Developer, J.R. Hudepohl, and publisher Top Hat Studios have shared a new trailer for the upcoming Labyrinth of the Demon King – a retro-style horror game with a particularly gritty aesthetic. Based on the trailer, it’s “found footage” dialed up to 11, and even from the trailer alone there is…
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Sky Oceans: Wings For Hire is the latest loving homage to the JRPGs of yesteryear. It’s being published by PQube, and there’s a new trailer that’s very much a “spot the references/homages” affair. It’s a game that takes place in the skies (no, not of Arcadia, although…). It’s structured very…
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You can always rely on eastasiasoft to publish interesting indie games. And at remarkable speed. It’s hard to think of a more prolific publisher. Dead of Darkness is the latest one, and this is an ambitious game in so many ways. Developed by Retrofiction, Dead of Darkness is a horror…
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You’ll be able to make more JRPGs to share with your buddies right on your Nintendo Switch in just a few months. NISA has announced that RPG Maker WITH will release on October 11 for Switch, with a PS4 and PS5 version coming later in the year. There’s already an…
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Infinity Nikki looks like the kind of open-world game that I actually want to play. It’s setting itself to be an adorable, whimsical game about playing dress-ups rather than murder, and it has every chance to dominate its space (mostly because it’s the only game in it, as far as…
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It feels like a long time since Koei Tecmo announced its last Dynasty Warriors game. They’re usually so prolific, but the last one (Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires) was an early 2022 release. So it’s actually quite big news that the next Dynasty Warriors has finally been announced, and it is…
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Aksys has a habit of finding the most wonderful visual novels to localise… and Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch looks like it continues that form. This is a coming-of-age story mixed in with a “mystery stretching back hundreds of years.” It also looks like it has some light…
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Maurice Leblanc’s Arsene Lupin is often considered to be the literary foil to Sherlock Holmes. Where the great detective solved crimes, Lupin, the great “gentlemen thief,” commits them. Despite his enduring popularity as a literary character, Studio Ghibli film, and references across any number of games (including Persona 5), though,…
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You can’t talk about ink in video games without someone bringing up Splatoon. But Realm of Ink is a very different beast. It’s coming to Early Access on PC on May 17, courtesy of dual developers, Leap Studio and Maple Leaf Studio. The publisher is 663 games. Realm of Ink…
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Critical Hit Games, in partnership with PLAION, has formally announced Nobody Wants to Die, a futuristic noir mystery game coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC via Steam this year. To put it bluntly: Hell yes. If there’s one thing that I will always be down for, it’s the…
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