Wired Productions has announced it will publish WereBuff Studio’s debut title, Kumarn: The Wandering Spirit, for PC next year. It is an authentic Thai game that combines ancient folklore with malevolent forces, leaving you to care for a vulnerable spirit child. Gameplay features stealth scenes, environmental puzzles, and tense platforming.…
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I have wanted to get back into Final Fantasy XIV for quite some time. I am a massive fan of everything it offers, from the art direction to the scope of the world and adventures that are held within it. I love the way that it handles narrative within the…
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Was Defender of the Crown the first “4X” strategy game to come from Western developers? I know it’s not a proper 4X, as several of the “Xes” are severely undercooked or nonexistent, and Japan’s Nobunaga’s Ambition beat it to market by several years, but when you look at it, you…
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There was a time when visual novels were a rare thing in the West, particularly on consoles. Steins;Gate, from 2009, was one of the pioneers in changing that. Brought to the West on PS3 and Vita, it turned heads by proving to a wide and mainstream audience that it was…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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I cannot believe that two and a half years have passed since Sam Barlow teased Project C and Project D in January 2024, but here we are. Finally, we are getting some answers about Project C! Kinetic Publishing and Barlow’s Half Mermaid Productions have announced that Project C is officially…
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It’s been three years since the last Fire Emblem (Engage). In a world of annualised franchises, that’s almost quaint, given how commercially successful the series is for Nintendo, but I’m very glad that Intelligent Systems is given the time to explore what it can achieve with its property. Fortune’s Weave…
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Publisher NIS America has announced that it will bring Nippon Ichi Software’s 2D platforming adventure game GOBBLE to the West for PC and consoles. The game will launch in 2027. In Japan, it will be released on September 24. In Gobble, explore a hand-painted world full of life. But don’t…
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Western publisher NIS America has announced that rural life simulation game Village in the Shade will launch for PC and consoles this October. The game initially launched in Japan about two weeks ago as Honogurashi no Niwa, with sales already surpassing 100,000 units in that country alone.…
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The Touhou Project continues to be one of the most interesting experiments in the video game industry. It’s been going since 1997, and that means it’s on the cusp of 30 years. In that time it’s had more than a game released every year… and that’s just the “main” titles,…
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