While at PAX West, I had the opportunity to check out developer The Arcade Crew's Young Souls. It's a sidescrolling RPG beat em up strongly focused on its narrative about two twins, Jenn and Tristan…
September 7, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
Multiplayer experiences were a hallmark for Play NYC this year. The camaraderie shared between friends is especially intoxicating when in competition with each other. While there was no shortage of…
August 19, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Double Fine made a showing at the E3 2018 PC Gaming Show with Ooblets, a rather colorful and happy game reminiscent of Pikmin. We got to see a colorful trailer filled with upbeat music and the…
June 11, 2018 | 08:42 EDT
A new indie game takes the stage in the form of Sable, an open-world exploration game by developer Shedworks. The game stars Sable, who will explore a vast desert and discover for herself the secrets…
June 11, 2018 | 08:08 EDT
Sekai Project announced at Anime Central 2018 that they would be publishing Nekoneko Soft's VR-focused visual novel Sumire. The 15th-anniversary project for the well-loved studio, Sumire will be…
May 22, 2018 | 09:14 EDT
Great 2D platformers blend smooth, fluid gameplay with challenging level design. When development teams find the right balance of the two, we get the best controlling games on the market like Super…
May 18, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Enchanted is easily the first word that comes to mind when I think about delving into the exquisite world of Light Fall. Frustration, however, follows suit for the sake of its ruthless gameplay. A…
April 26, 2018 | 10:00 EDT
Publisher No More Robots has announced Hypnospace Outlaw, a game which lets its players experience '90s internet in an alternate reality. The news comes via a press release, which gives some details…
April 25, 2018 | 12:54 EDT
Acclaimed 2D top-down roguelite Unexplored is on its way to Nintendo Switch, developer Ludomotion has confirmed. Ludomotion will be releasing the game for Switch in partnership with console…
April 20, 2018 | 09:01 EDT
With the critical success of Oxenfree under their belt, Night School Studio is going in a little bit of a different direction with their latest announced title Afterparty. The game now appears on the…
March 21, 2018 | 12:10 EDT
Set within the Forgotten World of Numbra, a mysterious boy finds himself thrown into deteriorating environments cursed with eternal night. Relying on the Shadow Core, luck, and determination, you…
March 12, 2018 | 03:53 EDT
Do you believe in love at first sight? If not, Light Fall ought to make you think otherwise. Simple, yet visually stunning environments encompass a puzzling platformer experience that will glue your…
March 11, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
With every evolution comes the death of potential. As a genre moves forward, ideas are left behind, forever tied to what came before. When FPS design shifted from DOOM's familiar hellscape to the…
February 15, 2018 | 09:00 EST
TechRaptor first had the chance to play Bishop Games' game Light Fall at PAX South 2018. Alex was so impressed by it that it even made it onto his top ten best games at PAX South list. This is when …
January 25, 2018 | 09:00 EST
Rust, the open-world survival game developed & published by Facepunch Studios, will be leaving Steam Early Access on February 8, 2018, according to a blog post on the game's official website.…
January 22, 2018 | 08:01 EST
Super Meat Boy, the devilishly challenging platformer by Team Meat, has recently been released on Nintendo Switch and it apparently did quite well in sales according to the developer's Twitter. If…
January 14, 2018 | 08:51 EST
In anticipation of the release of Vermintide 2, the latest entry in the Warhammer series developed by Fatshark, we sat down to ask the developers some questions about this much anticipated sequel.…
January 10, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Super Meat Boy, the challenging platformer from Team Meat, will be heading to the Nintendo Switch on January 11, 2018, according to a tweet from the game's developers. This will be the second…
December 28, 2017 | 08:07 EST
Skateboarding fans rejoice! The campaign for street skateboarding sim Session has been funded in four days according to a campaign update on the game's Kickstarter page. There have been a few…
November 27, 2017 | 07:27 EST
AuroraBound Deluxe is the debut puzzle game from Final Game Studio, an Ireland based indie video game developer and producer. Originally released for mobile as simply AuroraBound in May 2017, the…
November 20, 2017 | 11:24 EST
Developed by Sushee and published by the Square Enix Collective, Goetia is one part horror story, one part tragedy and one part mystery. It is the story of Abigail Blackwood, a girl who tragically…
November 20, 2017 | 10:54 EST
AuroraBound Deluxe is the premier PC and Mac release from Irish game developer Final Game Studios. A port of the AuroraBound mobile game released earlier this year, Deluxe is a relaxing puzzle game…
November 11, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Today in the preshow to the Sony PlayStation Event at Paris Games Week Sony took the time to announce one final game before the big conference beginning. This final title was one of the biggest…
October 30, 2017 | 01:02 EDT
RONIN creator Tomasz Waclawek returns under the moniker teedoubleuGAMES with the Souls-like ARPG Immortal Planet. Mechanics both familiar and new mesh together in this top-down take on the emerging…
September 4, 2017 | 07:01 EDT
A follow-up to 2015's surprise hit, Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, is coming, according to the Steam page for Warhammer: Vermintide 2. The Steam page is deliberately sparse, with the…
August 31, 2017 | 09:36 EDT
I have an admission to make. I've always had an aversion to crowdfunding video games. I can't really explain why, especially considering some of the brilliant games that have been crowdfunded and…
August 25, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Griftlands is an RPG where everything from money, loyalty, and morality can be negotiated in order to make your own fortune. During the trailer, a variety of Sci-Fi environments are shown, showcasing…
June 12, 2017 | 03:30 EDT
Sonya Reed, an online Youtuber, introduces Ooblets, developed by a 2 person team called Gumberlands, and produced by Double Fine. Ooblets is a cross between Pokemon, Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon…
June 12, 2017 | 02:18 EDT
Coming from the creative developers of Annapurna Interactive, The Artful Escape is a game where you get to play as Francis Vendetti, a young, four-eyed musician who travels across the surfaces of…
June 11, 2017 | 07:08 EDT
Steampunk turn-based strategy game Ironcast will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in the summer of 2017. Ironcast is set in an alternate 19th century Victorian timeline, where an extended war…
June 3, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Scanner Sombre is the newest game from Introversion Software, creators of Prison Architect, and it takes place in a world where the player has to navigate to the surface by scanning the environment…
October 27, 2019 | 01:16 EDT
ANCESTORS: The Humankind Odyssey, the first project from Patrice Désilets' Panache Digital Games, is no longer an episodic game as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. ANCESTORS comes from the mind of…
April 20, 2017 | 02:15 EDT
A while back, I looked at an early build for an upcoming FPS called DUSK and instantly fell in love. It had everything a guy like me could ever want from a throwback shooter in this day and age. Nice…
December 5, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Over the past few years, there's been something of a revival of the so-called 'retro shooter' with titles such as Shadow Warrior, DOOM, and Wolfenstein: The New Order. But I'll let you in on a little…
October 21, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Last year, I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Jay Tholen about his delightful point and click adventure Dropsy, which managed to melt my cold, frosted heart. So when I heard he had started a…
September 28, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition is now available for purchase on Xbox One. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzaM7aS1n54 Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition (developed…
April 30, 2016 | 10:16 EDT
This morning David D'Angelo, a developer at Yacht Club Games, announced via a Gamasutra blog post that their game Shovel Knight has just passed 1 million in digital sales. The physical release of …
April 14, 2016 | 09:47 EDT
Rust has been one of the early access survival games that has continued to grow in popularity, and for a while was likely the most popular in the genre. Despite having first been put on early access…
April 11, 2016 | 11:15 EDT
The long awaited physical release of Shovel Knight is not going 100% as planned, as developers Yacht Club Games announced that their retail copies will be going for a higher price than originally…
October 8, 2015 | 11:43 EDT
A new expansion has just released for Guild of Dungeoneering, the turn-based dungeon crawler by Gambrinous. It's called Pirate's Cove, and it's available for $5. Guild of Dungeoneering was…
September 24, 2015 | 07:46 EDT
The Plague Knight DLC, Plague of Shadows, for Shovel Knight was announced a while ago, and now it is finally here. It prominently features one of the bosses from Shovel Knight, Plague Knight,…
September 18, 2015 | 03:18 EDT
The Shovel Knight amiibo is real. After a longstanding rumor of a Shovel Knight amiibo began circulating last week, which came to a head through a deleted post on twitter by U.K retailer GAME.…
August 30, 2015 | 12:58 EDT
Following the success of Yacht Club Games' NES style action platformer Shovel Knight, a free update dubbed 'Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows' has surfaced on the developers' website with a flashy…
August 26, 2015 | 12:05 EDT
Guild of Dungeoneering is a game by Gambrinous, purchasable here at GOG for $15 or from other outlets seen on their website. It's a turn-based dungeon crawler that gets its originality by building…
July 26, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
As part of our Guild of Dungeoneering preview, we sat down with developer and Gambrinous Games founder, Colm Larkin, for a nice little chat about his first big game. You can always check the latest…
June 14, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Guild of Dungeoneering is the kitten you wind up with a few weeks after you let the cat out. You’re not sure which tom got at her: the roguish Hand of Fate, the meandering Majesty, Munchkin and all…
June 13, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Back in December Funomena announced their new project called Wattam. Now they've revealed a lot more about the game including a little insight into the story and game-play. Funomena will be at E3…
June 11, 2015 | 09:39 EDT
I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with Corey and Lori Cole of Transolar Games on their current project Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, currently on Kickstarter, with just under half of its…
May 15, 2015 | 01:00 EDT