After months of hype and steadily building expectation, Creative Assembly and Sega’s Alien Isolation has finally been released. The reception varies from the warm to critically acclaimed and is a launch, thanks to the license, big enough to be covered by the mainstream press. Hopefully gamers are starting to see the…
Some good news for European gamers, Sega is set to publish Persona 4 Arena Ultimax this November. There had been some doubt if Atlus’ cult hit would make it to the home of camembert, chianti and car crime, but Europe, alongside the Middle East and Africa, will see both digital…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKR4BDuwZlU&w=560&h=315] Sega have taken the genre ‘sandbox’ somewhat literally with their latest arcade innovation. Eederu Sunaba is an experience based around crafting a landscape from sand. Sensors determine the height and depth of the sandy structures as projectors add features like grass, snow and schools of fish. It’s…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zeci9Ejm-8] The first trailer emerged today of the next instalment of the Yakuza series, ‘Place of Oath’. With a slim to non-existant chance of making its way into English, this gives a flavour of what the West will be missing come 2015. Set in 1988, Yakuza Zero is a…
Sega today announced the next instalment in the ‘Yakuza’ series, Yakuza Zero: The Place of Oath. Set to appear for both Playstation 3 & 4 very little is known about the title, with meat to be added to the bones at the Tokyo Game Show in September. The title provides…
With the likes of Elysian Shadows Team, WaterMelon and Super Fighter Team, interest in harnessing the power of older consoles has never been higher. That process looks like becoming easier in the future, if the recently formed Open Core Foundation achieve their goals. They have set out to reintroduce Hitachi’s CPU…
Games, it would seem, are never just games anymore. Sonic Boom-style trans-media tie-ins may not be the rule just yet, but they are by no means the exception. The likes of Yo-Kai Watch by Level 5, Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter by Square Enix and Capcom’s Gaist Crusher all exist as much…