DsiderWow, the truth after all these years
Xenogears, widely considered one of the greatest role-playing games ever made, has long felt to fans like an unfinished product thanks to its controversial, seemingly unfinished second disc. Although western gamers have assumed that the team simply ran out of money, the real story—as revealed by director Tetsuya…
On May 14, Magic: The Gathering pro Gerry Thompson won Pro Tour Amonkhet, securing one of the most coveted trophies in competitive magic play. Five days later, he put that trophy on eBay, along with some other event swag, with all the proceeds going to benefit Planned Parenthood.
Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, is at E3 in Los Angeles this week to promote Nintendo’s latest resurgence and hype people up on the coming year of Switch and 3DS games. But he’s also ready to field questions, and we had a bunch.
DsiderHow about don't? I really don't want to push our luck.
Nintendo fans have spent years frustrated that the Metroid series, once a pillar of the company’s console lineup, had been left to rot. Now that not one but two new Metroid games are coming, it leaves them/us with an important decision to make: what to complain about next.
DsiderGuess I'm not playing this game. Unfortunate that she takes over the role of a character who had a definitive voice in one game, and then has the same happen to her in this game. This is a shitty vicious cycle.
As the longest strike in Screen Actors Guild history chugs on, video game voice actors are making painful career sacrifices to show solidarity with their union. 234 days into the strike, after Microsoft announced Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, fans immediately sussed out that award-winning voice actress and…
As it is with video games, character designs evolve and change over time. Sometimes they get better, and sometimes they do this.
After winning yesterday’s E3 Arms Invitational, the people’s champ Zerk had the chance to play the game’s producer, Kosuke Yabuki, in an exhibition. Mr. Yabuki showed no mercy.
Nintendo announced two Metroid titles today: Metroid Prime 4 and a 3DS remake of the 1991 Game Boy classic Metroid II: Return of Samus, to be called Metroid: Samus Returns. Metroid superfans haven’t been waiting as long as Beyond Good & Evil fans, but this is still a coup. Best of all, the war between 2D and 3D Metroid…
Here’s something you might not have noticed watching Super Mario Odyssey’s new trailer: many of those outfits Mario is wearing are based on his appearance in old/obscure Nintendo games.
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Minecraft owners can soon play across Xbox One, Switch and PC. Rocket League owners will soon be able to play across Xbox One, Switch and PC. There’s a console missing from that equation, and Sony’s explanation for why that’s the case is not good.
DsiderYeah this might be my preferred mode.
I splatted and swam through a quick session of Splatoon 2's new co-op mode today. I played in a quartet, and this might be how I play Splatoon multiplayer when the sequel launches in July.
DsiderIt turns out this is why weebs are so adamant on calling it "Boku no" Hero Academia, they're gravely concerned that it could be confused with Ore no or Oira no or Watashi no.
American indie game Undertale is finally getting an official Japanese release. Good for all the hardcore Japanese fans the game has! Its localization is already causing quite a stir.
DsiderI mean, it'll be pretty at least. I'll see whether it does something interesting with that premise.
A wealth of new information has been revealed for Violet Evergarden, an upcoming TV anime based on the light novels written by Kana Akatsuki and illustrated by Akiko Takase about a group of Auto Memory Doll robots created to serve the needs of their human masters.
The main staff for Violet Evergarden includes:
Additionally, Yui Ishikawa will provide the voice of the titular character, the Auto Memory Doll named Violet Evergarden. An official website and Twitter feed (@Violet_Letter) for the Violet Evergarden TV anime have also been published.
The original Violet Evergarden novels are published by Kyoto Animation under their KA Esuma Bunko imprint. The story involves a world where a scientist creates a series of robots (known as "Auto Memory Dolls") to assist his wife, an author, in writing her novels after she loses her sight. Later, the Auto Memory Dolls are repurposed as weapons of war.
The 1st episode of the Violet Evergarden TV anime will premiere at Anime Expo 2017 in Los Angeles on July 02, 2017. The European premier will be screened at the AnimagiC 2017 convention in Mannheim, Germany, while the Asian premier will be screened at the CF3 AFA SINGAPORE 2017 convention in Singapore. Violet Evergarden begins its Japanese broadcast in January of 2018.
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Aniplex of America is down to their penultimate English servant promo for Fate/Grand Order, and in the nick of time because the localized smartphone RPG is now scheduled for June 25th. This time, it's Berserker, designed by TYPE-MOON artist PFALZ and voiced by Kunihiko Yasui (King of Fighters' Iori).
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Several E3 attendees and viewers were blown away by cyberpunk indie title The Last Night’s E3 debut trailer, but the game quickly became the center of a storm of Twitter controversy when viewers noticed that its co-creator, Tim Soret, seemed to be a Gamergate supporter.
Merriam-Webster defines exclusive as “limiting or limited to possession, control, or use by a single individual or group.” If you follow video games, your understanding of the word is probably more refined.
Game maker (and co-founder of game studio MiniBoss) Pedro Medeiros knows pixel art, and he wants to teach you. Every Tuesday since September, he’s posted an animated GIF demonstrating an aspect of animation.
It was only a matter of time, but a company in Fukuoka, Japan is now making samurai armor for pets.
Pikachu. Electricity. Plugs. Make sense, sure. But why did the people who made this Pokémon product stick the cable there?
Among the accessories include some squid shaped pouches, a “Splat Pack” which features a pouch plus a game case with clip and two Splatoon 2 Analog Caps, and a "Deluxe Splat Pack."
Read A Batch Of Splatoon-Themed Switch Accessories From HORI Are Headed To North America on Siliconera!
Steam Greenlight is officially retired. Today, Valve shut down the portion of their service that allowed users to upvote prospective Steam games. It will be replaced with a more straightforward game submission process called Steam Direct on June 13. Valve is hoping a $100 fee, upgrades to their algorithm, and changes…
In 2015 Vanillaware revealed 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, the latest very pretty game from Dragon’s Crown and Odin Sphere director George Kamitani. Today Atlus announced it will be localizing and releasing the PS4/Vita game in the West. The game’s Japanese release date is still TBA, so expect it sometime after that.
With big titles such as Nioh, NieR: Automata, Persona 5, Final Fantasy XV this past year, we’ve already seen plenty of Japanese titles for the current generation, but it looks like we’ll be seeing more soon.
Read Sony Says Japanese Games Are “Coming Back To Console,” Teases Big Announcements For E3 on Siliconera!
“We weren’t really expecting the fans to be so taken with her, so that was a very pleasant surprise!" said ARMS producer Kosuke Yabuki in regards to Twintelle's popularity.
Read ARMS Creators On The Popularity Of Twintelle And Lessons Learned From Working On Mario Kart on Siliconera!
It was bound to happen sooner or later. There were just too many used car dealerships, too many store grand openings or going out-of-business sales. The flailing inflatable tube people that vie for our attention along our nation’s highways take up flailing arms against each other in Inflatality.
DsiderIn case you haven't seen it yet.
If you are planning on using voice chat for Splatoon 2, here’s an official headset with an officially nutso set up.
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There was once a time when video game developers would make a game, release it, and then move onto the next big thing. That time has long since passed. These days, you’re more likely to see a new Metroid than you are to buy an AAA game that’s never updated, patched, or enhanced in some way. Today’s big video games…
