It’s a bit hard to not constantly compare a studio’s second outing to their big debut—it might even be unfair to even do so. But Night School Studio’s Afterparty is a clear attempt of an evolution of the style they established in their 2016 game Oxenfree, a game that I admire quite a lot. It
Month: October 2019
10 years ago today, the original Bayonetta was released in Japan by PlatinumGames and SEGA. It became a benchmark release for not only PlatinumGames’ titles but the action genre as a whole. While we are still waiting to hear more about Bayonetta 3, which was announced in 2017, PlatinumGames is still celebrating this notable anniversary
While the PS4 is still going strong, Sony definitely is looking at what comes next. Earlier this month, they pulled back the curtain on PlayStation 5 further, confirming its name as well as the fact that it will release during Holiday 2020 alongside Microsoft’s Project Scarlett and the Intellivision Amico. Today, it was noticed that
The Outer Worlds, a single-player first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division, only launched October 25 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC and in that short space of time, the game is scoring very favorably with players around the world. Sitting at a healthy score of 86 for PS4 on Metacritic, it’s obvious
My first memories of the Super Monkey Ball franchise were that of wonder and excitement. With an interesting take on one of my favorite genres, platformers, it was a colorful and lively series that would undoubtedly be recalled in the future with nothing short of fondness. My second memory of the Super Monkey Ball franchise
Bandai Namco revealed new gameplay for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, showing Majin Vegeta during the Buu arc. We get to see Vegeta exploring part of the map, fighting some Babidi mooks and then Majin Buu. Bandai Namco also released another trailer summarizing the game flow in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, explaining the various game systems.
The Japanese government announced on October 29 the various personalities who will be rewarded with the 2019 Order of Culture, along with the Persons of Cultural Merit. Most notably, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit for his cultural contribution to society. Shigeru Miyamoto, now 66, commented via Sankei: I want to
When publisher Microids and developer Pendulo Studios announced that they were developing a Blacksad adaptation back in 2017, I was pretty excited. Blacksad is a great graphic novel that follows a hard-boiled noir detective who happens to be an anthropomorphic cat. In the early videos that focused on story and character creation, the game looked
For well over three decades, The Legend of Zelda series has sparked our imaginations thanks to its endless sense of adventure and epic stories. Though each game has featured familiar elements retelling the story of the Hero of Time, each game has brought its own unique elements to that story, and perhaps no other game has
From consoles to PC, Bethesda Softworks has plenty of major titles in the pipeline like the upcoming DOOM Eternal, The Elder Scrolls VI, Starfield and more. However, the publisher also hasn’t shied away from focusing its efforts on other platforms, with a new studio it has brought into the fold to expand on its projects in the mobile
While we’ve heard their voices in countless video games over the years, Troy Baker and Nolan North have perhaps best been known from their work on Naughty Dog’s most acclaimed titles like Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us. After taking on the iconic roles of Nathan Drake and Joel, Baker and North have also turned
Dota Underlords is Valve’s answer to the popular auto-battler genre that was first developed as a mod to Dota 2. Underlords is a standalone version of the game that Valve has quickly been turning into one of the premier titles in the growing genre. This week the game got a ton of changes and additions
Despite the stereotype, don’t let anyone ever tell you that Yu-Gi-Oh! is dead or even anywhere close to dead. Today, Konami revealed that their popular mobile game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, has reached 100 million downloads since it’s launch back in 2017 (2016 for some regions). That’s a pretty huge feat if I do say so myself. Of course,
In a Steam letter posted earlier today, Mikael Nermark CEO of Starbreeze Studios has announced a few changes coming to PAYDAY 2, including continuing with the development of the title and introducing both paid and free updates. Firstly, I want to focus on the introduction of the new PAYDAY 2: Legacy Collection which was mentioned in the letter.
In a blog post in 2016, Swedish developer Simogo talked about “Project Night Road,” which began production after launching the Wii U version of Year Walk. After working on several games for PC, Mac and iOS, the team wanted to do something bigger, faster and more direct. Several years later, we have Sayonara Wild Hearts,
In recent years, Zoink Games has put out many intriguing titles recently like Fe, Stick It To The Man, Flipping Death, and Ghost Giant. Following that success, Zoink Games’ former Concept Artist Sina Rahm, Game Designer Emil Nilsson, 3D and Technical Artist Christian Kähkönen, and Programmer Rasmus Jarl all left in 2018 to form a
Teamfight Tactics is Riot’s answer to the massively popular DOTA Auto Chess mod. TFT is a standalone autobattler set in the growing League of Legends universe. The game did incredibly well in its early beta stage and is now preparing to enter full release. Alongside the move, the game is getting a second season worth
BlizzCon 2019 is set to kick off next Friday on November 1 and this year’s convention is going to be interesting for a variety of reasons. Not only is the event taking place in such close proximity to Blizzard’s recent controversy involving the Hearthstone pro player Blitzchung and his banning from the esport for the
Japanese studio âge held on October 22 the “âge 20th Anniversary broadcast [still breathing]” live stream. During the stream, âge most notably revealed three big projects, a reboot for Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, a sequel for Muv Luv Alternative titled Muv Luv Integrate, and a new action Muv Luv action game titled Project Mikhail. Project
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released in March 2017 on the Wii U and Nintendo Switch to critical acclaim. Many critics called it one of the greatest video games of all time with Jose Otero of IGN describing it as “a masterclass in open-world design”. Almost a year and a half later, gamers
More news surrounding the Blizzard controversy has come forth, this time in the form of an official letter signed by; US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Rob Wyden, Congressman Mike Gallagher, and Congressman Tom Malinowski. The letter is addressed to Blizzard’s CEO, Robert Kotick and addresses their concerns towards the companies action of
Batman: Arkham Asylum is stellar, Arkham Origins is criminally underrated, and Arkham Knight is pretty darn good in its own right. Of all of Batman’s greatest games over the past decade though, none of them top Batman: Arkham City, which as of today turns 8 years old. On this day in 2011, Batman: Arkham City launched on PS3 and Xbox
In a brand new patch notes post from the Final Fantasy XIV official website, we learn more about the upcoming post-Shadowbringers expansion update. The 5.1 patch, titled “Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty,” is an alliance raid collaboration based on NieR Automata that takes place after the conclusion of the previous campaign. This update features new
Shawn Shaputis broke into Valve last month and stole over $40,000 worth of games and equipment. Maybe he was looking for some kind of Half-Life 3 prototype. Or perhaps he caught wind of a Half-Life 2 update that allows NPC’s to blink and had to see it for himself (while stealing a lot of stuff).
Bandai Namco held this month’s Super Robot Wars series stream on October 3. We’re in the blank period of the year when it comes to SRW, so these monthly streams have stopped being monthly, and the last one happened in August. Series Producer Terada recently slimmed down a lot. He appeared on stream with a
Bandai Namco announced in this week’s Famitsu magazine that Super Robot Wars X on Switch and PC will launch on January 10, 2020, in Japan. Seeing what happened with Super Robot Wars V‘s Switch and Steam ports, the game’s Asian English versions will definitely launch the same day. However, just like Super Robot Wars V