News by Britta S. Paris-based indie outfit, Sloclap, and publisher, Devolver Digital, have announced the formal release date for Absolver. Billed as an ‘online melee action game’, it will release on PlayStation 4 and PC on August 29th. The devs also tossed a brand-new combat overview trailer our way, showcasing…
Read MoreNews by Britta S. Koei Tecmo has announced the launch of Atelier Firis: the Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey to our humble English-speaking world. The game will release physically and digitally for PlayStation 4, digitally for PS Vita, and for PC via Steam on 7 March in North America and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I’m actually too tired to do proper news articles on these announcements that were made today (lots more to share from here in Japan in the coming days, see), but I felt compelled to stick up these two trailers for DDNet readers, because both games have…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. This War of Mine is an incredible, intense, important game. Taking place within the context of a war, the game gave us a completely different look at war, compared with the heroic nonsense of the Call of Duty and Battlefield games. In This War of Mine,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Black Lab Games’ Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a really, really good tactics strategy game. In both my reviews of the PC and iOS versions I lauded the game for its in-depth tactics system, as well as the way it captures the visual aesthetic of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Okay, so licensed games don’t have a great reputation, but here’s the thing; there’s actually a couple of movie licensed RPGs that I really enjoy. EA, when it had the license for the Lord of the Rings films (sadly now expired, because EA did great work…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. You’ve got to hand it to the French; they really do know their transgressive art. A new game, in development by Paris-based startup Le Cartel, is promising something truly… extreme… in terms of its content. To be published by Devolver Digital on September 5 on PC,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Some good news out of Australia today; Armello, the utterly brilliant little digital board game, is finally coming to the Microsoft Xbox One. But, even better than that (for those of us that already own the game on PlayStation 4), there’s an extensive DLC pack on…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Dead or Alive 5 has surely been a spectacular money spinner for Koei Tecmo. The original game was released four years ago now, back in 2012, and since then we’ve seen no less of three re-releases of that game, DLC characters, and an endless supply of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. SEGA has today released a new trailer for the upcoming PlayStation 4/ PlayStation Vita rhythm game, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X. We’ve had the Vita version of the game for some months as an import from Japan, but after realising how well Miku turns out on…
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