Developer Arc System Works’ has proven itself the masters of adapting 2D anime-style visuals for 3D video games, as shown by its work on Guilty Gear Xrd and Dragon Ball FighterZ. Its next game, Kill la Kill: IF, the video game adaptation of Studio Trigger’s Kill la Kill anime series, further illustrates just how good Arc is at making its fighting games extremely anime. Kill la Kill: IF, which Arc is co-developing with APLUS, is a 3D arena fighting game with a simple control scheme. There’s fast-

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Here’s a look back at the steps that brought the company to the soon-to-be-revolutionary work in Captain Marvel. Lola Visual Effects de-aged Douglas almost three decades for the opening sequence. “In the case of Michael Douglas, there are lots of references,” Marvel President Kevin Feige told Fandango at the time. Unlike with Douglas, Lola didn’t require a body double to pull of the visual. Lola used a younger body double for Russell, actor Aaron Schwartz, who was selected for his similar face s

This fall will mark six years since the release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the last core game in the Animal Crossing series. Bells and whistlesThere is no game quite like Animal Crossing, which makes it hard to properly explain and even harder to recommend. Meanwhile, Animal Crossing is happy to let your debt remain unpaid forever, and your villager has no discernible job or occupation. They would send me carpets and shirts in return; that’s just what Animal Crossing villagers do. A place to

There’s no doubt that Fortnite is one of the world’s most popular games, but thanks to Epic we can now put some numbers behind that statement. On Thursday, the developer announced that the game had 78.3 million players in August. As of December, Minecraft — which remains the biggest game on YouTube — had 74 million players a month. Meanwhile, League of Legends, as of 2016, had just over 100 million active players a month. It’s also worth noting that Fortnite has yet to be released in China, one

Sony announced its own version of a miniature retro console, the PlayStation Classic, on Wednesday, following the wild success of Nintendo’s NES Classic and SNES Classic editions. The system, modeled after the original PlayStation, will cost $99.99 when it is released on December 3. For $99.99, the PlayStation Classic will include the miniature console (about 45 percent smaller than the PS1), and two USB controllers based on the original PlayStation gamepads. Sony has not yet confirmed all 20 ga

PlayStation Now subscribers will have the option of downloading PlayStation 4 and remastered PlayStation 2 games in the service’s library, Sony announced today. “Almost all PS4 games in the service” are downloadable, according to the announcement, without specifying which ones or types are not. Downloaded games will also support all user-purchased DLC and microtransactions as well as PS4 Pro enhancements, and online multiplayer does not require a PlayStation Plus subscription — as is the case wi

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has a new patch, Update 22, on its test servers today and it’s bringing in a ranked system. Once again taking things a little further than its competition, PUBG players will have a way to keep track of their progress and skill with the new ranked system — something largely nonexistent in other battle royale games. The system will use something called Rank Points, which will be distributed after each match based on a player’s performance. Ranks are the standout featu

Epic Games has announced what fans can expect from this year’s second competitive Fortnite tournament season, the Fall Skirmish. Perhaps the biggest change from the Summer Skirmish, which finished a few weeks ago at PAX West, is the addition of Clubs. For the Fall Skirmish, Epic has created five clubs — Fort Knights, Lucky Llamas, Dusty Dogs, Rift Raiders and Bush Bandits. At the end of the Fall Skirmish the club with the most points wins $4 million. All of the games from the first week of Fortn

The sequel to Wreck-It Ralph will take us from the arcade world into the wondrous realm of the world wide web. This means stumbling upon things like pop-up advertisements, search engines, cat and baby videos, hardcore online racing games and — yes, memes. Vanellope feels at home in this new racing world — but what does that mean for her friendship with Ralph? The original director, producer and co-writer return for Ralph Breaks the Internet. Ralph Breaks the Internet premieres on Nov. 21.

Now, Disney CEO Bob Iger has told The Hollywood Reporter that the company’s plan to absorb the 20th Century Fox film division’s X-Men franchise is to have put it under the control of longtime Marvel Cinematic Universe producer Kevin Feige. When asked if Feige would oversee “everything” as Disney absorbed the X-Men, a franchise spanning from 2000’s X-Men to the unreleased Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, Iger answered:I think it only makes sense. In fact, he was careful not to say anything defin

The end credits of Netflix’s The Dragon Prince are coupled with black and white illustrations of the characters and tableaus of the world. So we asked head writers Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond if there was any truth to the rumor. In the penultimate episode, Runaan gets sucked into Viren’s coin, and during the credits we see an illustration of the same elf crying. Head writers Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond wouldn’t confirm the identity of the mysterious credits elf, but Ehasz did say that th

The first season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead adventure game contains several strong examples of this focus on player choice. The illusion of choiceSo much of The Walking Dead hangs on decisions that feel important at the time, but don’t actually matter. Did you choose to abandon Lilly to fend for herself among the walking dead after the shooting, or keep her with the group as an extra pair of hands? What if I told you that one decision — that decision, right at the end of the first season of

To say Western fans had been waiting a long time for a new, proper Dragon Quest adventure would be an understatement. So for series creator Yuji Horii and his team, Dragon Quest 11’s Western release was a big deal. Yuji Horii: It’s totally different from Japan and how the Japanese consumers responded to Dragon Quest [11]. The first Dragon Quest game in the U.S. was written in a very distinct, Old English style. Polygon: Wrapping up, right now, we’re on Dragon Quest 11, but obviously the series i

Earth Defense Force has become a predictable hit in Japan, with its latest entry, Earth Defense Force 5, selling over 300,000 copies. Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain, a spinoff of sorts, was conceptualized by the franchise’s producers to please a global audience. The core of the Earth Defense Force game is mishmash of monster movie and sci-fi tropes. If other Earth Defense Force games look like cartoons, Iron Rain looks almost like a found-footage film. Earth Defense Force 5 will arrive later thi

Red Dead Redemption 2 includes a first-person mode that extends through the whole game, allowing players to get up close and personal with the twilight of the Wild West. We played Red Dead Redemption 2 at publisher Rockstar Games’ headquarters in New York City earlier this month, and briefly tried out the first-person mode. The middle segment of our demo began with Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption 2’s main character, hanging out on the prairie with his horse. We tried this in first-person mode

This is Red Dead Redemption 2, which launches Oct. 26 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Arthur Morgan’s story is your story, tooFor the uninitiated, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a prequel to the original Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption 2 uses a weapon system that’s similar to that of Rockstar’s Max Payne 3. the life-simulation elements may seem exciting to some and annoying to othersCustomization is everywhere in Red Dead Redemption 2. This is a clever way for Rockstar to put a spotlight on th

This week the Nintendo eShop adds a ton of new titles with a massive glut of game releases timed to coincide with the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) convention. Among the high-profile titles for the Nintendo Switch are Valkyria Chronicles 4, featuring full western localization, which will be available on Sept. 25. Cities: Skylines — Nintendo Switch Edition, a new console port of the popular city builder, is available right now as is Final Fantasy 15 Pocket Edition HD. Fans of the Xenoblade series will be

A senior PlayStation official has given the death date for the PlayStation Vita: 2019. Manufacturing and shipping for Sony’s handheld will come to an end sometime that year, Hiroyuki Oda, a senior vice president for Sony Interactive Entertainment, told Famitsu. Oda also said (via Gematsu) that there are “no plans” for a successor handheld, which is a candidate for this year’s most obvious statement, hardware division. Shuhei Yoshida, Sony’s chief of studios, was saying in 2015 that “the climate

Activision has revealed some of the post-launch content for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. which will go out first to the PlayStation 4 as a timed exclusive. Specialists, the class-based characters making their return to Black Ops (they were introduced in Black Ops 3) will add new members to their ranks beginning in December. Activision said these will be “the first of several new characters.”There will also be seasonal, weekly and other limited-time events as Black Ops 4 rolls on. Nuketown has been