News by Matt S. Bandai Namco is localising Record of Grancrest War: Quartet of War as Record of Grancrest War: Quartet Conflict in the west. This action JRPG, based on a popular anime franchise, will be available at some point through “fall 2018” (so, spring for those of us in…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. inXile is ramping up to the release of The Bard’s Tale IV later in September (for PC, 2018 for console), and has released a delightful new trailer that really shows off what this game is banking on; that you’ll fall in love with the wacky and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Utawarerumono really impressed us last year in offering a lovely mix of visual novel and tactics JRPG, and it seems to have resonated on a large enough scale that the developers are building on its vision; there’s an action JRPG on the way, called Utawarerumono Zan,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I can’t think of a more perfect match-up then Reigns, a game all about deconstructing the realpolitik, and Game of Thrones, which serves as a savage interpretation. And now that dream team-up is actually happening, with HBO partnering with Devolver Digital to create Reigns: Game of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Labyrinth of Refrain is a Nippon Ichi-developed dungeon crawler that melds that company’s love of fairy tales (think Witch and the Hundred Knight) with the first person dungeon crawler (think Wizardry). Think enough about that combination and you’ll quickly realise that this is one exciting prospect.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I already have RPG Maker MV on my PC, and that version lets people delve into the code and export commercial projects for PC… and even iPad if you so wish. And yet I can’t wait to get into RPG Maker MV on Nintendo Switch. Much…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Space Hulk: Tactics, in development by the ever-reliable Cyanide (Blood Bowl demonstrating that the team understands how to do Games Workshop), is looking like it might just be one of the best release based on a Games Workshop property in quite some time. Now we have…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One way to get my attention really fast is to claim that you’re making a “serene and evocative narrative experience.” Not only are you focusing on the bit of video games that I enjoy the most (the narrative), but you’re also using words that are very……
Read MoreNews by Matt S. There’s a new trailer for the CE-Asia-published Banner of the Maid, which we just had to share, because it looks awesome. This trailer was debuted at ChinaJoy 2018, a games expo held in China (funny that), so it’s all in one of the Chinese languages (sorry,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. “Welcome to the job” is the kind of tag line that could go so, so wrong for a video game. Games aren’t meant to be jobs, after all. And yet, it’s an appropriate tag line for Football Manager and, further to that, these games are somehow…
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