Grizzly Man is the fourth title in LCB Game Studio’s Pixel Pulps series, beginning a second trilogy titled “Pixel Pulps DTV Collection.” (DTV is short for direct-to-video.) It is a psychedelic slasher game about a former MIB agent who was severely injured in a mysterious attack, waking up with full amnesia. Ten years later, he is working as a field…
Game collections are all the rage these days, and are becoming increasingly something that goes beyond just the game. Retro collections aim to be museums as much as things you play, with Digital Eclipse in particular mastering the “interactive museum” format. Riki 8Bit Game Collection isn’t really a “retro collection,”…
When it comes to showing off unique games, no showcase can top…
Burnout is too common in the games industry, and I fear it…
I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive,…
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A lot of people, especially a bunch of the DDNet team, have long and winding roots of fond memories of the golden age of Flash browser games, so it is quite pleasing to see Armor Games Studio still publishing games that look like they were from that era. Games like…
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That’s right! The original Spark the Electric Jester action-platformer is getting a threequel! Feperd Games, an indie-development “team” (it’s really just comprised of a single developer) is responsible for the quite excellent series over the past five years. With the third instalment landing in under a week on August 15…
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Religion is one of those topics you’re never meant to discuss in polite society. When it comes to video games, it’s one that’s historically either been airbrushed out of games to avoid offence, or dealt with in very broad brush strokes to define it away from existing real-world religious groups.…
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While Game Freak continues to try and innovate within the Pokémon property, and find its next hit evolution (sorry for the pun, I couldn’t resist), there is still a loud demand for the “classical” monster-collecting formula. I feel that myself – I often find myself booting up my 3DS for…
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I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive,…
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I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive,…
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Developed by Hikotel and co-produced by Phoenixx and Gotcha Gotcha Games, Kokoro Clover Season 1 has been announced to release on August 4 for the Switch, and PC via Steam. But who are the names behind this release’s development? Gotcha Gotcha Games is a well-known organisation, a subsidiary of Kadokawa…
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So, as it turns out, if you take the raging, rancid, unapologetic nationalism, historical revisionism, and military hero worship out of an FPS, and instead drop in a really pretty girl with a bikini costume option and pink gun skin, then I go from hating the genre to loving it.…
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It was first announced last April, but we finally have a release date for Wylde Flowers on PC and Nintendo Switch – this September! I cannot tell you how many hours I put into this game; I went full on Animal Crossing and had spreadsheets of things to remember and…
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