Siliconera Sunday, December 31, 2023 11:00 PM
The Dynasty Warriors series' development team from Koei Tecmo's Omega Force published its 2024 New Year's Card. The team has been known for sharing a new card with a Chinese zodiac animal theme every New Year's Day. As 2024 is also the Year of the Dragon, it features characters closely related to the mythical creature.
Two of the most closely related characters are Zhao Yun, whose courtesy name "Zilong" includes the "Long" hanzi letter meaning "Dragon," and Zhuge Liang, who is also known as the "Sleeping Dragon." Omega Force also put Guan Yu and Ma Chao into the picture, since the team used the Dragon as a motif for both characters' outfits. All four characters in this card are affiliated with Liu Bei's kingdom of Shu.
The card also features a message from the series' producer Akihiro Suzuki. He noted that Koei Tecmo's own Dynasty Warriors mobile game will have its third anniversary in March 2024. However, he also apologized deeply for failing to release information about a new console game for two years straight since 2022. The new mobile game Dynasty Warriors M released in late 2023 did not count, since it came from an external development by Nexon. Suzuki added that his team might still need more time to prepare the new game, although he really wanted to make the reveal in 2024.
The card only appears on New Year's Day on the series' portal site. However, Akihiro Suzuki also made a post on the Japanese official Dynasty Warriors X account. The tweet is available to view right below:
Omega Force based the character outfits in this 2024 New Year's Card on Dynasty Warriors 9, the series' latest mainline entry to date which came out in 2018. The latest console game is Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires, which Koei Tecmo released on the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC worldwide between December 2021 and February 2022.
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Siliconera Sunday, December 31, 2023 10:30 PM
Yamato Takeru, the Saber-class Servant from Fate/Samurai Remnant, appeared in the Japanese version of Fate/Grand Order. Type-Moon revealed at the very end of its Fate Project New Year's Eve 2023 TV program that the character would join the mobile game on January 1, 2024. Players in the Japanese server have confirmed that a new gacha banner featuring the Servant appeared right at midnight in Japan's time zone.
This character debuted in Fate/Samurai Remnant, an action RPG available on the PS5, PS4, Switch, and PC. As the Servant of the game's protagonist, official outlets had to keep the true identity under wraps shortly after the game came out in late September 2023. Type-Moon formally removed the restriction after it published an interview on the game's official website on December 22, 2023.
Type-Moon has also uploaded a new TV commercial video on Fate/Grand Order's YouTube channel. The last five seconds of this fifteen-second-long trailer features Yamato Takeru. The video is also available to watch right below:
The new addition of Yamato Takeru marks another inclusion of a key Servant from a Fate console game into Fate/Grand Order. In June 2022, Type-Moon and Lasengle added Charlemagne, the Saber-class Servant who is also the protagonist of Fate/Extella Link. The latter is a hack-and-slash action game that is available immediately on PS4, PS Vita, Switch, PC, Android, and iOS devices.
Fate/Grand Order is available worldwide on Android and iOS mobile devices. The Saber-class Servant Yamato Takeru appeared in the game's Japanese version on January 1, 2024.
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Siliconera Sunday, December 31, 2023 10:00 PM
Koei Tecmo and Omega Force released a trailer for the upcoming first DLC pack for Fate/Samurai Remnant. The DLC will be called Record's Fragment: Keian Command Championship and is set to release sometime in February 2024.
The trailer features Gilgamesh, King of Heroes and textile wholesaler, announcing that he "seized control over [the] fates" of various masters and servants from the game. Details are sparse but he seems to be holding a kind of formal tournament variation on the Waxing Moon ritual. We will also have to wait and see whether this DLC story will be set concurrently with the main Fate/Samurai Remnant story or exist as separate, alternate timeline-type situation.
Gilgamesh is a recurring servant in the Fate franchise based on the historical Babyolonian king of the same name, appearing in the original Fate/Stay Night visual novel as a potential antagonist. In Fate/Samurai Remnant he appears as a rogue Ruler class servant running a shop in Edo called 'Babyloni-ya".
You can watch the trailer via Youtube below:
Fate/Samurai Remnant released back in September, 2023, with a recent update adding a Battle Recollection mode that makes several rogue and enemy servants playable. The game's early development and designs were also discussed by illustrators Takashi Takeuchi and Rei Wataru in an interview with Famitsu in October.
The first volume of DLC for Fate/Samurai Remnant is available as part of the season pass and will release in February 2024. The base game is readily available for PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5.
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Siliconera Sunday, December 31, 2023 9:30 PM
Type-Moon and ufotable published the second teaser trailer for the upcoming movie anime adaptation of Witch on the Holy Night. As previously promised, the studios aired the trailer right after the Fate Project New Year's Eve TV program had concluded in Japan.
When ufotable published the first trailer in December 2021, it only showed a simple scene of Aoko Aozaki and Alice Kuonji gazing through a starry night sky on a field of flowers. The new second trailer features more locations and action scenes. It concludes by showing Aoko unleashing a powerful magic attack.
However, ufotable has still yet to announce a release window for this movie. The large Japanese text at the end of this trailer simply informs that the movie anime's production is still in progress.
The new teaser trailer for the Witch on the Holy Night movie is also available to watch below, via Aniplex's YouTube channel:
The movie anime adaptation of Witch on the Holy Night is still under production with no release window announced yet. The title originated as a visual novel that Type-Moon released for PCs in Japan in 2012. Aniplex released an enhanced version with Japanese voice acting and an English subtitle option worldwide on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in December 2022, as well as PC via Steam in December 2023.
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