First Break Labs is a new collective of industry vets who have worked for major names like SEGA, Nintendo, and Atlus. It brings with it a “refreshing” new indie support model. According to a press release, First Break’s goal is to, “carve a new path of supporting groundbreaking games by fostering genuine relationships with the people behind the development teams…
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…
Sky Oceans: Wings For Hire is the latest loving homage to the…
You can always rely on eastasiasoft to publish interesting indie games. And…
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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After what has felt like delay after delay, the remake of Alone in the Dark is now imminent, and it’s really shaping up to be something special. Featuring major Hollywood talent and top quality presentation, the last remaining question is whether the game does justice to one of the most…
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Game Freak and the Pokemon Company have announced the next two new Pokemon games. Which is great because I could use the boost in traffic from liking a Pokemon game too much (I still get comments that are not fit for public consumption on my review of Pokemon Violet and…
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If the promise of JRPG-style hijinks across a painstakingly-recreated Shibuya sounds good to you, then you’ll want to pay close attention to Reynatis, the latest FuRyu special that NISA will publish out west. FuRyu continues to be the Japanese studio for creative ideas. If The Caligula Effect and Monark struck…
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Japanese developer METASLA has announced Sea Fantasy for both PCs and consoles. It won’t be out until early 2025, but we’ve immediately added it to our “to watch” list, because it looks like a wonderful modern take on the classic Legend of the River King concept. It is an open…
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It’s always a good day when NISA drops a new game announcement, and this is a big one: The publisher is bringing Yx X: Nordics to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5 and PC in Autumn (or Spring for us Aussies) 2024. There’s a neat trailer to go with this…
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Last year at TGS, one of the games that I enjoyed playing the most was a Mario Party-style Demon Slayer board game. I thought there was about a 50/50 chance that it would get a western release and, luckily, it is. Now we have a new trailer for Demon Slayer:…
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Silent Hill: Ascension has an interesting concept as it’s not just one thing. It’s part video game, part television series that takes the audience’s choices and applies them directly to what is happening in the story. It’s like a massively multiplayer FMV game, basically. It will be premiering in mere…
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Silent Hope will be released on October 3, and it is an intriguing little game. It is being billed as a return to the classic isometric action JRPGs of yesteryear (think Secret of Mana), with a quirk: this is a world without words. From the press release: “In a world…
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