Game Walkthroughs & Guides
Final Fantasy VI is an RPG where each of the 14 party members has their own special command, and anyone can learn any spell as long as you hand them a piece of Magicite. All that freedom is exactly why it is easy to get stuck on questions like who to level up and when…
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On July 12, 1994, a game in which a vampire and a werewolf beat the daylights out of each other showed up on arcade cabinets. It was the first completely new fighting game Capcom had announced since the Street Fighter II line, and in Japan it was called Vampire: The Night Warriors. Everywhere outside Asia,…
Video game
Hange’s online RPG Chocotto Land and its smartphone version, Chocotto Land SP, will shut down at 10:00 p.m. on Monday, March 29, 2027. Refunds for unused Chocotto Points and SP-exclusive Chocopo open the moment the servers go dark and run until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30, 2027. Sales of Chocotto Points already stopped at…
PlayStation
Enshrouded, the open-world survival crafting RPG known in Japan as Enshrouded: Kingdom of the Shroud, hits version 1.0 on PC (Steam) and PS5 simultaneously at 12:00 a.m. Japan time on Friday, October 16, 2026. An Xbox version is slated for spring 2027. It marks a graduation from the Steam Early Access run that began on…
Steam
Makai Toshi CHI-BA, an indie RPG built out of Chiba Prefecture’s place names and folklore, arrives on Steam on Monday, November 2, 2026. The price is 600 yen (about US$4, tax included). Dollar figures are converted at 153 yen to US$1 and are for reference only. Towns including Funabashi, Mobara and Kashiwa, plus an extra…
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Ratatan, the rhythm-roguelite action game from Patapon creator Hiroyuki Kotani, launched worldwide in its full release form at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 15, 2026. It is available on PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with the Steam version at 4,950 yen (about US$32), the console digital edition at 6,160 yen…
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On October 15, 2026, Microsoft announced the Xbox Nano controller, the smallest controller in Xbox history, and opened preorders the same day. The Japanese release date is Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at a price of 8,000 yen (about US$52), tax included. Dollar figures are converted at 153 yen to US$1 and are for reference only….
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The Nintendo Switch 2 version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The digital edition costs 7,980 yen (about US$52) and the physical edition 8,980 yen (about US$59), both tax included. Dollar figures are converted at 153 yen to US$1 and are for reference only. In the roughly…
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Tales of Eternia Remaster launched on Thursday, October 15, 2026. It is available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and Nintendo Switch, with the Steam version following the next day, Friday the 16th. The price is 3,960 yen (about US$26) on every platform, tax included, while the digital Deluxe Edition, which bundles…
Anime
Which ONE PIECE game should you start with? The right answer is the one you can actually play on current hardware while getting the purest hit of the manga’s momentum. As of October 2026, ONE PIECE games across consoles, PC, and mobile stretch back more than two decades. I hear the same complaint constantly: there…
