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News Janemba Leaked for Dragon Ball FighterZ Ahead of Evo 2019
Pure evil
Stop us if you've heard this one before: a leak has all but confirmed that Janemba will be the next DLC character for Dragon Ball FighterZ. It was Microsoft that outed his existence a couple of months back, and now it appears to be Nintendo's turn as Janemba was actually listed on the company's UK site. The page has since been removed, but...
News Digimon Survive Digivolves with a Fully Animated Opening Movie
Let's get digital
Set to release on PlayStation 4 at some point in 2020, Digimon Survive has received a fully animated opening movie -- and you can watch it right now. The turn based role-playing game sees a group of teenagers survive the trials and tribulations of a mysterious world, that is, of course, inhabited by all kinds of digital monsters...
News Tekken 7 Celebrates 4 Million Copies Sold with Super Cool Updated Artwork
Party time
Tekken 7 has been a real success story for Bandai Namco. The long running series has always been popular -- especially back in the days of the mighty Tekken 3 on PSone -- but in an era where most fighting games are struggling to rack up big numbers, Tekken 7 continues to sell, even after two years on the market. The fighter has now...
News Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Will Have Multiple Playable Characters, Not Just Goku
Getting the gang back together
Despite being a game that's supposed to be all about Goku -- his Saiyan name's even in the title -- Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will feature multiple playable characters. According to the latest issue of V-Jump, as translated by Gematsu, you'll also be able to take control of Gohan, Piccolo, and Vegeta. It's unclear how...
News Tekken 7 Team Tournament Delivers One of the Most Hype Sets You'll See All Year
Super Strongstyle
Strongstyle, a legendary community-ran Tekken tournament, returned for the seventh time this past weekend. Taking place in San Jose, California, it featured some of the best Tekken 7 players in the world, but this was a team tournament -- something that we don't see all that often here in the West. Teams were made up of three...
Hands On Until Dawn Dev Evolves Interactive Drama with Man of Medan Multiplayer
Holding hands
Man of Medan, the first instalment in Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games’ new interactive drama series The Dark Pictures Anthology, has a secret: it’s fully playable in online co-op – and it’s unexpectedly brilliant. The Guildford-based developer has somehow managed to keep its ambitious multiplayer mode under wraps, but...
News Gundam: Battle Operation 2 Deploys on Western PS4s Later This Year
Suit up
Bandai Namco is bringing Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation 2 to North America and Europe later this year. It's a free-to-play team-based action-shooter that features both mobile suit and infantry combat. It originally released in Japan in 2018, but it's worth pointing out that the Japanese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Korean versions of the...
News One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Announced, Sails to PS4 in 2020
Land ahoy
Oh boy, Bandai Namco is bringing the Pirate Warriors series back after years of silence. The Japanese publisher announced One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 overnight, and it's coming to PlayStation 4 in 2020. You can watch the game's reveal trailer above. For those totally out of the loop, the Pirate Warriors games are a Dynasty Warriors-esque...
News A Third Ni no Kuni Game Is Now in Development
Plans to make the franchise bigger
In an interview with Japanese magazine Nikkei, Level-5 President Akihiro Hino has revealed that a third entry in the Ni no Kuni franchise is currently in development. It's planned for release after the movie based on the series hits Japanese theatres on 29th August. The project forms a part of the developer's...
News One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows Announced for PS4
A 3v3 brawler
Bandai Namco has announced a game based on popular manga and anime series One Punch Man. All we've got to go on right now is the above trailer, and a description that tells us it's a three-on-three brawler. It's titled One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows. So, er, is Saitama going to be able to one-shot every other character? How's this...
E3 2019 Watch Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered PS4 Gameplay
Lovely Ghibli
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch had one of the more memorable art styles on the PlayStation 3, so it’s perhaps no surprise to see the cult JRPG remastered for the PlayStation 4. And here’s your first look at it in action, courtesy of IGN. There are few surprises here, and the presentation has undoubtedly aged somewhat – but...
E3 2019 Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered Officially Confirmed for PS4
Launches in September
Let's face it, no Bandai Namco E3 2019 announcement has come as a surprise because all of them were leaked days before the Japanese publisher had a chance to show anything. But hey, official confirmation is always good, and so here we've got a release date for Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered, coming to...
E3 2019 Code Vein Bleeds a Confirmed September Release Date
Blood will spill
Code Vein, apparently not important enough to be shown during the Xbox E3 2019 press conference, just got a new trailer and a confirmed release date. The game was delayed a while back, and it feels like we've been waiting on it for an eternity, but now it's almost ready to go. It'll launch on PlayStation 4 on the 27th September,...
E3 2019 Cyberpunk 2077 Collector's Edition Officially Revealed and Unboxed
The leak was right
Update: Yep, the leak was right, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a meaty collector's edition complete with enough bits and pieces to satisfy even the most mechanical of metalheads. CD Projekt Red has uploaded its own unboxing of said collector's edition, and we've embedded that above. It comes with a big old box, a figurine, a map of...
E3 2019 Elden Ring Is From Software's 'Largest Game to Date'
Development began following Dark Souls 3
Elden Ring was finally announced yesterday after numerous rumours and leaks. This is the next action RPG from, er, From Software, created by Hidetaka Miyazaki in collaboration with fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin. Unfortunately, following its CG reveal
E3 2019 Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Brings the Life of Goku to PS4 in Early 2020
KAKAROOOOOOT
Dragon Ball: Project Z has an official title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. For those totally out of the loop, Kakarot is Goku's Saiyan birth name, and as we already knew, the game's all about the spiky-haired protagonist and his many adventures in Dragon Ball Z. The action title's received a brand new E3 2019 trailer, which confirms that...
E3 2019 Tales of Arise Looks Like a Real Step Forward for the Series, Launches on PS4 in 2020
At least visually
There's a new Tales game on the horizon, and it certainly looks like a step up for the series in terms of graphical quality. Named Tales of Arise, the game was actually leaked a couple of days ago, but the short reveal trailer does have a few cool looking moments, and confirms that the title is aiming for a 2020 release date on...
Random Bandai Namco Producer Harada Posts Great Reaction to His Company's E3 Leaks
Rest in peace
Bandai Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada -- who many know as the godfather of Tekken -- has a good sense of humour, and it's helping him generate some well-deserved numbers over on Twitter. If you didn't know, Bandai Namco's entire E3 2019 lineup -- or thereabouts -- was leaked earlier in the week. Needless to say, Harada wasn't...
E3 2019 From Software and George RR Martin's RPG Elden Ring Confirmed with First Trailer
Seems pretty armless
The long-rumoured collaboration between From Software and George R.R. Martin is real, everyone. Elden Ring has been confirmed, and it's got a typically moody debut trailer. Watch it above. It seems to be a little on the creepy side, but this looks like high fantasy through and through. We aren't much clearer than that on what...
E3 2019 Tales of Arise Leaks Ahead of Microsoft Xbox Presser
Lovely new art style
For once, 4chan has delivered the goods. A new entry in the Tales franchise has just leaked, named Tales of Arise. It's coming to PlayStation 4, and will most likely be officially announced at Microsoft's E3 2019 press conference on Sunday night. It's quite a dramatic change in art style, judging by the screenshot above, isn't...
E3 2019 Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered Leaks, Coming to PS4 This Fall
Another one
Update: Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered is indeed coming to PS4. It's currently down for a "Fall 2019" release date. Original story: Well, someone at Bandai Namco is probably in big trouble. Basically all of the publisher's plans for E3 2019 have leaked over the last hour or so at the time of writing, and they ain't...
And it's coming to PS4
It was rumoured and now it’s real: Elden Ring is the next PlayStation 4 game from acclaimed Japanese developer From Software – and it’s being helmed by Bloodborne director Hidetaka Miyazaki and, incredibly, Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin. It’ll likely be officially unveiled duri
Deal Dragon Ball FighterZ Price Slashed by Two Thirds in EU PSN Deal of the Week
Fighting for a saving
Last week saw an impressive price cut to World War Z, and for the next seven days, you can save a great deal of money on last year's fighting favourite Dragon Ball FighterZ. As part of the Deal of the Week, you can save two thirds off of its original asking price. The standard edition comes in at
News JUMANJI Gets Its Very Own Video Game, Coming November 2019
Featuring The Rock
Well, this isn't an announcement we were expecting in the lead up to E3 2019, JUMANJI: The Video Game is a product you'll be able to purchase in a handful of months time. It's coming to PS4 on 15th November 2019. After gleaning through the footage in the trailer above, the game looks to be based on the recent 2017 JUMANJI:...
News Man of Medan Sails onto PS4 This August, Pre-Order Bonus Detailed
Summertime spooks
Man of Medan, Supermassive Games' follow-up to Until Dawn, is looking pretty good, with a similarly decision-driven narrative and a creepy nautical setting. Publisher Bandai Namco has just announced the release date too, as well as introduced an incentive to pre-order. The game, which is the first part of the studio's Dark...
News Game of Thrones Author Really Is Teaming Up with Dark Souls Developer, It Seems
Apparently titled Great Rune
No way, is this seemingly ridiculous rumour of George R.R. Martin working on a From Software title as lead writer going to be true? The man himself penned a blog post about the culmination of the Game of Thrones TV show, and in it he confirms that he has consulted on a Japanese game. Buried towards the end of the text,...
News Double Fine's Post-Apocalyptic Roguelike RAD Gets Release Date and New Screenshots
Radioactive, man
A couple of months ago, Bandai Namco announced RAD, a radioactive roguelike from Double Fine, and it was promptly forgotten. The game looks interesting; you play a character who travels into the Fallow, a dangerous zone that's constantly changing. The main hook is that you can transform your avatar with mutations that grant various...
News Man of Medan Is the Until Dawn Sequel You've Been Dreaming Of
Under the sea
Who doesn’t love a good teenage slasher? In many ways, the outstanding Until Dawn out-Quantic Dreamed the actual Quantic Dream, so it’s hard not to get excited for Supermassive Games’ forthcoming Dark Pictures Anthology. First up is Man of Medan, a standalone supernatural horror set in the South Pacific.
News Code Vein Reappears with Upcoming Network Test
Sign ups available now
It has been quite some time since we last heard from Code Vein, the upcoming Dark Souls-like experience from publisher Bandai Namco. However, after going dark and back into development for a number of months, the title has reappeared with the announcement of an upcoming network test. You can sign up to be in with a chance of...
News Tekken Director Harada No Longer Sold on the Idea of Tekken X Street Fighter
He'd like to, but...
Tekken X Street Fighter feels like it was announced a million years ago. Although it was never formally unveiled, the project was in the works at Bandai Namco for a while, but it was pretty much put on ice when Capcom released Street Fighter V and Bandai Namco released Tekken 7. As time has passed, a resurrection of Tekken X...
News Bandai Namco Details Three New Planes Coming to Ace Combat 7 via DLC
Laser targeted
It feels like Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown got a little lost in the midst of all the other big releases of the last few months, but it's a return to form for the series and well worth checking out. If you've played the game and have conquered its massive unlock tree, Bandai Namco has just unveiled the three extra fighter jets flying...
News GT Goku Arrives in Dragon Ball FighterZ Next Month
Dragon Fist!
Goku from Dragon Ball GT leaps into Dragon Ball FighterZ next month, Bandai Namco has confirmed. The third DLC character of the game's second season pass, this childlike version of Dragon Ball's protagonist ruffled a few feathers when he was first revealed. After all, there are already three playable Gokus in the game -- five if you...
News Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris Follows the Anime on PS4
Nice name
Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris has a name that we simply never want to type again, but sadly that's not an option when we're covering a newly announced title. All we've got to go on right now is the trailer embedded above, and confirmation that the game will follow the most recent season of the Sword Art Online anime. So yes, that...
News Bonkers Rumour Suggests That From Software Is Working with George R.R. Martin on New Game
This has to be a joke, right?
Wait, what's that? It's not April Fools Day yet? Huh, okay. There's a rumour doing the rounds that Dark Souls developer From Software is working on a new game in collaboration with A Song of Ice and Fire series author George R.R. Martin. Yes, you read that correctly. Courtesy of internet scuttlebutt Liam Robertson in...
News Big SoulCalibur VI Patch 1.30 Brings Battle System Changes and Character Balancing
Staying sharp
SoulCalibur VI update 1.30 is out today on PlayStation 4, and Bandai Namco is calling it a "major" patch. It includes overall adjustments to the core battle system, as well as character balancing tweaks across the board. To start with, the reversal edge and guard impact mechanics have had their effectiveness reduced. Pulling these...
News Double Fine Announces Post-Apocalyptic Roguelike RAD, Coming to PS4 This Year
That's rad
You can always count on Double Fine to put a unique spin on something, and that's what it's done with RAD, just announced for PS4. It's a roguelike action game set in a world that's been devastated by armageddon twice, now roamed by mutants and bereft of humanity. Players take control of a teenager who is tasked with entering the Fallow,...
News GT Goku Officially Revealed for Dragon Ball FighterZ
The little monkey
Yep, if you haven't already heard, the leaks were real. Bandai Namco has confirmed that Goku from Dragon Ball GT is the next DLC character coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ. The reaction online has been rather divided, with a lot of players saying that there are just too many damn Gokus in the game at this point. The title already...
News Free Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 Lite Is Out Now on PS4
Rock the dragon
Head on over to the PlayStation Store right now and you should find Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 Lite -- the newly released, free version of Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2. It features several story missions and the ability to battle online with other players. What's more, any progress that you make in Lite will carry over to the full game...
News Free Version of Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 Soars West This Week on PS4
Sparking!
Following on from the game's Japanese announcement last week, Bandai Namco has confirmed that Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 Lite is also heading West on PlayStation 4. The free-to-play version of Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2, Lite features five story episodes, online multiplayer, and the Hero Colosseum mode. What's more, you can transfer any progress...
News Free-to-Play Version of Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 Launches on PS4 This Month in Japan
No word on the West yet
Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2 has been out for over two years now, and to be fair to developer Dimps and publisher Bandai Namco, they've done a good job of supporting it all this time. It's perhaps a bit strange, then, that the game is only now getting a free-to-play version. We suppose that if it proves popular, it could net the...
Rumour Oh God, Dragon Ball FighterZ Is Getting Another Goku as DLC
This time from GT
Really? Another Goku could be coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ? Really? Apparently so, according to reliable Japanese blog ryokutya2089. The hottest new info says Goku from Dragon Ball GT is going to be an additional DLC character. For those who don't know, Goku is forced back into the form of a child in the non-canon GT series. So...
Get in the sea
What the heck happened to One Piece: World Seeker? Was the developer short on time? Short on budget? Or was it just an awful idea to make an open world setting your one and only gimmick in 2019? We would genuinely love to know, because the game feels completely unfinished in almost every possible way. Even for the relatively low...
News Ni no Kuni II's The Tale of a Timeless Tome Expansion Gets Detailed in New Trailer
Beware the shadows
The Tale of a Timeless Tome, the next DLC for Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, brings a load of new features to the whimsical role-playing title later this month. An expansion of sorts, the trailer that we've embedded above tells you just about everything that you need to know. There are new story elements, tough boss battles,...
News Incoming Tales of Vesperia Patch Looks to Fix a Few Standout Bugs on PS4
Someone call Karol
Bandai Namco has detailed an incoming update for Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition on PS4. There's nothing all that exciting here, but it's nice to see the team set out to squash some pesky bugs, especially since the game's now a couple of months old. Here are the patch notes: Fixed a rare issue in which the game would...
News Tekken 7 Patch 2.20 Out Now on PS4 Alongside DLC Characters Julia and Negan
Get ready for the next battle
The final big update (supposedly) for Season 2 of Tekken 7 is now live on PS4. Weighing in at around 1.7GB, patch 2.20 adds new stage variants, new music, a "simple select" option when rematching, and an improved warm-up mode for when you're waiting for a scrap. It also fixes a few bugs, apparently, and there's a whole...
News One Piece: World Seeker Looks a Little Rough in 26 Minutes of Gameplay
Piece of mind
Hmmmm, what do we think of this, then? One Piece: World Seeker has looked reasonably promising in its last few trailers, but the anime-based title's looking a bit rough in this pre-release gameplay footage. Posted online by YouTube user Cerealkillerz this is 26 minutes of uncut open world action. Parts of it look decent enough, like...
News Tekken 7 Season 3 Is a Possibility, Says Director Harada
Team's keeping its options open
Tekken 7 is something of a fighting game rarity. The title launched back in 2017 and was immediately popular, but its biggest achievement is how it's actually managed to maintain a lot of its momentum. With a competitive scene that's gone from strength to strength and sales breaking 3 million copies last year, Tekken...
News Bandai Namco PS4 Titles Discounted in New US PlayStation Store Sale
Hope you like anime
Yet another sale has struck the North American PlayStation Store, and this time, the focus is on Japanese publisher Bandai Namco. A selection of games from its PlayStation 4 catalogue are going cheap, and if you're into your Dragon Balls and your Narutos, there's plenty to see here. Highlights of the new sale include Dragon Ball...
News One Piece: World Seeker Has a Karma System and Character Relationships
A pirate's life
We're not expecting One Piece: World Seeker to be a massively in-depth open world RPG, but it does sound like it's taking a few small steps towards building a more complex adventure. Through the game's latest trailer, it's confirmed that the title will have a "karma system", allowing Luffy to build a reputation as he goes about his...
Evo Japan has a new champion
Arslan_Ash, a relatively unknown Kazumi player from Pakistan, just won the Tekken 7 tournament at Evo Japan 2019. The event welcomed many of the game's very best players from all over the world, but none of them could stand in Arslan's way as he dismantled the competition. Arslan popped up on the global Tekken scene...
