Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced the Overwatch League Stage Playoffs will now include four qualifying teams instead of three; this change will be implemented in Stage 3. How will this change the current state of the Stage Playoffs? For one, the top-seeded team will no longer get the first round bye, guaranteeing their spot in the
Month: April 2018
After being announced on Kickstarter all the way back in 2013, it seemed like Chasm might have been stuck in development hell. Now, however, it seems like that is no longer the case. Today, developer Discord Games announced that the side-scrolling game will finally be released in the Summer of 2018. In addition to the announcement of
The story of Unsung Story (no pun intended) is quite painful for fans of the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. Announced in 2014 promising a grand return of Final Fantasy Tactics creator Yasumi Matsuno in 2015, the project was largely mismanaged by Playdek until Little Orbit stepped in to try and salvage the agonizing project last year. Luckily, it seems
Sushee Games released a new video showing the development of their upcoming remaster project Fear Effect Reinvented, coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2018. The video shows the development process of a setting featured in the original Fear Effect, which originally released on PlayStation in 2000. Furthermore, players get a chance to preview
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment released five minutes of new gameplay of the upcoming God of War by the good folks at Santa Monica Studios. The video showcases a battle against a massive troll. Incidentally, trolls aren’t generic enemies, but each is a unique full-fledged character. Each looks different, fights in his own slightly different way, and has
NIS America announced that the El Shaddai Creator’s dungeon crawler RPG The Lost Child will launch on June 19 in North America and June 22 in Europe on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and digital only on PlayStation Vita. The Lost Child tells the story of an occult journalist named Hayato Ibuki who get caught in a
XSEED announced that the WayForward developed action platformer Shantae: Half-Genie Hero will release physically in North America on May 8. The publisher reminds fans that the physical Nintendo Switch release of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero will be available to select retailers throughout North America for $39.99. This “Ultimate” Day One Edition, will contain a 30-song soundtrack on CD, a
Good afternoon, readers – this is Lou Contaldi, Editor-in-Chief of DualShockers. We interrupt you from our regularly-scheduled news reporting to touch on something important to us: our creative independence. Now, it’s no secret that gaming is a somewhat expensive hobby – many of us have our bookcases stacked (to some degree) with collector’s editions of
Today Cygames announced that its popular mobile JRPG Granblue Fantasy has passed twenty million registered players. In order to celebrate the achievement, players will be able to take advantage of two weeks of freebies. From tomorrow, April 3rd, at 5 PM Japan time, until Wednesday April 18th at the same hour, we’ll get one premium
Since it launched its “Battle Royale” mode late last year, Fortnite has become an unstoppable phenomenon thanks to its winning strategy of broader console support and being free-to-play, and now the recently-released mobile version of the game is available for anyone to enjoy. Developer Epic Games has announced that Fortnite is now available to all iOS users
Earlier this year at EVO Japan 2018, SNK revealed that they would be releasing The King of Fighters ’97 Global Match on both PS4 and PS Vita sometime this year. Today, the developers took to PlayStation Blog to reveal that the SNK classic would be releasing on those aforementioned platforms tomorrow, April 3. This port
Today Kadokawa Games released another new batch of screenshots and artwork of its upcoming open-world vehicle-driven JRPG Metal Max Xeno. We get to see the Type-10 tank, which is the main battle tank of the Japanese Self-Defense force. It’s one of the models that can be acquired earlier in the game, and it’s a solid
Today Square Enix released a small batch of screenshots and artwork of Dragon Quest Builders 2. We get to see the male and female heroes. They’re young builders whose ancestors have been legendary in the trade. We also get to see the “Empty Island” that will serve as a setting for the game. There are
This morning Arc System Works reached out with a press release announcing Wizard’s Symphony for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The game was presented yesterday during a livestream and teased a few days ago, but the date for the reveal sounded suspicious to many. The press release sent today confirms that it’s not an April Fool.
Back in July 2013, Bandai Namco announced Ace Combat Infinity, a free-to-play online game for PS3 set to tread the still fairly unexplored ground of games-as-a-service on consoles. Still set in the real world after the Assault Horizon debacle, the game brought back many of the fictional elements that fans of the franchised used to love, like
Steredenn: Binary Stars has made its way onto the Nintendo Switch, and it offers a compelling pick-up and go shoot’em up experience that’s a joy to play on the handheld-console hybrid. Boasting a retro art style and a sick electronic heavy metal soundtrack, the game fits right at home on a Nintendo platform. Battles are flashy
As someone that grew up alongside Pokémon for the vast majority of my life, seeing the series branch out into other genres aside from its stable of “catch ’em all” RPGs has always been one of my favorite ways to engage with the series as I’ve gotten older. While Pokémon has evolved (yes, pun intended) into other genres
There are times in which you have to write an article that really you don’t like to write, and this is doubtlessly one of these times. Following the top-twenty last Wednesday, Media Create came up with its weekly analysis, and it focuses on the debut performance of Valkyria Chronicles 4. The game sold 62,921 units, and while
Sony Interactive Entertainment released the sales chart for PS4 games on the Japanese PlayStation Store between March 19th and March 25th. You can check out the full top-twenty below. Unfortunately we don’t get numbers, but we can still see what performed better, and this week we get the big JRPG duel between Ni No Kuni II: Revenant
Final Fantasy XIV players love gathering and crafting (especially one I know. You know who you are), but until now they have been stuck in their rooms, or in their offices while pretending to work. Enter Final Fantasy XIV Online Go, the new companion app for the popular MMORPG. After installing the app, you’ll be
Today Sekai Project made several announcements about its upcoming games at Anime Boston and Sakura con. First of all the studio picked up the publishing of Mahou Arms, an Unreal Engine 4 project in development at Studio Shimapan. It’s an action game in which players lead magical girls in battle against an alien threat. The game’s