Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light to end service on January 31, 2024

The Yakuza series is known for its confusing naming conventions but it seems even the developer gets mixed up, as Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name features a tutorial screen from the Judgement games.

Nintendo has poured cold water over reports of it demonstrating the Nintendo Switch 2 to developers.

Nintendo's Switch console has now passed 132m units sold, but the company is remaining silent on its successor.

Packed with enough gadgets to cover a belt for Batman’s trousers, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name returns to the classic, combo-based street fighting that featured in earlier Yakuza games but enhances it with a fresh technological twist. This time the sharp side of the katana blades aren’t the only things that are on the cutting edge, as returning hero Kazuma Kiryu can employ a suite of state-of-the-art tools for taking out his tormentors as though he’s bypassed the weapons locker in favour of a trip to the Apple store. However, outside of the revitalised combat, almost everything in Gaiden’s toybox feels like a hand-me-down from an older sibling in the series, meaning once the fighting stops it quickly starts to feel a bit too familiar.

Ever since Sora was announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Kingdom Hearts fans have been eagerly awaiting a Sora amiibo figure. Just when fans had nearly lost all hope, the figure was announced during a Nintendo Direct back in September.

Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC are the highlights of this week’s video game releases.

Yakuza spin-off Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name was originally planned as a downloadable expansion and only took around six months to develop.

Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name took just six months to develop, according to Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama.

Developing games can be a major investment, requiring not only quite a bit of money, but also a lot of time, though it seems RGG Studio has figured out how to circumvent the latter in impressive fashion. The Yakuza series (or Like a Dragon, as it’s known now) has always been known for how frequently it puts out games, and one of its upcoming releases, it turned out, was in development for a surprisingly short duration.

Nintendo has struck gold yet again with Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but it has another potential blockbuster on the way this month. Super Mario RPG, a remake of the 1996 SNES role-playing game, releases on November 17th for Nintendo Switch. A new overview trailer in Japanese outlines what to expect – check it out below.

Sad news mobile enthusiasts…another popular game out of Japan is shuttering its servers. The game in question is SINoALICE developed by Pokelabo and published by SquareEnix, which originally launched in Japan in June 2017 and worldwide in July 2020.

404 GAME RE:SET will end service on January 5, 2024 at 12:00 JST, less than one year after its launch, SEGA announced.