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Initial Impressions: Octopath Traveler

Square Enix is developing a JRPG for the Nintendo Switch with the working title Project Octopath Traveler. The team working on this title is the same that made Bravely Default and Bravely Second for the 3DS. What immediately attracted me to Octopath Traveler was the art style, which Square refers to as 2D-HD. Watch the
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September 18, 2017
The Ultimatest Battle Launches on Steam

The Ultimatest Battle, which looks to be a 2D team based shooter in the aesthetic of Worms has released on Steam today, complete with a new launch trailer. Ultimatest Battle is a free to play title, complete with micro-transactions, however, they promise that it is not play to win. In fact, Nicolas Eskenazi, game designer
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September 13, 2017
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry Review

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry has finally hit theaters here in the US, so I headed to my local theater to catch a subbed showing of it. Dragon Cry sits right before the final arcs of Fairy Tail, with a nod coming at the end of the film to those final arcs. In this sense, if
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August 16, 2017
Sony Pictures to Acquire Majority Stake in Funimation, Daisuki to End Anime Streaming

Why is that the cover image for this article? We’ll get to that later. First, let’s talk about the two major announcements this week. Yesterday Sony Pictures TV announced that will acquire a majority stake, at 95%, of Funimation for $143 million dollars. That means they valued Funimation at $150 million. Funimation CEO Gen Fukunaga
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August 1, 2017
Dragon Quest XI Heads West!

Yes, I put an exclamation mark on that headline, fight me. I’ll have you know I still own my original GameBoy Color with Dragon Warriors I & II. Yes, Dragon Warriors, the original western name for the now 30 year old Dragon Quest series. Dragon Quest XI releases tomorrow in Japan, and with that, series
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July 28, 2017
Lost Sphear Release Date Announced

Lost Sphear, the second game from Square Enix’s new studio Tokyo RPG Factory will be coming west on January 23rd, 2018. Those unfamiliar with Tokyo RPG Factory, they were founded to make JRPGs of old, such as Chrono Trigger, but for modern consoles. I have been playing their debut game I Am Setsuna and loving
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July 25, 2017
Call of Duty WWII Nazi Zombies Revealed

I haven’t been very interested in Call of Duty in many years, instead favoring the Battlefield franchise. Then they announced a return to WWII and there was a little bit of hype. Then I played it at E3 along with Jason, and the hype was real. The inclusion of the zombie mode was more of
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July 20, 2017
Sentai Filmworks Licenses Initial D Film Trilogy

As the title suggests, Sentai Filmworks has acquired the rights to all 3 Initial D movies that retell the beginning of the manga and anime. Initial D Legend 1: Awakening, Initial D Legend 2: Racer, and Initial D Legend 3: Dream are finally coming stateside. They were all released theatrically in Japan with the first
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July 19, 2017
Gravel Dev Diary

Milestone, creators of the MotoGP and MXGP series, has just released the first dev diary for their new game Gravel. Gravel is an off-road racing game set to release at the beginning of 2018. This is the first game where they’ve used the Unreal engine, and this dev diary explains what that has meant in
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July 14, 2017
Summer 2017 Anime Preview

Watch: These are the ones I suggest you watch after only one episode in: Castlevania What is it? Castlevania is a super gory adaptation of classic NES game…Castlevanaia. In this case, Castlevania 3. Not sure what that is? Well, it’s about a vengeful Dracula who has raised an army against all humans for burning his
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July 14, 2017