I’m going to be dead honest with you here: I have no idea what Left Alive is even about. What I do know, is that it has cover art from Yoji Shinkawa, so my interest is automatically activated and aroused. That’s some damn good art right there. According to Square Enix, Left Alive is an “upcoming survival shooter set in the Front Mission universe”.
Yakuza shouldn’t be as popular as it is today, when you compare it to the trends of the industry. It’s a series of games that requires you to spend more time watching its story unfold than actually steering it, it has little to zero DLC after each game ends and the core mechanics between the various sequels barely change, even when they’re given a fresh face-lift with the Kiwami upgrades. And yet, Yakuza does gangbusters in the West.
Even with some heavyweight talent behind them, Microsoft is still likely to struggle in one market that has always been a Sony and Nintendo stronghold: Japan. Team green has never truly managed to establish a beachhead in the land of the rising sun, with weekly sales of the Xbox One being utterly dismal in comparison to any other gaming hardware sold there. That might change with the next generation of Xbox consoles.
It's the idea of giving players an open-world game that is worth exploring that is at the forefront of Sucker Punch’s efforts in Ghost of Tsushima, as the studio wants to balance the more action-heavy sequences of their latest project with a chance to soak in some digital beauty.
Resident Evil is coming to the Switch, but it’ll only take 45Mb of the Switch’s storage space. It’ll also only cost $20. That’s because it’ll be streaming off the cloud, a little like how PlayStation Now works. Or, as in South Africa, doesn’t work.
SEGA is getting ready to tap into that nostalgia once again, as it does what Nintendid and unleashes a console that isn’t named after a terrible British band later this year. Here’s what the Mega Drive Mini looks like.
Oh sure when I abduct crabs and give them knives then it's a crime but when you live in Japan and make an entire video game about it, it’s evidently the best thing ever? Life ain't fair.
South Africa finally has a spot to strut its stuff on the grandest cosplay stage of them all: The World Cosplay Summit.
A good loot box never feels like a coupon. It feels like a moment. …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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