With pretty much every convention being cancelled this year due to COVID-19, there hasn’t been a lot of opportunities for fans, especially Western fans, to interact with Japanese creators so Yen Press held a virtual panel where they interviewed the creators of So I’m A Spider So What?, the author Okina Baba and illustrator Tsukasa Kiyu.
The nearly half hour long interview features questions from fans and translated answers handled by Yen Press. The interview can be found below and as for the series itself, the light novels of So I’m A Spider So What? have been published in English through volume 8 with the 9th volume releasing on August 18th. For those who want to have a bit more of a visual presentation, currently the anime adaptation for the series is set to premiere in January 2021.
All it takes is one slip-up from one branch and a major reveal can be leaked early and it looks like the latest one happens to have struck Ubisoft thanks to the PlayStation Store in Hong Kong. While the listing may be pulled down already, it has been revealed that Far Cry 6 is indeed on the way and will likely be part of Ubisoft’s “Forward Digital” showcase that was meant to occur on July 12th. The fact that Ubisoft later mentioned how a certain character referenced in the game leak would be displeased has basically confirmed this information.
Far Cry 6 is so far confirmed for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 and will be set in the tropical paradise called Yara where the dictator Anton Castillo is intent on restoring his nation back to its former glory by any means necessary while his son Diego follows in his footsteps. Players will step into the role of Dani Rojas, a local who has risen up among others to become a revolutionary to try and liberate the nation while fighting against Anton’s troops in the largest Far Cry map to date. Players will have access to makeshift weaponry, vehicles, and even “Amigos” who are the returning Fangs for Hire system from previous entries in the series.
Despite the amount of information and basic confirmation, it is worth noting that for now this leak should only be treated as such until the likely reveal on July 12th.
Those who may want to see what the Shantae series was once like many years ago will soon have a few new platforms to play it on as WayForward has announced that the 2010 Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut will be coming to both the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch digitally this fall season with a limited physical release being don for the Switch version of the game through Limited Run Games.
When released, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut will be priced at $9.99 and feature a number of upgrades to the original release such as HD character portraits, improved navigation features, and an unlockable “Magic Mode”. To put a stop to her nemesis Risky Boots, Shantae will need to explore a number of unique environments, transform into creatures with unique abilities, and more.
After being pushed to the fall it looks like Bandai Namco has now nailed down perhaps the best possible release date for a horror game one can hope for that isn’t Friday the 13th for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope. Supermassive Games has announced that the game will now be releasing on October 30th for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC with the game still featuring the same pre-order bonus “Curator’s Cut” early access that will eventually be released for all players.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope is the second game in The Dark Pictures Anthology. Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, four college students and their professor must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog. Check out a new trailer below.
A new trailer has been released for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch version of Giraffe and Annika and this time around Atelier Mimina and NIS America are focusing on showing off how gameplay will work in the title as well as introducing some of the characters that players will encounter. This cute looking game will feature rhythm based combat and plenty of exploration as the young girl named Annika awakens from a strange dream, finding herself stranded on “Spica Island” with no memory of how she ended up there.
She quickly meets with a boy named Giraffe, who seems to know her, and is tasked with finding three special star fragments on the island in order to unravel the mysteries of her forgotten memories. While searching for the fragments, Annika meets Lily, the Witch of the Mysterious Forest, who challenges her to a battle! Fortunately, Annika emerges victorious, and uncovers a star fragment. She absorbs the fragment and is suddenly granted remarkable visions. What secrets await this unlikely trio of adventurers on the island of Spica?
Currently Giraffe and Annika is set to be released on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on August 25th in North America and August 28th in Europe though the PC version of the game has already been released.
Become a Bakugan Brawling Champion in a Brand-New, Role-Playing Adventure Game Coming to Nintendo Switch
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Spin Master and WayForward have announced Bakugan®: Champions of Vestroia™, an all-new, action role-playing video game that will be coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch™ on Nov. 4, 2020, expanding on the wildly popular, global Bakugan franchise alongside the exciting anime adventure TV series, innovative toy line, card game and more. The game will centre around an all-new original story and the franchise’s signature Bakugan brawls as players befriend powerful creatures known as Bakugan and customize teams for fiercely strategic head-to-head battles.
“We’re pleased to partner with Spin Master and WayForward to bring the brawling action of Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia to Nintendo Switch,” said Kevin Kebodeaux, Senior Vice President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “The global popularity of Bakugan is undeniable, and this game is sure to excite players everywhere.”
“Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia expands the popular brawling franchise with a new exhilarating, interactive game format with customization, competitive action, deep strategy, and anime-style characters and worlds that all gamers and Bakugan fans will love,” said Simonetta Lulli, Vice President, Spin Master Studios. “Whether playing solo or against Bakugan brawlers online, the game offers endless hours of play at home or on the go.”
“Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia brings together the most popular aspects of the TV series and toys in an authentic and inspiring new game,” said Voldi Way, President & CEO, WayForward. “We designed it specifically for Nintendo Switch with unique battle gameplay and strategic options to build and battle a Bakugan team.”
Published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, produced by Spin Master and developed by WayForward, the Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia video game will take players on a journey through an original story expanding on the hit TV series and toy franchise. They can create and fully customize their Brawler to fight side-by-side with the mysterious alien Bakugan as their human partner in battle. The game features a fully navigable 3D world divided into different districts each with dedicated battle arenas. Players can interact with other characters, go on quests, and explore with their Bakugan friends. They can also test their brawling skills online in head-to-head multiplayer against friends or players from the around the world to become a true Champion of Vestroia.
A physical Deluxe Edition pack, featuring the video game, an exclusive Ultima Dragonoid™ toy which transforms into a fierce Bakugan, Ultima Dragonoid trading card, Ultima Dragonoid metal gate card, plus two powerful BakuCores™ will also be available at launch from selected retailers.
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About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc., is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all platforms, including console, handheld, mobile and PC-based gaming for both internal and third-party game titles.
About Spin Master
Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children’s entertainment company creating exceptional play experiences through a diverse portfolio of innovative toys, entertainment franchises and digital toys and games. Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals® and GUND®, and is the toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, stories and endearing characters through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool success PAW Patrol and 10 other television series, which are distributed in more than 160 countries. The Company has an established digital presence anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, which combined have more than 25 million monthly active users. With over 1,800 employees in 28 offices globally, Spin Master distributes products in more than 100 countries. For more information visit spinmaster.com or follow on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @spinmaster.
About WayForward
Based in Valencia, California, WayForward was founded in 1990 and has remained an independent game developer for 30 years. We are home to many talented individuals including programmers, environment artists, animators, modelers, illustrators, audio wizards, designers, and team leaders. With the new avenues for distributing games directly to fans we are finally able to make the games we have always wanted to.
Fearless developer Ronimo Games (Awesomenauts) and their trusty sidekicks Devolver Digital (Fall Guys, GRIS) have decreed that Blightbound, a dark and stylish multiplayer dungeon crawler, will battle its way onto Steam Early Access on July 29th. To honour the occasion, Blightbound will launch with a 10% discount.
Blightbound is an online & local multiplayer dungeon crawler that tasks three heroes to venture down from their mountain refuge to face the abominations of the Blight – a mysterious and corrupting fog that enshrouds the land.
Explore handcrafted dungeons, fight a terrifying cadre of mystical and monstrous enemies, grab valuable loot, and recover fallen heroes to expand your roster of available warriors. Each player will fulfil a specific role on the team – warrior, assassin, or mage – to overcome colossal bosses and solve clever puzzles.
Features
Blightbound is an ever-expanding game with new dungeons to explore, new heroes to recover and use, and new loot to retrieve with planned free updates for the community.
Collect over 20 unique heroes, each with their own skillset, passive abilities, and fully narrated story to complete.
Hundreds of unique items to loot and craft to improve each hero and alter their repertoire of attacks and abilities.
Build out your refuge atop the mountain by recruiting new artisans to craft more items, fulfilling bounties, and training your heroes.
Battle through three distinct lands, each with several dungeons to conquer, including the eerie Gravemark, the oppressive Underhold, and the precarious Blood Ridge.
Distinct class roles that reward team play and powerful ultimate abilities that charge by fulfilling your role. Block damage as a warrior, interrupt enemies as an assassin or heal your allies as a mage.
A stunning mix of hand-painted characters and real time 3D models and lighting effects.
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A new narrative RPG set in the world of “World of Darkness” is on the way from Big Bad Wolf Studios and Nacon by the name of Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong. Players will play as three different vampires and harness their powers, embrace their desires, and face their demons while making choices that will decide the fate of Boston. Hazel Iversen, the Swan, is the new Prince of the Boston Camarilla.
An iron hand in a velvet glove, she intends to assert her power and enforce the Masquerade, the vampiric law designed to ensure humans never learn about her kind. However, the best laid plans of mice and men are often torn asunder.As rumors of betrayal, murder, and power struggles reach fever pitch, you must work in the shadows to protect your Sect in a frantic investigation as the city of Boston is plunged into Chaos.
The reveal trailer for Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong can be found below and as for the game itself, the company is aiming on having it released sometime in 2021 for the Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Recently Nacon and Cyanide Studios revealed that, alongside the previously announced Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC versions, that Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood will also be coming to the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 when it is released on February 4, 2021. To go along with this announcement the company also showed off the first look at some ridiculously action packed gameplay in a new trailer.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood places players into the paws of Cahal, a powerful Garou who chose to go into exile after losing control of his destructive rage. On his quest for redemption and blood, Cahal plays a crucial role in the great war between the Garou and Endron, a powerful oil company that serves the Wyrm, a destructive spirit ravaging the planet.
Hybrid Rice Farming Sim and Side-Scrolling Action Platformer Receives Special “Divine Edition” in Addition to Stand-Alone Retail Release
Torrance, Calif. – July 10, 2020 – XSEED Games, the independent-minded publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc., has revealed a special retail edition for the upcoming Action/Simulation game developed by the 2-man team at Edelweiss, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, launching later in 2020 for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Nintendo Switch™, and Windows PC. Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin will release with two retail editions for PS4™ and Nintendo Switch™; a standard retail release priced at $39.99 and a special “Divine Edition” priced at $59.99. Both versions will be available for pre-order soon on the XSEED Games Store and participating retailers.
The special“Divine Edition” forSakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is fit for a young goddess, coming wrapped in a custom outer box with exclusive artwork. Inside will be the retail edition of the game on the respective platform, a large 8.2” x 5.8” artbook with over 130 pages of illustrations and concept art from the title, a full OST of 42 songs on 3 CDs, and a special 2” x 3” Japanese omamori charm to bring owners good luck in combat and farming.
Features
Refined Side-scrolling Platform Action‒ Using farm tools as weapons, chain together quick, heavy, and special attacks to take down demonic beasts, while mastering the magical “divine raiment” will be essential to grapple distant platforms, evade danger, and overcome powerful enemies.
Detailed 3D Simulation-style Gameplay‒ Learn the ancient art of agriculture by following detailed steps from planting to harvesting to cultivate the perfect crop. As a harvest goddess, Sakuna’s strength grows with each successful rice crop, with attributes such as aesthetic and flavor directly correlating to her combat abilities.
Creating a Home in the Wilderness‒ Sakuna’s mortal companions make weapons, armor, and meals for her using the materials and ingredients she gathers on her adventures, and completing quests for them will unlock even more options.
A Fresh Take on Japanese Mythology‒ The heroine is part of a pantheon of gods and demons inspired by traditional Japanese mythology but featuring many unique twists. The story and world are filled with lovingly rendered details, some familiar and some completely original.
Developed by Edelweiss and to be published for the Nintendo Switch™ system and PS4™ system in North America and globally on Windows PC by XSEED Games, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin will launch in all available territories in 2020. The retail game will be available for pre-order soon in a standard and limited “Divine Edition” for $39.99 and $59.99, respectively, on the XSEED Games Store and participating retailers. The title has been rated “T for Teen” by theESRB for all three platforms.
XSEED Games is the independent-minded publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Marvelous Inc., which is a publicly traded company listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Formed in 2004 and located in Torrance, California, XSEED Games publishes interactive entertainment content for PC and consoles from the Marvelous portfolio as well as from a wide variety of third-party partners. Whether it’s Marvelous properties such as STORY OF SEASONS (Bokujo Monogatari), SENRAN KAGURA, and Rune Factory, or third-party titles such as the Corpse Party and AKIBA’S TRIP series or the recently released Granblue Fantasy: Versus, XSEED Games has grown its reputation among gamers with its critically acclaimed localizations and commitment to fans, remaining ever dedicated to its “indie spirit, player-first” approach.
