Paul Brownlee

Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition ⊟ 

If you need the complete Fire Emblem Fates experience, Nintendo will sell a special bundle that includes all versions and storylines for the games with an $80 edition that includes Birthright, Conquest, Revelation, an artbook, and a New 3DS XL carrying pouch – Amazon will have it for preorder here. These will release along with the two separate Birthright and Conquest editions (Revelation storyline DLC releasing at a later date) on February 19, 2016.

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The politics escape me, but I'm fascinated by the US Debt Clock, a website covered in real-time tickers and counters purporting to show all of the unpleasant statistics piling up in America.

They also have a World Debt Clock for all your international inchoate anxiety needs.

These are some of the best examples of adult artists' re-imagining of kids' monster drawing. Behance has a large gallery of Monster Project art. [caption id="attachment_432324" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Art by AJ Jefferies
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Drama. Magic. Zombies. Magic zombies? Maybe not that last one, but we’ve got the other three in spades with our new free games coming to PlayStation Plus. So without further ado, here are your PS Plus games for November!

Leading the (zombie) pack is critically acclaimed The Walking Dead: Season Two on PS4, by the expert storytellers at Telltale Games. The second season follows Clementine in her struggle to survive a world torn apart by the undead menace. Guide her actions and influence the game’s outcome as nail-biting choices must be made to keep on living.

Also available this month is Magicka 2 on PS4. This spell-slinging action game empowers you and your friends with the elements to defeat your enemies (or sabotage those same friends). Hysterics may ensue, which might be a welcome break after all those zombies…

These PS4 games are free for PlayStation Plus members starting on the first Tuesday of November, and you can find the full list of PlayStation Plus games below. Enjoy!

Full Lineup:

• The Walking Dead: Season 2, PS4
• Magicka 2, PS4
• Mass Effect 2, PS3
• Beyond Good & Evil, PS3
• Dragon Fin Soup, PS4, PS Vita (PS3 Cross-Buy when available)
• Invizimals, PS Vita

Before you go, we want your feedback! Please leave us a comment below and tell us what you think of the lineup. Thank you for stopping by.

Until next time! Enjoy.

Amazon is offering an HD rental of It Follows for 99 cents. I'm ready to watch it for a 3rd time! Here's my March 2015 review of the movie:

I stopped being scared or creeped out by horror movies about 20 years ago, but when Carla and I watched It Follows on Saturday night we were both freaked out of our wits.

The premise is simple. If you have sex with a cursed person, a monster will begin walking slowly in your direction. The monster can take on the form of a stranger or someone you know. When the monster reaches you, it will kill you in a horrible way. You can run or drive away from the monster, but it knows where you are and will start walking towards you. To rid yourself of the curse, you need to have sex with another person. The monster will target them. If it kills that person, it will then come after you.

Lenika Cruz of The Atlantic says the monster of It Follows is "one of the scariest antagonists in recent cinematic history," because we don't know anything about it.

But what's most satisfying about It Follows is how its monster manages to inspire such slow-burn terror when it spends 90 percent of the film doing something decidedly un-scary: walking slowly, often out of frame. Even the absence of the linearly traveling, unrelenting "it" is no relief: The anticipation of its arrival slowly and brutally wears the audience down, like death by a billion spoon thwacks. It's hard to know what to call the thing at the center of It Follows—a spirit? A monster? A villain? Is it even really evil or just a human embodiment of inhuman malevolence? As the director, Mitchell, has said: "There's no logic to it—you can't really explain a nightmare."

The inclination of horror movies to explain and profile the dark force as much as possible often results in a didacticism that doesn't translate well onscreen. Just think of how many films feature a haggard, wide-eyed protagonist poring through old texts, newspaper clippings, or Internet searches, or tracking down old victims in hopes of finding an answer. The process of the investigation itself can be spooky. The little girl was pushed into the well by her mom? Shudder. Rather than cultivating fear in the gradual, deliberate reveal of gruesome details, It Follows' thrust comes instead from training the audience to recoil from the shadowy, blurry figure on the horizon, behind the characters, without fanfare or warning.

Another other big reason this movie was so terrifying is the ominous chiptune soundtrack by Disasterpiece. Listen to it here.

N64 shmup Viewpoint 2064 has rarely been seen since it debuted at Nintendo Space World 1999. That’s on account of it never being released.

Read Unreleased N64 Shmup Sells For $2999 On EBay, Buyer Uploads New Footage on Siliconera!

Shin Megami Tensei IV’s follow-up is Final ⊟ 

Atlus will release Shin Megami Tensei IV Final – a new game, not an enhanced or remixed edition – for 3DS in Japan next February, according to Famitsu details posted by Duckroll. So far, all we know is that it’s based on the original SMT IV’s setting and is centered around the theme of “godslayer”.

Satoshi Oyama, who has done a lot of programming and design work on previous entries in the series, will be taking over directorial duties from Kazuyuki Yamai this time around. More details on the game next week!

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The Earth is round, and maps are flat. While we have may mapped nearly every inch of our world, figuring out how to translate that information from three dimensions to two remains a problem. (more…)

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I had exactly one complaint about this comic: Staples and Vaughan just took too damned long to publish new issues. The stupendous third collection took nearly a year to surface, and then the fourth came out six months later, along with a deluxe edition collecting the first three books between one set of hardcovers, accompanied by inspired excerpts from Staples' sketchbook.

It's been nine months since, and at last, the fifth book is in hand.

Staples gets top billing on this collection, and Vaughan told me that the current storyline was of her making. This makes her one of comics' most inspirational figures, because book five features such incredible art and such incredible storytelling that the idea that they both originated with one person beggars the imagination.

You should be reading Saga. It's got that Mos Eisley/Transmetropolitan/Zita vibe of every conceivable alien race all jumbled together in a kind of bizaare bazaar, with all the colorful aesthetic business that this lets the visual artist go crazy with.

When George Lucas filled Mos Eisley cantina with every manner of muppet, he implied a huge and weird universe with politics and trade and pervy sex and depravity. But when he actually sat down to flesh out all that interspatial politics, it turned into the minutes from a trade conference with a bit of racist stereotyping around the edges.

The Saga universe is also a universe dominated by politics, war, and economics -- but it's anything but dull. With book five, Staples takes us deeper into futuristic politics than we've gone so far in the story, but in such a skilfull, even terrifying way that it's even more fun than all the fucking and killing that the first four books featured (though there's some awesomely dirty dragon sex stuff in this one, too).

And of course it ends on a cliffhanger. Christmas is coming soon -- fingers crossed for another collection in time for the tree. In the meantime, go and read this and then re-read it and then give copies to all the best people you know.

Damn.

Saga Volume 5 [Fiona Staples & Brian K Vaughan/Image]

PlayStation TV hack enables more Vita games ⊟

For whatever reason (touchscreen stuff, testing stuff, who knows) the PlayStation TV doesn’t run every Vita game. But a new hack enables it to run almost everything, simply by emailing files to yourself and opening them in the built-in email app.

I haven’t tried this, so I can’t verify how well stuff works – and there is still stuff that doesn’t work because it relies on all the Vita tricks – but at least you can try more games now, if you want to risk trying this stuff. Maybe, through some combination of the PS3′s L3/R3 touch emulation and the PS4′s touchpad, you can open up more Vita games to big-screen play! Via Rich!

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Persona 4: Screaming all Night ⊟ 

So I guess you can do this with the Yu Narukami figma.

I was kind of into this toy before, but seeing it all Modulok’d out makes me actually want one. Is that weird? Via @nerdgerhl.

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Assault Suit Leynos will launch for PlayStation 4 via the PlayStation Store in Japan on December 23, developer Dracue Software announced. A second demo, dubbed the “Great Remorse Version,” will be released this Friday, September 25 in Japan. Watch a new trailer below.

Read Assault Suit Leynos launches December 23 in Japan in full on Gematsu.

Persona 5 will no longer launch during 2015 in Japan and North America. At the Tokyo Game Show, Atlus announced a delay to summer 2016. A third trailer and video interview with director Katsura Hashino were also released. Hashino notes that the parts of Persona 5 are almost all together, and that they’re in the […]

Read Persona 5 delayed to summer 2016, third trailer in full on Gematsu.

Dark Souls III will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in North America and Europe in April 2016, Bandai Namco announced. A Japanese release date of March 24 was previously announced. Find a rundown of the game below, via Bandai Namco: Dark Souls III pushes a deeper sense of role-playing than previous iterations […]

Read Dark Souls III launches April 2016 in North America and Europe in full on Gematsu.

VanillaWare announced 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita during SCEJA Press Conference 2015. Watch the announcement trailer below. Visit the official website here.

Read VanillaWare announces 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim for PS4, PS Vita in full on Gematsu.

Good evening, PlayStation fans, I’m thrilled to bring you some breaking news from Japan Studio via Tokyo Game Show 2015!

Gravity Rush Remastered, an upgraded version of the highly acclaimed PlayStation Vita hit, is officially making its way to PS4 on February 9th, 2016.

Brought to life on the big screen by the team at Bluepoint Games, you’ll be able to join heroine Kat and her sidekick Dusty as they soar through the enchanting city of Hekseville like never before. On the graphics side, this release takes advantage of the PS4 hardware to deliver the smooth, vibrant HD visuals of this high-flying adventure.

All three original DLC packs released alongside Gravity Rush’s initial release — the Spy Pack, The Maid Pack, and The Military Pack — will also be included within the game.

Whether you are brand new to the franchise, or want to relive the experience again, Gravity Rush Remastered is the perfect opportunity to experience the magical story of Kat as she seeks answers to her mysterious gravity-defying powers and forgotten past, now in full HD 1080p glory with ample graphical and performance improvements.

Stay tuned to PlayStation.Blog for more information about Gravity Rush Remastered in the coming months…