It is Wednesday which means it is time to examine the latest video game software and hardware charts from Japan courtesy of the team at Famitsu. Nintendo continues to trounce the competition in its home country shifting a decent 75,922 units with Ring Fit Adventure overtaking Pokemon Sword & Shield. Here’s this week’s best-sellers: Software
Month: February 2020
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Warcraft 3: Reforged hasn’t gotten any more popular in the days since its release. The clamor has gotten bad enough that Blizzard has reportedly begun giving instant refunds to players who want them. That’s the word from Reddit user krOnicLTD,
EVO 2020 is scheduled to kick off in late July this year, and Evolution Championship Series has officially unveiled the fighting tournament’s lineup of titles. There are eight games on the list in total, though none are from Western development studios. As such, one rather large fighter will not appear in the EVO 2020 lineup–NetherRealm Studios’
He’s one of the most instantly recognisable musicians of our time, an icon in his field, and with a huge back catalogue of tunes in his library it was only a matter of time before we found Little Stevie Wonder hitting the Rocksmith charts. Available to purchase, download and add into your Rocksmith tutoring service
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics seeks to recreate the major plot beats and battles from Netflix’s recent – and absolutely excellent – Dark Crystal prequel series in turn-based tactical strategy form. An expensive, multi-episode forerunner to the seemingly long-forgotten 1982 movie masterpiece was a somewhat unexpected announcement when it was first made by
Esports has been on the rise in North America, permeating the mainstream several times over in increasing frequency with each passing year, and with it, esports betting has become a new frontier on the horizon of the expanding space. As technology continues to develop at an exponentially increasing pace, esports betting, like any fiscal transaction
Sony is shutting down its Manchester VR Studio before it even released any products. Manchester Studio was originally established in 2015 under the name North West Studio before being renamed Sony Manchester. The goal was to make AAA VR games for PlayStation VR. At the time of its creation, the studio was employing former staff
You, you, and you! Everyone can be a critic during PlayStation Store’s Critics’ Choice Sale. Starting tomorrow, save up to 50 percent with two weeks of deals on critically acclaimed titles past and present. Forge a path to vengeance in 2019’s Game of the Year Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, reconnect a broken society in visually
Take-Two Interactive Software recently announced that Dan Houser, vice president of creative at Rockstar Games, will soon be leaving the company. According to the announcement, Houser took an extended break starting in the spring of 2019, but his last official day at the studio will be on March 11 of this year. Dan Houser is
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Current-generation console sales have plunged more quickly than anticipated, as potential customers apparently hold off on purchases ahead of this year’s reveal. That’s the consistent messaging we’ve heard from multiple companies in the game console market, including AMD, GameStop, and
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Several game streaming services have come and gone while Nvidia has been fiddling with its GeForce Now cloud gaming platform. It tried to launch once in 2015, but ended up going back to the drawing board with a new beta
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics reviewed on Nintendo Switch by Mike Epstein, also available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Spoiler warning! The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics follows the same plot as its Netflix TV series counterpart. While this review is free of any major spoilers, keep that in mind
By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:38 GMT Code Vein, Bandai Namco’s action RPG inspired by the Souls series, has sold over one million copies. Code Vein hit over one million copies sold within five months of its fall release. The game’s official Twitter account announced the new good news today. Dearest Revenants, we’d
The last two big additions on the calendar for Destiny 2‘s Season Of Dawn arrived today: a new final boss in The Sundial and, more practically, an easy way to farm squillions of the seasonal weapons and get your dream rolls. Saint-14 and Osiris today launched the Empyrean Restoration effort, asking Guardians to donate leftover
We’re excited to confirm that Early Access Dreamers will upgrade to the launch version of Dreams ahead of the February 14 launch date. We’ll be releasing a Creator Patch update on February 11 that gives those players access to all the new content in Dreams from 12pm GMT (4am Pacific time). Following this Creator Patch,
Hello, PlayStation Now fans! February is here, and that means a new batch of PlayStation 4 games joining the PlayStation Now library. Starting today, PS Now subscribers can enjoy The Evil Within, Lego Worlds, and Cities: Skylines, which will be available to stream and download on PS Now. These titles will join the PlayStation Now
Hi everyone — my name’s Jason Kingsley and I’m the Creative Director and Co-founder of Rebellion. I’m delighted to be back at PlayStation.Blog the day Zombie Army 4: Dead War launches on PS4! It’s almost five years ago to the day my first PS Blog post got published, and oddly enough that was all about
Hey guys! Damoun Shabestari (aka Shabs) here, Game Director on Firewall Zero Hour*, the team-based multiplayer shooter exclusive to PS VR. We hope you’re all having a great start to the year! Here at First Contact Entertainment, we’ve been excited to welcome so many new players to the game over the holidays. We’re continuing that
Hey Movers! SMG Art Team here — with Moving Out launching April 28, we thought we’d share the story behind the creation of some of the characters you’ll get to play in this couch co-op, moving game full of comedy, color, and chaos. We’ll break down the process so you can get a first-hand look
Hey Beta ring users! Today’s Xbox Insider Release Notes highlight the latest fixes, known issues, and features coming to your console. Starting at 2:00 p.m. PT today, users will receive the latest 2002 Xbox One system update (build: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_200218363.9127.200131-2000). Keep reading for more details. System Update Details: OS version released: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_200218363.9127.200131-2000 Available: 2 p.m. PT
We have got a brand new Mario movie coming in the future from illumination and thankfully it is animated this time round. Speaking to investors about Nintendo‘s various IP’s and particularly the Mario franchise, Mr. Miyamoto revealed that one of the reasons behind attempting another movie staring the famous Italian Plumber is that so many
What was old is back again, with vengeance! The Pillars of Eternity franchise has come a long way from its humble origins as a Kickstarter that was a mere glimmer in the eye of developers that missed the “real-time-with-pause” genre of RPGs. Taking cues from the likes of Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale, what was
“It’s true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This famous line was given to us by the author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford in 1878. It comes from a book that she wrote titled, “Molly Bawn”. I have never read this book, and I do not know what character says this line or why
Last week, it was rumoured that PlatinumGames had acquired the rights to the Wii U title Wonderful 101 and was intending to launch a crowdfunding campaign to bring the game to Switch, PS4 and Steam. Now, what we heard to be true has been confirmed – the Japanese studio is indeed reviving the game for
MediEvil is one of the beloved PlayStation classics whose life was unfortunately cut short early. Last year’s MediEvil PS4 remake resurrected the series and brought a renewed interest in Sir Daniel Fortesque’s adventures. Now some cryptic tweets from the series’ composer hint that a MediEvil 2 remake could be in development. Whether that remake is
The tiny superhero game developed by Platinum Games for the Wii U back in 2013 is getting a remaster. It will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, of course, but Platinum aren’t working with Nintendo as a publisher this time around so they’ve taken to crowdfunding to get The Wonderful 101: Remastered made and have
By Emily Gera, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:08 GMT Blizzard is now offering an automatic refund for players who feel disappointed in the recently released Warcraft 3: Reforged. While Blizzard has yet to make an official statement on the matter, the company is currently offering instant refunds for the remastered edition of Warcraft 3: Reign
It’s Christmas time in Gotham City! Check out our review of Batman: Arkham Origins. For more Batman: Arkham Origins videos head over to: http://www.gametrailers.com/games/8kneph/batman–arkham-origins
Zombie Army 4: Dead War reviewed by Kyle Hilliard on Xbox One X. Also available for PlayStation 4 and PC. Narration by Max Scoville. Zombie Army 4: Dead War feels largely familiar amid the horde of Left 4 Dead-style co-op shooters, but it isn’t without its clever mechanical touches and spins on the oldest of
On February 4, Respawn Entertainment is launching Apex Legends’ fourth season, which just happens to be called Assimilation. Holding true to Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s use of the word, robotic beings are doing bad things to the fleshy beings. In the game’s case, a new playable Legend named Revenant is the robot that’s tearing