Otaku Gamers UK - News & Reviews: 2015-06-14

Saturday 20 June 2015

News: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven 2nd trailer

Bandai Namco has released a second official trailer for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, showing off five minutes of new footage. The trailer also confirms a 2015 release in Japan on PS3 and PS4, up till now it had been under TBC.

News: Shenmue 3 kickstarter update

After utterly smashing their initial target of $2 million in less than 9 hours and grabbing themselves the Guinness Book of World Record title for "the fastest video game to raise $1 million in contributions on a crowdfunding platform" in an astounding 1 hour and 43 minutes. The long awaited fan request's kickstarter is currently around $3.3 million with nearly 42000 individual backers and 28 days left on the clock.

Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness will not be a repeat of Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope, producer Shuichi Kobayashi assured fans during a post show E3 interview.

Gust has today released a new Japanese trailer for Yoru no Nai Kuni named “Movie File #01.”

This piece of news is generally something we would report on, but with the huge amount of debate, complaints and full blown arguments I feel that it is news that needs to be put out there.

New details have come out regarding upcoming Square Enix title, World of Final Fantasy. The information comes from an E3 interview with producer Hiroki Chiba. [GamesBeat]

A release date has been announced for Compile Hearts's latest dungeon RPG, Moero Crystal. It is set to release in Japan on September 25 exclusively to the PS Vita.

A second demo is heading to the Japanese PS4 store for Bandai Namco's fighting game, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven. There is no time frame apart from "very soon".

News: New Sword Art Online E3 Trailers

At E3 this year Bandai Namco released new trailers for Sword Art Online Re: Hollow Fragment and Sword Art Online: Lost Song.

Square Enix's announcement of a Final Fantasy VII remake for PS4 was received with two very conflicting reactions. A deafening squeal akin to a banshee from the hardcore fans, and a low groan from many, including those put off by recent Final Fantasy releases, I'm looking at you Lightning!

Great news for Digimon fans, it seems Amazon has jumped the gun a little, posting a purchase link on their Canadian page for Digimon World: Cyber Sleuth.

A new concept trailer has been released for Dontnod Entertainment's next project, Vampyr. The game was originally announced in January and is a RPG set after World War I.

In an interview at E3 Kingdom Hearts III directer Tetsuya Nomura has said that there will be bigger worlds with less transitions and a dramatic decrease in the loading times.

Today at E3 Q-Games have released a new trailer for their upcoming game, The Tomorrow Children. Posting over on the PS Blog, Q-Games have explained that since the alpha last autumn that many new features have been added.

E3 2015 : Nintendo Direct & Treehouse

Nintendo showed off a nice selection of games at their Digital Event but revealed no big surprise. It was nice to finally see Star Fox 0 in action plus as a 3DS owner it was nice to see a few new games coming to the console. I was disappointed that there was no focus to bring any exlusive titles to the New 3DS but you never know what is around the corner. For a company who is struggling with their home console they did not annouce a show stopper - yes Star Fox was great but it is no Zelda.

After the content heavy conference from Microsoft, it was down to Sony to show the world what they are currently working. You already know about the Shenmue II Kickstarter and the Final Fantasy VII Remake but what else did they annoounce? Another huge announcement was that The Last Guardian is real and is heading our way in 2016.
Like Microsoft it was very Trailer heavey & luckily Playstation have kindly created a playlist of all the trailers on their YouTube page. Enjoy.

At the PS Experience last December it was announced that the PC port of Final Fantasy VII was heading to PS4 this Spring. Well it looks like Square have taken a huge U turn on this an decided to remake Final Fantasy VII instead.

Last night at Sony's E3 press conference was full of suprises but the biggest one was the crowdfunding campaign to bring Shenmue III to PC & PS4. There had been a few rumours flying around the internet for the best few days regarding this announcement and everyone just pushed them to one side.

Ubisoft's Press Event was a strange one. Instead of going over lots of fine details of their upcoming games they just threw a lot of trailers at use. Very much like EA, they played it safe.

E3 2105: EA Round Up

EA opened their show with a game which I know a lot of fans have been screaming to see for a few years now - the new Mass Effect game. Well, it has a name, a trailer & a release date!

Come and join us to watch this years EA Press Conference! I will be hanging around the comments during the conference so please feel free to join me.

After the excellent performance from Bethesda earlier today it is now Microsoft's turn to show off what they have in store for the next 12 months. They have promised they will be focusing heavily on exclusive game this year and boy did they deliver them with a bang.

Come and join us to watch this years Microsoft Press Conference! I will be hanging around the comments during the conference so please feel free to join me.

Looks like another mistake has been made at this years E3. This time it came from the Twitter account of Bandai Namco.

A harsh lesson in how to throw a game into the Abyss

Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy is a first person dungeon crawler RPG developed by Experience Inc and published by NIS America. Released exclusively for Playstation Vita on June 5th 2015

For the first time in E3 history, Bethesda have held a press conference. Much excitement rumbled in the depths of the Internet upon the announcement of this news and it increase dramatically when they announced that Fallout 4 was coming soon. So the question is this - did it live up to the hype?
Well, this writer says yes - it was an amazing show.

The latest trailer from Capcom's upcoming 3DS game, The Great Ace Attorney gives us an introduction to the character, Sherlock Holmes.

E3 2015: Earthbound Beginnings Wii U VC Release

After a long wait (26 Years to be precise) EarthBound Beginnings is finally coming to the West! In fact the game is being released today on the Wii U Virtual Console at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT / 2 AM BST.

E3 2015: New Amiibos Leaked

Once again it looks like more details have been leaked before the official announcement. This time it is Nintendo's turn who has mistakenly announced new Amiibos heading our way.

Make like a train and chew, chew, chew!

Review Supplied by DoubleFine

Point and Click adventure games are pretty much a corner stone of my childhood. They hold a very special place in my heart. I remember one summer when I was much younger than now, playing through all the SCUMM games available at the time. Ranging from Day of The Tentacle through to Monkey Island. I loved them and could not get enough of them but they one day then pretty much all disappeared.

So E3 has pretty much officially started this year with a Nintendo Direct showing off new content that is heading to Super Smash Bros for the WiiU & 3DS.

Feature: E3 2015 - Is Your Body Ready?

It's that time of year again; Twitter is going mad, there are more leaks than an old fishing boat & the late nights begin. Yes, it is E3 2015 - the one time of year when all developers gather together to show of to the world what to expect in the next 12 months or so.
For gamers it is a very exciting time and it is very comparable to christmas. We all have hopes and dreams of what is to come but the majority of the time you may be left dissopointed with what you were given.

NIS have outdone themselves with not one, but four new trailers introducing the S.E.A.L.E.D. team members for the turn-based tactical RPG, Lost Dimension, which will be arriving in Europe on August 28th 2015 for PlayStation3 and Vita as both a physical and digital release!

Saturday 20 June 2015

Friday 19 June 2015

Thursday 18 June 2015

Tuesday 16 June 2015

Monday 15 June 2015

A harsh lesson in how to throw a game into the Abyss

Sunday 14 June 2015

Make like a train and chew, chew, chew!