Some of you may have played some of the cutesy (but somewhat obscure) titles in classic shmup series Cotton, which dallied around the arcades and various home platforms in in the 1990's. Well, it appears that it's time to dust off the ol' b...

As part of a recent broadcast of the Rune Factory channel, publisher Marvelous spoke a little about the new features coming to Nintendo Switch remaster Rune Factory 4 Special. The revamped edition of the Nintendo 3DS title will now include ...

Last week brought some exciting news for fans of Arc System Works' anime fighter (no, not that one... or that one either) Granblue Fantasy: Versus, which is headed to PS4 sometime this year.First up was the reveal of a closed beta. This dem...

A listing has popped up on the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee website that appears to confirm a new entry in luscious anime fighter series Under Night In-Birth.The listing states that the awesomely titled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late...

While the main plot of the upcoming Kill La Kill: IF will star Kiryuin Satsuki, an additional side story featuring anime protagonist Matoi Ryuko will be playable as well. Upon completing the main story mode, the extra scenario will be unloc...

Believe it or not, today is "Goku Day" in Japan, celebrating the existence of the pop culture icon and Dragon Ball protagonist. The reason May 9 is chosen as the fated date is due to the phonetic pronunciation of May - "Go" or "Go gatsu" - ...

Atlus Japan has released the first in a series of videos for the upcoming Persona 5 The Royal, an updated edition of 2017's smash hit RPG. The "Morgana's Report" series will feature the excitable feline as he spotlights some of the new char...

"What will you do after the end of the world?" This might be the most answered question in contemporary game history, so rife is the medium with stories set after the collapse of civilization as we know it. Beyond being a convenient escape ...

Gungrave VR came out at the tail-end of 2018, and although it was disappointing I'm still very much pulling for this series, and anything Yasuhiro Nightow touches (shoutout to the Destructoid reader who turned me onto Blood Blockade Ba...

Rising Star games has dropped a launch trailer for Game Freak's anime puzzle title Giga Wrecker Alt. The hi-tech adventure launched on PS4 yesterday, and will be coming to Nintendo Switch and Xbox One by the end of the week.Set in a post-in...

If your budget wasn't totally wiped clean by the PlayStation Network Golden Week sale or you're more in the market for PC deals, Steam has you covered as well. The Steam Golden Week sale is offering discounts on fighting and anime games, vi...

After some nagging delays and other such chicanery, it appears that Neptune and her pals are about ready to set off on their latest adventure. Idea Factory International has officially announced the worldwide release dates for Super Neptuni...

Spring has sprung! A fresh new season stretches out before us as we dive into a pile of new anime and argue about what's worth watching and what's worth hate-watching. As always, the new season snuck up on me while I'm rewatching old episod...

Because there's apparently always room in one fighting game for more Goku, Bandai Namco has announced that Dragon Ball GT's Kid Goku will be making his presence felt in their excellent tag title Dragon Ball FighterZ in May.As announced in t...

Digimon fans should keep their eyes peeled for exciting new news about the monster-catching franchise. Publisher Bandai Namco has stated that "Something big is coming," with the news expected to drop in next month's issue of Japanese magazi...

Arc System Works has announced that the arcade release of their crossover fighting game BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be arriving at locations across Japan from next week.The arcade edition of the kinetic fighter, which stars characters f...

Indie studio SpicyTales has announced that its VR experience based on the manga/anime franchise Spice & Wolf will be coming to Oculus Rift, Oculus GO and HTC Vive in June. A product of two separate crowdfunding campaigns - which took pl...

Bandai Namco has announced that the Nintendo Switch will see a port of monstrous action-RPG sequel God Eater 3. Already available on PS4 and PC, the epic adventure will be squeezed onto the Switch July 11 in Japan, with North America and Eu...

It’s a tricky thing to maintain a long-running crossover franchise. On one hand, you need to take measures in order to attract newcomers. Whether it’s changing up the roster or lowering the barrier of entry, there are steps deve...

It's been a while since we last heard anything regarding Idea Factory's adventure title Super Neptunia RPG. Well, this week brings some news and it looks like Nep-Nep fans will have to hold on a smidge longer before they can hit the trail w...

Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for the upcoming movie based on Namco Bandai's charming RPG series Ni no Kuni. Produced by Level-5 and scheduled for a Summer release in Japan, the anime hopes to capture the beauty and adventure ...

Don't bug out with today's contest for a Blu-ray copy of Arrow Video's Terra Formars. You guys know me well enough to know I don't know shit about anime, or manga, or any of that stuff. It's just not my bag. That said, I do like batshit ins...

A great man (Occams) once told me the best games are the ones you didn't know you wanted until someone made them... It was something like that. I think. Anyway, I experienced the embodiment of that theory this morning, when I learned that t...

Publisher Ysbryd Games, in conjunction with developer Sukeban, has announced that indie darling and dramatic bartender simulator VA-11 Hall-A will be hitting Nintendo Switch and PS4 in May.Originally released for PC and PS Vita several year...

The material-hungry Masters of Fate/Grand Order may still be days away from finishing off the ongoing "Gudaguda Meiji Restoration" spring event, but the cruel intelligences at Aniplex have opted to announce none other than the nex...