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JRPG Legends Combine To Make Battle Champs

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When you talk JRPG’s, the names Akihiko Yoshida and Hitoshi Sakimoto will eventually come into the conversation, as they have helped draw, design, and compose many games across the decades. Including Final Fantasy titles, Vagrant Story, and more. Now, they’re teaming up once again with CyDesignation to make a new mobile title called Battle Champs. And as Akihiko notes, the process of Battle Champs was very simple: “I was just starting at CyDesignation doing a different project,” Sakimoto tells IGN, “but they said that – well hey, we’ve got this other game that’s really interesting. We’ll give you free reign over it and you can do pretty much whatever you want with the art direction. There were people who were there originally and they had a vision for what the world was supposed to be, but it was overlapping quite a bit with what I had already done previously… so I was very selfish and decided that I was going to suggest various different changes from what it originally was,

Visceral Star Wars Game Teased

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There are many Star Wars games in production right now, one of which is being made by Visceral. At a panel at Star Wars Celebration, Amy Hennig explained that in studying the Star Wars films, “the first thing that jumped out was that these are always ensemble stories […] So the same is true of our game.” Though she didn’t go into heavy details, she note some things about the goal of the team while making it: “The end goal of a game like [this] is that by the time the player has finished playing the game they feel like they really did play a Star Wars film […] So part of our deconstruction is to figure out how we enable that not only just in the story and honour it, but do it in gameplay as well. Because your characters – it’s not a lone wolf story, that’s not Star Wars – your characters have to be a coordinated ensemble acting in the moment and in parallel.” She also

Satellite Reign Enters Co-Op Beta

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In an official post in its Steam Page, developer 5 Lives Team has revealed that the co-op function for their upcoming title Satellite Reign is now available for beta. The statement reads: “We’ve updated the main branch with the co-op build of Satellite Reign, so now everyone will have access be default! We’re not “officially” launching until the end of the week, but we wanted to get a few days of it being tested by everyone, now that we’ve addressed the most critical issues. First thing you’ll notice, is you’ll be greeted with a choice between Singleplayer and Multiplayer. To play co-op, simply select Multiplayer, and either load up your own existing save as a host, or join someone else as a client We were having issues for some time with random disconnections, as well as an issue where clients would suddenly see everything stop (e.g. agents not responding, enemies and civs standing still), but everything is fine for the host. We’re fairly confident we’ve solved this issue, but if

Death Star DLC and Skirmish Mode Coming To Battlefront

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Battlefront has been at the forefront of rumors and speculation as of late. Mainly around rumors of an offline mode coming to the game along with new levels and heroes. EA has not only confirmed these rumors, but has officially blocked out the release for the upcoming months. First up, there is an offline mode coming, it is called Skirmish, and according to lead designer Dennis Brannvall it “offers players the option to play offline against bots in a solo mission or with a friend using co-op split screen (console only.)” The mode will arrive on July 20th. Also, there will be difficulty options for Skirmish mode, ones that apply to both modes: “With multiple locations that span the galaxy, from the frozen planet of Hoth to the lava encrusted planet of Sullust, we hope Skirmish brings players a new way to enjoy Star Wars Battlefront,” Brannvall added. Furthermore, EA will have more in-game events, ones that include new Hutt Contracts, and trials to explore Bespin, aka Cloud City. Finally,

Hideo Kojima Has No Plans To Stop Making Games

Hideo Kojima Has No Plans To Stop Making Games

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Hideo Kojima is known as a living legend with the gaming community. He’s also known for incredibly detailed and intricate stories, no doubt made famous by his run on Metal Gear Solid. For the longest time, Kojima worked at Konami, but then last year the company broke off ties with him in a very public manner. Despite this, Kojima want right back to work on making games. He put together a new studio called Kojima Productions, and even announced his first game under the studio in the form of Death Stranding, starring Norman Reedus. At Develop Brighton, he spoke about how he feels about the industry, and how every game is precious to him: “Every game brings me closer and closer to making what I imagine,” Kojima told Cerny. “That’s why I could never stop making games.” He also noted that games weren’t his first passion, rather, he wanted to be a film maker, but that was becoming difficult, so he used games to tell stories. “30 years ago, I

Overwatch To Implement "One-Hero Limit" In Competitive Play

Overwatch To Implement "One-Hero Limit" In Competitive Play

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There’s a slight danger when it comes to games like Overwatch. With such a diverse lineup, it’s easy for many to be drawn to a singular character, then have many people in online play want to be that singular character. This can lead to unbalanced matches, along with player frustration with those who want fair and even matches. Blizzard is aware of this, and is going to be changing things in Competitive Play to make sure this doesn’t happen. For in an interview with Gamespot, Blizzard principal designer Scott Mercer stated: “The big thing for Competitive Play is we’re going to turn on one-hero limit, so players will not be able to stack more than one of the same hero within a Competitive match. It’s not going to affect Quick Play at all, but it is something we’re going to turn on for Competitive.” Another big issue he’s looking to fix is the tie system: “We definitely want players to feel like if they had a tie, their time wasn’t

Niantic Talks Birth of Pokemon Go

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Pokemon has only been out a week, and only in three countries, but it already has had a massive impact. Nintendo Stock has risen, it’s been downloaded millions of times, and it looks to be the next true phenomenon. It didn’t start that way though, it started as a simple idea from developer Niantic. The founder, John Hanke, talked with Game Informer about how the now revolutionary product came to be: “So, we launched Ingress in 2012 – November 2012. Yeah, we’re growing that product and seeing it be a hit worldwide. And then in 2014 – I believe if that’s the right date – that year just keeps getting mixed up in my head, Google and The Pokémon Company did an April Fool’s joke around Google Maps, where Pokémon spontaneously appeared in Google Maps, which ended up being tremendously successful; it went viral. There’s a video about it that got umpteen million views. And so, within the Niantic team, we were thinking about, we built the game, it’s our

No Man's Sky Developer Already Working On First Update

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As we draw closer to the release of No Man’s Sky, Hello Games has begun to delve deeper into the little things about the title that will affect many gamers. For example, the game itself will be about 6GB on the game discs. This comes from Hello Games founder Sean Murray on Twitter who states: “For those asking – size of No Man’s Sky on disc is just 6GB. A lot of that is audio”. This proves just how massive No Man’s Sky is. Also, Murray relays how the certification process has been going for the game. Certification is a requirement for all games to have to be released on certain plaforms. He says on Twitter: “RC1 on the disc means Release Candidate 1. We passed cert first time in EU, US and Asia, currently here working on Japanese submission (ᵔᴥᵔ)” Finally, Murray states that the game is already being prepared for its first update: “Well, waiting for a build to upload really. Actually we’re already busy on Update 1”.

XCOM 2 Gets New Mods

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Two new mods have been made available for XCOM 2. These come via official channels via Long Wars Studios, the team that made the Long Wars mod for the original XCOM. Check out the breakdown of the mods via the official XCOM website: “Hello, Commander. One of our resistance cells, Long War Studios, has promised new tools to help us combat ADVENT and the alien menace. Starting today, XCOM soldiers will have new laser-based weapons to equip, as well as a complete reworking of classes and Abilities to employ in XCOM 2. The “Perk Pack” and “Laser Pack” mods are available for download through the XCOM 2 Steam Workshop right now. Simply head over to the Long War Studios section of Steam Workshop here and subscribe to the new mods. They will then be automatically downloaded through your Steam client. PERK PACK” MOD Choice of three perks per promotion rank instead of two More than 70 new and reworked Abilities that can be assigned to soldiers, gear or aliens Reworks the

Halo 5 Has Largest Player Base Since Halo 3

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When it comes to games with lots of replay value, seeing how many gamers continue to play the game well after launch often indicates their passion, as well as potential for buying the next game in the series should there be one. Halo is a franchise that often has tons of continuous players on their multiplayer servers. But in a Reddit thread, Halo community manager Andy Dudynsky revealed that Halo 5 has not only been doing incredibly well, but has actually done better than every Halo game since Halo 3. Which came out in 2007. “I do believe you’d be very pleasantly surprised with not only the number of players who jumped on during the free play period (holy moly lots! by golly it worked!), but also the amount of Halo 5 players each day and month – this isn’t something we’ve talked about yet, but I am rather happy to share that even before the free play period, Halo 5 has had the highest monthly active players for a

Nintendo Believed Wii U Would Outsell The Wii

Nintendo Believed Wii U Would Outsell The Wii

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The Wii U, no matter what happens in the final amount of time it is out on the market, is widely going to be considered a failure. While its had many best selling titles, and a library most Nintendo fans are proud of, its hardware sales were fledgling from launch to now. This was odd to many, as the previous Nintendo console, the Wii, was not only a major seller, but it’s one of the highest selling consoles of all time. During a shareholders meeting, current Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima revealed that at first, the company projected the Wii U could match or surpass the Wii. “In an internal sales representative meeting, someone projected that we would sell close to 100 million Wii U systems worldwide,” Kimishima said during the meeting. “The thinking was that because Wii sold well, Wii U would follow suit.” Kimishima also took blame for why the sales not only fell flat, but also why the marketing wasn’t as good as it could be. Leaving many

Star Ocean: Second Evolution Not Coming To West

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Despite the popularity of the Star Ocean franchise in the west, the series has taken a hit as of late. The most recent game, Integrity and Faithlessness, has only done ok in terms of sales and reviews. In fact, many have stated that the new title is a step back for the franchise. Now, it’s being reported that the game Star Ocean: Second Evolution, which is an enhanced version of Star Ocean: Second story which released on PSP in 2008, will not be coming to the West: “Yamagishi-san he was the producer that created the PSP remake and released the PS4 and Vita version in Japan. After he released the remake he hasn’t really done anything for the West. At this moment, there are no plans to release that title in the West.” “However, these are my personal thoughts and nothing has been decided yet, but since I am kind of rebooting the [Star Ocean] series I know that I can’t leave it alone. I would love to release it

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