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…
At PAX East 2020, NBC 10 Boston took a look at the growth and inclusion of women in gaming. Noting “we’re here, we’ve been here,” Krystina Arielle Tingner commented during the piece on the importance of being inclusive and seeing other black women in the industry. Robin Hunicke, CEO and Co-Founder 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…
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…
VICE contributor Cameron Kunzelman isn’t afraid of a few shambling corpses. Following the Steam Early Access release of Darkburg, the co-op zombie survival action game from Shiro Games, Kunzleman recruited a team to explore undead-infested streets and defeat anything that crossed their path. Kunzelman found Darksburg‘s stylized gothic world and focused co-op gameplay to 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…
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…