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Amazon's Like a Dragon: Yakuza Series Gets its Nishiki
The news that Amazon were working on a live-action adaptation of theYakuza orLike a Dragon series of video games came out of nowhere, but now we have our first big update and a good look at the series.Like a Dragon: Yakuza is based on the very first game in the series, originally released for PS2 in 2005 and remade and expanded for modern systems in 2016 asYakuza Kiwami. It follows honorable Tojo Clan member Kazuma Kiryu, who takes a murder charge ...
Netflix Gundam Series Looks Like a Video Game
What's the deal with Netflix's obsession with CG in their original anime projects? Either they're partially 2D with usually distracting 3D thrown in, or they're completely CG adaptations of existing anime or manga likeGhost in the Shell: SAC_2045,Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya orAppleseed Alpha. Now it'sGundam's turn to get a Netflix series from Namco Bandai Filmworks, called Mobile SuitGundam: Requiem for Vengeance.Requiem for Vengeance follows ...
SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos Promo Art Censored For Some Reason
The 2003 crossover fighting gameSNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaosrecently saw a rerelease on Switch, PC, PS4 and PS5, and much like the upcomingMarvel vs.CapcomFighting Collection:Arcade Classics, it was promoted with a brand new piece of promotional artwork featuring characters from both companies squaring off against each other. However, the version of the artwork shown in the English version of the trailer has some notable differences to the one in the ...
Cyberpunk's Lucy is Guilty Gear's First Guest Character
At this point, it's pretty much expected for a fighting game to have at least one guest character.The latestMortal Kombat has a trio of comic book characters,Street Fighter 6 is getting Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui ofFatal Fury fame,Tekken 8 is bound to reveal one before long, and who can forget Warden and Gongsun Li inSamurai Shodown? However, in all its 26 years of existence,Guilty Gear has never featured a character crossing over from another ...
Dragon Ball Daima Gets Release Date Following Toriyama's Passing
Other thanSand Land, which I spoke about previously, one of the last things the legendaryAkira Toriyama was working on before his untimely passing was a brand new series ofDragon Ballwhere Goku and the gang have morphed into kids again, but in a different way to GT. After his death, the future ofDragon Ball Daima looked uncertain, but Toei Animation confirmed the series is still airing this Fall as planned, which has now been narrowed down to October ...
One of the Gayest Games of All Time is Coming to Switch
A long, long time ago, I remember going down a rabbithole involving a series of games about hairless buff guys firing protein beams from their bald heads at bizarre, homoerotic aliens while hitting bodybuilding poses. That's about the best way I can describeCho Aniki, a series of shoot-em-ups by Masaya that began back in 1992; it's one of those things you gotta see to believe.The series flew under the radar of most people even in its heyday, and ever ...
Yakuza Studio Casts More AV Idols for Next Game
TheLike A Dragon/Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku series often features real life Japanese celebrities, including actors in the main cast, pro wrestlers, athletes and TV chefs as themselves in some of the many side missions, as well as gravure and AV idols featured as hostesses or camgirls that sometimes show their goods in unlockable live-action cutscenes.Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio usually hold auditions to determine who'll be interacting with Kiryu, Ichiban, Yagami ...
Anime is Giving Trucks a Bad Name
If you're at all familair with isekai anime, you're probably already aware of the Truck-kun meme. If the story requires the main character to die at the very beginning in order to be reborn in another world or form, chances are they'll get hit by a truck with no warning. After all, having them get murdered by someone would establish a dark tone from the start, deaths by train are almost always suicide and getting hit by a car isn't always lethal, ...
Fallout Onahole is Like a Vault for Your Cock
It had plenty of skeptics before launch, but theFallout live-action series from Amazon was not only accurate to the lore of the games, but also expanded on it in certain ways. It brought wider attention to the games, including gamers who've never playedFalloutbefore and non gamers who were interested in its unique retrofuturistic post-apocalyptic vibe. But there's a lot going on in theFalloutuniverse that casual fans or noobs wouldn't get, and among ...
Palworld is Blowing Up Thanks to Sony
In the age of live service games, there aren't many that last for very long.Helldivers 2 seemed like the hottest new kid on the block for a minute, but its player levels aren't quite what they used to be. The same is true forPalworld, originally released in January, a month beforeHelldivers 2, which plateaud much sooner.Palworld's console part revived some interest it on PC too, and now the world ofPalworld is set to expand beyond the game.Sony Music ...
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