Jason Demarco, Senior Vice President and Creative Director on-air for Adult Swim, announced via his Twitter account that the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure television anime series will begin broadcast on Adult Swim’s Toonami block this October. Demarco confirmed that the broadcast will begin with Part 1, Phantom Blood.
Viz Media announced earlier this month that they had acquired the rights to release Part 1 on Blu-ray. Warner Home Video released the full first season, containing adaptations of Parts 1 and 2, on DVD in North America on September 22, 2015. Both releases include an English dub. Patrick Seitz voices antagonist Dio Brando in the dub.
Viz Media currently publishes the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga by Hirohiko Araki in North America. All three volumes of Phantom Blood are available in a hard cover edition.
FUNimation Films announced that they had acquired the live-action film Shin Godzilla from Toho Company, Ltd. yesterday at their panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2016. They have just posted the details of this license. FUNimation has the theatrical, home video, video on demand and broadcast rights for the new film. These rights cover the Americas, which include North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. FUNimation is planning to give Shin Godzilla a theatrical release later this year.
The film is known in Japan as Shin Gojira, which can mean ‘New Godzilla’. It is a Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film, a live-action sci-fi monster film utilising special effects. This is Toho’s 29th Godzilla film. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi directed the film. The former also served as the writer and the latter also served as the visual effects director.
NEW PLAYABLE CLASSES REVEALED FOR REVELATION ONLINE
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – July 22, 2016 – Global publisher My.com and developer NetEase are excited to uncover the classes of the upcoming F2P game Revelation Online, a new MMORPG set in an open fantasy world. The brand new trailer shows the roles of the non-gender locked classes in Revelation Online. Players can stand their ground as the Vanguard and soak up the damage for the team, or dish out damage from afar as a Gunslinger.
The classes in Revelation Online are:
Blademaster: As secondary tanks and close combat specialists, they combine their twin blade damage with escape skills, allowing them to cut through wave after wave of enemies. Their heavy reliance on melee attacks leaves them open to ranged assaults.
Vanguard: These steel walls rely on melee combat. Their chief strength is surviving battles of attrition, rather than dealing burst damage.
Swordmage: While wielding a falchion, they are focused on powerful magic damage, specializing in areas of effect spells. They invest all of their energy in sharpened elemental magic, leaving them relatively vulnerable to focused attacks.
Occultist: They deliver a wide variety of dark offensive spells, from damage-over-time, to area-of-effect attacks, to those that deal damage while siphoning enemy health. Occultists can directly heal allies as well.
Spiritshaper: As summoners and healers, they are relatively easy to play and have great survival skills. They are highly sought after on teams for their support and deceitfully high damage output.
Gunslinger: With high precise damage, they hunt down individual targets from afar or use advanced weaponry for mid-range deterrence. Gunslingers have few control skills and are less effective in close combat.
Players can pick their own play style by distributing points to their character attributes, such as strength and dexterity past level 40. All classes have diverse skill sets, with over 20 unique skills, which can be further upgraded past level 49 to match the chosen play style. Players are in full control over their class progression.
Revelation Online is a breathtaking Massively Online Multiplayer experience in which players will discover the lands of Nuanor. Explore a vibrant world of ancient mystery, and use the power of flight to experience absolute freedom. Spread your wings or master one of the many aerial mounts to soar through the sky. Dive into the waters or climb to the top of the world – in Revelation Online you can freely reach any place.
To sign up for the Revelation Online Beta today, visit ro.my.com/en/about. For more information, ‘Like’ it on Facebook and follow the game’s development on Twitter @RevOnlineGame for all the latest developer updates and news. ABOUT MY.COM
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Indie sensation Human: Fall Flat lands on PC, Mac and Linux today
Physics-based puzzler from Tomas Sakalauskas hits digital stores at 6:00pm BST
22nd July 2016: Human: Fall Flat, the debut PC and console game from Tomas Sakalauskas, unlocks on PC, Mac and Linux today at 6:00pm BST / 10am PDT.
The game sees player guide Bob through a series of surreal dreamscapes, using only his dexterity and the objects he finds around him. Its mix of surreal visuals, open-ended puzzling and laugh-out-loud gameplay has seen it become a firm favourite since a protoype was launched on itch.io – but this full Steam release comes with a significant amount of extra content, gameplay refinements and a brilliant co-op mode.
Human: Fall Flat encourages repeat playthroughs thanks to its multiple solutions – often there are many ways to reach each level’s exit. Experimenting with how objects interact with Bob and the environment can lead to some genuinely inventive moments. Players should never wonder how they can, more how will they.
“It’s been quite the journey,” says Tomas Sakauskas. “From an idea, to a test level, to a prototype, to close to 30 million YouTube hits to date, and now the final release, it’s been an unbelievably wild ride. I’m so excited to see people discover new ways for Bob to complete his journey.”
Human: Fall Flat is available for PC, Mac and Linux on July 22nd, priced £11.99 / $14.99 / €14.99 (although launch discounts will be available). Console versions will be published later in the year.
While fans of Hatsune Miku have already known that they were guaranteed to see the release of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X on August 30th, fans of the game in Europe have been wondering just how long they might have to wait to see their virtual idol arrive on the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. Well it turns out they won’t have to wait any extra time whatsoever as Sega has announced that they are releasing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X in Europe as a digital only title on August 30th, the same day that the game is being released physically and digitally in North America.
Sega also announced that they will be offering a demo for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X that will be available for both platforms in both regions on August 9th and will include three songs on Easy and Normal difficulties with these songs being “Satisfaction,” “LOL -lots of laugh-,” and “Raspberry & Monster,” and in this demo players will even be able to unlock a number of costume modules and create a custom Music Festival medley through the Event Request system.
Post-Apocalyptic Digital Boardgame ‘Nyheim’ Hits Indiegogo With Large Square Enix Collective Community Support
Rebuild society with innovative deck and dice gameplay
London, UK – July 22 2016: Nyheim™, the post-apocalyptic digital boardgame featuring an innovative deck and dice gameplay system, has launched on Indiegogo®. Having achieved a punchy 80% community approval rating in their Square Enix Collective Feedback pitch, FanART Games™, the Finland-based developer of Nyheim, has set a goal of €30,000 (€27,000, £25,000) to complete the game. Nyheim is being developed for mobile, consoles, PC and VR platforms.
After a deadly rat-borne virus spreads worldwide from London in February 2015, the player, as one of a small number of survivors, must find others, gather food and equipment, and help a growing community survive the harsh post-apocalyptic conditions of fictional Northern European city of Nyheim.
“As they already have with all Square Enix Collective®-supported campaigns, our community has now also voted strongly in favour of a crowdfunding campaign for Nyheim”, said Phil Elliott, creator and project lead for Square Enix Collective. “The gaming community’s commitment to Square Enix Collective has helped us to achieve 11 successful crowdfunding campaigns in a row. Nyheim will make a wonderful 12th addition to the increasingly diverse roster of Collective games”.
About Nyheim
A fusion of digital and tabletop worlds involving a card deck and dice gameplay system.
Single player game played out across the districts and surrounding area of fictional Northern European city of Nyheim.
Players must be strategic, choosing the best survivors to help explore the city, find new members and collect food, equipment, and other supplies.
Dice-roll discovered supplies are crucial to the community’s development; for example, will the players find the crucial books to teach their survivors new, desperately-needed skills?
Resources must be managed to successfully develop a growing community of survivors.
Always something new! Every game is randomly generated and has multiple endings. The map’s locations are randomised for each game as are the available cards, survivors, and their dice. With conditions and situations constantly changing, every game of Nyheim is unique.
Post-apocalyptic Nyheim is dangerous; perma-death means every life is precious. If the player’s whole party dies then it’s “game over”!
Developed for mobile, consoles, PC and VR.
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Blizzard wasted no time at their panel at San Diego Comic Con today. The California based company released three pieces of supplemental lore for their upcoming World of Warcraft: Legionexpansion pack in three very different forms. The first is episode one of a new animated series of shorts called World of Warcraft: Harbingers – The Story of Gul’dan. Told from the perspective of the first Orc warlock and series antagonist, the six minute animation tells the story of Gul’dan’s life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzNrcixsx-8
The audio drama World of Warcraft: Legion “The Tomb of Sargeras” was also announced at the panel today. To be delivered as a free podcast, the drama is written by Blizzard Story Developer Robert Brooks, who has written for all three of Blizzard’s franchises. The series will be narrated by Steven Pacey, a well known West End actor and cast member of Blake’s 7 on BBC.
The series will cover Gul’dan’s quest to reopen the Burning Portal at the Tomb of Sargeras. Legendary Archmage Khadgar is hunting Gul’dan and will do anything to stop the Burning Legion’ return to Azeroth. The podcast and the teaser trailer is available on iTunes.
Finally, Blizzard has released the comic World of Warcraft: Legion #4. Entitlerd “Anduin: Son of the Wolf,” the issue follows Anduin’s struggle as a leader and as a young man. The comic is available for free directly from Blizzardas a PDF or as a motion book through Madefire.
While Juri might have appeared in Street Fighter V‘s disappointing story mode, she hasn’t been released for normal play but that will soon change. Capcom has announced that they are planning on releasing Juri in full to Street Fighter V July 26 at 5:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 p.m. ET. The company has also provided something of a history for the character stating that Juri is a provocative S.I.N. agent from South Korea who goes by the codename of “Spider” and worked under Seth. Juri is a sadistic fighter who enjoys violence and loves tormenting her prey, with a tendency to get involved in anything she deems as fun or dangerous. Fueled by hatred of Shadaloo and M.Bison for the murder of her parents, Juri joined S.I.N. to seek revenge and doesn’t care who she has to annihilate to achieve her goals.
Juri returns to Street Fighter V with a brand new look and some tricks up her sleeves. A trained expert in Taekwondo, Juri also possesses a ki booster called the Feng Shui Engine equipped in her left eye to aid her during battles. She focuses on flashy, fast and furious kicks, and has a wide range of ki-based attacks at her disposal. Her trademark moves are her ki-based fireball attack and pinwheel kick.
Juri will launch and cost either fight money, be part of the season pass, or be purchased from the platform’s respective store. You can check out the reveal trailer for Juri as well as some screenshots focusing on her below.
Today Square Enix revealed the special and limited editions that they will be offering for World of Final Fantasy and this one is a bit different from the standard collector’s editions that we generally see nowadays. The PlayStation 4 version of the game will feature a special Square Enix Online Store exclusive collector’s edition that is priced at $119.99 and includes Cloud, Lightning, and Squall mini-figures, an 80 page hardcover at book, a 20 track OST, a code that provides players with digital content in the form of a Sephiroth summon, glow moogle, red bonnetberry mirages, a white chocobo, and Japanese voice DLC, all contained in a special pop-up book container.
Those who don’t want to pay extra can pick up the $59.99 limited edition of World of Final Fantasy that simply comes with a 24 page art book and all of the digital content mentioned earlier or simply pick up the day one version that includes only the digital content for, oddly enough, the same price.
2K released a brand new trailer for their upcoming open world shooter Mafia III. The live action trailer entitled “Death Suits You” features Lincoln Clay avenging the death of two of his mafia brothers in New Bordeaux. The trailer is sharply edited and tells a great story without a single word uttered.
The game is set in the fictional city of New Bordeaux in 1968. Black mobster Lincoln Clay has returned from the Vietnam War a hardened soldier. After narrowly escaping a purge by the Italian mob, Lincoln is hitting the streets on a quest to rebuild the organization and take vengeance on those who nearly destroyed it. Mafia III will launch on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 7th.
Mafia III is at San Diego Comic Con! The trailer will be shown at the Screen Junkies Live Movie Fight Panel with Kevin Smith. The panel will be held on Saturday at 9:15 PM in Room 6DE.
