below).

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake will launch next year, on 28th February. It will be available across PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.

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Twitch is shutting down operations in Korea, effective February 27, 2024.

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Rockstar has released a 90-second GTA 6 trailer! Wowee! No seriously, ignoring my cynicism for a second, it does look really impressive. As I mentioned in our RPS reacts piece, I'm genuinely excited by the prospect of a renewed Vice City and you bet I'll be there for the inevitable five-minute narrated trailer that begins with a person saying, "Welcome to Vice City".

There's no doubt Vice City is going to be dense and chaotic, going by all the twerking and the social media parodies of real life Florida folks. But really, I do hope that Rockstar doesn't just reserve next-gen's horsepower for wildness. I want some peace, some quiet, some innocuous suburbs to laze around in. That would be nice.

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Lasengle uploaded a new trailer for Uesugi Kenshin, who will be a limited SSR Ruler in Fate/Grand Order. Other Servants on her banner are Berserkers Mori Nagayoshi and Nagakura Shinpachi.

Uesugi Kenshin is the SSR version of Nagao Kagetora, who was a free SR Lancer during the Gudaguda Final Honnoji 2019 event. For reference, Nagao Kagetora is the birth name of the famous Japanese war lord Uesugi Kenshin. Uesugi Kenshin’s Noble Phantasm, Bitenhassou Shiranui, increases her Arts performance for one turn. It will then remove a single target’s buffs, and then deal a powerful Arts attack. It will deal extra damage against enemies with the Man Attribute.

While Sony acquired Destiny 2 maker Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022, it repeatedly claimed the creator of Halo and other hits would remain an “independent subsidiary.” Now IGN reports that if Bungie’s sci-fi MMO keeps failing revenue targets, Sony could dissolve its existing board of directors and take full control of…

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Twitch has announced it will end operations in South Korea at the end of February 2024, and blamed the high cost of operating in the country.

Twitch made the announcement yesterday through an article on its blog, attributed to CEO Dan Clancy.

Twitch said it will now work to help Twitch streamers based in South Korea to "move their communities to alternative livestreaming services", calling the decision to suspend business there "very difficult" and "extremely disappointing" for those affected.

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Ultros is one of those games you can't help but pay attention to. Back when it was first revealed in May at Sony's pre-notE3 PlayStation Showcase, its colourful, fever dream visuals from Hotline Miami artist El Huervo instantly made it stand out among all the drab multiplayer shooters jostling for attention. Then, between talk of it being set inside a cosmic uterus known as The Sarcophagus and having to use seeds and plants over successive runs to alter the shape of the map to your whim, it only became more intriguing. Now, after playing almost two hours of this Metroid-y roguelite for myself, there's still a lot about it to take in and digest, but holy moly what a thing to behold at the same time. This is surely going to be one to watch for Metroidvania likers when it comes out on February 13th next year, because cor, this is looking really quite good, folks.

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We finally know the exact Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat English release date for the global version of the mobile game. Nebulajoy announced it will debut on January 10, 2024.

This comes over three years after NebulaJoy and Capcom said the game would appear worldwide. The Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat English release was confirmed back in June 2021. Since then, there haven’t been too many updates on its progress. A closed beta was held back in March 2023, however.

Now that there is a set date for the mobile game, Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat pre-registration is open. There are five tiers to hit with rewards tied to each one, as well as a 10 Secret Treasure Seals reward if follower counts for all social media channels total adds up to at least a million followers. Here is a list of the five pre-registration reward tiers available, with the 100,000, 500,000, and 1,000,000 ones hit:

• 100,000 People: 50,000 Red Orbs

The time is almost upon us: Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards are happening on Thursday, December 7, celebrating the games of the past year and likely offering a look at some of what’s to come in 2024. To get you prepared for the imminent event, we’ve compiled everything you need to know, as well as what you can expect…

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We'll be recording a new episode of the Inside Eurogamer podcast tomorrow for Supporters, and I want to know whether you have any questions for us? I'll have editor-in-chief Tom Phillips and deputy editor Chris Tapsell with me, so now's your chance to ask.

Note that this is only for Supporters. Inside Eurogamer is a Supporters-only podcast, but it's quick and easy to become one if you want to join in.

Incidentally, I still have some of your questions from last month, from when I spoke to Digital Foundry's Tom Morgan, but I promised I'd ask for questions again so here I am.

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Taito and Capcom announced that Street Fighter 6: Type Arcade will launch in arcades around Japan from December 14, 2023. The full list of stores that will have the game is available via Taito’s website.

There will be 20 characters at launch that you’ll be able to play as. This is two more characters than the starting roster of the console version. If you’re more used to using a controller, you can also connect one to the machine. Street Fighter 6: Type Arcade will also be the first Street Fighter game in the entire series to implement Safety Mode. When playing against other people in Safety Mode, it will not count as Game Over until you lose twice.

Alongside the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5: Season 1, Epic Games revealed Lego Fortnite, a new experience that takes the familiarity of Fortnite and mashes it together with Lego for a new survival adventure experience. Today, Epic Games and Lego released a cinematic trailer for Lego Fortnite that reveals crafting, combat, multiplayer team-ups, a massive world to explore, and more. 

The trailer begins with a standard Fortnite character – Brite Bomber – running into a reality-shifting rift that transports her to a Lego-fied world. There are Lego sheep, castle-like structures, rolling hills and plains, and, unfortunately for this character, a storm. She runs into the castle to discover a crafting bench of sorts where she crafts an axe, and that's where her survival adventure begins.

Check out the Lego Fortnite cinematic trailer for yourself below: 

Bethesda has released a new and quite chunky update for Skyrim Special Edition, which in itself isn't all that remarkable. Sure the game is several years old now, but it is still very popular with players, so why not give the game a boost if it needs it.

However, this particular update has gone down rather badly with Skyrimmers, as it has reintroduced a paid mod platform into the game.

To get you up to speed as to why this has been controversial, all the way back in 2015, Bethesda partnered with Valve to bring paid mods to Skyrim via Steam. However, it was incredibly unpopular with both players and mod makers, and the publisher removed the option to sell Skyrim mods on Valve's platform shortly after this idea made its debut.

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The first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has arrived - a little ahead of schedule - and despite its minuscule run-time, it's an important piece of media. Not only is this our first look at what's likely to be the biggest game of the generation, it's also our first indication of how Rockstar has innovated its technology for the latest PlayStation and Xbox hardware. It's doubly significant bearing in mind that the only GTA game of the PS4 and Xbox One era was an enhanced version of a title originally built for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. In essence, we're looking at a technological leap that encompasses two console generations - and even with the meagre amount of material we have to look at, it's already looking highly promising.

First of all, as always with trailers - particularly debut trailers - we have to examine the plausibility of what we're seeing in a world where even 'in-engine' footage can look a generation apart from the final game. Is this actually real-time footage from the game engine itself running on target hardware? Is this level of quality attainable by today's hardware. The good news is that based on what we're seeing here, we're inclined to believe this is representative of the actual game.

First of all, pixel-peeping apart, there's Rockstar's track record on this kind of thing. Going back to its accompanying media for Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, what we saw may have benefited from dramatic, cinematic camera angles, but there were enough real-time rendering artefacts to confirm that this was indeed the actual game running at its core. It's the same with Grand Theft Auto 6. Rockstar put out an ultra HD trailer and could have run it from PC with all settings dialled up and at full, native 4K resolution. It did not do that.

Several hours ahead of the Argenti banner in Honkai: Star Rail, HoYoVerse uploaded a trailer focusing on him and his skills. As a reminder, Argenti is a five-star Physical Erudition character who is a member of the Knights of Beauty.

You can watch the “Argenti: Whither Hath the Petals Gone?” trailer for Honkai: Star Rail here:

Pom-Pom is the one sitting across from Owlbert this time, since they had wanted Owlbert’s help in looking for Argenti after he made a mess in the Astral Express. This is both a reference to his trailer and his Companion Mission, which will debut in the second half of Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.5. His Skill deals Physical damage to all enemies. His Burst does basically the same thing but with a higher percentage of his ATK. With his Talent, he can not only restore Energy, but he can also get a stack that’ll increase her Crit Rate.

Last time, you decided that Diablo's Tristram theme is better than chain explosions. I hadn't peeked at the votes while voting was still underway so I'm a little surprised by the outcome, given how much of the discussion favoured explosive practicality over emotive plucking. This week, I ask you to pick between two different types of cool missing. What's better: ricochet attacks, or blue shadows on dodges and dashes?

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The 4.3 special program for Genshin Impact “Roses and Muskets” will come out on December 8, 2023. It’ll start airing at 4am PT/7am ET, and you’ll be able to watch it via Twitch. It will also air again after on YouTube.

The English version of the stream shows Lumine with Navia and Chevreuse. HoYoVerse released teasers for the two characters back in November 2023. Navia will be a Geo character, and we already know from cutscenes in the game that she uses a claymore. As for Chevreuse, she is the Special Security and Surveillance Patrol Captain in Fontaine. She will be a Pyro character. Though she’s holding a musket in her splash art, it’s unclear what weapon she’ll use. Both Navia and Chevreuse will use have the Ousia alignment.

Like previous special programs, the Genshin Impact Version 4.3 announcement stream will show a new trailer, reveal the banners and the orders, as well as tease upcoming events. HoYoVerse will also provide codes that players can redeem to get in-game rewards.

Fans have spotted a tribute to Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy in the Arkham Trilogy on Switch.

Conroy's voice lines are used in the collection, which contains Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight, and the actor passed away in November 2022 aged 66, following a short battle with cancer.

At the end of Arkham Asylum, players are shown a black and white drawing of the city with the text "in memory of Kevin Conroy".

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The longevity of League of Legends is astounding. Across the industry, developers are trying to grab a share of the lucrative live-service games pie. Since 2009, the enduring popularity of this multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game has made it a golden goose: often imitated, but never replicated.

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The action-adventure genre is one of the kinds of games best-suited for VR experiences, with the original Asgard’s Wrath being an early Oculus staple. After going through part of Asgard’s Wrath 2, it feels like Sanzaru may be building even further on the original while incorporating staples from console action-adventure and action-RPG staples.

Asgard’s Wrath 2 begins shortly after the first game, but in such a way that it invites newcomers into the adventure. Loki, as the god often does throughout many forms of media, betrayed the player and sought power on his own. After breaking out of the tavern where they were trapped, the player character is attacked by what looks like a griffin with Egyptian ornaments and is picked up by the Weavers. (Think of the three as being like the Norns in Greek mythology.) After dubbing the player a Cosmic Guardian, they send you out to track down Loki again.

Humble Bundle has announced the games available in its monthly Humble Choice subscription for December.

Every month, the team at Humble selects a collection of PC games for its members to keep forever. In addition, members get 20 percent off the vast collection of games in the Humble Store. Its a nice little deal, really.

This month, the bundle building team has grouped another eight games together for its subscribers. These are: ELEX 2, Expeditions: Rome, Midnight Fight Express, Nobody Saves the World, The Gunk, The Pale Beyond, Last Call BBS, From Space.

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Prophecy's Tribes 3: Rivals broke cover earlier this month - or more accurately, came skiing out of cover with a flag in one fist and an electric crossbow in the other. The developers have now shared a bit about how it differs from Hi-Rez's Tribes Ascend, released way back in 2012, which we adored.

Created by a former Hi-Rez subsidiary that includes several of the original Ascend leads, the new shooter retains its celebrated predecessor's emphasis on agility and momentum, but will be a premium game sold for $20 with separately sold cosmetics, rather than a free-to-play affair. It also won't have a singleplayer campaign, much to the probable consternation of Tribes: Vengeance fans, and the indifference of everybody else.

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Mortal Kombat 1 launched back in September and became one of our favorite games of the year – read why in Game Informer's Mortal Kombat 1 review here. Since its release, developer NetherRealm Studios has released additional characters, like Invincible's Omni-Man, while teasing other new fighters like Quan Chi and DC's Peacemaker. Now, Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has teased even more new content on the way. 

During the recent CCXP23 event in Brazil, Boon revealed that story DLC is coming, as reported by IGN. 

"Just like we did with [Mortal Kombat 11], we're going to release a second part with more story and we have a big surprise after that," Boon told the crowd at CCXP23. 

Nexus Mods has removed a mod which changed the gender of a character in a same-sex relationship in Baldur's Gate 3 and banned the account which uploaded it.

The mod, called Ser Aylin (no longer available on Nexus Mods but a version has been archived on Wayback Machine), targets Dame Aylin and turns her into a "fully immersive male version" of herself by changing her model, using AI to alter the voice performance of actor Helen Keeley, and changing NPC dialogue lines.

Following Ser Aylin's upload by user Yedlike to Nexus Mods on 3rd December, Baldur's Gate 3 fans protested against the mod and asked others to not support it, noting it's part of a larger mod pack called No Alphabets. On 4th December, Nexus banned Yedlike for violating its community rules.

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In a move you wouldn't typically expect from a developer, Studio Wildcard has admitted Ark's servers are basically complete "ass".

Speaking as part of Studio Wildcard's Extra Life Charity Stream on Twitch, co-founder Jeremy Stieglitz stated several times over that Ark: Survival Ascended's servers are total "ass". In fact, he said it three times.

"The servers are ass. They run like ass. And their stability is ass," he admitted during the stream.

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In the grim darkness of the far future… I will finish my review of Owlcat’s Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. It turns out that trying to complete an estimated 100-hour RPG during the run-up to The Game Awards is too much for this humble Scriptor. There are still many more tabletop-style planetary maps to discover and plunder, many more character levels to scale, and many more cursed artefacts to tamper with before my protagonist, the closet Chaos worshipper Bruschetta de Plonque, can pronounce herself mistress of the Kronos Expanse - assuming the Inquisition doesn’t claim her first. But after 20 hours of the game, I can absolutely say that I’m looking forward to the next 80. While it doesn’t have the cinematic swagger and raw anecdote-generating capacity of obvious rival Baldur's Gate 3, Rogue Trader has mystique and depth to spare, both in terms of its grotty narrative and its exceedingly busy combat and levelling systems.

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Do you like robots and being given challenges? Then is the sixth door on this year's RPS Advent Calendar is for you!

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Sanrio has announced a collection based on the movie RRR, with merchandise of the characters in a chibi style with mascots like Hello Kitty appearing in Japan from December 8, 2023. You’ll be able to buy them from Animate stores.

Aside from Sanrio mascots, characters from RRR appear on goods as well. Some of the Sanrio mascots that are part of this collection include Hello Kitty, Little Twin Stars, Pochacco, and Hangyodon.

Here is the list of items that are part of the Sanrio and RRR collaboration and their prices:

• Acrylic keyholder with stand: 880 JPY/10,560 JPY box
• Character badge collection: 495 JPY each/3,960 JPY box
• Hand towel: 1,045 JPY
• Stainless steel drink tumbler: 3,080 JPY
• Sticker set: 550 JPY each
• T-shirt: 3,300 JPY