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12 CommentsDragon’s Crown is the first casualty of Atlus and NIS America’s publishing breakup (update)
Vanillaware’s beat-em-up Dragon’s Crown has disappeared from the European PlayStation Store, thanks to the end of publisher NIS America’s relationship with Atlus, which licensed the game to that company. The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita title is no longer up for sale in those territories, with no word on when it will return.
It's unclear for how long Dragon's Crown has been missing. A Reddit user noticed that the game was gone yesterday, however, when the European PlayStation Blog announced a sale on Japanese games. Among the discounted titles, according the post, was Dragon’s Crown. Yet following the link to the game’s store page leads to an error message.
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26 CommentsPlayStation Plus July giveaways include something extra for Paragon fans
PlayStation Plus subscribers have several free games to look forward to in July, and one of those is a completely new title. Furi for PlayStation 4 launches next Tuesday, July 5, but PlayStation Plus members will get the game for free the same day. You can watch a trailer for the game below.
PS4 owners will also receive Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell. For those members interested in Paragon, Sony is also offering early access to the game ahead of its open beta. The open beta launches Aug. 18, but subscribers can play it throughout July, and will also receive a starter pack that includes $40 worth of add-ons. Find out more about that deal in the video above.
Here’s the full line-up of July’s free games, including titles for PS3 and Vita owners:
Furi, PS4
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43 CommentsThe PlayStation Store’s latest sale reminds you that 2016 is half over
The PlayStation Store is holding its Mid-Year Sale, with a variety of games receiving discounts of up to 90 percent off for the next two weeks. The first set of offers are good from now until July 5 at 8 a.m. PT.
This week’s biggest deals are on a diverse set of games, from the latest version of Doom to a bevy of titles in the Tales franchise. We’ve rounded up the most eye-catching offers; note that these are the prices for PlayStation Plus members, who receive an extra discount.
Doom (PS4): $36.00 (40 percent off)
Homefront: The Revolution (PS4): $39.99 (35 percent off)
LittleBigPlanet 3 (PS3): $2.99 (70 percent off)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD (PS3): $4.95 (67 percent off)
Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (PS3): $3.99 (80 percent off)
Volume (PS4/Vita): $5.00 (75 percent...
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13 CommentsSony dropping Ustream from PS4
PlayStation 4 owners will soon have fewer options for broadcasting gameplay from their consoles. Sony confirmed in a support notice that Ustream will no longer be available as a streaming option as of Aug. 1, 2016.
After Aug. 1, PS4 owners will no longer have the option to broadcast via Ustream. Users also won’t have the option to watch Ustream broadcasts via Live from PlayStation on PS4, PlayStation Vita and the PlayStation App.
Sony says it will continue to support other available streaming options: Twitch, YouTube and Dailymotion.
Support for Ustream broadcasting was confirmed when the PS4 was officially unveiled in 2013. Ustream support via the PS4’s Share button was available at the console’s launch. Sony added Dailymotion and YouTube streaming support in 2015.
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10 CommentsZero Time Dilemma's launch marred by major Amazon shipping woes (update)
Zero Time Dilemma, the final chapter in Spike Chunsoft's Zero Escape series, launched today, but Amazon customers are having a hard time getting their hands on it. Customers are reporting that shipments of both the standard and special editions of the game aren't slated to arrive until later this week at the earliest. Others are being told they may have to wait upward of four weeks for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita puzzle-adventure game to arrive.
The problem started earlier this week, however, when senior marketing manager Danny Miscevich of publisher Aksys Games tweeted about a delay for the game's pre-order bonus. Those who bought the special edition were expecting to receive a watch item modeled after those worn by the characters in-game. But on June 24, Miscevich said that...
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22 CommentsAdventures of Mana arrives as a surprise for Vita fans
Square Enix brought the PlayStation Vita version of the Adventures of Mana remake stateside today, months after promising fans that it would look into localizing the handheld port. The game is now available on the PlayStation Store for $13.99.
The surprise release comes nearly five months after the enhanced Adventures of Mana — formerly known out West as Final Fantasy Adventure — launched on iOS and Android. Japanese fans, however, had the option to play the game on Vita upon its initial release.
"When Adventures of Mana was originally released, a lot of PS Vita owners were disappointed that we couldn't launch it worldwide at the time," wrote Dan Seto, a community manager for Square Enix, on the PlayStation Blog. The publisher acknowledged the complaints on its Twitter, writing in...
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17 CommentsNewcomers can catch up to Zero Time Dilemma's story with this 11-minute recap
Spike Chunsoft's Zero Escape games are visual novels full of mystery, intrigue and more plot twists than anyone can hope to keep track of. The YouTubers behind Suggesting Gaming make a valiant attempt to do so, however, in their recap of the first two installments above.
The 11-minute video comprises the entirety of 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward, each a complex puzzle game-visual novel hybrid. Catching up with the plots of these two titles is helpful for those interested in the series' third and final entry, Zero Time Dilemma. That game launches tomorrow, June 28, on Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita. For the first time in the Zero Escape franchise, it's also coming to Steam a day later.
It's recommended that players check out the previous two games...
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27 CommentsAustralia denies rating to MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death for not meeting 'standards of morality'
Upcoming Japanese dungeon-crawler MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death has been refused classification by the Australian government. In publisher Idea Factory's application on the classification board's website, the organization explains that the game "is likely to cause offense to a reasonable adult."
That's because of its depictions of sex and violence, according to the classification's rejection notice. The government cited the game as belonging to a group of other offensive, banned titles, which "depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should...
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17 CommentsMighty No. 9 backers aren't getting their promised DLC
Mighty No. 9 backers have yet to receive codes for the game's downloadable content, according to a variety of forums. Although publisher Deep Silver promised that keys for two types of DLC would be offered to backers upon release, many are reporting that that's not the case.
A thread on the game's Steam forum includes numerous posts indicating that the Humble Bundle keys sent out this morning included two codes — for one type of DLC. Players are getting duplicate copies of the Retro Hero content, instead of one key each for the Retro Hero and Ray DLC.
The game's Twitter account acknowledged the problem earlier today. The Retro Hero DLC is a pre-order bonus that gives the lead character Beck an 8-bit revamp. The Ray DLC adds an extra boss battle against the titular bad guy, as well as...
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11 CommentsMighty No. 9 documentary reveals the game's early days, before production woes
Mighty No. 9 — barring any last-minute changes — will finally make it into players' hands tomorrow, June 21, and director Keiji Inafune can't wait to see their faces once they start playing. At least, that's what he said back in 2014, when the first episode of 2Player Productions' documentary series about Mighty No. 9, seen above, was filmed. The game's developer debuted the video on its Kickstarter page over the weekend as it geared up for launch, promising an early look at Mighty No. 9's protracted development.
Watching with the benefit of hindsight changes the tenor of the episode, where Infaune and the rest of the team talk excitedly about the Mega Man successor's difficulty and lead an office tour. Discussion points include Inafune's frequent requests to his much greener...
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26 CommentsWhy hasn't Dragon Quest found a big audience out West?
Most gaming fans worldwide know of Dragon Quest, but it's not an unfair assumption that a much smaller number of them have played the series. It's wildly popular in Japan, and has been for 30 years now. But, as several members of Square Enix acknowledged when we spoke during E3 2016, that just hasn't been the case stateside.
"There's two main reasons" why Dragon Quest isn't as popular outside of its native country, producer Yu Miyake told Polygon. "The first is that, in Japan, the Famicom was kind of the moment that video games became part of families, and people really started bringing them into their homes."
Enix released the original Dragon Quest in 1986. To many Japanese gamers, Miyake said, it's the title they continue to strongly, nostalgically associate with the medium.
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19 CommentsOmega Force's next Warriors game is based on Berserk
Omega Force, developer of the Musou (Warriors) series, will release a game based on the popular series Berserk this August in Japan. The announcement comes from a trailer, which the studio released following a countdown timer.
The video above shows off a ton of blood, guts and bodies. There's not much else known yet about Berserk Musou yet, beyond the launch window and platforms; it's out for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Windows PC on Aug. 23 in Japan, but remains unscheduled stateside. Publisher Koei Tecmo America referred to it as "the most lethal Warriors game" yet.
A new anime based on Berserk, whose manga has ran since 1989, will premiere this July in Japan.
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30 CommentsInafune is already talking about plans for a Mighty No. 9 sequel
Mighty No. 9 hasn't launched yet — still 10 more days to go — and even though its community has been disappointed by repeated delays and jeered the game's launch trailer, creator Keiji Inafune is still speaking expansively about future projects under its name.
Speaking to 4Gamer (translation by Siliconera) Inafune said Comcept is "also moving forward in an anime and live action film for [MIghty No. 9]." Further, "development for a sequel [video game] is already in our minds, and we all share the feeling of 'we'll do it even if it doesn't sell'."
Last summer, with Mighty No. 9 delayed past its original spring 2015 window and a month from its first declared launch date, Comcept opened a Kickstarter for another video game project, also billed as a spiritual successor to the Mega Man...
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28 CommentsPlayStation Plus' June giveaways include Gone Home, NBA 2K16
PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive six free games as part of their membership in June, with Gone Home's recent console port and NBA 2K16 leading the charge next month. The PlayStation 4 games are the most notable offers, but PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita owners will also have something to look forward to.
Here's the full list of game for June:
NBA 2K16, PS4
Gone Home: Console Edition, PS4
Echochrome, PS3
Siren: Blood Curse (Episodes 1-12), PS3
God of War: Chains of Olympus, Vita
Little Deviants, Vita
PlayStation Plus costs $49.99 a year and entitles subscribers to monthly free games, discounts at the PlayStation Store and online multiplayer on PS4. Today marks members' last chance to pick up May's titles, including God of War: Ghosts of Sparta and Bionic Commando...
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4 CommentsDragon Quest Builders comes stateside this fall, in time for series' 30th anniversary
Dragon Quest Builders arrives in the West this October on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. A sandbox game set in the world of the very first Dragon Quest, Builders is one of several games planned for release this year in celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary — the series turned 30 just yesterday, in fact.
The newest trailer above shows how Dragon Quest Builders puts a new spin on Alefgard, familiar to series fans as the setting of the first game. As a renowned Legendary Builder, players must reconstruct the world after the first Dragon Quest's protagonist turns to the dark side.
It's a story that follows Dragon Quest's "bad ending," and we enjoyed how Dragon Quest Builders plays off the series' familiar features when we tried it at Tokyo Game Show 2015. Read our preview...
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