Atlus character designer Azusa Shimada talked about the new battle outfit for the main character in Persona 3 Reload. The redesign was inspired by biker jackets and military uniforms.

Shimada said that he wanted to design the new battle outfit for Persona 3 Reload with the idea of equipment that would be best suited to support a group of young people facing their destiny on the battlefields of the Dark Hour.

Shimada also added that he wanted to increase the appearance of sturdiness and storage capacity while keeping a sense of ease of movement and not making it look bulky. The main inspiration for the new battle outfit was biker jackets and military clothing.

While creating the new design, they considered a version with the jacket closed but ultimately decided to keep the familiar version. At first, Shimada was worried that the new elements would detract from the charm of the original design, but he hoped they could enhance the sense of realism during combat.

You can check out the original Atlus social media post here:

We knew it was coming. Heck, we knew it was mere hours away. But Grand Theft Auto VI is finally, truly happening for real, and we just got our first official glimpse of the game, thanks to Rockstar Games.

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As Chris Tapsell pointed out a while back, every GTA game is love wrapped in satire. The series seems edgy because the satire is very broad, and often fairly misdirected. But the series sells - and the individual games stick around for so long - because after thirty hours of playing, you're responding purely to the love. Love of the genre, certainly. Love of the excess, sure. But love of the characters too and, more than anything, love of place.

I expected love of place to be firmly in the foreground for the GTA 6 trailer, which leaked earlier tonight, causing Rockstar to just go ahead and publish the thing itself. I expected this because Rockstar's first trailers tend to be vibe affairs. These games take so long to make you're often getting glimpses of the team working on new hardware for the first time and that's always interesting, but also, Rockstar just likes place. It likes to capture the essence of a location - New York, LA, the south-west in the days of stagecoaches and whatnot - in a few key frames suffused with the kind of billowing bloomy light that you don't often see outside of Turner. And then it moves in close for the details that will sell the place: the oil wells scandalously close to the LA beach (they're there in real life), the exhausted realtor hammering in a sign, the people living under the bridge.

Rockstar Games has released the GTA 6 trailer early after it was leaked online a day before its scheduled premiere event. The video confirms that the long-awaited sequel takes place in Vice City and will be released in 2025.

Following a leak on X (formerly known as Twitter), Rockstar responded to clips of their game being posted early by publishing the full Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer on YouTube. In a separate tweet, the developer explained, "Our trailer has leaked, so please watch the real thing on YouTube."

You can watch the full GTA 6 trailer here:

Rockstar have uploaded the first GTA 6 trailer ahead of schedule this evening after a second leak saw the whole thing get plastered across social media. Tomorrow, December 5th at 2pm GMT, was meant to be the grand reveal of GTA 6's first trailer, but Rockstar have put the whole thing live early, confirming that, yes, it is going to be called GTA 6, and it's coming in 2025.

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Rockstar has released the first GTA 6 trailer early, after it leaked online this evening. The video confirms that GTA will launch in 2025, and shows off the game's main characters - a Bonnie and Clyde-style couple who enter into a life of crime.

The 90-second clip had been due to launch tomorrow, but made its way onto the internet earlier than planned. It follows another GTA 6 video leak over the weekend.

"Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube," Rockstar wrote this evening in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Watch the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 below.

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We learned last week that Rockstar Games was going to release the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI this week. It was set to release on Tuesday, December 5, at 9 a.m. E.T., but after leaking online today, the team released the trailer early.

In this first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the highly anticipated sequel to Grand Theft Auto V more than 10 years in the making, we get a glimpse at our dual protagonists, the setting of Vice City, and more alongside a 2025 release year. A press release from Rockstar Games says the game will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2025, with no mention of PC. 

Check out the official Grand Theft Auto VI trailer for yourself below: 

The first trailer for Rockstar Games’ upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI has arrived after a decade of rumors, speculation, and waiting.

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The trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI was planned to be released tomorrow, on December 5, but a random Twitter account seems to have leaked it early. According to the trailer, the game is planned to launch in 2025.

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HoYoVerse offered an update on the moveset for Hanya in Honkai: Star Rail, going over her normal attack, Skill, Technique, and Ultimate. It also offered an “interview” with the character going over her tasks and sister Xueyi.

First, Hanya’s normal attack is Oracle Brush. That deals Physical damage to one enemy. If someone uses the Samsara Skill for Hanya in Honkai: Star Rail, then that deals Physical damage and temporarily puts Burden on one enemy. Any allies who attack the foe with that effect gets Skill Points back even if they use a Skill or Ultimate. Her Netherworld Judgment Technique also applies Burden to a random enemy when a fight begins. 

Meanwhile, the Ultimate Hanya uses helps a member of the party. When you use Ten-Lords’ Decree, All Shall Obey, she’ll increase someone’s attack and speed stats for a limited amount of time.

As for the interview, it goes over the Ten-Lords Commission judge’s background. She handles interrogation for the commission, while her sister is in charge of detention. It noted that both of their names are “codenames.” As part of her job, Hanya reads peoples’ memories. It also notes that her sister is most important to her, to the point where she’s willing to do extra work for more “reanimation” days with Xueyi.

The Pokemon Company announced that it will share sightings of the new Pokemon Terapagos during the 10 days leading to the release of the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Indigo Disk DLC. Terapagos is the flagship Legendary Pokemon for the new add-on scenario.

The information on the Terapagos sightings will be available every day until December 14, 2023 on the Pokemon Intelligence Bureau​ X official account (formerly Twitter) and on the Terapagos official website. Both the X account and the website are only available in Japanese.

Additionally, episodes from the Pokemon anime featuring Terapagos will be available on the Japanese Pokemon YouTube channel throughout December 1-15, 2023. At the time of writing, these videos appear to be hidden.

Japanese accessory brand The Kiss collaborated with Sanrio to release a limited edition Cinnamoroll Necklace. The Kiss Cinnamoroll necklace is available though GIV, Japan's largest character accessory shop.

If ordered by 2pm Japan Time on GIV's marketplace, The Kiss Cinnamoroll necklace will ship out on the same day. The item will remain on sale throughout December until all stock sells out. The necklace can be ordered through Rakuten through GIV's marketplace for ¥13,200 (~$90 USD) and has free shipping costs. Rakuten does not support overseas shipping for this limited edition necklace.

The Kiss necklace is made of .925 sterling silver and features Cinnamoroll floating atop a 4.5mm round-cut Royal Blue Topaz. Atop his ear is a small 2.0mm round-cut Morganite. The necklace comes with an original box branded with the character's likeness along with a light blue bow and a jewelry cloth with an adorable pattern based on the character.

Images of this limited edition necklace and its packaging can be viewed below:

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The first trailer for Rockstar’s next Grand Theft Auto game, likely to be named GTA VI, comes out December 5. What can we expect the trailer to reveal? Well, based on Rockstar’s past GTA trailers, which are fantastic, there’s a pattern that can help us predict what we might see during GTA VI’s official debut.

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At its core, Pokémon is a wildlife expedition. The series sends us into nature to capture these wonderful creatures to fight our battles for us. On top of that, we fill out a Pokédex and learn more about them as we capture them in Poké Balls. Over the years, the series has explored different human/Pokémon…

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Level-5 announced on social media that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will be coming to Steam in 2024. The game is already planned to release on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, iOS devices, and Android devices.

Level-5 did not elaborate further about the Steam version of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes beyond its reveal. It is unknown if it will be releasing at the same time as the other versions of the game, but it has been listed with a 2024 release date on the official website.

The social media post announcing the Steam version of the game can be viewed below:

On December 5, Rockstar Games will finally show the world the first official look at the next Grand Theft Auto. The highly anticipated sequel to 2013's GTA V has a lot of hype, which might explain why over 50,000 fans are currently sat there watching a blank screen while waiting for the teaser.

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Dragon Age: Dreadwolf has been a long time coming, and a new teaser trailer – arriving on Dragon Age Day, appropriately – provides a glimpse of its continent, Thedas, while also announcing when Bioware will properly reveal the game. 

The trailer provides a cinematic flyby of Thedas’ map and a few scenic shots of locales as out-of-context musings from several characters set the tone. It wraps up with a message announcing a full reveal coming next summer. 

It’s a bittersweet announcement. It’s good to know when we’ll finally see what Dreadwolf actually is. We're just bummed to get a teaser for a trailer that's months away. There’s always the chance Dreadwolf launches a few months after its grand debut (it’s happened before with several other big games), though the game was announced as being in the middle of full production last year, and with Bioware’s recent restructuring resulting in layoffs, a 2024 launch may be optimistic. 

Season two of Halo’s TV adaptation is set to premiere on Paramount+ February 8, and we all got our first look over the weekend. It was packed with intense scenes forecasting the destruction of a world, lots of death, and lots of fighting. There were also a couple of neat little tidbits we spotted, including some…

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Yet another new manga debuted in Shonen Jump, and this time it is the series Shadow Eliminators (Ruirui Senki). The Kento Amemiya series’ first chapter is now available to read on MangaPlus and Viz Media.

When Shadow Eliminators begins, we see new student Aoba Kuromori leaping over the gate after arriving late and gaining the ire and attention of the Public Morals Committee Vice-Chairman Yayoi Asakaze. Because of this, Yayoi follows Aoba and happens through the Human Ward into an Otherworld Hollow. He watches as Aoba deals with the Shadow affecting another student with the help of his grandmother. These Shadows can infect and take over someone, turning them into a Kasane. As a result, Yayoi gets caught up in his world, and the two found the Shadow Eliminators.

Previously, Amemiya worked on the series Shikigami and Beast Children. Viz Media also handled the latter.

This is the second recent new manga to show up in Shonen Jump. At the end of November 2023, Green Green Greensstarted its run. Its second chapter is live now, and the first chapter is still free to read.

The secret is out: the Yakuza / Like a Dragon series has great minigames. Whether you enjoy playing retro arcade brawlers like Virtua Fighter, dumping dozens of hours into becoming a real-estate tycoon, or chatting up bodacious babes at the hostess club, Sega’s goofy action series has plenty of pleasant timesinks to…

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According to the recent results from the Yahoo Japan Search Awards, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was the most searched for video game in 2023. In terms of anime, Oshi no Ko was the one most people searched for.

After the success of Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom followed as both next big mainline The Legend of Zelda title from Nintendo and a direct sequel to the game. For six years the game was in development, and it released on May 12, 2023. By June 2023, Tears of the Kingdom had cemented itself as the fastest selling Nintendo title.

Here are the top five most searched for video games on Yahoo Japan in 2023:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
2. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

We’re mere hours away from the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the simple teaser image for which has already sparked an internet-wide meme and thrown infinite fuel on the ever-burning GTA 6 rumour fire. Big questions remain, of course. Not least: when will GTA 6 actually be out? Yet some eagle-eyed internet detectives reckon GTA 6’s release date has been staring us all in the face - and nips - for months.

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A manga adaptation inspired by the Hololive subunit Shiranui Construction is scheduled to begin its serialization in the Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Champion. The first appearance of the comic will be in the upcoming January 11, 2024 issue. [Thanks, ryokutya2089!]

The manga will be called Shiranai Koto Kenkyuukai, or Shiraken Scholar Society. It follows the everyday high school adventures of the five Shiranui Construction members brought together by their shared love of Minecraft. These are Shiranui Flare, Omaru Polka, Shirogane Noel, Sakura Miko, and Hoshimachi Suisei.

As an added note, this manga will be illustrated by the artist Tsumumi, who also currently illustrates the Love Live! flowers*-Hasu no Sora Jōgakuin School Idol Club manga in Ultra Jump. A preview of the beginning of the manga will appear in the upcoming December 7, 2023 issue, and a site is open.

When it comes to Starfield, Bethesda’s massive space RPG, Xbox head Phil Spencer doesn’t care about Steam active player counts or Game Awards GOTY snubs. He still believes, in his heart of hearts, that the game will enjoy Skryim-esque longevity—at least, that’s what he said onstage at Brazil’s Comic Con Experience…

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Koei Tecmo and Ruby Party will end online services for La Corda d'Oro: Starlight Orchestra on March 29, 2024. The mobile game ran for about three years following a launch in February 2021. There will be no celebrations for the outgoing game's third anniversary in February 2024, as Ruby Party will focus on releasing the final event and character story chapters.

Shortly after shutting down the online-exclusive game, Ruby Party will release an offline archive version that existing players can download to review stories and cards that they have unlocked. Koei Tecmo will also process refunds for unused paid jewels from March 30, 2024, to June 30, 2024. However, it will first change the jewel usage behavior to prioritize paid jewels over free jewels after disabling in-app purchases on February 28, 2024.

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1 has begun, introducing new locations, skins, and weapons to unlock. One of the skins, Metal Gear Solid’s Snake, is buried deep within this season’s battle pass, and while folks are figuring out how to unlock the bonus cosmetic, it seems everyone’s bummed by his newfound lack of cake.

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Stellaris Nexus hinges off one of the downsides of the Paradox space game’s epic scale - the amount of time it takes to finish a match - to present a bite-sized side dish of 4X nibbles if you only have an hour to play instead of, say, a day. Now that plate of nibbles is offering up, er, a basically identical plate of bite-sized nibbles that you don’t have to pay for right away, as the game has seen its early access release date - planned for tomorrow, no less - replaced by a last-minute week-long open beta.

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I'm writing to you from the scene of a terrible spit-take accident, as seeing the size and height of this gaudy Thermalright NVMe heatsink caused me to emit a fine mist of water over my desk. No keyboards or computers were harmed in the inchident, but I thought I'd let you know that this heatsink is also discounted by nearly £2 - from £9.39 to £7.51!

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HoYoVerse went over the equipment and allies people will encounter in Zenless Zone Zero, detailing how the Bangboo, Eous, Drive Discs, and W-Engines will work. All of them help players while in a Hollow.

The Drive Discs and W-Engines are the equipment Zenless Zone Zero players will use in the game. The W-Engine affects Base Attack, an Advanced Stat, and applies a W-Engine Effect. So for example the Starlight Engine shown by the company increases the Base Attack, has an Attack percentage increase as the Advanced Stat, and has the Knight Pummel W-Engine Effect that increases ATK by 24% briefly after someone starts a Chain Attack. W-Engines can be found via Proxy Primers and at the Box Galaxy Shop. To buy one, you need W-Engine Chips, Modification Materials, and Dennies. You can also combine the same kind of W-Engine to increase its Effect. Think of it as being like a Genshin Impact weapon

BioWare just released a new Dragon Age: Dreadwolf teaser, only to then say the game won't be getting a full reveal until next year.

The short teaser comes in at just shy of 50 seconds, and pans across some nice vistas - the port city in Antiva sits bathed in evening light, the Rivain shoreline is lapped by azure blue seas, Anderfels is in the midst of a storm. It is all very Dragon Age-y, much as you would expect.

"Enter Thedas, a vibrant land of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities - steeped in savage combat and secret magics. Now, its fate teeters on a knife's edge," the teaser's description reads.

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Here's a fun fact: Corsair started off making L2 cache modules in the 90s, before Intel started including a L2 cache in their CPUs. Corsair switched over to making RAM modules, and nearly 30 years later they're still doing it - but the list of Corsair products has grown hugely.

Today we're looking at two of Corsair's best products in a £130 bundle at Scan in the UK: their 4000D Airflow PC case and their RM750 power supply. Both are well-regarded options for building your own gaming PC, and now you can pick them up together for more than £70 under RRP.

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Outcast: A New Beginning is gearing up to drop its long-awaited sequel to the nineties sci-fi adventure game, with its newly-announced release date landing almost a quarter of a century after its predecessor. If you’re new, or have just forgotten what happened in the first Outcast - of which there’s a good chance given that time gap - you should apparently still be able to jump in here.

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Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii confirmed that he is currently playtesting the upcoming Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake. The game still has no confirmed release date or confirmed release platforms.

Yuji Horii thanked fans for their support and celebrated both the recent launch of the new Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince and the second anniversary of the Japan-only Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi mobile game in a social media post. Additionally, Yuji Horii mentioned staying up to nearly 10pm on the night of October 30, 2023 while playtesting the upcoming Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake.

You can check out the original Japanese post by Yuji Horii here:

Payday devs Starbreeze are working on a co-op multiplayer game based on storied tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons. It’ll be out in 2026, and Starbreeze are being upfront with the fact it’ll be a games-as-a-service-type game.

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