News by Matt S. As anyone who knows me knows, I rather like when eroticism and dark narratives combine. Heck, I’ve even written a visual novel along those lines myself. It doesn’t happen all that often in the games industry because video games remain reticent in dealing with erotic themes…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Unfortunately, it’s not really. The original Phantom Doctrine was a particularly good “XCOM clone”; many would actually prefer it to XCOM itself. With its Cold War setting and espionage themes, Phantom Doctrine was a significant enough digression from XCOM to be its own thing, and showed…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I love Rin Tohsaka. I love Rin very very much. So I’m looking forward to Fate/Extra Record… though who knows if this thing will ever get a western release. Fate/Extra was originally released on the PSP back in 2010, and then ported to western markets starting…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Brave Pinball takes JRPGs and pinball and smooshes them together like you’d smoosh two totally incompatible characters together in a fan fiction… and it looks great. Developed by Apollosoft and Power Unit, the game will release on Steam on August 4, and will support English, Japanese,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Phew, it’s good to know that this game is getting a local release. Sakuna: Of Rice and Rain is a really (really) good looking game on the way for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Now, thanks to the good folk at Marvelous Europe, we can confirm…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I know we already went over this with the original Danganronpa releasing on mobile, but where’s our Switch port of the series, Spike Chunsoft? Danganronpa 2 is so good, too. Many would go as far as to say that the second was the peak for the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA’s upcoming Giraffe and Annike is looking like a true delight. As a gorgeous 3D adventure game with charming animal-like characters to interact with, and rhythm game-based action and drama it looks like it will be a vivid, highly fulfilling game when it releases on PlayStation…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. You may not have heard of Spiders Studio before. You should have, but the studio is infamous for making games that have a B-tier level of jank and clumsiness to the gameplay, so a lot of people have dismissed them for a long time on that…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Devolver Digital and developer, Flying Wild Hog, have announced the third in the Shadow Warrior series, which Flying Wild Hog picked up and rebooted back in 2014. This announcement came with a trailer that is… well, classic Shadow Warrior stuff. Shadow Warrior is irreverent, to put…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Le sigh. If you want any more proof that game publishers are more than willing to throw the heritage of their beloved properties under the bus in order to make a quick buck, let’s look at Worms Rumble. Worms is a series of clever turn-based tactical…
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