The hopes of many have finally been answered. Today during their Nintendo Direct presentation Nintendo announced that they will be bringing Square Enix’s 3DS RPG, Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, over to North America and Europe. Interestingly enough, Europe will be getting the game sometime in 2013 while North America will be receiving the title sometime in 2014. Currently it is unknown if the game will retain it’s original name of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, considering Nintendo mentioned it as the “Temporary Title.”
It is certainly great news that Bravely Default is coming West, though it does come as a surprise that Nintendo will be handling all of the publishing rights for the game. To go along with the announcement, the company has released the below English subtitled cinematic trailer.
Activision’s new Marvel comic adaptation, Deadpool, is getting some pre-order DLC from Gamestop/EBGames and Amazon. As is the case with almost every major title these days, pre-order bonuses are digital and include both game content and media.
Two bonus maps – GRT Plaza and Inside the Tower – to Deadpool Challenge Mode.
Two bonus costumes, D-Pooly and Uncanny X-Force suits. The costumes can only be used in the unlockable Infinite mode that includes global stats-tracking.
Exclusive digital wallpaper (U.S. only)
Midnight launch party at the GameStop store which gets the most pre-orders. (U.S. only)
Players wondering why the games from Japan’s GUILD01 Collection have gone on sale HERE needn’t wonder much longer as the reason for the sale is none other than in honor of 3 games from the GUILD02 Collection to soon be joining them on the Nintendo 3DS. The 3 new games from Level-5 finally making it to North America and Europe will be The Starship Damrey, Bugs vs. Tanks!, and Attack of the Friday Monsters: A Tokyo Tale.
The Starship Damrey is an adventure game centered on horror and suspense as the player must find their way through to discover the truth without any aid from tutorials or hints. Coming from designer Kazuya Asano and writer Takemaru Abiko, who lead the way for Japanese text based adventures. As an added bonus, those who have downloaded any of the previous titles can explore a special additional scenario after reaching the end.
Bugs vs Tanks! takes things away from the horror genre and into the action shooter genre, placing players in the controlling seat of a WWII tank that has unfortunately been shrunk to the size of insects. Coming from Keiji Inafune, of Mega Man, Onimusha, and Dead Rising fame, the game tasks players with fighting the now huge bugs, from the player’s perspective. Allowing the players to customize their tanks, it also offers up to 4 person co-op missions and StreetPass enabled friendly cover fire. Bugs vs Tanks! also offers a bonus for those having bought any of the previous titles with an exclusive Gold Tank.
Finally Attack of the Friday Monsters: A Tokyo Tale is the story of a young boy living in a nice quiet village, that also happens to have the giant monsters from 1970’s Japanese TV shows coming to life every Friday. The usual. Coming from Kaz Ayabe of Millennium Kitchen known for the Boku no Natsuyasumi (Summer Holidays 20th Century) series, players will be able to get a good sense of the situation through “Tokyo-life simulation” gameplay. As with the others, players that have purchased any of the previous titles will receive a bonus in the form of a “Space Defense Department Junior Member Notebook” featuring concept art and illustrations.
Some pretty interesting games for those in North America and Europe to look forward to when they release this Spring for the Nintendo 3DS eShop, though unfortunately they will only be localized in English.
Preparing to be available in June 2013, Company of Heroes 2 brought to you by SEGA of America and SEGA Europe will have a Digital Collector’s Edition available for purchase. Here are a few things avid Company of Heroes 2 players can enjoy by picking up this special edition:
Vehicle Skin Combo Pack – 24 Historically Accurate Skins for Multiplayer
Commander Pass – Unlocks Five Multiplayer Commanders Post-Launch
Company of Heroes Complete Pack – Includes Original Company of Heroes and Expansions (Opposing Fronts & Tales of Valor)
By pre-ordering the Digital Collector’s Edition, players will receive all the previous mentioned goodies along with a post-launch Theatre of War mini-pack and two new multiplayer Commanders for each faction. Why have a cake when you can just eat the icing? Greg Wilson, Producer of Company of Heroes 2, had the following to say:
Following the transition to SEGA, we have been working hard to improve and enhance the offerings for pre-order and Digital Collector’s Edition customers and are delighted to be able to reward our most loyal fans.
Available on Steam as well as other vendors, the Digital Collector’s Edition has already been made available to the public. Purchased the product already? No need to fret because your purchase has been upgraded to meet the new offering. Find out more about the Digital Collector’s Edition and Company of Heroes 2here.
Namco Bandai Games America have announced Soul Calibur V will be hitting the PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Games on Demand on April 23, 2013. The game will retain its online features on the downloadable versions.
The weapons-based fighter featuring characters from multiple franchises was initially released on January 12 last year, and received fairly robust reviews. It is set 17 years after Soul Calibur IV and includes both old and new characters such as Ezio Auditore.
Soul Calibur V will be priced at the reasonable sum of US$19.99. Although it hasn’t been specified when or if it will be available to download in regions other than North America. To see if its your kind of thing, check out our review!
A rather spectacular promo video has been streamed ahead of Evangelion 3.0’s BD/DVD release on April 24, featuring the familiar Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. The third film in the four-part rebuild project runs for 95 min with a bonus short included, the 10 min “Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo” which was made Hideaki Anno and produced by Studio Ghibli.
Titled as Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo for its home release, both BD and DVD first editions will include a bonus soundtrack CD and a 66-page booklet packed in a special Digipak box. Unfortunately English subtitles are not included.
Evangelion 3.0 is set to screen in Australia and New Zealand later this year as part of Madman’s REEL Anime cinema festival. Check out the trailer below!
Today’s episode of Oha Suta has brought us something super awesome: A new trailer for the move Extremespeed Genesect: Mewtwos Reawakening and, damn, it’s a good one. The trailer gives us our first glimpse at the new Mewtwo form in action and shows us a bit more of what’s to come in the movie, not only has it shown us Genesects and a Mewtwo but the trailer also shows a bunch of old-school Pokemon that, personally, I’m heaps excited to see doing some good in the movie.
Now I got a lot of flak on my previous article on the New Mewtwo Form and it was mostly from people who believed this to NOT be a new version of Mewtwo, but from the new footage of this movie I think it’s COMPLETELY safe to say this IS a new form of Mewtwo and I say that based on the evidence that we actually see him transform. That’s pretty concrete.
The trailer also shows a bit of footage from the special Pikachu & Eevee Friends which is a short movie featuring the new Eevee evolution Sylveon.
So go and check out the new Trailer in the featured video section below and don’t forget to drop us a line in our comments section just under that.
Grinding Gear Games is pleased to announce their free-to-play MMO title Path of Exile will begin season two of its race events starting April 20th. These race events are separate from the main stream game dealing with new characters to test players in skill and luck. This time around Grinding Gear Games has made some changes to the events concerning prizes and their availability. Those participating can expect to gain an award by at least completing one of the goals given during the race event. Thus, everyone can join in on the fun of gaining a new item.
Another new addition to the race events will be the inclusion of “significant events” where each player will take on a solo mission and be measured on completion time as well as mission objectives. The top player in each class will receive a prize similar to those that complete top 20 overall during the season. Season two will last for six weeks from April 20th to June 2nd. To learn more about this competition, follow the Path of Exile link (here).
While last time they only offered screenshots HERE, developer Spiders Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive for Mars War Logs now offer a new overview trailer to cover how much control the player will actually have. Narrated by Spiders Studio CEO Jehanne Rousseau, the video also does a good job covering everything from the warring companies to where the mutations are coming from.
With a goal of an RPG with total freedom, Mars War Logs offers players to control how Roy plays, what skills to advance in the skill tree, dialogue options, and companion interactions. Touching on everything we’ve learned about the game so far, the video also includes new sequences of gameplay. So it not only serves as a great recap, but adds some visual goodies as well.
Players can watch the trailer embedded below in preparation for Mars War Logs for PC releasing in May, with XBLA and PSN versions coming sometime later.
D3Publisher today announced that it will bring the DreamWorks animated film, Turbo, to Nintendo’s Wii U and Wii,the Nintendo 3DS and DS system,the PlayStation3, and the Xbox 360. Turbo: Super Stunt Squad will be available from summer 2013 to coincide with the release of the film, and is currently being developed by Monkey Bar Games.
Turbo: Super Stunt Squad is described as a high-velocity action game, which features the characters from the upcoming film. Each playable character has its own style and skills which will come in handy when earning respect with jumps, drifts, grinds, flips and other stunt moves. Expert skills will also prove useful to earn power-ups, customize your character, win competitive challenges and discover shortcuts in the dynamic larger-than-life environments of Turbo’s world.
The Turbo: Super Stunt squad trailer can be seen below.
