News by Matt S. Anima Project has quietly been building up a steady following for its series based on the Anima: Beyond Fantasy tabletop pen-and-paper RPG. Anima: Ark of Sinners was the first, released on Nintendo Wii almost a decade ago, and then Anima: Gate of Memories, for PlayStation 4,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We’re a bit late with covering this, but we weren’t invited to a preview session for Cyberpunk 2077 late last week and as a result, by the time we’d noticed the news it was the end of the week. But there’s been a lot: firstly, media…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo and its developer, Gust, has announced Ciel nosurge: Ode to a Lost Star DX and Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star DX; two releases that were originally on PlayStation Vita and Vita/PlayStation 3, respectively. There’s nothing more than the announcement that these games…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. D3 Publisher continues to demonstrate that Earth Defence Force is one of the most creative and criminally under-appreciated properties out there. The company has shared a new trailer for the next entry into the series – World Brothers – and this thing is just amazing. See,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Idol Manager has been plugging along as an indie project and in beta on Itch.io for quite some time now. The good news is that its horizons have expanded even further, as publisher, Playism, has picked up the rights to it. It will be getting a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The granddaddy of the Mystery Dungeon roguelike is finally making its way to Nintendo Switch, and that release isn’t very far away in the west at all. Spike Chunsoft has announced that Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate (what an…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you had played the Yomawari series then you probably were interested to see what the director, Mizokami Yu, would come up with next. They are two of the most distinctive, interesting horror games in the past decade, after all. You probably weren’t imaging a punk…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Kingdom Hearts is a terrible, terrible series. It’s so in love with its own lore that it is impossibly lost within it, and putting to focus so completely on that (intensely dull) lore has come at the expense of everything the series could have been doing…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Scarlet Nexus is one of the more interesting next gen games that has been announced to date. Coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X, as well as PS4, Xbox One and PC (so I’m not sure it’s worth the console upgrade in itself) it’s being developed…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Softstar Entertainment has released a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming Xuan-Yuan VII. It’s due for release this year, and while this action-RPG does look a little clumsy in places, I am really digging the aesthetics and premise of the thing. As the game’s description goes:…
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