Final story chapter of Little Nightmares Secret of the Maw unleashed

Final story chapter of Little Nightmares Secret of the Maw unleashed

FINAL STORY CHAPTER OF LITTLE NIGHTMARES™ SECRETS OF THE MAW

RELEASED

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe is happy to announce the release of The Residence the third and final chapter of Secrets of The Maw. In the first two chapters The Depths and The Hideaway the Runaway Kid successfully eluded the wrath of the Granny and learned about the history of the Nomes. The Residence pits the Kid against the mysterious Lady. Included in the Expansion Pass of the critically-acclaimed game LITTLE NIGHTMARES by Tarsier Studios, The Residence is available today on PlayStation®Network, Xbox Live Store, STEAM®, GOG.com and other PC distributors.

A new video shows the gloomy lair of the Lady and new, frightening enemies that the player has to escape from. Evading the shadow monsters summoned by the Lady and solving deadly puzzles will be the only way to survive this luxurious house of dread. Armed only with his flashlight, the Kid will have to repel the nightmarish illusions and dodge the traps set in the twisted library to finally shed a light on the darkest secrets of The Maw.

LITTLE NIGHTMARES is available in digital and physical form on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, STEAM and GOG.com for PC. The expansion Pass LITTLE NIGHTMARES Secrets of The Maw with three new stories paralleling the journey of Six can be purchased on Steam, GOG, PlayStation®Network and XboxLive. The Complete Edition including the base game and the Expansion Pack is also available for purchase across the named platforms.

YOUR FATE HAS JUST BEGUN WITH SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET AVAILABLE NOW

YOUR FATE HAS JUST BEGUN WITH  SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET AVAILABLE NOW

YOUR FATE HAS JUST BEGUN WITH

SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET AVAILABLE NOW

SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET, a unique hybrid shooter and action role-playing game is now available on PlayStation®4, Xbox One, PC Digital Via STEAM™. BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe is proud to celebrate the launch with a brand new trailer!

Become the hero of Gun Gale Online in the latest game of the SAO franchise in SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET. Step into the versatile landscapes and environments of Gun Gale Online with unique and realistic designs resembling something out of a sci-fi movie and numerous other weapons and fighting styles to choose from. Interact with characters from the Sword Art Online original novels, anime and previous games as you navigate a world that is vastly personalized and visually enhanced. Play as the protagonist, battle against opponents using new weapons and further customize gameplay by creating skills and abilities. Full dive into SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET!

·        Welcome to the World of Guns – Gun Gale Online from Sword Art Online II is visually enhanced and diverse with many landscapes to discover in an all new original story supervised by series creator, Reki Kawahara

·        Unreal Visuals – Get lost in a lifelike world developed by Dimps with realistic and robust environments and textures made possible by Unreal Engine 4

·        Friend or Foe – Challenge tough bosses that require friends in co-op or play against them in 4-on- 4 battles.

·        Realistic and Heroic Gun play – Plenty of one-of-a-kind and beautifully designed weapons to choose from and unique skills to create

·        New to XBOX ONE – Sword Art Online will come to XBOX ONE, PC Digital and PS4 simultaneously for the first time in the history of the popular gaming series.

Another good news for fans. For those who have pre-ordered SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET for PC via STEAM will be able to receive automatically on March 23rd their free copy of Sword Art Online Re: Hollow Fragment on STEAM. Sword Art Online Re: Hollow Fragment will also be available later for purchase on STEAM. More details regarding the paid version of this title will be available at a later date.

SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET is available simultaneously for the first time on PlayStation4, Xbox One, PC Digital via STEAM and other distributors.

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THE PIXELATED NEON JOY OF PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS NOW AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH

THE PIXELATED NEON JOY OF PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS NOW AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH

THE PIXELATED NEON JOY OF PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS NOW AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH™

Team Up in Co-Op Mode to Bring the Popular Maze Chase to New Heights for Twice the Fun

Leading anime video game developer and publisher BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe today announced the launch of PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition 2 PLUS, now available for Nintendo Switch™. Players will experience the critically-acclaimed retro arcade game reimagined with brilliant neon visuals and eye-popping, high-resolution 3D graphics on Nintendo’s hybrid console. The game includes PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2, which was previously released in 2016, and will also have an exclusive two player co-op mode called PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS2P for twice the fun!

The PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS 2P mode gives players an opportunity to team up and play on a single Nintendo Switch, with each player controlling their PAC-MAN character on a single Joy-Con™. When one player gets caught by a ghost, the other player can come to the rescue. Players can also work together and use special co-op maneuvers to weave through the mazes and chomp their way to exciting boss battles.

PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS would not be complete without the return of PAC-MAN’s famous ghosts; Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde who will trail ferociously behind PAC-MAN as he gorges on precious Pac Dots. The game features a variety of modes to play at home or on the go, such as Score Attack and Adventure mode! Players can compete for the top spot on the leaderboards and strive to beat their high scores. PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS elevates the classic maze chase action and gameplay with fast fleeing fruit, remixed rules, and more!

The Inpatient: PSVR Review

The Inpatient: PSVR Review

Released by Supermassive Games
Platform: PSVR

Until Dawn was a great title.

A clever one that used the Butterfly Effect to branch its DNA through the core gameplay, its horror edges made you feel like you were part of a film, albeit watching a scary movie from the sidelines.

Buoyed by the commercial success of the multi-narrative game, Supermassive Games have returned to the world they created with this prequel that's set within Blackwood Sanatorium, a place very familiar to those who experienced Until Dawn.

Taking the part of an amnesiac patient, you get to be part of the Sanatorium's world and scrabbling desperately to retain the important memories needed.

In many ways, it's the stock standard use of horror tropes throughout, and the deployment of VR to provide the requisite jump scares.

But yet, The Inpatient manages to use the microphone of the VR to help you engage with the game - with other NPCs reacting to it as you choose which of the dialogue options you want to voice (the branching narrative of the game itself) and placing you in more abject terror as time goes by.

Much like the first Until Dawn and the VR spinoff Rush of Blood, The Inpatient's graphics are excellent, a clever and deeply immersive etching of faces which bring the world vividly to life.

As emotions drip through the characters, you'll find yourself more engaged with the goings on and may actually find yourself completely lost in the world within and the quest to get your memories back.

The game may have a short run time (a few hours, which is probably good given the VR experience generally) but the encouragement to play again and follow different paths make it worth a second run through.

There are a few movement issues here and there, but nothing that's not in keeping with what VR is experiencing and with the technology struggling to map a virtual world and unnatural movements.

But all up, The Inpatient is another sign that experience is important for VR.

(Now if only they could move away from so many horror games and develop it a bit deeper in terms of entertainment, this truly could be VR's year.)

Dragon Ball FighterZ: PS4 Review

Dragon Ball FighterZ: PS4 Review

Released by Bandai Namco
Platform: PS4

If you've ever wondered what Dragon Ball Z is about, this is not the game for you.
Bandai Namco's ambitious fighter embraces both the online and offline world for those interested in spinning a line through Goku's adventures.

Teaming up with his friends Goku has to fight a revived Android 16 and a slew of androids made to look and behave like them in a series of smackdowns initiated by their appearance.
Dragon Ball FighterZ is really a game that actually does what you'd expect from it.

A sort of anime Tekken/ Street Fighter hybrid, the game's desire to have you relive long scenes of anime interspersed with brutal fights and mano-a-mano smackdowns may seem like a challenge to some.

But what emerges from Dragon Ball FighterZ is really a love letter to the series and to Goku.

It may be a touch alienating to those uninitiated with the series itself, and certainly with the long character cut-scenes within the main story of the game, there's a lot that feels like it's pandering to the fans, with apparent in game nods to the show and what's gone before.

In many ways, that labour of love is a good thing - as anything weaker than that would sell the game and the franchise short.

Fighting is much like the usual in these sorts of games - a combination of meshing buttons and stringing attacks together, be they heavy, mild or otherwise, the rushing attacks can mean a fight is over quicker than anticipated.

But given there are three rounds in each fight, sometimes, that's not a bad thing.

Online, the game's connectivity limits itself to Oceania, meaning servers are Australian and sometimes suffer from cconnection issues as well as match-making.

But when it works, it does so swimmingly and flawlessly, a sign that online fighting is still the way to go with these kinds of titles.

Ultimately, Dragon Ball FighterZ is a credit to its namesake.

As a piece of arcade smack-em-ups, it's certainly got the fighting chops to tackle the best of them - and while the reliance on the Dragon Ball Z world may struggle to make this fighter as widely loved as perhaps it should be, its slavish devotion to Goku's world and those who orbit may make it an anime-themed gaming KO.

Detroit: DVD Review

Detroit: DVD Review

Reuniting Zero Dark Thirty's team in the form of director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal proves in part to be potent for Detroit.

Centred around the summer of 1967 and the riots which hit the Detroit African American population, Bigelow's film finds its focus in one pivotal moment - a motel raid which spirals out of control, and police abused their power.

Boyega plays a security guard, treading a dangerous line between keeping the cops on side and sympathising and saving others from being caught in the riot; whereas Poulter plays a cop, whose momentary lapse early on when he shoots a fleeing man in the back seems to set his moral compass distinctly awry.

The film uses its NYPD Blue style shaky cam to good effect early on, throwing you slap bang into the middle of the riots and the urgency and danger of the situation. But the film hits the skids to centre its actions on the Algiers Hotel, and sacrifices the space it's created for a claustrophobic and unflinchingly difficult section within.

Against a backdrop of Motown uniting people and then suddenly dividing those caught within, the discomfort is palpable, even if one of the cops within the actual event feels like a lazy stereotype. It's a shame given the work done in the run up to the event with Poulter's character feeling a little more multi-faceted than his closeted hatred would demonstrate.

While the back half of the film and its PTSD approach and subsequent trial feel a little more disjointed and discombobulated, its first half, warzone and all,  is painful watching  made ever more disgusting by the fact this is no fiction, but a reality that occurred.
Detroit's searing strength lies in its mid-section execution, an interlude of pure hatred and abuse of power that's so tautly executed, it feels like a modern day horror sequence, guaranteed to leave you with your mouth agog in horror.

Ultimately, it's the little moments and the ripples of after effects in Detroit which make it, for the large part, so compelling.

Perhaps timely given the social divides we currently face and equivocally appalling, Detroit's light-the-touch-paper-and-stand-back execution of events makes it a livewire event that slightly fizzes in the back third. 

Win a double pass to see THE MERCY

Win a double pass to see THE MERCY

Following his Academy Award® nominated film The Theory of Everything, James Marsh directs the incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), an amateur sailor who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping.

With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare (Rachel Weisz) and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.

The Mercy is in cinemas March 8th