In their recent article about GDC’s cancellation in the wake of COVID-19, The Hollywood Reporter shared the news of IGDA, the International Game Developers Association, and GameDev.World‘s partnership to help game developers around the world impacted by the pandemic. “With the effect of COVID-19 on conferences and international travel, many companies and developers have not Read more…
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…
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…
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…
PC Gamer’s Andy Chalk shared the good word of 3D Realms’ Kingpin: Life of Crime remaster, Kingpin Reloaded, and details of its new features making it into this version. Released in 1999 by Xatrix and Interplay, it was really violent and really profane—easily the most f-bomb-laden videogame I’d ever played up to that point—and had a 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…
IGN got its hands on WORLD OF HORROR, the 1-bit roguelite with turn-based combat, terrifying cosmic old gods, and art that was made entirely using Microsoft Paint by one-man studio panstasz and publisher Ysbryd Games. WORLD OF HORROR is currently out on Steam Early Access, headed for 1.0 release on Nintendo Switch, 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…
Destructoid’s Jordan Devore praised the lo-fi horror RPG WORLD OF HORROR as “one to remember.” The title, developed by panstasz and published by Ysbryd Games, arrives for Steam Early Access on Feb. 20 before hitting up Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Steam for PC before the end of the year. Uzumaki seems like a Read more…