The Game Manual

09/29/2022

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07/22/2020

https://gamemanual.net/sonic-06-remake-hopes-to-fix-the-most-infamous-entry/

Sonic 06 might be one of the most infamously bad games to ever come out but a recent fan remake is hoping to correct all that.

You’ve gotta feel bad for Sonic the Hedgehog sometimes. Sonic is one of the most well known mascots in gaming. Sonic and his brand have helped shape the industry and has several decades worth of games that have gone on to be classics under his belt. Sonic also has one […]

07/22/2020

https://gamemanual.net/yakuza-like-a-dragon-set-for-release-this-year-with-english-dub-and-more/

Yakuza: Like a Dragon is set to release later this year, English dub, and multiplatform?! We can't contain our excitement.

Any game announcement from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio will typically blow the roof off of The Game Manual’s office and bring the hype levels to a deafening fever pitch. Today was no different. We previewed Yakuza: Like a Dragon several months ago and the game has our enthusiasm at a […]

07/20/2020

https://gamemanual.net/announcement-trailer-reveals-shin-megami-tensei-v-release-schedule-finally/

"The God you worship is dead"

Atlus West finally unveil new footage of Shin Megami Tensei V for Nintendo Switch!

We’ve known for a while that Shin Megami Tensei V would be launching exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. Developed and Published by Atlus, and produced by Shin Megami Tensei IV veteran Kazuyuki Yamai, SMT V was first announced way back in 2017 when the Switch was first debuting. For long […]

07/17/2020

https://gamemanual.net/arcade1up-wants-to-release-nintendo-arcade-cabinets/

The folks at Arcade1Up want to partner up with Nintendo, let's hope it happens!

Do you have any fond memories of playing Nintendo arcade machines from your childhood? Perhaps dropping quarters into Donkey Kong Junior as you try to save DK from Mario? Perhaps you racked up some impressive wins in Punch-Out!!, or you were downing cans of spinach in Popeye and taking on […]

07/17/2020

https://gamemanual.net/silent-hill-3-robbie-the-rabbit-figures-will-bloody-up-your-wallet-this-november/

Can you hear the sirens off in the distance?

Greetings from the Lakeside Amusement Park! Be sure to stop by the Sweet Factory Store and pick up your very own Robbie the Rabbit toy! Thankfully none of us have to suffer through everything that Heather did during the events of Silent Hill 3 to get our hands on one […]

07/17/2020

https://gamemanual.net/lego-nintendo-entertainment-system-you-can-build-your-own-lego-nes/

It's a LEGO NES, seriously just look at this thing

Anyone who grew up playing the NES through their childhood will weave together fantastical tales of excitement and adventure, using their imagination to fill in the gaps that their pixelated counterparts can’t quite translate. Saving Princess Peach, knocking out Mike Tyson, whipping Dracula into s...

07/16/2020

https://gamemanual.net/hadouken-a-street-fighter-themed-burger-joint-lets-go/

A Street Fighter themes burger joint complete with the game set up so you and your friends can hurl hadoukens at each other before your meals arrive.
This is awesome.

We’re a fan of properly done gimmicks here at The Game Manual. Japan has countless restaurants that have dedicated entire menus or at least limited items to video game and anime themes alike. It’s not so common westward, so any time we hear about it, we can’t help but to […]

07/16/2020

https://gamemanual.net/80-of-capcom-games-sold-digitally-according-to-new-report/

Do you buy your Capcom games digitally or physically?

Digital game sales have been exploding at an alarming rate. For large publishers like Capcom, this is all par-the-course. As we reported in February, Sony even reported that digital game sales surpasses physical sales this generation. The gap between physical and digital continues to increase with e...

07/16/2020

https://gamemanual.net/dont-call-it-a-comeback-the-wii-is-getting-two-more-games-in-2020/

So you thought the Wii was dead? Oh ho ho! We don't have a Dio meme handy but it is in fact very much alive and with two new physical games no less!

Retro City Rampage and Shakedown Hawaii find a new home on Nintendo Wii

“Wii would like to play” was a marketing campaign that was inescapable throughout 2006 and 2007, as were the news reports of perpetually sold-out shelves devoid of Nintendo Wii consoles. Video compilations of people breaking their TV or fighting over getting the last Wii were a dime-a-dozen. Fas...

07/16/2020

https://gamemanual.net/square-enix-games-up-to-50-off-at-humble-bundle/

Final Fantasy fans may want to open their wallet and shake a few extra gil out for these Humble Bundle deals. If not just go grind outside the starting area til you have enough.

Get the deal here or by clicking the image above! Square Enix have done an excellent job of loading up Steam with some of their best offerings over the years such as Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Dragon Quest XI, Final Fantasy VI and many more. Needless […]

07/10/2020

https://gamemanual.net/werewolf-the-apocalypse-earthblood-gameplay-trailer/

When a game is this metal it's hard not to be excited about it. Transforming into a werewolf, ripping and tearing everything to pieces that stands against you, headbanging to the awesome soundtrack.

The newest trailer for Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood has us excited beyond belief for what's to come.

If you’re anything like us, you grew up playing Altered Beast, and you know there is little else cooler than a dude becoming a mountain of angry muscle, punching and kicking every shambling monster foolish enough to approach him. Turning into a super powered werewolf is the pinnacle of cool. […]

07/10/2020

https://gamemanual.net/limited-run-games-lists-their-scheduled-physical-releases-for-2020/

For all you out there that are like us and enjoy own some physical games, there's plenty in this announcement from Limited Run Games to dig into and cheer about.

Limited Run Games announced a slew of games on a Twitch livestream that they would be bringing out in physical form from various different developers and publishers, many of which we’re beaming with excitement about: A Boy and His Blob (PS4) — September 2020 Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 (...

07/09/2020

https://gamemanual.net/live-a-live-trademark-filed-by-square-enix-jrpg-fans-rejoice/

Could we finally be seeing the legendary Super Famicom JRPG Live A Live get released outside Japan?

There’s is a mountain of older games from the likes of Square Enix (then Squaresoft) that we’d happily part with a random assortment of internal organs to see make a much-needed return. Square’s 16-Bit and 32-Bit offerings are arguably the pinnacle of the company, and they demonstrate Square.....

07/09/2020

https://gamemanual.net/atari-vcs-to-release-this-fall-for-389-99/

Atari hasn't been in the console-making business for a very long time but the once'king shall return with the Atari VCS later this fall.

Since 2017, fans have eagerly awaited the return of Atari. In June that year, Atari announced it would be returning to the video game hardware market with the aptly titled Atari VCS; a name it shares with the company’s 1977 original home gaming console, the Atari 2600 (prior to its […]

07/09/2020

https://gamemanual.net/humble-bundle-summer-adventure-games-sale-goes-live/

Break out your wallets, all you adventure game lovers who've sunk hours into TellTale games will no doubt be interested in this.

Get the deal here or click the image above! Have you had a hankering for something a bit more laid back with a story-driven focus? How about a nice healthy dosage of Telltale games such as The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us? Maybe you want to crack some cases and […]

07/09/2020

https://gamemanual.net/sony-gives-first-look-at-playstation-5-game-cases/

Sony finally unveiled the first look at what the PlayStation 5 game cases will look like!

Sony gave the world a sneak peek at what the upcoming PlayStation 5’s game cases will look like, as well as an early look at the cover art for the highly anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The new game design sticks with the color scheme of Sony’s upcoming console successor, […]

07/09/2020

https://gamemanual.net/crysis-remastered-delayed-indefinitely-after-fan-backlash/

A few months ago Crytek teased a Crysis Remaster, unfortunately fans thought it looked far from being a proper Remaster and looked more like the original game on low settings. So now it's delayed til they get it up to expectation.

In the late 2000’s the first question out of any PC gamer’s mouth when discussing the would-be potential of a newly built rig was, “But can it run Crysis?”. Nowadays, we’re all a bit more interested in what all we can get to run DOOM. (Personally, we’re waiting for it […]

07/08/2020

https://gamemanual.net/unofficial-sony-playstation-visual-retrospective-book-hits-kickstarter/

How much do you love the PS1? Have some fond memories of playing Twisted Metal or Crash Bandicoot? (You better!) Then we may have just the right book for you with the Sony's PlayStation: A Chronological Visual Retrospective of SCEA Published Games from 1995-2005

Two and a half decades ago Sony took a big chance, storming the gaming world with their PlayStation console debut after a hardware partnership with Nintendo fell through. It turned the industry on its head. Not only did Sony challenge both Nintendo and Sega, who were cemented as console kings, […]

07/08/2020

https://gamemanual.net/sega-announces-astro-city-mini-arcade-and-its-adorable/

Sega shrunk down their most well known arcade cabinet, the Astro City arcade cabinet will now be coming home with 36 games later this year with the release of the Astro City Mini!

Sega ruled over the vastness of the arcade scene in the 90s with an iron grip, and companies like Namco, Taito, and Konami were chomping at their heels. Nowhere was it more obvious that Sega wore this pixelated crown than in Akihabara, where walking into a bustling Club Sega netted […]

02/17/2020

Persona 5 developer Atlus confirmed that its upcoming enhanced version of the game, Persona 5 Royal, will reimagine scenes deemed controversial and homophobic in the west.

Persona 5 has been a major success since its release back in September of 2016, selling over 3.2 million in the little-over three years since and earning a staggeringly favorable Metacritic score of 93/100. It did so well, in fact, that its developer Atlus doubled down on the game with …

02/13/2020

Pokemon HOME is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo eShop.

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s new cloud service app, which lets you migrate your pocket monsters (from Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee and Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu, Pokémon GO, and from the 3DS’ Pokémon Bank) to one central location, has gone live on the ...

02/13/2020

The Game Bakers, the indie developer behind the title Furi, have a new game coming out: Haven. Check out the spectacular opening sequence and gameplay trailer here!

Fans of 2016’s indie favorite Furi, which combined shoot ’em up, hack and slash, and bullet hell elements into a fast-paced action game, have cause for excitement with The Game Bakers’ new adventure RPG title, Haven. Okay, so it’s not Furi 2, and that may be a little disappointing, but …

02/12/2020

Microsoft's game streaming service Project xCloud, which is still in its infancy, finally adds support for Apple devices.

Microsoft is betting that big tech conglomerates like Amazon and Google are its main competition moving forward, based largely on their massive, irreplicable cloud-services infrastructures. It just so happens that Microsoft is also a big tech conglomerate, and it just so happens to also have a multi...

02/12/2020

Nintendo Switch Online's February Game Updates bring new retro titles from both the NES and SNES on February 19, 2020.

Nintendo is bringing four more games to its Nintendo Switch Online subscription service (which features a built-in NES and SNES emulator by the same name) this month. This February 19, two Super Nintendo and two 8-bit Nintendo games will be added to Switch Onlines’s growing collection of retro tit...

02/12/2020

The creator of Stardew Valley, Eric Barone, recently mentioned that he's working on two new projects, both related to the Stardew Valley universe.

We reported not long ago that Stardew Valley, a life-sim role-playing game focused on farming (in the same vein as Harvest Moon), recently surpassed the 10 million units sold milestone. Now available on all of the big home consoles (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch) as well as both …

02/12/2020

Koei Tecmo's upcoming anime-based Fairy Tail RPG joined a myriad of other 2020 game delays.

Originally scheduled for a March 19, 2020 release, Koei Tecmo’s Fairy Tail anime-based RPG has joined a myriad of other 2020 game-release delays, including Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2, and even the Switch port for last year’s The Outer Worlds. Similar to the reasons g...

02/11/2020

After a year-long wait, Metro Exodus (which we dubbed one of the best games of 2019) is finally coming to Steam--only days after the release of the games final DLC: Sam's Story.

Metro Exodus is a fantastic game; one which we awarded an astounding 9/10 when we reviewed it back in January. Even now, almost a year after its February 2019 release, the game is still getting better with today’s release of Metro Exodus‘ final DLC expansion: Sam’s Story. We’re super psyched...

02/11/2020

Busy travelers can escape their hectic journeys, at least momentarily, at anyone of Nintendo's new Switch-themed gaming lounges, coming to U.S. Airports.

If you don’t think you’ll be able to book a flight to Universal’s new Nintendo-themed theme park when it opens this summer, don’t fret. No matter your destination, frequent fliers abound will soon have access to Nintendo’s more accessible, albeit less grandiose, entertainment attractions. ...

02/11/2020

"Remakes, Remasters, and Reimaginings. Oh my!" Activision Blizzard recently discussed an undisclosed assortment of 2020 remakes and remasters with more information to come later this year.

Industry analyst for Niko Partners, Daniel Ahmad (who we’ve cited in a past issue of The Index), took to Twitter recently to share some bullet points from a recent Activision Blizzard earnings call. Those announcements included news that the next Call of Duty title is scheduled for a Q4 2020 …