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EA vice president of advertising says game ads are a ‘huge opportunity’, but it ‘has to make sense for the game’

EA announced it’d be creating a whole new platform for advertising last month, something I’m sure has you so excited you’re jumping out of your seat and clicking your heels. You might be potentially doing a little dance and saying ‘yipee!’ Personally speaking, the very thought exhausts me, though Alexander Dao, EA’s vice president of…

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More Toaplan Physical Collections Are Coming To Polymega, Based On Truxton, FixEight, & Snow Bros.

Will you be tempted? Earlier this week, we shared the news that Polymega had announced a new collection, Polymega Collection Vol. 19 – BATSUGUN, containing four classic arcade games from the Japanese developer Toaplan. Something we missed, however, was that this was actually one of four announcements based on Toaplan’s back catalogue, with the company…

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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse isn’t technically connected to the Netflix anime, but its cinematography was inspired by the show

When Konami revealed back in February that it’s finally making a new Castlevania, the teaser trailer’s art and color palette was so reminiscent of the Netflix anime series that it seemed possible the game was actually using the show’s designs, or at least had gotten a little love from the folks at Powerhouse Animation. In…

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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse hands-on report

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse hands-on report

It’s the February 12 State of Play. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse has just been announced, and Evil Empire, the team developing this action adventure for the past four years, is having a nervous watch party. “We were waiting because you never know when your trailer is about to appear,” says Marketing Director Bérenger Dupré. “Then we…

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