If you were hoping to play South Park: The Fractured but Whole this year then it looks like you’ll just have to deal with the premiere of the latest season of the series to tide you over for a while. Ubisoft has announced that they are no longer going to be releasing South Park: The Fractured but Whole in December and are now aiming to have the title released sometime in Q1 2017.
The reason given for the delay is that the “development team wants to make sure the game experience meets the high expectations of fans and the additional time will help them achieve this goal” which means that the team is taking more time to polish the game and they might even sneak in a few last minute references that might get brought up in the new season.
Square Enix has released a new trailer for NieR: Automata at Tokyo Game Show and this latest trailer focuses on introducing characters we’ve seen before as well as a large number of newly introduced characters in the form of Devola, Popola, pod 042, Pod 153, the Commander, Operator 60 and Operator 210, Adam, Eve, and Pascal.
You’ll also notice a certain character named Emil will be making a return, though his true form is not yet revealed while other characters appear vaguely familiar. The video can be found below while NieR: Automata is set to be released for the PlayStation 4 and PC in North America and Europe sometime in early 2017.
Sony has released a brand new Tokyo Game Show trailer for Gravity Rush 2 which will be released alongside some heavy competition in early December. The trailer features plenty of gameplay and cinematic footage and you can check it out below. Those who haven’t been following the game will find that in Gravity Rush 2 Kat must search for the clues to her origin while mastering three new gravity attacks to take down enemies and massive bosses that stand in her way.
Gravity Rush 2 is currently set to be released for the PlayStation 4 on November 30th in Europe, December 1st in Japan, and finally on December 2nd in North America.
A couple of weeks ago Telltale Games announced that the second episode of Batman: The Telltale Series would be released on September 20th and now that we are only four days away from the digital release of the episode, the company has released a new trailer giving fans a little sample of what they can expect.
Titled “Children of Arkham” the episode follows the fallout from the discoveries that were made during the debut episode of the series while also introducing new villains that Bruce Wayne and his alter ego Batman will have to face off against while he struggles to find the truth.
Koei Tecmo has released an English subtitled version of the Berserk Tokyo Game Show trailer and alongside it they had a few more reveals for Western fans of the game. The company announced that the game will officially be called Berserk and the Band of the Hawk and that they are aiming to have the title released physically and digitally for the PlayStation 4 as well as digitally for the PS VIta and PC on February 21st in North America and February 24th in Europe.
The company also released a small batch of new screenshots and you can check those out, as well as the aforementioned trailer, below.
A new trailer for Sega‘s upcoming PSVR title Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live has been released for Tokyo Game Show and this one gives us a look at just how the virtual reality concerts will appear in the game. You can check it out in the video below where a number of different songs and performances are shown off from both the crowd and the stage where players will be able to step onto if they “encourage” the singer’s enough.
Currently Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live is set to be released in Japan for the PlayStation 4 on October 13th and Sega has already confirmed the Western release of the title for October 14th.
With Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse set to be released in North America next week Atlus USA has released the launch trailer for the game to give fans a small example of what to expect from the title as well as show off how the English cutscenes and various gameplay elements will look when the title is released.
You can check out the full video below and be sure to keep an eye out for Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse when it is released next week on September 20th for the Nintendo 3DS. Currently the European release of Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is set for sometime this winter season by Deep Silver.
Tokyo Game Show is an amazing place for anime game news and this year is no exception. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 has received a brand new trailer but unfortunately, it was a bit of a let down. We only got confirmation of two new characters, Meta Cooler and Nail and not much of anything else outside of some flashy story sequences. There are still a few interesting tidbits I’ll go through though. You can see Nail making a brief appearance in this screenshot below.
Anime cutscenes seem to make a return for the story mode which are always nice to see. Goku and Vegeta seem to have access to their Resurrection F outfits in their base forms. There seems to be a lot more options for character customisation in terms of body features, with up to 34 hair styles shown for a female Saiyan where as the last game only had 20. Unfortunately, when your avatar goes Super Saiyan 1 or 2 their hair will remain flat which was a big complaint from the first game that seems to have carried over.
One cool feature revealed is that Towa is nurturing some kind of egg. In Dragon Ball Online lore where Mira and Towa are from, they do have a child together called Fuu who hatches from an egg. Perhaps that lore is being adapted into Dragon Ball Xenoverse.
Dates for the Japanese open and closed beta were also announced. The closed beta will run from 8/10/2017 until 10/10/2017. The open beta will run from the 14/10/2017 until the 17/10/2017.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 releases on October 25th for PS4 and Xbox One in North America and an October 28th for the rest of the world. The PC edition also lands on the 28th. Check out the new TGS trailer below. This article will be updated with official screenshots and a better quality copy of the trailer when it is made available.
Logitech announced today that they have purchased Saitek from Mad Catz today for $13 million in cash. Logitech’s purchase gives them ownership of both the Saitek brand and the full line of flight and space simulation controllers.
Ujesh Desai, the vice president and general manager of gaming at Logitech said “We’re pleased with this tuck-in acquisition of the Saitek product portfolio. The Saitek product line complements our market-leading portfolio of Logitech G gaming products, including simulation products like our G29 and G920 Driving Force steering wheels, and expands our leadership position at a very exciting time for gaming.” It is not entirely clear if Logitech will be keeping the Saitek brand as is, folding it into Logitech’s existing G gaming brand, or some combination of the two.
The sale is quite a large loss for Mad Catz, as they purchased Saitek back in 2007 for $30 million. Mad Catz’ sale of Saitek follows a major reboot of Mad Catz’s RAT line of gaming mice, which hints that Mad Catz is making a serious attempt to refocus itself in the gaming peripheral market.
Battlestate Games released some gameplay footage recorded during Escape from Tarkov’sclosed alpha. Taken from players representing the American/European themed USEC faction, the trailer features plenty of gunplay, weapon modding, and trading.
The voice work seems a little over the top based on the trailer. Characters seem to have something to say for a large portion of the firefights featured in the video; however, this is a short, edited trailer that may not represent the actual gameplay. I am hoping conversation during firefights will be a little more tactically focused beyond the die, die, die type lines featured in the trailer.
Escape from Tarkov is an FPS survival game with RPG elements set in the sealed city of Tarkov, where two factions of private military contractors are trapped inside and fighting to escape. The game is available for pre-order through the official website and comes with access to the closed alpha.
