Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, GameMill Entertainment y el desarrollador peruano Bamtang Games, se complacen en anunciar que Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports, ya se encuentra disponible en Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One y PCa través de Steamy lo celebran con un nuevo trailer de gameplay del juego de basketball.
La edición estándar de Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports está disponible por US$ 49.99, mientras que la edición Deluxe cuesta US$ 59.99 e incluye el personaje exclusivo Yosemite Sam para usar en el juego, uniformes de los Golden Outlaws y el “Wild West Sports Pack”, que incluye un balón de baloncesto, fútbol y tenis con temática occidental. pelotas y palos de golf.
Los jugadores que reserven cualquiera de las ediciones recibirán como bonificación el exclusivo “Sweet Deal Sports Pack”, que incluye equipos con temática de dulces para cada deporte.
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Juega contra tus amigos en 4 deportes clásicos: baloncesto, fútbol, golf y tenis. Evita los extravagantes obstáculos y consigue potenciadores para sembrar el caos entre tus amigos y familiares mientras controlas tu personaje de Looney Tunes favorito. Juega a tu manera en este arcade cooperativo local de deportes para 4 jugadores y elige el personaje que mejor se adapte a tu estilo de juego.
Características principales:
Compite en 4 deportes emblemáticos: baloncesto arcade 2 contra 2, tenis arcade 1 contra 1 o 2 contra 2, golf de 4 jugadores y fútbol arcade 3 contra 3.
Métete en la piel de 9 emblemáticos personajes de Looney Tunes, como Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny, el Pato Lucas, Porky, Elmer Gruñón, Silvestre, Tas, el Coyote y Correcaminos
Juega a tu manera: como un bólido al igual que Correcaminos, Lola Bunny o Silvestre; usando tu fuerza bruta como Elmer Gruñón, Porky o Tas, o siendo el más astuto con el Coyote, el Pato Lucaso Bugs Bunny.
Juega contra tu familia y amigos: en el modo cooperativo local de 4 jugadores.
Disfruta de la experiencia Looney Universe: sumérgete en sus niveles más icónicos, como Galactic Outpost Delta, Porky’s Barn, Foghorn’s Farm, Road Runner’s Canyon, Whispering Woods, Martian Command Center, Granny’s House, ¡y muchos más!
Libera el arsenal completo de ACME: y pónselo difícil a tus oponentes de las formas más descabelladas, ¡pero cuidado con los yunques que caen del cielo!
Requisitos Mínimos:
Requiere un procesador y un sistema operativo de 64 bits
SO: Windows 10 64-bit
Procesador: Intel Quad-core o AMD de 2.7 GHz o superior
Memoria: 8 GB de RAM
Gráficos: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 o superior
DirectX: Versión 11
Requisitos Recomendados:
Requiere un procesador y un sistema operativo de 64 bits
SO: Windows 10 64-bit
Procesador: Intel Quad-core o AMD de3.0 GHz o superior
Memoria: 16 GB de RAM
Gráficos: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB o superior
DirectX: Versión 11
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment es un editor, desarrollador, otorgante de licencias y distribuidor líder a nivel mundial de contenido de entretenimiento para el espacio interactivo en todas las plataformas, incluidos juegos de consola, portátiles, móviles y de PC para títulos de juegos internos y de terceros.
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GameMill Entertainment, ubicada en Minneapolis, Minnesota, es un editor externo de juegos para consolas y dispositivos móviles para fanáticos apasionados de todo el mundo.
Las plataformas de desarrollo incluyen PC, Nintendo Switch, consolas de Microsoft, incluidas Xbox Series X|S y Xbox One, consolas de Sony, incluidas PlayStation 5 y PlayStation 4, y dispositivos móviles.
Con desarrollo en todo el mundo, GameMill es una fuente de juegos entretenidos y divertidos para todas las edades. Para obtener más información, visite https://gamemill.com, así como Facebook,YouTube y Twitter.
Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. ha anunciado hoy que BLEACH REBIRTH OF SOULS, un nuevo videojuego basado en la legendaria franquicia y en la historia original creada por Tite Kubo, se lanzará a principios de 2025. BLEACH REBIRTH OF SOULS llegará en exclusiva a PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S y PC a través de Steam.
En el último tráiler de Reawakening, se revelan nuevos personajes y formas, incluyendo a Ulquiorra con su Resurrección Segunda Etapa, así como a Ichigo con Hollowfication Completa. Estos personajes se unen a una lista cada vez mayor de personajes como Ichigo Kurosaki, Rukia Kuchiki, Yoruichi Shihoin, Chad y el recientemente anunciado Kenpachi Zaraki.
BLEACH: REBIRTH OF SOULS, desarrollado por Tamsoft (creadores de Battle Arena Toshiden) llegará en exclusiva a PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S y PC a través de Steam a principios del 2025.
Acerca de BLEACH Rebirth of Souls
Despierta la espada y revierte tu destino en emocionantes batallas llenas de acción con personajes icónicos de la legendaria franquicia de anime. En BLEACH REBIRTH OF SOULS, los jugadores podrán desatar habilidades únicas con la espada, como el Bankai, y desbloquear nuevas formas en la batalla para alzarse con la victoria contra sus oponentes.
En BLEACH: REBIRTH OF SOULS, los jugadores podrán participar en emocionantes batallas llenas de acción con personajes emblemáticos de la legendaria franquicia de anime, como Ichigo Kurosaki, Rukia Kuchiki, Uryu Ishida y Yasutora Sado (Chad).
Los jugadores pueden usar los movimientos de cada personaje, o la acción Zanpakuto, para derribar el reishi de su oponente en una batalla de acción 1 contra 1, reduciendo su konpaku, o barra de salud general.
Tras dañar a su oponente, los jugadores pueden desencadenar combos clave para destruir varios konpaku y cambiar las tornas de la batalla. Acumula espíritu de lucha mientras atacas para entrar en un estado despierto y desatar un movimiento especial.
BLEACH es una popular serie de cómics de acción y lucha con espadas que se publicó en la revista de manga shōnen Weekly Shonen Jump de Shueisha hasta el número 38 de 2016. La serie de animación para televisión se emitió desde 2004 hasta marzo de 2012, y hasta la fecha se han estrenado un total de cuatro versiones cinematográficas.
Características principales:
Libera Tu Espada – ¡Elige a tu personaje favorito y libera las habilidades únicas de su espada! Aprovecha las capacidades únicas de cada personaje y domina el curso de la batalla para encontrar una abertura que significará la derrota para tus enemigos.
Vence a Tus Enemigos de Un Solo Golpe – En BLEACH Rebirth of Souls, un solo golpe puede significar la derrota de tu rival. Cambia la situación de manera drástica y repentina con el ataque de tu espada!
Revierte Tu Destino y Despierta Tu Poder – Mientras más desesperante sea la situación, más poder obtendrás. ¡Cambia la suerte de la batalla y desbloquea nuevas formas y nuevas espadas en el fragor del combate para convertir el filo de la derrota en victoria!
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Monster Hunter is crossing over with Digimon for one of the coolest pieces of official Monster Hunter merch we've seen yet: Monster Hunter-themed Digimon Virtual Pets. This crossover makes a lot of sense, which is something we can't really say for the upcoming Monster Hunter-themed Fender Telecaster electric guitar (it looks awesome, though).
There are two Monster Hunter V-Pet Color devices available, and both are themed on iconic Monster Hunter creatures: A red device based on Rathalos, and a blue device featuring Zinogre. Both monsters also feature unique variants that combine them with a classic Digimon, with Rathalos combining with the Digimon Greymon to become RathalosGreymon and Zinogre and Garurumon becoming ZinoGarurumon. These special forms are obtainable through the pet-raising mini-games and battles included on the device.
Monster Hunter x Digimon Virtual Pets
You can collect and level up over 30 other monsters in the game, including other Monster Hunter creatures like Mizutsune, Rajaang, Nargacuga, Tigrex, Gore Magala, and Khezu. Like other V-Pet Color devices, these measure roughly 1.75 inches tall by 2.5 inches wide and feature full color mini LCD screens, buttons, and speakers. You can preorder the Monster Hunter V-Pets for $100 each at Big Bad Toy Store. We'd expect preorders to go live at other retailers soon. Both models are expected to release next February.
Tim Burton's take on Batman with his 1989 movie remains a singular view of the Caped Crusader that mixes gritty realism, goth spookiness, and an undercurrent of camp. All those elements are heightened in Batman Returns, Burton's 1992 sequel, and are captured in Lego's Batcave Shadow Box--an intricately designed model of Batman's inner sanctum from the film. Lego is "retiring" the set, which means it'll be discontinued from production, so if you're looking to nab it, now's the time. It's likely that production has already ceased, and Lego is merely clearing out its remaining inventory.
At $400, the Batcave has been the most expensive Batman Lego set in production since launching last year, but it's also the most elaborate building kit featuring the Caped Crusader.
If Bane and Deathstroke were teaming up in the next Batman movie, then the Dark Knight would be in some serious trouble. But apparently, DC Studios plans to bring these villains to the big screen in their own movie, rather than joining forces to bring the Caped Crusader to his knees.
Via The Hollywood Reporter, Captain America: Brave New World scribe Matthew Orton has signed on to write the currently untitled film, which doesn't have a director yet. Orton was also a writer on Marvel's Moon Knight series. Outside of the comic book realm, he created the South African crime series Devil's Peak, and wrote the scripts for the World War II flick Operation Finale and a thriller called Cleaner.
The biggest thing missing from this report about the film is the hook that brings Deathstroke and Bane together. They seem like a mismatched pair, considering that the former tends to take on the Titans while the latter is one of Batman's biggest foes. There isn't even comic book history between them to fall back on. Bane and Deathstroke simply don't travel in each others' orbits, and the only thing they have in common is that they're among the most prominent villains in DC's comic book universe.
Avatar: The Last Airbender has a dedicated following of fans who got lost in its deep and affecting stories--so much so that the series saw a spiritual successor series in The Legend of Korra and got two live-action adaptations, including a well-liked live-action adaptation from Netflix. If you're looking for more Avatar, the story of Aang and his companions has been continued beyond the Nickelodeon show with an official comic series. The entire run will soon be collected into an omnibus box set launching March 11, 2025, and fans can preorder the collection for just $115.43 (down from $125) at Amazon.
Majima fans have been waiting years for the Mad Dog of Shimano to make his return as a main story character. The years of waiting around have finally come to an end. In Ryu Ga Gotoku (RGG) studio's newest title, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Majima shines again, and this time as the sole protagonist.
The Resident Evil video game franchise is a beloved one, having embedded itself inside gaming culture's DNA over the past three decades with eight main, numbered titles and a huge variety of spin-off games, some of which are just as good, if not better, than the mainline series. But Resident Evil is also a movie franchise, having spawned 11 feature-length movies and two TV series, starting with Paul WS Anderson's live-action Resident Evil in 2002. Given so many titles, it might be hard to figure out how to watch the Resident Evil movies in order, especially since there's more than one line of continuity.
While the video games mostly all take place on one incredibly complicated timeline, the movies operate a bit differently. The live-action films and TV show are doing their own things entirely, while the CGI animated films and series are technically a part of the game continuity. However, those animated films and the games don't really reference each other, so it's not as though they all combine to form one grand narrative. It's better to think of the animated movies as a series of side stories.
Below we'll break down the complex movie portion of the Resident Evil franchise--including the correct order to watch, and where you can stream them. Let's dive in.
How to watch the live-action Resident Evil movies in order of release and story timeline
The original feature film adaptation of Resident Evil, written and directed by Paul WS Anderson, would spawn a six-movie horror-action series headlined by Milla Jovovich as Alice, a character original to the movie--though notable game characters do come and go plenty over the course of the series. It's a surprisingly epic tale for a mid-budget action franchise. This series probably wouldn't have worked without a skillful filmmaker like Anderson, who wrote all six movies and directed four of them, in charge of things.
The live-action Resident Evil movies should be watched in order of release--barring the occasional flashback, they occur in chronological order.
How to watch the animated Resident Evil movies in order of story timeline
The CGI-animated Resident Evil movies, unlike the live-action ones, are officially a part of the same continuity as the video game series, and they aren't adaptations of any particular game. Instead, these movies and the animated miniseries form a side story, similar to how some of the spin-off games do. What really matters about that is that the Leon S Kennedy and Claire Redfield you meet in these movies are the same ones you know from the games. But folks who aren't fans of the games will have a tough time with these movies, since they don't explain much of the backstory.
The animated Resident Evil films take place in the order they were released, but there's also a short animated series, released in 2021, that serves as a prequel. So the correct viewing order would be to start with that animated series, and then move on to the movies.
Aside from those series mentioned above, there are two Resident Evil films and one TV show that aren't part of any series. First is Biohazard 4D-Executer, a 20-minute short that looks like a game cutscene released for theme parks with gimmick theaters in 2000. The second is Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, an attempt to reboot the live-action movie franchise released in 2021, which hasn't yet produced any sequels. And, finally, there's Netflix's live-action Resident Evil series, which was canceled after one season. Since these all standalone, there's no reason to care what order you watch them in.
Resident Evil (2002)
This first live-action film is a very poor adaptation on paper, since it doesn't feature a single character from the games, instead focusing on an original character called Alice (Milla Jovovich). But this little zombie flick has great energy, an outstanding score from Tomandandy, excellent stunts and gore, and a solid little cast of folks like Michelle Rodriguez, James Purefoy, and Colin Salmon.
This second film picks up immediately after Alice escapes the Umbrella facility at the end of the first movie. As she shoots her way through a zombie-infested Raccoon City, she teams up with two main game characters, Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) and Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr). This flick cements this series as being focused mostly on action--which is fine, since they keep the monsters and gore. But the overall quality of this one is a bit less than most of the others, since it's one of the two films (along with Extinction) in this series not directed by Anderson.
The T-virus has ended human civilization now, and Alice has teamed up with Carlos Olivera and Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) to help protect a large convoy of survivors who roam around attempting to scavenge supplies from the ruins--having to contend with all sorts of new threats, like zombie bats. Here, one of the main antagonists of the movie series emerges: Dr. Isaacs (Iain Glen), a character based on William Birkin from the games.
Alice, once again on her own, successfully assaults Umbrella HQ in Tokyo, only to have her powers taken away by Albert Wesker, the game baddie who finally takes center stage in this film. Alice then goes looking for a mythical place free of infection called Arcadia, and the search takes her to a prison in Los Angeles where she'll have to team up with a new ragtag group of survivors--including Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller).
Alice is captured and held in a massive Umbrella facility filled with a massive fake city, and Jill Valentine has been brainwashed and turned into a bad guy. Fortunately, Leon S Kennedy (Johann Urb), Barry Burton (Kevin Durand), and Ada Wong (Li Bingbing) are here to help. This fifth movie, which had the biggest budget of the series, is both the best of these movies and a legit modern action classic.
The powers-that-be reined in the budget for this last movie, which resulted in most of the surviving cast of the last movie being murdered by dragons off screen. As an action movie experience, it's a step back from Retribution, but Iain Glen, returning as a new, fervently religious clone of his Dr. Isaacs character, is such a blast that he makes up for a lot of the film's deficiencies all by himself.
The White House has been hacked, and then a number of government staffers become infected with a zombie plague. Now, Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are off on a globe-trotting adventure to find out how and why. While technically an animated TV show, it'll take you less than two hours to watch Infinite Darkness in full--so it's basically just another movie that's been divided into smaller pieces. But while the animated Resident Evil movies take place in the order in which they were released, this series is set before them all, sitting on the franchise's main timeline between the events of the game Resident Evil 4 and the film Degeneration.
Degeneration follows Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy dealing with a T-virus outbreak at an airport. While not a great movie, Degeneration and its sequels do manage to provide a more authentic Resident Evil experience than the live-action movies do--this one feels basically like watching the cutscenes from a Resident Evil game that doesn't exist.
Leon heads to Eastern Europe to investigate rumors of monsters being used in a country's civil war. Shockingly, it's true--they've got Lickers running around all over the place, because the country's president has been weaponizing Las Plagas. This one is so reliant on Resident Evil lore, though, that it can be tough to follow if you don't already know about the different viruses and mutations.
The US government drone-bombed the wedding of a bad guy named Glenn Arias, and now Arias is developing a new virus that will possibly allow the person who has it to control zombie hordes. Fortunately, Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield are on the case--but you know that a new virus means a whole new kind of boss monster to fight at the end. In this case, we get two monsters merging into one even worse thing.
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine are investigating a small outbreak of T-virus in San Francisco, and the return of the criminal syndicate from Vendetta under new leadership--there's more of a direct relationship between this story and that of Vendetta than we usually expect from these, and that's a good thing.
This attempt to reboot the live-action portion of the franchise featured a pretty solid cast headed by Kaya Scodelario and Hannah John-Kamen, a lot more of the game characters than the previous live-action movies, and a story that is more or less an adaptation of the original game. But the film's shoestring budget (smaller than any of the previous live-action movies) turned out to be a big liability, and the result is the least enjoyable live-action Resident Evil and the franchise's first box office bomb.
It's not a real movie, but rather a short film designed for theme parks equipped with novelty theaters that would poke you in the back and blow air in your face and other fun stuff like that. It's still an amusing watch for Resident Evil fans, though, and you can check it out on YouTube.
Resident Evil (2022, Netflix series)
This live-action Netflix series told an all-new interpretation of the franchise, focusing on the two daughters of Albert Wesker, who are original to this show, as they grow up in an Umbrella facility and gradually learn about all the horrible stuff their seemingly nice dad is involved in. It was a bummer that it was canceled after one season, because this adaptation was a really interesting way of looking at Wesker in particular, since he's been treated mostly as a one-dimensional cartoon in the other stories. But with the subsequent death of star Lance Reddick coming a few months after that cancellation, it is what it is.
The Nintendo Museum is preparing to open in Kyoto, Japan, and it looks to be an incredible collection of Nintendo ephemera. But it is also, perhaps inadvertently, a way to settle age-old internet disputes, and it has already supplied a definitive answer to the question: Is Yoshi's Island (aka Super Mario World 2) a Yoshi game or a Mario game?
According to Dan Ryckert's impressions from a special press preview of the museum, one exhibition room has space dedicated to specific franchises, separated into individual categories. The Mario franchise display was by far the largest, encompassing not just the plumber's solo adventures but also the various spin-offs like kart racers and sports games. But he also noticed that Yoshi's Island is not actually in the Mario display, and is rather included in a separate Yoshi franchise display.
So there you have it. According to Nintendo's official categorization, in a space dedicated to careful cultivation of its own history, Yoshi's Island is not a Mario game. If you had $20 riding on this very unlikely bet, now is your time to collect.
Seven years after its initial release, Horizon Zero Dawn is getting a remastered version that upgrades its visuals and adds rebuilt and re-recorded dialogue scenes, bringing the original PlayStation 4 game more in line with its PS5 sequel, Horizon Forbidden West. If you've never played the first Horizon game, Sony will soon sell a physical edition of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered for $50--but if you take advantage of its current upgrade track, you can nab a digital version of the remaster for a mere $20.
The trick here is to purchase the digital version of the original Horizon Zero Dawn. Sony offers an upgrade to Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered on PS5 for just $10, so instead of paying full price for the new game, you can buy the older, cheaper version and upgrade it. You can grab Horizon Zero Dawn from GameStop for just $10, so together with the upgrade, that's $20 in total.
You're greeted by the legendary Zinedine Zidane upon booting up EA Sports FC 25 for the first time. The former French international and multi-Champions League-winning manager is keen to extol the virtues of tactics during an introductory video that feels more like the opening to a Football Manager game than EA's latest footballing sim. The introduction of FC IQ is the reason behind this, putting Player Roles at the forefront in a comprehensive overhaul of the series' tactics. It's a significant change that, along with the new Rush mode, gives EA FC 25 two marquee new features to shout about. Beyond this, however, improvements to the game's on-pitch action and suite of game modes are either incremental or nonexistent, in what feels like a half-step forward for the long-running series.
FC IQ is the driving force behind most of EA FC 25's forward momentum. The previous tactics system has been discarded and replaced by a malleable set of new Player Roles that dictate how your team functions with much more variety than before. As a result, the team-wide aspects of any given tactic have been streamlined, simply letting you set the depth of your defensive line and pick a build-up style based on short passing, countering, or a balanced mix of the two. Once you've picked a strategy and a formation you're happy with, you can begin applying specific roles to each player to really define its identity, balancing the risk and reward of certain roles and their impact on the team.
Every position has several Player Roles that govern a player's movement and positioning when they don't have the ball, both when your team has possession and when it doesn't. A central midfielder, for instance, fits into one of five roles, ranging from a playmaker to a half winger. The latter is new and sees your center mid drift out wide--similar to how Kevin De Bruyne often plays for Manchester City--letting you create overloads on one side of the pitch or whip balls into the box with a more proficient crosser than either your winger or fullback. This introduces more ways for you to create chances and gives you something else to think about when devising a tactic, making the whole process much more engaging.
Attack on Titan's first three seasons are getting new limited-edition Blu-ray releases with steelbook cases. All three steelbooks arrive December 17, so if you have an Attack on Titan fan on your shopping list this holiday, these would make great gifts. Preorders for Seasons 1, 2, and 3 are available and discounted at Amazon and the Crunchyroll Store. Though Crunchyroll is offering a slightly lower price for each at the moment--$52.49 versus $55 at Amazon--you need to spend $75 to get free shipping at Crunchyroll, whereas Amazon has free shipping and release-day delivery for Amazon Prime members. Considering how hectic the holidays are for online shopping, if you're buying these anime Blu-rays as gifts, Amazon would be the safer choice for ensuring you get your order in time.
The steelbook editions of Seasons 1-3 release just a few weeks after the final season's closing arc launches on Blu-ray for the first time. Long-time Attack on Titan fans will want to check out the cool limited-edition box set for the Final Season Part 3 (Season 4) before preorders sell out.
If you are new to Attack on Titan, the anime is a beautifully animated series, set in a world where the remnants of humanity hide from man-eating titans outside of their walls. Throughout its 94 episodes, the story touches on heavy issues of genocide and ethnic cleansing. It's an anime full of hard-hitting drama, awesome combat animation, and an incredible soundtrack, and these new Attack on Titan steelbook Blu-rays are a great way to check out the show's first three seasons.
Red Candle Games has confirmed that its Sekiro-inspired metroidvania, Nine Sols, will be launching on PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox on November 26. The studio released a brand-new trailer, and the game is confirmed to be coming to Game Pass on release day too.
Nine Sols follows Yi, a hero who aims to overthrow the nine Sols, tyrannical rulers in the realm of New Kunlun. The developers have called the aesthetics of Nine Sols as "Taopunk," which combines futuristic cyberpunk elements with eastern fantasy and mythology. While the game features challenging parrying mechanics, there are options to modify damage dealt and damage received, making it much more approachable and less frustrating than the game it's inspired by.
Red Candle Games was previously known for creating horror games like Detention and Devotion. However, Nine Sols is a bright and colorful platformer, making it a drastic departure from the studio's past titles.
Majima fans have been waiting years for the Mad Dog of Shimano to make his return as a main story character. After his protagonist run in Yakuza 0, the Majima Everywhere system in Yakuza Kiwami, and the short-lived but very satisfying saga ending in Yakuza Kiwami 2, fans of the beloved character have probably spent a chunk of their free time screenshotting and recording every frame of his appearances in the games, holding on to the little moments we can have with him.
The years of waiting around have finally come to an end. Ryu Ga Gotoku (RGG) studio has released a seven-minute announcement trailer of its newest title Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii where Majima shines again, and this time as the sole protagonist. Even though RGG has been releasing full-length games almost yearly, even longtime fans probably weren't expecting another game so soon or predicting Majima to return as a protagonist and a pirate. Plus, Yakuza's beat-'em-up combat and the series' best minigame both return--this is shaping up to be a great game!
As we saw in the trailer released last weekend, the game takes place six months after the events in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Majima wakes up on a beach with no memory of how he got there or even his name. He is approached by a young boy, Noah (and his pet "cat" that is definitely a tiger) who tells him they are on an island near Hawaii called "Rich Island," before the duo are quickly confronted by pirates. Majima then meets Noah's dad, Jason, and learns about Nele Island--a dumping ground for waste and pollution that Majima and the yakuza are somehow involved in.
The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, Japan looks to be a celebration of one of the most influential and beloved video game companies in the world. The sprawling project encompasses all of Nintendo's history, from its humble beginnings as a toy and card game company to the video game behemoth we know today. The scope includes classics like the Nintendo and Game Boy and oddball experiments like the Virtual Boy, leading all the way to the modern state of the company. The company will open the museum to the public on October 2, but the distance may be daunting for many Nintendo fans, and right now tickets are only going out via a lottery system.
So until you can make the pilgrimage yourself, check out the gallery below to get a closer look at the breadth of exhibits and experiences the Nintendo Museum has to offer. And be sure to read our in-depth impressions for even more details on what it feels like to see Nintendo's history up close.
More than any other game company, Nintendo loves to play with its history. Just look at how many times the NES library has reappeared across virtually every console era--remakes in Super Mario All-Stars, re-releases on Game Boy Advance, playable titles in Animal Crossing, the Wii Virtual Console, NES Remix on Wii U, and NES World Championships on Switch. Characters like Pauline from Donkey Kong can disappear in the mid-'80s and suddenly reappear decades later. And for a quarter of a century, the Super Smash Bros. series has essentially served as a digital museum of Nintendo's most iconic characters, worlds, and franchises. Given this fascination with its own history, it's surprising that it took this long for Nintendo to produce a physical museum. A week before its October 2 opening, I had a chance to spend two days at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto. As a lifelong fan of the company who credits it with my early fascination with gaming, it was a tremendous and surprisingly personal experience that I won't forget.
Nintendo's first-party titles have always been filled with a certain polish that can feel like magic at times, so it should serve as no surprise that the company's obsessive attention to detail translates to a physical space. As you enter the main building (well, after you pass the line of five Toads who sing if you bonk their heads around), you're ushered into a holding area before the escalator to the exhibit space. In this dimly lit room, silhouettes of various Nintendo consoles light up in sync with the sounds of their startup chimes. From there you step onto the escalator and are greeted with ambient console-menu music as you're ushered upstairs. The first visible element of the exhibit room is a scoreboard-style box hanging from the ceiling with screens on each side. It displays startup screens of various consoles such as the iconic GameCube intro. It's very cool to see the entrance to the museum replicate the feeling of turning on a Nintendo console, from the chime to the logo animation to the menu music.
As you reach the top of the escalator, you suddenly emerge in the center of 360 degrees of Nintendo's history. It's almost overwhelming to go from a dark room and escalator to a panorama of sights and sounds from Nintendo. Game displays, massive controllers, and dozens of screens surrounded me as I entered the space, and I found myself randomly walking to the left to look at my first display. It was for the Nintendo DS, and I spent a couple of minutes taking in a wall of game boxes before I decided that I needed to have an attack plan for the exhibits or I was bound to miss something.
Rogue Flight’s thumbnail is doing the game a disservice. We’d glossed over this trailer for Truant Pixel’s newest title, assuming it was another lousy low-effort indie shmup. It’s actually an After Burner or Star Fox-style affair with an 80s anime aesthetic, reminiscent of Space Adventure Cobra or Battle of the Planets – it looks cool.
The game will actually feature Japanese voice talent from prestige shows such as Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Gundam – but there will be an English dub as well if you prefer.
It’s been another utterly insane week in PlayStation, and so we’re desperate for a rest. Unfortunately, there’s no rest for the wicked, as this weekend will be all about the Tokyo Game Show. Hopefully we still find time to relax with our favourite games.
Aaron Bayne
A new week, a new season of The Finals. This season me and my squad are going for ranked, but this weekend will act as a warmup on some World Tour. Regardless, the grind is on.
The reaction to the PS5 Pro’s announcement bordered on apocalyptic. While system architect Mark Cerny did a decent job of introducing the device, the $700/£700 price point triggered an obscene backlash. At the time, just 9.7% of you said you would pre-order the console in a Push Square poll. That’s a dire result for a website filled with enthusiasts.
Since then, opinion does appear to have softened, however. Make no mistake, there’s still a vocal contingent who don’t believe there’s a point to the platform, but in the aftermath of pre-orders going live, 39% say they have plumped up for the platform. That’s quite a dramatic swing when compared to the initial reaction.
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