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…
Set in an alternate 19th-century Japan near the end of the Boshin War, Shadow of the Road combines tradition, modernity, Japanese mythology, and steampunk technology. Yōkai are supernatural entities that live in this enchanting realm where your decisions shape destiny. Each one is inspired by folklore and popular beliefs. Today’s…
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I really like Dune: Spice Wars. I’ve been playing the Early Access build of the game for two weeks now, and the best way I can frame it is that it’s what I would have expected if the Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth games had continued being…
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PQube is a publisher with a knack for finding quirky and interesting projects. Its latest, Super Bullet Break, might just be one of its most interesting. This “deck-building roguelike,” features a lot of super-cute anime girls, and draws inspiration from everything from rhythm games and dating games right through to…
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Once upon a time, before BioWare announced itself to the world with Baldur’s Gate, and long before Atari got the rights to Dungeons & Dragons and then all but buried the iconic property (in terms of video games, at least), there was a company called SSI. SSI was perhaps better…
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German publisher, Toplitz, and developer, Superkami Games, has shared the first “CGI trailer” of the upcoming city-building simulation, Sengoku Dynasty, and it looks like it could be something truly special. What is most comforting to me, however, is the great pains that Superkami Games seem to have gone to so…
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Picture the scene, if you will. Socrates approaches the Lyceum, deep in thought. His disciples gather around him, and he poses this question: What’s a Greek Urn? The answer is, of course, about five drachmas an hour, and that’s a very old joke. Probably not quite as old as Socrates…
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