During Anime Expo Spike Chunsoft announced that they will be bringing Robotics;Notes Elite to North America and Europe in 2020 where it will be coming to the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The company even announced that Robotics;Notes DaSH, the direct sequel to this game, will also be released in 2020 but did not state the platforms at the time. For those unfamiliar with the game, Robotics;Notes Elite story follows a Robot Club at the Central Tanegashima High School whose club is about to be disbanded.
Despite their predicament, Kaito Yashio, one of only two members in the Robot Club, couldn’t care less and would rather play a robot fighting game all day. His counterpart, the reckless club leader Akiho Senomiya, ignores Kaito’s apathy as she strives to keep the club from being disbanded by completing their giant robot. One day, Kaito discovers a mysterious A.R. annotation titled “Kimijima Report.” It contains instructions involving locations all across the island and warns of a conspiracy involving the entire world.
Spike Chunsoft has released a new trailer for Crystar and this one happens to focus on introducing the various characters that will be appearing in this action RPG when it is released on the PlayStation 4 and PC on August 27th in North America and August 30th in Europe.
Rei Hatada is the protagonist who fights in Purgatory to bestow Revival to the sister she killed. The story isn’t about saving the world, but pursuing her ego as she wishes to bring her sister back to life. Despite facing despair and weeping over her weakness and uncertainty, she has the strength to press on. Though quiet and serious, when she becomes emotional she demonstrates an intensity that’s directly opposed to her usual, soft-spoken demeanor. She is capable of doing anything to protect those she cares for.
Kokoro Fudoji is a living woman who teams up with Rei in Purgatory. She is an Executor and has a Guardian named Diogenes. Her child and the man she loved were killed by Anamnesis. She battles in Purgatory, obsessed with getting revenge on Anamnesis. However, she usually is kind and cheerful, the older-sister type who likes cute, young girls.
Sen Megumiba is also a living girl who teams up with Rei in Purgatory. She is an Executor and has a Guardian named Socrates. Sen is the sole survivor of a major accident in which she lost her beloved mother. Thanks to the influence of her father, who is a prosecutor, Sen values the law and justice above all else. She fights in Purgatory as a way to pursue the justice she believes in.
Finally there is Nanana who is a humanoid Revenant who becomes infatuated with Rei in Purgatory. As a deceased person, no one knows why Nanana likes and follows Rei around so persistently. She possesses great power and changes an entire region of Purgatory to prevent Rei and her group from progressing. “Fun and exciting” is her catchphrase. Despite being a Revenant, she becomes an Executor and helps Rei on her journey.
A new gameplay trailer for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III has been released by NIS America and this one focuses on showing off the various mechanics in the game’s battle system. This includes a new feature such as Brave Order that provide party-wide buffs to give an upper hand for a certain number of turns. They can be issued anytime within battle by using Brave Points.
Line Attacks that allow for follow-up moves from comrades whenever an effective attack unbalances an enemy, brave points that can be gained when performing an “Assist” and used to provide Burst or Rush link attacks. A fundamental basis of combat, Arts draw power from equipped orbments and manifest in elemental attacks. Crafts are similar in offense, but are inherent to each character.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is currently slated to be released on the PlayStation 4 on September 24th in North America and September 27th in Europe.
Marvelous has announced that they are working on a new game for the Nintendo Switch and longtime fans of the Harvest Moon series, as it was called then, and now Story of Seasons will be happy to hear that it is a full remake of a classic game in the series. Officially titled Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town with its already confirmed Western release from XSEED Games, players will find themselves returning to Mineral Town where players will move into the farm they once visited as a child in order to help it thrive again.
Grow vegetables and crops, tend to animals, fall in love with and marry one of the town’s residents, and enjoy life to the fullest in this heartwarming game. An introduction trailer as well as a number of screenshots have also been released and you can check them out below.
The Conception series may have been rather absent in recent years but now Spike Chunsoft has announced that they are planning on bringing Conception Plus: Maidens of the Twelve Stars to the West for the PlayStation 4 and PC with a planned release date of November 5th in North America and November 8th in Europe. On release the game will feature both English and Japanese voice work as well as English subtitles.
Unfortunately, due to Sony’s new censorship policies the game will be censored when released in the West as the company has stated that “During the Classmating rituals, the Star Maidens’ 3D models will appear as blue and purple (rather than flesh-colored) and will not have detailed facial features. The animation itself is identical.”
As for the game itself, the players take the role as the main protagonist, Itsuki Yuge, who is suddenly summoned to the magical world of Granvania to save it from evil impurities. As the savior from another world known as “God’s Gift,” Itsuki and his Star Children, born between him and the 12 Star Maidens, are the only ones capable of banishing these impurities. To return to his own world, he must save this one with the help of his Star Children.
WayForward has announced that they are working on a brand new game called River City Girls which will be releasing digitally on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on September 5th where it will be priced at $29.99 on all platforms. River City Girls stars Kyoko and Misako, two street-tough high-schoolers who must fight their way through the six regions of River City to rescue their kidnapped boyfriends, series mainstays Kunio and Riki.
Along the way, they’ll utilize an arsenal of combos, counters, throws, and special attacks; battle an assortment of enemies; accept numerous side quests; level up with experience points; interact with NPCs (including guest stars from past River City games); and shop for a variety of items, food, and gear to boost stats and unlock new abilities. The girls can even wield weapons and recruit defeated foes to join them in combat.
WARFRAME DELIVERS INNOVATIVE
VISION OF SPACE COMBAT WITH 30 MINUTES OF EMPYREAN EXPANSION GAMEPLAY AND RELEASES
NEW CINEMATIC INTRO BY HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR
At TennoCon 2019
Digital Extremes Surprises Players With New, Instantly Available Nightwave
Season 2 Update and Wukong Prime Access on all Platforms, Delivers Roadmap to
Three Future Updates
LONDON, ON – July 6, 2019 – Canadian developer and publisher Digital Extremes is proud to reveal a riot of explosive announcements today led by a 30-minute live demonstration of its visionary cooperative space combat expansion, Empyrean, from TennoCon 2019, the fourth annual Warframe® conference. Bustling with a sold-out crowd, Digital Extremes presented Empyrean’s new, larger-scale cooperative gameplay with fluid ship-to-ship combat, the new ground-breaking multiplayer Squad Link system, and customizable battleship options.
The team also astounded players by unveiling a movie-quality cinematic introduction to Warframe by Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Black Mirror: Playtest, The Boys, Uncharted). This stunning re-imagination of the game’s introductory story presents Trachtenberg’s and Digital Extremes’ vision of an older era in the Warframe universe. In the Old War — the Orokin Era — when the original Warframes rebelled against their Orokin masters, flashback scenes depict them in battle against Dax Warriors in action scenes with proto-Grineer soldiers looming in the background. The new intro brings new narrative context and intense cinematic action to the Warframe universe like never before.
Captivating new trailers of the open world expansion Duviri Paradox and the fourth Cinematic Quest The New Warwere revealed, along with an extraordinary contest that gives players the chance to win cash toward a trip to space.
Digital Extremes kept the surprises coming by unveiling two Warframe updates, Nightwave Series 2 and Wukong Prime Access, both available immediately across all platforms — PC, PS4™, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch™.
Nightwave is Warframe’s
free, rotating seasonal system. Each Series unfolds over several weeks and
tells a brand new story. By completing daily and weekly challenges, Tenno
will unlock limited-time, exclusive rewards (gear, cosmetics and more)
while experiencing the story as they play. In Series 2: The Emissary players will meet a
strange mute child (Arlo) who emerges unharmed from the Infestation and
brings with him the miraculous ability to heal the sick.
Wukong Prime is
now ready for action! Available to earn through gameplay or purchase, the
enduring, swift and unruly Wukong Prime brings eager Tenno an enhanced
version of the original for the first time ever. Everybody’s got something
to hide, except Wukong Prime!
EMPYREAN EXPANDS DEEP SPACE COMBAT Empyrean expands the premise of Warframe by handing players and their clanmates the keys to the powerful Railjack battleship. Prepare to soar through the Origin System, explore new territory, and fight hostile forces with serious firepower! With an in-ship interface to control speed and direction, shield deployment, offensive missile volleys and gunner fire — including the ability to deploy Archwings and infiltrate enemy ships — players are now armed with an arsenal of tools to fend off and destroy enemy opposition. Player ships can be upgraded, take damage, and be customized, among many other things. New details from TennoCon 2019 bring an even deeper level of freedom, power and cooperative gameplay:
Connect the Community With
Squad Link!: This ground-breaking multiplayer system connects the
world of Warframe in
an entirely new way. Transcend beyond your solo objective and connect with
the larger community by reaching out to other Tenno squads using the Squad
Link. In multi-objective missions from space, players can call up on other
squads of active players to help the bigger cause — lower enemy ship
shields, steal valuable data, and more.
Assault, Steal and Pilot Enemy
Ships: Players
can now infiltrate opponent ships using Archwings and command them in a
variety of missions. Become a swashbuckling #Spaceninja, Tenno!
Customize and Upgrade Everything:
The Drydock
is your Railjack’s personal space garage. Build out and upgrade your
battleship’s Equipment, Cosmetics, Systems and Reinforcements with a huge
array of options, name your ship, and beautify it all by customizing
primary, secondary and tertiary colors, accents, decals and more.
Revenge: Enemies have begun adapting to
Tenno lethality, and from it kingpins will emerge! Players familiar with Warframe’s
in-development Kingpin system will be rewarded with a first look at how
these reactive enemies behave, starting with the Kuva Lich, Emra Rok, in
an epic boss fight on the capital ship.
Graphics
Upgrade:
Digital Extremes is dedicated to providing the single best graphic
fidelity to AAA free-to-play gaming. Using a completely re-written
rendering technology (“Deferred Renderer”) in its proprietary Evolution
Engine, Warframe’s
graphics have never looked better.
A BIGGER STORY The new introduction to Warframe builds a bridge between two eras. For the first time, players can catch a glimpse of the original Warframes fighting in the Old War using their robust Abilities and incredible fighting skills. Couched in a larger narrative, the three enticing flashback sequences are designed to introduce players to choose one of their first chooseable Warframes (Excalibur, Mag and Volt). The new six-minute introduction sets up players with a better understanding of the universe they are about to embark on with a deep, meaningful and more comprehensive storyline for Warframe.
“Getting to work so collaboratively with the dev team at DE has been an awesome experience,” says Great Guns’ Director Dan Trachtenberg. “As a massive fan of the game myself, having logged in hundreds of hours of play time, it’s been so much fun crafting a story that both sets up the universe for new players in a pretty epic way, while sprinkling it with moments that, I hope, make it doubly rewarding for hardcore fans with a better understanding of the game’s lore.”
Digital Extremes plans on incorporating the new introduction in late 2019/early 2020.
ROADMAP TO THE FUTURE The Devstream crew revealed several additional surprises on stage. After the massive Empyrean demo ended, Digital Extremes delivered a new Duviri Paradox update trailer. Following the first two open worlds, The Plains of Eidolon and Fortuna, the Duviri Paradox takes players on a reality-bending journey of the surreal. Digital Extremes teased players with the third open world comprised of an ominous new environment where Operators have grown up to become mature adults.
Digital Extremes also unveiled a new trailer from the fourth entry in Warframe’s narrative series with The New War. The team’s short teaser video relays a new chapter in the saga of the Lotus and the rise of the Sentients.
WIN CASH TOWARD A TRIP TO SPACE! This year’s TennoCon moves the space needle even further with a spectacular opportunity. In this incredible contest, Digital Extremes will offer players a chance to win $250,000 USD toward a trip to space by playing Warframe in the “Become a Real #SpaceNinja” sweepstakes today. Strap in and prepare for the Gs! Get full details here https://www.warframe.com/spaceninja.
All efforts behind TennoCon are designed for the benefit of Digital Extremes’ players and this year’s charity partner Canadian Mental Health Association, Middlesex Branch (CMHA Middlesex). CMHA will receive a portion of proceeds from TennoCon ticket sales as well as from online donations during the live show. CMHA helps to bring a greater understanding of self-care and mental health to the digital and gaming industry at large. For more, go to https://cmhamiddlesex.ca/.
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ABOUT DIGITAL EXTREMES Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world’s top independent video game development studios. Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games’ multi-million unit selling Unreal® franchise including Unreal, Unreal Tournament – and all its iterations – Digital Extremes went on to develop Dark Sector®, BioShock® for the PlayStation®3, the BioShock 2 multi-player campaign, and The Darkness® II. The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe®, boasting a global community of more than 50 million registered players on PC, PS4™, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch™. For more information about Digital Extremes, visit www.digitalextremes.com. To sign up for Warframe, visit www.warframe.com
After being released in Japan earlier this year NIS America has announced that they are planning on bringing the Langrisser I & II remake over to the West where it will be released for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC sometime in early 2020. The game will be released with Japanese voice work accompanied by English text.
In Langrisser I the forces of darkness are descending upon the kingdom of Baldea. Take up your sword as Prince Ledin, and discover the evil that lies in the heart of the Dalsis empire. While in Langrisser II the forces of darkness once again threaten the realm. Thrust in between warring factions, it is up to our hero Elwin to navigate this war and determine which path will bring peace to this conflict.
A new three minute trailer for Azur Lane: Crosswave has been released by Compile Heart with Cleveland’s voice actress providing the narration. This three minute long video, found below, shows various ship girls doing combat against a number of enemies followed by a look at other modes in the game such as the story mode, the Extreme Battle Mode, Photo Mode, and even a bit of what may be a marriage system, otherwise known as “oath” in the English version of the mobile game.
Currently Azur Lane: Crosswave is set to be released on the PlayStation 4 in Japan on August 29th with a North American and European release coming sometime in 2020.
A couple of weeks ago we learned that a new Utawarerumono game was in the works and now we know that it is in fact going to be a mobile game that will be released this year in Japan for Android and iOS phones. Utawarerumono: Lost Flag as it is called will be a free-to-play game with gacha mechanics that will likely be used to draw characters both new and from the original series.
In an interview with Famitsu it was announced that the game will still be an RPG and that it will be set in a region that has not appeared in previous games, though many characters from previous games will be appearing. To help assure fans of the series, Aquaplus’ president Naoya Shimokawa did state that there are other projects for consoles in the works and to look forward to them in the future.
