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Today, during the New Game Plus Expo, Nihon Falcom announced a release date for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV The role-playing game will land on PS4 on October 27, 2020, with Switch and PC versions to follow in 2021.

With Gals’ Fighters out and Samurai Shodown! 2 coming soon, the next NeoGeo Pocket Color game coming to Nintendo Switch this summer will be King of Fighters R-2, AKA one of the best games on the system. Bookmark the NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection website for news on more portable SNK games coming to the Switch.

Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon Is Getting A Sequel

Coming soon from Inti Creates, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 is the sequel to the retro-style spin-off of Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. As lovely as the more modern take on the Castlevania formula Ritual of the Night turned out to be, fans fell in love with the 8-bit stylings of Curse…

How’s It Going?: Errands Edition

What do you know, it’s Tuesday. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yesterday I went to the pharmacy and had a socially-distanced adventure with a stranger as we searched for bar soap. It was the most social interaction either of us had had in months, and it was fun, if not a little depressing.…

World Brothers Is A Brighter, Blockier Earth Defense Force Game

Alongside the boring, brownish Earth Defense Force 6, D3 Publisher today announced Earth Defense Force: World Brothers, a cute and colorful voxel-based shooter coming to PlayStation 4 and Switch later this year. Developed by Yuke’s, World Brothers task players with building their own squad of Earth Defense Force heroes to defend the blocky world from…

Track: Maybe I’m Amazed | Artist: Paul McCartney | Album: McCartney

In Taiwan, Pizza Hut Created Ramen Pizza

Ramen burgers exist, so why shouldn’t ramen pizza? Thanks to Pizza Hut Taiwan, it does.  (Previously, Kotaku introduced ramen crust pizza, but this time, it’s ramen pizza!)  According to Elle, this is a collaboration between Japanese ramen restaurant Menya Musashi and Pizza Hut. The result is ramen, slices of pork, spring onions, and half an…

Stellar Struggles

Gavin Rothery is a veteran concept artist who has worked on everything from Moon to Star Citizen to his own short film, The Last Man You can see more of Gavin’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Former Mixer Employee Calls Out Racism In Management

Over the weekend, former Mixer employee Milan Lee shared a blog describing his experiences with racism while working at Microsoft’s streaming platform, which was shut down today as part of a deal between Microsoft and Facebook. Lee’s post included allegations that he was singled out for being one of the few Black employees at the…

The $1,000,000 Lord Of The Rings Game Pitch That Went Nowhere

Jon Burton, founder of LEGO series stalwarts Traveller’s Tales, has today shared not just news but loads of footage from an ambitious—but ultimately doomed—attempt he and the studio made to try and get a big, serious (ie, not LEGO) Lord of the Rings/Hobbit game made. Burton, who now runs the popular Gamehut channel on YouTube,…

The Last Of Us 2 Easter Egg Might Be Making A Crunch Joke

Scavenging for vital crafting items is a huge part of The Last of Us Part 2, but Ellie also spends her time in the post-apocalyptic ruins searching for character trading cards from an in-universe comic-book series. One such card is an obvious nod to game director Neil Druckmann, and it also includes what may be…

Facebook Buys Creators Of The Order: 1886

Ready At Dawn, the makers of The Order: 1886 and more recently Lone Echo, is now part of Facebook, where the studio will work on virtual reality games for the Oculus VR platform, the social media company announced today. “As part of the Oculus Studios team, Ready At Dawn will continue creating memorable, immersive, and…

Microsoft Is Shutting Down Mixer, Moving Streaming To Facebook

Microsoft announced today that the company will be shutting down its streaming site Mixer on July 22 and will partner with Facebook Gaming moving forward. The shutdown starts today, with a transition plan laid out by Microsoft for Mixer streamers. Mixer Partners will be granted partner status with Facebook Gaming, and the platform will honor…

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Comes Out October 2

We’re less than four months away from the first numbered Crash Bandicoot game since 1998. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2,, picks up right where Crash Bandicoot: Warped left off, give or take a couple of decades. At the end of Warped (spoilers?), the villainous…

How’s It Going?: Priorities Edition

Welcome to another week, and welcome back to our daily open thread. This morning I made a list of all the things I need to do, from work stuff to various life things, and then tried to rank them in order of priority so I could figure out how to handle them. Because I’m me,…

Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting A Small Crossover With Fallout

Vault Boy is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but not as a fighter. On June 29, the Fallout mascot will become available as a Mii Fighter costume for $0.75. Vault Boy is classified as a Gunner, meaning he’s slower than his Brawler and Swordfighter counterparts but a bit more versatile. Most of his attacks…

Min Min From Arms Will Be The Next Smash Bros. Fighter

We knew the next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter would be a character from ARMS. We just didn’t know who. Today, while broadcasting from his home, Masahiro Sakurai announced the new fighter for Nintendo’s crowd-pleasing crossover fighting game: Min Min. True to her source material, Min Min isn’t a great close-combat fighter. Her standard attacks…

Free-to-play RPG Kingdom Hearts Dark Road launches today for iOS and Android devices. Explore Disney-themed worlds while exploring an original Kingdom Hearts tale. Players create their own character and team up with a teenage Xenahort in order to Xenahort all over the damn place.

Track: In Between Days | Artist: The Cure | Album: In Between Days / Stop Dead

Welcome To Australia

Andrew Hamilton is an artist who has worked on games like Battlefront II and Battlefield V He’s also, while currently living in Sweden, Australian, and has made this tribute to his homeland about his “crystal clear memory of a sound, smell, or particularly calm experience as a kid growing up in the land down under”.…