Category: Gameinformer

Back in January, PlayStation announced a collaboration with Paul George and Nike to create a pair of PlayStation-themed Nikes. The kicks ended up being extremely popular, which means the collaboration is back next month, this time sporting a more retro look.

The latest PlayStation Nike shoes are rocking the classic PlayStation grey, as well as a the older, more colorful logo for the console. Although the design is similar to the original, a new strap (emblazoned with the console’s iconic button symbols) makes it easier to keep them on tight.

The sneakers will release on December 1, so you have until then to plan your night around trying to get one of these at midnight before they’re all snatched up.

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We liked what we played of Arc System Works’ new Kill La Kill game, and it looks like the game will reach a new audience when now that it’s headed to Switch.

Kill La Kill the Game: IF, which is due out in Japan sometime in 2019, was originally only coming to PC and PS4, but the ArcSys has announced it’s also headed to Nintendo’s hybrid console. It’s unclear whether this will be a day-and-date release (the Switch version of Dragon Ball FighterZ didn’t hit until months after the other versions) is unclear. The company also announced the addition of two characters to the roster, Nui Harime and Ragyou Kiryuuin.

To see what this 3D fighter looks like in action, check out the first live gameplay.

[Source: Arc System Works via Gematsu]

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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s attempt to remake the original Red and Blue games and streamline them for the Go audience seems to have paid off, as the Pikachu/Eevee-based titles now boasting record-breaking sales on the Switch.

The companies have announced Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee are the fastest-selling Switch titles of all time, selling over three million units in their first weeks alone. This is higher than both The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo’s two biggest releases from last year.

To see how these simplified remakes stack up, you can read our review.

[Source: The Pokémon Company via Gematsu]

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Nintendo has announced the addition of three new characters to Mario Tennis Aces, and you’ll be able to get them for free next year.

Luma, Rosalina’s little helper from the Super Mario Galaxy games, will be floating around the court, which would be cheating if you couldn’t already play as Boo. Luma will be joined by longtime Mario baddie Boom Boom and Pauline, the classic character who recently appeared in Super Mario Odyssey as the mayor of New Donk City. You can watch a short Japanese trailer teasing these three newcomers below.

Though the characters have yet to be officially confirmed for the West, it’s likely only a matter of time. The three characters will be available for anyone for free from January through March.

For more on Mario Tennis Aces, check out our review.

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All the major sports title may have already been released, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re late to the game. In fact, with many of them on sale for Black Friday and having updated since launch (oftentimes addressing maddening bugs, etc.) and some added content, now’s a great time to pick up some of these titles.

Many of these can be found on the digital storefronts for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well as regular retailers*, but check before clicking or heading out. Some of these also might be console-specific, only be digital, have different start/end times for their sales, have different sale pricing, etc.

Furthermore, some are offering deals on titles’ special editions and in-game currency, so if you’re interested in playing a game’s fantasy collection mode like Ultimate Team, for instance, and want to pay for some premium currency, it can pay to get those too.

*Full Disclosure – Game Informer is owned by Gamestop.

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FIFA 19
A new update is coming for the title addressing issues like A.I. defending, and an interesting addition in general this year is the different exhibition modes – including playing without any cards or rules.

Forza Horizon 4

The changing seasons is a big feature for this iteration, and since these change for all players in the world, developer Playground Games has added seasonal events as well as free cars for everyone.

The Golf Club 2019
This year the game features the PGA Tour license, and it’s already added a free DLC course – Atlantic Beach Country Club. This brings the number of official courses to seven. Of course the course creator lets you make and play an unlimited amount.

Laser League

Madden NFL 19
Madden didn’t have the best start, but developer EA Tiburon has been releasing more and more updates trying to get a handle on the bugs and tune gameplay (here’s the latest update). Along the way Ultimate Team – this year with a new power-up system – has been getting regular content.

MLB the Show 18

NASCAR Heat 3

NBA 2K19 (on sale for both home consoles)
NBA City Edition uniforms have been added as well as the new NBA rule that the shot clock resets to 14 seconds after offensive rebounds. A slew of other fixes have also been included in the game’s updates, as well as MyTeam content.

NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 (on sale for both home consoles)

NBA Live 19

Like last year, NBA Live 19 is holding Livestrikes which let you complete challenges for exclusive in-game content, including apparel from BAPE and Mitchell & Ness. The game has also been updating its player likenesses.

NHL 19

OOTP Baseball 19
The simulation game is adding a free fantasy card mode called Perfect Team which is currently in beta (click here for our impressions) and is hopefully out before the end of the year.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2019
A post-launch update fixed annoying tendencies from the A.I. attackers, and the MyClub fantasy mode has been adding Featured players doing well in real-life, ways to get other players, and challenges.

Rocket League GOTY Edition

UFC 3

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It seems like there’s a new image off the set of the Monster Hunter movie every few days, but this one is special. The first few images showed soldiers in Humvees holding guns as they traversed the desert, raising red flags for fans concerned about the adaptation of the game. Perhaps as a response, another image has shown up, which you can see above, courtesy of Sony’s Twitter.

The image shows Tony Jaa wielding a Giant Jawblade, which is a bone weapon, and a crossbow. Milla Jovovich is carrying a pair of dual blades on her back. The movie’s story follows a group of modern military soldiers discovering that monsters have invaded their world and can only be defeated by weapons made using the parts of monsters. Thus, they have to learn how to fight from actual monster hunters from another world, like Tony Jaa here.

“Behind our world, there is another,” says the official studio description, “a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her loyal soldiers are transported from our world to the new world, the unflappable lieutenant receives the shock of her life. In her desperate battle for survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers and unstoppable, revolting attacks, Artemis will team up with a mysterious man who has found a way to fight back.”

Monster Hunter is not yet scheduled for release but is currently filming.

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Resident Evil and Street Fighter universes have a lot in common, if you think about it. Both basically have things that are not called magic but are imperceptible from magic. Neither one likes to ever age their characters with rare exceptions of children who become capable adults. Both have zombi–okay I guess there’s some differences, zombie costumes aside. You can minimize those differences, however, with Capcom’s newly-announced Resident Evil costumes for Street Fighter V.

The new costumes are for Cammy, Kolin, and Urien. Kolin dresses up in Ada’s Resident Evil 6 outfit, which seems like a missed opportunity to not use her red dress from Resident Evil 2 and especially 4. Urien completes the global saturation by dressing as Wesker, who has bad plans that inexplicably work out until Chris shows up. Cammy takes on the clothes of Jill Valentine, which gives her pants, so maybe she’ll be less cold now.

You can check out the video for these costumes below.

The costumes go on sale on November 27. Street Fighter V, which is fully known as Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, is available on PlayStation 4 and PC.

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October was always expected to be one of the most contentious months of the year for video game sales. While many publishers simply got out of the way of Red Dead Redemption II, Rockstar’s first game since the mammoth Grand Theft Auto V broke every sales record, the month was still fairly packed. This month’s report from the  National Purchase Diary, or NPD, paints a picture of a pretty booming game industry even separate from its biggest players.

In terms of software, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 rules the roost, edging out Take Two and Rockstar’s old west adventure, though it isn’t clear by how much. Before the oddsmakers take too much of a beating, however, it is important to note that Black Ops released on October 12 while Red Dead Redemption II released on October 26. This gave Black Ops 4 two more weeks of sales to count and positioned Red Dead Redemption much closer to the cutoff date for sales. It seems likely that a significant percentage of Red Dead Redemption II’s sales will show up in the November NPD.

However, this takes nothing away from Call of Duty, which instantly rocketed to the top selling game of the year just solely based on its October performance. It seems, then, that Activision now has hard data to point to whenever anyone asks if Call of Duty games need a single-player campaign.

Soulcalibur VI also appeared in the top ten this time, a solid debut for a fighting series that was explicitly on the bubble, with Bandai Namco suggesting the series might be over if the sixth entry failed to sell. Surprisingly, My Hero One’s Justice, a 3D arena fighter using the My Hero Academia license, also found its way to the 13th spot, a good result for Bandai Namco who has traditionally found success with anime fighters in the west.

Diablo III debuted at spot 18, though the first Blizzard game on Switch released two days before the tracking period ended. It also does not count digital sales on Switch, but does count them on Sony and Microsoft consoles in the same listing. Super Mario Party also moved up from the 9th place rankings in September to a comfortable 5th place here, making it the only Switch exclusive in the top ten.

You can see the entire top 20 software chart below.

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII		1
Red Dead Redemption II		2
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey		3
NBA 2K19		4
Super Mario Party		5
Soulcalibur VI		6
FIFA 19		7
Marvel’s Spider-Man		8
Madden NFL 19		9
WWE 2K19		10
Forza Horizon 4		11
Lego DC Super Villains		12
My Hero One’s Justice		13
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider		14
Mario Kart 8		15
Grand Theft Auto V		16
Super Mario Odyssey		17
Diablo III		18
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild		19
NHL 19		20

One notable software omission is Starlink, Ubisoft’s Toys-to-Life game released on all platforms but with Star Fox content on the Switch. While it ended up in the back half of the Switch-exclusive top ten, it seemingly underperformed elsewhere, and is a surprisingly rare miss for Ubisoft’s library this year. Dark Souls Remastered also released on Switch, months after other versions, and failed to make much of a dent in the larger chart.

The PlayStation 4 walked away with the hardware title this month, setting the record for the best October for the brand since the PlayStation 2 in 2002. The combination of Red Dead Redemption II, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and Spider-Man likely rocketed the PS4 to new heights this month. In the case of the first two games, at least, October makes a strong argument that marketing deals for third party games are a wise investment and do in fact sell consoles.

Despite the horse race that most of us, and this post, definitely focus on, it was overall a stunningly good month for video game sales in the U.S. Similar to the PS4’s accolades, this is the best October for the industry since the NPD began tracking in 1995, hitting $1.55 billion in total revenue. The previous best October was in 2008, hitting $1.33 billion. 

Next month’s NPD will include more days for Red Dead Redemption II, Fallout 76, Pokemon Let’s Go, and a lot more.

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Bandai Namco has revealed the newest character for Jump Force, the Shonen Jump-based arena fighter bringing in characters from the magazine’s long history. This time, both Himura Kenshin and Makoto Shishio from the 1994 manga Ruroni Kenshin are joining in for the crossover fighting game.

In Rurouni Kenshin, protagonist Kenshin was a former soldier/assassin renown for his swordsmanship, but was used by the military primarily to kill. As a consequence, a more adult Kenshin created a special blade with a blunt side facing forward so that he could defeat opponents without murdering them. Shishio is the primary villain from the manga’s Kyoto arc, covered head-to-toe in bandages after being burned by the government.

While there is no video yet, presumably both characters will play with sword styles hewing close to their anime adaptations.

The manga Rurouni Kenshin is actually still running in a different form, as creator Nobuhiro Watsuki approached Shonen Jump in the mid-2000s with the intention to remake Kenshin with a modern modern sensibility. In 2017, Watsuki was arrested for possession of child pornography with a number of underage DVDs so large that prosecutors assumed he had an intent to distribute, but eventually ruled that he was collecting it for himself. Watsuki himself admitted an attraction to elementary school girls in a deposition. He was fined the equivalent of $1900 and continues to work on Rurouni Kenshin at Shonen Jump today.

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