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[Updated] SteamWatch - Indie Game Receives DMCA Takedown Prior to Steam Release

Update 2: After publication, a representative claiming to represent both the trademark holder and a third party developer (which we have since disproved) reached out to us with conditions of an…

August 26, 2017 | 05:48 EDT

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Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online Closing In December

Developers of the free to play FPS Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online revealed this week that their current plan is to wind down their title until shutting the doors on…

August 23, 2017 | 07:05 EDT

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Biomutant Officially Announced by THQ Nordic

THQ Nordic has officially announced their new RPG, Biomutant. The game, being developed by indie team Experiment 101, Biomutant is described as an "open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu RPG" that is…

August 23, 2017 | 04:01 EDT

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Bluehole and Microsoft Partner Up For Playerunknown's Battleground

A couple of days ago at Gamescom 2017 Bluehole, Inc. developers of the wildly popular Battle Royale style game Playerunknown's Battleground revealed that their game will be published by Microsoft on…

August 23, 2017 | 02:58 EDT

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Bubsy The Woolies Strike Back Gets Release Date And Collectors Edition

Accolade announced that the latest game in the Bubsy franchise, Bubsy The Woolies Strike Back, would be releasing for PlayStation 4, Steam, and GOG this October 31st. As well as the announcement of…

August 23, 2017 | 01:45 EDT

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[UPDATED] Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition Coming In 2018

Yesterday to many fans excitement Square Enix and NVIDIA announced that the latest game in the main line of Final Fantasy titles will be coming to Steam under the title Final Fantasy XV Windows…

August 22, 2017 | 04:14 EDT

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State of the Game: 31/07/2017 to 06/08/2017

This week on State of the Game we'll be covering the week of Steam releases from the 31st of July to the 6th of August for this year. Whilst most of this week's statistics are on par for this week…

August 21, 2017 | 11:20 EDT

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Valve Tightens The Noose on Steam's "Fake Games"

2017 has been a year of change for Valve. From eradicating Steam Greenlight and replacing it with Steam Direct to making vital changes to its trading card and gifting systems to discourage bad actors…

August 17, 2017 | 09:02 EDT

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State of the Game 24/07/2017 to 30/07/2017

Today on State of the Game we'll be covering all the releases on Steam for the week from the 24th to the 30th of July. The resurgence in new releases (and by extension their top level stats)…

August 14, 2017 | 08:30 EDT

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State of the Game: 17/07/2017 to 23/07/2017

Welcome to State of the Game! This week we'll be covering all the games released on Steam between the 17th and 23rd of July this year. We're now well and truly out of the mid-year slump that had kept…

August 14, 2017 | 06:32 EDT

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Sonic Mania Delayed on PC to August 29th

Bad news for Sega faithful this morning. On the SonicOfficial Twitch stream, Sonic community manager Aaron Webber made an announcement that would see the PC version of Sonic Mania delayed an…

August 11, 2017 | 01:30 EDT

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Visual Novel Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds Coming to PC

Idea Factory International is bringing Otome visual novel Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds to PC via Steam this summer. On August 24th PC gamers will be able to enjoy a remastered deluxe edition of the game. For…

August 9, 2017 | 02:36 EDT

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Valve Announces Artifact - The Dota Card Game

Life. Death. Digital Card Games. Some things in life are inevitable, and Valve is no exception. Once known as one of the premier single player developers in the industry, Valve has shifted their…

August 8, 2017 | 11:13 EDT

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Games For Windows Live Rises From Its Grave to Haunt Lost Planet 2

Games for Windows Live has been officially dead for more than three years with, with support for Microsoft's first attempt at a PC gaming platform ending in July of 2014. Many games that once used…

August 8, 2017 | 01:19 EDT

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Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar Finally Releases

This time, it is not a drill. Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar finally, officially releases after 20 years of development. The game, developed by Cleveland Blakemore, most recently wanted to…

August 4, 2017 | 04:34 EDT

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Steam Announces Updates To Groups, Invites System

Valve has announced a new Steam update that changes and updates their groups system according to a post on the Steam Blog. The first of three changes is the addition of a new type of group called…

August 4, 2017 | 12:00 EDT

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel PC Port Impressions

XSEED Games/Marvelous USA recently released their PC port of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, and we had the chance to give the title a proper run-through on the platform. You can find a…

August 4, 2017 | 09:00 EDT

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NIS America Detail Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA's Day One Edition, Reversible Cover Art

Today NIS America released some more information about Ys VIII Day One edition - or, the first-print run of PlayStation 4 copies in North America and Europe. The Day One edition will include a 5…

August 3, 2017 | 10:00 EDT

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.hack//G.U. Last Recode to Include New 4th Volume

.hack//G.U. Last Recode, the HD remaster collection of the .hack//G.U. trilogy that was recently announced, won't just come with a slew of gameplay changes when it releases later this year - it'll be…

August 1, 2017 | 10:08 EDT

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State of the Game: 10/07/2017 to 16/07/2017

This week in State of the Game we'll be taking a look at some data for all the games released on Steam between the 10th and 16th of July this year. Compared to last week, which was something of an…

July 31, 2017 | 09:17 EDT

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[Updated] River City Ransom Underground Returns To Steam, Developer's YouTube Taken Down - Alex Mauer Saga

The Alex Mauer Saga continues to unfold; while we're on a holding pattern right now with the Imagos Softworks case, the situation surrounding Conatus Creative's River City Ransom Underground…

July 29, 2017 | 10:00 EDT

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Modern Warfare Remastered Standalone Released on PC and Xbox One; Negative Reception to PC Version

Activision has already done the damage by refraining Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered from releasing as a standalone product for so long, but that hasn't stopped the publisher from bringing it…

July 29, 2017 | 03:05 EDT

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Update on Imagos vs Alex Mauer 7/24/17 - Alex Mauer Saga

Yep, there's more information on the Alex Mauer saga. Trying to keep up to date on an issue as complicated as this when you're not doing this full-time is tricky because it seems like if you blink,…

July 24, 2017 | 01:15 EDT

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State of the Game: 03/07/2017 to 09/07/2017

This week's State of the Game will be covering the games released on Steam between the 3rd and 9th of July this year. The Steam Summer Sale was winding down and so this started to give other titles a…

July 24, 2017 | 09:30 EDT

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President of Nihon Falcom: "We Want All of Our Games on Steam"

Earlier this month, TechRaptor had the chance to interview Toshihiro Kondo, the president of Nihon Falcom - the developers of both the Ys and Legend of Heroes series. We've got our full interview…

July 21, 2017 | 11:30 EDT

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XSEED Games Announces Ys Seven for PC Coming This Summer

During last week's "XSEED XSTREAM", XSEED Games announced that they were bringing their previous PSP release Ys Seven to Windows PC this Summer. (Skip to 1:22:00 for the start of it). XSEED…

July 21, 2017 | 11:05 EDT

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State of the Game: 26/06/2017 to 02/07/2017

Today on State of the Game we'll be covering all the games released on Steam between the 26th of June and the 2nd of July. For this week the Steam Summer Sale was already in full swing and, as a…

July 17, 2017 | 10:18 EDT

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DOOM's Multiplayer DLC Has Been Delisted

DOOM was a great game and easily one of my favorites of last year. The campaign was a killer reboot of everything that made the original such a classic, and it easily overshadowed the rest of the…

July 15, 2017 | 11:17 EDT

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Escape: VR, An Asset Flip with Fake Bot Reviews

Asset flips are a dime a dozen, and I'm sure if I went looking I'd run across all kinds of games on Steam that are merely "games" quickly thrown together using assets from something like the Unity…

July 14, 2017 | 09:07 EDT

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Fire Pro Wrestling World Creative Director Talks Future of the Series

Fire Pro Wrestling World was recently released to early access on Steam, and the game is just the latest in a long series of titles dating back to the early 1990s. The game was a long time coming,…

July 13, 2017 | 01:00 EDT

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event[0]'s AI Wrote Itself A New Ending

Gaming is going through an era of procedural generation. Roguelites are all the rage with their computer generated characters, levels, and item placements, but there's one crucial element that a…

July 12, 2017 | 09:40 EDT

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Blakemore's Grimoire Delayed Once More

Cleveland Blakemore's one man project, Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar, has been delayed once more after a promised release on July 7th. As previously reported, Grimoire was scheduled for a…

July 10, 2017 | 12:00 EDT

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Picking Your Nemesis For Shadow of War Using Nemesis Forge

Mogg the Driver is an Uruk-hai that just wouldn't die. No matter how many times he was beheaded, burned, or otherwise maimed, Mogg pursued me throughout my playthrough of Middle-earth: Shadow of…

July 7, 2017 | 10:56 EDT

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Anime Expo 2017: NISA Unveils 2017 Games and Nintendo Switch Plans

Earlier this week during Anime Expo, NISA held their panel detailing both previously announced as well as unannounced titles that the company plans to publish in the future. Although a good portion…

July 5, 2017 | 08:20 EDT

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Valve Shaking Up Dota 2 Tournament Scene

Qualifying for the biggest event in Dota 2's competitive year has always been something of a dark art, relying on invites from Valve. What was known is that doing well in Valve's other two…

July 4, 2017 | 04:51 EDT

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State of the Game: 12/06/2017 to 18/06/2017

This week's State of the Game will be covering games released on Steam between the 12th and 18th of June this year. Compared to last week things are looking up slightly, most of which can be…

July 3, 2017 | 01:15 EDT

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The LEGO NINJAGO Movie is Getting a Video Game

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group announced today that there will be a The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game. The LEGO NINJAGO Movie is due in theaters on October 13,…

June 30, 2017 | 12:30 EDT

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Marvel Heroes Halts Sales of Fantastic Four Characters

Another blow has been dealt in the ongoing war between Marvel and Fox over the few remaining heroes that aren't welcome into the MCU. As announced on the game's official forums, the entire Fantastic…

June 29, 2017 | 11:16 EDT

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Getting Standalone Release

Activision have announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered - previously only available with the purchase of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - will be releasing as a standalone PS4 game, on…

June 26, 2017 | 03:45 EDT

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State of the Game: 5/06/2017 to 11/06/2017

Today in this week's State of the Game we'll be covering the week from the 5th to the 11th of June this year. This week's releases brings with it some of the weakest numbers in the past 2 months with…

June 26, 2017 | 10:00 EDT

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Steam Summer Sale Start Date Revealed by PayPal

PayPal's UK Twitter account has let slip that the 2017 Steam Summer Sale will be starting on June 22. The tweet in question states that the Steam Summer Sale will begin at 6:00 PM BST (that's 10:00…

June 21, 2017 | 09:40 EDT

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State of the Game: 29/05/2017 to 04/06/2017

This week's State of the Game will be covering all the games released on Steam between the 26th of May to the 4th of June this year. Taking a look at the top level stats we can see that whilst the…

June 20, 2017 | 04:00 EDT

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E3 2017 - Moonlighter Interview and Impressions

Whenever I go to a convention, I tend to find one indie game that makes me stand up and take notice. Past titles like Enter The Gungeon and Flinthook have instantly gone from curiosities to highly…

June 17, 2017 | 10:00 EDT

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E3 2017 - Extinction Interview

Action games should be the purest expressions of gameplay available on the market. They are forged on dazzling combos and complex mechanics that have players stringing together attacks in one swift…

June 16, 2017 | 04:55 EDT

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Steam Direct Is Now Available

Steam Direct, the digital publishing system that is replacing Steam Greenlight, is now live and ready to use, according to an announcement from Valve. Valve had previously stated its intention to…

June 15, 2017 | 09:44 EDT

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State of the Game: 22/05/2017 to 28/05/2017

If you're looking for a break from the E3 hype train then look no further than today's State of the Game. Today we'll be covering the releases for the last full week of May. At the top level this…

June 12, 2017 | 11:25 EDT

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Moero Chronicle Coming West to Steam this Summer

Chances are good you've heard of Monster Monpiece, the Vita (and eventually Steam) game that involved players collecting "Monster Girl" cards, "rubbing" them to power them up and then unleashing them…

June 8, 2017 | 08:23 EDT

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Edmund McMillen's The End is Nigh Releases July 12th

Seemingly tired of all the Pre-E3 announcements this week, Edmund McMillen has pulled back the curtain on what he and Tyler Glaiel (Closure, Bombernauts) have been working on. The duo (who have…

June 8, 2017 | 10:16 EDT