When you go to Tokyo’s otaku mecca of Akihabara, you expect to be bombarded with images of questionable taste. As captured by a few Twitter users, a new ad is pushing the limits of even the most skewed otaku tastes, offering up multiple stories worth …Read more »
Soon, you won’t have to “go” anywhere to battle fellow players in Pokemon GO. Niantic announced today it’ll be bringing online battles to the game in early 2020. The system, called GO Battle League, hooks up players in two ways: via matchmaking and a ranked …Read more »
Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Gust are currently working on a turn-based RPG take on Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail franchise. For those curious about how it’s shaping up, Koei Tecmo showed off footage during the PlayStation Access live stream at EGX 2019, so dig in …Read more »
When My Hero Academia fighting game sequel My Hero One’s Justice 2 launches, it will do so with an expanded roster of characters, including all of the previous game’s lineup. It’s due out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC in 2020, and Bandai Namco shared some new …Read more »
Steins;Gate has a lot going on for its big 10th anniversary celebration, and part of the festivities include a new key visual by the game’s character designer, Huke. The art will be sold as a wall scroll at the upcoming Science Adventure Live event, which gets …Read more »
Jump Force players will officially be able to dig into the next DLC character, Naruto villain Madara Uchiha, when he drops in late 2019. For now, Bandai Namco is here with a new trailer showing how Madara plays in the crossover brawler. Jump Force is available for PS4, Xbox …Read more »
The European Space Agency and Airbus teamed up to develop a spacecraft called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, with the rocket launch scheduled for June of 2022. It won’t be venturing out on its mission to study Jupiter’s moons alone, though, because it has adopted …Read more »
Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul: re is making the leap to consoles and PCs in a little over a month, with Tokyo Ghoul: re CALL to EXIST set to touch down on PlayStation 4 and PC in the west on November 15. To get everyone ready for the survival of …Read more »
As far as stage play adaptations go, the cast of PERSONA5 the Stage really seem to have nailed the style of their respective characters. We recently saw some individual character visuals for the production, and now there’s a full key visual showing the cast members in the style of …Read more »
The wait keeps getting shorter and shorter for Final Fantasy VII Remake, which hits PS4 on March 3, 2020. Well, the first part does… there’s still no word on how many parts there will be after the retooled Midgar section. Still, with the release on the …Read more »
Watch out, Dragon Ball FighterZ players, because one of the toughest characters in the franchise is about to make his DLC debut. Gogeta, the self-proclaimed ultimate Fusion, is getting in on the action on September 26, so Bandai Namco Entertainment is here with a new trailer to …Read more »
Indivisible is the next game from Lab Zero, the team behind the Skullgirls fighter, and fans have been keeping an eye on it ever since it was first announced. Back in 2016, the developers revealed that animation powerhouses TRIGGER (Kill la Kill, PROMARE) and Titmouse (Metalocalypse, Black Dynamite) would be …Read more »
Note: Review is based on a pre-launch final build provided by the publisher. Attack on Titan has had its fair share of video games since Hajime Isayama’s series first launched a decade ago. Some of them have been more in tune with the spirit of the …Read more »
Followers of all the latest video game-related merchandise in Akihabara spotted this product September 18 — an officially-licensed PlayStation watch. No, it doesn’t beam information from your PS4 to your wrist or anything like that. This is a purely nostalgia-invoking piece that looks like a …Read more »
A 25-year-old man has been arrested for threatening to set fire to the offices of Visual Arts, a visual novel publisher based in Osaka. His alleged plan shares details with the arson attack on Kyoto Animation July 18 which killed 35 of that studio’s employees. In fact, …Read more »
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