Shin Megami Tensei V was first unveiled alongside the Nintendo Switch, and while the wait for its release has been unbearably long and arduous, it was definitely worth it. The game held true to its roots, while also providing enough quality-of-life improvements to make it more accessible to newcomers.

Since its launch last year, the game has officially sold over one million copies worldwide, as Atlus has just announced on Twitter.

To celebrate, character designer Masayuki Doi has also posted new artwork of the protagonist thanking players for their support. Shin Megami Tensei V was lauded not just for its fun and challenging gameplay, but also for its exceptional art direction, so more artwork is always welcome.

Shin Megami Tensei V is now available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.

While you would think that a blockbuster multiplayer shooter featuring up to 128 players at a time would be built entirely upon voice communication, ever since its launch last year Battlefield 2042 has not allowed players to chat via VoIP. That’s finally about to change.

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2022 continues to offer up headlines that seem like they were created by a rogue AI learning how to play Mad Libs. Today’s example: It’s reported that, following the continued success of the Sonic films, Sega and dj2 Entertainment are working with the writer of John Wick on a movie adaptation of classic Sega beat ‘em…

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The retro library for Nintendo Switch Online might be getting beefed up any day now. Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulators for the service developed by Nintendo have apparently leaked online, and it looks like a long list of games, including Mario Kart, Golden Sun, and Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire, have been…

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Hot off the heels of Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s box office success is news of another Sega classic making its way to the big screen. Deadline reports that a film adaptation of the classic beat 'em up series Streets of Rage is in the works.

According to sources speaking to Deadline, the adaptation will be penned by John Wick creator and writer Derek Kolstad, who reportedly wrote Streets of Rage's script on spec (basically a script written without a guarantee of production). Kolstad has the upcoming fourth John Wick slated for 2023 and also wrote the 2021 action film Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk.  

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Today there is plenty of interesting news about upcoming add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator, both on the aircraft and scenery side.

We start with aircraft, and precisely PMDG’s Boeing 737-700. Today we get new screenshots directly from the developer and from beta tester Michael Codd.

A definitely charming video was published by YouTuber 737ngworld and you can also check out dedicated streams by Chewwy94 and TheFlyingFabio.

There is definitely a lot to see and a lot to enjoy if you’re eagerly awaiting the 737, which doesn’t yet have a release window or pricing details.

Legendary Elden Ring hero Let Me Solo Her, who’s stolen the community’s heart by aiding battered Tarnished struggling to beat Malenia, hasn’t just had their bravery immortalized in 3D-printed sculptures and fan art: They’re also now a summonable ally. Thanks to a modder named Garden of Eyes, PC players can now call…

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The Minecraft movie is stacking up its cast. Jason Momoa, whom you may know as the guy with mountainous biceps and a waterfall of hair from Aquaman or the guy with mountainous biceps and a waterfall of hair from Game of Thrones, will star in the Minecraft movie. At least, that’s according to a report today from The…

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It appears that there is some light at the end of the tunnel for Final Fantasy XIV players who have found their attempts to acquire a new home frustrated by a bug within the lottery system implemented with the latest update.

The issue caused the lottery to fail to assign many plots of land to the proper winners, simply returning a “0” value, causing considerable frustration among the community.

Today Square Enix posted another update signed by producer and director Naoki Yoshida, signalling the steps Square Enix is going to take to address the situation.

Those are as follows:

• Restoring the lottery results data
• Fixing the identified issues
• Verifying the fixes

We learn that all lotteries have actually been conducted successfully, but those who returned the dreaded “0” were affected by a failure to communicate the winner to the housing server.

Those players who managed to purchase their house need not worry, as nothing changes for them.

Those affected by the “0” issue will have to wait for a fix to be implemented. When that happens, it’ll be possible to confirm the lottery winners. Those who registered for these lotteries won’t need to register a second time. Square Enix asked for some patience as data is recovered.

If you have already recovered your downpayment, you don’t need to worry either, as Square Enix is considering the means to recollect payment from the winners that did so. More details will be announced at a later time.

Today, SEGA revealed that they are bringing another of their hit video game franchises back to the silver screen, as the beat ’em up series Streets of Rage is getting a brand new movie. This news comes by way of Deadline, which reports that Sonic the Hedgehog producer dj2 Entertainment and Escape Artists (Equalizer) will produce the film adaptation.

Despite some criticism regarding the franchise when it was first announced, the Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise has been a resounding success for dj2 and SEGA, with the second film recently pulling in $72 million at the box office during its opening weekend alone. The success of Sonic is likely what prompted SEGA to give this next project the greenlit.

The untitled Streets of Rage movie is also set to be written by Derek Kolstad, who also wrote John Wick and Nobody. While there aren’t too many details about the film at this time, there’s plenty of source material to go off of, as the franchise has published multiple games revolving around the group of former police officers that battle an organized crime syndicate since the first title came out in 1991.

The latest title in the franchise, Streets of Rage 4, was released in April of 2020 and has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.

It’ll be interesting to see if the recent buzz surrounding video game movies and the success of the most recent game can correlate in to another successful movie franchise for SEGA. For now, we’ll just have to wait to see.

Elden Ring has been out for almost two months now, giving fans plenty of time to explore its massive map and fight all of the terrifying creatures it has to offer. But while fighting and exploring is plenty of fun, how you do and who you do it as adds an entire new layer, especially if you manage to create a build that resembles Kratos from God of War.

Yes, someone finally created the Ghost of Sparta thanks to a combination of character customization and equipping the right items. As you can see in the post below to the Elden Ring subreddit, user Ariiverderci managed to create Kratos in Elden Ring and boy does it ever look awesome.

According to the player, all it took was a tutorial to get the body and face right and then they equipped dual-wielding whips – apparently any whips work fine, but they used Hoslow Whip and Urumi for the video. Once equipped, they then just doused the left and then right weapon in fire grease to recreate the Blades of Athena.

So what do you think of this build? Are you going to try and play as Kratos with the Blades of Athena as well? Be sure to let us know in the comment section below.

While some companies are doubling down on the lucrative scam behind NFTs, others are trying to head off any association right from the start. After an Activision Blizzard survey went out polling players on their interest in the blockchain technology, Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra was quick to shoot down speculation of…

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Atlus has announced a landmark sales figure for its latest Shin Megami Tensei game on Switch, boasting a new seven-figure total for copies sold. Shin Megami Tensei V has officially sold over one million units worldwide. 

The news came from a tweet on the Altus_West Twitter account, dropping the monumental amount of sales for the exclusive Switch JRPG. The tweet only says the one million figure represents total worldwide sales but doesn't break down the number into units sold for each region. 

Shin Megami Tensei V has sold 1 million units worldwide! ✨

Character Designer Masayuki Doi has created a special illustration to celebrate! Thank you so much for your support! #SMT5 pic.twitter.com/ZDKePUroZS

— Official ATLUS West (@Atlus_West) April 18, 2022

Also embedded within the tweet, which you can see above, is a piece of art depicting the main character from SMTV drawn by character designer Masayuki Doi as a thank you to fans who purchased the game.

It seems like every day we learn about some new piece of Elden Ring content that didn’t survive to launch, but this one is a doozy. At some point in the game’s development, acquiring the potent Mimic Tear summon would have apparently required completion of a lengthy questline.

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Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of the Portal series, would love to work on a third game. There are just a few problems: He’s one developer out of hundreds of staff and he’s not sure that Valve would go for another Portal game’s profit margins.

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Netflix has just confirmed that the CGI anime inspired by the popular tokusatsu franchise Ultraman is getting a third and final season.

The new season, which will follow the second that has just debuted on the popular streaming platform, will launch in 2023.

The announcement came with a brief teaser trailer, which you can watch below.

The trailer’s description also provides hints to what we can expect, albeit pretty vague.

“The world of Ultraman as seen through the lens of directors Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki heads into the final chapter at last!

Will the six warriors — Ultraman, Seven, Ace, Zoffy, Jack and Taro — finally put an end to the battle with the aliens?

The final season of the Netflix Series “ULTRAMAN” streams worldwide in 2023, only on Netflix!”

If you’re unfamiliar with Ultraman, it debuted in 2019, translating into animation a manga written by Eiichi Shimizu and drawn by Tomohiro Shimoguchi, which was serialized on Monthly Hero’s starting in 2011.

The manga itself is inspired by the ultra-famous Ultraman tokusatsu franchise, that has been a staple of Japanese television since 1966.

Depending on who you ask, the metaverse could be any number of things. For some, it’s highly centralized around gaming, existing as an MMO-like experience. For others, it’s a virtual workspace or a digital version of the world we already live in. The most commonly accepted version of the metaverse, though, is something that resembles Ready Player One where all of your favorite characters, friends, and family members interact with each other in a 3D virtual world. Or at least, that’s the most idealized vision of what the metaverse could be.

Of course, that’s not a reality at the moment and the closest something’s come might be Epic’s juggernaut free-to-play battle royale game, Fortnite. But long-running MMOs like CCP Games’ EVE Online might be just as close to what the metaverse may become: a virtual world where players become entirely different people living completely different lives. They might be the commander of a space fleet igniting a war to colonize planets prime for resources, or they might be a simple trader on a peaceful planet.

For CCP CEO Hilmar Pétursson, conversations about the metaverse are nothing new. In conversation, you can sense the blasé outlook he has on the idea – not because he isn’t interested in it, but because they are the same ideas he’s heard shuffled in gaming circles since the 1992 release of Snow Crash, a foundational sci-fi novel that set a precedent (not necessarily the precedent) for what a metaverse could be, even going as far as to coin the word “metaverse.”

Next month, Halo Infinite is getting a welcome infusion of new content for its second season. But for all the forthcoming multiplayer maps, modes, and cosmetics, developer 343 Industries is taking something out of the campaign: the scorpion gun.

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Remember back in January when Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda published that terrible letter hyping up a future where video games would feature NFTs and blockchain tech? Well, even though a lot of players and devs criticized the letter, Matsuda ain’t backing down. And in a new interview, he continued to explain…

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On paper, Panic's Playdate doesn't have a lot to do with PC. It's a standalone handheld console that fits into the palm of your hand (yes, even palms as small as mine), and is controlled via a d-pad, two face buttons and its unique, standout feature, the crank. But inside this dinky yellow wafer, the spirit of PC gaming has never been stronger. It's there in its eclectic first season of indie games, a series of 24 titles that not only delight in the minutiae of its hardware but are delivered weekly for free in batches of two direct to your console over Wi-Fi. It's there in the openness of the Playdate ecosystem, too, where you can make your own Playdate games in its browser-based Pulp creation tool, download the source code, share it with friends (or sell it) and sideload it onto your Playdate all in a matter of minutes. Heck, Panic have even added the ability to stream from it, capture video and screenshots from it, and hook it up to an external monitor, keyboard or controller via its Playdate Mirror app.

It's a surprisingly versatile bit of kit, the Playdate, and one I feel will enchant and enthral anyone who has a deep and inherent love of all things games. Sure, there's every possibility it may end up as another Ouya-style disaster show, but if you've ever longed for something like Lexaloffle's Pico-8 platform to be more than just a 'fantasy console', then the Playdate is exactly what you've been waiting for.

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In an era of 4K visuals, 3D spatial audio, and sprawling open-world designs, there's something oddly refreshing about a new handheld device trying to emulate the earliest Game Boy and Game & Watch experiences. Playdate is a retro-inspired indie handheld built entirely to deliver novel experiences in a pocket-friendly format. From its bright and friendly appearance to its often whimsical games, it's clear the Playdate's name was chosen with purpose. Like a meet-up between childhood friends, this is an experience meant to recall youth and simplicity. It aims to delight those who pick it up through an array of small, entertaining activities.

The Playdate makes an excellent first impression. The charming yellow handheld may be tiny, but it feels solid in hand. The buttons feel clicky and responsive, and the side crank (the system's most significant innovation) is satisfying to twist round and round. The included speakers are crisp, clear, and capable of robust volume for their size. Or you can plug your preferred headset into the included jack. The small reflective black and white screen nails the nostalgic vibe it's going for, instantly calling to mind those first successful handheld games that older players may remember from youth.

Handheld consoles are the best part of games, I reckon. I love them more than any other aspect of this brilliant and difficult medium. Handhelds take games and set them free. They task you with finding new ways to fit them into your life, your days, your tangled journey through the world. The Switch is Mario on the sofa or sat up in bed, sure, but it's also Mario under a tree in the park, in a window seat on the bus or a train as forests strobe past. It's Mario queueing for an ice cream or waiting for an MRI. It's Mario slung in your backpack: where next?

Freedom to roam! And there's a peculiar freedom of form too. Handhelds are allowed to be odd, because they're objects - clue in the name here I guess - to be held in the hands, and the hands are curious things themselves. Just look at them. Maybe this is why handhelds are where normally sober hardware designers deploy rear touchscreens, or two screens and a hinge and stylus, where a cartridge might come with its own little rumble pack, or a light sensor for weaponising the sun as you fight digital vampires. The Playdate, which I've spent the last fortnight with, features a crank! It features a crank.

And yet. Long before Playdate and its crank arrived, some part of me already understood that every handheld is, before anything else, a puzzle to be solved. A lovely, playful, speculative puzzle. What is this funny new thing particularly good at? What makes it singular? Where does it really come alive? What, ultimately, is its intention? All this. Yet what I didn't understand until Playdate is that solving this puzzle can take weeks - can be, in fact, something of a game in itself.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is an upcoming compilation of 13 classic TMNT arcade games announced last month. As fans wait with bated breath for its release, Konami has revealed a physical collector’s box to further appeal to the Turtles diehard in you. 

Beginning today, you can pre-order a limited-run box that contains some one-of-a-kind goodies (which are pictured above). For $149.99 you'll get the following items:

• Physical copy of the game with original box design by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman 
• Cloth poster featuring Kevin Eastman’s adaptation of TMNT: Turtles in Time (16” x 24”)
• Multi-layer acrylic diorama of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo (4.5” x 5”)
• Enamel pin set of five classic designs – The Technodrome, Turtle Blimp, Party Wagon, Shredder and Krang
• Set of 12 translucent comic style character trading cards based on TMNT: Tournament Fighters with rarely seen appearances from Wingnut, Armaggon, Chrome Dome, War, Aska, Karai and more (3” x 5”)
• Full-color artbook with 180 pages featuring a chapter dedicated to each of the 13 games in the compilation (5.5” x 8”)

Although the Cowabunga Collection is also coming to PC, this physical collector’s set is only available for the console versions of the game. That would be PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch.

Today Microsoft and Rare released the cinematic trailer of “The Shrouded Deep,” the next adventure that is going to be added to Sea of Thieves.

The adventure is going to be available between April 21 and May 12, giving all you pirates plenty of time to enjoy it.

You can check out the trailer below.

Sea of Thieves is currently available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC. Just recently, we learned that it recently passed 25 million players.

If you’d like to know more about what is coming this year to Sea of Thieves, you can check out the news from the latest preview event.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can read the official description below.

“Sea of Thieves offers the essential pirate experience, from sailing and fighting to exploring and looting – everything you need to live the pirate life and become a legend in your own right. With no set roles, you have complete freedom to approach the world, and other players, however you choose.

Coachella was in full swing over the weekend and while people were fawning over Harry Styles and discovering what Danny Elfman actually looks like, Hikaru Utada graced the stage and performed some certified Kingdom Hearts bangers.

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Electronic Arts and DICE’s online first-person shooter Battlefield 2042 will receive an update later this week that adds in-game voice chat alongside hundreds of fixes and changes across the game.

The update 4.0 will finally allow players to chat with each other in the game with the addition of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Voice chat will be limited to two options, a pre-made party or the in-match squad, and players can switch between the two while in a game.

Weapon attachments have also been overhauled with the patch, and the studio said that some attachments were too similar to others in their effects. Some of the attachments received better stats, while others were changed with slightly different effects to prevent overlapping.

The other biggest change in the update is its Ribbon and XP system. Ribbons have been made easier to unlock across all modes, and some specific Ribbons now give increased progress. Support actions such as healing and resupplying also give more XP, while XP earned from capturing and defending objectives have been decreased.

The update will be coming to all platforms on Tuesday, April 19. The patch notes also list hundreds of other changes and improvements ranging from matchmaking to showing a scoreboard after a round ends.

Battlefield 2042 is now available for PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One.

There are many dangers in Elden Ring. Walk through any field or turn any corner in the Lands Between and you’re sure to meet an unceremonious end. However, there seems to be something else for players to fear far more than even Radahn himself. That’s Fia’s underwear, the Deathbed Smalls, which is getting folks…

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Co-op horror fans are in for a treat, as developer Pet Project Games have recently shown off a brand new gameplay clip for their upcoming horror FPS, Ripout. Set on a  procedurally generated derelict spaceship, the game tasks players with fighting off hordes of mutants capable of reconfiguring their alien bodies.

To survive, you and your allies must collect loot and customize your character to fit your playstyle. It’s not all doom-and-gloom, though, as features like owning a pet gun add a bit of flavor to the fear.

You can check out a quick sneak peek of the gameplay for Ripout and an official description right down below.

Microsoft is currently running a big promotion for PC Game Pass. New subscribers who recently played one of the company’s big fall 2021 releases get three months of access to the service’s Netflix-like library of games for free. It’s perfect timing, too, because the PC side of Game Pass currently has plenty of great…

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The opening of the Empyreum housing wards in Ishgard and the new lottery system introduced with the latest update of Final Fantasy XIV caused an unforeseen problem that has brought a certain level of friction among the community.

Basically, some of the plots that were supposed to be assigned a few days ago were not, as the lottery system failed to pick a winner and simply displayed a “0” as the new tenant.

Today Square Enix published a new post signed directly by producer and director Naoki Yoshida providing an update on the situation.

First of all, Yoshida-san clarified that the lottery system is entirely random. The previous mention of a “pattern” was simply incorrect wording on his side.

The development team is working hard to identify the root cause, but as of now, they have not yet. This will require additional time.

The issue is three-fold as follows:

• Cases where the lottery was properly conducted internally and a winner exists, but the results display the winning number as 0.
• Cases where there was a single entry in the lottery, but the results display that there was no entrant or winner.
• Cases where there is no winner despite entries being made by multiple friends or free company members.

That being said, Yoshida-san offers a ray of hope, explaining that data on the lotteries that failed exists, and the developers will use it to ensure that players are not negatively affected even if they withdrew their downpayment.