That’s right! The original Spark the Electric Jester action-platformer is getting a threequel! Feperd Games, an indie-development “team” (it’s really just comprised of a single developer) is responsible for the quite excellent series over the past five years. With the third instalment landing in under a week on August 15…
Read MoreYour specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature
Latest
Religion is one of those topics you’re never meant to discuss in polite society. When it comes to video games, it’s one that’s historically either been airbrushed out of games to avoid offence, or dealt with in very broad brush strokes to define it away from existing real-world religious groups.…
Read MoreWho’s Embark Studios? What’s ARC Raiders? Why is it delayed until 2023? All will be revealed! Embark Studios is a Stockholm-based indie game development studio that was founded back in November 2018 by six industry experts, and although as a team they haven’t had any previously released titles, ARC Raiders…
Read MoreLast month, there was a big paid update for Monster Hunter Rise. Titled Sunbreak, added new monsters, quests, weapons, armour, story, and hunts to the base game. Now it’s time for its first update, labelled as Free Title Update 1. This update includes four new monsters, an expansion to the…
Read MoreFor the past two weeks now, we’ve received a bunch of news from the publisher of Alice Gear Aegis CS: Concerto of Simulatrix. If you’re not familiar with the release’s title, we’ll quickly fill you in on a brief history of Alice Gear Aegis development… It all started back in…
Read MoreI know this is a nice problem to have, but there are just so many games that 2022 has thrown up that deserve awards at the end of the year. It has been a monstrously good year for video games, especially if you like Japanese games, and The DioField Chronicle…
Read MoreWhile Game Freak continues to try and innovate within the Pokémon property, and find its next hit evolution (sorry for the pun, I couldn’t resist), there is still a loud demand for the “classical” monster-collecting formula. I feel that myself – I often find myself booting up my 3DS for…
Read MoreWhen Fogtown came up on my Twitter feed last week, it piqued my interest a little bit. Planned to be a TV series and interactive game featuring finger puppets (everybody loves puppets!), Fogtown is meant to appeal to mystery fans of all ages. However, I just about lost my mind…
Read MoreDigimon Survive was a bit of a surprise as it wasn’t quite the “tactics RPG” that we were told we would be getting. Instead, this game leans very heavily into visual novel territory, and for some reason this has put people right off it. (Check out our review here) But,…
Read More
Admittedly I wasn’t following Digimon Survive too closely in the leadup to release, however, I did know it was going to be a tactics JRPG featuring collectible monsters. That in itself was exciting given that I have fond memories of Pokémon Conquest back on the DS. What I was not…
Read More