Tales of Hearts R Release Date Revealed, November 14th
Coming up with EFIGS subtitles and Japanese Voice-Over, the upcoming Tales of Hearts R will reveal its depth on November 14th, 2014. Here what Hideo Baba has to say about this good news to his dearest fans: “I am very happy to announce Tales of Hearts R’s release date at…
Shovel Knight Review
In an attempt to capture the essence of 8-bit platformers from the NES era, the team at Yacht Club Games has dug up many of the genre’s tropes and reworked them, trying to add design elements from the modern era to spice up this aging game style. However, is the…
Nintendo Releases 4 Weapon Trailers for Hyrule Warriors
As the release date for Hyrule Warriors grows ever closer, Nintendo has released 4 trailers, showing off some of the weapons that playable characters can use in the game. This includes Impa and her Giant Blade, Link with his Magic Rod and Hylian Sword as well as Zelda and her…
Pokémon ‘Symphonic Evolutions’ Concert Tour Announced
In news from The Pokémon Company today, a orchestral concert tour of Pokémon music will be happening later this year. The tour, similar to Nintendo's Symphony of the Goddesses concert tour, will consist of orchestral rearrangements of Pokémon music from across the generations, complete with unique visuals from the Pokémon universe to compliment…
UK Witcher Fans Could be Set to Miss Out on The Witcher 3 Collector’s Edition
In a twist to the third and final installment of the story, Bandai Namco Games can reveal that both Amazon UK and GAME have helped make impressive starts to pre-order sales of the Collector’s Edition on all formats including Xbox One, PS4 and PC ahead of the global launch on…
Seamless Multiplayer: This Generation’s ‘Big Thing’
Last generation, it was the evolution of console multiplayer and the HD race. So far, this generation’s big thing seems to seamless multiplayer. Instant, drop in and drop out multiplayer in many games to make the experience as fluid as possible. Sounds good right? Seems like it wouldn’t be an…
VSFighting 4 Coming to Birmingham on 23-25th of August
Get ready fighting game fans as Electronic Dojo, Birmingham's centre for the FGC, has announced that its VSFighting Tournament series is coming back for its 4th iteration in August of this year. This year, the tournament will be hosted at the Millennium Point in Central Birmingham - and better still,…
Playstation Vita: Sony’s Neglected System
Oh Vita, I want you to do well. You’re a fun little system, with some really interesting games and the potential for a load more, but it seems that Sony doesn’t want to do much with you. Sony’s E3 press conference was incredibly sparse for Vita announcements or news, besides…
The Capcom Fantasy Auction
With Capcom now being open to outsider buyout due to the ending of its takeover defense, let me give you my opinions on who should buy/get exclusive rights to Capcom’s major franchises, should companies start to buy majority stock in it. Franchises Capcom would keep: - All of its fighting…
Summer Games Done Quick 2014 Begins Tomorrow
The Summer edition of Awesome Games Done Quick is almost upon us, promising 6 days of crazy speedruns, lots of money going to charity and all round good work done by the speedrunning community. This year, the charity they are raising money for is Doctors Without Borders and is being…
NISA Europe Online Store to Launch On July 1st
NIS America has announced that they will be opening up their official NISA Europe Online Store on July 1 of this year. All NISA fans in Europe will now have the opportunity to preorder and purchase the same limited editions that are released in North America. NISA Europe Online Store…
Dragonball Xenoverse Team to Attend Japan Expo 2014
After unveiling its first guests for this year’s Japan Expo, BANDAI NAMCO Games Europe is delighted to announce that the producer Masayuki Hirano (BANDAI NAMCO Games Inc.) and Masahiro Kashino (DIMPS Corporation) will be at Japan Expo to meet DRAGONBALL/DRAGON BALL Z fans! DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE was announced last week…
E3 Phantom Pain Demo Shown Off in Special MGS Livestream
In a livestream run hosted by Hideo Kojima earlier today, the E3 'behind closed doors' demo was shown off to the world, showing 30 minutes worth of footage from MGSV: The Phantom Pain. The demo shows off the open world nature of the game, changes to the stealth mechanics and…
Watch_Dogs Review
The wait is over and watch_dogs is finally here, bringing with it all of its technology, intrigue as well as a lot of expectation. Does watch_dogs seek to revolutionise the sandbox genre, or is it one to be left in the dog house? Watch_dogs follows the story of Aiden Pierce,…
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Preview
You have those rare moments in gaming where you instantly know how the rest of the game will go. Whether it’s the joy you feel on jumping out of the warp pipe into Peach’s Castle Grounds, or the suspense of infiltrating Shadow Moses Island, you know that the game you…
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Enters Steam Early Access
bitComposer and Games Farm announced today that action RPG Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is now available in Steam Early Access. For the first week of Early Access, players have an additional discount off of the Early Access price of 27.99€ / 27.99$ / 22.99£, providing altogether a more than 30% discount…
E3 2014: The Year of Anti-Hype
With the dust of E3 having settled and all the news broken about new games, I’ve got to say that this year’s conference hasn’t really got me excited for the next 12 months of gaming. Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to some games like No Man’s Sky, Mortal…
Capcom Now Open to Outside Purchase After Shareholder Vote
In news coming out of a shareholder meeting at Capcom, the company has voted to end its shareholder defense which was set up in 2008, now allowing companies to buy majority stock in Capcom. This move does not affect Capcom as being a third party developer but it does mean…
E3 2014: Battlefield Hardline Beta Impressions
I was lucky enough to get into the Battlefield Hardline Beta on PS4 and after spending some hours, hunting down criminals and stealing money with the rozzers chasing me, I thought I’d give you my impressions of the game so far. So, the first major surprise is that Battlefield Hardline…
E3 2014: Nintendo Announces New IP, Called Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.
At a special roundtable event, Nintendo announced Code Name: S.T.E.A.M, a new IP which will release on the 3DS next year. According to livetweets from the roundtable event, the game's opening cinematic was shown, showing a character called Fleming battling aliens in steampunk London. The game will be made by…
E3 2014: Monster Hunter Ultimate 4, Demo Shown Off At Nintendo Treehouse
In Nintendo's Treehouse @ E3 stream, some of the developers over at Capcom came to the event and showed two hunts from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for 3DS. Let's recap what was shown off. The first mission shown off was a 2 player hunt against an early game monster called…