The live-service video game economy runs on microtransactions, and Xsolla is one of the companies that helps process them. The payment platform works with Epic Games, Unity, Roblox, and others to collect money from players all over the world. Now a new lawsuit alleges that Xsolla has mishandled $40 million and fired…
CLAMP announced on social media that an original painting exhibition will be coming to Japan in 2024, focusing on their manga manuscripts and covering the scope of their art over the years. The CLAMP Exhibition will be held from July 3, 2024, to September 23, 2024.
CLAMP will be holding this exhibit at the National Art Center in Roppongi, Tokyo and will be a large-scale original art exhibition tracing back through CLAMP's creative activities up until now. The creative group comprised of four women, comprised of Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi, will show off a wide range of work from their shounen, shoujo, and youth comics. They plan to exhibit their manga manuscripts from their debut to the present across many different publishers and magazines. The creative group has not announced which series they intend to feature, although
This week on All Things Nintendo, Brian is joined by YouTube and Twitch personality Fadel AKA GamesCage to nerd out about all the little surprises and delights found in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Both Brian and Fadel have 100%'d the game, so be warned that this episode contains full spoilers for any and all portions of the latest 2D Mario platformer.
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The All Things Nintendo podcast is a weekly show where we celebrate, discuss, and break down all the latest games, news, and announcements from the industry's most recognizable name. Each week, Brian is joined by different guests to talk about what's happening in the world of Nintendo. Along the way, they'll share personal stories, uncover hidden gems in the eShop, and even look back on the classics we all grew up with. A new episode hits every Friday!
We have all heard of iconic characters like Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lecter, Dr. Gregory House, Hans Landa, and the like. Their exploits always include intricate schemes, mind games, and careful study of human emotions and mannerisms.
But those kinds of plots and personalities are also to be found in the 2D world, and it’s long past due we give them their well-deserved credit. We present to you our list of the top 10 psychological anime of all time.
According to an official announcement from the company and VTuber herself, LIZ from the Japanese music group KMNZ will graduate from all activities on December 31, 2023. After this date, we will not see her participate as a member of the group again.
According to the official announcement, this graduation decision was mutual between the artist and the company. To respect the remaining KMNZ members’ wishes, the group is planned to restart in early summer of 2024.
LIZ expressed her gratitude towards fans that have been supporting her and her group since her 2018 debut five years ago. She mentioned that it was painful to be separated from the other group members and her partner, LITA. She also wishes for her fans to spend her last moments with her as LIZ.
This announcement was posted on the KMNZ official social media account, as well as LIZ’s personal account. You can view it below:
When the City Living EP initially dropped, many Simmers weren’t too keen on the segregated apartment lifestyle that it introduced. However, this impression has since changed with the upcoming Sims 4 For Rent pack that finally ushers in a multi-family household.
I got the chance to attend a For Rent early digital event to get a sneak peek at these new features, showcasing a more complex side to the classic Build Mode. The life of a Property Owner was one of the first big changes I was surprised to see, given that landlord roles are relatively designated for NPCs.
While each Assassin’s Creed entry may vary in terms of performance, quality, and appeal, you tend to know what you’re getting into and the sort of experience to expect. With Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR, we get the staple gameplay of Assassins versus Templars in historical settings, but executed in such a way that it’s accessible, offers an array of scenarios, and is more comfortable than I expected.
Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR begins with players taking on the role of a hacker who works alongside the modern day Brotherhood of Assassins. They’ve been contacted by Abstergo, the Templar agency, to enter the Animus to explore past scenarios to gain data from artifacts found in scenarios starring Ezio Auditore from Assassin’s Creed II in Italy during the renaissance, Kassandra from Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey in Greece around the Peloponnesian War. and Connor from Assassin’s Creed III in America during the revolution. Each one has their own brief storyline and objectives, which all feel like they could have easily fit into their original games as part of the campaign.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom makes you spend a lot of time thinking about the structural integrity of all the nonsense you build with Link’s Ultra Hand. But have you ever stopped to think about the integrity of the wood-based structures Nintendo has put around Hyrule? Well, Eden Klinger, a furniture…
Well. Here we are. Call of Duty’s extraction mode, DMZ, is dead. For a little while now, debate has raged in the community over whether or not it was going to happen, especially as Modern Warfare 3’s Zombies has taken the spotlight as the series’ PvE mode. In a recent update, Acitivison confirmed the reality many of…
The latest banner for FFVII Ever Crisis features new five-star weapons for Tifa and Lucia, as well as Christmas themed costumes for the both of them available via stamp card. The banner is currently live and will last until December 14, 2023.
The new weapon for Tifa, called the Holy Flame Gloves, comes with the C. Ability Freezing blow that performs a single target Ice and Physical attack for up to 800% damage when fully overboosted. Lucia's Holiday Revolver, meanwhile, is similar. However, its skill has an Earth and Magic typing.
Additionally, stamps earned by pulling on the FFVII Ever Crisis Christmas banner can be exchanged for the Fairy of the Holy Flame costume for Tifa, or the Holiday Coat for Lucia. Those that manage to pull the weapons and upgrade them to a certain rarity will also receive wallpapers featuring Tifa or Lucia in their new outfits.
You can check out Tifa and Lucia's weapons and outfits below:
Ark: Survival Evolved remake Ark: Survival Ascended has seen its cross-platform PVP multiplayer temporarily turned off for Windows 10 users in an effort to crack down on PC cheaters.
Bandai will be releasing a new set of Animal Crossing New Horizons trading cards in Japan. They will go on sale on December 25, 2023 for 110 yen ($0.74) each. [Thanks, Game Watch!]
In each pack, there will be one Animal Crossing New Horizons trading card and four gummy candies included. When it comes to the types of cards we can collect, there will be resident cards and landscape cards.
Resident cards will introduce one villager and include their basic profile. Their birth dates, along with their personality types, will be included. Many of the residents featured are villagers new to the Animal Crossing series as of Animal Crossing New Horizons. Landscape cards will be a full horizontal print of island scenery during various seasons.
Here’s a full list of the potential resident card villagers you can get:
Fortnite’s devouring of all pop culture into its gigantic maw continues apace, as leaks suggest that next on the menu for the IP-gobbling battle royale shooter is Metal Gear Solid’s Solid Snake and Family Guy’s Peter Griffin. (Don’t worry, The Maw is safe from the maw, for now.)
Square Enix released a notice that a Final Fantasy XVI arcade mode update will appear and change the way scores will be counted. The update is scheduled to arrive fon December 8, 2023, after which the old leaderboard will unavailable.
The arcade mode in FFXVI allows players who wish to engage more with its combat system to revisit certain dungeons and fights at a fixed level. Upon completion, players earn a score based on their performance, including combo length and extra challenges completed. That can then be uploaded to an online scoreboard. After this update, however, the method for calculating these scores will change. A new leaderboard will be used to record scores under the new system. The notice does not elaborate on what exactly the changes to scoring will be, so players will have to experiment to find the best ways to rack up their scores once the update is out.
You can read the full notice in the tweet below.
The Overwatch series has fumbled the bag a few times since its 2016 debut, but one of the most confounding things developer Blizzard has done is not lean into its storytelling prowess. Overwatch’s animated shorts have consistently provided heartwarming, often poignant stories that weave together its massive cast of…
Revisiting the past by way of a remaster, remake, or reboot isn’t always a surefire path to success for most franchises. But things have been working out so well for Capcom’s remakes of older Resident Evil titles that the company is going all in on rebuilding other titles from the classic Japanese survival horror…
The promise of digital media is that it can last forever, pristine and undisturbed by the forces of entropy constantly buffeting the material world. Unfortunately, a mess of online DRM and license agreements means that we mostly don’t own the digital stuff we buy, as most recently evidenced by the fact that Sony is…
After offering up some of their accessibility inventions for free a couple of years ago - including the context-aware ping system seen in Apex Legends and code for a colourblindness tool - Electronic Arts are opening up even more of their accessibility features for anyone to use.
Good Smile Company opened pre-orders for a limited metallic Moderoid kit of Shinji Ikari's Evangelion Unit-01. People from all around the world can place orders for the kit on Good Smile Online Shop at ¥7,900 / $49.99.
This limited edition model kit will feature parts pre-painted with metallic coating. The set will also include the Pallet Rifle and Spear of Cassius as equipable weapons. The resulting unit will stand at around 165mm (~6.5 inches) tall when completed.
Good Smile Company previously released the regular plastic kit of the same unit in May 2023. It will only produce a limited amount of this metallic model kit. The order window for this kit will close once its stock has run out.
After remaining silent on the price of the much-anticipated new skins for all 18 Street Fighter 6 launch characters, we finally know how much each alternate costume will cost, and fans of the 2D fighter aren’t too happy about the prices they’re seeing.
After years and years of waiting, rumors, fake leaks, real leaks, and teases, we at last know when the trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto game (presumably called GTA VI) will be here. On December 5, we’ll finally see the sequel to GTA V. That’s all very exciting. But, instead, let’s talk about something else: the…
On Twitter, Yasumi Matsuno stated that there no plans at the moment to remaster Final Fantasy Tactics. He added that if fans have a request for a specific game or remaster, they’d have to directly contact Square Enix instead of the developers.
The exchange took place on November 28, 2023, when a user made some quality-of-life requests for a possible Final Fantasy Tactics remaster. However, Matsuno replied that there are no plans at Square Enix to remaster that game. Matsuno added that it’s up to the user (as well as other users who may have seen the exchange) whether they believe Matsuno or not. It should be noted that in February 2023, some fans thought that there would be a remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics on the way due to an interview about Theatrhythm Final Bar Line.
Surprise, surprise: Capcom are working on another Resident Evil remake in their successful series of ground-up rebuilds for the survival-horror franchise. As for whether we’ll barrel straight into Resident Evil 5 from this year’s RE4 Remake or jump back to Zero or even, uh, sideways to Code Veronica? They won’t say - yet.
With apologies to Bithell Games for the two-in-a-row smackdown of games they released this year, the next entry on my list of good things that didn't quite make my personal GOTY rankings in 2023 is none other than The Banished Vault. I'll put my hands up here - I really did intend to review this one properly when it came out back in July, and I regret never quite getting round to it. Time, as ever, escaped me in the run-up to Gamescom, but it was also one of the first games in a while where I felt I wasn't quite equipped to do it justice.
Ahead of his playable debut in Honkai: Star Rail, HoYoVerse uploaded a trailer for Argenti. As a reminder, he will appear as a new five-star from December 6, 2023.
You can watch the Argenti trailer, called “Chivalric Romances,” for Honkai: Star Rail here:
It is also available in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
While similar to Kafka’s trailer in that it’s very theatrical, Argenti’s has a more humorous vibe. It ends with mock credits, with Pom-Pom acting in place of the Omen of Evil and March serving as the straight man to Argenti’s funny man.
An early leak via the Xbox store has seemingly revealed that Peter Griffin from Family Guy and Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series will be available in Fortnite’s next season. What a world we live in.
This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.
Between Cyberpunk 2077's big 2.0 overhaul and its lengthy Phantom Liberty story expansion, it might have seemed like the game’s developers were done with the open-world RPG’s three-year turnaround. But today CD Projekt Red confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will still get some big features in one last 2.1 update,…
Alongside a new trailer showing what Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will sound like in English, Sega also confirmed Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name's English dub will release for free this month. The new trailer shows scenes that will be familiar to anyone who watched the Japanese trailer back in September, but it's nice to hear familiar voices connected to this new footage. The trailer also gives us a chance to hear Daniel Dae Kim's Masataka Ebina and Danny Trejo's Dwight. Here's what Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has to say about the two characters.
Ebina is the de-facto leader for the Seiryu Clan, a yakuza syndicate whose current chairman is incarcerated. Dwight leads the Barracudas gang in Hawaii and supervises the world's largest counterfeit goods market, aided by his sharp sense of business and even sharper machete.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth releases January 26 PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
At long last, the GTA VI rumor mill can slow down. Rockstar Games officially announced the sequel in February 2022, but the studio just confirmed that a trailer for the long-awaited crime sim sequel will arrive on December 5. As we gear up for GTA VI‘s reveal, we at Kotaku have just one question: What do y’all want to…
Turns out CD Projekt has even more plans for Cyberpunk beyond its 2.0 update and Phantom Liberty earlier this year. During a stream detailing the update with developers Paweł Sasko and Monika Janowska, the team at CD Projekt revealed Cyberpunk will be getting a 2.1 update soon that will add a fully functional metro, radioport, replayable car races, boss fight improvements, accessibility features, and more. The update will be available December 5 (the same day Rockstar is launching the trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto), which will also mark the release of Cyberpunk 2077's Ultimate Edition.
The metro system, called NCART in the game, lets players move around the city and take in the views. The Radioport will let players listen to music outside of vehicles. The update will also allow players to to invite their in-game significant others to "quality time" together in V's apartment. The other previously mentioned updates are a little more self-explanatory, though CD Projekt did specifically mention that the boss updates were specifically applied to the late-game encounter with Adam Smasher. He is also now equipped with Sandevistan, which was seen in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. New vehicles will be added like the Porsche 911 Cabriolet and others, motorcycle handling has been improved, and there are also technical updates like larger fonts and the option to turn off timers in the Breach Protocol minigame.
A new trailer appeared for the Suicide Squad Isekai anime, with a particular focus on the Joker and Harley Quinn. The trailer also shows the roster of Suicide Squad members who will go to the other world.
You can watch the Suicide Squad Isekai trailer here:
As for the plot of the show, it will focus on Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface, and King Shark as members of Suicide Squad. Joker is not part of the line-up, but he’s a major character nonetheless. For reasons unknown, Waller sends the Suicide Squad to an isekai that is a classic fantasy world with magic, orcs, and dragons.
Here is the cast list for Suicide Squad Isekai:
Publisher EA has been making it easier for developers to implement accessibility features by making many of them free for other developers to use. Now, the company is expanding that toolset with a patent to help folks with epilepsy and other forms of light sensitivity.
The full lineup for the EVO Japan 2024 fighting game tournament is now known. A total of seven titles will be available for people to test their skills to the limit with a prize pool for the top six players. Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6, the respective latest entries from Bandai Namco and Capcom's flagship series, are also included in the list.
Here is the full lineup of EVO Japan 2024, along with the maximum player allocations for each title:
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League publisher Warner Bros. Interactive is battling to stop the spread of footage taken from the game's alpha test.
Leaked videos, as seen by Eurogamer, have revealed the game's lengthy opening, which features a cast of familiar characters in a spoilery location, and gameplay featuring all of the game's characters.
Footage of the game's emote dances has also been posted, as well as the game's skill trees.
It’s no secret that the Xbox Series X hasn’t been selling great, and this holiday season Microsoft’s “next-gen” console is getting some huge discounts. For a brief period today, Amazon was selling the Starfield machine for as little as $350.
UK developer Codemasters has a rich 37-year history of racing games, with its own EGO Engine used to create every flavour of racing game you could imagine. From the tarmac racing in F1 and Grid to the off-road thrills of Dirt and the more realistic Dirt Rally, it has every base covered. But the times are changing, and so is the technology. In 2020, Dirt 5 switched to an evolved form of the Onrush engine instead - to great success - while this year the launch of EA Sports WRC sees a more radical break with the studio deploying Unreal Engine 4.
This fascinating transition raises some questions. Have the visuals truly benefitted from the change? In comparison to the likes of Dirt Rally 2.0 - an EGO Engine title that was handled by the very same team in 2019, is the rally experience of EA WRC improved? And how does it run today on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, S and PC? That's what we've aimed to find out with testing on all four platforms.
The official reason for the engine change, based on developer interviews, is to allow for larger circuits. In EA Sports WRC it's possible to map out rally routes of up 30km in length. Seemingly there was a size limit with its own EGO Engine tech, and Unreal Engine 4 allows the team to break through this barrier. And no doubt, the jump to Unreal Engine also allows Codemasters to reap certain benefits native to the tech like platform scalability and Epic's TAAU upscaler. Plus, it's clear that WRC makes for a good test-bed to see if the engine is suitable future games.
Rockstar Games announced that the first trailer for the new Grand Theft Auto game, which could be GTA 6, is coming December 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM ET. This will be the first-ever official look at the title.
Earlier in November 2023, Rockstar Games shared a message to all of the company's fans that December 2023 marked the 25th anniversary of the publisher and gave thanks to all of the fans who have played Rockstar Games over the years. Founded in 1998, the company's guiding idea was that video games could be an essential part of culture like any other form of media. Within that same announcement, Rockstar Games revealed plans to show the first trailer for their next Grand Theft Auto game. Many anticipate that this will be the trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6.
Capcom has confirmed that more Resident Evil remakes are on the way.
After the huge success of the Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes, Capcom is set to continue the trend - though which game is next remains unknown.
IGN spoke with Resident Evil 4 remake director Yasuhiro Anpo at a PlayStation partner awards event in Japan, who confirmed an announcement is on the way.