Kill la Kill: IF Is Coming To Europe

Kill la Kill The Game: IF was revealed at Anime Expo 2018 with an impressive yet brief trailer that showed series protagonist Ryuko Matoi going up against series antagonist Satsuki Kiryuin. Publisher Arc System Works and developer APLUS have kept relatively quiet about the game, but thanks to a new Twitter post, we’ve now learned that the 3D fighter is heading to Europe and will be available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

According to the official Twitter account for PQube Games–the UK-based publisher responsible for distributing games like Guilty Gear, Cat Quest, and others–the forthcoming fighter based on Kazuki Nakashima’s 2013 anime will land in Europe “later this year, with a new story from the original writer.” This likely means Nakashima’s contributing to the “untold story” the Anime Expo 2018 trailer teased.

In a news post published at the end of February 2018, Arc System Works unveiled new characters, game modes, and screenshots. Kill la Kill The Game: IF will feature Free VS matches (where you can play against a CPU or a friend locally), Player Matches (where you can play online without affecting your ranking), Ranked Matches (where you can play online for the top leaderboard spot and bragging rights), a tutorial and training mode, and a Challenge Mode with several challenges (including survival, hundred enemies, endless, and more). Furthermore, four new characters, including Houka Inumuta and Nonon Jakuzure, will appear in the game.

Kill la Kill The Game: IF is scheduled to release sometime in 2019 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.

Daily Deals: Grand Theft Auto V for $15, Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee for $46

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Dead or Alive 6’s Season Pass 1 Costs $93

Dead or Alive 6’s first season pass, which is available now, will get players 62 costumes and 2 new characters for…$92.99 USD.

Dead or Alive 6, the latest entry in the fighting franchise that began back in 1996, released last week and we called it good, saying “DoA 6 proves there’s plenty of depth to this fighter beneath its skimpy outfits, but its story mode is disjointed and its multiplayer features are currently bare.”

As with most games these days, the release of the game isn’t the end of the content, and DOA 6 is offering players a chance to purchase, for $92.99 USD, its first season pass that will give content to players between March 2019 – June 2019.

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In Defense of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

I never thought I’d actually be in a position to defend Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Well, technically it was “Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2,” but that’s not really the point. It’s an absurd game structured around half-naked women playing volleyball, featuring…uh…those infamous “jiggle physics.” In an episode of The Bernie Mac Show, it’s represented strictly auditorily as women moaning. As many have said before (and I’m looking at some specific reviews, here) who would play these games if not just to ogle half-naked women?

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How’s Season 2 of The Orville So Far?

With eight episodes aired, season two of The Orville is off to a strong start. It continues to blend equal parts science fiction and social philosophy, though its proportion of outrageous gags has declined markedly in favor of subtler comedic elements. Despite a few lingering areas for improvement, Seth McFarlane’s love letter to Star Trek is really starting to gain momentum.

Warning: Some serious spoilers for The Orville Seasons 1 and 2 below!

After two relatively strong episodes focusing on Peter Macon’s outstanding alien character Bortus, Season 2 stumbled a bit with the surprise departure of security chief Alara Kitan (Halston Sage) in episode three. Though it seems unintentional, Sage’s departure is eerily reminiscent of Denise Crosby’s early exit from her role as chief of security in Star Trek: The Next Generation. That parallel is itself similar to John Lamarr (J. Lee) transitioning from navigator to chief engineer (in season one) almost exactly the same way Geordi did on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Fortunately, such one-to-one references are rare and usually not too meta, though occasionally they do veer too far in that direction — e.g. when a fanatical, warlike alien race embeds a mole on the Orville under the assumed identity of “Lieutenant Tyler”. That’s such an on-the-nose poke at Discovery you wonder if it could somehow have been a coincidence.

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