Tales of Hearts R Gets a Special Digital Edition and PSTV Support
A special Digital Edition for Tales of Hearts R featuring six stylish costumes for gamers will be available at launch. This DLC bundle offers a classic Tales Of costume set with outfits paying tribute to Tales of the Tempest, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Tales of Graces…
Super Smash Bros for 3DS Review
After going through demos, leaks and streams of Japanese footage, Super Smash Bros for 3DS is finally here and ready to kick off this installment of the Smash series. As well as being a brand new iteration, this edition of the game is the first ever Smash game designed for…
Super Smash Bros for Wii U Gets a December 5th Release in Europe
Good news for Smash fans! The Wii U version of Super Smash Bros will arrive in Europe on the 5th of December. The game releases 2 weeks earlier in the USA on the 21st of November and on the 6th in Australia. You can buy the game on its own,…
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Set for a December PC Release
Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. has announced it will release the PC version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes via Steam on December 18th, 2014. The company also confirmed it will be 4K compatible and will feature an increase in the number of simultaneous light sources, the number of models that…
Quan Chi Revealed for Mortal Kombat X
In news coming from NetherRealm Studios today, the infamous sorcerer Quan Chi has returned to fight in Mortal Kombat X. Leading an army of revenants created from the souls of the dead Earthrealm fighters from Mortal Kombat 9, Quan Chi seeks to put his nefarious schemes into action. His three…
VGU Interviews: giffgaff eSports
We recently got the chance to speak to Gregg Baker, head of community at giffgaff to talk about their new eSports platform, the tournament they are hosting at Insomnia53 in November as well as their plans going forward. SF- How is the tournament going to work in terms of format?…
New The Witcher 3 Artwork shows off Triss and Emhyr
New artwork from CD Projekt RED today shows how two main characters from the Witcher series will appear in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Known as The White Flame Dancing on the Graves of His Enemies, Emhyr var Emreis is the ruler of Nilfgaard, a powerful empire located on the…
Tales of Hearts R Preview
We recently got the chance to see the opening of the new Tales game for the Playstation Vita, Tales of Hearts R. Being the first Tales game made for the system and being a remake of a game that originally appeared on the DS, is this a tale shaping up…
Creative Assembly Announces Total War: Attila
In news from Creative Assembly, they have announced the next installment in the Total War series, called Total War: Attila. The game will allow you to play as the infamous 'Scourge of God', as you grow the Hunnic Empire and wage war on the dying Roman Empire at the beginning…
New The Witcher 3 Dev Diary Teases In-Game Landscapes and Community System
Today saw the release of a new dev diary by CD Projekt Red which details some of the gorgeous landscapes as well as the vicious monsters you will fight in The Witcher 3. The video also discusses a complex community system within the game's main city of Novigrad, where over…
Springing Leaks: The Death of Surprise in the AAA Market
It seems that for every big budget game that is released now, we know almost everything about the game 4 months before launch. Be it through alphas, betas, early access copies, leaks, video series’ or extensive streaming of certain games, the trepidation of getting a new game and discovering something…
Bedlam Preview
We have seen many books that utilise pre-existing game worlds to tell a story but we rarely see books adapted into games. Besides the hilarious 8 bit Great Gatsby game and the Witcher series, I can’t think of many other books that have made a successful transition to games. Bedlam…
New Guilty Gear Xrd Trailer Shows off Cutscenes and Two New Characters
In yet more news coming out from the Tokyo Game Show, Arc System Works have released a new trailer for Guilty Gear Xrd which shows off more of the game's cutscenes as well as some quick peeks at the two new characters for the console version, Sin Kiske and Elphelt.…
Bloodborne Revealed for a February 2015 Release
In the first big bit of news coming out of the Tokyo Game Show, Sony have revealed that Bloodborne, their game being made in close partnership with From Software, will be released on the 6th of February exclusively to PS4. The game follows very much in the same vein as…
EU/US Super Smash Bros Demo Available Next Friday
Good news for all you eager Smash fans who can't wait till the 3rd of October, Nintendo announced today that the European and US Demo of Super Smash Bros for 3DS will be publicly available next week on Friday the 19th. This demo will be the same as the Japanese…
Dragonball Xenoverse Network Test Coming in Early October
In news from Bandai Namco today, all European Dragonball fans will be delighted to discover that Bandai Namco Games is planning a Network Test for 27 hours from 4th Oct 12:00 to 5th Oct 15:00 GMT. This Network Test, similar to the test which was held for Dark Souls II,…
Super Smash Bros: Final Five Predictions
We’ve had leaks, we’ve had confirmations, we’ve had angry fans and we’ve had lots of excitement. Now, the Japanese release of Super Smash Bros for 3DS is less than a week away and the big thing that Smash fans are talking about is the rumour that 5 fighters have yet…
Batman: Arkham Knight Pushed Back to June 2015
Not the best news for Batman fans today as Warner Brothers in a tweet today announced that the latest installment in the Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Knight, won't be releasing until the 2nd of June 2015. The 4th entry in the Arkham series, which is being developed by original developer…
Mortal Kombat X Release Date Revealed
In tweets from both Ed Boon and NetherRealm Studios today, it has been officially revealed that Mortal Kombat X will be released for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 and PC on the 14th of April 2015. Along with this announcement, it was stated that if you pre-order the game,…
Ubisoft Reveals Watch_Dogs: Bad Blood DLC to Launch This Month
Today, Ubisoft announced that Watch_Dogs: Bad Blood, a new downloadable piece of content for Watch_Dogs, the record-breaking open-world action game that has sold-in more than 8 million units, will release on September 23 for season pass holders and September 30 for all other players. Watch_Dogs: Bad Blood features an all…
Lethal League Review
If you smashed baseball, hip hop and Dragon Ball Z together, you’d probably get Lethal League, the new projectile fighting game by Team Reptile. Like Divekick before it, Lethal League strips away many of the complexities of fighting games to leave the satisfying core of reading your opponent, making split…