Last August, Soedesco acquired Spanish development studio Superlumen, which was working on point-and-click adventure game Desolatium. The game is based squarely in the realm of Lovecraft, and has players investigating the disappearance of a friend through the eyes of four different characters. Today, it was announced that Desolatium will be…
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The original Corsairs launched over 20 years ago, and had the player taking on the role of a privateer in the service of England, France, or Holland, seeking to gain fame and wealth for the chosen country. The franchise returns with Corsairs: Battle of the Caribbean, bringing old-school strategy into…
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There’s one absolutely massive game releasing this month that we’re all very excited for, but it is by no means the only release to look forward to in June! That big release is, of course, Final Fantasy XVI, but aside from a conspicuous absence of Nintendo this month, the overall…
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The original Etrian Odyssey, released in 2007, was something of a lifeline for the dungeon crawler genre. At least as far as consoles were concerned. After the NES and SNES enjoyed robust support from the genre, things dropped away significantly, and while there were still PC titles produced, it seemed…
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Singer Studios is a female-led production company, and the girl power is growing even stronger with the announcement that Lucy Liu will both executive produce and voice a legendary pirate in The Pirate Queen, a puzzle adventure VR game that tells the forgotten story of Cheng Shih, the most successful…
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The first Taito Milestones title was released about a year ago; in his review, Matt complained that it was missing classics like Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, Arkanoid, and Darius. He also described it as a woeful excuse for a compilation. Now there’s a sequel in the works, which actually does…
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Who doesn’t like a freebie? Midnight Witch – the first project by Crimson Moon Studio – has released today, and the developers are giving it away for nothing. There’s no catch with that either. No DLC for characters or costumes. No microtransactions. It’s just a free game to add to…
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So in a game titled “Company of Heroes 3” you get to play as the Germans (the, uh, World War 2 Germans) in one of the game’s campaigns. That is… certainly a brave decision. If the story was in any way effective, this would have been an enormously controversial game.…
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Kara no Shoujo (translated as The Shell) is a detective/mystery series of three very adult visual novels that have a reputation for being of immeasurably high quality. The first was originally released in English by MangaGamer back in 2011, and since then it and its sequel has quietly bubbled along…
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Here we sit, two weeks away from Dordogne’s launch. The game both looks stunning and features interesting gameplay, and I’m excited to eventually get my hands on it. Set in the South of France, the game follows a woman as she explores the home in which she spent her childhood…
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