NIS America has announced that they will be releasing a few of their older titles onto the PC in the next couple of months. The first title will be htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary which is set to be released on March 14th while the second one happens to be Criminal Girls: Invite Only which will be released on PC sometime in April.
Both of these games were previously released as PS Vita exclusives though it is currently unknown whether the censorship that was applied to Criminal Girls: Invite Only‘s Vita release will also be applied to the PC version of the game.
A new trailer for Grand Kingdom has been released alongside the first English screenshots for the title which is being released by NIS America for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on June 21st in North America and June 17th in Europe where the title will be available at retail and as a digital download in both regions.
Developed by Spike Chunsoft, Grand Kingdom tells the story of a mercenary squad leader where players will assemble a team to lead across a battle-scarred continent to complete contracts for each nation. Players may also hop online to form an exclusive contract with one of the Four Great Nations, and participate in war with other players for the future of Resonail.
NIS America has announced that they will be bringing Nippon Ichi Software’s latest horror title Yomawari: Night Alone to North America and Europe in late 2016. As we have discussed in the past, this is a survival horror game where a young girl walking her dog Poro suffers a tragic accident that forces her to return home without the dog.
The girl’s older sister heads out in the night to search for the dog and when she doesn’t return, it is up to the girl to head out into the horrific night and search for her missing sister and the dog. To go along with this announcement the company has released a set of new screenshots as well as a gameplay trailer for Yomawari: Night Alone that you can check out below.
In what may be a first for the long running series, a Touhou title is going to be officially released in English. NIS America has announced that they are bringing over the Touhou Project shoot’em up Genso Rondo to the West where it will be available for the PlayStation 4 as a digital download in North America and Europe sometime this summer.
The title will feature a story mode featuring many of the characters of Touhou Project, local and online multiplayer modes, special bullet types, and more. You can check out screenshots and some gameplay footage for Touhou Genso Rondo below.
Visual novels have grown quite popular in the West over the last few years to the point that even those based on anime series have been making their way over. NIS America is the latest company to embrace visual novel localization by announcing that they will be bringing the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita versions of Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness out in North America and Europe sometime this fall.
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is set during the beginning of the anime series and players can select between playing as either an Enforcer named Takuma Tsurugi, who is searching for his friend, or Inspector Nadeshiko Kugatachi, a woman without her memories.
A new character trailer for Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness has been released by tri-Ace and Square Enix and this time around they are focusing on introducing the party member Relia. She is a mysterious young girl that has no memories or emotion but joins Fidel and the rest of the group in order to try and restore them. She takes to Miki fairly quickly and comforts others with the way she speaks but someone appears to be targeting her.
Currently Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is set to be released in Japan on March 31st and the PlayStation 4 version of the game has been confirmed for release in North America and Europe sometime in 2016.
The Microsoft press event for Xbox One and Windows 10 was today, but things are hush-hush until next week. In the mean time, this week’s Xbox Newsbeat is about Halo 5: Guardians, Rocket League, and more.
New Halo 5: Guardians Free Content Detailed as Hammer Storm Launches Today
Halo fans have asked, and 343 Industries will be delivering! A PvE mode based on Warzone will be coming. It will be called Warzone Firefight and will launch in the next several months. More detail will be released as the date draws closer.
Additionally, the new “Hammer Storm” update is out today. First off, Grifball, Assault, and Fiesta game modes along with the new Torque map has been added to the game. Of course, no game of Grifball could be complete without the Gravity Hammer, which joins the classic Halo CE Pistol as the update’s two new weapons. Map making wizards will be able to use the new ball mechanic in Forge mode to create their own game mode variants. Of course, no Halo 5: Guardians update is complete without more REQ items.
Shake Off the Winter Chill with March’s Games with Gold
February is drawing to an end, which means it’s time for Microsoft to announce March’s Games with Gold. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishmentwill be available on Xbox One from March 1-31. Lords of the Fallen will be available on Xbox One from March 16-April 15. Supreme Commander 2 on Xbox 360 will be available from March 1-15, while Borderlands will be available from March 16-31. Both Borderlands and Supreme Commander 2 will be playable on Xbox One via backwards compatibility.
Final 16 Teams for Halo World Championship Set; Prize Pool Now USD $2.5 Million
The qualifiers are finally over and the final 16 teams have been announced for the Halo World Championship. The teams are”Team Allegiance (NA), Counter Logic Gaming (NA), Evil Geniuses (NA), Team Liquid (NA), Noble eSports (NA), Renegades (NA), Triggers Pound (NA), Denial eSports (NA), Epsilon eSports (EMEA), FabE (EMEA), exceL (EMEA), Team Infused (EMEA), Team Immunity (AU), Team Exile5 (AU), Skyfire (Asia) and Chosen Squad (LATAM).
They will be competing for their share of a prize pool that has grown to $2.5 million from the original $1 million dollars thanks to community crowdfunding. This means the winning team will be able to bring home a million dollars. Tune into the grand finals on March 18-20.
5 Ridiculously Awesome Rocket League Videos
With Rocket League finally out on Xbox One, the Xbox Wire team has shared five of their favourite plays. Some of them are luck, some of them are failures, and some are just pure skill. Check them out at Xbox Wire.
Garden Warfare takes place at the Microsoft Store this weekend
If you’re in the Sydney area this weekend, head on down to the Microsoft Store and check out the Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 tournament. There are four ways to get a spot in the tournament and even if you don’t get in, there will be plenty of things to do during the tournament on Saturday.
How to enter:
Visiting the Microsoft Store, Sydney before Friday 26th February and registering interest with a Store Associate
Watching the 6T4 Bites Twitch Live Stream of Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2 on Thursday 25th February where more details will be revealed
Entering the Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2 competition on Facebook: Plants vs. Zombies ANZ
Win a spot by attending the event on Saturday 27th February and showing why you should get to compete!
In a very surprising announcement, Koei Tecmo has announced that they will be releasing a new character for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round in March. Fans of Samurai Warriors will quickly recognize the character as she is a longtime fan favorite by the name of Naotora Ii.
Koei Tecmo has stated that she will be released in March alongside a new stage for the game and a number of new Samurai Warriors themed costumes that will be available for other characters. While stage will be available as a free download Naotora Ii will be available for download at $5.99 for just the character or $7.99 which includes her debut costume pack.
You can check out the character and the costumes below as well as a description of the character from Koei Tecmo.
Dragged into a mysterious portal by-way-of a M.I.S.T. time-travelling experiment, the ruler of Japan’s Warring States era Ii Clan, Naotora Ii, emerges in present-day next to a competitor of the DEAD OR ALIVE fighting tournament. Given no other choice but to fight for her life, and keeping her family motto of ‘once on the battlefield, one must face the enemy head on’ in mind, a determined Naotora sets out to emerge victorious from this strange new challenge.
Specializing in kick-based attacks, Naotora developed her signature ‘Ii Style Leg Strikes’ fighting style after serving under Yoshimoto Imagawa, who based his techniques on his mastery of the traditional Japanese ball game “kemari.” The quick and powerful strikes from her long legs make her a formidable rival to anyone who steps into the ring!
Bandai Namco has released a new trailer for Dark Souls III and this time around they are taking the musical approach by showing off the various environments that players will be exploring as well as some of the basic enemies and bosses that they will be fighting against in these areas all set to the song “True Colors” performed by Richie Kohan and Faux Fix.
You can check out the video below where even a few special attacks are shown off and how effective fire can still be in this game. Currently Dark Souls III is set to be released on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 24th in Japan and April 12th for the rest of the world.
February saw the epic return of PlayStation® Plus Vote to Play, giving power to the players to choose the games of their choice to join the March games roster. The players’ voices have now been heard and Broforce beat the competition to the pip for the chance to make a splash in the gaming world and win the second ever round of Vote to Play.
The manic-action 2D shooter Broforce went up against stiff competition with Assault Android Cactus by Brisbane indie-start-up Witch Beam and Action Henk! by Rage Squid. Broforce ultimately won voters over with its part-irreverent spoof and part-loving homage to what are now classic movies and classic games.
Broforce will be available to PS Plus members from March 2, letting players live the memories of ’80s action heroes and gang up in a team of four as part of the excessively overpowered yet underfunded paramilitary organisation. The job – to save the world using primary skill and excessive force!
Joining Broforce this month on the PS Plus list is Galak-Z, another 80’s style title, where players try to survive the hostile environments of deep space, battling warring factions full of unique and cunning enemies. Enjoy spaceship anime and arcade-gaming meld with ultra-modern physics and A.I. in a skill-demanding, procedurally generated rogue-lite adventure.
The full list of February PlayStation Plus games available is:
In celebration of the Broforce win, there is an extra special challenge for the community this month! Gamers will be given the opportunity to design a trailer for Broforce using the latest Sharefactory feature ‘time bender’ with prizes up for grabs. Prizes include game codes for Vote to Play runners up: Action Henk and Assault Android Cactus! More information provided here.
PlayStation Plus members can also go to What’s New or visit the PlayStation Plus section of the PlayStation Store, where they’ll find further details for Vote to Play.
If you don’t already have a PlayStation Plus account and would like to learn more about the benefits of the service, such as the monthly games, access to online multiplayer on PS4, exclusive member discounts, cloud game saves and more, click here.
