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Stellar Blade Devs are Scared Over Demo's Popularity
Stellar Blade's status as one of the most hyped games of 2024 was cemented when the demo was released a few short weeks ago. Despite the game being constantly compared toNier Automata, the gameplay had aSekiro-esque parry-based combat system, which had a good amount of depth to it even in the limited scenarios included in the demo.Ampere Analysis reported that theStellar Bladedemo peaked at690,000 on PS5, almost twice as much as theFinal Fantasy 7 ...
Pixiv Bans "Realistic" Images
Image-sharing website Pixiv has been one of the most popular online communites for artists for years, particularly in Japan. Most art on pixiv is anime-style, but there are plenty of artists with their own aesthetics. But with these new guidelines, the art posted on pixiv could become increasingly homogenous.A recent update to Pixiv's guidelines specifies that "real-life photographs or photo-realistic images" are now prohibited, and may be deleted, ...
Tekken Mod Site Hit with Copyright Claim by Bandai Namco
As we've spoken about plenty of times already, mods are a big reason why many games tend to stay relevant even years after their original release. This is especially the case with fighting games, where people can customize their characters with more control than the base games will allow, or even swap them out with different characters entirely. But we've already seenStreet Fighter publisher Capcom hit back against fanmade mods, and now the company ...
DLsite Blocks Major Western Credit Cards
DLsite, the online purveyors of eroge we've spoken about in the past, have made yet another controversial decision that'll impact scores of western hentai enthusiasts.As if blocking access to an entire country wasn't enough, DLsite's parent company EISYS, Inc. posted an important update earlier this week, which read:"Thank you very much for your continued patronage of this service.From 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, Visa and Mastercard will be ...
Even Yoko Taro is Hyped for Stellar Blade
For a creator, being acknowledged by one of your biggest inspirations must feel like a dream come true. That's how Kim Hyung Tae, founder of Shift Up, must be geeling right about now.TheMagnaCarta andBlade & Soul artist has been open about how his latest game,Stellar Blade, takes influence fromNier Automataand its creator Yoko Taro, in case the thicc android protagonist didn't give it away already. It turns out Taro is not only aware ofStellar Blade, ...
Could Waffle House Come to Tekken?
I've never been to America, but if memes about Waffle House are anything to go by, you gotta be one tough motherfucker. And it's not just memes; I've come across plenty of videos showing all-out brawls in those places, so that reputation has to come from somewhere.Tekken director Katushiro Harada recently retweeted a request from a fan to add a Waffle House stage inTekken 8, who was obviously not the first person to ask for it. Harada asked fans for ...
Konami Ban Non-Japanese Citizens from Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournaments
Last year, I went to a trade show in London for my day job that had a number of tech companies exhibiting their wares. In another wing of the venue, I noticed a huge banner promoting an officialYu-Gi-Oh! card tournament, endorsed by the company that owns the theYu-Gi-Oh! brand: Konami, happening the next day. Unfortunately, I couldn't stick around to check it out the next day, but as someone who grew up with the anime and card game (even if it wasn't ...
Demon-Loving Waifu A.B.A Returns to Guilty Gear
Its competitors in the fighting game scene may have dropped had entirely new titles sinceGuilty Gear -Strive- dropped in 2021, but that hasn't stopped Arc System Works from going hard with DLC characters and keeping the game alive 3 years later. Elphelt was added to the game just a few months ago, and now the waifu train continues with another returning fan favorite.A.B.A is an artificially created homunculus whose creator was arrested before she ...
Azur Lane Devs' New Game is A Genshin-Like
Gacha games have changed. It's no longer about slow-paced mobile games with a random chance of unlocking 2D images of waifus. It's an endless series of full-realized 3D waifu adventure and exploration with real-time combat on PC and moder consoles. To that end,Genshin Impact is the gold standard for big-budget gacha games, with titles likeZenless Zone Zero andWuthering Waves andPalworld entering the fray recently. Now another has thrown its free-to-play ...
Akira Toriyama's Legacy Continues with Sand Land
Pretty much everyone who's heard of anime is also aware ofDragon Ball, but as we discussed earlier, it was far from the only thing the late, great Akira Toriyama created.He's also known by gamers as the character design for theDragon Questfranchise since 1986, but relatively few people have heard ofSand Land. With a new anime adaptation starting imminently and a game based on it dropping next month, that may change soon.Originally meant to be a short ...
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