While it by no means ends the string of sub-par video game adaptation feature films, the short film PAPERS, PLEASE — based on Lucas Pope’s indie darling Papers, Please — is ten minutes of cinematic gold. Perhaps this is in part to Lucas Pope’s involvement in script writing, but everyone who has played the bureaucratic-based title (and anyone
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Hats off to Berlin-based developer inbetweengames. Their self-labeled “very gay, very Berlin, Tech-Noir Tactics game” All Walls Must Fall is making its way out of Steam Early Access, and is celebrating with a brand new “coming out” trailer. All bad wordplay aside, All Walls Must Fall shows off the tactics-based gameplay and time-manipulation fun that the title has
At the end of a Death End Re;Quest behind-the-scenes video recently released by Compile Heart, President Norihisa Kochiwa had an interesting reveal to make. He showcased nine files belonging to nine different projects planned at the Japanese developer. Five of those projects are JRPGs, the first of which has a specific theme, “desert.” Kochiwa-san even went
Nintendo has shown off some new Kirby: Star Allies gameplay in their Nintendo Minute video series. In the video, we get to see two new levels as well as a boss battle against the Frozen General Francisca. We get a quick glimpse of the world map in the video as well and it looks like this could
Moving to the third-person shooter genre may have seemed like a risk for Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, but the latest trailer shows it is likely a risk worth taking. The epic trailer showcases a lot of the game, navigating between flashes of story-driven cinematic scenes and gameplay. And though it may not be the first
Who would have thought nearly a year out of the launch of foreboding 2.5D puzzle platformer Little Nightmares we would still be talking about it? Yet, like clockwork, another DLC has been released for the game, concluding The Maw trilogy and wrapping up the game’s season pass. And to celebrate the DLC’s launch, publisher Bandai Namco has unveiled
Yesterday, during a conference at Magic Monaco 2018, Shenmue III creator Yu Suzuki introduced a trailer for the game. This is actually an extended version of a trailer that was showcased behind closed doors at Gamescom 2017 and is being shown publicly for the first time, which means it comes with some very relevant caveats. Basically,
Pokémon Go is still going. This time, with an event which will make rounding out those Pokédexes a little easier. Players will have access to legendaries like Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza from now until March 5. Dubbed “Legendary Week,” the event is reintroducing these sought-after Pokémon to the game’s Raid Battles. There’s a specific challenge
Today, during a conference at Magic Monaco, Shenmue III creator Yu Suzuki showcased four new images of the game. We get to see a variety of characters, and you can enjoy them at the bottom of the post (unfortunately just photographed from the screen), courtesy of Twitter user Shenmue Forever. The character design and modeling certainly
Today Gran Turismo Sport Producer Kazunori Yamauchi took to Twitter to tease another update coming to the game next week. Alongside with the tweet, that you can see at the bottom of the post, there was an image teasing twelve new cars. Among them, some are definitely recognizable, like the Alpine A110 (both the original and
It’s not every day that you get updates for decade-and-a-half old titles. However in a Blizzard forum post by Pete Stilwell (a senior producer at Blizzard Entertainment) we learned some new details about an update coming to the real-time strategy game, Warcraft III. The biggest changes coming to the update include 24-player lobbies as well as
According to a scan of this week’s Shonen Jump magazine in Japan, CyberConnect2’s Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy is coming to the Nintendo Switch at some point in the future. The package contains Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, and Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3. The first title covers the entirety of Naruto’s childhood, up until
Detective Pikachu got a new trailer ahead of its Western launch next month featuring the still off-putting yellow investigator and a slew of problem-ridden Pokémon. You can check out the full trailer below. It’s these Pokémon whose behavior Pikachu is trying to understand and, according to the trailer, it seems like Mewtwo has something to
Following a preview event dedicated to Valkyria Chronicles 4 hosted today in Tokyo by Sega, IGN Japan posted a video with plenty of gameplay. The video showcases a mission to assault an Imperial fortress close to the beginning of the game. It’s the same that was mentioned in the latest story reveal, as Riley joins Squad
Today Sega hosted a Valkyria Chronicles 4 preview event in Tokyo, and quite a few images and videos surfaced thanks to a few attendees that posted on social media. You can see the pictures and clips at the bottom of the post, courtesy of Twitter users Ryouhei and なよなよ, who also reported on the questions and answers session
Today Sega hosted a preview event for Valkyria Chronicles 4 in Tokyo, and there is good news for those who want to try the game early. A demo will be released on the Japanese PlayStation Store, as mentioned by Twitter user Ryohei, who was in attendance at the event. It’ll come on Monday, February 26th
Players who have been frustrated by the ADS time on certain weapons in Call of Duty: WWII may finally be content as developer Sledgehammer Games has unveiled a brand new update for the first-person shooter, which changes the aforementioned feature, as well as fixes a couple of other issues in the game. All SMGs, Rifles, and LMGs
The newest cinematic trailer has been revealed for Sega and Creative Assembly’s Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia flaunting the Gaelic Kingdom of Mide and its King, Flann Sinna. In the trailer, a runner found lying in the snow reports to his faction about the destructive nature of Mide and King Sinna; he also explains
Awesome Games Studio, known for titles like Yet Another Zombie Defense and Badass Hero, announced today that they will be bringing one of their older titles to Nintendo Switch on March 8. That game is I, Zombie, which first released on PC in 2014 before coming to PS4 and Xbox One in 2016. For those
Ever since Bleed 2 was officially released, players have been wondering when they would be able to play the game on the go. Now, it looks like players won’t have to wait too much longer, as developers Digerati, Bootdisk Revolution, and Nephilim Game Studios have announced that the action/adventure platformer will be making its way to the
Today KING Art Games announced that its promising steampunk RTS Iron Harvest will turn to crowdfunding. While no specific details were provided, we learn that the chosen platform is Kickstarter, and the campaign will start on March 13th. At the moment we don’t know the set goal or the duration of the campaign, but what
Ever since Darwin Project was announced at Microsoft’s E3 2017 Press Conference, developer Scavengers Studio has held quite a few Alphas and Betas for the game. Today, they announced that the second and final Open Beta for Darwin Project on PC before the game hits Early Access on PC and Xbox Game Preview on Xbox One
Back in 2016, indie developer Ghost Time Games, which is made up of just one developer, Gabriel Koenig, released a Jettomero: Hero of the Universe, a game the developer describes as a “meditative narrative toy” on PC, before bringing it over to Xbox One last year. Today, Gabriel revealed on PlayStation Blog that will finally
The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia feels like it’s a relic from another time. A time when the PlayStation brand had a whole slew of sub-par or average anime titles from a variety of popular series like Samurai Champloo, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, One Piece, and Full Metal Alchemist. You could name just about any anime that aired
Today Sega showcased about one hour of PS4 gameplay of Shining Resonance Refrain, the upcoming remaster of the 2014 PS3 JRPG Shining Resonance. We get to see a lot of aspects of the game, including combat, exploration, the Shining Dragon in action, and quite a few cutscenes. Despite being a remaster of a JRPG released over
During a live broadcast hosted today, Sega provided some interesting information on the upcoming Shining Resonance remaster Shining Resonance Refrain, that has been recently announced for the west. First of all, we learned that the game won’t be censored, no cuts have been made for the western version, and nothing has been omitted from the original.
This week, German indie developer Crytek has announced that its upcoming title Hunt: Showdown is available now as an Early Access title on Steam for $29.99 along with the system requirements needed to run the game. According to the Steam page, gamers looking to run the game at the lowest settings will need at least Windows
Bandai Namco announced that Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2’s Extra Pack 2: Infinite History DLC will launch on February 28 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC-via Steam. The Extra Pack 2: Infinite History DLC expands the universe of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and adds new storylines, quests, and character customizations. During the story expansion, players
FuRyu launched the first trailer for The Caligula Effect: Overdose, a PlayStation 4 remaster of the PlayStation Vita exclusive RPG, The Caligula Effect. The trailer gives players a preview of the gameplay and a chance to see some of the updates that The Caligula Effect: Overdose will receive for this version. Developed using Unreal Engine 4, The
There’s a certain thrill that comes to outrunning (and outgunning) the law, and video games have been no stranger to that. Of course, the Payday series has made its bank (literally and figuratively) on giving players the chance to live out their lives as a band of on-the-run outlaws pulling off the perfect heists, and now with