Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom has been delayed again, Bandai Namco announced on Tuesday, December 12. The sequel to the wonderful PlayStation 3 RPG Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch had been slated to launch January 19, 2018, but will now arrive March 23.
In a note explaining the delay, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino pointed to a pair of features new to Revenant Kingdom — kingdom building and skirmish. Kingdom building, central to the game’s plot, lets players recruit citizens and build their kingdom from the ground up. The real-time strategy skirmish mode features large-scale cross-kingdom battles. Both of those important modes apparently weren’t ready for primetime just yet.
“However, with innovation and new ideas come the need to ensure everything works together in a fun and cohesive package; this means we’ll need a bit more time to make sure the entire Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom experience meets Level-5 and Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.’s high quality standards,” Hino wrote.
Although only a two month delay, this is the second time Revenant Kingdom has been pushed back. A month after announcing a November 10 launch at E3, Level-5 moved Revenant Kingdom to January. If you combine the separate delays, it’s just four months, but one has to worry about a pattern forming.
The game takes place a century after Wrath of the White Witch and features a whole new cast of characters. You play as Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, the boy king of Ding Dong Dell’s cat tribe who is removed from power by the rival mouse tribe at the start of the game. Evan then sets out to prove he is fit to rule by building his own kingdom.
The game retains the Studio Ghibli style visuals from Wrath of the White Witch and Joe Hisaishi, who scored numerous Ghibli movies, composed the soundtrack. While aesthetically similar, Level-5 has claimed that Revenant Kingdom has more western RPG influence than its predecessor. The capturing and training of familiars (basically Pokémon) was replaced by the kingdom-building features.
Level-5 promised to share more Revenant Kingdom information as we get closer to the new launch date. Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom launches March 23 on Buy Now and PC.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.