Phantasy Star Online 2’s Playstation 4 version is set to release on April 20 of this year, according to Sega. Leading up to the release of the game, Sega will be running a closed beta. 50,000 people will be selected through submitting an application to the Japanese Playstation Store. Applications will be accepted through from January 25 to February 15. The beta itself will run from February 25 to March …read more
Taipei Game Show 2016 conference plans for Sony-associated properties (featuring first and third party developers) have been announced, and one of the events include a Yakuza series 10th Anniversary Stage Event on January 31st (3:00 PM to 4:00 PM UTC +8:00,) attended by the premier Yakuza man himself: Toshihiro Nagoshi. Many of us may be more familiar with Tokyo Game Show, but Taipei Game Show is also a highly prominent …read more
Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced that the demo for Project X Zone 2 is scheduled to be made available to the public for downloading on January 26 for North America. A demo release date for Europe (January 21) was announced at the end of this past year. As far as Sega characters go, Kiryu and Majima will be a playable team unit. The demo made available to Japanese players featured …read more
Atlus CEO Naoto Hiraoka made some interesting comments regarding business plans for Atlus’s products moving forward – more specifically regarding release of Atlus products outside of Japan. This by way of Gematsu‘s translation of a Japanese Playstation Blog post featuring a reprinting of Hiraoka’s comments to a recent issue of Dengeki Playstation. By the way, if you didn’t already know, the Japanese Playstation Blog has been host to quite a …read more
SEGA of Japan have released a story trailer for Valkyria Chronicles Remaster, the PS4 port of the original Valkyria Chronicles on PS3. The video doesn’t show any gameplay, and the noticeable aliasing on the characters suggests that, like the PC version, the PS4 version won’t feature remade cutscenes. I explained the reason for that in an earlier article. With that said, you can watch the trailer below! Fair warning for …read more
The SEGA feat. HATSUNE MIKU Project team has released another song trailer for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X, which shows the following songs from the game’s PS Vita version: “Calc”, by JimmyThumbP “Babylon”, by Tohma “Streaming Heart”, by Deco27 Umiyuri Kaiteitan” (Sea Lily Deep Sea Tale), by N-Buna For more information and images for these and other songs, check out our past articles on the game! You can watch the …read more
Sony has announced a new Yakuza Kiwami-themed model of PS4 for Japanese consumers, to be released on January 21st alongside Kiwami itself. If you didn’t remember, Sony produced Yakuza Zero-themed PS4’s too, to celebrate the release of the last major Yakuza game. What we’re getting here is basically the same idea as what we got with the Zero-themed PS4’s. The featured image for this article is taken from the Japanese …read more
December 2015 marked the 10th anniversary of the Yakuza franchise’s lifetime in Japan. While the celebrations are already underway in the form of Yakuza Kiwami (a remake of the game that started the franchise) and Kiryu and Majima figmas, a new commemorative 10th anniversary Yakuza book is also in development. It will feature interviews with many development figures and various insights into the world-building and concept art pieces of the …read more
UPDATE: Sony are apparently sending out e-mails to people with a EU PlayStation Network account containing a unique code (one time use only) that grants an additional 10% discount to your entire PS Store cart. While it seems to be intended as an incentive to buy games from the January Sales, the description suggests it applies to any items in your cart (which the exception of pre-orders, subscriptions, PlayStation Now …read more
Sony has revealed the results from the official 2015 PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year Awards, and Yakuza 5 has ranked in the top three in two categories. It got 2nd place in the “Best PS3” games category (behind Metal Gear Solid V) and 3rd place in the “Best Digital Release” category (behind Rocket League and Life is Strange). Yakuza 4, which fans could also vote for as “Best Free PS …read more