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After a brief teaser at the recent Comic Con panel Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite devs have now officially confirmed that Final Fight's Haggar, Dead Rising's Frank West, and Resident Evil's Nemesis will be joining the rather bizarre and diverse roster. Nemesis and Haggar I can understand, they are both mountains made out of flesh, but I'm not exactly sure about Frank West and his chances.
The recently posted gameplay trailer seems to share my concerns as poor ol' Frank spends most of the video getting beaten up, all the while releasing some of the most hilarious grunts I've heard in a while. You'll find the video right below, and I'd heartily recommend you check it out, if only to watch Frank get repeatedly thrown across the room:
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I haven't been paying much attention to PS3 emulation, but apparently there have been some massive strides forward in the past few years. According to a recent update on Demon's Souls, the somewhat flawed classic that kickstarted the whole Souls genre, the game is now considered fully working and stable, though perhaps not yet fully enjoyable.
If you're currently wondering what exactly that means, you'll find your answers in the recently posted gameplay video showing Demon's Souls running on the RPCS3 emulator. Have a look, its quite impressive:
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[Update]: Trails of Cold Steel has now made its way to PC, and I'm glad to say it has so far recieved overwhelmingly positive reviews!
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is a turn-based JRPG with a rather unique idea behind its combat system. Instead of being fully proficient fighters from the get-go, your party will first need to spend some time getting to know each other, as well as bond over various dialogue choices and story events before they are capable of properly supporting each other. So as you get to know your companions better your combined attacks will become increasingly powerful, which I must admit is a rather interesting way to mix combat and storytelling.
If you're wondering what exactly the narrative is even all about, you'll find some of the answers you seek in the story trailer right below. Its not overly detailed, but it will give you a decent idea of just what kind of JRPG you're getting into. Have a look:
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A relatively short amount of time has passed since the viking themed strategy game Northgard added multiplayer and new combat units, and already the developers have released another major batch of content to play around with. As you can probably guess from the title, the new content comes in the form of Northgard's fifth faction - Clan Bear.
Unlike some of the other factions Clan Bear is not focused on aggression, but rather on resilience and an unbreakable defense. Their food production loss during winter is reduced by 20%, and instead of having reduced power all of their military units gain 10% damage resistance throughout winter. So while they might not be as powerful as the other clans in a straight up battle, you better not underestimate Clan Bear during winter or you're going to quickly regret your mistake!
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Even a few years ago it was incredibly hard to find good JRPGs on PC, simply because big publishers didn't believe there was any sort of market for it - a 'fact' they could easily verify by just looking at how few JRPGs the PC has. Thankfully, that cycle of despair is now quickly being broken apart, as you can easily notice by the growing library of Nihon Falcom games on Steam.
Best of all, according to an interview TechRaptor conducted with Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo the company is aiming to release all of their games (both future and past) on Steam! Here's the full quote:
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Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time is a 3D action-RPG with some beat'em up elements mixed in for good measure. While it will feature a lot of the same characters from the series The Chamber of Time will be its own self-contained storyline, so in theory it should be welcoming to both new players and seasoned fans alike.
If you're wondering what all of this might look like in-game, wonder no more as Bandai Namco has released a decently lengthy trailer showcasing just that. I've never seen the show myself, but I'm pretty sure the first ~30 seconds are not in-game footage, though everything beyond that appears to be the real deal. Oh, and I hope you don't mind the entire trailer being in Japanese! Have a look:
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Star Citizen's development may be moving at a glacial pace, but to the developer's credit it really is chugging along quite nicely. It was only 'a short while ago' that Star Citizen got updated with an FPS module, and soon we will be getting a whole bunch of new content to explore as well.
The Alpha 3.0 Update will add moon landings and explorable surfaces, a planetary rover so you don't have to moonwalk everywhere, and even perhaps most interestingly of all, an incredibly fast hover-bike! You can check out what some of these features look like in game via the recently posted teaser video, courtesy of PC Gamer. Have a look:
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Given the positive user and critic reviews it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that Dying Light is highly successful, but what might come as a surprise is that its so successful it still has over 500,000 players each and every week, 3 years since launch! In order to celebrate this momentous milestone, and most likely lead up to a Dying Light 2 announcement, the developers have just revealed their plans for 10 more pieces of free DLC over the next 12 months.
While the details are still unknown, these DLCs will bring with them new and more challenging enemies to face off against, a variety of interesting events to participate in, new mysteries to uncover, and "much, much more". Most importantly of all, these DLCs won't just be cosmetic fluff - they will be actual content designed to improve Dying Light's longevity. As a simple teaser of things to come, DLC #0 will bring with it new human and zombie enemies in the near future.
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The Ni No Kuni series of RPGs has been exclusively available on consoles and portable platforms ever since its inception, but this will thankfully be changing with Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom as it will be coming to PC as well as PS4. The details are still a bit shaky, but you can expect to see an open world full of towns, villages, and dungeons to explore, as well as a whole bunch of overly cutesy enemies to ruthlessly beat up.
If you're wondering what all of this might look like in gameplay terms, wonder no more as the developers have released a rather lengthy gameplay video where they go over pretty much every mechanic and detail. So if you're interested in Ni No Kuni 2, make sure to give the video a look:
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The Celestial Storm Update has just arrived to Trion World's MMORPG Rift, bringing with it so much content the developers are comfortable claiming there's "hundreds of hours" of it to explore. There's four new Primalist Souls to play around with, the Vostigar Peaks overland zone to wonder across, a whole bunch of new questlines, all new Raid Rifts, and the list goes on.
You can learn more by heading over to the official website, but do keep in mind that concrete information is a bit hard to find right now. If you just want the short version, however, here's the extremely brief teaser trailer showing off some of the new content: