Image & Form’s SteamWorld franchise is rapidly developing into a versatile indie darling. Way back on DSiWare (remember that?), there was a SteamWorld tower defence game, which showed potential, but then there was SteamWorld Dig that has proven to be a remarkably popular game that has now appeared on all…
Read MoreWhen you look beyond the “main” games in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, you quickly get a picture that Ubisoft is willing to be quite experimental with its games, both in terms of characters and settings, but also how these games play when compared to the expectations of the main games.…
Read MoreImageepoch is a very niche JRPG developer, responsible for a wide range of creative (and often controversial) games. It is perhaps best known for the Luminous Arc series of tactics games on the Nintendo DS, but it was also involved in the production of Yoshi’s New Island, and was the…
Read MoreAttack on Titan has become a major media franchise, with both the manga and anime lighting up sales charts worldwide. So the natural next step was a live-action film, and this one is shaping up well indeed, based on the early trailer, which you can see below. Of course, manga-to-film…
Read MoreThe release of Mortal Kombat X is just around the corner, and Warner Bros. is blitzing us all with weekly trailers. This week we’ve got one that shows off one of the newcomers, Kung Jin. You’ll also see Kung Lao and Liu Kang doing their thing, and plenty of bone-breaking…
Read MoreBig Ant, the Australian developer behind the excellent Don Bradman Cricket and TableTop Cricket titles, has exclusively announced to us that it is in active development of a sequel to Don Bradman Cricket. While we weren’t given any timeline on the release of the game, the development is happening now,…
Read MoreOperation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy is NISA’s upcoming dungeon crawler for the PlayStation Vita. An exclusive to that platform, it comes to us courtesy of the developers behind the absolutely brilliant Demon Gaze, and just looking at this new 1:30 trailer, I can already tell I’ll love this game. Demon…
Read MoreOmega Quintet is the first “otaku” JRPG that will be released on the PlayStation 4. Coming to us from the masters of the otaku in Compile Heart, and due for release next month, the more we’re seeing of it, the more we’re loving it. Related reading: For some trailers of…
Read MoreFor people like me who have spent over 500 hours playing the Hatsune Miku rhythm games (that’s right, I can actually get perfect scores with my eyes closed on some tracks), the idea of buying Miku figurines isn’t so strange. I actually already have four. But this new 1/7th scale…
Read MoreLast year’s Never Alone was a breathtaking game. In a similar vein to what Whale Rider achieved in cinema, Never Alone used a popular entertainment form – that of videogames – to both preserve and represent a native culture – in that case, the Inupiat people of Alaska. In my…
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