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7 CommentsWatch new Persona 5 gameplay in this dev interview
Atlus has a lot of Persona 5 news to share today, but fans still eager to get a look at the game should check out a new interview with director Katsura Hashino. Although the interview is sadly only in Japanese, the video is intercut with additional gameplay focused on battles, the cast and more.
Like its predecessors, Persona 5 will follow a group of teenagers known as the "Phantom Thieves" with the ability to summon allies known as Personas. The game launches Sept. 15 in Japan and is heading to PlayStation 3 and PS4. Atlus dropped a trailer today, which features the first in-action look at several new members of the game's cast, and revealed that the game will have a presence at E3 2016 in June.
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15 CommentsPersona 5 launches Sept. 15 in Japan
Atlus will release Persona 5 on Sept. 15, the company announced during a livestream presentation today. While that date is confirmed for Japan, it's not yet clear whether the release date also applies globally.
Persona 5's Japanese release date is just five days ahead of the series 20th anniversary. The original Persona was released on PlayStation Sept. 20, 1996. To celebrate the 20-year-old franchise, Atlus will release a special anniversary soundtrack collection in Japan.
Atlus also plans to release an animated movie or series titled Persona 5 The Animation: The Day Breakers in Japan this September. The company also detailed some of the downloadable content coming to Persona 5, which includes outfits for the game's cast inspired by Persona 3 and Persona 4.
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13 CommentsEA giving away expansions for Battlefield 4 and Hardline (update)
Electronic Arts is about to announce the next Battlefield game, and the publisher is marking the occasion by offering free downloads of expansions, starting today, for Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline.
The Battlefield 4 add-on Dragon's Teeth is free for the next week, from today to May 10, on all platforms that the game is available on: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The infantry-focused expansion offers four maps set in the Asia-Pacific region, and it was originally released in July 2014. Dragon's Teeth also includes the Chain Link game mode, and gadgets such as the R.A.W.R., an unmanned ground vehicle.
Battlefield 4 developer EA DICE is also running new community missions that, if completed, unlock special rewards for players. The current one,...
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26 CommentsMighty No. 9 finally launches on June 21, creator says
Mighty No. 9 has a new launch date: June 21.
The "spiritual successor" to Mega Man has "gone gold," creator Keiji Inafune said, putting Mighty No. 9 on course to launch for Mac, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on that date in North America and Asia. It will launch worldwide on those platforms on June 24. Deep Silver is publishing the game on consoles.
The versions for Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita will follow at a later date, Inafune said.
Inafune acknowledged it has been nearly three years since the project was initially and enthusiastically crowdfunded by thousands of Mega Man fans and apologized for the repeated delays to Mighty No. 9's launch.
"This is a project where everyone's passions were combined in order to create something very...
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22 CommentsSee gameplay from 1666: Amsterdam, by the director of the first two Assassin's Creeds
Footage of 1666: Amsterdam, which was to have been the next big console game from the creative director ofthe first two Assassin's Creeds, has surfaced from a presentation in Europe. It's a video-of-a-video, but you can watch it above.
The journalist Brandon Sheffield captured the video, which shows the game's title sequence and initial gameplay, in which the player appears to be a mysterious cloaked figure who can control animals and cause terrifying hallucinations. Sheffield said the game's premise was "be worse than the devil," which is why the player controls rats, crows, black cats and other animals linked to black magic.
1666: Amsterdam was in development at THQ Montreal when Ubisoft bought the studio and the project and fired creator Patrice Desilets. Desilets was the creative...
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3 CommentsYo-Kai Watch and Final Fantasy 14 make for a strangely great pair in new crossovers
Square Enix and Level-5 are collaborating to bring the worlds of Yo-Kai Watch and Final Fantasy 14 together. During a Final Fantasy 14-centric livestream, the companies announced that characters from Level-5's Nintendo 3DS role-playing game would appear in Square Enix's multiplayer online title.
Various Yo-kai, like series mascots Jibanyan and Whisper, will appear in Final Fantasy 14 as minions, pets that can be summoned to follow the player around. Weapons based on characters in the games will also be available, including a flying Whisper mount and even one of those surprisingly heavy Yo-kai Watches.
These will be available to players of the Japanese version of Final Fantasy 14 as part of an upcoming event. Japanese fans will also be treated to Final Fantasy characters appearing in...
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69 CommentsPlayStation Plus members get Tropico, God of War games free in May
Sony has detailed May's free games for PlayStation Plus members, with titles in franchises like LocoRoco, Tropico and God of War among the six games offered.
The trailer above has the full line-up, or you can check out the list below:
Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 (PS3)
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Vita)
LocoRoco Cocoreccho! (PS3)
Switch Galaxy Ultra (PS4, Vita)
Table Top Racing: World Tour (PS4)
Tropico 5 (PS4)
As for April's PS Plus selects — including I Am Alive and Zombi — those are still available to download through the end of the month. PlayStation Plus costs $49.99 annually.
Yesterday, Microsoft named the free games offered to Xbox Live Gold subscribers in May. That line-up, including Costume Quest 2 and Peggle, falls short of April's free games.
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24 CommentsPlayStation Store's Golden Week sale is a dream for JRPG fans
The PlayStation Store is discounting a number of games in honor of Golden Week, a Japanese holiday period comprising several celebrations. Although Golden Week technically doesn't start in Japan until April 29, PlayStation's Golden Week sale is running now through May 3 at 11 a.m. PT. It appropriately features price drops on several Japanese-developed games.
PlayStation owners stateside don't have the week off like Japanese nationals do, but this is still a good chance to pick up many Japanese role-playing games and other titles of note. These include last year's Persona 4: Dancing All Night and Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, February's Gravity Rush Remastered and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, and several other games new and old.
Check out our highlights below (PlayStation Plus prices are in...
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20 CommentsPlayStation Store flash sale has big discounts through the weekend
The PlayStation Store has a flash sale going on right now, with prices on a variety of games dropped by upward of 80 percent. By a variety of games, we mean it — the theme is "action-packed," with offers including diverse games like Beyond Two Souls, LittleBigPlanet 3, Manhunt and Alien: Isolation.
It's hard to complain about a sale, though. Prices on the plethora of PS3, PS4 and Vita titles are good from now through April 25 at 11 a.m. PT. We've got a few of the highlights below:
Beyond Two Souls (PS4): $11.99 (60 percent off)
Alien: Isolation (PS4): $11.99 (60 percent off)
Manhunt (PS4): $5.99 (60 percent off)
Bully (PS4): $5.99 (60 percent off)
Wolfenstein: The New Order (PS4): $14.99 (75 percent off)
BioShock (PS3): $7.99 (60 percent off)
Okami HD (PS3): $5.59 (60...
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5 CommentsTales of Berseria comes West next year
Tales of Berseria will launch sometime in early 2017, Bandai Namco confirmed. The company gave the release window in a blog post, but offered no further details about when to expect the PlayStation 4 and Windows PC game.
Japanese fans will get the game on PlayStation 4 this August. It's the latest game in the franchise after last year's Tales of Zestiria, which the publisher released on PlayStation 3 and PS4 in time for the series' 25th anniversary.
A Western release for Berseria was confirmed at last December's Jump Festa, alongside an announcement trailer. Watch that below to see the RPG in action.
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6 CommentsPersona 5 website teases a May 5 reveal for ... something
The next entry in Atlus' high school-based role-playing series, Persona 5, is still without a solid release date, but a new countdown timer on the game's official website may have some answers. The website is stamped with the phrase "Take your heart," and a timer that's ticking away to May 5, aka 5/05.
Although Persona 5 was originally slated for a 2015 release, the game was pushed into 2016 last September. It's already been announced for release in Japan and North America for PlayStation 3 and PS4. Details about the game, such as its cast of phantom thieves and how it will differ from past games have also begun to emerge. The most notable unknown is Persona 5's release date; the game's most recent trailer promised summer 2016, though it's unclear if that date is Japan-only.
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4 CommentsYou won't be able to buy The Beatles: Rock Band's DLC songs after May 5
The Beatles: Rock Band's downloadable songs will no longer be available for purchase as of May 5, developer Harmonix Music Systems announced today.
Harmonix regularly informs Rock Band players about DLC tracks that will disappear from the Rock Band Music Store because the studio's licenses to sell those songs are about to expire. This time, all of the post-release tunes from The Beatles: Rock Band are on the chopping block. Music from that game — both the on-disc tracks and DLC songs — is unique in the Rock Band catalog in that it cannot be exported for play in any other Rock Band title.
Harmonix released three full Beatles albums as The Beatles: Rock Band DLC — one each in the three months after the game debuted in September 2009 on PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. Abbey Road was...
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15 CommentsPlayStation Network getting two-factor authentication, Sony confirms
Sony is making a long-awaited effort to shore up security on the PlayStation Network — the company is planning to add two-factor authentication to the service, Sony confirmed to Polygon today.
"In order to further safeguard our users and their accounts, we are preparing to offer a 2-step verification feature," a Sony representative said.
The spokesperson did not offer a time frame at this point, saying only that "more details will be shared at a later date." Sony updated the PS3's firmware to version 4.80 yesterday, and users noticed that if they entered incorrect login information, the system mentioned two-step verification — which isn't currently available on PlayStation Network accounts. Those accounts are used on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, the web, the...
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110 CommentsThe good, the bad and the pay-to-win of Destiny's spring update
Bungie released its big spring update for Destiny on April 12. With this patch, Bungie has made some welcome improvements to several of the game's most flawed mechanics, but at the same time, introduced some troubling new problems to annoy Destiny's loyal but long-suffering players.
What's good?
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The new loot system
Before this update, loot drops in the hard-mode King's Fall raid could have Light levels ranging from 310 to 320, and every drop was rolled randomly. So anytime you got a particular item, you only had a 1-in-11 chance of getting a perfect 320 Light score.
That meant that players had to farm the raid for months if they ever wanted to reach the maximum Light level. I did the raid every week on three characters, starting with the first week the King's...
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8 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Michonne's finale launches next week
"What We Deserve," the third and final episode of the miniseries The Walking Dead: Michonne, will begin rolling out April 26, developer Telltale Games announced today.
The episode will be available next week on Android, iOS, Mac, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Here's the synopsis from Telltale:
In "What We Deserve," feeling the weight of choices both recent and long ago, Michonne tries to protect an innocent family... but Norma and the vengeful Monroe crew are closing in. As reality shatters and the ghosts of the daughters she abandoned demand to be heard, your choices will determine who lives, who dies, and what redemption really means in a world gone to hell.
If you've played the second episode, "Give No Shelter," you can watch the video from...
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8 CommentsGrand Theft Auto games go cheap on PlayStation Store this week
The PlayStation Store has a number of Grand Theft Auto games on sale this week, with some of the biggest titles in the franchise available at up to 50 percent off.
That includes older games like Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The PlayStation 2 titles are 30 percent off on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.
For other notable offers, check out our highlights (PlayStation Plus prices are in parentheses):
Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS4) - $10.49 ($8.99)
Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS3) - $6.99 ($5.99)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS4) - $10.49 ($8.99)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS3) - $6.99 ($5.99)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS3, PS4) - $10.49 ($8.99)
Grand Theft Auto 5 (PS4) - $44.99 ($38.99)
Grand Theft Auto 4: The Complete...
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9 CommentsWhich of the NBA's all-time greatest teams could beat the Golden State Warriors?
With the Golden State Warriors finishing the 2015-16 basketball season last week with the best record in NBA history at 73-9, the makers of NBA 2K16 turned their minds to a question that only a video game can answer: How would this year's Warriors squad fare against some of the best teams ever to step onto an NBA court?
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NBA 2K16 developer Visual Concepts pitted the Warriors against three of the all-time greatest NBA teams: the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, which previously had the best regular-season record ever at 72-10; the 2000-01 Los Angeles Lakers, which hold the mark for the best playoff record in history at 15-1; and the 2005-06 Miami Heat,...
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6 CommentsPSN down for two hours tonight for maintenance
Sony will be taking the PlayStation Network offline for two hours tonight to perform routine maintenance, according to the PlayStation forums.
The network will go down from 9:30-11:30 p.m. PT. As disruptions go, it should be a relatively pain-free one: Sony says that even during the two-hour window, any PSN user will still be able to sign in, play games and use "most applications." However, neither the PlayStation Store nor PlayStation Video will be available, and users won't be able to access account management, either.
Sony recommends that PlayStation 4 owners activate a particular system as their primary console before the maintenance begins, so they'll be able to keep using the system during the maintenance period. All platforms that use the PSN will be affected, including the...
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