Aokana: Four Rhythms Across the Blue – EXTRA1+2P launches December 21 in Japan

It’s been a great year in movies. So great, in fact, that it was hard to limit our year-end list to just the 50 best new movies. Similarly, TV had a stellar year, and the 50 best new shows only scratches the surface of the year in episodic storytelling.

During this year's Granblue Fest, Japanese game developer Cygames announced that a free demo of Granblue Fantasy: Relink would be released next month on PlayStation and PlayStation 5 ahead of the scheduled global release date of February 1st, 2024. Featured content includes a small chunk of the main story, eleven playable characters, and even playable online quests in cooperative multiplayer. Moreover, completing story and quest content will provide rewards for the full game.

Cagliostro will be a playable character in action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and Seofon and Tweyen will join the roster as playable characters via a free update in April 2024, publisher Cygames and developer Cygames Osaka announced.

Cagliostro will be a playable character in action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and Seofon and Tweyen will join the roster as playable characters via a free update in April 2024, publisher Cygames and developer Cygames Osaka announced.

Publisher Cygames and developer Arc System Works have announced Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising downloadable content Character Pass 1 characters 2B from NieR: Automata, Vane, and Beatrix, as well as confirmed that the previously announced Lucilius will launch alongside the game’s version 1.10 update on January 16, 2024. 2B will follow in late February 2024, then Vane in April and Beatrix in May. Two unannounced characters will follow in August and October, respectively.

3D action RPG Tokyo Revengers: Last Mission will launch in February 2024 in Japan, Victor Entertainment announced. It will be available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC via DMM Games, iOS via App Store, and iOS via Google Play as a free-to-play title with item-based micro-transactions. Pre-registration is available now.

Get ready for an exhilarating journey into the supernatural realm as Aniplex has just dropped a bombshell announcement during the Jump Festa ’24 event. The Alterna Welt: Blue Exorcist Gaiden game is set to hit iOS, Android, and PC in the blazing summer of 2024!

Aniplex has announced AlternaWelt: Blue Exorcist Gaiden, a 3D action RPG for PC, iOS, and Android based on the Jump SQ. manga Blue Exorcist. It will launch in summer 2024 in Japan.

The version 1.6 update for Honkai: Star Rail, dubbed “Crown of the Mundane and Divine,” will launch on December 27, developer miHoYo announced.

We reported previously how Sony had requested sales data group Circana to log PS Portal as its own platform, and now we have the results for its debut month. According to analyst Mat Piscatella, the Remote Play streaming unit was the fourth best-selling system of November, putting it behind the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

SaGa Emerald Beyond, the next title in Square Enix’s SaGa series, launches on April 25th, 2024, for PS5, PS4, PC, iOS, Nintendo Switch and Android. Like previous games, there are multiple playable characters as players explore 17 different worlds, from forests to a world ruled by vampires.

Falcom has announced the next title in its long-running Kiseki series – The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki – Farewell, O Zemuria. It launches in 2024 for Japan, though the platforms have yet to be announced. Though it seems to be a follow-up to The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki, the focus is on an orbal rocket’s launch to investigate the ends of the continent.