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He’s working on a new, non-fighting game next Depending on your fighting game preferences, this might be good or bad news. BlazBluecreator Toshimichi Mori has been intimating in the past few months that there won’t be an expansion-style add-on forBlazBlue: Central Fiction, and this week, he’s cemented that fact by explaining that his next game isn’tBlazBluerelated — in fact, it’s not even a fighting game. Naturally he wants to go out on a high note, saying that “no fighting game” has an ending as good asCentral Fiction, and that this indeed closes out the story....

Doin’ time and the living’s easy You may rememberCriminal Girls: Invite Onlyas the game we covered back in July two different times where it was briefly suggested the game shouldn’t be localized. But that’s only becauseIdidn’t write the post, because I’m all for giving it a try. And guess what? NIS America, the #1 handsy boys that they are, have finally given it a release date. It’ll hit February 3 in North America and February 6 in Europe....

Channel your inner Ava Gardner NIS America has released a demo for its upcoming earthquake-’em-up (just go with it)Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories.The demo is live now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, giving players a glimpse at the catastrophic adventure that awaits in the full release. Disaster Report 4throws players into the deep end of calamity as they play a young citizen who arrives in Tokyo for a job interview. After a ground-splitting tremor almost cuts the city in two, it is the players task to guide the protagonist to safety, dodging environmental hazards, helping survivors, scavenging for supplies and keeping a suspicious eye out for opportunists, who’re keen to turn the situation toward their own selfish gains....

IDDQD Doom‘s multiplayer will be receiving a free update, soon, which will add deathmatch to the selection of game modes. Private matches are also coming, allowing players to tweak settings to their liking. Users can opt to turn off demon powers and change whether power weapons spawn or not. Bethesda uploaded a teaser trailer for the update along with a message that a livestream will be held on September 13 to showcase the new options....

Those Greevils are up to no good! If you were playingDota 2around Halloween, you likely played some of the Diretide event and received a Greevil egg. Until now, those Greevils have simply been couriers to use in-game. Today, however, they become much more important. The new holidayDota 2event, theGreeviling, is upon us! It’s a cute little distraction, plus the river is now icy!Dota 2Ice Capades! The event plays very differently from normal and consists of no creeps or regular neutral camps....

Two massive event hosts join forces for E3’s comeback show The Entertainment Software Association is set to host E3 again, and it’s partnering with ReedPop to make it happen. Today, the two announced that E3 2023 will be organized with ReedPop’s help. ReedPop is the company behind PAX, New York Comic-Con, EGX, and the Star Wars Celebration. It’s also the parent company of several gaming sites. includingGamesIndustry.bizandEurogamer. (Disclosure: I was previously employed by ReedPop at USgamer....

That glorious chin Ash Williams ofThe Evil Deadfame could stand to be in a whole lot more video games, wouldn’t you agree? And if he’s not going to star in more of his own games, he at least deserves fun cameo appearances. Basically, that’s what this is: Ash is coming toDead by Daylighton June 27, 2025. He’s a survivor playable character, so you’ll have to help him outwit horror movie icons like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and Leatherface....

31st* Descending the escaltor at Kaihin Makuhari Station to attend the Tokyo Game Show, one can see monochrome posters of eachFinal Fantasyand their protagonist. During TGS it has been announced that a fullFinal Fantasyart exhibitis coming to Tokyo to celebrate the series’s 30th anniversary. The first game originally released on July 30, 2025 but hey who’s counting? It can be seen from July 12, 2025 through August 06, 2025 at Roppongi Hills’ Tokyo City View Observation Deck Gallery....

Have you seen this yet? It’s a teaser trailer for a first-person horror game calledRoutinein development for PC and Mac atLunar Software. I’m glad to see it’s been gaining traction this week, because conceptually, the game seems ambitious — especially for a small team — but not overly so. That’s UDK for you. Described as non-linear,Routinehas you exploring a seemingly abandoned moon base without the aid of a heads-up display or health pick-ups....

Playable on day one through backward compatibility After hearing the good news today about the PlayStation 5’s backward compatibility plan for PS4 games–in short: almost everything will work on the new console– we’re now left to think about which of our PS4 games will be particularly well-suited for PS5.Ghost of Tsushimais in that conversation. According to Sucker Punch Productions, PS5 players will be able to benefit from “frame rates up to 60FPS” inGhost of Tsushimausing the Game Boost feature....

Sup Holmes every Sunday at 2:30pm EST! [Sup Holmes is a weekly talk show for people that make great video games. It airs live every Sunday at 4:00pm EST onYouTube, and can be found in Podcast form onLibsynandiTunes.] [Update: Thanks so much to Alex for being on the show! Rerun should be up soon. In the meantime, here’s some popular young men playingSub Rosaand going bananas. Today on Sup Holmes we’re happy to welcome Alex Austin of Cryptic Sea to the program....

Apparently Super Mario 3D Land is violent The Guardian has put together thisvery slick interactive infographicusing their analysis of the top 50 videogames of 2012. They found that more than half of the top games of last year contain violent labeling as assigned by the ESRB. As cool as this infographic is, their sorting shows that games likeSkylanders GiantsandWii Sports Resortare considered violent.Mario Party 9is listed right next toDishonored. Apparently ESRB’s call of “Cartoon Violence” counts as a violent game....

When it comes to live-service community events,Helldivers 2is proving to be quite the behemoth. Its maniacal game-master, the enigmatic “Joel,” has doled out one surprise after another, and this one is proving quite diabolical. What if Arrowhead Game Studios said, “Here are two new stratagems,” but also said, “pick one?” Today’s Major Order has players liberating one of two planets, either Choohe or Pente, in the Automaton region of the map....