The concept of 4K resolution has always been pretty challenging to communicate to those who have not experienced it, which makes marketing consoles like Xbox One X, that support that kind of massive pixel count, not exactly a walk in the park. Yet, Microsoft thinks that the community itself will do the trick, as side-by-side
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When Sony Interactive Entertainment first enabled cross-network gameplay with PC quite a while ago, Microsoft appeared to be the hindering factor to truly having everyone playing on the same servers. Yet, when Microsoft opened up, the house of PlayStation surprisingly took a step back, refusing to let its players mix up with those on Xbox.
Sony Interactive Entertainment released its weekly sales chart for PS4 downloads in Japan, related to the period between August 14th and August 20th. For the first time in four weeks, Dragon Quest XI has finally been dethroned, sliding to fourth place. The new king is Toby Fox’s Undertale. Undertale wasn’t the only game that managed to
The team at ArtCraft Entertainment brought a brand new trailer to Gamescom this week for their upcoming MMORPG Crowfall. The game has been described as a “throne war” simulator and this trailer shows off exactly what that means. In the trailer the character we follow takes us through multiple lives she has lived, being a hero, a
As gamers, it’s not hard to look at Baseball and see a century-old game that is steeped in tradition and regulation. Untucking your jersey or even turn your cap sideways can net you a sizable fine for you, your organization, or both. But this weekend Major League Baseball is allowing players the chance to express
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown‘s title is pretty much a paradox. The skies of the game are definitely familiar to those who have followed the series for a long time, and have loved the fictional world of Strangereal that has been its main setting. On the other hand, the unknown skies were those of Ace
If you’re a fan of games like Tribes: Ascend or other fast-paced multiplayer shooters than Archetype Studios’ Midair might just be a game that’ll interest you. The game came to Steam Early Access yesterday and the team has released a new trailer to celebrate. It originally started off on Kickstarter and accumulated a little less than $150,000 in contributions, way above
Destiny 2, unlike its predecessor, is making a big splash as players prepare to unleash it upon their gaming rigs across the globe. The PC beta is starting this Tuesday, August 29, and one day sooner on August 28 for those who have pre-ordered the game. If you happen to be in the latter group
In an interview with Engadget Final Fantasy XV Director Hajime Tabata, said that his team is looking to possibly add a level editor of some sort to the PC version of the game. When asked about the modding community, Tabata-san said: “There were limitations to the game to ensure it ran on consoles, but that’s less
Following the successful launch of Update 1.3: Atlas Rises, the team over at Hello Games has continued to work hard on fixing issues that players are finding throughout No Man’s Sky. The team had patched the game just two days after the update’s release, fixing many crashing issues that players were finding following the large patch. Earlier this week
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment and Bungie released four trailers of Destiny 2. The trailer serve as showcases for four relevant characters in the game, Ikora, Zavala, Hawthorne and Cayde-6. Well… five characters if you count Hawthorne’s hawk Louis. For now, Destiny 2 appears to be much more narrative-driven than its predecessor, giving us solid hope
Today Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker Corporation released two trailers for its upcoming games Terra Battle 2 and Terra Wars. While the games are different, the trailers are similar in their purpose, introducing some of the main characters that we’ll play with. Terra Battle 2 is the sequel to Mistwalker’s successful mobile JRPG Terra Battle, and retains
Recently, Microsoft and its third party partners announced quite a few Japanese games coming to Xbox One, partly as a result of a recent trip by Xbox Division Head Phil Spencer to Japan, where he met local publishers and developers. Xbox fans can expect to play Code Vein, Dynasty Warriors 9, they will get their hands
Today Nintendo hosted a stage event at Gamescom, giving an extensive glimpse on the action of the upcoming Musou-style game Fire Emblem Warriors. Mainly, we get to see four characters in action, the pegasus rider Hinoka, the wyvern rider Camilla, the archer Takumi and the knight Xander. Other characters also appear sporadically, including Robin, Cordelia, Ryoma
Following the announcement of the Yakuza 2 remake Yakuza Kiwami 2 during a reveal event at the Akihabara UDX Theater in Tokyo, Sega also showcased the first official screenshots of the game, on top of its editions. The standard edition will be priced at 7,590 yen (about 70 bucks) plus taxes, but there is more. The “Extreme
Today Sega hosted a reveal event at the Akihabara UDX Theater in Tokyo, and Yakuza series Producer Toshihiro Nagoshi revealed the future of the Yakuza series, a new console game code named “Shin Ryu Ga Gotoku” (New Yakuza) and “Ryu Ga Gotoku Online” (Yakuza Online). Both games will continue the story of the series after the events of Yakuza
If you’ve been wondering when you can get theHunter: Call of the Wild on consoles, then wonder no more. Today developer Expansive Worlds, and Avalanche Studios, the publisher behind the popular Just Cause series, announced that the upcoming first-person hunting game will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2nd, 2017. In theHunter: Call of the Wild, players
Blizzard Entertainment has announced via a Developer Update video that two heroes in Overwatch will receive certain balancing tweaks in the near future. In what will probably be considered the most notable part of this update, Mercy is getting some huge changes. First off, due to certain abuse by players, Mercy’s ultimate ability will no longer be
NIS America announced new DLC content for RPG Maker FES, available now on Nintendo 3DS. The DLC opens up creation tools to include Disgaea themed sprites and graphics. Players will be able to add these the characters from Disgaea, Disgaea 5, and Phantom Brave. RPG Maker FES allows players to create their own RPG and share it
If you’ve been itching to play a motocross game on the go then you’re in luck. Today developer and publisher Milestone announced that its latest racing title, MXGP3: The Official Motocross Videogame, will be released on the Nintendo Switch this year. Just like its original release, MXGP3 allows players to compete in a Career Mode which can either
NIS America announced that the demo for Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is available now for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita-via PSN in North America and Europe. The publisher also released a new trailer announcing the demo and showing interactions between the cast of characters. This standalone demo allows players to familiarize themselves to a new Danganronpa setting
Life is Strange: Before the Storm will have a new dialogue feature that ups the rebellious sass. According to Eurogamer, a dialogue feature called Backtalk has been added to the game’s dialogue system. How it works is by the player picking up on a specific word or theme that is mentioned during a conversation and then
Playing demos on the show floor of a major trade show can be a bit hectic, not only it influences the quality of your gameplay because you’re not in ideal conditions, but you’re on very limited time, so you often skip checking out the options, and just jump as quickly as you can into the
Today, Montreal-located developer Kitfox Games — who released its new cult simulator game Shrouded Isle earlier this month — has announced that its game Moon Hunters is coming “soon” to Nintendo Switch. Further, the Nintendo Switch version will come with three new and exclusive companions. Details on said three characters beyond their confirmation has not been divulged. As you may
Today, Koei Tecmo released a new trailer of the upcoming JRPG Blue Reflection by Gust. The trailer focuses on the twins Yuzuki and Lime, two schoolgirls who live a double life as Reflectors, SailorMoon-like magical girls fighting against alien invaders. They’re the ones who provide protagonist Hinako Shirai with her maical powers. This is actually
During GameSpot’s quarterly financial conference call hosted today, Chief Executive Officer Paul Raines, Chief Operating Officer Tony Bartel and Chief Financial Officer Robert Lloyd talked about the performance and expectations for PS4 and Xbox One. Raines explained that on top of the “massively successful” launch of the Nintendo Switch, the company believes that “all consoles
A little over three years ago, lone-wolf developer Ben Esposito — who has previously worked as a level designer on What Remains of Edith Finch and The Unfinished Swan — revealed Donut County with a “reveal trailer.” What was shown garnered considerable attention for its charming visuals and novel gameplay premise. Now three year laters, a second trailer has been released
Today Ubisoft released a brand new trailer of Assassin’s Creed Origin, focusing on the game’s open world. The video, which also includes commentary by Game Director Ashraf Ismail, explains how the game doesn’t just provide a couple of cities to explore, but an entire country that you can freely travel across. It’s the biggest world
Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive announced a new Crusader Kings II expansion, Jade Dragon, today at Gamescom. Crusader Kings II: Jade Dragon adds China to the game as an off-map influence that can radically change the course of a game depending whether they are on your good or bad side. As China is an
Atlus has established its own publishing team in London, according to GamesIndustry. This part of the company will be operating from SEGA Europe’s offices, and will publish all of Atlus’ own titles in Europe. Before this, Atlus would use third-party publishing partners, which usually lead to the European releases of many of their titles being