Month: January 2018

During Microsoft’s quarterly financial conference call, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood talked about the performance of the Xbox and gaming business. Nadella started the call by mentioning that Xbox is reaching new customers with new offers. He explained that the Xbox One X was the top-selling premium console in
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Destiny 2 has had a rough couple of months admittedly, but there are forces at work who are attempting to reinvigorate the game’s fanbase through content updates, feature reworks, and constant communication. Today, the Destiny Dev Team released a “Development Roadmap” which details plans for the game for the next few months. You can check out a
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Koji Igarashi’s Artplay released a new video of the upcoming Igavania game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The trailer showcases the crafting system, that allows the player to visit Johannes, an alchemist who protagonist Miriam can befriend. Johannes will be able to combine various elements to create new items or equipment. In the video we
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Today Microsoft announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, which is related to the period between October 1st and December 31st, 2017. The related press release and presentation included relevant information on the state of the Xbox business. Below you can check out the results of the “More Personal Computing”
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Alongside an exposé into the inner machinations of indie sales, marketing, and success on Nintendo Switch, developer Atooi’s founder Jools Watsham has a lot to say about his upcoming projects. Aside from the known commodities — Xeodrifter and Totes the Goat on the horizon — Watsham has revealed two new projects for Nintendo Switch and fleshed out what we
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Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included a spread on the upcoming wtin rhythm games by Atlus Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The article focused on four characters, Morgana and Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5, and Mitsuru Kirijo and Akihiko Sanada from Persona 3. We also get some really stylish new artwork for them all, drawn
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Recently, NIS America announced that the Falcom developed action RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana will make its way onto Nintendo Switch at an unannounced date. During a special Livestream hosted by the publisher, the team addressed questions regarding the Switch version of the game by saying that they aren’t ready to disclose any information about the
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Today Capcom released its financial results for the nine months ended on December 31st, 2017. As showcased in the table below, sales decreased slightly year-on-year, but both operating and ordinary income increased sensibly. The accompanying press release also includes a breakdown of the results for the period. Capcom sees “major growth” for home consoles due
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Today Nintendo announced its financial results for the nine months ended on December 31st, 2017. As you can see in the table below, all the figures are firmly in the black, and massively improved compared to the same period in the previous year, during which the hardware manufacturer and software publisher from Kyoto posted losses.
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Today Nintendo released a brand new trailer of its upcoming release for Nintendo Switch of Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2. The trailer gives an introduction to everyone’s favorite sexy which and her fighting style that certainly shows PlatinumGames at its best. We also get to see giant and fearsome enemies, the protagonist’s ability to use her
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During Electronic Arts’ quarterly earnings conference call, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson talked more about the situation of Anthem’s development at BioWare. Wilson mentioned that Anthem is “tracking well” on its development milestones, and and the publisher is “really confident” about the ship date. We also hear that the new release window isn’t considered a
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Friday the 13th: The Game first debuted last year and the multiplayer-focused survival-horror experience has shown little signs of slowing down, with a new update for the title adding some bug fixes and new content in store for the counselors (and Jason). A new update for Friday the 13th: The Game has gone live according to
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During Electronic Arts’ quarterly earnings conference call, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson and Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen talked about Star Wars Battlefront II, microtransactions, loot boxes, and the plans going forward. Wilson explained that Electronic Arts remains committed to the Star Wars franchise, as they think that Star Wars Battlefront II at its very
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Today Electronic Arts released its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2018 (related to the period between October 1st and December 31st, 2017). You can check out the figures (in million dollars) in the table below. Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson accompanied the press release with a statement. “Players enjoyed hundreds
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Muv-Luv fans playing the mobile game Muv-Luv Alternative: Strike Frontier have always been plagued by a pretty annoying issue. Until now, only the R-rated version of the game was playable outside of Japan without having to use a VPN to mask foreign IP addresses. While we have nothing about R-rated versions of games, they’re certainly not
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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana released on both PS4 and PS Vita last September to very positive reviews. Unfortunately, many fans were very disappointed weren’t that happy the game’s initial localization, which caused NISA, who is in charge of localizing the North American version of the game, to completely re-localize the game, a rarity for these kinds of
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