Emerald City Games has announced its official adaptation of Stonemaier Games’ board game set in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising book series. Step into the brutal colour caste system, build your own house of followers, chain card combos, and fight for dominance. The digital game recreates the board game’s rules while adding challenging opponents, online multiplayer, instant scoring, and details drawn…
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)!…
Games anthology The Immortal John Triptych brings together Four Last Things, The…
Sci-fi survival adventure game ATMOSFAR combines aerial exploration with mobile base-building, resource…
Future of Play Direct was the first showcase today, and it’s also when they all started bleeding together. Still, it featured some really great game announcements and trailers. This is one of those showcases where everyone can find something new and interesting. The smaller studios are set to make some…
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Day of the Devs is another showcase featuring many, many, many great-looking games from independent developers. This year, there seems to be a good amount of my fellow Canadians on the list – congrats y’all, happy to see you! I’ve highlighted a handful of my favourite games shown off today…
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Devolver Directs are always a highlight of this hectic week, mostly because each one is crazier than the last. Last year’s Devolver Direct featured Wizard with a Gun, The Talos Principle II, Baby Steps, and Human Fall Flat 2; that’s a pretty big line-up, but I think this year’s is…
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It’s time for one of my top showcases of the year: the Access-Ability Summer Showcase! It is one of the only places for disabled players to learn about recent or upcoming titles while knowing what will be accessible to them. Today’s showcase features over a dozen titles, half of which…
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Developer, J.R. Hudepohl, and publisher Top Hat Studios have shared a new trailer for the upcoming Labyrinth of the Demon King – a retro-style horror game with a particularly gritty aesthetic. Based on the trailer, it’s “found footage” dialed up to 11, and even from the trailer alone there is…
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Sky Oceans: Wings For Hire is the latest loving homage to the JRPGs of yesteryear. It’s being published by PQube, and there’s a new trailer that’s very much a “spot the references/homages” affair. It’s a game that takes place in the skies (no, not of Arcadia, although…). It’s structured very…
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If you’re looking for the best indie titles during this annual gaming showcase week, it’s usually a pretty good bet that you can find a lot of them through Guerrilla Collective. Beginning when E3 was cancelled (“temporarily”) at the beginning of the pandemic, the showcase features announcements and trailers about…
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You can always rely on eastasiasoft to publish interesting indie games. And at remarkable speed. It’s hard to think of a more prolific publisher. Dead of Darkness is the latest one, and this is an ambitious game in so many ways. Developed by Retrofiction, Dead of Darkness is a horror…
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You’ll be able to make more JRPGs to share with your buddies right on your Nintendo Switch in just a few months. NISA has announced that RPG Maker WITH will release on October 11 for Switch, with a PS4 and PS5 version coming later in the year. There’s already an…
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I do not know what I was thinking when I didn’t include the announcement of Odencat’s next game in my Indie Live Expo 2024 catch-up, but I am here to rectify that issue now! My first Odencat game was Fishing Paradiso, and I’ve found the same charm from that game…
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