A news post on the official Japanese Persona Channel listed release dates and platforms for Persona 5 yesterday, exciting fans when they noticed that not only was the date July 8th, but said that the game would be releasing on both PS4 and PC simultaneously – a PC release having been before ruled out as impossible in August last year.

Alas though, it was not to be. Shortly after the news was reported the Atlus news site began to update with posts that talked about methods of breaking into said Persona Channel and using it to post fake news posts. So it seemed that the PC release was as said previously; impossible.

A good example of why it pays to be a little hesitant sometimes when news comes out. Even if the news comes from an official source sometimes it’s just people playing a prank or in need of full actual press release confirmation before you can safely get excited.

An RPG that sees party members using powers based off masks from great olden time Balls has reached almost half of it’s £45,000 goal despite having only been running for 48 hours.

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, an isometric pause-and-plan real-time RPG, is already looking to be in the advanced stages of development but the developers Witching Hour required just that little bit extra to polish the game up and get it into players’ hands. So far it looks like they might succeed.

The game will put you into the shoes of  private investigator Cicero, banished from a civil-war-ridden city,  and you must return to discover the root of the troubles around you. It also boasts fully voice-acted scenes and dialogue with names such as Jennifer Hale and Matthew Mercer attached to it.

If it sounds like your sort of thing, take a look over on the Kickstarter page. The fact that the campaign’s doing so well bodes well for this game actually making it to the selling stages.

Well, I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised… but then even as a fan of the series I wasn’t expecting the next game from Scott Cawthon to be what it was.

Earlier today the teaser image that has slowly been revealing letters to us over on Scottgames.com fully revealed itself. And it seems that Scott’s not done with the FNAF world just yet:

The top line above SISTER LOCATION isn’t very clear, but it reads “FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S” – which means the new game that Scott informed us about a few months ago is likely going to be in the same universe as FNAF 1-4 (and debatably FNAF World… depending on how canon you see the ‘True Ending’) but possibly located at the mysterious ‘sister location’ that’s been mentioned in FNAF3’s training tapes.

Of course, the face in the background is also unfamiliar to the series so far as well but the main theory based on what we can see is that it is set around the same time as FNAF 2 due to similarity to the “Toy” animatronics that were ordered and put into operation at the time in the lore FNAF2 is set.

Scott Cawthon had said a while ago while developing FNAF World that there would not be a “FNAF5” which is why this announcement has thrown a lot of people for a loop, as we had all suspected FNAF World as being ‘it’ for the FNAF series. Of course, if this game isn’t called “Five Nights at Freddy’s 5” then Cawthon wasn’t lying.

Either way, we’re going to have to wait for more details on the game as the teasers are released.

Amazon is one of the many places you can go online if you wish to shop for video games, among other things. They’re huge and usually very reliable – they have a good reputation that keeps people coming back. So when people began to notice that some big-name games were being blocked from purchase unless you were an Amazon Prime member… well, it confused and annoyed a lot of people.

Games including FIFA 16, Far Cry Primal and Battlefield Hardline on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were affected in the UK, and the label was applied to Grand Theft Auto V among others in the US store. This requirement was only in place if you wished to order from amazon themselves though, with third-party sellers still free to use. Either way it was baffling – Amazon seemed to be trying to incentivize their Prime service by removing the option to buy from them.

Moves like this don’t always have the best history. The biggest example of something similar I can think of is when Google tried to get more people to use G+ by making it a requirement for you to have an account in it to comment on Youtube. As someone who spends a lot of time on Youtube I know that the community were vocally against that from the beginning – I haven’t made a video comment in years because G+ just complicated the entire process and I didn’t want to deal with it. Trying to push a service on people by removing their access to things doesn’t always work and often just pisses people off.

Since this happened the block has been removed from listings in the UK store, which suggests either a mistake on their part or a u-turn upon witnessing the reaction from customers. I guess we’ll never really know, but if this is an option that Amazon has ready to bring into use I don’t see it going well for them…

Yesterday at PAX East, Gearbox confirmed what a lot of people had been hoping – yes there will be a Borderland 3 or at least a third Borderlands game developed. Those of you who love the series can rejoice now.

Development won’t actually be started in earnest until after they’re done with production on Battleborn and its DLC though, but a confirmation of it being in the planning stages is a good start to the hype train that’s inevitably going to build over the months.

People confirmed involved already are the art director of Battleborn, Scott Kester (who will be fulfilling the same position for this new Borderlands game too) and Mikey Neumann will be writing it, as well as possibly providing the voice of Scooter if they pop up in this new game. He did talk about a brainstormed character called Scooper (Scooter’s song) who he’d love to see included, but nothing was officially confirmed there either way.

There’s no big details to chew on yet, but confirmation of a game being planned is a lot better than wondering if any small out of place thing could be hinting at it ala Half Life 3.