With the successor to Castlevania funded on Kickstarter, now is a great time to read former Kotaku columnist Leigh Alexander’s take on what makes Castlevania so great—and why people keep going back to it.
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Watch: US Trailer for Stéphane Lafleur's Comedy 'Tu dors Nicole'
“There’s no need to tell lies at our age.” Ain’t that the truth. Kino Lorber has debuted an official US trailer for the upcoming summer release of Quebecois filmmaker Stéphane Lafleur’s indie comedy Tu dors Nicole, starring Julianne Côté & Marc-André Grondin. Presented in black & white, the film is a quirky comedy that has a Wes Anderson meets the Dardennes Brothers vibe to it, centering on the lead character Nicole played by Julianne Côté. Her carefree lifestyle encounters problems when her older brother shows up with his band. One review says it has “an air of wondrous restlessness in its minor ambitions”. Worth a view. ›››
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Believe the Hype – 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Buzz is Through the Roof
What a lovely day! Warner Bros lifted the embargo on press reactions/reviews early on Monday this week before the release of George Miller’s long-awaited, highly anticipated Mad Max: Fury Road in theaters this weekend. The film was screened for press a few weeks ago, and they all pretty much lost their minds, but had to wait and hold their tongues until today. My own effusive tweet is included in these, as I loved it too, and I wanted to collect a look at all of the great buzz the film is getting. As of writing this, it has a 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and I’m sure it’ll stay fresh. Because it’s so !@#$ing awesome! I’ve already got tickets to see it again on Thursday. This should be your cue to make plans for Fury Road this weekend. ›››
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TGB Episode 2.05: There Is Nothing That Can Phase Marvel Now
On this new episode of The Golden Briefcase 2.0, Tim and Jeremy share a bunch of recent Picks of the Week and touch on a variety of interesting topics including Orsen Wells, May the 4th (aka Star Wars Day!), the Star Wars Expanded Universe, the adorableness of Martin Freeman (who has just joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe), Avengers: Age of Ultron in-depth. From there the guys get into a deeper discussion on Marvel Studio’s Second & Third Phases and so much more about Marvel. We hope you enjoy. Send us topics, arguments, whatever, and we will do our best to talk about it. This episode entirely dog snoring free. ›››
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Kevin Tong's Stellar Mondo Art for Brad Bird's Sci-Fi 'Tomorrowland'
“What if there was a place… where nothing was impossible?” Mondo has unveiled some stunning new art that they’re selling in promotion for the upcoming release of Disney’s Tomorrowland, directed by Brad Bird. The new art piece is 24″ x 36″ screen print designed by Kevin Tong (visit his website), and boy is it gorgeous. The art depicts Tomorrowland in the movie Tomorrowland, complete with transformation from the “real” world in the lower left featuring Casey Newton, played by Britt Robertson. Each of these will go so on sale on Friday, May 22nd when the film opens in theaters. And I’d say they are must have, especially if you’re excited for this movie like we are. The variant version, in the evening it looks like, is my favorite one. ›››
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Watch: Kevin Durand in Horror Thriller 'Dark Was the Night' Trailer
“Something lives in our woods… And it’s looking for food, and it found us.” Put away the children, and hide under the floorboards. Image Entertainment has debuted a full trailer for the film Dark Was the Night, a small-town horror thriller about a sheriff who struggles to handle a “new breed of raw terror” found in their woods. Kevin Durand stars along with Lukas Haas and Steve Agee in this very dark, very indie thriller that has an intriguing slow burn werewolf, or monster movie, vibe to it. I’m always glad to see Kevin Durand in more and more challenging roles, especially a lead role, but I’m not sure there is much substance to this one beyond the monsters-within theme. It might be worth a look, give it a shot especially if you like horror. ›››
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Square Enix Revenue, Profit Rise
Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider publisher Square Enix on Tuesday announced financial performance for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2015–and the results were strong.
Square Enix’s video game division, called “Digital Entertainment,” posted yearly revenue of ¥111.9 billion ($932.7 million), up 18.4 percent from last year.
Meanwhile, operating income was ¥17.3 billion ($144 million), which represents an even more dramatic increase of 61.3 percent compared to the prior financial year.
The publisher cited “strong” sales of catalog titles, which was particularly important since Square Enix also noted that it released fewer console games during the fiscal year compared to the year before.
In terms of smartdevices and PC games, Square Enix said Sengoku Ixa and Dragon Quest: Monsters Super Light “continued to show strong performance.” Meanwhile, smartphone games like Schoolgirl Strikers, Final Fantasy Record Keeper, and Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur also did well during the year.
What’s more, Square Enix said MMOs Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X “have been making favorable progress,” though no other details were divulged.
Looking to Square Enix’s current financial year, two of the company’s biggest games are Rise of the Tomb Raider and Just Cause 3, both of which are due out this fall. Other high-profile in-development games include Final Fantasy XV, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Dragon Quest Heroes, and Star Ocean 5.
Overall, Square Enix–which also runs various non-gaming business units–posted revenue of ¥167.9 billion ($1.4 billion) for the year. That’s up 8.3 percent. Profit, meanwhile, rose a healthy 49 percent from ¥6.6 billion ($55 million) to ¥9.8 billion ($81.6 million).
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Witcher 3 Now Ready to Pre-Load on Xbox, Steam, and GOG
CD Projekt Red’s highly anticipated role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now available to pre-load on PC through Steam and GOG, as well as Xbox One. The PC edition on Origin and the PlayStation 4 version will be ready to pre-load “soon,” the Polish developer explained in its announcement today.
Now available for PRELOAD on @GOGcom @steam_games & @Xbox! Soon on @PlayStation & @OriginInsider. pic.twitter.com/AhqUae2nKC
— The Witcher (@witchergame) May 12, 2015
Pre-loading, of course, applies to digital copies of The Witcher 3 only. The appeal of pre-loading is that you can download the 35GB game ahead of time so that you can play the second it unlocks.
Digital copies of The Witcher 3 unlock at 1 AM CET on May 19, which is actually the afternoon/evening of May 18 in the United States. Boxed copies of the game arrive on May 19.
Check back soon for lots more on The Witcher 3, as we’ll post our review at 7 AM PDT / 10 AM EDT today.
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Yooka-Laylee's New Character Is a Trouser Snake
Playtonic Games, developer of Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Laylee, has revealed a new innuendo-filled character called Trowzer.
The trouser-wearing snake is the first supporting character the developer has revealed, and has been described as a “flash, wheeler dealing serpent.”
“Trowzer is a business-snake whose career never took off,” Playtonic’s creative lead, Gavin Price, explained on the official website.
“Not that he knows it – the smug, serpent salesman thinks he’s the bee’s knees (not that he has knees), and for a little dosh he’ll teach you some of the slick moves he picked up on the high-stakes sales floor.”
Along with his trousers, tie, and fedora, the character completes the out-of-touch business-snake look with a large “Brickcom” phone.
“He’ll take your money and count it (he’s an Adder…) and because he knows best he’ll even demonstrate the moves you just bought for you to replicate… if you can follow his jiggling.”
Playtonic’s character artist Steve Mayles also explained the design process behind Trowzer and attributed the idea of the snake wearing shorts to Price himself.
“I didn’t want him to be a snake in the traditional sense, and when Gav suggested he should have shorts on (do I have to add shorts to all of my characters?!), a great idea for this was his body could curl back up through the other leg hole. So he’ll move with a certain springiness, which will be fun to animate.”
Following its Kickstarter success, GameSpot looked at whether Yooka-Laylee could realise the golden days of Rare again.
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Solid Snake Voice Actor Joins Symphony of the Night Producer's New Game
The Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, a 2.5D action platformer from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night mastermind Koji Igariashi, has reached $1,229,031 at the time of writing. The milestone unlocks the stretch goal allowing its developer to hire Metal Gear Solid voice actor David Hayter for the project.
Hayter is known for portraying Solid Snake across Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, as well as Big Boss in multiple prequel titles.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was funded in under four hours and is in development for PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. The game has been described as a “Igavania”-style title, which genre aficionados have more commonly call a Metroidvania, a portmanteau of Nintendo’s Metroid and Castlevania.
The crowdfunding campaign was launched with a $500,000 goal, with Igarashi explaining that he had already raised some funds for development. The Kickstarter campaign was to increase the overall budget, secure funding for bonus features, and release physical Xbox One and PS4 discs as backer rewards.
Igarashi will be serving as the game’s director and producer, with Michiru Yamane– another Castlevania veteran– composing the music. Development will be handled by Inti Creates, the studio behind Mega Man 9 and Keiji Inafune’s upcoming Mighty No. 9.
For more on the game and its creator, read GameSpot’s interview with Koji Igarashi on life after Konami.
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