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Tales of Vesperia Remaster Coming to Xbox Store in Winter 2018

Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition will be coming to the Xbox Store this winter, Microsoft announced at its E3 2018 press conference.

The E3 2018 announcement trailer for Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition promised it will include “content and characters brought to the West for the first time.”

This remaster gives a facelift to the 2008 RPG a decade after its release. Tales of Vesperia originally released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

IGN gave Tales of Vesperia an 8.2 on its original release, saying it’s “a strong anime-style Japanese RPG with a wide- ranging story, compelling characters and an intense real-time battle system that keeps you on your toes.”

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Anthem Has No Romances, and That’s Just Fine

E3 began in earnest yesterday afternoon with the EA Play event, which meant a new and much more extensive look at BioWare’s sci-fi shooter, Anthem. Though the game definitely brought it on the gameplay level and talked a big game about its story, the most important question for many a BioWare fan was who they would be able to romance in this new IP.

The answer to that question came soon after thanks to the Game Informer cover reveal, and it turns out that it’s no one. There are no characters for the player to romance in Anthem, something that was an intentional design choice rather than something that was cut from the game proper.

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