News by Matt S. NISA has been busy this week. In addition to the big reveal of The Longest Five Minutes, the publisher has also unleashed a new trailer that gives us a closer look at how Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors will play. Related reading: Matt’s review of the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Well, here’s a nice announcement to have come from Gamescom for fans of the Diablo-style RPG. Kalypso Media, the publisher behind a number of our pet favourite PlayStation 4 games (including Tropico 5, Grand Ages: Medieval, and Dungeons 2), has announced that it has teamed up…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Active Gaming Media is bringing one of Goichi Suda’s earlier works, The Silver Case (actually, his very first game), to the west for the first time later on this year. The Silver Case is a detective mystery game, with Suda’s usual penchant for the strange and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Fruitbat Factory is one of my favourite localisation houses. The team specialises in bringing over ultra-niche games from Japan, and are perhaps best known for Eiyuu Senki, the tactics strategy game on the PlayStation 3 that absolutely wowed us in that console’s twilight. Related reading: Matt’s…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Well, that’s what it boils down to anyway. Team17 have released a new trailer for its upcoming Worms W.M.D. This trailer highlights the game’s hand-drawn environments, including buildings where Worms can be found hiding — or booby-trapping. There are two takeaways from the trailer. First, these…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Blizzard has unveiled its latest character that will be added to the Overwatch cast. Her name is Ana, and she sounds awesome. Ana is a sniper, and a support character. Her main weapon is a gun that heals allies, and also deals ongoing (i.e. poison) damage…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Back in April I posted about This Is The Police, a moral choice strategy adventure by Weappy (I missed the bandwagon for the original Kickstarter campaign). Then I heard nothing, and so I began weeping into my pillow at night while longing for further information about…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Spiders’ The Technomancer is set to to release (July 28 in North America, July 30 in Australia) courtesy of the developer’s usual partner, Focus Home Interactive. I’m not going to lie, normally a game with a name like The Technomancer would have me running in the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. XSEED had a heck of an E3, with titles such as Shantae, Corpse Party, Trails of Cold Steel‘s sequel, and Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns all showing the publisher’s versatility, and its understanding of the kind of niche experiences that people want to play. Among…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Focus Home Interactive and Deck13 (the developer behind Lords of the Fallen) are busy at work on a science fiction action RPG called The Surge. The E3 trailer for this game is brief, at less than a minute in length, but it’s enough to catch our…
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