Touch Arcade’s Mikhail Madnani called Blowfish Studios’ Stormboy, the adaptation of Colin Thiele’s classic 1964 Australian novel exploring the friendship between a child and his pet pelican, “gorgeous” in his coverage of its Nov. 20 launch date on iOS and Android. Stormboy: The Game will also launch on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox Read more…
Twitch content creator Cryaotic investigated the occult conspiracy afoot in The Blackout Club, from the senior BioShock veterans at Question. Cry and his fellow Blackout Club member Angel work together to record evidence of the conspiracy, and explore the subterranean, labyrinthine tunnels where sleepwalkers and an invisible, otherworldly entity further their malevolent plans. Eventually, just when everything seems Read more…
Eurogamer’s Matt Wales shared details about the new Defiant Development‘s Hand of Fate 2 “The Servant and The Beast” DLC. Calling the game an “excellent deck-building dungeon-crawler,” Matt highlighted the DLC’s main features: a new campaign challenge and companion character to the core game. As a companion character, Veles will join players Read more…
Modern Storyteller Creative Director Nick Pearce (The Forgotten City) will take part in the “How Should Games Make Moral Choices Matter?” panel at PAX AUS 2018 on Friday, October 26 at 1:30 PM in the Galah Theatre. Joining a group of industry luminaries including Defiant Development Co-Founder Morgan Jaffit (Hand of Fate 2), the panel will discuss Read more…
Scott Miller, founder of 3D Realms, recently sat down with IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey for the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered. The pair discuss Miller’s long and storied career in the world of video games, touching on many of the legendary titles he worked on, including Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen, Rise of the Triad, Shadow Read more…
Popular YouTube content creator and voice actor Jesse Cox recently featured Cleaversoft’s EarthNight, the hand-painted platformer about surviving the dragon apocalypse, in his weekly series where he plays the games fans ask for, #FanFriday. Watch run and jump across massive dragons to try and take them down in this intense platformer. EarthNight Read more…
Prima Games bestowed its Game of the Week award upon The Gardens Between, The Voxel Agents‘ puzzle adventure game about manipulating time to guide two best friends through a surreal world of mysterious garden islands. Larryn Bell was effusive in her praise of the art style and experience of the title: Read more…
Unwinnable’s Alyse Stanley shared her experience with the surreal and serious heartwarming adventure game My Brother Rabbit from Artifex Mundi. Alyse highlights how the artwork and puzzle design show the child-like influence: The random combinations of the backgrounds seem pulled straight from a child’s brain, content as nonsensical as a dream but Read more…
While at PAX West 2018, Bleeding Cool’s Gavin Sheehan had a chance to get a hands-on demonstration of Question Games upcoming cooperative horror game The Blackout Club. Calling it an “homage” to popular Netflix show Stranger Things, Gavin mentioned how eager the team is to try out the game’s full version. A first-person Read more…
Route 59 Games‘ Necrobarista is one of the indie games that Eurogamer’s Johnny Chiodini says you need to have on your wishlist. He describes his experience at PAX West 2018 with the cinematic cel-shaded visual novel that takes place in a supernatural coffee house in magical modern-day Melbourne: As you have conversations in Read more…