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Hi Fi Rush struck a chord with its Game Pass stealth drop – here’s how Tango Gameworks made music matter

April 17, 2023VG247

Director John Johanas speak to us about the origin of the idea, the gruelling task of using licensed music , and Game Pass. Hi-Fi Rush is brilliant. That’s our review. Consider it a brief follow up to our initial impressions piece from earlier this year. Back then, Alex Donaldson stated it could be one of the best games of the year. Months later… he’s still right. If there’s on thing that’s on repeat in my head even now, it’s the amazing work the ensemble at Tango Gameworks did when it comes down to the game’s relationship with music. It’s not…

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Ghostwire: Tokyo has added new stuff, and I have a tourism tip for new players

April 15, 2023RockPaperShotgun

If you’re starting playing Ghostwire: Tokyo after it came to Game Pass this week, I have a hot tip for you: prioritise upgrading movement abilities. The freedom to glide from rooftop to rooftop over haunted Tokyo will bring you so much more joy than any incremental damage upgrade. That’s the most important thing I have to say, that it makes for good virtuatourism. Oh, and I suppose a free content arrived this week too, adding new side-missions, handy new combat abilities, and a new “rogue-lite” mode. The update, uh, apparently also added Denuvo, over a year after the game launched?…

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Ghostwire: Tokyo is now available on Xbox, alongside new Spider’s Thread update

April 12, 2023VG247

New areas to explore, side missions to complete, and more. Ghostwire: Tokyo is now available to purchase for Xbox Series X/S, and if you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, you can give Tango Gameworks ghoulish title a try for free. In addition, the game is also playable via PlayStation Plus, and an all-new Spider’s Thread update is now available for the game. Catch a small teaser for Ghostwire: Tokyo’s Spider’s Thread update here. The Spider’s Thread update for Ghostwire: Tokyo adds a brand-new rogue-lite mode to the game, on top of some additions to the game’s base campaign. During the…

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Join us for our first RPS Game Club liveblog this Thursday

March 28, 2023RockPaperShotgun

Come one, come all to our very first RPS Game Club liveblog session about this month’s chosen pick, Hi-Fi Rush. We’ll be piling into a liveblog on Thursday March 30th at 4pm BST (that’s 9am PDT / 11am EDT), so please do come and join us to talk about what you loved most about Tango Gameworks’ infectious rhythm action brawler. Read more

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Introducing the RPS Game Club’s first game of the month – it’s Hi-Fi Rush!

March 1, 2023RockPaperShotgun

A new thing for RPS in 2023 is the RPS Game Club, a kind of monthly book club for games where we pick a game to play each month, write some cool things about it, and have a big all liveblog discussion with you lot, our readers, at the end of it. It’s a project I’ve been wanting to get off the ground for some time now, and finally, the Treehouse Game Club doors have been busted open… and there’s some toe-tapping guitar music coming from inside? That’s right, we’re playing Hi-Fi Rush as our first RPS Game Club game,…

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Resident Evil creator, Shinji Mikami, is reportedly leaving Tango Gameworks

February 23, 2023VG247

Mikami founded Tango Gameworks in 2010. In an internal email sent to ZeniMax employees and shared by TrueAchievements, it has come to light that Shinji Mikami is reportedly leaving Tango Gameworks. The email comes from Bethesda’s senior vice president, Todd Vaughn, and reveals that Shinji Mikami will be leaving the company after 12 years. “I am writing today to let you know that studio head Shinji Mikami has decided to lead Tango Gameworks in the coming months,” Vaughn explained. Check out the trailer for Hi-FI Rush here, which recently hit Xbox Game Pass. Having been in the games’ industry for…

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VG247’s The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.38: The best game you’d never believe was from that developer

February 10, 2023VG247

Sometimes a game developer just goes off-piste, and the results are wonderful. Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 38 – The best game you’d never believe was from that developer. Hi-Fi Rush is a joyous cel-shaded rush of a rhythm combat game with a tone and art style not unlike Jet Set Radio, and it’s surprising, because it comes from a studio most widely known for Evil Within, a spiritual follow-up to Resident Evil, and Ghostwire Tokyo, which is sort of like Far Cry: Shibuya via Siren Blood Curse. It’s not the only example of a surprising or…

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Xbox’s Hi-Fi Rush has that Dreamcast era vibe, and it could be one of the best games of the year

January 26, 2023VG247

The latest Xbox Game Pass surprise drop has a really retro feel to it – and that is a very good thing. Time is ever-flowing, but it’s also undoubtedly a flat circle. Trends come and go, and loop back around, and here we are – it’s the year of our lord 2023, and a time portal has just opened above our heads and dropped a Dreamcast classic into our laps. Or a GameCube classic, to be fair – it feels like it’d be most at home on either of those. The point is, the latest first-party addition to Xbox Game…

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Hi-Fi Rush is the new game from the makers of Evil Within and it’s out now

January 25, 2023RockPaperShotgun

So those Tango Gameworks leaks turned out to be true. After repeatedly stating that this evening’s Xbox Developer Direct would feature just four games, it turned out to contain four. Hi-Fi Rush is a new third-person rhythm action brawler from the makers of Evil Within and Ghostwhire: Tokyo. It’s a substantial departure from their previous games in terms of style – although there’s an even bigger surprse. The bigger surprise is it’s out now, so you can play it via Game Pass right away. Read more

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The next title from Tango Gameworks has leaked ahead of tomorrow’s Developer Direct

January 24, 2023VG247

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Microsoft is probably a bit perturbed. A new title from Tango Gameworks is in development, and Microsoft plans to announce it tomorrow during its developer showcase, according to a report. It has, however, leaked ahead of time. The title of the game is said to be called Hi-Fi Rush or Project Hibiki, and the game was brought to light by leaker BillbilKun from Dealabs. Ghostwire: Tokyo – Official Gameplay Deep Dive A Reddit states that Rand al Thor on the…

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The Evil Within 2 is one of your free Games with Prime this month

January 4, 2023VG247

Six in all to help you ring in 2023. Amazon has announced the six games you will get this month through Games with Prime. The headliner for January is The Evil Within 2. If you have never played it, in the Tango Gameworks title, you star as a detective who must rely on his wits to survive the “nightmarish world” of STEM to save his daughter Lily. The Evil Within 2 Launch Trailer In the game, a person’s mind is being used as a “Core,” and this person builds and controls the world you have entered. This Core so happens…

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The Evil Within 2 headlines Amazon Prime’s January 2023 game freebies

January 4, 2023RockPaperShotgun

You can grab free games from every corner of the internet these days. Well, that’s if you consider ‘at no extra cost’ free. One such place is Amazon Prime, where members can claim and keep six free games from now until the end of the month, with 2017 horror The Evil Within 2 leading the pack. The other freebies are Elsewhere, Breathedge, Beat Cop, Faraway 2, Lawn Mowing Simulator, and Chicken Police – Paint it RED! Read more

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The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 18th

December 18, 2022RockPaperShotgun

On the eighteenth day of our Advent Calendar you find yourself curiously, suddenly alone. A fog rolled through town and suddenly everyone has disappeared. Oh, wait, that looks like a bunch of school kids over there, maybe they’ll hel- OH GOD OH NO. Read more

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Ghostwire: Tokyo haunted by game-breaking black screens on the Steam Deck

March 25, 2022RockPaperShotgun

I’ve spent the past three days trying to get Ghostwire: Tokyo running on the Steam Deck, and have been thwarted every time by an impassable black screen that appears immediately after the opening cutscene: a failure of the next cutscene to roll correctly. Despite a possible fix being available, this has yet to work for me either, and now that the game has fully released it seems I’m not alone in my suffering. Read more

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