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My Hero Academia’s Season 4 Premiere Is Dark and Hilarious
The wind down and slower paced setup at the end of My Hero Academia Season 3 wasn't squandered with Season 4's first episode. For those of us who haven’t read the MHA manga, the team at animation studio Bones makes it clear in this first episode of Season 4 that the ferocity from villains and disruption among the heroes we saw in past seasons was just the beginning of what’s to come.
This impressions piece has vague but mild spoilers for the first episode. If you want the premiere to be a complete surprise, you’ll want to stop reading here.
The MHA Season 4 premiere put on by Funimation at Anime Expo 2019 starts with a heavy declaration that sets both a shocking but exciting tone for the upcoming season. Even with that impactful start, though, it’s still balanced with some genuinely great humor I’ve come to expect from MHA without it diminishing the weight of the first few minutes.
Warframe: Empyrean Expansion Details, New Intro Cinematic Revealed
Digital Extremes revealed new details about Warframe's Empyrean cooperative expansion, updates, and a new intro cinematic today during TennoCon 2019.
Empyrean will expand Warframe by allowing players and their clan mates to take control of the Railjack battleship and initiate in deep space combat. With it, they'll travel through the Origin System, exploring new territory and fighting hostile forces in the process. An in-ship interface will allow players to control speed and direction, shield deployment, offensive missile volleys and gunner fire, and deploy Archwings and infiltrate enemy ships. Player ships can be upgraded, take damage and be customized.
Empyrean is introducing Squad Link, a multiplayer system that connects players with the larger community, allowing them to reach out to other Tenno squads. In multi-objective space missions, players can use Squad Link to call on other active squads to help their cause, including lowering enemy ship shields, stealing valuable data and more.
Digimon Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition Coming to Switch and PC
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition is coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam next year, according to a new announcement trailer from publisher Bandai Namco.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, the 2016 JRPG focused on a new incarnation of the Digimon universe, was previously only available on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The Complete Edition also includes its sequel, Hacker’s Memory, which released in 2018. The port is releasing on October 18, 2019.
Bandai Namco did not announce any additional content for fans outside of the two main games.
IGN didn’t happen to review Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth or Hacker’s Memory, but the Metacritic rating for both stands firm at 73 out 100 and above. The series has managed to become a sort of cult favorite among JRPG and Digimon franchise fans. Cyber Sleuth tells the story of a group of teens who are pulled into a reality-bending plot involving hackers, detectives, and of course, Digimon companions to do battle with against evil forces.
EA Wants the EA Originals Program to Be as Big as It Needs to Be
This weekend sees the release of another in the EA Originals lineup, Sea of Solitude. And rather than waiting for a later date to reveal what's to come from EA's funding of independent developers, we know more than ever about the EA Originals lineup thanks to this year's EA Play. But EA Originals will only grow as much as it needs to, so long as it can still give each developer the attention they need.
Speaking to IGN, EA's EVP of development and growth Matt Bilbey explained that the announcement of three new EA Originals during the E3 2019-adjacent EA Play saw an increase in the number of new games from years past not because of a desire to simply grow the program but instead "due to the quality of the opportunities."
Gears 5 Tech Test Open to Xbox Game Pass Members, Dates Announced
The upcoming Gears 5 tech test is available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers, not just pre-order customers, developer the Coalition confirmed, according to Eurogamer.
Starting July 17th, both parties can download the tech test, which will still require Xbox Live Gold, the Coalition director of communications, Dana Sissons confirmed in a blog post. Xbox Game Pass members will see it in their library, same as any other game available through the program.
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The History of Otome and the Legacy of Ruby Team
The Nintendo eshop can be a lawless and bewildering terrain. Updated with seemingly dozens of games every week, it can be hard to wade through the smorgasbord of software to find your chosen gem. Then you see a handful of games adorned with screenshots of androgynous beanpole boys, and titles as convoluted as they are befuddling; Ayakashi Koi Gikyoku - Forbidden Romance with Mysterious Spirit or Destiny's Princess: A War Story, A Love Story for example, and you might really start to question Nintendo's barrier for entry - but you’d be wrong to judge so hastily.
Sony Pulled PES 2019 From PS Plus, Not Konami
It was Sony’s decision to pull Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 from July’s PS Plus lineup, says Konami.
In a statement to Eurogamer, Konami said: “This decision was made by SIE and so please make an inquiry to SIE."
Eurogamer posed the same question to Sony, who offered no details as to why they changed PES 2019 for Detroit: Become Human, but did note that “This was a decision we decided to make as a company, and we apologise for any inconvenience.”
HBO’s His Dark Materials: What You Need to Know
HBO's His Dark Materials has hit San Diego Comic-Con this weekend to get fans excited for the upcoming adaptation, so what better time to catch up on everything you need to know before diving into the highly anticipated series?
His Dark Materials is technically a fantasy series, sure, if you need to file it neatly on a shelf sorted by genre. But it’s also many other things: a coming of age story, a political epic, a cautionary tale about the failings of religion, and a dimension-hopping sci-fi adventure.
But most of all, it’s complex. Not in a convoluted plot or too many characters to remember sort of way, but in an emotional one. Fitting, one might argue, for a story that’s about to become HBO’s latest adaptation of a best-selling series of novels.