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Hellblade Now Titled Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, New Details This Week

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Ninja Theory, the developers of DmC Devil May Cry and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, announced that they were working on a new game for the PlayStation 4 and PC quite some time ago and since they announced the game, called Hellblade at the time, the company has only been releasing developer diaries.

Well it seems that that will change later this week as the developer has announced that the game, now including a subtitle to be called Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, will have more information to reveal about the game later this week. For now however, they have released a new visual that you can check out above.

One Piece: Burning Blood Live Action Trailer Unleashed

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Bandai Namco has stepped things up a bit with their latest trailer for One Piece: Burning Blood as they have opted to forgo showing off any additional gameplay or characters and have went the live action route instead. The company has released a video showing off One Piece‘s Monkey D. Luffy, Enel, and Crocodile battling against one another in the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo among cheering/frightened pedestrians.

You can check out the trailer below and keep an eye out for the game itself when it is released in North America on May 31st and in Europe on June 3rd for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PS Vita, and PC.

Two New Characters and New Weapon Revealed for Toukiden 2

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This week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu has revealed quite a bit of information for a few games and Koei Tecmo‘s Toukiden 2 is yet another title to get a bit more information from its pages. The new details this time around come in the form of two new characters, named Benizuki and Homura, a new weapon that is the Swordwhip, and a new type of Oni that players will be facing off again which is a large winged creature covered in red scales called a Kashiri.

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The swordwhip is rather self explanatory as it is a bladed whip with a kunai attatched to the tip and offers multi-stage attacks with flying kunai that can be sent out to attack opponents at a distance. As for the new characters, Benizuki is a woman with a heavy crime weighing upon her and she wields a naginata while Homura is a wandering fighter that uses the aforementioned swordwhip.

Ponycan USA Announces Their Release of ‘Sound! Euphonium’ on Home Video

Ponycan USA announced today that the Sound! Euphonium anime series will be released on home video in North America from June 2016. The first collector’s edition release will be available on June 10, 2016, with volumes 2 and 3 following on August 10, 2016, and October 10, 2016, respectively.

Episodes 1-5 will be featured with Japanese audio and English and Spanish subtitles on both DVD and Blu-ray. Unaired short episodes, the textless opening and ending animation, the promotional video collection and the TV commercial collection will be featured as on-disc extras. The set will feature a double-sided cover, a deluxe booklet and two illustration cards.

Pony Canyon describes the series as follows:

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Find something precious through the activities in a brass band club. This is a real and memorable story of girls in their youth.

Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former classmate from junior high. Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but after reflecting on her experience with Reina at a junior high competition, Kumiko can’t make up her mind!

Volume 1 can be pre-ordered from Right Stuf here. It has a suggested retail price of $89.98 USD, but can currently be pre-ordered for $71.98 USD. Fans who pre-order the first volume before April 30, 2016, will receive a mystery bonus.

Aniplex USA Details Distribution Plans for ‘Persona 3 the Movie #4’ Import Blu-rays

Aniplex of America has announced their plans to distribute standard and collector’s edition imported Blu-rays of Persona 3 the Movie #4 – Winter of Rebirth. Pre-orders can be made here.

Both editions feature the film with Japanese audio and English subtitles. The audio commentary and on-disc extras are not subtitled. The commercials will be featured as on-disc extras on both editions. The collector’s edition comes with a soundtrack CD, exclusive box art, newly illustrated cover art, a 48-page deluxe booklet, an English translation of that booklet and a memorial film strip. The collector’s edition has a suggested retail price of $99.98 USD but is currently available for pre-order for $79.98 USD. The standard edition has a suggested retail price of $74.98 USD but is currently available for pre-order for $59.98 USD.

Aniplex USA provided a synopsis of the film:

“The hour of extinction is approaching. There is no way to stop it.”

They have learned of death, seen death and confronted death.
Makoto and his team had grown through numerous encounters and separations.

Maybe they’ve been fighting for themselves, not for the world.
Even so, they continued to battle, believing there will be a peaceful future.

However, the boy says that extinction is the fate of humanity.
The boy Makoto believed was his friend thrusts before him this cruel reality.

The season is now winter.
In order to welcome the spring, what decision must Makoto make…

The imported Blu-rays will be available to fans in the following territories: the U.S.A., Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, The U.S. Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, the Netherland Antilles, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator’s Online Lobbies to Feature Fishing Pond and Arcade Cabinets

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This week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu has revealed a few new details that have been added to make Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator‘s online lobbies a bit more enjoyable. All lobbies will now be shown in full 3D where the player can move around a field while controlling an avatar and communicate with other players while waiting for a match. There are even arcade cabinets placed in the lobby to give players feeling like they are fighting at an arcade.

Strangely enough, a pond has been added into the lobby and while waiting players can fish in the pond to obtain various avatar customization parts, emoticons, and character colors. Currently Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator is set to be released in Japan on May 27th for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 and in North America on June 7th.

Fate/Extella Revealed for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita

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Those who are fans of the Fate series will be happy to hear that a brand new game is on the way though it is a bit different from what most of the series has consisted of so far. Marvelous has announced, through Famitsu, that they are working on Fate/Extella which will be released on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

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Fate/Extella is apparently going to be an action game that will be stylized like a Warriors title that features a playable character named Nero Claudius who is of the “Saber” class. So far the revealed playable servants consist of the aforementioned Nero who is a woman that has previously fought in the Holy Grail war and has a mysterious form change, the familiar Caster Tamamo no Mae, and another Saber Altera who debuted in the series back in Fate/Grand Order.

You can check out a few images that have been taken from the scans below:

Gears of War 4 Multiplayer Beta to Begin on April 18th

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Microsoft and The Coalition have announced that they plan on launching the Gears of War 4 early access beta that will be available for everyone who owns a copy of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on April 18th and run to April 24th. For everyone else the beta will open up to everyone, at least those who have Xbox Live Gold, on April 25th and will run through May 1st.

During the Gears of War 4 beta players will be able to check out the game’s Versus multiplayer modes. Currently Gears of War 4 does not have a set release date but Microsoft is planning on releasing the title this holiday season.

Popular Anime Films To Be Screened at the Riverside Anime Festival in Melbourne Next Month

Madman Entertainment announced today that four popular anime films will be shown at the Riverside Anime Festival in Melbourne next month. Tickets for all films to be shown at the Riverside festival can be booked here.

The 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbour Totoro will be shown on Saturday, April the 30th at 4pm with Japanese audio and English subtitles. The 1997 Studio Ghibli film Princess Mononoke will be screened on the same day at 6:30pm with Japanese audio and English subtitles.

The Last: Naruto the Movie will be shown on Sunday, May the 1st at 2pm with Japanese audio and English subtitles. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ will be screened on the same day at 5pm with Japanese audio and English subtitles.

All tickets cost between $9-$15 AUD. Transaction fees vary.

Sentai Filmworks Licenses ‘Rin-Ne 2’

Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of the second season of Rin-Ne. Animated by Brains Base and adapted from Rumiko Takahashi’s original manga series, this season is a direct continuation of the first season. Rumiko Takahashi is known for famous works such as Urusei Yatsura, Ranma ½ and Inuyasha. The series is scheduled to begin broadcast in Japan in April 2016. A home video release will follow at a later date.

The first season of the animated adaptation aired in Japan from April to September last year. It ran for 25 episodes, and Sentai Filmworks licensed the season shortly after the broadcast of the first episode.