News by Matt S. I’m not sure I’ve written a headline that is more awesome on face value than this, but Mike Bithell, the developer of indie mega-hits like Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and Subsurface Circular, has landed himself the job of bringing a John Wick video game, in collaboration…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In 2018, a developer called Drakkar Dev released a title called War Tech Fighters onto PC. It’s one of those games where you pilot massive robot things to pulverise the other massive robot things that stand against you. It has been pretty well received over there…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Samurai Shodown is the next really exciting fighting game on the horizon. After Dead or Alive 6 and Mortal Kombat 11 earlier in the year, this 2D brawler promises a bit of both; the Japanese aesthetic, and the violent gore. The publisher is releasing trailers for…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We recently reported that the Australian Classification Board had let slip that Root Letter: Last Answer was likely getting a western release. After all, you don’t go to the expense to get something classified in Australia unless you’re going to release it. Now, publisher PQube has…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The 3DS is well and truly a legacy console now. It’s still brilliant, of course, with hundreds of great games to play on it, but in terms of new stuff, there’s just not much left to look forward to. With one exception. The first Persona Q…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I hate when publishers can’t be bothered localising “defense” into UK English for regions outside of the US. Earth Defense Force has the same problem. It’s defence! With a “c”! Anyhow, my gripe about making American English the default (when only one country officially uses it)…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the true veterans of the indie development space, Jeff Vogel and his development studio, Spiderweb Software, has been plugging away for decades now, creating ultra-low budget, fully-featured RPGs, such as Avernum and Avadon. Related reading: An interview with Vogel on DDNet, from way, way…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Kitana! One of the most popular stars of Warner Bros’ gory death brawler, Kitana is a 10,000 year old princess that did indeed die in previous titles. But, of course, death isn’t the end in Mortal Kombat. Kitana was resurrected. Unfortunately for just about everyone, the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The workhorse publisher, NISA, never seems to take a break with releases… but as long as they look as charming as Lapis x Labyrinth I’m not exactly complaining about the sheer workload of playing all these titles. NISA’s released a new trailer for the game, and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Final Fantasy IX is a beloved masterpiece of the PlayStation 1 era. So much so that the game’s re-re-re-release on the Nintendo Switch has been right at the top of the charts ever since it launched. Now Square Enix has released a rather impressive “developer diary,”…
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