Fans of the Kingdom Hearts series know how brutal the wait has been for the third main entry. Now that Kingdom Hearts III is still locked in for a January 29 launch, with no signs of a last-minute push back, it’s safe to breathe a …Read more »
Yosuke Matsuda, big boss over at Square Enix (y’know, the Final Fantasy guys) has released a New Year’s greeting in which he sets out three goals for the company in the coming year. Specifically, Matsuda wants the company to focus on: The spread and adaptation …Read more »
There are currently over 200 million registered players of Epic Games’ insanely popular battle royale game Fortnite. Even if you’ve never touched it yourself, your daily life has, in some way, been invaded by an aspect of its influence. Now that influence has spread to the …Read more »
Persona 5 the Animation just aired its Dark Sun TV special, but there’s already another on the way. Protagonist Joker is hard at work training for his Super Smash Bros. Ultimate debut, but the saga of the Persona 5 RPG doesn’t appear to be over. …Read more »
Capcom’s Devil May Cry series is the latest to get the stage play treatment, with DEVIL MAY CRY – THE LIVE HACKER – set to be performed in Tokyo from March 1 to March 10, 2019. For those curious about how the games will translate …Read more »
The world of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is coming to Japanese arcades next summer. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Last Survivor is billed as a Stand battle royale game that supports competition between up to 20 players, each of whom will get to choose from characters …Read more »
Bandai Namco has been throwing out more reveals for the upcoming JUMP FORCE game, including new characters and a trailer that introduces the brawler’s story. One of the biggest additions to the ever-growing roster is Izuku Midoriya, AKA Deku, from My Hero Academia. He’ll get …Read more »
Against all odds, we’re just a little over a month away from the launch of Kingdom Hearts III, which hits PS4 and Xbox One on January 29, 2019. While some nogoodniks out there already got their hands on copies of the game, the rest of …Read more »
Disclosure: Cartooner‘s co-designer Jason Thompson is the manga editor for Otaku USA magazine. Around this time last year we posted about Cartooner, a tabletop game that promised an American comic-themed followup to the manga-drawing game Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics. The …Read more »
Is this how you imagined the silhouette of a real-life Sonic? Sega revealed the first teaser poster for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, and it’s certainly something! What that something is is ultimately up to you, but the shadowy figure on display offers a …Read more »
Reki Kawahara‘s smash hit Sword Art Online series is coming to Japanese arcades next year in the form of Sword Art Online Arcade: Deep Explorer. While fans with access to game centers in Japan will have to wait until spring to try it for themselves, …Read more »
Two more playable characters were recently announced for Kill la Kill the Game: IF, which is currently in the works for PlayStation 4 and PC along with a newly-added Nintendo Switch version. The latest characters are Nui Harime (voiced by Yukari Tamura) and Ragyou Kiryuin …Read more »
Are folks out there excited to enter the world of Spice and Wolf? Yes, to put it mildly. The official Japanese crowdfunding campaign for the game kicked off on Campfire November 25, and made its goal in two hours. That goal was 8,000,000 yen (about …Read more »
Milla Jovovich may have retired from the Resident Evil universe, but she’s still out there making video game movies. The live-action adaptation of Capcom’s Monster Hunter, starring Jovovich, is currently in production, and we’ve got our first look via a still released this week. The still …Read more »
Believe it or not, five years after its initial announcement, development on Kingdom Hearts III is finally a wrap. The series’ official Twitter account announced the end of development earlier today, pairing it with a new “Together” trailer that shows a bunch of the worlds, …Read more »
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