Today 2K Sports released a brand new trailer of its upcoming basketball simulation NBA 2K18. The trailer shows the high detail poured into the game by the developer’s artists, with expressive players, beautiful courts and even dancing cheerleaders looking natural and realistic. On top of the impressive visuals, we also get the fetching notes of “Shook Ones”
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GRIP Digital and Teotl Studios announced that they will release their survival adventure game The Solus Project on PS4 on September 18th. In addition to being playable on Sony Interactive Entertainment’s console, the game will also be playable on PlayStation VR. The game places the player in a monumental journey to find mankind’s last hope
Today, developer Imaginati Studios — a UK studio newly formed in 2015 — announced Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, a cinematic adventure game set between the events of the 2014’s Dawn of Planet of Apes and this year’s War for the Planet of Apes. According to IGN, the game is being published by the new games division of The
Today, Media Create released its weekly sales chart of the Japanese video game market. For the week between August 7th and August 13th, it was once again Square Enix’s 3DS and PS4 game Dragon Quest XI at the tippy top of the software chart, making it a three-peat for the eleventh main series entry in the iconic
QUByte Interactive sent out a press release today announcing the Switch port of 99Vidas. The 16-bit inspired brawler originally released on Steam in 2016 and then got a console showing on the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita on July 18 of this year. The Brazilian studio is now bringing the game to Nintendo’s hybrid console ‘soon’ and marked the
Koei Tecmo released on Twitter a new trailer and new images of its upcoming Musou-style game Fire Emblem Warriors. The trailer features female Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening, and shows her magical attacks in action. We learn that tacticians can use a wide range of magic to attack enemies from afar, and depending on their skills, they can also use elemental
Today Pearl Abyss suddenly released a teaser trailer for the mobile version of its successful MMORPG Black Desert Online. Being a game for smartphones, you would expect the mobile version to look a lot worse than its PC counterpart, but the truth is that it looks really, really nice. Details are scarce, besides the promise
Today, Poland-based developer Bloober Team — who you may recognize from 2016’s psychedelic horror game Layers of Fear — are back with another horror title. This time it’s with Observer, a cyberpunk-themed game that is now available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux. For those that don’t know: Observer is set in a 2084 dystopia future ruled by oppressive
Idea Factory International revealed their limited edition for the upcoming horror dungeon crawler Mary Skelter: Nightmares, coming to PlayStation Vita on September 19 in North America and September 22 in Europe. Mary Skelter: Nightmares’ Limited Edition will be available on August 22 for pre-order exclusively at the Official Idea Factory International website. The Limited Edition contains: Blood Maidens
In case you missed 2015 — let me catch you up: Undertale is a big deal. And today it has finally made its way to PS4 and the ol’ PlayStation Vita, accompanied by an official launch trailer. First released for PC and Mac in September 2015 (and then Linux in July 2016), Undertale quickly became the talk of the
Undertale was sort of an anomaly to me. I had never been a fan, notably because I missed out on the game back when it released in 2015. The game has been sitting in my Steam library for months, with only one hour clocked. Do I sure as hell regret that now. Since Undertale is
Frozenbyte, known for developing the Trine series and the recently released Has Been Heroes, put out a new trailer for its upcoming title Nine Parchments today that showcases all of the game’s different playable characters. The first seven characters that are shown off in the video were all previously confirmed. Those characters are Carabel the Glacial, Cornelius
Not much has been heard about Baja: Edge of Control’s PS4 and Xbox One remaster since its announcement back in March. The changed today though, as THQ Nordic released a new trailer for the game today that showcases its remastered visuals and reveals the release date of Baja: Edge of Control HD: September 14. The developers
Square Enix announced a new event for players of their RPG mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, available now on iOS and Android devices. The event titled “Summer Ariana Event” is available to all players and unlocks a new pixel version of the celebrity Ariana Grande wearing white clothing. The character is named “Chic Ariana”
NIS America launched a new character trailer for the Falcom developed action RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and PC on September 12 in North America and September 15 in Europe. The trailer introduces the main protagonist of the series, Adol Christin, who is known across the lands a
Today Bethesda Softworks released a new trailer of its upcoming FPS Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. The trailer, featuring both gameplay and explanations from Machine Games Executive Producer Jerk Gustafsson, and Creative Director Jens Matthies, showcases a few relevant elements of the upcoming game. First of all, we get to see how the nazi enemies
Today, publisher Sega and developer Sports Interactive announced that their highly-popular and annual series Football Manager is poised to return on Friday, November 10, 2017 with Football Manager 2018. As of right now, beyond a release date and its mere existence, not much else has been divulged on the series’ latest entry. However, Sports Interactive has said it’ll
It’s finally here chums — hit city-builder/management game Cities: Skylines from developer Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive is available on PS4. Cities: Skylines needs little introduction. It first hit back in early 2015 on PC, Mac, and Linux and notably sold over one million copies in just its first month, taking fully advantage of the space in
Today, German publisher and developer a Daedalic Entertainment’s medieval 2D interactive thriller, Ken Follet’s: The Pillars of Earth (Part 1) launches on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux, accompanied by an official launch trailer. For those that don’t know: Ken Follet’s: The Pillars of Earth is the official game-adaption of the world-bestselling book, The Pillars of Earth. The game is set
Today The Pokémon Company released a new trailer of the upcoming fighting game Pokkén Tournament DX. This time arond we get to see the classic legendary pokémon Mewtwo in action, and as usual, he looks really angry in the brief but intense video (it’s actually closer to the TV commercial format, if you’re wondering). Pokkén
Magnus Games’ upcoming farming and monster-raising JRPG Re:Legend, is coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, in addition to the previously confirmed PC. The news follows the game’s ongoing Kickstarter campaign, which quickly smashed its funding goal, and has no surpassed it’s respective stretch goals for each console. At the moment of writing this, the funding campaign
Today, Soedesco, known for publishing titles such as Among the Sleep and the upcoming retail versions of The Girl and the Robot and Tricky Towers, announced today that they are partnering with another publisher, 1C Company, to release physical editions of Blackhole and Shiny for PS4 and Xbox One. The retail versions of these titles
Growing up in the 90’s gave me the privilege of witnessing the legendary “Console Wars.” It was a time when the video game market was changing monthly and every publisher was trying to find the “next big thing.” It was during this time that video game fans everywhere would be introduced to Sonic the Hedgehog,
The 32nd week of the UK Sales chart are in, and for the fourth straight week and sixth total week, Crash Bandicoot is once against throwing a week-long rager to celebrate another No.1 in the UK. As you may remember, last week Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy held the title of most weeks at No.1 for a 2017-released game and
Last Month, Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe announced that prices for PlayStation Plus in the Old Continent are gonna get a hike starting on August 31st. Today the house of PlayStation reached out with a press release, announcing a promotion that just kicked off and will be valid until August 29th. The promotion can be found
Nintendo and Intelligent Systems announced today that Fire Emblem Heroes is getting four new heroes and a paralogue chapter. The new heroes all come from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones and are Amelia (armored axe), Seth (cavalry sword), Innes (bow) and Tana (pegasus spear). Alongside the new heroes, we’ll also get a new paralogue titled The Sacred World,
PAX West 2017’s schedule shows that Nintendo will be holding a “special” panel on Saturday, September 2, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The panel will be held in the convention hall’s Hydra Theater. Nintendo is no stranger to PAX but what this panel could be about is really open to quite a few things.
The lucky people over at GameInformer got the chance to get a tour of Game Freak’s office in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Thankfully for the rest of us, they’ve released an in-depth video of the company’s office. In the video they talk about how surprisingly hidden Game Freak’s office seems to be in Tokyo. Even during
The Senran Kagura series has always been seen as quite niche, but it’s doing rather well for Marvelous Entertainment. Today Producer Kenichiro Takaki shared on Twitter that the series has sold a cumulative total of 1.65 million copies. He also mentioned that initially no one expected it to sell more than 30,000. こないだのイベントで言い忘れたのですが、3 万本売れたら凄いね、と言われながら始まった閃乱カグラは5年間でWWシリーズ販売累計165万本突破してました。売り上げが全てではないですけど、伸びれば嬉しいです。…お小遣いもらってもいい感じじゃないですかね？ pic.twitter.com/MhSJdNpdon
Earlier today, developers from DICE, Criterion, and EA Motive discussed their collaboration and how three studios have been able to come together to work on Star Wars Battlefront II. Sitting down for Playstation Blog, Craig McLeod of DICE, Mark Thompson of Motive, and Matt Webster of Criterion discussed what they’ve learned from Battlefront 1 and