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  In true Kyoto Animation spirit, the wonderfully wholesome anime studio posted an adorable New Year's greeting on their Twitter account featuring the studio's mascot Baja, and Baja's ducky friend Ga-chan. The message was posted in both English and Japanese, with the Japanese message also thanking fans for their support over the last year. Other anime series in the Kyoani portfolio also released their own messages, which we've collected for you!     Happy New Year 2021 Wishing this year will be happy and wonderful for you. All the staff of Kyoto Animation pic.twitter.com/WrUN4WGlim — 京都アニメーション (@kyoani) December 31, 2020     The message reads: "Happy New Year 2021 Wishing this year will be happy and wonderful for you. All the staff of Kyoto Animation"   Other Kyoto Animation series posted their own special New Year's messages:     あけましておめでとうございます???????? 今年も「響け！ユーフォニアム」シリーズをどうぞよろしくお願いします???? https://t.co/I7lxc6...

  Fans of the visual novel Tsukihime rejoice! The first visual novel from the mind of Fate creator  Kinoko Nasu will be remade this year on both the Playstation 4 and the Nintendo Switch as  Tsukihime -A Piece of Blue Glass Moon- .   The long-overdue announcement came as a surprise at the end of the  Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special 2020 which also announced two new  Fate/Grand Carnival OVAs. A trailer, staff list, and cast were revealed for the  Tsukihime remake at Type-Moon.     Tsukihime -A Piece of Blue Glass Moon- will see  Nasu return as the director of the visual novel, and will see him supervise the project.  Takashi Takeuchi also returns from the original game as the character designer. Helping Nasu out with direction and scripting will be BLACK , with  Urushinohara also writing some of the scripts.  Hirokazu Koyama is the art director with  Takao Aotsuki , Kaetsu , Shima Udon...

2020 was a challenging year to enjoy the full breadth of the tabletop hobby. Many players were unable to gather with friends and gaming groups to play in person, but it didn’t stop publishers from continuing to pump out some remarkable and incredibly fun games. And many players responded by finding ways to play games remotely, sharing the hobby with partners, family, and roommates, as well as buying and learning new games solo, with the hope of playing again with bigger groups in the coming months and years. Amid an extraordinary mix of game styles and settings, these were 10 of the very best new releases, each promising the potential for many hours of shared fun. Atheneum: Mystic Library Publisher: Renegade Game Studios On the eve of your magical exam, you have a lot of spells to study, but you can’t forget to re-shelve the books before you’re done. Atheneum is filled with charm and lovely components (including individually named book chips), but it’s the solid card-drafting sy...

Click here to watch embedded media Hitman 3 is the highly anticipated finale to IO Interactive’s expansive World of Assassination Trilogy that began back in 2016. The game will take Agent 47 on an adventure across the globe as he eliminates the leaders of a menacing organization that runs the world in secret – and it all begins in the United Arab Emirates. You can now watch the first 5 minutes of Hitman 3’s opening Dubai mission as part of our exclusive coverage of the game, during which Agent 47 descends upon the tallest skyscraper on Earth. Please note that this Hitman 3 gameplay was captured on PC by Game Informer. Click the banner below for more exclusive coverage of Hitman 3, including the  5 Things You Should Know About Hitman 3  or our  full cover story from Issue #332 .   Source: Game Informer

Valve has revealed its Steam "Best of 2020" lists, highlighting the best-selling and most played games on the digital storefront this year. While Valve doesn't rank the games, meaning we don't know what the overall best selling game on Steam is, nor does it include data like overall revenue, it does give a detailed peak at what kind of games trended throughout the year.  Unsurprisingly, Among Us and Fall Guys appear in the Platinum category of Steam's best sellers list, as do competitive games such as Dota 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Rockstar Games has two different titles topping Steam's sales charts: Red Dead Redemption 2 and the seven-year-old Grand Theft Auto 5. The most recent game on Steam's Platinum list is Cyberpunk 2077 , which was released on December 10. Cyberpunk developer-publisher CD Projekt Red recently revealed that it had sold more than 13 million copies . All in al...

Click here to watch embedded media On this week's episode of  The Game Informer Show,  All Elite Wrestling's project coordinator and referee extraordinaire Aubrey Edwards joins us to talk about some of the best games of 2020, including:  Ori and the Will of the Wisps , Half-Life: Alyx , The Last of Us Part II , Streets of Rage 4 , Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time , Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales , Final Fantasy VII Remake , Assassin’s Creed Valhalla , Animal Crossing: New Horizons , Carto , and Cyberpunk 2077 . It's a good, long talk, but of course, we sneak in some time for another fantastic round of community emails. So please join Jeff Cork, Joe Juba, Marcus Stewart, Aubrey Edwards, and myself for another wild and ever-entertaining episode! Thanks for listening! Please make sure to leave feedback below, share the episode if you enjoyed it, and follow me @benjaminreeves  to let me know what you think. You can watch the video above, subscribe and ...

  KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! fans, rejoice, because the English dub for the KONOSUBA: Legend of Crimson feature film is officially almost here. Crunchyroll will launch the dubbed version of the movie on Friday, January 1 , kicking off the new year in style with Kazuma, Aqua, and the rest of the ridiculous band of adventurers.    If you're just now getting into the English dub of KONOSUBA , you're in for a treat. Here are the main players:    Kazuma -  Arnie Pantoja     Aqua -  Faye Mata     Megumin -  Erica Mendez     Darkness -  Cristina Vee     KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!-  Legend of Crimson Launch:  Jan 1 (English dub)   Synopsis: A video game-loving shut-in, Satou Kazuma's life should've ended when he was hit by a truck, but through a twist in fate, he ends up reincarnating in another world--and dragging the godd...

  Did a lot of news happen this year? Boy, did it. And the above Teekyu image captures the feeling well. I have no idea how a span of 365 days can feel both like a) a decade and b) a month, but somehow we are entering the year 2021 like the opening of a Mega Man game (those Boston Dynamics Robots can’t fool me with their dancing ).    We here at Crunchyroll News have covered quite a bit during 2020, from the exciting, unfortunate, to everything in-between. The top-performing articles of this year tell a pretty interesting story, and some didn’t even make it that I thought were going to be on here! To give a little perspective, one of the first articles we published in 2020 was about Studio Ghibli’s New Year’s message talking about the “two” films in production. Demon Slayer just ended the year by beating Spirited Away’s box office record . Wild times!   Without further ado, here are the top-performing Crunchyroll news and features articles from the year ...

Katsuhiro Harada, most well known for his work on the Tekken fighting series, is heading up development for a new project at Bandai Namco that just might have the highest development budget in the company's history.  Harata, who currently serves as general manager, director, and producer, for Bandai Namco, recently hinted at the new project during the " Piro Live! New Year’s Eve Special 2021 " livestream event (translation via Gematsu ). While he didn't reveal any specifics about what the game is, aside from saying it's not a fighting game, Harata did express surprise that company higher-ups approved a project of this scale.  "Well, honestly I think this might be the most costly development project in Bandai Namco history,” Harada said during the event. "I think its incredible that the higher-ups approved of this. Well, the approval has passed, its just that due to the coronavirus, we haven’t really been able to properly start the project." Whe...

  Studio Ghibli kicked off 2020 with its annual illustration   by Hayao Miyazaki, visualizing the Year of the Rat back when we had no idea what said year had in store for us. Now Ghibli is back with the brand new illustration for 2021 pictured above, which has the Year of the Ox stomping out a mask-clad 2020 with the hope of a better year ahead of us all.   Best of all, the art was posted via Studio Ghibli's brand new Twitter account , @JP_GHIBLI , which promises to share new info on projects and events, so stay tuned for more!   Happy New Year everyone! We have just started Studio Ghibli's official Twitter account. We will be sharing information about new works and small events happen at the studio. Please check here for latest updates. https://t.co/0RLxifZMkD — STUDIO GHIBLI (@JP_GHIBLI) December 31, 2020     ------- Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine . You can read his brand new comic, MONSTER FLIGHT , at s...