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Today NIS America released a new trailer of the western version of Nihon Falcom’s JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure. Originally named “Ao no Kiseki,” Trails to Azure is the direct sequel of the upcoming The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero, which will release in the west in September. In this trailer, we get to take a look at the cast of the game, and we get the confirmation that the game will release in the west in early 2023, twelve-year after the original Japanese release and there years after the PS4 remaster that launched in 2020....

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild review scores are in and they are stonkingly good, meaning interest in the Nintendo Switch has increased by a Louis Walsh-certified 1000%. VideoGamer — 9/10 The review that matters, of course. Alice has played it within an inch of its life and loved the sense of adventure in the game. ‘You know when you were a kid, in the summer, you used to have huge pretend adventures in the back garden with all your mates?...

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D sold 515,000 copies during its first month on sale in the US, Nintendo has revealed. The figure accounts for both physical copies sold at retail and digital downloads. The game’s impressive debut sent it soaring to the top of the monthly charts where it outsold major new releases Evolve and The Order: 1886. Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate also performed well, shifting 290,000 units across physical and digital channels, and becoming the US’s fastest-selling Monster Hunter title in history....

The Legend of Zelda has amazing games and stories, but even the best games in the series possess lame characters. Whether they have terrible personalities or awful mechanics, these characters makes their great games worse. Despite being a single series, The Legend of Zelda generally avoids sequels and instead tells completely separate stories. Because of that, most characters on this list only appear in a single game. However, there are some recurring characters —particularly Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf— who are great in some games and lame in others....

We are introduced to characters and given slight hints at their backgrounds. As far as setting groundwork for series hype, this trailer goes a long way. It truly felt like the trailer made sure to deliver something any fan could connect with, and it works. You can watch the The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer below. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place thousands of years before The Hobbit or Fellowship of the Ring, during the Second Age of Middle-earth....

This The Magicians review contains spoilers. The Magicians Season 5 Episode 8 Is everyone ready to roll back that smug conviction we had last week about the Dark King’s duplicity? We should know by now that The Magicians likes to play with our expectations, and the Fillory storyline not only gave us a great Freaky Friday sequence between Margo and Eliot; it also had us questioning whether assassinating Sebastian, impermanent though it was, was the right move....

Bloober Team has released a new trailer for upcoming psychological horror The Medium, which delves a little into the backstory of the game’s primary antagonist, The Maw voiced by Troy Baker. The latest title from the Blair Witch developers promises unique “simultaneous dual reality gameplay” as you take on the role of medium Marianne while she investigates a “dark mystery masked by disturbing secrets and sinister spirits.” She won’t be quite alone in her quest, as she’ll run into the mysterious masked girl known as ‘Sadness’ who also makes an appearance in the trailer....

The upcoming Monster Hunter movie offered fans a new glimpse at their interpretation of two iconic monsters from the series—Diablos and Rathalos—during this weekend’s virtual New York Comic Con event. It certainly appears as writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson wants to show how much closer to the original Capcom games source material wants to make the movie compared to his previous Resident Evil film series, as a new featurette shows him sitting down with the game’s series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and director Kaname Fujioka as they take a look at both the movie and game versions of the two monsters....

Romantic tales have been splashed all over our screens since the first days of cinema, and no matter what your genre of choice or how cynical you think you are, can you really deny feeling a little thrill when your favourite heroes defy the odds and finally get together? But that isn’t to say that all film and TV couples are heroes, or even particularly heroic. There’s a fine tradition of the mad, bad and dangerous to know finding a little bit of lovin’ on the screen – often with some high-speed chases, shootouts and petty crime thrown in for good measure....

The next God of War game seems to be in development at SIE Santa Monica Studio, as hinted by a photo posted by one of the developers (via Push Square). Cory Barlog, creative director of the 2018 game, is brimming with ideas on where the next bonding trip for the father-son duo could go. His imagination was “too ambitious” to be contained in a DLC offering, and so it seemed that Barlog’s brainstorms would lie on the cutting room floor....

The Blue Yeti is one of the most popular USB microphones for streaming and voiceover, and a blue-coloured model is currently on sale for 28% off its UK RRP - that’s £86.50, the best price we’ve seen in months. For that money, you’re getting a great condenser mic that’s ideal for picking up voices with excellent warmth and clarity in a quiet environment. Of course, you want the mic close to your face to ensure best results....

The Remake of Resident Evil 3 is scheduled to release in just a little over a month from now, and the excitement for the game keeps growing as the release date approaches. Last week, Capcom revealed an extended preview of Resident Evil 3’s gameplay, which confirmed the return of some original RE3 features such as the dodge mechanic and the explosive objects scattered around Raccoon City. Moreover, the Japanese developer and publisher also unveiled a playable demo for the upcoming RE3 remake, but details about it are still being kept under wraps....

Giddy up, space cowboys. Fan-favorite developer Obsidian Entertainment has dropped the launch trailer for The Outer Worlds ahead of its October 25 release. The Outer Worlds is a first-person RPG in the vein of Fallout, although some commentators have drawn comparisons to the Borderlands series because of its humor and setting. When PC Invasion previewed the game in June, we said that “The Outer Worlds contains everything that open-world RPG fans could hope for....

Since big-budget gaming is largely concerned with spectacle and microtransactions, we must turn to indie games for meaning. At least that’s what many indie developers seem to believe. In all fairness, this mindset does prove true in other mediums. Indie movies tend to be more artful than blockbusters. Indie musicians have more freedom to express themselves without record label pressure to make it more catchy. So it is that indie game developers seem compelled to inject deep reflections on life into their simple gameplay systems....

After three entries in the series, FromSoftware has seemingly moved on from the Dark Souls franchise. This year we saw the release of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which while similar in terms of scope and world design, was altogether a very different game. Its next title, Elden Ring, looks to be a return to a fantasy setting, but it still seems like it’s going to be an entirely new concept rather than a complete return to form....

Developer CD Projekt RED has released the much-anticipated PlayStation 4 HDR patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt following numerous delays. The update is compatible with both PS4 and PS4 Pro, and aside from implementing vibrant High-Dynamic Range effects also spruces up the celebrated fantasy role-playing game with stability and optimisation improvements, bug fixes, and ‘minor visual improvements.’ Presumably, this means you’ll be able to marvel at the individual strands of Geralt’s beard, but either way, the game will look and run better than ever....

Succubus, the terrifying spin-off of 2018’s Agony, received its first teaser trailer today. The studio behind the game, Madmind Studio, also announced that the game is entering an alpha testing phase. In the new trailer, Madmind is showcasing Onoskelis, a demon that players could face in Agony. Onoskelis is making a reappearance in Succubus, with a redesigned look and new combat abilities, to boot. You can see it in action in the trailer below....

An early copy of Super Mario Party was sold on eBay for $7,100, and we have absolutely no idea why someone would pay that amount so close to the release date. We get it: there’s a lot of bragging rights to be had for getting to play a game way before anyone else. That’s why thousands of people head to E3 every year. But Super Mario Party was going to be out and in stores not even two weeks from now and still someone paid over $7,000 just to get their hands on an early cartridge....

Nintendo has yet to confirm that SNES games will be added to the Switch’s online service, but that hasn’t stopped dataminers from uncovering a massive list of games for the system in the console’s NES app. Over 20 titles are mentioned in the list, including Super Mario Kart, Star Fox, Yoshi’s Island, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Super Mario All-Stars. Ninty has only offered NES games so far for Switch Online, although to be fair, the list has been pretty solid to date....

With Sword & Shield set to release in a couple of weeks, we’re getting closer and closer to the first actual mainline Pokémon Switch games. If you would’ve gauged the fan bases excitement a year ago compared to now, you would notice that for some, their anticipation has turned to tepid indifference. Maybe some fans expected too much change out of a series that has historically been pretty conservative and formulaic....