Atlus has released a gameplay trailer for Persona 5

Posted on February 5, 2015 by John Scalzo

It’s been more than a year since Atlus gave us our first taste of Persona 5. Today, they made up for their protracted silence with a new trailer that runs nearly three minutes and is absolutely oozing with style.

I’m not entirely sure I know what’s going on, but the trailer introduced us to the main character and his friends before diving into in-game footage of their school life and a glimpse at a few battles. After dark, these characters turn into masked vigilantes of some sort as they displayed some very Batman-like maneuvers atop a moving train. Also, one of the main characters is a cat… or possibly a little kid in a full-body cat costume. You never can tell with the Persona series.

Persona 5 will be released for the PS3 and PS4 sometime in 2015.

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Nintendo Download: Moon Chronicles Ep2-Ep4, Dig Dug, Kami, more

Posted on February 5, 2015 by John Scalzo

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The final three episodes of Moon Chronicles, Renegade Kid’s space-based first person shooter, have been added to the 3DS eShop today. Players have the option of purchasing episodes individually (priced at $4.50 apiece) or they can grab the Season Pass at a steep discount ($9.00 for the remaining three episodes). Moon Chronicles is joined on the 3DS eShop today by Kami, a paper-folding puzzler that was a hit on mobile devices last year.

Over on the Wii U eShop, a pair of Bandai Namco favorites from the NES era are now available to download. Dig Dug is the classic underground digging game where players are tasked with pumping up a variety of enemies until they explode. Mappy-Land is slightly less well-known, but the ridiculously hard platformer is sure to ring the nostalgia bell for some players.

More information on all of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break.

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Daily Scoop: February 5, 2015 – New bundles

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Nicole Kline

Just a quick note: there won’t be a scoop tomorrow, because Anthony Amato and I will be in Baltimore at Unpub! If you’re going, come find us! We’ll have RESISTOR_, Kobolds, and another secret game we’re unveiling this weekend.

There are two new great bundles you might want to pick up today! The first one is a new Humble Weekly Bundle, which is all about Adventures! Pay what you want for Detective Grimoire, Broken Sword 1&2, and The Whispered World Special Edition. Beat the average to unlock The Detail Episode 1, A Golden Wake, and Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller: GOTY. Pay $10 or more to unlock Broken Sword 5.

Over at Indie Royale there’s the brand new Fenlon Bundle. Beat the average to get Viktor, Boot Hill Heroes, Stranded, Draconian Wars and Life of Pixel.

And, of course, Steam has new deals, as always. The Weekend Deal is Divinity: Original Sin, which is marked down to $23.99. And today’s Daily Deal is To the Moon for $2.49.

There are some really great shirts today!

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Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will include eye tracking when it launches for PC on March 10

Posted on February 5, 2015 by John Scalzo

With Assassin’s Creed: Unity bypassing the PS3 and Xbox 360, Ubisoft threw previous-generation gamers a bone with the release of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue last year. Today, the prolific publisher has confirmed that the game will also be available on the PC beginning March 10.

Developed by Ubisoft Kiev, the PC port of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will add in-game eye-tracking for anyone with a Sentry Eye Tracker. With this new technology, players will be able to look to the left or right while playing and the game’s camera will follow, creating an “infinite screen” effect.

And if you’re interested in pre-ordering Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, you can grab it through the Uplay Shop and pick up another Assassin’s Creed game for free.

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Watch this guy beat Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! while blindfolded

Posted on February 5, 2015 by John Scalzo

Jack Wedge was a man on a mission. During last year’s Awesome Games Done Quick marathon, he watched “Sinister1” attempt to complete Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! while blindfolded. Sadly, after beating the game’s first 13 characters, “Sinister1” was TKOed by Tyson. But his performance inspired Wedge to make his own blindfolded run at Iron Mike and the champ was a bit less invincible this time.

That’s right, it’s all in the video above, but Wedge went 14-0 against the cast of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! and emerged victorious with a decision against Tyson. Just beating Tyson at all is a huge accomplishment for most gamers, but doing it while blindfolded? I am just without speech.

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Get funky with the first concept art from ToeJam & Earl 4

Posted on February 5, 2015 by John Scalzo

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In 2013, Greg Johnson and HumaNature Studios released the bizarre and colorful Doki-Doki Universe on all three PlayStation platforms. An outside-the-box game like Doki-Doki Universe isn’t exactly new territory for Johnson, as he was also the mad genius behind 1991’s ToeJam & Earl on the Sega Genesis. Johnson revisited the extraterrestrial duo in two sequels (1993’s Panic on Funkotron and 2002’s Mission to Earth) and it looks like he’s set to return to his funky roots once more as the developer confirmed that ToeJam & Earl 4 is currently in development.

A more formal announcement will “probably” be made in “three or four weeks,” but for now, head on over to Facebook for a sneak peek at some early concept art.

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Asher Vollmer’s Close Castles is on hold because it’s not very enjoyable

Posted on February 5, 2015 by John Scalzo

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You might not know Asher Vollmer’s name, but you certainly know his work. Vollmer was one-third of Sirvo, the impromptu development team behind the mobile blockbuster Threes. More recently, Vollmer has been working on Close Castles, a real-time strategy game for the PS4 that he says is for people who hate real-time strategy games. But right now it looks like it’s not for anybody as Vollmer has confirmed (via Twitter) that the development of Close Castles is currently on hold.

Close Castles has been set aside for now because Vollmer believes that the game isn’t very enjoyable in its current state. The developer further states that he’s “designed [himself] into a corner” and that he’ll have to “overhaul the game” before he can release it to bring it up to his standards.

In the meantime, Vollmer has begun work on a brand new mobile game that he’s not ready to talk about yet. Hopefully we’ll learn more about it (and the future of Close Castles) soon.

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Evolve’s “Ready Or Not” live-action trailer is a big game of hide-and-seek

Posted on February 5, 2015 by John Scalzo

With Evolve‘s launch less than a week away, 2K Games has released the practically de rigueur live-action trailer for the game. Titled “Ready Or Not,” the trailer drops five teenagers into the largest game of hide-and-seek you’ve ever seen. Tack on a haunting vocal track (in this case, “Ready Or Not” by Scala and Kolacny Brothers, a Belgian women’s choir) and you’ve got yourself a trailer. Still, it’s a pretty impressive piece of footage and it definitely evokes the mood that Turtle Rock is striving for with Evolve.

Evolve will be available for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on February 10.

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