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Niche News of the Week

• Silent Hills is Officially Cancelled
• Food Wars is Getting a Nintendo 3DS Game this Winter
• Koji Igarashi’s Castlevania Spiritual Successor is Revealed as Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Imageepoch has Declared Bankruptcy
• April 2015 NPD – Xbox One Tops Playstation 4 in Sales
• Deadly Premonition Creator Working on Detective Story Where Masturbating = Solving Mysteries
• D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die is Coming to PC
• Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition Announced
• Gust Reveals Yoru no Nai Kuni for PS3, PS4, and PS Vita
• Dragon Quest VIII is Coming to the Nintendo 3DS
• Ragnarok Online Spiritual Successor Tree of Savior is on Steam Greenlight
• Bandai Namco Files Trademarks for Tales of Alestia, Beseria, and Orfellia
• The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 is Revealed
• Grandia II Coming to Steam, Port Based off Dreamcast Version

Topic of the Week

What the hell is going on at Konami? Are they moving entirely to mobile development in a bid for quick cash? Are they abandoning their fans, and the creators which made their games worldwide icons? What’s going on with Hideo Kojima, and why are they making a real attempt to stop discussion of the allegations behind the creator and his studio?

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