Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince ‘Monsters Showcase’ trailer

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of scouting wild monsters for your squad in Dragon Quest Monsters — except maybe the sheer joy of smashing together your existing collection to whip up an entirely new, one-of-a-kind creature with the Synthesis mechanic.

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince lets the monster catcher in you run wild. However, with so many monsters roaming each area of the game, it’s hard to decide which monsters are best for the early game.

Square Enix announced in September it was working on two paid expansions for Final Fantasy 16, and in the absence of any details on what they will bring to the table, speculation has been in overdrive. There are, of course, some interesting doors left open for more stories to be told in Valisthea even after Final Fantasy 16’s story concludes, and in a recent interview with Japanese outlet Game Watch, director Hiroshi Takai offered some tidbits on what fans can expect.

A funny thing happened when I sent questions over to Alan Wake 2 composer Petri Alanko. After he sent over his responses, I had the uncanny experience of realizing they sounded like something Alan Wake himself would write.

Square Enix has released new information and screenshots for Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince introducing four-monster synthesis, new story details, and Reverse Search feature.

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince and Otogi Katsugeki Mameda no Bakeru: Oracle Saitarou no Sainan!! for Switch are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases.

Eight years after Dontnod’s time-rewinding teen drama made its debut, the original Life is Strange has now been played by over 20 million people.

If rumour speak true, the next Call of Duty game will be another entry in the Black Ops series. It'll also, allegedly, take place during the first Gulf War across 1990 and 1991, in which a US-led coalition of countries including the UK, Saudi Arabia and Egypt invaded Iraq in response to the Saddam Hussein government's conquest of Kuwait.

is a new fan-made remake of the first game, and it's completely free to play. The impressive remake was created in the engine, but it looks, plays, and feels like an updated but faithful rendition of the classic title. Even better, it includes new content like dungeons, weapons, and armor — and the postgame content even includes a new world inspired by .

Capcom have announced a showcase for November 28th to delve into Dragon’s Dogma 2, a sequel to their oddball fantasy RPG from 2012. That’s exciting news to me, since the original’s small-person-climbs-big-monster combat was pure fun to simply watch. Doing the actual monster-stabbing was even better, though, and thankfully the sequel’s release date doesn’t seem that far off if a videogame ratings board is to be believed (accidental ratings boards leaks being the way many release dates are revealed these days).

Final Fantasy 7 Remake made it abundantly clear that Square Enix’s trilogy of FF7 remakes was going to have no qualms about deviating significantly from the original game’s storyline, but in the end, the trilogy is still going to link up with Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children, the animated CG movie set after the events of the original PS1 title.

If my calculations are correct, all the buildings in PowerWash Simulator's Back To The Future DLC are covered in some serious shit. It's your job to clean it off, of course - off the Hill Valley clocktower, Doc Brown's van, and of course the Delorean. It's out now.