Early inPersona 3 Reload, you’ll face a seemingly straightforward, yet nonetheless stressful choice. As your teacher drones on, lecturing about something you probably don’t care about, you’ll have the option to sleep in class. The question is, should you? You’ll have the option to sleep in class throughoutPersona 3 Reload, and there’s no “correct” choice.By sleeping in class, you’ll increase your Courage social stat. However,if you stay awake, you’ll raise your Academics social stat instead....

Eau de Toilette Those are words that I’d never expect to see next to a videogame character’s name. But at importer NCS you’ll find bothFinal Fantasy VIIstars Cloud andSephiroth‘s names right next to Eau de Toilette. And yes, they’re hoping you’ll buy some. Who knows. Maybe in nerd circles this stuff will get you laid. It had better for $85.90. One thing that will never, ever get you laid is reciting thefragrance description:...

To celebrate the launch ofThe Old Republicon the 20th, a bunch of people got dressed up and headed down to Times Square in New York City to engage in a massive lightsaber battle. Only there was no “battle.” Everyone just stood there like statues. Then onlookers were given lightsabers and pretended to be encased in ice as well. It’s all so bizarre but also really friggin’ cool. STAR WARS: The Old Republic – Times Square Freeze Mob 12....

‘Spectacled Spirits’ Super Smash Bros. Ultimateis kicking things up a notch with events, which all tie into the massive, RPG-scale “Spirits” system. The first major event is “Spectacled Spirits,” which honors characters with glasses. As I described in our review the whole shebang is very much likeHitman‘s contract system, which cycles in new enticing challenges every so often to get players to log on when they otherwise wouldn’t. Expect to see many more of these throughout the lifetime of the game....

Team17, the publisher of works such asBlasphemous 2,Gord, andMoving Out 2has entered “a period of consultation,” meaning the company will seek to identify potential redundancies in the organization. Eurogamerfirst reportedthat “significant job losses” at Team17 are expected, with the majority impacting the internal QA, and that company CEO Michael Pattison is leaving. Team17 confirmed that it’s “amicably parted ways” with Pattison in a statement viaVG247. “We can also confirm that we have sadly entered into a period of consultation today within Team17 Digital, with Astragon and Storytoys remaining unaffected by the restructuring plans,” the publisher said to VG247....

It’s been a little over a year since Beat Down Boogie, the team behindModern War Gear Solid, released ateaserfor its next major production. No release date forMario Warfarehas been announced yet, but this new trailer is pretty slick. I’m loving how the Shy Guys are cast as black ops ninja assassins! Today was a big day for theMetal Gearseries, what with the announcement of a new open world game and an official movie....

Now that we knowFalloutseason 2 is happening, we’ve really got to talk about how the show is going to address the ending ofNew Vegas. Like so many other RPGs,theFalloutgameslet players chart their own course to multiple different endings. InFallout 3you’re given the choice to provide clean water for the entire Capital Wasteland, or you can poison everything even more than it already was. Your choices near the end ofNew Vegasare even more impactful....

Pikmin 4continues to be updated with some minor bug fixes (it doesn’t really need much more than that), and the latest patch adds in some of those said fixes; plus a nice little quality-of-life feature in the form of a loading bar. Yes, a loading bar. Nintendo has now added a “progress bar” to the loading screen, so folks can see just how long it’s taking to transition between stages and the hub....

Don’t keep us in Limbo Next week sees the launch ofThe Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories, the latest release from the out-there mind of designer Hidetaka Suehiro, better known to his fans as Swery. Arc System Works, who are publishing the weird and nightmarish adventure, have released a new trailer showing some of the scary perils and pitfalls that await young J.J. as she tracks down her missing friend, Emily, in a terrifying landscape where death and mutilation awaits at every step....

April 15 to 17 in Japan Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: All-Star Carnival— which is totally not an April Fools joke as it wasannounced weeks ago— is being tested this month in Japan. Square Enix has announced that tests will begin on April 15 and conclude on April 17 at select locations, and all testers who complete a survey will be given a special seal trinket for their troubles. The folksover at Gematsuhave the full rundown of all of the locations you can play it, which you can also check out below....

Have you heard ofGrunn? It’s the gardening game from Sokpop Collective and Tom van den Boogaart, where you do some light gardening and try not to succumb to the lurking horrors beneath. I hadn’t heard of it either, but it looks cool, and it’s out now. With the exception of – or perhaps illustrated by – the upcomingSilent Hill 2remake, big-budget horror games are in a rough place. Not completely gone, mind you, but a lot of what we get these days are remakes from better eras of horror titles....

Since you’re able to choose whichBTDbanner you roll on, I’ll show you the best meta brawlers to roll for. Save up your gems and then go wild on rolls when you see these, or use your pity to get them. Here’s my ultimateBrawl Tower Defenseunit tier list. Best Brawl Tower Defense Units Tier List I’ll be ratingBrawl Tower Defenseunits from best to worst across S-Tier to D-Tier. Thehigher Tiers will usually be about the best Legendaries and Mythicsand how to use them....

Confront your Destiny Fans of the legendary cult franchiseValiswould do well to shift themselves over to the Limited Run Games store right now, as the boutique retailer has opened pre-orders on itspreviously teasedValis: The Fantasm Soldier Collectionfor Nintendo Switch. Valis: The Fantasm Soldier Collectioncomprises three classic adventures from the sword-and-sorcery series:Valis: The Fantasm Soldier(1986),Valis II(1989), andValis III(1990). This trilogy of tales tells the epic saga of young, Yuko Asou, a high school girl thrust from reality into a fantastical fantasy universe, where she must take up her role as the fabled savior of the spiritual realms....