Author: Pyre Kavanagh

The Quiet Man is an action adventure game that pulls players through the tale of a deaf protagonist, Dane, searching for a masked man behind a mysterious kidnapping. As you play as Dane, you’ll actually experience the story as he does, with no sound or speech minus a couple of cues to register dealing damage or taking hits. However, a free update that Square Enix announced during a recent livestream, that will drop one week after the game’s launch, is set to add a mode similar to that of a New Game+. Upon this second playthrough of the game, you…

Atlus has released two new English trailers for their upcoming rhythm titles Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight. Each of the trailers introduces the main cast of characters from each title, Persona 3’s ‘Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad’ and Persona 5’s ‘Phantom Thieves’. Fans will also be interested to know that songs ‘Will-Power’ and ‘The Battle for Everyone’s Souls’, the dance tracks selected for Persona 5’s Goro Akechi and Persona 3’s Shinji Aragaki will be free add-ons with the ‘day one’ edition of the games. For Vita holders, as the games are digital-only titles and lack a…

As part of the promotional pre-registration campaign for Sega’s new idol game project ‘Readyyy!’, music videos for fictional idol groups ‘SP!CA’ and ‘La-Veritta’ have been released. The campaign rewards are spread across four intervals of pre-registration milestones, at 30k, 50k, 70k and 100k registrations. These recently released music videos mark a 50,000 pre-registrations milestone and can be listened to now, giving fans a preview of the characters. In case you’ve missed it, Readyyy! is a planned game by Sega as part of the ‘Readyyy! Project’ a planned male idol franchise starring 5 groups made up of 18 high school students.…

Most people would sigh and shake their heads when they hear the words ‘DLC planned before the games’ release’, however, this particular instance is a very strong exception to that. Partnering themselves with War Child UK, a charity that supports young people and children who have been affected by war, Bandai Namco has announced a charity DLC for their upcoming title 11-11 Memories Retold.  11-11 Memories Retold is a fictional narrative adventure produced by Bandai Namco, DigixArt and Aardman Studios. Set in World War One, the game tells the stories of two soldiers on the western front, a Canadian photographer…

Arc System Works has unveiled a teaser trailer for the upcoming prequel game in the Jake Hunter Detective Series titled, Daedalus: The Awakening of Golden Jazz. The Jake Hunter games usually star the titular hard-boiled detective operating out of his detective agency in the Shinjuku, Tokyo (or Aspicio, a fictional American city in the English versions). However, this entry in the mystery adventure series is a little different. In it, you’ll be playing as a younger Jake Hunter, who travels to New York after receiving news about the murder of his grandfather. Upon arrival Jake finds out his grandfather has…

Capcom has officially announced, via press release, that there will be a blockbuster movie adaption of their Monster Hunter series of games. Tentatively titled, Monster Hunter, the film will star two heroes from different worlds who will have to team up to fight the powerful, titular, monsters. For those who aren’t in the know of the franchise, it’s actually pretty simple. The Monster Hunter series of games have you play as a titular, monster hunter, where you can team up with your friends to take down awe-inspiring beasts in a slow and steady combat system that encourages immense planning and…

Last week the official Total War twitter made a post revealing that a ‘fantastical announcement’ was coming soon. Well, that announcement came alongside a beautiful cinematic trailer, using their in-game engine, to promote the launch of a new DLC campaign pack for Total War: Warhammer II. The DLC for the Real-Time tactics game is titled ‘Curse of the Vampire coast’ and is set to release on November 8 bringing zombie pirates, vampires with guns and a whole host of magic and monsters not generally seen in Warhammer’s Tolkien-esque universe together for an insane swashbuckling adventure. The trailer can be viewed…

The Blue Bomber makes his way back to the battlefield after quite the break in his newly released game Mega Man 11. So, to commemorate the game’s launch, Capcom has uploaded a unique trailer to give a brief preview of the new features. Mega Man 11 is the latest in the long-running series of side-scrolling platformers since Mega Man 10, which released back in 2010. In this new title, you’ll break through robot upon robot as the titular Blue Bomber to crush the nefarious Dr. Wily and his lackeys, a new set of Robot Masters. However, new to this franchise…

By now any visual novel fan understands the standard harem eroge concept, a guy meets a group of girls and each one fulfills some particular fetish. This is a tried and tired concept by itself. So the question is, how do you shake up the pre-existing formula? Well, Matchasoft takes a crack at doing just that, with their debut title Hard Work. Now it’s time to see if they put in the work or if this is just another flaccid title in the sea of already existing eroge. You take the role of Gary Stuart, a sexual counselor, who spends…

Atlus Japan has uploaded the opening animation for their upcoming title Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth to their YouTube channel. The trailer gives players a preview of just how large of a cast this crossover title has by showing chibi versions of Persona alumni. Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth is a first-person dungeon crawler that functions as a crossover title between the three Atlus titles Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5. As opposed to the previous entry, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (a crossover between Persona 3 and Persona 4), Persona Q2 will be focusing on the Persona 5 cast meeting the others and solving the mysteries contained within a bizarre cinema. The…

Sega only just announced Sega Ages last week but it looks like they still aren’t done with their retro title re-releases as Sega Genesis Classics is set to come out on Nintendo Switch this winter, both physically and digitally. Sega Genesis Classics was originally released on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 earlier this year, but the Switch release will have all the fun features we’ve come to expect from the console. This includes the same screen local co-op mode and the ability to use individual Joy-Con controllers, on top of the pre-existing collection features like online multiplayer, achievement systems,…