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Humble Happy Hour 7/19 - Fae Tactics Being Published by Humble

Turn-based tactical RPG Fae Tactics got a prominent spot on the Humble Happy Hour, with the official announcement that the game will be published by Humble. Fae Tactics is a deep tactical game…

July 19, 2019 | 03:44 EDT

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses Will Have DLC; Amiibo Support

Nintendo's upcoming tactical RPG Fire Emblem: Three Houses will be getting tons of post-launch support from the company. According to the website Nintendo Wire, a Japanese 'download card' for the…

June 25, 2019 | 01:15 EDT

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Gloomhaven Launches on Steam's Early Access July 17

Asmodee Digital has announced that Gloomhaven, the digital adaption for the acclaimed board game, will commence its Early Access on July 17. There was also a four-hour Twitch gameplay reveal, which…

June 12, 2019 | 03:50 EDT

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Phantom Doctrine Infiltrates The Nintendo Switch In June

Phantom Doctrine (Our Review) was released in August last year for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. As we reported in March, CreativeForge Games was having some managerial troubles as the original…

May 27, 2019 | 04:49 EDT

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Gloomhaven Digital Adaptation Enters Early Access in Summer

The second printing of cooperative card-driven turn-based tactical game Gloomhaven managed to raise almost four million dollars on Kickstarter in May 2017. It kept on raising until it reached 4.4…

May 11, 2019 | 10:39 EDT

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Good Shepherd Entertainment Buys Majority Stake in Indie Studio Artificer

Last month we reported that the core team that developed Phantom Doctrine had departed CreativeForge Games amid a leadership crisis. We actually had a chance to talk to Kacper Szymczak, who was the…

April 10, 2019 | 11:12 EDT

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Phantom Doctrine Core Team Departs As CreativeForge Games Appoints New CEO

According to a Twitter post and a comment on the forum RPG Codex by Kacper Szymczak, former Lead Designer at Polish studio CreativeForge Games, the core development team that produced Phantom…

March 6, 2019 | 09:00 EST

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses Could Be Getting a Delay

The Nintendo Direct is coming soon, and it promises Fire Emblem: Three Houses content. According to a UK retailer Base.com via Nintendolife, the date could be pushed back to September. Fire Emblem:…

February 13, 2019 | 02:20 EST

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Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct Promises Hot News on Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Nintendo has announced that their next Nintendo Direct will air tomorrow at 5 PM Eastern. The press release states that the 35-minute long livestream will have new information on Fire Emblem: Three…

February 12, 2019 | 11:28 EST

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Kinda Funny Games Showcase - Strategy RPG Fae Tactics Coming to PC

Indie developer Endlessfluff saw a small showcase reel for their upcoming strategy RPG Fae Tactics released today. Presented by Humble Bundle, Fae Tactics is a quasi-post apocalyptic world where the…

December 8, 2018 | 04:08 EST

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Phantom Doctrine Resolves Phantom Shots With New Patch

The Cold War espionage simulator and tactical RPG Phantom Doctrine had a rather divisive reception at launch, due mainly to its resemblance to XCOM, which was found to be a deceptive resemblance by…

August 21, 2018 | 10:08 EDT

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Phantom Doctrine Xbox One Release Delayed to August 24

Phantom Doctrine is a TBT-RPG hybrid and espionage thriller simulator developed by CreativeForge Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It has just been released on PS4 and PC via Steam…

August 14, 2018 | 12:55 EDT

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Tactical RPG Noahmund Makes Its Move To Steam August 2nd

Strategy RPG Noahmund will be released for Steam on August 2nd. The game was originally a Kickstarter project and was successfully funded via the crowdfunding platform in May 2017. Shortly thereafter…

August 1, 2018 | 09:50 EDT

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Phantom Doctrine Infiltrates Steam Next Month

CreativeForge Games and Good Shepherd Entertainment announced that their tactical spy thriller Phantom Doctrine will release next month, on August 14th. The third game from the Polish developer, …

July 10, 2018 | 07:22 EDT

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Cold War Tactical Espionage Game Phantom Doctrine Coming to Consoles

As E3 announcements continue on ahead of the press conferences and the actual Expo itself, indie developers are trying to get their news out to everyone paying attention as well. One of them is…

June 8, 2018 | 03:34 EDT

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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Season Pass Announced

One of the surprise (if you ignored the leaks) announcements of E3 2017, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle mashes the Mario universe with that of Ubisoft's Rabbids in the form of a tactical RPG. Today,…

August 23, 2017 | 11:05 EDT

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Nintendo E3 2017 - Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is More Than Meets The Eye

During Nintendo's 2017 Treehouse stream, Ubisoft Milan's Creative Director Davide Soliani and Producer Xavier Manzanares hopped on stage to show off more footage of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle…

June 13, 2017 | 03:41 EDT

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Ubisoft E3 2017 - Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

Ubisoft's E3 presentation began with a pair of raving Rabbids bashing on a question block from the Super Mario franchise. Yves Guillemot, Co-founder & CEO of Ubisoft took to the stage to announce…

June 12, 2017 | 05:07 EDT

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Square Enix Collective Launches Indie RPG Children of Zodiarcs in July

Cardboard Utopia has announced the release date for their tactical RPG Children of Zodiarcs with the help of Square Enix Collective. The project held a Kickstarter in 2016 and raised 5 times its…

May 17, 2017 | 01:49 EDT

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Xenonauts 2 Pre-Alpha Available to Play for Free on GOG

A free Pre-Alpha demo of Xenonauts 2 is available to play on GOG.com for a limited time. Developer Goldhawk Interactive announced the game early in February of 2016. The Xenonauts franchise is a…

February 27, 2017 | 08:30 EST

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Super Dungeon Tactics: Developer Interview

While at Gen Con 2016, I had the chance to chat with Cory Heald, the Creative Director at Underbite Games, about their upcoming video game Super Dungeon Tactics. Super Dungeon Tactics is based on the…

January 25, 2017 | 11:00 EST

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Western Release of Fire Emblem: Fates Cuts a Minigame

Last week we reported that Fire Emblem: Fates would have some modified dialogue in the west. Today, Nintendo of America has revealed to Kotaku that dialogue changes aren't all that will be different…

January 26, 2016 | 05:22 EST

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Nintendo Responds to Fire Emblem Fates Localization Changes

Yesterday we released an article talking about changes that are being made to the western localization of Fire Emblem Fates. The change is specifically about a sequence of conversations that happen…

January 22, 2016 | 08:16 EST

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Nintendo is Censoring Fire Emblem Fates Soilel Support Conversation

Revealed in a new statement to NintendoWorldReport, a controversial section of the upcoming Fire Emblem Fates is being changed for western releases. In particular, after raising an uproar last year…

January 21, 2016 | 08:04 EST

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Fire Emblem Fates Will Include Same-Sex Marriages

Fire Emblem Fates will include same-sex marriages, according to Nintendo. The upcoming strategy-RPG will feature same-sex relationships, based upon the version of the game you purchase. Like…

June 24, 2015 | 05:57 EDT