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Pupperazzi - Literally Watch Dogs In This Upcoming Game

Sometimes you have to just become an influencer. The newest watch dogs game is coming to Steam. In the latest expansion to the Watch Dogs Universe (WDU), players take the role of a budding…

June 12, 2019 | 02:38 EDT

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KFG Showcase E3 2019 - Foregone Shows Stylish Combat Action

As seen during the Kinda Funny Games E3 2019 Showcase, Big Blue Bubble had a new trailer to show for Foregone. A stylish combat-focused platformer, Foregone is heavily inspired by Dark Souls and…

June 10, 2019 | 09:27 EDT

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Kinda Funny E3 2019 - Lucifer Within Us

At the Kinda Funny E3 2019 Showcase the premiere for the trailer for Lucifer Within Us was unveiled. The game will task you with solving murders and exorcising demons as a digital exorcist. The game…

June 10, 2019 | 09:23 EDT

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KFG Showcase E3 2019 - SkateBIRD Alpha Demo Features Adorable Birbs (And it's Out Now)

The SkateBIRD Alpha Demo is out and lets players ride on a finger-sized skateboard with a variety of different birds. No, really. That's the game. You get to skate around on tiny skateboards with…

June 10, 2019 | 08:58 EDT

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KFG Showcase E3 2019 - Bloodroots Demo Out Now

The first announcement today is from Paper Cult and that Bloodroots is getting a Steam Demo. According to update back in March from the games official Steam page the game is slated for a Summer 2019…

June 10, 2019 | 08:48 EDT

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PC Gaming Show E3 2019 - Telling Lies Reveals Its Truths

Annapurna Interactive and Her Story creator Sam Barlow appeared on-stage at the PC Gaming Show to show his next FMV game, Telling Lies. Sam Barlow is hoping to expand on his wheelhouse of game…

June 10, 2019 | 03:41 EDT

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey PC Release Confirmed For August 27
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PC Gaming Show 2019 – Patrice Désilets Talks About Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

During the PC Gaming Show 2019 conference this Monday, we saw an interview with Patrice Désilets of Panache Digital Games about Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Patrice talked more about the game,…

June 10, 2019 | 03:22 EDT

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PC Gaming Show 2019 - Griftlands Has Colorful Card Game Action

Griftlands is a fantastic game that merges card game mechanics with a turn-based role-playing game. This newest title from Klei has a distinct animated art style to compliment its intriguing hybrid…

June 10, 2019 | 02:58 EDT

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PC Gaming Show E3 2019 - Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy

At the PC Gaming Show, Ludomotion announced a sequel to their indie roguelike Unexplored. Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy is a hardcore procedurally-generated roguelike in which the decisions…

June 10, 2019 | 02:48 EDT

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PC Gaming Show E3 2019 - Midnight Ghost Hunt Bumps in the Night

From Coffee Stain studios a trailer was shown at the PC Gaming Show at E3 2019 for Midnight Ghost Hunt. In the trailer we see a character wearing a hazmat suit tracking down and taking out ghosts.…

June 10, 2019 | 02:33 EDT

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PC Gaming Show 2019 – Starmancer Is A Colony Management Sim

During the PC Gaming Show 2019 conference this Monday, we saw a new trailer for Chucklefish's and Ominux Games' Starmancer. As we predicted in our article last week, Starmancer was one of the titles…

June 10, 2019 | 02:22 EDT

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UploadVR E3 2019 - Stress Level Zero Shows Off VR Sandbox Boneworks

Stress Level Zero came to UploadVR's E3 2019 showcase with some new footage of their VR physics sandbox Boneworks. The new trailer showed off some advanced physics interactions as well as some of the…

June 10, 2019 | 01:41 EDT

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Xbox E3 2019 - Every Choice Matters in Interactive Thriller 12 Minutes

Introduced during Microsoft's E3 panel, Annapurna Interactive's game 12 Minutes is a top-down game about choices and Groundhog Day-esque time loops. Players will have to make their choices carefully…

June 9, 2019 | 05:59 EDT

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Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair Announced For Consoles And PC

Fans of Yooka-Laylee, rejoice. Playtonic Games and publisher Team17 have announced another game for the little lizard and his buddy. It's called Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, and it'll launch…

June 7, 2019 | 10:45 EDT

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Interactive Fiction Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York Announced

Last March we had the announcement of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, which came long after Paradox Interactive bought the rights to White Wolf Publishing from CCP Games back in 2015, and all…

June 6, 2019 | 04:45 EDT

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Coverage Club: Mable & the Wood is Shapeshifting Up Nicely

If you could put every indie game in a bag and pick one at random, you’ll probably grab a Metroidvania with pixelated graphics. For an indie Metroidvania to stand out, it needs to be memorable and…

May 24, 2019 | 01:00 EDT

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"Uncooperative" Multiplayer Shooter Vicious Circle Announced

Vicious Circle was unofficially announced for the first time on the Rooster Teeth Podcast "Ep. 526 - Are Feet Private?," but today Rooster Teeth Games released the first screenshots and an official…

May 24, 2019 | 08:44 EDT

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey PC Release Confirmed For August 27
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Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Releasing This August Exclusively on the Epic Games Store

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey was first revealed by Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin's Creed, in 2015. In 2017 we reported that the game would no longer have an episodic format. The…

May 23, 2019 | 02:42 EDT

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Upcoming Space Combat Game Redout: Space Assault Delayed Indefinitely

Space dogfighting title Redout: Space Assault has been delayed indefinitely. It was originally due for release earlier this year, but developer 34BigThings says it needs more time to give fans the…

May 23, 2019 | 09:20 EDT

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Mable & The Wood Launches On PC, Nintendo Switch And Xbox One This Summer

Graffiti Games and Triplevision Games have announced that Mable & The Wood will release on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Steam this summer. Players will explore a dying fantasy world in which…

May 16, 2019 | 10:29 EDT

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Sony's State of Play 5/9 - Sony Announces Away: The Survival Series

Sony had more new games to show off at State of Play. This time it was Away: The Survival Series, a new game being developed by Breaking Walls. The trailer opens up showing a lush forest and…

May 9, 2019 | 07:57 EDT

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Unravel The Mind's Mysteries in Psychological Thriller The Shattering

Indie publisher Deck13 Spotlight and developer SuperSexySoftware have announced a new psychological thriller first-person mystery adventure, The Shattering, slated for release by Q4 2019. The game…

May 8, 2019 | 01:15 EDT

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Sam (and Courtney) Speaks to Clifftop Games About Whispers of a Machine and Kathy Rain

It's always good to have an old fashioned adventure here and there. While it may not be a genre that has seen many recent major releases, it still gets a good amount of entries from studios both…

April 29, 2019 | 02:00 EDT

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Love of Rare N64 Titles and Nature Inspires Tamarin

Imagine playing a 3D platformer made by Rare veterans that channels parts of Banjo-Kazooie and Jet Force Gemini. Additionally imagine that you play as a super-cute monkey who can wield an Uzi, and do…

April 25, 2019 | 09:00 EDT

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Crowdfunding Spotlight – Prodeus

You can look at indie releases in the past few years and see that old-school first-person shooters are among the most popular. Games such as Dusk and Amid Evil are making the old new again by paying…

April 17, 2019 | 01:00 EDT

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Super Meat Boy Forever Delayed From April Release Date

Super Meat Boy Forever, the endless runner sequel to the classic 2010 platformer, is facing a slight delay. Team Meat have stated that players should be able to play the game "not too far after."…

April 4, 2019 | 09:53 EDT

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Yacht Club Games Announce 8-Bit Platformer Cyber Shadow

Shovel Knight creators Yacht Club Games have announced their second publishing venture. It's an 8-bit retro-styled platformer called Cyber Shadow and it's in development for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and…

March 28, 2019 | 09:00 EDT

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Epic Store - Outer Worlds and Ancestors the Humankind Odyssey Are Coming To Epic Store

In addition to several other titles, such as Dauntless and The Cycle, Epic Games announced two more Epic Store exclusives. Outer Worlds and Ancestors the Humankind Odyssey were announced by Epic to…

March 20, 2019 | 02:30 EDT

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Nintendo Direct - Bloodroots

"Left for dead, Mr. Wolf finds himself alone, vastly outnumbered, and hell-bent on enacting his revenge." In a top-down beat-em-up action game from Paper Cult Games, Mr. Wolf utilizes the environment…

March 20, 2019 | 01:18 EDT

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A Song in the Void

A Song in the Void is a first-person platformer where players terraform a planet using magical music called the Songstream. Travel across five major hub islands and complete multiple levels while…

March 16, 2019 | 05:55 EDT

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A Song in the Void Review - Better Left Unsung

In decades past, platforming games ruled the scene. Everyone wanted to make their own Super Mario Bros. or Mega Man, and it feels like every other indie game on the scene has platforming elements. At…

March 16, 2019 | 12:00 EDT

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Hypnospace Outlaw Review – Fever Dream Simulator

Hypnospace Outlaw is a trip, figuratively and literally. It's a trip down memory lane, paying homage to the Internet of a bygone era. It's also a hypnotic, sometimes confusing, but ultimately…

March 12, 2019 | 01:00 EDT

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Navigating Political Intrigue in Ambition: A Minuet in Power

It's hard for games to translate political intrigue into their mechanics. Fiction and film do so with visual flair and wordy dialogue that allows the action to play out as intended. Due to their very…

March 5, 2019 | 12:00 EST

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Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince Arrives This Fall

Today, Frozenbyte and Modus Games announced that Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince would be released to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Steam, Discord and other PC platforms this fall, bringing…

March 4, 2019 | 04:13 EST

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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Patch 1.5 - Now With Actual Paintings

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has received patch 1.5 today, finally adding some much-missed features to the game. Firstly the patch adds new weekly events to spice up the gameplay for veteran players.…

February 18, 2019 | 12:47 EST

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90's Internet Simulator Hypnospace Outlaw Launching March 2019

You'll soon be able to relive a bygone era of the internet, with a twist, in Hypnospace Outlaw an alternative history 90's internet simulator. Hypnospace Outlaw is being developed by Jay Tholen, the…

February 18, 2019 | 09:36 EST

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Huge update drops for free 'Crying Suns' demo, as title finds its publisher

A free demo for tactical space-exploration rogue-lite Crying Suns received a substantial update a few days ago, streamlining core mechanics - at the same time, developers Alt Shift have announced…

October 27, 2019 | 02:47 EDT

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New DUSK Updates and Merchandise is on the Way Including Bacon Soap

DUSK has captivated the PC audience with its old-school FPS mechanics that pay homage to shooter royalty like Quake. A new post on the game's Steam community page thanks the community for its support…

January 2, 2019 | 11:43 EST

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Super Meat Boy is Free on Epic Games Store Now

With Super Meat Boy Forever gearing up for its PC debut on The Epic Games Store in 2019, Team Meat is offering up its first title for free. Super Meat Boy is an indie platformer that features dozens…

December 28, 2018 | 01:29 EST

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Slice Your Way Out of Hell in Supergiant Games' Hades

Supergiant Games is one of those developers that manage to build an outstanding reputation within the community despite a very limited lineup of releases. That is bound to happen when every single…

December 15, 2018 | 02:00 EST

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DUSK Review - The Dawn Of An Old Era

First-person shooters are, at the best of times, divisive. There are many for whom first-person shooters begin and end with the relatively realistic military stylings of Call of Duty and Battlefield…

December 15, 2018 | 01:00 EST

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The Game Awards 2018 - The Last Campfire Announced

A new "short" game from the infamous No Mans Sky Developer Hello Games was announced at this years Game Awards titled The Last Campfire.  From the recently acquired creative team behind the hugely…

December 6, 2018 | 11:26 EST

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The Game Awards 2018 - Ancestors: The Human Kind Odyssey

Panache games, a new company created by ex-Assassin's Creed developers, showed off a new title that they will be releasing in 2019. It is called Ancestors: The Human Kind Odyssey and will chart out…

December 6, 2018 | 10:46 EST

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The Game Awards 2018 - HADES Coming To Early Access On The Epic Games Store

At the 2018 Game Awards Developer Supergiant (Bastion, Transistor) announced their new upcoming game Hades.  Hades is a rogue-like dungeon crawler with an Ancient Greek aesthetic and an isometric…

December 6, 2018 | 10:42 EST

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Retro FPS DUSK Releases December 10

Today, New Blood Interactive has announced that their Retro FPS, DUSK, will be released out of Steam's Early Access on December 10. It also launched with an update that adds a 3rd endless arena, a…

October 31, 2018 | 07:48 EDT

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Damsel

Damsel is a challenging 2D platformer with a focus on flow state. Once everything clicks, the game is a treat to move through. To use the Steam page's description, "Damsel is a ballet, and you’re the…

October 23, 2018 | 01:00 EDT

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Damsel Review - Master The Flowstate

When I previewed Damsel earlier this year, I praised the game for its ability to balance the essential platforming pillars: smooth movement, challenging level design, and fluid combat. However, the…

October 23, 2018 | 01:00 EDT

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Super Meat Boy Forever Continues The Impossible But Achievable Feel

Super Meat Boy Forever is the sequel to Super Meat Boy, and it started out being developed as a mobile game. Really, the idea for the game began immediately after the release for the first, when the…

September 11, 2018 | 12:00 EDT