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Black Desert Mobile ventures into the uncharted with new Kamasylvia region
A whole new region has been released to explore in Black Desert Mobile. Developer and publisher Pearl Abyss has announced the region is called Kamasylvia and brings with it a host of new experiences for players to sink their teeth into. First released back in 2018 as a mobile spin off to the PC MMORPG Black Desert, Pearl Abyss did a commendable job taking a big open world RPG, and shrinking it down for mobile audiences. Whilst there are of course technical limitations that results in a slightly smaller, less open-world game with a more streamlined story, Black Desert Mobile delivers a rather beefy online game on a portable device. The release of this new area brings about two big talking…
Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier debuts Season Two
Ateam Entertainment has announced the launch of Season Two for its battle royale Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier. Developed in conjunction with Square Enix, of course, The First Soldier is the series' first foray into the battle royale genre. For the uninitiated, The First Soldier is a canonical entry into the Final Fantasy VII series, set 30 years before the original. So, no fears for anyone who has yet to stumble upon THAT moment. The story, such as it is, follows the creation of Shinra Electric Power Companys’ SOLDIER program, intended to bolster their miltary, however, given the nature of the game the story quickly goes out the window, and it all boils down to a total of 75 pl…
Soul Tide has opened for Western Pre-Registration
Chinese developers Lemcnsun Limited has opened worldwide pre-registration for their Dungeon Crawler Soul Tide. Having had a local release back in 2021 it launched to a lot of fanfare, grabbing the Best Anime Game award from both the Vivo Annual Game Festival and the Game TeaHouse Awards. Soul Tide is set in a dark fantasy world that is being oppressed by witches, and whose only hope of salvation rests with a group of Evokers, who control powerful creations. The objective of the game is to explore a labyrinth brimming with magical energy that sprung up out of nowhere and stop the witches from harnessing its power. Having unfortunately fallen out of mainstream fashion lately, Soul Tide embra…
Blue Archive embraces the summer spirit
Nexon Co Ltd has announced a limited-time event for their anime RPG Blue Archive. Yes indeed, it was only a matter of time until the game succumbed to that age-old anime trope, the beach episode. Blue Archive places the player in the shoes of the new Federal Investigation Club advisor located in the sprawling city of Kivotos, which functions as a military academy for female students. The gameplay is mainly split into two groups; the battles and the life sim aspect. The battles play out fairly autonomously. After selecting a group of four, they are sent onto the battlefield where they will automatically shoot at the enemy in all their chibi 3D sprite glory. Each character has a skill they c…
Final Gear lets players score Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 crossover pilots in latest collab event
Motoko Kusanagi, Batou and Purin Esaki join the fray in Komoe Technology Limited's latest collaboration event for Final Gear. The "mech and maiden" RPG will not only feature new themed missions during the crossover, but it will also give players the opportunity to score exclusive SSR pilots throughout the limited-time event. If you're itching to recruit the members of Public Security Section 9 into your roster, the Final Gear × Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 should scratch that itch for you. This February 24th, Batou and Purin Esaki are helping players fight the good fight, along with Motoko Kusanagi herself and their custom mechs. In particular, simply playing through and completing…
Super Baseball League looks to score a home run
South Korean developers Haegin has announced the soft launch of its new casual PvP sports game, Super Baseball League in select countries for mobile, with a worldwide launch coming. Set in the same universe as its predecessor, Homerun Clash, Super Baseball League promises to deliver competitive, quick, run skill-based baseball. In a no-doubt welcome announcement to critics of the sport, Super Baseball League plays out over one short inning as a tiebreaker 1v1 match. This makes the game very accessible to fans of baseball who can’t necessarily sit through a full nine innings of an MLB match. With the action being compacted into a short timeframe, the gameplay comes thick and fast, with…
Slash & Roll unleashes large scale dice based combat
Developers Gamesture are continuing their trend of taking tabletop pedigree and smashing it into a video game with Slash & Roll. Taking the humble D12 dice, a 12 sided dice to the uninitiated, players band together and succeed or fail on the roll of a dice. Gamesture has set out to make a massive community experience with their latest game, by pitting guilds of 20 people against other groups of the same number. When the game is booted up, players get sorted into an international guild with other dice wielding warriors who must all work together in fast-paced battles. The gameplay consists of two guilds, 20 v 20, rolling the D12, with every match-3 result providing a special outcome.…
Dark Nemesis: Infinite Quest pre-registration is now open
Nuverse has announced the pre-registration for its upcoming MMORPG, Dark Nemesis: Infinite Quest. Up until its launch in March, players can take part in the pre-reg campaign to claim in-game rewards as more milestones are met. As a bonus, Nuverse is offering the chance to spin their Lucky Wheel with prizes such as an iPad Pro and an iPhone 13 Pro Max up for grabs. Dark Nemesis takes place in a multi-dimensional world where the multiverse has collided, instigating the war between good and evil on an apocalyptic scale. The exquisitely rendered world has been coupled with a score composed by Neal Acree, who has worked on such blockbusters as World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3. Player…
Gunfire Reborn Mobile combines magic animals with guns
Today marks the start of pre-registration for Gunfire Studios roguelite FPS RPG hybrid, Gunfire Reborn Mobile. First released on the PC, Gunfire Reborn racked up quite an impressive resume on Steam; 60,000 positive reviews, a 94% positive rating and a Gold Early Access Grad on the Best of 2021 list, this promises to be a powerhouse port for mobile. Tackling the age-old question of “what would happen if I gave a magic cat a gun”, Gunfire Reborn Mobile takes a host of normally adorable critters, kits them out with weapons and abilities, and then proceeds to watch the world burn. Each available character has its own unique moves. For example, the Crown Prince can fire off Energy Or…
Labyrinth City opens for pre-registration
Pixmain, the video game publishing arm of ByteDance, themselves the developers of the popular TikTok app, has announced the upcoming mobile release of Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective. This will be the fourth game developed by Darjeeling Productions, who normally stick to documentary making, so they have a lot of storytelling pedigree. Labyrinth City is an adaptation of the children's book Pierre the Maze Detective: The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone, written by Hiro Kamigaki, and published by Laurence King Publishing. The story is set in Opera City where the mysterious and villainous Mr X, the maze stone thief, has surprisingly stolen the city's maze stone. This has caused the c…
Lingo Legend combines learning languages with RPGs
Anyone who has tried to learn a new language can attest to how difficult it can be, but thanks to Hyperthought Games help has arrived. Lingo Legend is a gaming platform that has been designed to teach languages in an engaging and entertaining way. The flagship game on the platform at launch will be Yorthwood, a card-battling RPG where players need to build a deck and use it to battle monsters, all whilst exploring a vibrant world. Combat plays out by drawing ability cards from the deck and then answering language questions to unleash chaos against whatever hapless foe is unlucky enough to be targeted by a linguistic barrage. After all, the most effective way to attack monsters is to swing a…
Hitman Sniper The Shadows release is in our sights
Square Enix has announced the launch date of upcoming shooter Hitman Sniper The Shadows. Launching globally on 3rd March this year, players will be able to amass a team of snipers to venture out and stealthily snuff out various undersirables the world over. On 3.3.22, they won't know what hit them. Pre-register now at https://t.co/CArmyisBDtor at Google Play! - https://t.co/bSYf0yCcaPUnlock exclusive rewards at launch! Spots are limited pic.twitter.com/a02wJpbZw2 — HitmanSniper (@HitmanSniperOG) February 14, 2022 The story takes place in a world where Agent 47, the most globally reognisable assassin there is, has gone missing. Taking adventage of the disappearance of the bullet…
Puzzle & Dragons goes spooky with Yu Yu Hakusho colab
Prolific puzzle game Puzzle & Dragons has announced the return of the 2018 colab with Yu Yu Hakusho, bringing back the originally obtainable characters along with a selection of new ones. Having partnered with the likes of Sword Art Online and Monster Hunter, developers Gungho Online have made a name for themselves as the company to partner with. Hailing from the pages of the legendary Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, Yu Yu Hakusho was the story of a violent teenage dilequent, Yusuke Urameshi, who when saving a child was hit by a car and killed. He was then recruited to become an Underworld Detective and was resurrected to investigate supernatural goings on in the human world. Being a matc…
Golden Bros will revel in 3v3 PvP Combat
Netmarble has launched a new teaser site to kick start the launch of its newest “casual shooting game” Golden Bros. Not much information has been released thus far, however, the site and its new trailer can be found here. Gameplay will take place in real-time and will feature 3v3 PVP combat. Players will be able to make their team out of a number of unique and quirky Bros that can grow and develop. Whilst playing through battles they will be able to collect Skill Capsules, which will be used to set Bros up in various combat roles. The controls are said to be relatively easy and intuitive to pick up, with various combat rules and maps that will allow for a myriad of strategies t…
The Mourning Star offers some profoundly deep interplanetary swinging
The Mourning Star is the debut game from one-man development band Ben Russell Games. As an expectant father, Ben Russell’s mind drifted to where all future parents do; to the end of the universe, and so he produced a profound parable centred on wielding the last star in existence as a flail and protecting it from the end of the universe. Naturally. Being suddenly awoken and finding themselves with amnesia Deah, presented as a big pair of cosmic eyeballs, discovered that all the stars are going cold as the whole universe is rapidly dying. In order to prevent this tragedy, the player will take the last remaining star and attempt to keep it safe as they attempt to complete a ritual that…
