Category: News
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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IBIF Podcast 4: Static on the Line
Join 2/3 of the IBeatItFirst crew for fun, drinking, gaming, and anime.
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IBIF Podcast 3: E3 Hangover
Join Eric and Jason, sans Chris, for a recap of E3, some thoughts on recent gaming news and exploits, and discussions of Anime both new and old.
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E3 2017: Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom Frist Look
The Ni no Kuni Series returns in Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom, this time with a new protagonist Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, the fox eared king of Ding Dong Dell. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch was one of our Favorite JRPGS on the PS3 back in 2013 (holy shit its been that long…
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