Retired Nintendo artist and designer Takaya Imamura, who helped Nintendo create The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Starfox characters like Fox McCloud, said to IGN that the Nintendo racing series F-Zero isn't dead. It's just a series that is "hard to bring back" without a "grand idea". Imamura stated that the pi

Good news for you 3D fighting game fans out there. Bandai Namco's Tekken 7 has surpassed 7 million copies according to a new announcement from series producer Katsuhiro Harada. Yep, the number isn't a coincidence; bet they've been waiting for this moment to make this sort of news. https://twitter.com/TEKKEN/status/1

Platforms: Xbox Series, Xbox One, PC, PS5, PS4 Genre: Online-only looter shooter from the folks behind Bulletstorm To my horror, the gamertags at the top right corner of my screen went from green to red in an instant. Both my teammates were down. My partner whom I queued with, the Trickster was felled almost simultaneo

We never thought Apple Arcade would be where all the cool games from Japan be at, yet here we are. PlatinumGames, Mistwalker, and a few prominent devs have released their games on Apple Arcade effective immediately. First up is PlatinumGames' World of Demons, an action game with Okami watercolour-and-hard-sumi-e-str

After much teasing, we now get to see Poland Prime Minister Lidia Sobieska's gameplay and fighting style in Tekken 7. If you like karate and a lot of fast strikes, you'll want to watch this. The Bandai Namco trailer showcases Lidia taking down Tekken characters like Bryan, Paul, Heihachi, and Jin Kazama. Her moves a

This week was pretty grim as there were a string of murders that happened in Atlanta, Georgia in the US of A. As such, video game companies expressed their support for the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. To recap, the alleged shooter of the murders killed eight people, with six of them of Asian desc

Tekken 7 fans got a tease back in February from Bandai Namco and producer Katsuhiro Harada concerning the next DLC character. So far, we know that she's the Polish Prime Minister and she's a fancy dresser. Thanks to a physical care package received by various fighting game folks like commentator Rip, we now know her

We last received an update from Bandai Namco about Tales Of Arise back in December 2020, where they reassured everyone that the game is still in development. As part of the Tales Of Festival in Japan this weekend, the company has unveiled a new one-minute-long teaser trailer, which confirms that more news will arrive s

Remember when Bandai Namco announced the next From Software game, Elden Ring? Yeah, that was quite a while ago. Is there news beyond the teaser back in 2019? Well, there might be this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wwSxl0atc According to VG Chronicles, there's a leaked Elden Ring trailer being shared onl

Bandai Namco unveiled a new Tekken 7 teaser trailer at the 2nd Japan Fighting Game Publisher Roundtable stream hosted by the company yesterday. It revealed that the next addition to the Tekken 7 roster sometime in early Spring 2021 will be a female character who is also the current prime minister of Poland in the

Bandai Namco and ARC System Works have announced that the Guilty Gear Strive Open Beta will be playable on PS4 and PS5 from 11am GMT+8 on 19 February 2021 to 10pm GMT+8 on 21 February 2021. The Open Beta will let players get their hands on 13 of the game characters (with the exception of Anji Mito and the 15th

Bandai Namco and Arc System Works have announced that Dragon Ball FighterZ will add Super Baby 2 to its roster on 15 January 2021. In addition, Gogeta (SS4) was announced as the final fighter for the FighterZ Pass 3. It looks like Dragon Ball GT fans will have a lot to love in FighterZ Pass 3. They're g

The Game Awards 2020 just concluded, and it was probably the biggest iteration of the annual event yet. It featured tons of surprises in the form of new game announcements, trailers, reveals, and a slew of guest appearances. Here are the winners of The Game Awards 2020 (they're highlighted in bold): Game of

The PlayStation Partner Awards 2020 Japan Asia took place earlier today, in an effort to recognize the PlayStation versions of hit titles sold across the Japan and Asia regions, as well as the world at large. The winners for each award category are as follows: Grand Award Awarded to t

Bandai Namco has revealed that the next DLC fighter for SoulCalibur VI will be none other than Hwang. Hwang is a Korean swordsman who first made his debut in 1997's Soul Edge, and was last seen as a playable fighter in 2005's SoulCalibur III. Hwang will join Soulcalibur VI as a Season Pass 2 downloadable content ch

The Game Awards 2020 is taking place on 10 December 2020, but Geoff Keighley has announced the nominated games three weeks earlier. Despite being plagued with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year has seen some pretty good games. You can vote now on the official website here. Check out the full The Game Awards 2

Platform: PS4, Nintendo SwitchGenre: Rhythm Game, JRPG Good job, Square Enix. You've officially pulled an Atlas move. What's an Atlas move, you ask? A rhythm game spinoff from a JRPG franchise isn't anything new. Atlus has done it multiple times, which means that they must at least be selling pretty

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot is a decent game (check out my full review here), and a successful one for Bandai Namco, having sold more than two million copies as of March 2020. The second story DLC expansion is finally coming next week on 17 November 2020. Those who own the Dragon Ball Z Kakarot Season Pass wi

Fans have been clamouring for Yakuza franchise protagonist Kazuma Kiryu to appear or guest star as a playable character in a fighting game (especially Bandai Namco's Tekken) for a while now. In an interview with Red Bull France, when asked about why Kazuma Kiryu hasn't been featured in any fighting game, Yakuza fra

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Supermassive Entertainment have announced The Dark Pictures Anthology House Of Ashes for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, and PC (Steam). It is slated to launch sometime in 2021. Supermassive Games CEO Pete Samuels said: “We are thrilled to reveal this third game within