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Duelyst‘s Latest Expansion Plays To The Card Game’s Unique Strengths 

Unearthed Prophecy, the game’s fourth expansion, came out earlier this week and after spending several hours fiddling around with the latest cards, I’m already in love with it. Duelyst is a collectible card game that deviates from other heavy-weights in the genre by borrowing the grid-based elements of a strategy RPG. Instead of dropping minions…

The New Naruto Game Is All About Class-Based Online Ninja Team Battles

Coming next year to PS4, Xbox One and PC, Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers is a team-based online battler that files the many ninja of the Naruto-verse into four categories: attack, ranged, defense and healer—AKA rogue, wizard, warrior and cleric. Don’t worry, all of them kick and punch. Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers is a…

What goes together better than Tekken and bowling? Nothing. Everything? I don’t know. Either way, fighting game characters bowling returns in Tekken 7‘s Ultimate Tekken Bowl DLC, coming in August.

Gundam Versus Has Big-Ass Swords, Comes To PS4 September 29

Gundam Versus is an arcade fighting where giant anime mechs demolish one another with building-sized laser swords and blasters and it’s finally coming to North America for the first time on September 29 on PS4. Bandai Namco announced the news earlier today at Anime Expo 2017. While the series has existed for years in Japanese…

Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time will hit the PS4 and Steam in North America early in 2018 Bandai Namco announced at this year’s Anime Expo. The game is an action RPG adaptation of the show which recently became available in the West with subtitles via Netflix

The Switch version of Namco Museum will include Pac-Man VS. Co-developed by Nintendo and Namco for GameCube in 2003, the 4-player game has three players as ghosts and one player, on a separate screen, as Pac-Man. Two Switch consoles will be required to play this version. Namco Museum is out July 28.

The New Dragon Ball Z Fighting Game Looks Killer In Action

While we got a glimpse of Dragon Ball FighterZ yesterday, today people are uploading full matches—and the game looks sick. Something about going 2.5D really accentuates the action while sticking true to the anime roots. Developed by Arc Systems, the game looks a bit like what you might expect out of a Marvel vs Capcom…

The promised connectivity patch for Tekken 7 is now live on PlayStation 4, and I’m finally getting into more matches than I’m getting disconnected from. Look for the update to hit Xbox One and PC next week.

Racing sequel Project Cars 2 will be released in North America on September 22 for Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4. That doesn’t leave us much time to write about how pretty it is over and over again. Here’s the game’s E3 trailer. It’s nice.

Having trouble connecting to other players online in Tekken 7? Bandai Namco is working on a patchto fix those issues. The PlayStation 4 patch should be out by the end of this week, with the Xbox One and PC versions arriving next week.

Tekken 7: The Kotaku Review

In 1994 Namco released Tekken, an outstanding 3D fighting game with a loose story based on the struggle between a father and his powerful son. In 2017 Bandai Namco gives us Tekken 7, an outstanding 3D fighting game with a loose story based on the struggle between a father and his powerful son. You know…

Tekken 7’s PlayStation VR Mode Is Queasy And Unnecessary

Tekken 7‘s PlayStation VR component isn’t so much a game mode as it is interactive theater. It’s got no health bars, simplified controls and a high probability of making your stomach churn. What you see in the video above is what you get. Pick two characters, enter the virtual reality stage and beat each other…

Bandai Namco is partnering with Twitch to host the Tekken World Tour. Starting with CEO 2017 on June 16, the $200,000 prize pool tournament circuit will run through November, culminating in the 16-player world finals.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 will Kamehameha its way onto the Nintendo Switch this fall publisher Bandai Namco tweeted earlier today. The game will include ad-hoc play, motion controls, and local, two-person multiplayer using the Joy-Con.

Code Vein Looks Like Anime Vampire Souls In Action

Last month Bandai Namco announced Code Vein, an action role-playing game about blood-drinking revenants at the end of the world. Now we’ve got the first gameplay trailer, and aside from the dynamic transformations, it’s got a very Souls series vibe. Just because the Dark Souls series is over doesn’t mean we’ll never dodge in and…

Little Nightmares Is Fun But Predictable

Little Nightmares is like being up late as a child, stumbling after a bad dream. Shadows hide monsters and nothing is as it should be. It’s quiet and unsettling but also nothing that hasn’t been done before. Little Nightmares is a puzzle platformer that comes out tomorrow for Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You…

Bandai Namco Announces Code Vein, Which Is Certainly A Video Game

Last week Bandai Namco teased a new game with a lovely hand-painted trailer and the tagline “Prepare to Dine.” Today they officially announce Code Vein, an anime-style post-apocalyptic vampire action RPG that only vaguely resembles the gorgeous animated short that preceeded it. Before we get into the nitty gritty of Code Vein, let’s soak in…

The Entire Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Saga Gets Bundled Up This Fall

Naruto Shippuden has ended and theBoruto spin-off series has begun. Seems like a good time for Bandai Namco to bundle together four video games covering the entire saga, which is exactly what’s happening with Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy and Trilogy for Xbox One, Ps4 and PC. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy collects…

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Returns With An Even Longer Name

The best Digimon game in ages is getting a follow-up, because that’s how successful games work. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory is coming to PlayStation 4 and Vita in Japan later this year, with a Western release in early 2018. Not quite a sequel, Hacker’s Memory is asaid to follow the events of…

Project Cars 2 is coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC in late 2017. Crowdfunding on Slightly Mad Studio’s racing sim sequel began in 2015, months after the first game’s release. Expect more than 170 cars, 60 tracks, online championships and new racing disciplines to master.