[Update: A selection of new screens can be viewed in the gallery below, courtesy of Gematsu.]D3 Publisher has announced a new spin-off title in its bug-squashing Earth Defense Force series... and this one is particularly peculiar. Earth Def...

Japanese game developer M2 has revealed the identities of the first four classic Toaplan shmups being revitalised for future release on modern platforms. The four games were announced this weekend during the Famitsu & Dengeki Game Award...

This year sees the wild 'n' weird Danganronpa franchise celebrate its 10th anniversary. As such, Spike Chunsoft is planning numerous reveals and news drops pertaining to the surprisingly dark series, which currently consists of several vide...

While Koei Tecmo remains under fire from Dead or Alive fans over its hair-dyeing shenanigans, it hasn't stopped the publisher from dropping new info about DoA 6's upcoming DLC. The latest update, courtesy of Famitsu, announces that Venus Va...

[Update: Platinum Games has updated the Platinum4 website and released a teaser trailer for Project G.G., which you can check out at the foot of the article.]Platinum Games has dropped new, mysterious information regarding the second title ...

Platinum Games has updated its curious "Platinum4" website with a new date, revealing that the second of its four mystery announcements will be made tomorrow, February 26. Within the same 24-hour period, Japanese magazine Famitsu launches i...

Platinum Games, the studio behind such wild action titles as Bayonetta and NieR: Automata, has revealed that it will be making a "major" announcement next week. The mysterious news will drop in the February 27 issue of Japanese publication ...

A small tidbit of news from this week's issue of Famitsu has revealed that edgy echidna Knuckles will be making an appearance in Sega Ages' upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 2 re-release, headed to Nintendo Switch at some point in the future.Knuc...

PlatinumGames' dystopian anime adventure Astral Chain might not have been at the top of many shopping lists when 2019 started, but succeeded in creating quite a buzz in the months up to its release, eventually having a successful launching ...

[Update: Izanagi Studios has released the first teaser trailer for Death Come True. You can check it out at the foot of the article.]Izanagi Studios continues to drip feed cast and plot details for Death Come True, the upcoming FMV adventur...

Some more details have emerged pertaining to Death Come True, the FMV adventure game by Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka that was revealed this past weekend.As reported by Famitsu, developer Izanagi Games describes Death Come True as "in...

According to figures in Japanese publication Famitsu, Nintendo's Pokémon Sword and Shield sold a total of 1,364,544 combined physical copies during the first three days of release, including boxed releases, download cards and th...

Speaking in an interview with Famitsu, Masayoshi Yokoyama revealed that a demo will be released for Sega's upcoming strategy RPG Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which is currently in development for PS4.The demo will let players try out first-hand t...

Persona 5 Royal launches in Japan tomorrow, but there's still new tidbits of information to be garnered from a news article in Famitsu. We already know that the revisit to Atlus' best-selling RPG will include new characters, a hub world, ne...

If there's one thing Nintendo Switch RPG Fire Emblem: Three Houses isn't short on, it's characters. With three separate schools, not to mention a fistful of tutors, all vying for your attention, its only natural some of these students and f...

In the latest issue of Japanese publication Weekly Famitsu, Sega's action-RPG Yakuza: Like a Dragon has revealed three of its character classes, which take the form of vocations for Ichiban Kasuga and his merry band of reprobates.In order t...

Good news for shmup fans, as City Connection has announced that anime arcade blaster Deathsmiles and its sequel, Deathsmiles II, are currently being prepped for ports on a selection of currently unknown platforms.The announcement came this ...

Some new details about Yakuza: Like A Dragon have come out from this week's Famitsu Magazine and we're starting to get a clearer picture of what Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios is doing. This latest entry in the long-running series is definitely doub...

[Update: Koei Tecmo has confirmed Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate will arrive in the west in February 2020 on PS4, PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Ultimate will be available as a standalone release or a paid upgrade to the vanilla edition of t...

SNK's great feudal fighter Samurai Shodown will finally make its Nintendo Switch debut - in Japan at least - on December 12, as reported by yesterday by Weekly Famitsu.The article also confirmed that the Switch port will run at a full 60 fr...

Fans of Square Enix' RPG sequel Kingdom Hearts III are no doubt eagerly awaiting the launch of Re:Mind, the upcoming DLC expansion that will bring new modes and scenarios to the Disney/Square cross over title. A new interview, conducted by ...

Few franchise names immediately recall the dawn of video games like Space Invaders. Legitimately a cultural icon, Taito's 1978 arcade, that didn't cause a shortage of the 100-Yen coin on release, has been referenced time and again in the 40...

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...

The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu features a slew of interesting tidbits about Persona 5 The Royal, the updated edition of Atlus' super-successful 2017 RPG. The new info was garnered during an interview with Director Daiki Itoh and Produce...

Japanese gaming journal Famitsu are asking for fan feedback for English language editions of their Persona 5 "Mementos" fan-books. A new survey wants to hear about your experience with the game, as well as your thoughts on its cast of lovab...