Month: December 2017

Daedalic Entertainment and Kalypso Media are currently developing a video game adaption of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, and have split its release into three different episode. Ken Follett’s: The Pillars of Earth Book 1 released back in August. Today, the developers released Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth Book 2 on
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While all games are undoubtedly passion projects to their developers, it is always overwhelmingly clear when you are playing something that the developer regards as their baby. Games like My Dog Zoro’s Linelight or Tom Happ’s Axiom Verge are clearly labors of love and — despite faults the underlying game may have — it is hard not
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Nine Parchments is the kind of game you play when you’re with a few friends and you want to have a drink. There’s no convoluted story to pay attention to, there’s not much in the way of mechanics, and the moment-to-moment gameplay is accessible to anyone. All of these things make Nine Parchments an incredible cooperative
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During the Sega Nama livestream hosted today from the publisher’s headquarters in Tokyo, Yakuza Producer Toshihiro Nagoshi presented a new trailer of the upcoming Yakuza-meets-Fist of the North Star adventure game Hokuto Ga Gotoku. The trailer provides a look at the story, at the familiar characters, and at the post-apocalyptic settings of the anime, perfectly recreated in the
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During the grand finals of the NEC 18 tournament, Koei Tecmo announced that Team Ninja is moving on from supporting Dead or Alive 5: Last Round with DLC, and looking at the future, pretty much mirroring what was mentioned at Tokyo Game Show in September. As it often happens when a message is even slightly cryptic, several
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Today Atlus announced Catherine: Full Body for PS4 and PS Vita. While the first info is officially coming tomorrow with the new issue of Weekly Famitsu, as usual, the magazine has been leaked. Thanks to Japanese blogger Ryokutya2089, who usually manages to grab a copy early, we learn a few more interesting details about the game.
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Today Koei Tecmo released a large group of trailers of its upcoming open-world Musou game Dynasty Warriors 9. The trailers belongs to the recently-started series of brief clips showcasing each officer in action, ad they mow through the helpless ranks of enemy soldiers. This time around the spotlight shines on Diaochan, Guan Suo, Zhang Fei, Sun Quan, Sun
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Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, December 25, 2017. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% off on a slew of video games and DLC expansions. Highlights for this week’s Deals
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As with most other Battle Royale games, The Culling – a 16-player game by developer Xaviant– has been eclipsed by the colossus that is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The team says they are ceasing updates for the game. Mind you, The Culling had just released this past October on Xbox Game Preview. The game has been in development for
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Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a new trailer for its upcoming Idol-training/rhythm game The Idolmaster: Stella Stage. This time it’s Azusa Miura to shine under the spotlight. She is the oldest among the idols of 765 Production, and at the “venerable” age of 21, she’s actually the only one who can drink. Slightly ditzy and lacking
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While the “Sharpen Your Skills” update for Dauntless released recently, the developers at Phoenix Labs have an early Christmas gift in-store for Slayers of the Shattered Isle. The game’s Frostfall seasonal event begins tomorrow and includes limited-time cosmetics, consumables, and hunts. The event will be live from December 19 until some time in January though,
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Whether it be paid DLC or community events, ever since For Honor was released earlier this year, the game has received a pretty constant stream of new content. Well, it doesn’t seem like developer Ubisoft is planning on stopping that support anytime soon — it has officially announced Frost Wind Festival, a brand new, winter-themed event for the third-person
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If you want to see more of the upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI, you have come to the right place. YouTube user Game Clips And Tips published about ten minutes of direct-feed gameplay from the current demo starring Sophitia and Mitsurugi, but there are a few interesting elements on top of the two beating each other. First
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Earlier last week, I got the chance to sit down with Far Cry 5 to check out how the game is coming along. I have a pretty basic history with the Far Cry series; the only one of the games that I’ve finished is Far Cry 3, though I’ve dabbled in Far Cry 2 and I wasn’t able to get into Far
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Earlier today, Bandai Namco Entertainment released the Japanese trailer for Black Clover: Quartet Knight, and now we get the western version with English subtitles. The title is a  third-person magic shooting game, and it featured a combination of shooting and magic combat. Players can create their teams by combining various archetypes of characters with different abilities
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Earlier today, Bandai Namco Entertainment unveiled Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus, an enhanced Nintendo Switch version of last year’s Pac-Man Championship Edition 2, which released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The game is currently poised to launch on February 22, 2018, but before then, a gameplay trailer for the title was released. This version
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Dragon Quest Builders proved to be quite an intriguing title upon its release last year, splicing together elements of both Minecraft and the Dragon Quest (or Dragon Warrior for you old-school fans) series, to create something unique. The game was confirmed to be coming to Nintendo Switch in September, and today, both the European and
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One of the most surprising announcements to come from September’s Nintendo Direct was that Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was coming to Nintendo Switch in 2018. It was announced alongside the Switch version of DOOM, which was developed by Panic Button and released back in November. Today, Machine Games’ Senior Game Designer Andreas Öjerfors confirmed to Gamereactor
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Bluehole and PUBG Corp. are preparing to release version 1.0 of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on PC on December 20, finally bringing the game out of Early Access. Today, the developers revealed they are partnering with Seoul-based game technology company Minkonet to add 3D Replay and Killcam features to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds when it officially launches on December
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Today, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 will be released on Nintendo Switch with the title Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus. The game will release only in digital form on February 22nd, 2018. It will include a Switch-exclusive two-player co-op mode in which two players can share the Joy-Con controllers to play
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Following the reveal in Japan and the announcement of the localization for North America and Europe, Bandai Namco Entertainment released the first trailer in English of My Hero Academia: One’s Justice. Interestingly, the game is named officially simply “My Hero Game Project“, which is obviously a working name. This might indicate that it might not make
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Today Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe provided a new look at the upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI. The batch of new screenshots shows the two fighters that we already know, Sophitia and Mitsurugi, which isn’t surprising considering that they’re two of the most classic faces of the franchise. Interestingly, the accompanying press release mentions that the
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