Bold move With only a few more weeks to go before PC players can dig intoOctopath Traveler, Square Enix has revealed the price of the port and opened pre-orders. HD-2D art doesn’t come cheap–the throwback JRPG is going to command $60 on Steam,just as it originally did on Nintendo Switch last year. Plenty of people agree thatOctopath Traveleris worth checking out, but are many of us going to rush to pay that price after waiting this long for the PC version?...

In fact, it’s making more money than Chocolina Square Enix is doing much better than it wasexactly one year ago. That makes one of us. In the first three quarters of the company’s 2014 fiscal year (the last nine months of 2013) it boasted net sales of 102.47 billion yen ($1.01 billion), according to itsearnings report. This is actually a 0.3 percent dip for the same time last fiscal year, things are going much better....

A melancholic game experience I think it’s safe to say that the death of a child is one of the worst things a parent can experience. During this process, there are many different ways that grief can manifest. Ryan Green and his team decided to take their experiences and turn them into a game. That Dragon, Canceris a personal story of a man’s journey with his young son and their terminal cancer....

Taking some extra time to resupply The handheld Nintendo wars won’t be kicking off in time for the holidays this year. Nintendo announced today thatAdvance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Campis taking some extra time with a delay, and will now be launching in spring 2022. These remakes, developed by WayForward, wereoriginally set to launch on Jul 25, 2025. According toNintendo, the game needs “a little bit more time for fine tuning.” No firm date has been set in the spring window....

OK One Punch Man‘s big gimmick is that Saitama, the main character, can defeat his opponents with a single punch. How do you build a game around that? By filling it with a ton of other interesting characters in that same world. That’s the angle Bandai Namco is going with anyway, and they’re really embracing it with the whole “Hero Arrival System” motif. The gist is that by “fighting better” and blocking attacks to survive as best you can, Saitama will eventually make his way to the battlefield and let your opponents have it....

Tony Hawk’s Pro SkaterandTony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2were the bomb. Hard to believe the former only came out in 1999. Unfortunately, the series quickly spiraled away from being the bomb and, in more recent years, toward being alaughing stockthat Activision has been so sure people are going to eventually buy en masse after realizing the error of their ways. Fortunately for us, Activision seems to have realized that this strategy is not working (also not working: making bad games and expecting them to sell well, especially againstSkate)....

Unless you’re rocking a 2004 Razr Man, so many people just want to dance in front of their video game consoles. You may scoff, butJust Danceis the most successful music franchise ever, so that statement applies to some folks. For those who haven’t already adopted, Ubisoft made it considerably easier. During Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, it was revealed thatJust Danceno longer requires a dedicated camera console. Now, any smartphone will serve as the camera needed to track body movement....

After over a year of being in the rotation,Warzoneplayers only have a short amount of time left to jump back in and play a match on Ashika Island. Raven Softwareannouncedthat Ashika Island will be removed fromWarzoneonMay 30. The devs did not share if the Resurgence map will ever return, but it won’t return for the rest ofModern Warfare 3’slifespan. “We’re directing our focus toward other map-mode combinations for upcoming playlist updates....

Better start brainstorming Year after year, I wonder if we’ll take our dumb PlayStation Network names to the grave. Sony knows users badly want the option, and we’ve heardvaryingexcusesfor why it hasn’t happened yet. Clearly, name changes are no small feat for the company; we would’ve gotten the feature by now otherwise. There may be hope, though.Kotakuhas learned from multiple sources that developers are getting ready behind the scenes for PSN name changes....

Dig it! Ubisoft is bringing another quartet of WWE Superstars to the roster of multiplayer fighting titleBrawlhalla. The four new ring-rockers are available to pick up in Blue Mammoth’sSmash-like game today for 300 “Mammoth Coins” each. These roster additions include the hard-punching Roman Reigns, current Women’s Tag Team Champion Asuka, and legendary WWE Superstars The Undertaker and “Macho Man” Randy Savage, (don’t do the impression). The new wrasslers join the previously released quartet ofJohn Cena, The Rock, Xavier Woods and Becky Lynch....

Also out in US, AU, NZ, Germany [Update:Now it’s available in Italy, Spain, and Portugal.] The officialPokémon GoTwitter account has announced that after a rollout in four other countries (including Germanyyesterday), that the game is now available in the UK on both Android and iOS. Now you can finally see what all the rage has been this past week. If you’re wondering about the header, that was actually taken by me at a local park!...

Forthog rides again [UPDATE: Readers with eyes far better than mine have directed me to the microscopic disclaimer at the end of the trailer, which reads as follows: “Donations will be made on purchases from any 1 of the 50 US or DC (excluding purchases made from AL, HI, IL, MA, MS, and SC) Void where prohibited by law. Your purchase is not tax deductible.”] The developers of the upcoming Middle-Earth slaughterhouseShadow of Warhave created a character to honour a comrade who passed away in 2016....

After the two world wars, the attitude of all literature changed forever, but maybe none quite so much as science fiction. The hopes and dreams of the future were tarnished by the horrors witnessed by all. This caused a lot of science fiction to be much more dystopian. However, if you’re looking for a sci-fi novel to read that isn’t based on apocalyptic doom and gloom, pick up one of these utopian stories....