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Tap My Katamari (ios/android)

Coming soon.

https://youtu.be/UFpCgYG_-HM

No thank you.

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Featuring:

• Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- (PC)
• Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code (PC)
• Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late (PC)
• River City Super Sports Challenge ~All-Star Special~ (PC)
• BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma Extend (PC)
• Senran Kagura: Estival Versus (PS4 / Vita)
• RUMOUR: Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni (Vita)
• Yakuza 5 (PS3)
• Summon Night 5 (PSP) (compatible with Vita and Vita TV)

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Featuring:

• Final Fantasy VII (PS4)
• Dark Cloud (PS4)
• Rogue Galaxy (PS4)
• King Of Fighters XIV (PS4)
• Ni no Kuni II (PS4)
• Street Fighter V (PS4)
• Rez Infinite (PS4 / Playstation VR)
• Ace Combat 7 (PS4 / Playstation VR)
• Yakuza 5 (PS3)
• Yakuza 0 (PS4)

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Featuring:

• Pokémon Rumble World (3DS)
• Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force (PS4) 
• MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies (Vita)
• Monster Monpiece (PC)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia U (PC)
• Hyperdevotion Noire (PC)
• ROOT DOUBLE- BEFORE CRIME * AFTER DAYS- XTEND EDITION

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Featuring:

• BAD END (PC)
• Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U)
• The Legend of Dark Witch (PC)
• Final Fantasy VI (PC)
• Tap My Katamari
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan (PC, PlayStation 3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One)

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Featuring:

• Johnny's Payday Panic (3DS)
• European Virtual Console update (Wii U)
• Strania - The Stella Machina - (PC)
• Pokemon Picross (3DS)
• Miko Gakkou Monogatari: Kaede Episode (PC)
• DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours (PS4 / PS Vita / Steam)

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Featuring:

• Final Fantasy XIII - Lightning Returns (PC)
• Ray Gigant (Vita)
• Sora (PC)

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Featuring:

• Gocco of War (PC)
• Yohjo Simulator (PC)
• Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator (PS3 / PS4)
• Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (PS3 / PS4 / PS Vita)
• Love Language Japanese (PC)
• Eiyuu Senki - The World Conquest (PS3) 
• Other recent releases

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This one's a pretty big update - especially if you look at what's in the Nintendo Direct.

Featuring:

• Kanpani Girls (browser)
• Final Fantasy XIV / Final Fantasy XI (various platforms)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme VS Force (Vita)
• Nintendo Direct Summary - there's a ton of stuff here.
• Disgaea (PC)
• Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi (PC)
• Sword Art Online: Lost Song (PS4 / Vita)
• CLANNAD (PC)
• Saint Seiya: Soldier's Soul (PC)
• Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below (PC) 
• Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)

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Featuring:

• G-senjou no Maou - The Devil on G-String (PC)
• Shōjo Kakumei Utena: Itsuka Kakumeisareru Monogatari (Sega Saturn)
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Second Chapter (PC / PSP)
• UmiharaKawase (PC)
• Sound of Drop - fall into poison - (PC)
• Nights of Azure (PS4)
• Airship Q (Vita and eventually PS4)
• Tomoyo After & Little Busters (PC)
• Muv-Luv
• Dead or Alive Extreme 3 (PS Vita / PS4)
• Zero Time Dilemma (3DS / Vita)
• Libra Of The Vampire Princess

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Featuring:

• Yakuza 5 (PS3)
• Mushihimesama (PC)
• Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes (3DS)
• Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Wii U)
• Narcissu (PC)
• Puzzle & Dragons - FF7 cameos (mobile)

Ways in which living in the future is awesome

1. You can get to information so fast!
2. People share opinions on the internet so fast it's almost like being psychic!
3. Some diseases which used to be a death sentence no longer are!
4. People can 3D print out replacement body parts and stuff! It's amazing!
5. People aren't allowed to smoke in anywhere that's a workplace or public transport!
6. Working from home is do much more doable for certain office type jobs!
7. I can find and get goods shipped to me from the other side of the planet, no problem!
8. Though I am running out of space in my house to keep video games, I also own about 2000 video games on PC and console that have no physical presence!
9. Incredibly rare recordings of music (bootleg concerts / demos) are just available with no hassle. No furtive cassette trading, 10th generation copies of stuff artists didn't think are good enough to release but you still want to listen to.
10. It's easy to find and converse with people who have similar hobbies / interests, even if they are really niche.
11. It's so much easier these days to obtain technical knowledge, and tools. Whether paid or free. 
12. Coding is also so much more high-level, and the goal is "make your code easy to work with" rather than "do clever stuff in a crazy unreadable way to make it efficient then write some comments, which will turn into lies as soon as someone else changes something".

I <3 living in the future!

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Covers October 15th - October 24th. All PC / Steam releases, for some reason.

Featuring:

• The Men of Yoshiwara: Kikuya (PC)
• Kero Blaster (PC)
• Xanadu NEXT (PC)
• Little King's Story (PC)
• Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus (PC)
• Downwell (PC)
• Dungeon Manager ZV (PC)
• Mugen Souls (PC)
• Kagura Douchuuki (PC)
• Harmonia (PC)

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Featuring:

• Arland Atelier Trilogy (PS3)
• The Boogie Man (PC)
• Rumours: PS2 emulation on PS4
• Bloodborne GOTY edition (PS4)
• Yokai Watch (3DS)
• Rumours: Legend Of Zelda Twilight Princess HD
• Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden (3DS)
• Fatal Frame / Project Zero : Maiden of Black Water (Wii U)
• The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition (PS4)
• Digimon Cyber Sleuth (PS4 / PS Vita)
• Dragon Quest Heroes®: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below™ (PS4)
• Legendary Pokemon "Hoopa" in Pokémon X / Y / Alpha Sapphire / Omega Ruby (3DS)
• DLC for Vanguard Princess (PC)
• Kero Blaster (PC / mobile)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3 (PC)
• Tales of Zestiria (PS3 / PS4 / PC)
• Love Language Japanese Year 1 Gentlemen Edition (PC)
• Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut - Classified Edition (PS3)

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Featuring:

• Megadimension Neptunia VII (PS4)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PS4, PC)
• fault milestone two side:above (PC)
• Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!! (PC)
• Magical Eyes - Red is for Anguish (PC)
• Ghostlight blog post about porting Japanese games to PC / Steam
• Dot Matrix Hero
• Final Fantasy V (PC)

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Featuring:

• Ace Attorney 6 (3DS)
• Kindred Spirits On The Roof (PC)

My experiences with simulator sickness

I get terrible simulator sickness. The thing where you get the feeling of motion sickness while trying to play a video game.
The theory on the root cause is that the eyes and the body are reporting different things, (i.e. the eyes say “you just moved” and the body says “nuh-uh, you’re just sitting here”), which causes the brain to go “this is so weird! You must have been poisoned! Time to throw up!”.
But... I am not sure if it’s 100% right.
I’ve looked into it a lot (and I mean *a lot*), because I don’t like getting sick, and I can say this for certain:

1. Tiredness affects it. More tired = get sick faster.
2. Reticules can help
3. It can sneak up on you without warning
4. Consuming ginger helps a little. Drugs help a lot but they make you too drowsy to play. And who wants to take drugs in order to play a game? Seriously.

There are many solutions involving turning off head-bobbing, increasing field-of-view, wearing seafaring wristbands, having a fan blow in your face, and - this one is crazy and actually works a bit - wearing a fake nose. Or rather, a prosthetic bridge to my nose, because I don’t really have one otherwise. The fake nose might let me play for twice as long! Which is... 20 minutes instead of 10. Hahaha!
Things that are mysteriously ok:

• I played through the whole of Portal (I really liked this game)
• I played through half of Mirror’s Edge (with the little red dot on the screen switched on)
• I played all the way through Doom and Doom 2 when I was a teenager
• On-rails shooter games, e.g. Time Crisis, House of the Dead, etc
• Elite Dangerous. I think it's because my brain has no real-life experience of space flight

Things that are not ok:

• Most FPS (including Doom 1 and 2)
• That FPS on Nintendo DS that’s set in a mental hospital, I could’t even play that!
• Minecraft, Gone Home, other first-person games that are not shooters.
• I can’t get past the opening cutscene of Bioshock
• Portal 2 :( I really wanted to play it too!
• Stacking, by Doublefine Games, even though it is weird 3rd person - I think it’s the angle
• I got halfway through The Unfinished Swan then suddenly got incredibly sick without warning. Like, I was completely floored for a whole afternoon, world spinning.
• The poo-spraying missions in Saints Row 2 - the rest of the game is fine, as long as I’m driving and not a passenger.
• One time a rotating door in a hotel lobby in real life had the same effect on me, just briefly.

Seriously, lots of people act like it’s a solved problem, telling me that all I need to do is adjust field-of-view, but it totally doesn’t work. “Have you tried field of view?” YES ALREADY. “ok ok I was just trying to help” Hahaha! Sorry anyone I’ve been grumpy towards.
Finally, this condition affects many East-Asian people [study], and I think that is why there are so many more third-person games released in Japan, and so few first-person games.

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Featuring:

• La Mulana EX (Vita)
• Grandia® II Anniversary Edition (PC)
• New Style Boutique 2 (3DS)
• Mega Man Legacy Collection (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
• Onechanbara Z2: Chaos (PS4)
• One Piece Warriors 3 (PS3 / PS4 / PS Vita / PC)
• Amnesia: Memories (Vita, PC)

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Featuring:

• Devil's Third (Wii U)
• Senran Kagura 2 : Deep Crimson (3DS)
• Star Fox Zero (Wii U)
• Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U)
• Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Wii U)

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Featuring:

• Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden (PC)
• Link: The Unleashed Nexus (PC)
• Ultra Despair Girls - Danganronpa Another Episode (Vita)

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Featuring:

• Little Battlers eXperience (3DS) (otherwise known as "LBX")
• Senran Kagura: Estival Versus (PS4 / PS Vita)
• Corpse Party – Blood Drive (PS Vita)

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Featuring:

• Sword Art Online Re: Hollow Fragment (PS4)
• Yokai Watch (3DS)
• Senran Kagura 2 : Deep Crimson (3DS)
• FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0™ HD (PC)
• Nekopara vol 0 (PC)
• Final Fantasy VII (iOS)
• Puyo Puyo Quest -> Cranky Food Friends - a Delicious Drop & Match RPG (Android)

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Featuring:

• Sword Art Online Lost Song (Vita, PS4)
• CLANNAD (PC - just announcing there's no DRM after all)
• Sonic The Hedgehog 2 3D (3DS)
• Chōshin Heiki Zeroigar (PC-FX)
• GalaxyRobo (SNES)
• Metal Gear Solid radio drama
• Steins;Gate Linear Bounded Phenogram (PSP -> video)

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Featuring:

• Etrian Odyssey II Untold: The Fafnir Knights 
• Moco Moco Friends 
• Caladrius 
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd

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Featuring:

• Fairy Fencer F (PC)
• ARSLAN: THE WARRIORS OF LEGEND

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Featuring - lots of visual novels which were announced at Otakon.

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Featuring:

• Phantasy Star Online 2
• Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
• The Legend of Legacy
• Stella Glow

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Featuring:

• Steins;Gate
• Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-
• 200% Mixed Juice!
• Root Double: Before Crime * After Days (platform clarification : PC)
• The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition
• Zero Escape 3 (pre-orders!)

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Featuring:

• Romancing SaGa (SNES)
• Dragon Quest VII
• Root Double: Before Crime * After Days 
• Zero Escape 3 
• G-Senjou no Maou 
• World End Economica Episode 2
• Flowers
• A Kiss For The Petals -Remembering How We Met-
• Lightning Warrior Raidy III 
• Shiny Days
• Umineko ~ When They Cry
• Himawari: The Sunflower
• Beat Blades Haruka 
• SoniComi 

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• Tales of Symphonia HD - PC release through Steam (source)
• Battle Fantasia - PC version through Steam (source)
• Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax - PS3 / Vita US version this October (source)
• Digimon Cyber Sleuths - US and Europe - PS4 / Vita (source)

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Featuring:

• Lots of things. 
• E3 roundup

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The first game in the "Mother" series has been released on Wii U under the name "Earthbound Beginnings"

US trailer
EU trailer

I'm totally expecting pigs to fly past my window today.

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1987 Famicon game Pocket Zaurus: Swords of the Ten Kings just got a fan translation.

Source

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New Chibi-Robo, Bravely Second, and Dr Mario:

Source #1, #2

(also a new Sonic & Mario Olympics game)

Also Chibi-Robo Amiibo bundle:

Source

Welcome back, Chibi-Robo! Missed you!

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Harvest Moon : Seeds of Memories comes to PC & Wii U:

Source

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Final Fantasy Tactics

Is now out on android (apparently it's been out on iOS for yonks):
Source

Sounds like it's still got that "everything is in slow motion" feature they added in the PSP version. Dunno why they like this game to be played extra slow. It makes it unpleasant to play.

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Mega Man Legacy Collection

Coming to PS4, PC, Xbox One, 3DS in 2015

"includes faithful reproductions of the original six Mega Man games along with a new Challenge Mode and a Museum collection of art assets that will appeal to both new players and diehard fans."

Source #1, #2

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Resident Evil Zero (Biohazard Zero)

Getting an HD remake.

Official Website

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In a shock move, Konami are releasing a game which is not Metal Gear Solid.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist

Source

It actually might be an English-first game, it's hard to tell.

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XSEED are working on Trails in the Sky ~ Second Chapter; "Trails of Cold Steel".

Source

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Featuring:

• Norn9: Var Commons (PS Vita)
• Lost Dimension (PS3/Vita)
• Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon
• Fantastic Boyfriends
• Dai Kaiju Monogatari (SNES)

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Featuring:

• Shin Megami Tensei 3 (PSN)
• Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (Vita)
• Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX (3DS)
• Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven (3DS) 
• Splatoon (Wii U)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 12

Featuring:

• Rodea the Sky Soldier
• Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
• Love At First Sight

Japanese video game English localisation news - 11

Featuring:

• Akiba's Trip
• The Fruit Of Grisaia
• Final Fantasy X / X-2
• Stretchmo / Fullblox
• Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd
• Steins;Gate

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Featuring:

• Grandia II
• Dungeon Travelers 2
• Mighty No 9
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Koji Igarashi talks about Castlevania Symphony Of The Night

This video is a lot of fun to watch.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/09/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-devs-play/

IGA is talking about Castlevania : Symphony Of The Night, the things he remembers from the project as someone (from Double Fine!) plays it a little.

I'm about half an hour in, it's a really long video - over 2 hours long.

It's fascinating stuff! Really gives you an insight as to what it was like, building this game. It sounds like it was a great little team working on the project, and they all had input as to what was going to be in the final product, and they weren't afraid to add in weird little secrets for players.

Warning: Your heart might be broken as you hear of the things left unfinished, the things that were cut out. It turned out well though, don't you think?

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Featuring:

• Onechanbara Z2: Chaos
• The Misadventures of Tron Bonne
• Touhou 14 : Double Dealing Character
• Takkoman
• Double Moon Densetsu
• Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess
• Ar nosurge Plus: Ode to an Unborn Star
• Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy
• This Starry Midnight We Make

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Featuring:

• Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains (3DS)
• D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die – Season 1 (PC)
• Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ (Vita)
• Clock Tower: The First Fear (SNES)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 7

Featuring:

• East Tower - Akio (PC)
• Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo (Vita)
• Ys Chronicles 1 (Android)

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Featuring:

• Summon Night 5
• Class of Heroes 3
• Hyperdimension Neptunia U
• Omega Quintet
• Lord of Magna : Maiden Heaven

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Eiyuu Senki – The World Conquest PS3, sometime this year.

First I've heard of this, personally.

There's a trailer up and screenshots:
http://fruitbatfactory.com/eiyuusenki/

Source

There's an entry on VNDB for this game: https://vndb.org/v6458

...but I don't think it's a straight VN - there are screenshots of tactically placed characters and huge screens of stats.

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Playism are getting into console publishing - by which they mean PS4 and Vita.

http://playism-games.com/publishing/en/

Most of what they've announced is already available on PC / Steam but I think Prismatic Solid is new. Seems to be a shmup where you hoover up bullets.

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Featuring:

• Amnesia: Memories
• Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (PC)
• Ultra Street Fighter IV (PS4)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 3

Featuring:

• Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle and Dragons Super Mario Edition
• J-Stars Victory VS+
• Tales of Zestiria

Japanese video game English localisation news - 2

Featuring: 

• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 
• Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul
• Etrian Mystery Dungeon
• Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
• Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
• Machina of the Planet Tree -Planet Ruler
• Shizuku no Oto
• November Boy 
• Sayonara Umihara Kawase +
• Kirby And The Rainbow Paintbrush
• various 3D Sega Classics on 3DS eShop
• Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Remix

Japanese video game English localisation news

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