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Bandai Namco Says Goodbye To Tales of the Rays This May


Posted on March 30, 2018 by Rae Michelle Richards

A mobile only entry in the long running Tale of series, Tale of the Rays, will see the “Worldwide” version (read: international editions outside of Japan) end service just 15 months after launch. Originally released in February 2017 on iOS and Android, Tales of the Rays stars two brand new playable characters – Ix and Mileena – who must discover their true potential and the mystery behind Chiral Particles.

Billed by Bandai Namco as a “console quality experience”, Tales of the Rays allowed players to well known Tales of characters from across the franchises’ 23 year history. In practice, the game looked the part of a polished JRPG complete with voice acting and cinematic but the limitations of touch screen controls and up to 5 different forms of micro-transaction currency (!!) didn’t do the game any favors.

As announced on the official North American Tales of the Rays Facebook, service for the game will end on May 29th, 2018:

[Important] Tales of the Rays is Shutting Down 

We regret to announce the closure of Tales of the Rays. Thank you all for your support and we hope you enjoyed playing. We will be keeping the servers open until 20:00 PDT May 29, 2018, so please continue to enjoy Tales of the Rays until the very end.

All items can be used until the last day, so if you have any items or Mirrogems in your account, please use them before May 29, 2018. Also, from today, we are disabling the purchase of Mirrogems.

For more information, please check in-game announcements.

*The exact time service will no longer be available may vary depending on your region.

Despite its use of “gacha” forms of microtransaction for random weapon drops, Tales of the Rays, did build quite a fan following across the globe in the short time it has been out. Players took to twitter to vent their frustrations about the game’s closure – including some who posted Change.ORG petitions to plead with Namco Bandai to keep the game open.

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New Pokémon GO nearby feature rolled out to rest of North America


Posted on November 30, 2016 by Jason Nason

Niantic announced today that they have rolled out their revamped nearby Pokémon feature for Pokémon GO to the rest of the continental United States and large parts of Europe today. The roll out includes the rest of Canada as well.

The new nearby Pokémon feature now includes the nearest PokéStop to the Pokémon, and zooms in to show more detail when tapped. You can also tap on the tracks on this screen and the game shifts to an overhead map briefly to show you approximately where you can find the Pokémon. The map then reverts to the normal view, however a marker is now visible on the map.

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Digimon Heroes! updated to include PVP


Posted on May 23, 2016 by Jason Nason

Bandai Namco announced a monstrous update to Digimon Heroes! that adds new player-vs-player (PvP) gameplay to the card battle game that features over 1,000 Digimon. Starting today, players can jump into weekly PvP arena events, where they can battle against all the best players to win special prizes, rewards, and arena points.

During each PvP arena event, players will compete in the Global, Daily and Friends Leaderboards to win prizes and increase their rankings. The top players can collect rewards in a variety of ways if they dare enter the PvP Arena. First, they’ll find a list of five opponents and be awarded a random gift for defeating them all. They can also win prizes for reaching arena point thresholds. Lastly, the top-ranked players on the leaderboard will get even more rewards at the end of each event.

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