May looks to be a big month for Monster Hunter fans everywhere, as Capcom have now released a new trailer displaying all of the DLC you can pick up during the month for the fantastic portable entry (check out our review HERE if you have yet to do so). The first thing to speak of are new challenge quests, allowing users to download missions to face new beasts.
Those who want some cosplay action are also in luck, as new Street Fighter, Metroid, and Mega Man skins have also been added, adding a little more flare to the already boasting experience. Check out the clip below and get ready for all of the DLC that May promises to bring to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
London based indie developers Endtimes Studio are turning to Kickstarter to raise funds for their upcoming Oculus Rift adventure game Plugged. The game runs on Unreal Engine 4 and is designed to update the venerable point and click adventure genre for the virtual reality space. Dubbed “Look and Click,” players will use their eyes and head instead of a mouse cursor to interact with the world and solve puzzles.
Endtimes Studio is looking to raise £20,000 (roughly $30,000 USD) to push the project to completion. The devs plans on using the money raised on Kickstarter to increase the number of endings in the decision driven narrative to double the number of possible endings to eight, add more puzzles, and generally polish the game. The stretch goals will add more possible endings to the game.
Be sure to check out the project on Kickstarter and back the campaign before May 30, 2015.
Black Mesa is a Source Engine remake of the original Half-Life that has been available for a while now, but has yet to make its way to Steam despite being one of the first titles added to Steam Greenlight in 2012. But we may be hearing something new about the first-person shooter remake very soon.
Recently, a mysterious banner image appeared at the top of the Black Mesa site that leads to a different false site for the Black Mesa Research Facility (the setting of Half-Life), home to a countdown clock. The clock is counting down to Tuesday, May 5 at 10:47 am EST/7:47 am PST/1447 UTC. May 5 is a significant date in the Half-Life universe as it is the date which Gordon Freeman is officially hired at Black Mesa, according to the Half-Life wiki page.
This may very well be an announcement of when we will find out Black Mesa reaches Steam. Heck, if we continue to go by the original Half-Life timeline, we may very well see Black Mesa on Steam by May 16 (Gordon Freeman’s first day at Black Mesa). Either way, we will report back here on Tuesday when we know more.
Nintendo are putting a lot of faith in their latest IP, and want you to see it in action with a brand new Nintendo Direct. On May 7th, you can view the Splatoon Nintendo Direct, which will highlight gameplay and show off features for the fresh title.
These little inklings seem to be a wave of the future and display a direction that Nintendo have always wanted to go in with online multiplayer, but as of yet have not done thus far. The jury is still out but Splatoon does launch this month, so check out a few new pieces of art down below and visit the link at 4pm CEST on May 7th for the big news.
The official Twitter account for Silver Link’s anime adaptation of Atto’s manga series Non Non Biyori has revealed that the second season of the adaptation, titled Non Non Biyori Repeat, will premiere on Japanese television this coming July. The exact premiere date has not yet been revealed. This announcement comes more than one year after the second season was green-lit.
The first season of the anime adaptation is available on DVD and Blu-ray in North America with English subtitles however the OVA episode, which was bundled with the seventh volume of the manga series last July, has not yet been released to home-video with English subtitles.
Recently Swery announced that D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die will be heading to the PC sometime in the future and today Access Games has updated the official website for the game with a list containing the various changes that have been made to the original game, most of which involve the removal of Kinect features that have now been replaced with mouse movements, as well as the minimum and recommended PC requirements.
The changes to the PC version are as follows:
Kinect control functionality has been removed. Instead, the entire game can be played using only the mouse.
Kinect gesture input controls have been removed and replaced with mouse commands.
Synchronous Kinect inputs have been changed to new mouse commands.
All Kinect Commands during Synchro Stunts (QTEs) have been removed. Instead, the QTEs can be played entirely using mouse controls.
All Xbox One DLC is now in-game content.
Along with the above changes, the user interface has also been redone.
All voice controls have been removed.
Synchro Stunt (QTE) grading has been revised.
Item parameters and locations have been revised.
Options unique to the PC version have been added.
The game now runs at 60fps.
Load times have been shortened.
Previously discovered bugs have been fixed.
Content unique to the Xbox One version has been removed.
The PC requirements for D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die are below:
Recommended Specifications:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit edition or Windows 8 64-bit edition
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K @ 3.5GHz or AMD CPU or equivalent
Memory: 8GB RAM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD Radeon HD 7850 (VRAM 2GB)
Display: Supports 1920×1080 resolution
DirectX: DirectX 11
Hard Disk: Hard disk with 20GB of free space
Sound Card: DirectX 11 compatible sound card
Other: Keyboard and mouse required. Compatible with Xbox Controller using XInput
Minimum Specifications:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit edition or Windows 8 64-bit edition
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz or AMD CPU or equivalent
Memory: 6GB RAM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 6870 (VRAM 1GB)
Display: Supports 1280×720 resolution
DirectX: DirectX 11
Hard Disk: Hard disk with 10GB of free space
Sound Card: DirectX 11 compatible sound card
Other: Keyboard and mouse required. Compatible with Xbox Controller using XInput
Earlier today Atlus USA announced that Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains will be released digitally in North America on May 12th for the Nintendo 3DS. When the game is released it will be priced at $39.99 but will also come with a special Attack on Titan Nintendo 3DS theme.
To go along with this announcement the company also released a new gameplay trailer for Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains that focuses on highlighting the various playable characters in the game, including Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Levi, and Sasha.
Due to a copyright claim, the European release for the game is now being changed back to the original Japanese title Shingeki no Kyojin: Humanity in Chains and has been delayed to a currently unannounced date.
Now that most of the Investigation Team has been introduced, Persona 4: Dancing All Night‘s latest character trailer turns to Nanako Dojima, the protagonist’s young cousin. While visiting the city with her father Ryotara Dojima she meets up with Rise’s rival idol, who was briefly discussed at times in the original Persona 4, Kanami Mashita who wants to help her out.
After meeting Kanami she asks herself if she can be like Rise and even gets a chance to dance like everyone else. Currently Persona 4: Dancing All Night is set to be released in Japan by Atlus on June 25th for the PlayStation Vita.
The sequel to Cyberstep‘s popular 3rd person shooter CosmicBreak is now available to play in Japan. CosmicBreak 2 has been designed from the ground up with a number of new features and systems to give the title a smoother more open-ended feel while also creating destructible environments. CosmicBreak 2 includes a large number of playable characters, with each one having a unique outfit, armament, and customization options that players will be able to try out in 10 vs 10 arena matches.
A trailer for CosmicBreak 2 can be found below though it is worth noting that since this is the Japanese launch, the title is region locked so PC players in other regions can currently not access the title without a workaround but can download the game from CosmicBreak 2’s official website. Cyberstep is planning on releasing the game in the US, Europe, Brazil, and Asia within the year.
It always seems like Microsoft is under-utilizing the Rare team, which acquired the developer back in 2002. Rare was a popular developer known for the Donkey Kong Country series for Nintendo and creating the Banjo-Kazooie and Conker series. As of late, Rare has been tossed aside, making Kinect titles for the publishing giant. This has led to a number of Rare team members leaving the company and starting up their own indie developers. One such indie developer is Playtonic Games, who just launched a Kickstarter for their spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie called Yooka-Laylee (formerly Project Ukulele). Check out the video below:
Crowdfunded games have become a huge — albeit sporadically successful — enterprise in our gaming industry. With that said, Playtonic Games managed to reach its funding goal within an hour and has already more than quadrupled its funding goal at the time of this post on its first day of launch.
Yooka-Laylee is a 3D platformer starring a chameleon — Yooka — with a bat — Laylee — on its back. Like Banjo-Kazooie, the game will feature special combat abilities suited to the characters, like Yooka’s tongue grapple and Laylee’s sonar blast.
“When we first announced our project earlier this year it was as much about gauging interest from fans as anything, and it’s fair to say that the response has been massive,” said Gavin Price, managing director and creative lead at PLAYTONIC.
“Until now our development has been self-funded, but Kickstarter presents us with the amazing opportunity to deliver YOOKA-LAYLEE at the level of scope and scale that fans demand – and on their games platform of choice. Our team has decades-worth of ideas that we hope we’ll now finally have the resources and freedom to bring to reality.”
Yooka-Laylee is looking to be released sometime in 2016 on PC, Mac, Linux, Wii U, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Check out the funding and stretch goals on the game’s Kickstarter page.
