News by Matt S.When it rains, it pours. We just got a duo of excellent detective noir visual novels from Nintendo in Famicom Detective Club, and now maverick publisher, PQube, has a big announcement to follow up on that; its detective otome VN, Bustafellows, will release on PC and Nintendo…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Pixel XCOM, by way of the Indiana Jones aesthetic, Pathway, is a good-looking game indeed. Published by Chucklefish and developed by Robotality, the game release on PC back in 2019, and now it’s on its way to consoles with a Nintendo Switch release. From the game’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The original Valthirian Arc was a pretty decent little game. It wasn’t something completely memorable, but as we noted in our review: “Valthirian Arc: Hero School offers a quaint, if not overly original concept… It’s easy to pick up and play for short bursts, and as…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The quality of Dungeons & Dragons games has been up and down over the years, but Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was one of the better ones. While it shares its name with the greatest western RPG ever, Dark Alliance isn’t the same kind of turn-based narrative-driven…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Developed by Deconstructeam (what a name) and Devolver Digital, Essays on Empathy looks like exactly the kind of narrative-driven experience that I want to support. Releasing on PC next month (May 18), Essays on Empathy is a compilation of ten short stories about life. As per…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Team17 is most closely associated with Worms (and, these days, The Escapists), but the company has steadily built itself up as a publisher of a wide range of different kinds of game experiences. Indeed, Team17 was responsible for publishing one of my favourite simulators in recent…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I do so love Rin Tohsaka. And also I love Everyday Today’s Menu for Emiya Family. For those that don’t know, this is a spin-off of the Fate series, and while Fate goes some incredibly dark places, Everyday Today’s Menu is bright, wholesome, and a truly…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It has been a tough time to be a fan of the Tales series. Where once Bandai Namco was reliably turning them out, things seemed to unravel a little with Tales of Arise, which has seemed like it was on the horizon forever and a day.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s always nice to wake up to good news. Capcom has announced that The Great Ace Attorney series – that being 1 and 2 – will be coming to the west for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC (via Steam). Now for those who haven’t…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Song of Horror has done alright for itself over on PC. Across the five chapters released for the game, it has had an 83 per cent positive user review score across nearly 1,000 reviews. Now the game’s coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. What’s more,…
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