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First details revealed The next in the Atelier series,Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea, was announced at Game no Dengeki Kanshasai. It’s coming to the PS3 in Japan on June 26. Japanatorhas the first details. The game is set 4 years afterEscha and Logy, and also follows two main characters, Shallistera and Shallote Elminus. Both of the main characters will have separate stories, just likeEscha & Logy. It seems some old characters will be making appearances in their story....

Haha, Treyarch Damn I love Treyarch, especiallyits DLC packs. Call of Dutyis generally known as a somber, serious “hold X to pay respects” kind of series, but Treyarch games are often loaded with silly things likehuman on chicken love, and now, dragons. In the debut trailer forCall of Duty: Black Ops III‘s “Descent” DLC, we see a new zombie map, Stalingrad (Gorod Krovi), which features bone/dragon weaponry and a giant beast....

Greenlight launched Check out upcoming PC/Mac gameCapsule Force. Its creators call it a multiplayer competitive action game that is inspired by space anime from the 1980s. On-going war has forced the Earth World Leaders to dispatch intergalactic forces to capture galaxies via technologically advanced capsules. Compete with an opposing galactic force member and retrieve your stolen capsule! As you’ll see in the trailer, this means 2-4 players zooming around on the screen, sliding on moving platforms, trading laser shots, and blasting each other silly....

I’m not good at much. I’ve been making music and playing piano for more than 30 years, so I’d like to think I’m okay at that. And not to toot my own horn, but I know my way around a kitchen. But beyond these things I’m near worthless. I’m especially bad at videogames, which always has me wondering how I landed this job. Well, I’m good at golf games, and I think this has a lot to do with my unabashed love for them....

Next-gen street racers compared The Xbox and PlayStation booths are directly next to each other in the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center for E3 2014 this year, which made it really convenient to compare two upcoming racing games. I put the delayed-but-now-finally-coming PS4 racerDrivecluband the newly announced Xbox One street racerForza Horizon 2together for a bit of a head-to-head comparison for you. Both were demo builds of unfinished games, so take that into consideration as you read on....

GameTrailerscaught up withLucasArts creative director Dominic Robilliard to offer a first in-game look atStar Wars 1313, the new M-rated game in which you play as a bounty hunter. If you were already on board based on that premise alone, join the party. Visually,1313looks ridiculous — to the point where I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up releasing on next-generation hardware. The build shown here was running on a high-end PC, which explains a lot....

Best part? No Gamerscore for them With such a strong focus ontelevision viewing, it’s predictable to hear that Microsoft will allow Achievements that are earned through watching media, as shown in the image above. “We’re going to have more achievements for media experiences in general,” Xbox chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi told Shacknews. “You’re going to see more of in a lot of different places.” Before you start thinking that this will taint Gamerscores, heaven forbid, there’s something to point out here....

Back whenI picked upEchochromefor the PSP in Japan, I got a little bonus with it: a set of fourEchochromepostcards, each with their own 4-koma on them. A 4-koma is Japan’s equivalent of the comic strip, telling a joke within 4 panels (koma). Series like Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh, and Hidamari Sketch all follow the 4-koma pattern. Just your daily dose of manga education fromJapanator.com. Japanator: if you’re looking for news about anime, manga, or anything Ja– Sorry, I got carried away there....

Fallout 3 and New Vegas weren’t Censorship fortunately doesn’t win this time. According to the German Facebook page forFallout 4, the German version of the game will be uncut. This is rather important, asFallout 3andNew Vegaswere both censored (though the GOTY version of the latter wasn’t). Fallout 4is expected to launch on November 10. As a general rule I don’t get super excited about open-world Bethesda games until closer to launch....

Influences derived from fantasy There were some interesting tidbits revealed about the design ofDestiny. Presented by studio writer and design director Joe Staten and art director Christopher Barrett, they went into detail about the early conception ofDestiny‘s aesthetic. It was actually designed to be a fantasy game, as in horses, swords, and castles fantasy. When they couldn’t resist the allure of sci-fi, Bungie instead settles on what they’re calling Mythic Sci-fi, evoking the mystery and wonder of a fantasy story in a sci-fi universe....

Black Friday 2.0 In tribute to the nominees and winners of last night’sGame Awards, the Xbox Store is running a flash sale for Xbox Gold members on a range of games, includingCall of Duty: Black Ops III, Destiny: The Taken King,andThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Discounts vary from 10 percent to 60 percent, depending upon where you are in the world. Here’s the full list, as taken fromMajor Nelson’s blog....

My eyes roll at Aerosmith’s hit song “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing,” but game creator Tomonobu Itagaki gets tears in his eyes when he hears it. He explained how the song and the Bruce Willis movieArmageddonchanged his life, during a talk at DICE Summit 2012 today. Itagaki now heads up his own studio, Valhalla Games, which is currently working with THQ on the upcoming gameDevil’s Third,but he started the talk by taking the audience back to a darker time....

Drawing up to 40,000 individual hairs! Your newMLB The Showcover athlete is in — it’s Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera. I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my cover athlete. Cabrera was revealed this evening on MLB Network at the Player’s Choice Awards. Players selected the new cover athlete as well, for the first time. We also got a tease ofMLB 14 The Showrunning on PS4 for the first time, asShown above....