Release Date for Grand Ages: Medieval on PS4 Changed
Kalypso Media has announced that the release date for the PS4 version of Grand Ages: Medieval has changed to October 9 in Europe, and October 13 in North America.
The release date for the Limited Special Edition retail boxed version and the digital release of the PC version remains on September 25 as originally scheduled. Kalypso has apologized for the new PS4 date, blaming "manufacturing problems beyond its control."
Grand Ages: Medieval was first announced at last year's Gamescom. The strategy game takes place around 1050 AD, and has an area of Europe spanning 30 million square kilometres.
The Japanese Tearaway Trailer Is the Happiest Thing Ever
The Japanese launch trailer for Tearaway is all kinds of brilliance.
The trailer – for some reason – features a safari-garbed lady using the PlayStation 4 controller. After using the touchpad, she turns into some sort of holy spirit. Plus if you’d like to sing along at home, the trailer does have English subtitles.
Sing it with us, “Tearaway, Tearaway, it’s all new! (New!)”
In our review of Tearaway Unfolded, we said it “successfully translates so many aspects of the original,” and that it “remains a distinctive experience which celebrates creativity and fun with undimmed enthusiasm and invention, and along the way asks you to do things very few games do – whether that’s designing a snowflake or christening a baby wendigo.”
Two JRPGs Announced For Xbox One
Japanese publisher Experience Inc. has announced it's preparing to release two JRPGs exclusively on Xbox One.
During a Ustream event (via Pure Xbox), company CEO Hajime Chikami explained both titles will be released digitally worldwide with full English translations.
The first title is Stranger of Sword City. Originally released on Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation Vita, this edition of the dungeon-crawling RPG sounds more like a remake, boasting new content, new character design and even a new art style. Concept art for the redesign was also released, which you can see below. The original characters are on the solo shots, with their new designs bearing annotations.
Metal Gear Solid 5 Save Corruption Bug Fixed on PS4 and PC
Konami has confirmed its fixed a bug that was causing saved games to become corrupt when Quiet was brought as a buddy on missions 29 and 42, but only on PS4 and PC.
The company has tweeted out the "Quiet Bug" as its come to be known should now be a thing of the past on those platforms, while "the remaining platforms will follow soon".
Additionally, Konami has confirmed ongoing server issues are being looked into, with fixes hopefully set to roll out on all platforms "soon".
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Battlefield Hardline: Robbery Release Date Revealed
EA has announced that Battlefield Hardline: Robbery, the second Hardline expansion pack, will be available on September 16.
The news comes via a Tweet from the official Battlefield Twitter account.
"The theme of this pack is the Big Score," reads the expansion's details page. It'll have four new maps, a new 5v5 game mode, new weapons and gadgets, and two new vehicles. We first learned about Battlefield Hardline: Robbery at Gamescom this year.
World’s First Human Head Transplant Scheduled for 2017
Russian computer scientist Valery Spiridonov will undergo the world's first head transplant in December, 2017, CEN reports.
Chinese surgeon Ren Xiaoping and Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero confirmed that they will likely perform the procedure at Harbin Medical University in China along with a Chinese-Italian team.
Thirty-year-old Spiridonov, who has an incurable muscle-wasting condition called Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, was confirmed for the procedure earlier this year after volunteering for the project.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 Review in Progress
Editor's Note: This review-in-progress is based on countless hours spent with the offline game. We'll finalise the review when we've had time to play MyClub and other online features on live servers.
PES 2016 might well be the best football game ever made.
To explain why is something of a challenge. The improvements don't lend themselves easily to snappy back-of-the-box soundbites. I can’t point to a single change or addition that makes all the difference. Rather, it’s a game that has been refined in dozens of small ways, all of which have a cumulatively positive effect. This year, PES has shaken off the last remnants of PS2-era rigidity, delivering a faster, more responsive and more fluid game of football. I’m always a little reluctant to make direct comparisons to FIFA – not least as I’ve only played the demo version of EA Sports’ game – because the two handle in such distinctly different ways. For my money, while FIFA more accurately recreates the look of the sport, PES is the game that most closely captures the feel.
180 Million Reasons Real Racing Isn’t Worried About Forza or Gran Turismo
Many racing game fans have a tendency to be as tribal about their racing game of choice as real-life revheads are about their favourite car manufacturers. Gran Turismo versus Forza Motorsport. Project CARS versus Assetto Corsa. Need for Speed versus Burnout. iRacing versus everything else.
Sales figures are regularly the artillery that racing enthusiasts lob at one another as proof of greatness and superiority. Boiled down to a number on a spreadsheet, several tens of millions is better than several million.
But if these really are the terms that the racing genre’s most argumentative enthusiasts want to wage war on, there’s one number they’re missing.
NASA Is Launching a 4K TV Channel Dedicated to Space
NASA is launching the first non-commercial consumer ultra-high definition (UHD) channel in North America on November 1, the agency announced today.
NASA Television will broadcast high-resolution footage from the International Space Station, current NASA missions, and re-mastered footage from historical missions.
The new channel is product of an Space Act Agreement between video delivery infrastructure company Harmonic and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The agency will use Harmonic’s end-to-end video delivery system to deliver content at 2160p at 60fps.
You’ll need at least 13 MBps connectivity to watch NASA Television on the internet. According to the announcement, Harmonic is also in discussions with pay TV companies to bring the channel to consumer satellite, cable and optical networks.