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This game may look to good for its own good A lot of people are betting onSuper Smash Bros.on the Wii U to be a big system seller. The more I see of the 3DS version of the game, the less confident I am in that. Depending on how different the two versions are, Nintendo may have accidentally beaten themselves at their own game with theSmash Bros.on 3DS.If they’re both pretty much the game, but the game costs less on the 3DS and looksthis good, then the Wii U version may suffer for it....

Fans ofSolo Levelingcan finally mark their calendars! The highly anticipatedSolo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-has a confirmed release date: July 06, 2025. Alongside this exciting announcement, a brand-new trailer is released to give fans a sneak peek at what’s to come. The trailer not only teases epic battles and intense character moments but also offers a glimpse of the incredible musical talent contributing to the series. TK from Ling tosite sigure, who was also behindTokyo Ghoul‘s “Unravel,” will perform the ending theme song, “UN-APEX”....

Devs are saying the darndest things Sony is reportedly cooking up a more powerful PlayStation 4 with, at the very least, a better GPU. That’s according to several developer sources who have spoken withKotaku, one of whom described the new console as “exploratory.” Sony has apparently begun briefing devs on these plans. There are reports of the enhanced console supporting 4K resolution for games, which seems… expensive? Impractical? Like something you might expect an inevitable, several-years-off PlayStation 5 to have instead....

High Score Girl SNK Playmore recently filed criminal charges against Square Enix, citing copyright infringement. The alleged violation stems from Square Enix’s use of SNK characters in the mangaHigh Score Girl. In retaliation, Square Enix today filed a civil suit against SNK seeking declaratory judgment that its actions were lawful. The lawsuit was filed in Osaka District Court, where Defendant SNK is headquartered. Square Enix’sofficial releasedoesn’t state what damages the publisher requests....

In the opening section ofStarfield, we’re introduced toVasco, the bulky robot that assists you on your quest to meet up with Constellation. Now, a figurine of the heavy-duty machine will soon be yours to own. But it’s going to set you back a bit. As spotted byGamesRadar, a company calledPureArtsthat specializes in collectibles is launching its own line of Vasco figures. TheStarfieldcompanion is available to pre-order now, with a proposed release date of Q3, 2024....

Too soon? Earlier this year at the Dengeki Game Festival, Bandai Namco announcedHollow Realization, the latest game based on the popularSword Art Onlineseries, would be releasing in Japan this fall. Now, the publisher has confirmed the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita title will make its western debut around the same time. Normally, I’d say that’s exciting news. It’s usually nice when companies have simultaneous worldwide launches for their games. But in the case ofSword Art Online, well, it would be nice to see these games get a little extra time with a localization specialist and some editors....

If you build it, they will come Afterovercoming a little drama, developer Andrew Spinks and studio Re-Logic has finally released world-builderTerrariaon the Stadia cloud gaming service. In addition, the developers announced that the title has now sold an amazing and almost unbelievable 35 million copies since its initial launch back in 2011. The globally-popular crafting sim, perhaps described loosest and easiest as a 2D pixelated version ofMinecraft, is now available on a huge array of platforms including desktop, console, and mobile....

A few months ago,we told you abouthow Sony was tinkering around with the idea of making downloading on the PlayStation Portable even easier by eliminating the need to use a PC or PlayStation 3 to access the PS Store. While this native PlayStation Store has beenconfirmed to go livefor Japanese PSPs on October 15, no such date has been given for those of us living in North America and Europe. Sad pandas, I know....

I had the pleasure of catching Gareth Evans’s Indonesian at action flick,The Raid:Redemptionthis weekend. Pretty much everything that has followed leaving the theatre has consisted of me kneeing or elbowing it. I’m not sure if my co-workers are totally digging my new style. Doesn’t everyone turn off their iMac with a flying knee? The network was also a battlefield this weekend with plenty of the network’s staff out and about at various conventions, ready to get slapped around by readers....

‘Quick scoping and no scoping are ineffective’ A Respawn developer by the handle of scriptacus took to theTitanfallforumsto give us a little new information on the game’s sniping class. “Sniping is in the game, but due to how the game plays it’s a pretty different animal than you’ll find in your run of the mill modern military shooter. Quick scoping and no-scoping are ineffective.” I imagine this has a lot to do with how much more fast-pacedTitanfallplayscompared to shooters likeCall of DutyandBattlefield....

THAT’S HIS HEAD Toward the end of last year, a strangely thought-provoking question surfaced in the Nintendo community: is Toad wearing a hat? Or is that whole mushroom top his head? Dorkly raised the question,presented some convincing evidence, and Team Head and Team Hat have been going at it since. Nintendo officially addressed this Important Matter today, among others. “So that, as it turns out, is actually Toad’s head,” saysSuper Mario Odysseyproducer Yoshiaki Koizumi, confirming our deepest fears....

The faces of (space) death One of the elements of classic horror is that when the horrible thing you are dreading finally happens, it happens in a way far more gruesome than you expect. Visceral Games got this part right so many times in itsDead Spaceseries that I wonder if I’ve become desensitized to alien dismemberment at this point. Even if I have, I am still disturbed by watching series protagonist Isaac Clarke meet his end, time and time again....

Prepare your heart, because EastAsiaSoftis bringingtwo of theHakuokigames to Switch as part ofHakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom. It will bundle together 2017’sHakuoki: Kyoto Windswith 2018’sHakuoki: Edo Blossoms. Back in 2020, I was still poking away in the background of Destructoid, waiting to get my big break and find my place. During that time, I did aseries of nine articleson my personal blog covering dating sims and romantic visual novels. I only stopped because I had exhausted my enthusiasm for the genre, but I still had a list of games to try out, and among them was theHakuokigames....