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Two music acts have been confirmed for Hyper Japan this summer, including Azumi Inoue, the singer behind the themes for several of Studio Ghibli’s most famous films such as My Neighbour Totoro, Laputa, Castle in the Sky and Kiki’s Delivery Service. Azumi’s daughter Yuyu will be performing alongside her. Also confirmed for the Hyper Japan stage is Charisma.com, which is formed of DJ Itsuka and MC Gonchi. The act is described as an “electro-rap unit”....

What makes the Persona series so great is its range of character personalities. In Persona 5, we definitely have a ragtag team of misfits but they are not all cut from the same cloth. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. While all of the protagonists are pretty rebellious, they are very different from each other in terms of behavior and how they view the world. And what is a better way to celebrate their different personalities than to discuss their Myers-Briggs types?...

After NBA 2K23 MyTEAM dropped some heat with their Fire Pack last Friday, they have returned a week later and decided to drop the temperatures on the MyTEAM courts with their all-new Ice Pack. With the winter season upon us throughout the U.S. and around the globe, NBA 2K23 has embraced the festivity surrounding it and has blessed fans with a decorative new pack. Revealing some of the new players on Twitter yesterday afternoon, NBA 2K23 MyTEAM released their new pack in-game today at 11AM ET / 4PM GMT....

Though it was originally announced as a Wii exclusive, EA Sports’ update of the Midway arcade classic NBA Jam is, in fact, also bound for the Xbox 360 and PS3… with a catch. And it’s a big catch. PS3 and 360 gamers who would like to bask in the glory of two on two arcade basketball are going to have to pony up for the full version of NBA Elite 11, EA’s re-branded basketball sim, in order to gain access to NBA Jam....

You’ve just started a new career as an underground street racer, so you should get a better idea of what this game has in store for you. This beginner’s guide for Need for Speed Unbound is going to focus on the general game structure, what you should focus on, and how you’ll best be spending your time. You might be thinking, “it’s a racer, so I’ll just race.” But, in reality, this is one of the most punishing arcade racers you’ll come across....

Neopets has suffered a serious data breach, resulting in personal information such as email addresses and passwords from over 69m accounts being leaked. Users are now being urged to change their password for Neopets and any sites that use their Neopets password. On Wednesday, community site Jellyneo revealed that Neopets is actively being hacked. With help from an anonymous tip, they discovered the database and source code for Neopets was being sold on a hacker website....

Today Compile Heart released a new trailer and a batch of images of the upcoming Nintendo Switch version of Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars. The trailer showcases the three new difficulty modes that will be added to the Switch (and presumably PC) versions. The images show more of the game, and a look at the characters, You can check all the assets below. Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars is currently available for PS4....

Warner Bros. Games and Turtle Rock Studios debuted a new Back 4 Blood trailer today to introduce fans to the game’s characters. The detailed video features all eight playable characters, collectively known as “The Cleaners,” as well as the different zombie types. In addition, the Back 4 Blood trailer offered a glimpse at some of The Cleaners’ abilities and strengths, so players know exactly what to expect. The latest Back 4 Blood trailer features narration by Holly, a college-aged Cleaner who can increase team stamina and damage resistance....

The Big N has confirmed that it will be hosting its first Direct broadcast of the year tomorrow at 10.00pm GMT. We’re promised more details on Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and you can obviously expect a bunch of other new Switch games to be showcased. We know that Ninty is working on a game that will ‘delight fans’ for FY2019, so maybe that’ll be shown off? The company has said we’re going to get around 35 minutes of announcements, so it sounds like it’s going to be pretty decent....

Today, it has been announced that a new Pokemon game is in the works – a collaboration between China’s Tencent Games and The Pokemon Company. Via the report from Reuters, details are incredibly scant on what the game will entail and if it will be released internationally, but as Timi Studio makes Call of Duty: Mobile it stands to reason that this will also be an on-the-go rendition of hunting the pocket monsters....

At the X019 event in London over the weekend, Xbox head executive Phil Spencer stated that a key feature for Xbox One owners will return for Project Scarlett, the codename for Microsoft’s next-generation console. The ongoing Xbox Play Anywhere initiative, which allows games to include cross-platform support for multiplayer, save data, and purchases for Windows 10 PCs and the Xbox One, will expand with support for the next Xbox when it launches in late 2020....

Is it safe to officially label 2011 as the Year of the Shooter? So far we’ve seen Dead Space 2, Killzone 3, and Bulletstorm. We’ve still got Crysis 2, Resistance 3, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, and more to look forward to. This week marks the debut of one of the rarer animals in the shooter kingdom: the original intellectual property. Not a sequel, not a spin off, THQ’s Homefront stakes its claim in the increasingly crowded genre this week, hoping to carve out a unique niche for itself....

Fans may have concerns over the direction of the Saints Row reboot, but it appears inarguable that developer Volition has put its all into making the experience as customizable as possible. One trailer from last year showcased the myriad ways in which players can form their criminal underworld. The developer also stated that the game will boast “the biggest customization suite” to ever grace the series. And as if to drive the point home, the developers have just put out an extensive five-minute trailer that goes into all of the crazy customization options, from facial features to gender, that players can expect in the Saints Row reboot....

Sega and Creative Assembly released another brand new trailer about the upcoming Warhammer strategy game Total War: Warhammer III. This time around, we take a look at the Soul Grinders, half-demon, half-machine, available for all four chaos factions. You can watch the trailer below and read our brand new hands-on preview. Here’s how Sega describes the game officially: “Far beyond the world and its petty wars there exists a dimension of pure, malevolent magic: The Realm of Chaos....

Nintendo has announced it’ll hold a new Indie World showcase event to be broadcast via YouTube tomorrow. Fans have been told to expect twenty minutes of information on new indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch. In addition, we can infer that there’ll be some new information on previously announced titles at the show too. Some of the announcements at the last Indie World event included Bomb Rush Cyberfunk being confirmed as a timed console exclusive....

Nintendo has released a statement apologizing for the shortage of Switch consoles in the domestic market. Amidst the apology is the promise to deliver more consoles in the upcoming year. The statement was released today on Nintendo’s official Japanese website, with ramped up console production being promised for the subsequent months. The apology thanks fans for their continued patronage, before taking the wrap for shorting the domestic market on their Nintendo Switch console....

The official Splatoon Twitter page has revealed how Nintendo intends to approach online voice chat on their Switch console. It was first announced during their initial Switch presentation that all online communication was going to be done through a smartphone app; no other information was revealed at that time. When fans finally got their hands on the system, they noticed that none of the controllers had headphone jacks (unlike the ones that come with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One)....

Key Points: Prices and scarcity for graphics cards have come dropped almost back to normalcy. The RX 6800 outperforms the RTX 3080 in crypto mining. Having the correct power requirements for these pieces of hardware are important, so make sure you check to see what your machine is capable of before purchasing. After a few years of biting chip shortages and inflated prices, the GPU market has cooled. You can go back to the market and buy graphics cards for gaming, streaming, or video editing....

It’s been all talk of the Nvidia RTX 3060 lately, and the lack of similar cards. The first things people tend say about new video cards these days fall along the lines of “out of stock” or “only $X,XXX USD.” This is perhaps why the rumors of the potential refresh of the Nvidia lineup fell quiet, despite the fact that Team Red was ready to fight this generation. Nvidia simply couldn’t segment its lineup until it was able to better keep up with demand....

Graphics cards are in short supply. You know it, we know it, everyone knows it. There’s unprecedented demand and the companies are struggling to catch up. Here’s some good news to look forward to. According to reports of messages circulating on Board Channels, a private forum for Nvidia board partners like MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, etc, more Ampere GPU availability is expected. This is because Nvidia has reportedly decided to cut RTX 2060 Turing GPU production in half to free up more resources for Ampere....