The long-awaited follow up to Sega’s iconic Yakuza series, Yakuza: Like a Dragon looks to be a major departure from the franchise’s iconic gameplay, namely trading out the previous titles’ arcadey beat ’em up combat for turn-based encounters. Alongside that, it subs out long-time protagonist Kazuma Kiryu for a new hero by the name of Ichiban Kasuga, as he sets out to uncover a fresh mystery set within the Yakuza world....
While long-time fans of the series likely know, new fans to the Yakuza series may be surprised to learn that there’s a subset of samurai-era games that have never been released for English-speaking audiences. While nothing is set in stone, Yakuza series producer Daisuke Sato has now indicated that could change, and there’s a chance of it being with brand new remakes. The Yakuza series, originally titled Ryu ga Gotoku (roughly ‘Like a Dragon’) in Japan, isn’t limited solely to telling tales of modern-day Yakuza....
Link, specifically the Hero of the Wild Link, is an incredibly powerful character. The protagonist of the Legend of Zelda series, he travels Hyrule protecting it and Princess Zelda from the evils of Calamity Ganon. What if Link were teleported to the world of Pokémon, being forced to take on a different challenge? Which Pokémon would he be able to take on, and which would he fall to? Let’s find out....
What Does Proximity Marketing Mean? Proximity marketing is the practice of marketing goods or services based on a customer’s actual physical location. This practice relies on things like cell phone triangulation and GPS technologies, and the use of network components that can connect with a user’s smartphone, which is one of the most common ways that businesses track consumers. Techopedia Explains Proximity Marketing Proximity marketing can be extremely useful to businesses....
For Microsoft, 2020 was a rollercoaster with incredible highs such as the launch of its two next generation consoles to disappointing lows like the Halo: Infinite reveal debacle. The company continued to make innovative strides with Game Pass and Project xCloud, offering even more ways to play for Xbox fans. With a global pandemic really gripping the globe last year, supply shortages and an incredible demand for the new consoles left many fans out in the cold and waiting for more inventory....
The Cheater Socks are one of the best accessory items you can get in Persona 5 Strikers, but you have to complete a couple of pre-requisite side-quests in order to get them. That’s Cheater Socks, and not Cheetah Socks as Google may have you believe. Perhaps there was a translation issue there… This item gives +4 Agility to any character that has them equipped, increasing their movement speed and making them a lot more efficient in battle....
The John Wick trilogy is arguably the greatest trio of action movies ever made. Keanu Reeves performance as a stoic, relentless assassin already resides in the filmic hall of fame, and will likely only ascend to greater echelons as more films are released. Chad Stahelski, the director behind these films has been confirmed as director for the film adaptation of Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima. Having launched only last year, Sony is wasting no time in turning the open-world blockbuster into a feature film....
Recent reports regarding a rumored remake of Chrono Cross have some fans asking why the 1999 PS1 RPG is getting a remake instead of its beloved spiritual predecessor, Chrono Trigger. While a Chrono Cross remake/remaster was included in that massive Nvidia “leak” that dropped a few weeks ago, a new report from VGC and XboxEra co-founder Nick Baker strongly suggests that Square Enix is indeed working on that project and may eventually release it for multiple platforms....
Pokemon sizes are stupid. Do you know how tall - or should I say long? - Eternatus is? 65-foot-seven. What the [insert profanity here]. Alolan Exeggutor is 35-foot-nine, which is almost double the size of an impressively tall male giraffe. Wishiwashi, which is a mere eight inches long in its solo form, bizarrely grows to a whopping size of 26-foot-11 when it metamorphoses into school form. On the contrary, Charizard - who I’m sure most of you think of as an enormous dragon despite not being a Dragon - is actually a little bit shorter than five-foot-six....
In 2011, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, game director Katsura Hashino made a pivotal design decision for Persona 5. Initially, the fifth Persona game was meant to be a more globe-trotting adventure. The game would still follow the picaresque fiction style that inspired the game, but the setting would be centralized on Japan due to many societal and personal factors. Hashino has since moved on to a completely new project, but there’s a high likelihood that Persona 6 will expand beyond the borders of Japan....
The best thing that Sopranos creator David Chase ever did for us was cut to black. Though the ending of the classic HBO mob drama remains controversial years later, it’s hard to argue with the fact that it wasn’t definitive. Counterintuitively, refusing to show Tony Soprano’s presumed final moments has made the final scene of The Sopranos feel more ironclad than many other shows that attempted to achieve real closure. The answer to “how does Tony Soprano’s story end?...
If there’s anything that Conan O’Brien’s Clueless Gamer has taught us it’s that watching comedians fumble through video games brings endless entertainment. It doesn’t matter if it’s contemporary titles like Watch Dogs or older classics; it’s all funny. And while O’Brien has had the market on funny video game clips cornered, funnyman Will Ferrell is hoping to get in on the action. Just this week, Ferrell announced a contest whereby one lucky fan can win a chance to play games with the actor in San Francisco....
Since the announcement of Mixer being shut down and Microsoft partnering with Facebook Gaming, many viewers have wondered if they should give the streaming service a shot. As an extension of Facebook, the idea of streaming on the platform has been met with a fair amount of skepticism and distrust. It seems like even official Xbox groups, like the Xbox Ambassadors, have decided to switch to Twitch rather than stream on its now partner platform....
Since its initial release, Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass has allowed players to easily access over a hundred games at a time for a fairly low fee of $10 a month. Courtesy of a deal at Best Buy, players can now slash that price in half by purchasing 6 months of service in advance. Best Buy is currently offering a digital code that can be redeemed for six months worth of the Xbox Game Pass program for just $29....
In a wonderfully pro-consumer move, Microsoft has announced that all subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will receive free integration of Project xCloud this September. xCloud, for those unaware, is Microsoft’s answer to game streaming services and allows you to play Xbox games across a range of devices (including phones and tablets). Not every game available on Game Pass will be included, but you’ll be able to play Halo Infinite this fall without actually having an Xbox One....
Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues its reign into 2021 as one of Nintendo’s top titles after a year of success in 2020. The franchise has been no stranger to adorable merchandise collaborations, and that trend continues today with a precious set of PVC figures from Bandai Shokugan. Nintendo has plenty to celebrate as it wraps up a chart-topping 2020 with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The island-life sim has even come close to dethroning the beloved Mario Kart 8 as the best selling Nintendo Switch title in a year when we needed a little more escapism....
So apparently you can be a gay Viking in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. You don’t have to, but you can. Just saying. We got our first good look at Assassin’s Creed Valhalla at Ubisoft Forward, where we were finally introduced to some actual gameplay footage after being promised for several months. And then we were also told that you can swap between male and female Eivor on a whim, which means that if there’s any opportunity for romance, then that would make Eivor at least bisexual unless Ubisoft wanted to also start swapping genders of bangable NPCs....
YouTube has over one billion users who visit the site from all around the world. Users view five billion YouTube videos every single day including record-breaking streams of Fortnite Battle Royale to music videos as the world’s most famous performers upload their latest videos to their official accounts. However, users who visited the video platform today may have found that YouTube’s most popular video was briefly unavailable. The music video for Despacito, the 2017 chart-topping song from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, was unavailable for a short amount of time earlier today as part of an apparent hack....
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, there are tons of different decks and archetypes available for players to build. From anime fan favorites like Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician to other popular decks from the TCG such as Six Samurai and Thunder Dragons. Buster Blader is a deck that combines both of these. Buster Blader has always been popular, for some due to the lore told through its card artworks or maybe because of its anime appearances in Yugi’s deck....
In a move that will likely surprise no one, ZeniMax Media has made good on its stated intention of persuading a Texas court to halt sales of the Oculus Rift. The company – parent to game studios around the world, including Arkane Studios, id Software, and Bethesda Softworks – had said a few weeks ago that they were looking into the possibility of filing a sales injunction on the VR headset after a court ruled that Oculus had misappropriated trade secrets from ZeniMax....
