Last month at PAX East, Matthew Adler of IGN spent some time with Ghostrunner, the stylized action game from All In! Games, 3D Realms, Slipgate Ironworks, and One More Level. Ghostrunner combines its frenetic first-person sword combat with incredibly fluid movement. Your character is always running, but you can also slide and wall run similar to Read more…
Polygon’s Jenna Stoeber faced dozens of frightful encounters in WORLD OF HORROR, the unsettling cosmic horror RPG from panstasz and Ysbryd Games. The anxiety-inducing encounters and macabre monsters evoked classic choose-your-own-adventure stories and compelled her to chase the terrors: From creepy kitchens and classrooms to eerie people asking for help, these Read more…
GameSpot went hands-on with 30XX, Batterystaple Games’ follow-up to the acclaimed co-op roguelike platformer 20XX and shared eight minutes of direct-feed footage from PAX East. The video shows off 30XX‘s new hi-bit art style, along with Nina’s new Power Fusion system and Ace’s distinct move set of comboable Techniques. GameSpot’s Jean-Luc Bernard says of the game: Read more…
YouTuber Iron Pineapple went into the depths of the Steam store catalog and explored seven new games in the “souls-like” genre. The video includes a recommendation for PLAYISM and FYQD_Studio’s first-person shooter Bright Memory. The full video can be found below: For more information about the publisher visit PLAYISM’s official website Read more…
There are few things better than hitting a major milestone early after release. Kayleigh Partleton at PocketGamer.biz reports Shadowgun War Games, Madfinger Games‘ sequel to Shadowgun Legends, had hit one such marker in late February, just two weeks after launch. Shadowgun War Games has reached one million downloads. Developer Madfinger Games announced Read more…
Sometimes, the best offense is a hell of a lot of defenses. At least, that’s what PC Invasion’s Andrew Farrell found when previewing Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, Chromatic Games‘ new co-op tower defense action RPG. Dungeon Defenders: Awakened launched on Steam Early Access on Feb. 21 and Farrell journeyed to Etheria to see Read more…
GamesIndustry.biz’s Rebekah Valentine took a look at the International Game Developer Association’s (IGDA) 2019 Developer Satisfaction Survey (DSS) results and broke down the comparisons between 2019 and 2017 respectively. 1116 people were surveyed, most of whom were primarily game developers, though others were included who make games as a small portion Read more…
During PAX East, Greysun Morales of Twinfinite went hands-on with Ghostrunner, the stylized action game from All In! Games, 3D Realms, Slipgate Ironworks, and One More Level. Getting kills is extremely satisfying in Ghostrunner and whenever I did die, I never wanted to stop playing. The intense gameplay and smoothness of it all makes you want Read more…
30XX, the megaroguelike from Batterystaple Games, was “perhaps, the best game [Marshall Honorof from Tom’s Guide] played at PAX East 2020.” Right from the first moment, the gameplay was pure Mega Man-style fun. We made our way through the stage, running, jumping and dashing our way past obstacles, as well as shooting enemies or Read more…
Wccftech’s Alessio Palumbo sat down with FYQD Studio‘s sole developer, Xiancheng Zeng, to talk about the implementation of Ray Tracing technology in Bright Memory: Infinite, coming later this year and published by PLAYISM. The release of Bright Memory on Steam Early Access was overwhelmingly positive. How did you feel about that? Was the feedback Read more…