Langrisser Remakes Headed to Nintendo Switch

Kadokawa Games is remaking the first two Langrisser titles for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

Per Gematsu, the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals Langrisser I & II, the first two games in the tactical role-playing series, will be fully remade.

The remakes will feature new character designs, an optimized UI, update mechanics, and more. More details will be revealed on August 29 during a presentation event, but development is reportedly 50 percent complete.

The first Langrisser released in 1991 while the sequel came out in 1994. Both titles feature large scale battles, allowing players to control over thirty units. The series also features a fantasy-Germanic setting.

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What’s New On Netflix This Week: Movies, TV Shows, And Originals

As August rolls on and summer begins coming to a close, Netflix has quite a few new things for you to stream this week. In addition to a bunch of new originals movies and shows, something the service can’t seem to get enough of, there are also a couple TV shows and films ready for you to enjoy.

For films, the 2009 Jack Black comedy Year One arrives this week. Additionally, original films Deadwind, The After Party, and a new stand-up comedy special Bert Kreischer are being added to the streaming service.

For TV fans, new seasons of Young & Hungry, Great News, and Trolls: The Beat Goes On are on the schedule. Other arrivals include Ghoul, a new Indian horror series from Blumhouse, as well as Ask the StoryBots.

You can check out all of Netflix’ s new titles for the week below. Also make sure to take a look at everything coming to and going from the service in August, as well as what Hulu and Amazon Prime Video are offering this month.

August 19

  • The Investigator: A British Crime Story: Season 2– Netflix Original

August 21

  • Year One

August 23

  • Deadwind– Netflix Original
  • Follow This– Netflix Original
  • Great News: Season 1

August 24

  • Ask the StoryBots: Season 2– Netflix Origianl
  • Bert Kreischer: Secret Time– Netflix Original
  • Ghoul– Netflix Original
  • The After Party– Netflix Original Film
  • The Innocents– Netflix Original
  • Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 3– Netflix Original
  • Young & Hungry: Season 5

We Finally Know What Left Alive Will Actually Be

After seeing it for the first time, Left Alive already feels like some strange relic of the PS2 age, and I mean that both as a positive and a negative.

Watching a series of clips and speaking to its director, Toshifumi Nabeshima, it’s clear how ambitious this game aims to be. At its core, this is much more of a third-person shooter than I went in expecting. But it’s also aiming to be a mech game, a narrative experience, even survival horror in some small way.

That shooter core is intriguing, if not immediately engaging. At its heart, this is a cover shooter and, right now, it doesn’t look like a hugely slick one; animations click into place unnaturally, and the spaces we were shown were very much of the “brown corridor” variety. On the other hand, the potential’s there for far more interesting interactions than “pull trigger.”

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Stealth is Key to Survival in Metro Exodus

It’s not a great feeling, being at the bottom of the food chain, but that’s exactly where you sit in Metro Exodus. Everyone wants a piece of you, whether it’s the wolves that roam the plains, hunting in packs, or the pirate bandits who react very badly when someone moves in on their turf. You’re alone, in this Gamescom demo at least, and ammo and supplies are in short supply.

As with previous Metro games, survival is the key to success. Part of that is surviving the world around you – in the instance of this demo, a swamp wasteland – but primarily it’s against the survivors you’ll encounter throughout. Armed bandits control the area, patrolling the derelict buildings on the lookout for drifters.

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Leaving Netflix in Sept: The Dark Knight, Ghostbusters, More

Your “Last Call” list for Netflix in September is here, so jot down these important dates because the streaming giant is purging itself of both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight – along with Ghostbusters, 13 Going on 30, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Dead Poets Society, Martin Scorsese’s Casino, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and excellent modern horror flick The Descent.

This is also a good chance to catch A Star is Born before the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper remake comes out, as well as Sidney Lumet’s fantastic, final movie Before the Devil Know’s You’re Dead, starring Ethan Hawke and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Venom’s New Evolution Thrills

More than any other new series in 2018, Venom truly realizes the potential of Marvel’s Fresh Start relaunch. It retains just enough of the core of what made this character so ridiculously popular in the ’90s, while also blazing ambitious new ground for the character. No Marvel book has done so much in such a short span of time to help Venom stand independent of the Spider-Man franchise.

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Issue #5 continues Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman’s ongoing quest to shake up and reinvigorate Eddie Brock’s status quo. Reeling from his first encounter with Knull, god of the symbiotes, Eddie now finds his mind reeling and his very connection to his symbiote called into question. This allows Cates to begin crafting a new dynamic between Eddie and his suit. The symbiote is more eloquent following its recent exposure to its master, allowing for more exciting interplay between the two characters. On some level, this status quo change does seem a bit overly reminiscent of that period where the symbiote was “fixed” during the Guardians of the Galaxy days. But on the other hand, that status quo deserved more attention than it received before Venom was so abruptly dragged back to Earth. After a lull period, this character is making real forward progress again.

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