Hitman Episode Two Out Today on PS4

Welcome to Italy, 47. The second episode of Hitman sees Agent 47 travel to the beautiful, sun-drenched coastal town of Sapienza, Italy. This episode adds a new story mission, new challenges, new weapons and gear, the Italian suit, and — of course — new targets, opportunities, and disguises. With a whole town to explore, Sapienza…

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Capcom has trademarked Capcom Arcade Stadium

It has been revealed that Capcom has recently trademarked a possible new arcade compilation title which is called, Capcom Arcade Stadium. The trademark was issued in Europe and discovered via Gematsu. While we know next to nothing about the game, it does sound as though it could potentially come to the Nintendo Switch system. We…

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Sony applies to patent dynamic difficulty settings that respond to your performance, one year after EA did the same thing with controller settings

Sony has applied to patent systems that automatically fiddle with “parameters that change the difficulty of the game” based on your performance, a patent on the World Intellectual Property Organization‘s website reveals. (Actually, the patent reads “difficultly” at the time of writing, so Sony may in fact be referring to the implementation of dynamic cults….

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Guide: Best Castlevania Games On Nintendo Consoles

Far from a miserable pile. In honour of the 35th anniversary (in North America) of the divisive Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest this month, we’re updating and republishing this article rounding up and ranking every Castlevania game in the series on Nintendo consoles. This was originally ordered by us here at Nintendo Life, but we’ve rejigged…

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Dragon’s Dogma 2’s director didn’t want his game to rely on fast travel: ‘Travel is boring? That’s not true. It’s only an issue because your game is boring’

In a recent interview with IGN, Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno didn’t mince words when it comes to his preference for actually exploring open worlds instead of zipping around via the map menu express: “Travel is boring? That’s not true. It’s only an issue because your game is boring. All you have to do…

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Capcom stirs the pot, saying ‘game prices are too low’

At TGS last week, Capcom president and CESA chairman Haruhiro Tsujimoto reignited everyone’s favourite discourse subject: the price of games. As Nikkei (via Switchsoku) reports, Tsujimoto was discussing the topic of rising development costs, where he claimed that “game prices are too low”.  While games from a lot of major publishers have become more expensive…

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