HNNNNNNNGH You know how Dale North feels about JRPGs? That’s kind of how I feel about a good action-adventure — specifically,theLegacy of Kainfranchise. After a fairly lackluster finale withDefiance, and someoddTomb RaiderDLC, it appeared as if the end was nigh for the franchise. But not so, according to astatement made to VG247from Square-Enix. Square-Enix community manager George Kelion had this to say about a project set in the same world: “Nosgothexists and is in active development, but is not a traditionalLegacy of Kainaction-adventure game....

Forget all that fighting It may not be the iconic King of Red Lions, but likeWind Waker,Submergedalso has a boat that you will become very accustomed to. Sea travel is about the only way to get around, after all. What else are you supposed to do when the city’s half underwater. Submerged —which releases on August 7 on Xbox One, and on PC and PS4 sometime later — technically focuses on finding supplies to save your dying brother....

On April 4 Bandai Namco has been pushingSummer Lesson, a PSVR game in which you can interact with students as a tutor, pretty hard. So hard in fact that it’s crossing over into more big franchises, includingTekken 7. Announced earlier this morning, three costumes are coming, spread across 11 characters (Lili, Lucky Chloe, Alisa, Xiaoyu, Katarina, Master Raven, Nina, Asuka, Kazumi, Josie, and Eliza), a swell as several items. Right now they’re just confirmed for Japan....

So far, we’ve seen nothing ofCall of Juarez: The Cartel,save for somecrap box art, but the Texas police (and the state’sshitstirring journalists) aren’t going to let a little something likethatget in the way of manufactured videogame controversy. Yep, that’s right — a videogame cannot have “Cartel” in its name, because there are real cartels out there, guys! “Unfortunately there are companies that are looking to capitalize on the violent situation in Mexico which has had a very negative impact on the country,” said Police Chief Carlos Garcia....

Closed beta access, now from only $19.99-$99.99. Yay! Ubisoft’s upcoming free-to-play titleThe Mighty Quest For Epic Loot,which is currently in closed beta, hasmade its way onto Steam— those wishing to join the beta via Steam, hold your horses; you may not like what’s coming next. On the game’s website, there are currently two ways to gain access to the beta: either register and hope you receive an invitationorpurchase a pack from the ‘Original Opulencian’ program which gives you instant access to the beta along with in-game items....

I’m not sorry for that terrible pun If you’ve seenany footageof the upcomingNieR: Automata, you’d know that it’s shaping up to be a rather hectic action game. In an effort to make the game a little more accessible to newcomers to the genre or those who don’t often play such games, Square Enix has confirmed thatNieR: Automatawill include an Auto Mode, which will allow the player to let an AI handle much of the combat for them....

Year-over-year numbers are almost exactly the same The Japanese console market has struggled as of late, and the release of Sony’s PlayStation 4 did little to turn those fortunes around. Despite being a massive success in other regions of the world, the PS4’s Japanese sales figures have been lackluster thus far, and has been partially responsible for a lateral year-over-year performance for the country’s console revenue. According to data obtained by Enterbrain and interpreted and translated byDr....

Oro? Siliconera has dug up some potential new info regarding our favorite bad-gone-good anime hero, but not everything is set in stone. Evidently, aRurouni Kenshinapp is planned for May, and a PSP game may be in question. The real question however, is whether or not the game is a brand new title, or simply a new version or a localization of2011’s Kenshin PSP game. It looks like these moves are being made to bring more attention to the newKenshinfilm, set to release August 25th in Japan....

My dog Hook (see him here) isn’t one of those big dogs who fancies himself a lapdop, for which my hairy-enough wardrobe is thankful. He is too heavy, and my lap, stomach, back, chest, shoulders are usually occupied by the cat anyways. On the other hand, theGT80 Titanfrom MSI calls itself a laptop, but at 10 pounds with a 18.4″ screen and mechanical keyboard, I think it knows it is destined to be desk bound, like so many of us....

Back in the saddle We were pretty bummed last year to hear that Microsoft were passing on two of the world’s biggest videogame trade shows: Europe’s gamescom and Japan’s Tokyo Game Show. But they turned that around, thankfully. Microsoft confirmed that they’d be at next month’s gamescom in a big way earlier, and we heard they would probably show up at TGS. Looking at the newly released exhibitor list for Tokyo’s September event we see them listed, presumably to show off their Xbox One....

Look, I’d tell you more about this new video walk-through from Atlus, but that kind of defeats the point of having narration in the video. In the video you’ll see surgery performed by mysterious character CR-S01, who is one of six you’ll play as in the final game. It seems that CR-S01 did something bad a long time ago, and now he’s serving a 250-year sentence. Who would want a really old criminal operating on them?...

Swutty? It was about 20 years ago that I first met a woman who believed that all pornography was inherently sexist. At first I didn’t understand her point, but through discussion, she helped me to see that from her perspective, anything that depersonalizes the ideally emotional and empathy fueled act of sexual affection only works to encourage the idea that women are things to be possessed and not people to be related with....

Get It Together has 200 microgames to try and memorize alone or with a pal Nintendo recentlyasked peopleif they’d spend $50 on a newWarioWaregame, and as someone whototally would, I was thrilled to see the wacky subseries resurface during the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct stream withWarioWare: Get It Togetherfor Nintendo Switch. The big lug is back! It’s been a while — way too long, if you ask me — and I’m ready to get worked up over a bunch of silly games like squeezing toothpaste onto a brush, peeling off an eerie man’s facemask, and shooing flies away from a birthday cake....