The decision to release Total War: Arena as a free to play title is mostly influenced by the speed Creative Assembly want to build a playerbase, hoping for efficient matchmaking considering the high quantity of players per game, compared to a typical MOBA. Lead designer James Russell spoke to Edge magazine:…
A former Sega console engineer has shown off a previously unheard of prototype console named the Sega Pluto. The machine, pictured above, is a Sega Saturn with a built in NetLink 28.8k dial-up modem module allowing for online play. It’s fully functional and is also a region locked, USA NTSC…
Sega announced in the most recent issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu that new game Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2 will be coming out for the Nintendo 3DS. The game is a follow-up to Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai on the Nintendo DS where Miku fans can play along to songs using the touch screen, or…
We’ll be recording our 127th episode this Thursday and we need your questions! The main topic will be unlucky part 13 of our Acclaim series as we finally delve into their Dreamcast releases. Unfortunately, it’s for a terrible game that deserves little discussion. The games this week are: Iron Man…
Sony has announced that Kazuma Kiryu will be released as a DLC character for Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational for the Vita in Japan. Selling for roughly $5, they’ve even recorded brand new voice samples for Kazuma to say in the game. It definitely makes sense to have Kazuma in…
In a quite thorough interview with Polygon, president of Platinum Games, Tatsuya Minami, revealed that despite Bayonetta selling reasonably well, it was not as much as they anticipated. He explained in the interview: Bayonetta didn’t sell what we wanted it to sell. We were hoping it was going to do a little…
The game’s full title is, Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragon, and it has arrived on XBLA. When I first learned of the games existence I immediately thought it was a sequel to Way Forward’s amazing Double Dragon Neon. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and I realized it after…