Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is coming to North America in 2021 on PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Announced today with a new trailer, the game will be coming to PS4 first.
The action RPG follows Adol Christin as he teams up with five other Monstrums, beings with supernatural abilities and the power to exorcise monsters. Together they must defeat threats emerging from the shadowy Grimwald Nox and discover the truth about the unrest in the city of Balduq.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana released in North America in September 2017 and is available on PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The game featured some mediocre translations at the time of launch which were later fixed by publisher NIS America.
GameSpot has officially kicked off Play For All–a celebration of all things gaming. Join us as we bring you the summer’s hottest news, previews, interviews, features, and videos, as well as raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts and Black Lives Matter with the help of our friends from around the gaming world. Check out the Play For All schedule for more.
Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics are hosting a special stream announcement stream for Marvel’s Avengers on June 24. The California-based developer plans to showcase new gameplay and co-op footage as part of the “War Table” stream.
The stream kicks off at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET on the morning of June 24. You can watch it here on GameSpot; check back with this post for a livestream embed.
Marvel’s Avengers is still set for a September 4, 2020 release date after getting delayed in January so Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montréal, who are co-developing the game, can “deliver the ultimate Avengers gaming experience.”
Square Enix recently announced that anyone who purchases a copy of Marvel’s Avengers, physically or digitally, will get upgraded from PS4 to PS5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series X if they purchase the new consoles. Crystal Dynamics has said it is working on a PS5 enhanced version of the game, utilizing the power of the new console to offer a high frame rate mode that targets 60 fps and dynamic 4K resolution.
GameSpot has officially kicked off Play For All–a celebration of all things gaming. Join us as we bring you the summer’s hottest news, previews, interviews, features, and videos, as well as raise money for Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 relief efforts with the help of our friends from around the gaming world. Check out the Play For All schedule for more.
The Oculus Quest is one of the best VR headsets you can buy today, and it’s clearly driving many of the decisions around how Oculus thinks about its products–both hardware and software–and their future. Which explains why today the company is discontinuing its other portable headset, while laying out plans for a more open ecosystem for the Quest.
The Oculus Go was the first of Oculus’ attempts at an all-in-one VR headset, primarily aimed at a market that was being dominated by headsets that required you to use your smartphone as the screen. The Oculus Go put all of that hardware into the headset itself, but also omitted features that made it more suitable for more passive VR experiences, as opposed to those you can find on the Oculus Quest.
It wasn’t a hit like the Quest, and today Oculus is discontinuing production on the Oculus Go. Oculus has ceased production on the headset, and will shut down new app submissions this December. After-sales support will continue through 2022, with security updates ceasing after that.
In tandem with this announcement, Oculus is also committing to a more open software ecosystem for the Oculus Quest, starting in 2021. Although the blog post omits finer details, Oculus states that it is looking into ways for apps to be submitted and sold outside of the Oculus Store–the single storefront you have to go through for Oculus games and apps. Oculus says this should reduce the need to sideload applications, which has become common as users search for additional software Oculus isn’t directly selling.
The Isle of Armor is the setting of Pokemon Sword and Shield‘s first expansion, but aside from the Master Dojo–where you’ll earn the new Legendary Pokemon Kubfu–the island lacks many of the facilities you’d find around mainland Galar, such as a Pokemon Center and an item shop. And while you can’t build a Pokemon Center on the island, you can at least add some more amenities to it.
After you reach a certain point in the story, you’ll have the option to upgrade the Master Dojo with additional features and supplies. These upgrades can be rather pricey, but they are generally useful, especially if you have a few thousand Watts to spare. We’ve broken down what all the Master Dojo upgrades are and how much each costs below.
After completing all three of the Master Dojo’s trials and earning Kubfu, speak to Honey and she’ll mention her desire to upgrade the facility with more features. Each of these upgrades costs a few thousand Watts, but you’ll get some handy new amenities in return, such as a vending machine that dispenses supplements for Pokemon like Protein (which raise a monster’s EVs) at a discount.
You can see the full list of Master Dojo upgrades, along with how many Watts you need to spend to get them, below:
No. of Watts
Upgrade
5,000
Adds a hair stylist (new hair styles)
10,000
Adds a Rotomi terminal (unusable)
20,000
Activates the Rotomi terminal
30,000
Adds a vending machine (dispenses Fresh Water only)
40,000
Adds Soda Pop to the vending machine
50,000
Adds Lemonade to the vending machine
100,000
Adds fresh ingredients to the kitchen fridge
200,000
Adds a second vending machine (dispenses Protein and Iron only)
300,000
Adds Calcium and Zinc to the second vending machine
400,000
Adds HP Up and Carbos to the second vending machine
500,000
Adds the Master Dojo as a League Card background
800,000
Receive Honey’s League Card
1,000,000
Battle against Honey
3,280,000
Receive Honey’s Rare League Card
How To Farm Watts
Traditionally, the quickest way to earn Watts in Sword and Shield is by checking Max Raid dens around the Wild Area. After you beat the main game, you’ll receive 200 Watts each time you interact with a glowing Max Raid den. If a den is hosting a Max Raid, you’ll receive 2,000 Watts from it, even if you don’t participate in the battle. You’ll also net some Watts for catching or defeating a wild Pokemon that has a glowing aura.
While checking Max Raid dens is the most reliable way to collect Watts, it can also be quite time consuming, especially if you’re trying to fully upgrade the Master Dojo. Fortunately, the Isle of Armor expansion introduces a new way to earn Watts, although it’s a bit of a gamble: Digging Pa, an NPC located outside of the Warm-Up Tunnel. Give Digging Pa seven Armorite Ore and he’ll dig up some Watts for you. Each bundle that he digs up can range from a few hundred to a few thousand, so you can potentially earn a ton of Watts from him, but the amount you get is up to chance.
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One of the rarest Star Wars collectibles is now available at auction, and it can be yours if you pay what would be a record-breaking price. A certified authentic rocket-firing Boba Fett prototype figure from 1978 is up for auction on Ebay, from an anonymous seller in Dubai, UAE. The asking price? A paltry $225,000. With free shipping!
If sold at that price, it would represent a new high record for the rare figure. The seller, who told ABC News that he wishes to remain anonymous, is confident that it can reach his asking price because, “This is the kind of piece that transcends collecting. Every time it sells it breaks another record because they just don’t come very often.”
He’s right that the price of the collectible has been trending upwards. Last year, one of the figures sold for approximately $113,000, and then just a few months later, another sold for $186,000. If that trend continues with this figure, it should have no trouble finding a $225,000 buyer. So far no offers have been made.
Boba Fett was first introduced in the widely panned Star Wars Christmas Special, and a matching figure with a working rocket launcher was advertised as a mail-away offer from Kenner. The rocket was deemed a choking hazard before the figure was released, though, so the finished figures had the rockets glued into the launcher. That makes the unpainted prototypes–with the working rocket launcher intact–incredibly rare and valuable among collectors.
Boba Fett has since taken a place in Star Wars history as one of the most enduring characters, because let’s face it, he just looks cool. Since his apparent death in Return of the Jedi, the series has continued iterating on his design with the appearance of Jango Fett in the prequels, several books and video games that have fleshed out Mandalorian culture and the legend of Boba himself, and most recently, the Disney Plus series The Mandalorian.
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The founder of British games studio Traveller’s Tales (best known for its LEGO games) has revealed that, in 2008, the company spent more than $1,000,000 on a failed pitch to make a tie-in game for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit series.
Jon Burton posted a video to his YouTube channel GameHut explaining the situation and featured footage from the tech demos used to pitch the game to Peter Jackson and then-director Guillermo Del Toro.
Instead of LEGO Games for which the studio was known, the team made photorealistic recreations of key scenes from The Lord of the Rings movies on Xbox 360 hardware, including Gandalf fighting the Balrog, Arogorn fighting Uruk-Hai at Amon Hen, and stealth gameplay where you’d play as Frodo in Deephallow Woods, avoiding the Black Riders. It’s very much worth watching the video, but here are some screenshots:
The footage is seriously impressive, but according to Burton, the team “went way too far, and spent way too much money” on the project in order to impress Jackson and Del Toro at a pitch meeting in New Zealand.
Del Toro was apparently very receptive, but Warner Bros. ultimately decided that it “wanted a game that wasn’t directly based on the movie, but happened in the same universe at the same time,” a philosophy Burton disagreed with (but likely led to the birth of games like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor). As a result, the game never saw the light of day, which is a massive shame as the more-than decade-old footage genuinely holds up in retrospect.
Earth Defense Force 6 has been officially revealed by series publisher D3, with the game expected to launch in 2021. Alongside that, a voxel-based spin-off, Earth Defense Force: World Brothers is also on the way.
The 2021 date suggests that Earth Defense Force 6 will land on next-generation consoles, which launch this holiday season, but no official platforms for the game have been announced just yet.
The game’s website doesn’t offer much information beyond a suite of screenshots (below), which as you might expect, include massive bugs terrorizing an urban landscape. It looks very much like an Earth Defense Force game, where a team of humans (often in co-op groups) must flesh out character builds and fight to rid the world of a bug scourge with increasingly absurd weaponry.
As well as EDF 6, a voxel-based Earth Defence Force game has been revealed, titled Earth Defense Force: World Brothers.
The change in art style looks like a great fit, and according to its website, the predicament facing the World Brothers is that “Earth has become a square?” The game features characters from across the entire EDF series, and it will land on Nintendo Switch and PS4 at some point this year.
Neither game has so far been announced for western release. The EDF series has traditionally featured long gaps between Japanese release and a western release, but spin-off Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain launched simultaneously worldwide, which might offer some hope to fans of giant bug slaughter.
Check out IGN’s review of Iron Rain from April 2019, where we called the last entry in the series “a more-than-pleasant experiment, a game that feels like it was made by fans of the series with their own ideas”.
LANGUAGE!
1. On July 3, you’re getting the whole show, every note & scene, & a 1-minute countdown clock during intermission (bathroom!)
2. But MPAA has a hard rule about language: more than 1 utterance of “Fuck” is an automatic R rating. We have 3 “Fucks” in our show. So…
1/2 https://t.co/7o3OQ34rqt
Miranda was responding to a fan who questioned why the movie had received a PG-13 rating, rather than an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and asked whether any iconic lines had been cut or changed for the movie to reach this categorization.
In his reply, Miranda revealed that Yorktown, the 20th song of Act One, and Washington on Your Side, the 8th song of Act Two, had been edited for mature language.
“You’re getting the whole show, every note & scene, & a 1-minute countdown clock during intermission (bathroom!),” Miranda explained in his tweet on Monday. “But the MPAA has a hard rule about language: more than 1 utterance of ‘F***’ is an automatic R rating. We have 3 ‘F***s’ in our show.
“I literally gave two f***s so the kids could see it: 1. In Yorktown, there’s a mute over ‘I get the f*** back up again’ 2. ‘Southern *record scratch*kin’ Democratic Republicans.’ You can sing whatEVER you like at home (even sync up the album)!”
For those somehow unfamiliar with the wildly successful musical, Hamilton is a dramatization of the life of Founding Father and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, tracing his story from his arrival in New York City at the dawn of the Revolutionary War through to his ill-fated duel with rival Aaron Burr in 1804. The musical features a unique combination of hip-hop, R&B, soul, and show tunes to help examine Hamilton’s story through a modern lens.
We’re stoked to present to you the exclusive first trailer for Superman: Man of Tomorrow, the next animated DC Universe Movie from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. You can watch the trailer in the player above or via the embed below.
Superman: Man of Tomorrow is due out this summer on digital, 4K Ultra combo pack, and Blu-ray combo pack.
In Superman: Man of Tomorrow, “Daily Planet intern Clark Kent takes learning-on-the-job to new extremes when Lobo and Parasite set their sights on Metropolis,” according to the official plot synopsis.
Darren Criss (Hollywood, Midway) voices the lead role of Clark Kent, while Star Trek and Heroes’ Zachary Quinto voices his foe, Lex Luthor. Criss is no stranger to DC Comics adaptations, having appeared on The CW’s Supergirl and The Flash as the supervillain known as Music Meister.
The voice cast ensemble of Superman: Man of Tomorrow also includes San Andreas and True Detective’s Alexandra Daddario as Lois Lane, Brett Dalton (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) as cosmic bounty hunter Lobo, Ryan Hurst (The Walking Dead) as the supervillain Parasite, and Ike Amadi (Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge) as Martian Manhunter.
Piotr Michael voices Perry White, while Jonathan and Martha Kent are played by Neil Flynn and Bellamy Young, respectively. The voice cast also includes Cristina Milizia, Eugene Byrd, April Stewart, Cissy Jones and David Chen.
The film’s creative team includes director Chris Palmer, screenwriter Tim Sheridan, and supervising producer Butch Lukic.
This year also saw the release of another Man of Steel animated movie from WBHE, Superman: Red Son. In our positive review of the film, we praised it as “one of the stronger additions to DC’s animated movie library in recent years.”
And be sure to check out our roundup of every DC Universe Movie review in the 15-film continuity that recently ended with Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
Here’s some good news and some bad news. First the good: Amazon has just put a box of eight Final Fantasy VII polygon figures up for preorder. They’re based on the character designs from the original 1997 game, which means ’90s kids will love them, as will anyone who enjoys delightful character designs. Seriously, just look at them. They’re slated for a September 1 release, and priced at $64.
Now for the bad news: instead of just selling the complete set as you might expect, Square Enix is only offering them in a package of eight blind boxes. That means you won’t necessarily get all the figures with one purchase, and you may get doubles.
That’s a bummer, but you’ll definitely get eight of these figures (just cross your fingers you don’t get eight Renos). If that sounds like a gamble you’re willing to take, you’ll probably want to secure your preorder soon. It’s unclear how long the stock will last.
Almost all of the figures up for grabs are fantastic characters, with the exception of Reno (I kid!). The set includes Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret, Red XIII, Sephiroth, and Reno. There’s also a chance that you’ll get a rare secret character variant (read to the end of this article if you want it spoiled).
Each figure stands about two inches tall. They all have their iconic polygonal, boxy bodies, but they have “expressive eyes,” as the marketing copy says, which do look nice and add a lot of personality.
For the price they’re charging, I wish they just sold these in a set. But if you think it’s worth the risk, go ahead and place your preorder now.
Secret FF7 Polygon Figure
Spoilers: The secret figure is… (drumroll, please)
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Cloud wearing the dress he puts on to infiltrate Don Corneo’s mansion. Good luck!
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