DualShockers Weekly News: April 10th To April 16th Recap

Character models are animated through a system of joints that we call "bones." Each of these colorful lines is one of the boss’s bones. She has 364 bones in total – 249 in her body, plus another 115 in cloth details like her cape and dress. The metal skirt that makes up her lower body is collapsed in this view, so it’s covered by her cloth dress

Like all the machine lifeforms in NieR: Automata, this character is made of rough, raw metal. Keeping her consistent with similar characters while also giving her a uniquely feminine atmosphere was pretty tough!

But alas, we have only one award to give, and Battlefield 1 's absolutely stunning and extremely fun desert map brings it home. And the horses... oh the horses... They're unbelievably fun. If you see one available on the battlefield, grab it.

During a livestream on Twitch hosted by several members of Naughty Dog, tons of new information was revealed about upcoming PS4 exclusive Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End : gameplay, length and difficulty of the game, photo mode and much more. You can read about it in the article.

They're also rather hellish to descend, because Steep is not an easy game. After all, you're tackling the Alps. It's supposed to be a challenge, and the game definitely doesn't shy away from putting a tree in your flight path.

I made this concept art of an abandoned city by painting over a screenshot of the area as it looked in the unfinished game. Environmental concept art like this serves as a solid guideline for the team that makes all the environmental models. I originally painted this cityscape with much darker colors – though the weather was always pretty nice! In the end, I decided that it didn’t match the overall feeling of NieR: Automata very well, so I brightened it up to what you see here.

We know that many of you are eargerly expecting to see more of upcoming PS4 exclusive NieR: Automata . Well, look no further. During the NieR Music Concert & Talk Live event set in Tokyo, Director Taro Yoko and Producer Yosuke Saito introduced the first live gameplay, which looks absolutely awesome. If you want to see YoRHa 2B and YoRHa 9S in action, make sure to watch the videos in the article.

Weekly Famitsu featured this week the first two packs of DLC bikinis for PS4 and PS Vita exclusive Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 . Much to your astonishment (or not), they reveal quite a lot of the lovely heroines' body. You can see more of them in the article, but be sure not to read this at work.


And that's it for this year's Tokyo Game Show. As usual, it was a ton of fun, with 49,536 steps walked on a bruised ankle (because some genius decided that it was fun to bump on me at full speed with an overloaded luggage cart at the airport). That said, the show doesn't end just yet on DualShockers, as we still have a metric ton of content to deliver. Look forward to it over the next few d


NieR: Automata  will release in Japan for PS4 on February 23rd, in North America on March 7th, and in Europe on March 10th, 2017. A PC version is also scheduled to come next year, but no release window has been announced for that one. It's definitely a hotly anticipated game. It won our staff-pick for Most Anticipated Game of 2017 , and it ranked third among our read
In an action game, the response time between when a player pushes a button and when their attack is performed has to feel great. To improve this response time, we use a special tool to fine-tune when each animation can be canceled into other actions, and occasionally even make subtle adjustments to their total speed. We have to be careful, though – if the animators catch us changing the speed too much, they get pretty mad…

Since the Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV event which occurred a couple of weeks ago, Director Hajime Tabata has been giving away several additional information that were not covered before. During an interview with the French site JeuxVidéo, he talked about some interesting aspects of the game such as DLC, frame rate and PC version. You can read all the relevant info in the article.

After a bit of tweaking, we try it out and see how it feels. Then we tweak again, and test again, then tweak again, then… It’s repetitive work, but all this testing is essential to make NieR: Automata feel exactly as it should. Sometimes we end up spending an entire day just working out the perfect way to position enemies in a single fight scene!

Another Pokémon is coming (well, technically two but...), and the content keeps piling up. From what we have seen so far, it's destined to kick everyone's rear in the fall Japanese charts for the traditional couple of months.

What games have you been playing this weekend? Did you heavily praise the sun after dying for the 9999th time in the newly released Dark Souls III? Did you give a chance to the open beta of Doom and destroyed demons all night long? Let us know!