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Review Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered - Level-5’s Masterpiece Is Tidier Than Ever
A whole ‘nother world. Beautiful, en’t it?
Oh, how we could fling superlatives to describe how utterly wonderful Ni no Kuni is. Forgive us, then, for choosing the word tidy. Yes, tidy is the right word to open our review of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered. Not just because this is clearly the tidiest edition of the game so far,...
News New Tales of Arise Trailer Gives a Glimpse of Combo-Based Combat
Fire
Tales of Arise caught our attention with its announcement trailer at E3 2019 -- it immediately looked like a step forward for Bandai Namco's long running role-playing series, and the good news is that it continues to look promising. The game's received a fresh trailer at Tokyo Game Show 2019, and although it's not the most in-depth video, it...
News Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Western Release Date Adds Yet Another Game to Early 2020
January for this one
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot already had an "early 2020" release window here in the West, but now a precise date has been revealed. The game's latest trailer, which arrives fresh from Tokyo Game Show 2019, confirms that the open world title will launch on the 17th January, 2020. As a bonus, the trailer's also pretty entertaining...
News One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Takes a Trip to Wano Country, Features an Original Story
Only the strong
Wano Country, a feudal Japan-inspired nation in One Piece, will be a key location in upcoming hack and slasher One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4. What's more, it'll be the setting of an original story that features in the game. You can get a glimpse of what's to come in the new Tokyo Game Show trailer that we've embedded above. Are you...
News Tekken 7 Season 3 Patch 3.00 Is Ready for the Next Battle on PS4
Round 3, fight
Tekken 7's big Season 3 patch is available to download now on PlayStation 4. It's a not-so-bad 1.8GB in size, but don't let that fool you -- this is a hugely important update for the brawler. With the release of Zafina tomorrow as part of the title's new season pass, this patch prepares the game for what's next. If you haven't see...
News Tekken 7 Season 3 Patch Notes Are Here, Huge Balance Changes for All Characters
Season 3 out next week
Update: As promised, Bandai Namco has released the full patch notes for Tekken 7 Season 3. They feature all of the changes coming to every character, significantly overhauling the balance of the game. You can find the full list of tweaks through here. Alongside the patch notes, Season 3 has a confirmed release date. The new...
News You Can Now Download and Play the Free Demo for Code Vein on PS4
Blood sample
In case you'd forgotten, Bandai Namco announced a playable demo for its upcoming action RPG, Code Vein, back at Gamescom. The demo will allow players to "create their own character, explore the start of the game, and dive into the first part of 'The Depths', a challenging dungeon that will test any Revenant’s mettle". It sounds like a...
Random American Rapper T-Pain Pulls Off a Sweet Leroy Smith Tekken 7 Cosplay at Convention
Get ready for the next battle
We don't post stories about cosplay very often, but this one's turning heads. American rapper, singer, and producer T-Pain showed up to Dragon Con 2019 in Atlanta this past weekend dressed up as Leroy Smith -- the new original character coming to Tekken 7 later this year. Leroy, a martial arts master who was revealed...
News No, You Haven't Been Frozen in Time: There Really Is a New Ice Age Game Coming
What year is it
Man, this is a blast from the past. Bandai Namco is still stuck in the early noughties, it seems, as it's just announced Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure, a brand new 3D platformer starring the acorn-chasing rodent. Why not? You'll play as the titular Scrat as he continues his quest to find that ever-elusive acorn. As you can see...
News Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Is the Next Game in the Series
Teased at the end of Man of Medan
The name of the next instalment in the Dark Pictures Anthology has been leaked. Teased with a brief trailer upon completion of Man of Medan, we now know the second game is called Little Hope. It looks like this one will involve a small village setting and some creepy voodoo shenanigans. You can watch the teaser...
News 27 Minutes of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Gameplay Shows Fun But Familiar Action
Cell damage
If you've been wanting to sit down and watch a whole chunk of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot gameplay, then you're in luck. The ever-reliable Arekkz has fished up 27 minutes of action from Gamescom 2019, starting with Gohan's epic clash with Perfect Cell. The game's looking like a good amount of fun, but it's undeniably familiar. There are huge...
News Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's Cell Saga Looks Promising
Achieve perfection
As you'd expect of a game that follows the story of Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will feature the Cell Saga in full. It's a story that many fans will have read and or watched dozens of times before, but the upcoming open world action role-playing game seems to do it justice in this latest trailer. Cell himself is looking...
News First One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Gameplay Revealed, Plus Loads of Screenshots
The Straw Hats are back
Announced last month, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 has nabbed its first gameplay trailer at Gamescom 2019. The brawler's due out at some point in 2020, and it's already looking like another Omega Force knockout. Those familiar with the One Piece storyline will know what's going on here, but as for everyone else, it's best...
News Code Vein Bleeds a Playable Demo in September
Character creation and a tough dungeon
Is it just us, or does it feel like Code Vein has been around forever, despite the fact that it doesn't release until the 27th September? The upcoming action role-playing game did run into a number of delays during development, but hey, at least it's almost here. Now we just have to hope it turns out well. And...
News One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows Lets You Win Fights in a Single Hit
But there's a catch
When arena-brawler One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows was first announced, everyone wondered just how the heck it would work. After all, main character Saitama is the titular One Punch Man -- he can beat anyone or anything in a single blow. Not exactly a great mechanic for a fighting game, right? This new trailer for the game...
News Little Nightmares II Sleeps Soundly Until 2020
Dreams don't die
One of the few surprises from Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom 2019 showcase, Bandai Namco and Tarsier Studios have teamed up once more for Little Nightmares II – an unexpected sequel to 2017’s critically acclaimed gothic adventure game. This time, the series’ iconic raincoat-clad protagonist will have an accomplice, however...
News Action RPG Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris Gets First Gameplay Footage
Exploration and combat
Longtime readers of Push Square will know that we actually quite enjoy the Sword Art Online games. Sure, they're far from perfect, but they're kind of like fast food in action RPG form; cheap looking and perhaps a little unhealthy, but easy to get into and surprisingly addictive. And this trend looks set to continue with...
Review RAD - Mutant Roguelike Madness in a Dystopian Future
The New Mutants
Combining addictive roguelike gameplay with a rocking 80s aesthetic and an assortment of flesh altering power-ups, RAD more than lives up to its name. Throwing you into a world clinging to life after not one, but two apocalypses, your character is tasked with purifying the desolate land. By locating respirator machines, you’ll...
News Tekken Soundtracks Hit Spotify and Other Music Streaming Platforms
Jukebox mode
Tekken is a series that's never quite gotten the praise that it deserves for its music. Fans of the the long running fighting game franchise know that it's produced countless banging tunes over the years, from pounding hard rock beats to thumping electronic tracks. Ever since the days of the original Tekken on the PSone, the series has...
News Metal Gear Solid Voice Actor Left Unimpressed by Evo Tournament Gag
"You also failed to consult me, or Konami"
After apologising for what the Evo fighting tournament deemed a "little joke", the backlash towards the event's fake Metal Gear Solid character tease has continued. So much so that the original voice actor of Solid Snake, David Hayter, has chimed in with his own thoughts on the controversy. As you can...
News Evo Forced to Apologise for Misleading Metal Gear Solid Gag
Kept you waiting, huh?
Fighting game tournament Evo has had to apologise, after a misleading gag led fans to believe that Metal Gear Solid star Solid Snake would be added to Tekken 7 as a DLC character. The tournament showcased a trailer featuring the gruff voiced soldier in an infamous Codec call, and many took this as a tease for some kind of...
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Update: It turns out the Metal Gear teaser was a joke. Original Story: Harada and friends have really gone and done it this time. Tekken 7 Season 3 was announced at Evo 2019, which will include four new characters, one new "feature", and one new stage. Returning Tekken 6 character Zafina is among the newcomers, alongside brand new original...
News SoulCalibur VI Season 2 Announced Featuring Samurai Shodown's Haohmaru
Looking sharp
SoulCalibur VI got a surprise reveal at Evo 2019 in the form of Season 2 confirmation. The game's second season pass will feature four more characters, including guest fighter Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown. The other three are a mystery right now. What's more, Cassandra was also confirmed as the final Season 1 character. She's out...
News Janemba and Gogeta Officially Revealed for Dragon Ball FighterZ
Kekeke
Dragon Ball FighterZ just got done over at Evo 2019, and as expected, Bandai Namco brought a new trailer to the event. Said trailer confirms Janemba as the game's next DLC character -- he releases on the 8th August and he looks pretty darn cool. But that ain't all. Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta has also been unveiled, although he doesn't have a...
News Janemba Leaked for Dragon Ball FighterZ Ahead of Evo 2019
Pure evil
Stop us if you've heard this one before: a leak has all but confirmed that Janemba will be the next DLC character for Dragon Ball FighterZ. It was Microsoft that outed his existence a couple of months back, and now it appears to be Nintendo's turn as Janemba was actually listed on the company's UK site. The page has since been removed, but...
News Digimon Survive Digivolves with a Fully Animated Opening Movie
Let's get digital
Set to release on PlayStation 4 at some point in 2020, Digimon Survive has received a fully animated opening movie -- and you can watch it right now. The turn based role-playing game sees a group of teenagers survive the trials and tribulations of a mysterious world, that is, of course, inhabited by all kinds of digital monsters...
News Tekken 7 Celebrates 4 Million Copies Sold with Super Cool Updated Artwork
Party time
Tekken 7 has been a real success story for Bandai Namco. The long running series has always been popular -- especially back in the days of the mighty Tekken 3 on PSone -- but in an era where most fighting games are struggling to rack up big numbers, Tekken 7 continues to sell, even after two years on the market. The fighter has now...
News Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Will Have Multiple Playable Characters, Not Just Goku
Getting the gang back together
Despite being a game that's supposed to be all about Goku -- his Saiyan name's even in the title -- Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will feature multiple playable characters. According to the latest issue of V-Jump, as translated by Gematsu, you'll also be able to take control of Gohan, Piccolo, and Vegeta. It's unclear how...
News Tekken 7 Team Tournament Delivers One of the Most Hype Sets You'll See All Year
Super Strongstyle
Strongstyle, a legendary community-ran Tekken tournament, returned for the seventh time this past weekend. Taking place in San Jose, California, it featured some of the best Tekken 7 players in the world, but this was a team tournament -- something that we don't see all that often here in the West. Teams were made up of three...
Hands On Until Dawn Dev Evolves Interactive Drama with Man of Medan Multiplayer
Holding hands
Man of Medan, the first instalment in Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games’ new interactive drama series The Dark Pictures Anthology, has a secret: it’s fully playable in online co-op – and it’s unexpectedly brilliant. The Guildford-based developer has somehow managed to keep its ambitious multiplayer mode under wraps, but...
News Gundam: Battle Operation 2 Deploys on Western PS4s Later This Year
Suit up
Bandai Namco is bringing Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation 2 to North America and Europe later this year. It's a free-to-play team-based action-shooter that features both mobile suit and infantry combat. It originally released in Japan in 2018, but it's worth pointing out that the Japanese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Korean versions of the...
News One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Announced, Sails to PS4 in 2020
Land ahoy
Oh boy, Bandai Namco is bringing the Pirate Warriors series back after years of silence. The Japanese publisher announced One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 overnight, and it's coming to PlayStation 4 in 2020. You can watch the game's reveal trailer above. For those totally out of the loop, the Pirate Warriors games are a Dynasty Warriors-esque...
News A Third Ni no Kuni Game Is Now in Development
Plans to make the franchise bigger
In an interview with Japanese magazine Nikkei, Level-5 President Akihiro Hino has revealed that a third entry in the Ni no Kuni franchise is currently in development. It's planned for release after the movie based on the series hits Japanese theatres on 29th August. The project forms a part of the developer's...
News One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows Announced for PS4
A 3v3 brawler
Bandai Namco has announced a game based on popular manga and anime series One Punch Man. All we've got to go on right now is the above trailer, and a description that tells us it's a three-on-three brawler. It's titled One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows. So, er, is Saitama going to be able to one-shot every other character? How's this...
E3 2019 Watch Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered PS4 Gameplay
Lovely Ghibli
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch had one of the more memorable art styles on the PlayStation 3, so it’s perhaps no surprise to see the cult JRPG remastered for the PlayStation 4. And here’s your first look at it in action, courtesy of IGN. There are few surprises here, and the presentation has undoubtedly aged somewhat – but...
E3 2019 Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered Officially Confirmed for PS4
Launches in September
Let's face it, no Bandai Namco E3 2019 announcement has come as a surprise because all of them were leaked days before the Japanese publisher had a chance to show anything. But hey, official confirmation is always good, and so here we've got a release date for Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered, coming to...
E3 2019 Code Vein Bleeds a Confirmed September Release Date
Blood will spill
Code Vein, apparently not important enough to be shown during the Xbox E3 2019 press conference, just got a new trailer and a confirmed release date. The game was delayed a while back, and it feels like we've been waiting on it for an eternity, but now it's almost ready to go. It'll launch on PlayStation 4 on the 27th September,...
E3 2019 Cyberpunk 2077 Collector's Edition Officially Revealed and Unboxed
The leak was right
Update: Yep, the leak was right, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a meaty collector's edition complete with enough bits and pieces to satisfy even the most mechanical of metalheads. CD Projekt Red has uploaded its own unboxing of said collector's edition, and we've embedded that above. It comes with a big old box, a figurine, a map of...
E3 2019 Elden Ring Is From Software's 'Largest Game to Date'
Development began following Dark Souls 3
Elden Ring was finally announced yesterday after numerous rumours and leaks. This is the next action RPG from, er, From Software, created by Hidetaka Miyazaki in collaboration with fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin. Unfortunately, following its CG reveal
E3 2019 Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Brings the Life of Goku to PS4 in Early 2020
KAKAROOOOOOT
Dragon Ball: Project Z has an official title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. For those totally out of the loop, Kakarot is Goku's Saiyan birth name, and as we already knew, the game's all about the spiky-haired protagonist and his many adventures in Dragon Ball Z. The action title's received a brand new E3 2019 trailer, which confirms that...
E3 2019 Tales of Arise Looks Like a Real Step Forward for the Series, Launches on PS4 in 2020
At least visually
There's a new Tales game on the horizon, and it certainly looks like a step up for the series in terms of graphical quality. Named Tales of Arise, the game was actually leaked a couple of days ago, but the short reveal trailer does have a few cool looking moments, and confirms that the title is aiming for a 2020 release date on...
Random Bandai Namco Producer Harada Posts Great Reaction to His Company's E3 Leaks
Rest in peace
Bandai Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada -- who many know as the godfather of Tekken -- has a good sense of humour, and it's helping him generate some well-deserved numbers over on Twitter. If you didn't know, Bandai Namco's entire E3 2019 lineup -- or thereabouts -- was leaked earlier in the week. Needless to say, Harada wasn't...
E3 2019 From Software and George RR Martin's RPG Elden Ring Confirmed with First Trailer
Seems pretty armless
The long-rumoured collaboration between From Software and George R.R. Martin is real, everyone. Elden Ring has been confirmed, and it's got a typically moody debut trailer. Watch it above. It seems to be a little on the creepy side, but this looks like high fantasy through and through. We aren't much clearer than that on what...
E3 2019 Tales of Arise Leaks Ahead of Microsoft Xbox Presser
Lovely new art style
For once, 4chan has delivered the goods. A new entry in the Tales franchise has just leaked, named Tales of Arise. It's coming to PlayStation 4, and will most likely be officially announced at Microsoft's E3 2019 press conference on Sunday night. It's quite a dramatic change in art style, judging by the screenshot above, isn't...
E3 2019 Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered Leaks, Coming to PS4 This Fall
Another one
Update: Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered is indeed coming to PS4. It's currently down for a "Fall 2019" release date. Original story: Well, someone at Bandai Namco is probably in big trouble. Basically all of the publisher's plans for E3 2019 have leaked over the last hour or so at the time of writing, and they ain't...
And it's coming to PS4
It was rumoured and now it’s real: Elden Ring is the next PlayStation 4 game from acclaimed Japanese developer From Software – and it’s being helmed by Bloodborne director Hidetaka Miyazaki and, incredibly, Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin. It’ll likely be officially unveiled duri
Deal Dragon Ball FighterZ Price Slashed by Two Thirds in EU PSN Deal of the Week
Fighting for a saving
Last week saw an impressive price cut to World War Z, and for the next seven days, you can save a great deal of money on last year's fighting favourite Dragon Ball FighterZ. As part of the Deal of the Week, you can save two thirds off of its original asking price. The standard edition comes in at
News JUMANJI Gets Its Very Own Video Game, Coming November 2019
Featuring The Rock
Well, this isn't an announcement we were expecting in the lead up to E3 2019, JUMANJI: The Video Game is a product you'll be able to purchase in a handful of months time. It's coming to PS4 on 15th November 2019. After gleaning through the footage in the trailer above, the game looks to be based on the recent 2017 JUMANJI:...
News Man of Medan Sails onto PS4 This August, Pre-Order Bonus Detailed
Summertime spooks
Man of Medan, Supermassive Games' follow-up to Until Dawn, is looking pretty good, with a similarly decision-driven narrative and a creepy nautical setting. Publisher Bandai Namco has just announced the release date too, as well as introduced an incentive to pre-order. The game, which is the first part of the studio's Dark...
News Game of Thrones Author Really Is Teaming Up with Dark Souls Developer, It Seems
Apparently titled Great Rune
No way, is this seemingly ridiculous rumour of George R.R. Martin working on a From Software title as lead writer going to be true? The man himself penned a blog post about the culmination of the Game of Thrones TV show, and in it he confirms that he has consulted on a Japanese game. Buried towards the end of the text,...
