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Battlefield V‘s ‘Tides Of War’ Challenges Keep The Game Fresh

Battlefield V moves into the next phase of its Tides of War system today. The latest update brings co-op game modes and smaller, infantry-focused maps. This sequential release of new content and new challenges has breathed continued life into a controversial game, and it’s one of the things that Battlefield V is doing right. Instead…

Big JRPG news: Trails of Cold Steel III is coming to PS4 in North America this fall. Here’s the twist: This one is published by NIS America rather than XSEED, which published the previous two Cold Steel games. That’s a bit worrisome, given the nuanced writing in Trails games and NISA’s previous work with Ys…

The Cutest Pokémon Starters According To Fans In Japan

Pokémon starters are so cute. But which ones are the cutest? In a recent poll, fans in Japan voted for the most adorable ones. Japanese polling site Goo Raking posed the question last month and 2,613 votes were cast. Here are the top 21 cutest starters. 21. Chespin – 13 votes 20. Treecko – 23…

Namco Bandai is making a Dragon Ball Z action role-playing game, magazine V Jump announced. More details will be revealed in the publication’s March issue.

The Westworld mobile game has been removed from stores and will shutdown completely on April 16, 2019, the developers announced yesterday. Bethesda sued the publisher of the game, Warner Bros. Interactive, last year claiming it had ripped-off Fallout Shelter, but the two announced reaching an “amicable agreement” in late December.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Director Says ‘We Missed The Mark’ With Controversial DLC Relationship [Update]

A day after apologizing for surprising Assassin’s Creed Odyssey players with a mandatory in-game relationship that seemed to contradict the game’s pre-release promise to let players define their character’s own sexuality, the game’s creative director offered a fuller apology and explanation of what his team was trying to accomplish and what they got wrong. “Reading…

Zelda, Banjo Kazooie Levels Modded Into Super Mario Odyssey

Perhaps to give Odyssey that Smash Bros/Nintendo Museum feel, modder ItzSkahas been importing custom levels into the Switch platformer, like Clanker’s Cavern from Banjo Kazooie and the exterior of Wind Waker’s Dragon Roost Island. It’s not just the textures, either; both levels have custom collectables as well. Here’s Clanker’s Cavern: And here’s Dragon Roost: If…

Artists Are Making Awesome “Paintings” In Source Filmmaker

Source Filmmaker is famous for the Saxxy Awardsand other machinima, but there’s a vibrant and fascinating scene using the program for “scenebuilding” (2D art) as well. Given the vast array of other, more popular options out there for digital painting, this might seem an odd and even counter-productive way to make art. After all, SFM…

Valve’s Card Game Artifact Is Running Out Of Players

The collectible card game Artifact released on November 28, and had 60,740 concurrent players that day. A good start—but it was all downhill from there. Last night, its total concurrent players dipped just below 1,500 for the first time ever—a 97.5 percent drop from launch. Yes, many online games struggle to find an audience on…

K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Beautiful

Korea, and the world at large, seems to be going through a bit of a retro music boom these days, focusing on the 80s aesthetic with both original and cover releases. Stella Jang’s Beautiful is perhaps one of the best executions of this trend I’ve listened to yet. We’ve seen Stella before in this column,…

Sea Of Thieves Update Will Cut Down On File Size

Sea of Thieves is a constantly evolving game with an expanding roster ofmonsters to battle and islands to explore. In a blog post yesterday, Rare announced that it’s nerfing a dangerous foe: file size. Executive Producer Joe Neate announced the changes in an official blog post. Following an update on February 6, Sea of Thieves’…

The Tension Between Remakes And Originals

With the spiffy Resident Evil 2 remake right around the corner, I got to thinking about remakes versus remasters. At what point should you just go back and boot up the original? It can be interesting to see a modern take with new mechanics that retains the original soul of the source material. Then again,…

A Very Angry Capcom vs. SNK 2 Competition

Over the weekend, a monthly Capcom vs. SNK 2 tournament at Japan’s Club Sega Shinjuku held a special exhibition between three established competitors. The event had brought these three players together due to the similarities in how they play the game, particularly their use of a specific fighting style that rewards characters for getting hit…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s New Blue Mage Class Is Limited But Fun

Final Fantasy XIV added Blue Mages to the game this week, allowing players to dress in their finest costumes and learn magical attacks from monsters. The “limited” job can’t do as many activities as others, but their addition creates fun opportunities for groups and solo players alike. Blue Mages were announced during the Final Fantasy…

I’m going to play an hour of Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 ReMIX on our Twitch channel. I’ll be starting at the very beginning! So come take a look and also yell a lot in the chat!

Yesterday, Riot Games updated its company manifesto, which, according to Kotaku’s report, was a contributing factor to its sexist culture. Released in 2012, Riot’s values “served us well for many years, but didn’t evolve along with us,” the website reads. The new manifesto has removed points like “Take Play Seriously” and “Challenge Convention” and added…

The Division 2‘s story trailer shows a Washington, D.C. overrun by “ruthless hyenas,” “religious outcasts” and “depraved fascists.” Wasn’t this game supposed to be a work of fiction? Publisher Ubisoft is also saying the game’s private beta kicks off on February 7, a little over a month before its March 15 launch.

EA’s Troubled Decade Of Star Wars Games

On May 6, 2013, Disney and Electronic Arts announced that the two companies had signed a ten-year deal to make Star Wars games. It was an industry-changing deal that, in retrospect, looks like a big mistake for both parties. The deal, which was largely put together by EA Labels president Frank Gibeau, came just four…

Hotline Miami Reimagined As A PS1 Game

Top-down bloodbath Hotline Miami is defined by its perspective, but horror dev Puppet Combo decided to flip that anyway and remake the game’s first level as a third-person PS1-like experience. If you dig that, you should check out Puppet Combo’s other 80s horror movie-inspired games on their Patreon, which are all very much this kind…

EA Cancels Open-World Star Wars Game [UPDATE]

Electronic Arts has canceled its open-world Star Wars game, according to three people familiar with goings-on at the company. The game, announced alongside the shutdown of Visceral Games back in 2017, had been in development at EA’s office in Vancouver. EA Vancouver, a large studio that mostly handles support for a variety of the publisher’s…