Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will bring back many of the series' previous characters, including Alex Mason and Frank Woods--but the parts have been recast. Now, the actor behind Frank Woods in previous Black Ops games has opened up at his disappointment at the recasting.

In a lengthy video, Burns opens up about how it feels to see someone else playing his character. Although he's diplomatic about the new actor (who has not been publicly named), he's also clearly disappointed.

In an excerpt posted to Reddit (and picked up on by Eurogamer), Burns talks about how his previous performances, and his knowledge of the character's backstory, would have informed his performance.

Today Compile Heart announced a delay for the Japanese release of upcoming dungeon-crawling JRPG Mary Skelter Finale.

The former release date was on October 8, 2020, while now the game is scheduled to hit the shelves a month later, on November 5. Luckily, it’s not a giant delay.

The reason for the shift in release date hasn’t been detailed beyond “various circumstances.”

This is the second time Mary Skelter Finale is delayed. It was originally planned for a launch in Japan on August 27, but Compile Heart delayed it back in June.

At the moment, no western release has been announced, so we’ll have to wait and see whether Idea Factory international will announce it down the line. We don’t know whether this delay has affected probable plans for North America and Europe.

It’d also be interesting to see whether it’d lose the PS4 version in the west, as it happened with its predecessor.

For now, you can take a look at the latest video, an older trailer, another featuring the opening cutscene, and some gameplay from a while ago.

Vigor is coming to PlayStation 4 and 5 later this year. The online shooter, which launched on Switch earlier this year, will also go free-to-play on Nintendo's platform--right now, you can only play with a $20 Founder's Pack purchase.

IGN has revealed, as part of their Gamescom 2020 coverage, that the game will come to the PS4 on November 25, and over the holiday period for PS5 (the system's release date has not been announced yet). For Switch players, you'll be able to play the game without a purchase from September 23.

Vigor is a multiplayer online loot-shooter set in a post-apocalyptic Norway, in which players have to team up to stay alive and overcome the challenges of the environment.

The Switch version released alongside Season 4 of the game; that will have likely ended by the time the PlayStation version of the game drops.

Twelve Minutes, the upcoming adventure game from Annapurna Interactive set inside a time loop that players experience repeatedly, has some major Hollywood stars in it--James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe. Now, in a new behind-the-scenes video, McAvoy, Ridley, and creative director Luis Antonio have talked more about what to expect from the game.

Antonio says that originally the game was smaller in scope: "It was going to be a short game, and I was doing everything." However, he eventually realized that if he could "go a little further," things could get more interesting, and more options would be available to him. According to an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Antonio started working on the concept back in 2013.

The video, below, shows that while Ridley and McAvoy recorded together, they did so while separated by a barrier. Dafoe recorded his lines separately in Rome. According to McAvoy, the game is "about the danger of truly examining within," and Ridley says that the game is about how you deal with your own truth and the truth of those around you, saying it will mean "different things for different people."

The crowdfunded JRPG billing itself as a spiritual successor to Konami's Suikoden series has officially closed out its Kickstarter campaign with over $4.5 million raised.

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Narga, who we last saw on this site mastering Warcraft cosplay, is now doing the same for The Witcher 3. This Ciri is just perfect, from the outfit to the scars.

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Recent Naughty Dog games haven’t just been praised for their story; they’ve also been lauded for their photorealistic graphics, from the stunning vistas to the character models themselves. The Last of Us Part II is the latest project from Naughty Dog, and it boasts some of the most realistic facial animations we’ve ever seen in video games.

In a PlayStation Blog post, Ellie’s fixation on a painting in a synagogue is used as the starting example of how incredible the animation is. As the camera angles towards the painting, Ellie has an expression that almost suggests that she’s studying the painting as well, as if she’s contemplating the meaning behind it.

The trick, apparently, lies in player input and a whole array of emotions and expressions that the animators have programmed for the characters.

According to Keith Paciello, the studio animator for The Last of Us Part II:

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Reflections: Black Lagoon • Spacemon: A Pokemon TRPG: Frontier - Chapter 87: Shipyard Assault, Part 1 • TAY Retro: Atari 2600 - Ms. Pac-Man [TV Commercial (AU)]

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So far, we’ve seen Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding make the jump to PC, with varying levels of success. But they won’t be the last first-party Sony titles to make the jump, according to the company’s corporate report.

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CxCheats, a small company that sells cheats and trainers for a variety of games, will no longer be offering Call of Duty services after receiving legal threats from publisher Activision. They would also like to “apologize for any pain we’ve caused to players of Call of Duty.”

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Today Obsidian Entertainment and Take-Two’s Private Division released a new video focusing on the first narrative expansion of The Outer Worlds’s first narrative expansion, Peril on Gorgon.

We get to see about 12 minutes of gameplay showcasing a sidequest that we’ll face while exploring Gorgon. The video is narrated by game director Carrie Patel.

You can watch it below.

The Outer World: Peril on Gorgon releases on September 9th for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. At the moment, there is no info about the Switch version. 

You can read an official description below and check out a previous trailer.

“This is the first narrative expansion to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. A severed arm and a mysterious message lead the crew of the Unreliable to the Gorgon Asteroid, formerly the site of one of Halcyon’s most ambitious and disastrous scientific undertakings, now a lawless den of monsters and marauders.

 Bloober Team released another video of the upcoming third-person psychological horror game The Medium.

We hear from lead game designer Wojciech Piejko and and producer Jacek Zięba as they talk about the game and what the team is trying to accomplish, on top of introducing the story and showing some gameplay and cutscenes.

You can watch it below.

The Medium can now be pre-ordered both for Xbox Series X and PC via Steam. It’ll release in the Holiday season 2020.

Below you can read an official description. You can also check out another trailer and more gameplay.

The logo for World Expo 2025 in Osaka was revealed earlier this week, and its interesting shape led to many affectionate game parodies.

The post World Expo 2025 Logo Draws Comparisons to R-Type, Saya no Uta, and More appeared first on Siliconera.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has been out for almost two weeks now, and third-party developers have hit the ground running with their add-ons. 

Two major airports have been released. Gaya Simulations launched Vienna, and if you prefer a more sunny location, LatinVFR released Miami. 

The prices are respectively $20.05 and $17.99. 

Here is the feature list and images for Vienna.

Biggest gamescom 2020 Announcements

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Confirmed for PS5 "Launch Window" Alongside Gameplay Trailer

Dragon Age 4 First Look and Behind-The-Scenes Trailer

Earlier this week, MiHoYo confirmed that Genshin Impact will have cross-play, but save data transfer will have some caveats.

The post Genshin Impact Has Cross-Play But Limited Data Transfer appeared first on Siliconera.

Bandai Namco has news to share about its Tales of mobile JRPG Tales of Crestoria.

First of all, we get a trailer of an anime short by Kamikaze Douga. The final product will last about 15 minutes and provide a look at the main story of the game. 

We also learn about future content coming to the game in the form of a new premium summon banner themed after Japanese maid cafes including Rita and Kohaku. It’s available starting today and September 15.

Last, but not least, we learn that the game has achieved one million downloads worldwide, which isn’t bad at all.

You can check out the videos below.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can check out an official description below.

A new trailer for Chameleon Games' adventure-shooter title Tamarin shows off how the game is a spirital successor to Jet Force Gemini.

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Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released a new video in which the developers discuss interesting topics about the future of the game.

We hear from lead gameplay engineer Chad McKinney and lead network programmer Clive Johnson about core technology features that should pave the way for the game to become a full-fledged MMO.

These include iCache and global persistence, which aims to let players impact the world in a more stable way, and server meshing, which will facilitate the transition to a fully-connected universe, as opposed to today’s shards with 50 players each. 

You can check it out below. You can also watch an earlier video about giant gas clouds and more.

In other Star Citizen news, the crowdfunding total is currently at $311,716,714 at the moment of this writing.

The number of registered accounts is now well over 2.7 million (currently 2,762,494).

As usual, it’s known that not all of them are paying players. The number includes free accounts created for a variety of reasons, including free fly events.

The slick cyberpunk action game Ghostrunner is due to hit PS4, Xbox One, and PC later this year, and a new trailer has been released in time for the virtual Gamescom celebration. If you're looking to get your hands on the game prior to launch, beta registration has opened up, as well.

In the 30-second trailer released for Gamescom, we see Ghostrunner's lightning-fast action and combat on full display. Characters are killed with just one hit, making every battle a test of precision and reflexes. You're capable of dodging bullets, as well, and your impressive parkour moves keep everything moving at a rapid pace.

All of these moves need to be used fully in order to climb the game's Dharma Tower, which is "humanity's last shelter" following an apocalyptic event. In classic cyberpunk fashion, a powerful baddie holding all the cards awaits you. It looks like an extremely fast and fluid take on Dishonored, replacing the supernatural powers for high-tech weapons and style.

No Straight Roads sounds incredible and it has some great characters, but gameplay issues can keep it from being fun to play.

The post No Straight Roads Can Be a Stylish Mess appeared first on Siliconera.

Today developers One More Level, 3D Realms, and Slipgate Ironworks, and publishers All in! Games and 505 Games released new assets for the first-person cyberpunk parkour action game Ghostrunner.

We get to see new gameplay with plenty of cyber-katana action, for a game that certainly looks really stylish.

We also get new screenshots and key artwork. 

On top of that, we also hear that “big news” about the game will be shared at PAX Online on September 15.

You can enjoy everything below, while registrations for the private beta are already open. 

Considering, y’know, the coronavirus.

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Today publisher All in! Games and developer PolyAmorous revealed a new trailer of their upcoming game Paradise Lost.

The video is of the cinematic nature, even if it’s a bit different from the usual cinematics, opting instead to pan around a scene frozen in time. 

You can watch it below. It’s certainly quite eerie and fitting the game’s atmosphere.

If you’re unfamiliar with Paradise Lost, it’s coming for PC in 2020 with a PS5 and Xbox Series X release also planned.

In the meanwhile, you can read an official description of the game below and another trailer.

“The Last Story on Earth

WWII never ended. After twenty years of war, the Nazis carried out a nuclear attack, which changed the face of occupied Poland forever. Can a new world be born from the ashes of the old one?

Take on the role of a 12-year-old boy who finds a mysterious Nazi bunker while roaming a post-nuclear wasteland. Will he find what he seeks there? Can he cope with the loss he’s  suffered?

Age of Empries III: Defintive Edition comes out October 15 and it updates the classic RTS with new and improved 4k visuals and modern features like crossplay. But it will also include some HD capybaras. I didn’t realize I wanted HD capybaras until now.

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Today Modus Games released a brand new trailer of its upcoming psychological thriller game Remothered: Broken Porcelain.

This trailer departs only partially from the chilling atmosphere of the game, telling the story of the secret love between protagonist Jennifer and Lindsay. 

You can check it out below.

If you’re unfamiliar with Remothered: Broken Porcelain, you can read an official description below, directly from the game’s Steam page.

“Broken Porcelain brings an abundance of welcome changes to the series, introducing new gameplay and storytelling elements that breathe new life into the characters and an unprecedented level of immersion in this haunting adventure – perfect for both new and returning fans to the series.

The truths buried in the Ashmann Inn will not be discovered easily – its many mysteries are intertwined and guarded by the looming threat of the stalkers, powerful hunters trapped in time and the confines of its walls. Survival will take more than just quick reactions as a strategic and resourceful approach will quickly become critical in this haunting adventure. Be smart – knowing the best time to sneak, flee or fight imminent dangers can quickly make the hunters become the hunted.”

Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event happened earlier this week. It had a few game announcements, some new trailers, and other stuff. But it also provided us with a haunting image that summarizes 2020 in a single photo.

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If you've watched the reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, you'll have seen fan-favourite character Frank Woods present and correct. But something is certainly off...

It's Woods, alright, but his voice isn't quite right - and that's because the original voice actor behind the character has been replaced. With whom, we're not sure - Activision has yet to make that announcement. But we do know the original voice actor is pretty bummed out about it.

Speaking in a YouTube video where he answered a series of fan questions, an exasperated James C Burns, who has played Frank Woods for over a decade, expressed his frustration.

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Publisher Bushiroad revealed a new music video of its upcoming mobile rhythm game D4DJ Groovy Mix, and this is a special one.

The video, performed by the in-game band Photon Maiden, is a cover of “Ginga Tetsudo 999” by Yukihide Takekawa, which was the classic theme song of The Galaxy Express 999, the 1979 movie adaptation of Leiji Matsumoto’s immortal manga and anime series. 

The younger among us may not be familiar with it, but The Galaxy Express 999 is one of the most relevant anime of that period in and outside of Japan, especially in Europe, where it aired on TV in several countries. 

It’s set in the same universe as the perhaps more well-known Space Pirate Captain Harlock and it basically forged the childhood of many among my generation. 

You can check out the video below.

D4DJ Groovy Mix will release in Japan on October 25 for iOS and Android.

That being said, English-speaking fans need not worry, as we already know that the game is also coming to the west, even if we’re not yet aware of a specific release date.

Fire Emblem Heroes is getting Legendary Female Corrin this month, who will retaliate with her defensive base kit.

The post Fire Emblem Heroes Chooses Its Fate With Legendary Female Corrin appeared first on Siliconera.

We cap off our retrospective interview series with a look at the franchise’s latest installment

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