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Eiyuden Chronicle Is A Rough But Beautiful Love Letter To Suikoden
22.4.2024
The late Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama got the crew back together for one last job in 2020: a crowdfunding campaign for a spiritual successor to the beloved Japanese RPG series raised $4.5 million, the third most of any gaming Kickstarter ever. Four years later, the team at Rabbit and Bear...
Sea Of Stars Gets Surprise Co-op Mode To Celebrate 5 Million Players
13.3.2024
Last year’s hit indie RPG Sea of Stars has passed an impressive milestone and the team behind the game is celebrating in a bit of an unorthodox way. Since its launch late last summer, Sea of Stars has been played by more than five million players, and to mark the occasion, Sabotage Studio...
WB Discovery Might Soon Delist Over A Dozen Adult Swim-Published Games
8.3.2024
Corporate entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery has begun sending notices to developers behind Adult Swim-published video games that their creations will be delisted and removed from digital stores in the next 60 days. While the company has yet to confirm what will happen to nearly 20 Adult...
*That* Borderlands Movie Trailer, A Nintendo Direct, And More Of What Went Down This Week
24.2.2024
As yet another week passes, we get more proof that 2024 is shaping up to be a very busy year in gaming—if not for game releases, then certainly for big stories around game exclusivity, adaptions, and, as always, streamers. This week we got our first look at the highly anticipated Borderlands movie...
Stormgate's Ex-Blizzard Devs Want Players To Invest In The Company
19.2.2024
As 2024's big bad—Late Stage Capitalism—continues its grim rampage, some developers are looking to more innovative approaches to avoid the publishing industry’s self-sabotaging need for impossibly endless growth. Stormgate creator Frost Giant—a studio created by former StarCraft 2 devs—is following...
The Best Part Of The Xbox Direct Happened Before It Started
18.1.2024
Thursday’s Xbox showcase included some big games that I can’t wait to play. But if you tuned it right when the action started you might have missed the best part of the show: a series of fun pop-up facts and trivia about various Xbox-owned studios. Read more
The Day Before Dev Says ‘Sh** Happens’ As It Deletes Everything
12.12.2023
Everything going on with failed Steam zombie shooter The Day Before continues to shock and amaze. The latest wild development is studio Fntastic’s response to the entire self-inflicted debacle: “shit happens.”Read more
Cult PSP Game Gets Spiritual Successor That’s Already Blowing Up Kickstarter
31.7.2023
Dozens of PlayStation fans have spent years dreaming about a new Patapon game, the rhythm-based strategy series for the Playstation Portable that mixed shades of Pikmin and Guitar Hero. That’s probably never happening, but creator Hiroyuki Kotani is back with the next best thing: a spiritual...
I Wish I Loved This Final Fantasy Tactics-Inspired SRPG 7 Years In The Making
31.7.2023
Final Fantasy Tactics nailed so many things so exquisitely that, despite plenty of sequels, spiritual successors, and fan homages, there’s never been anything quite like it since. Arcadian Atlas is the latest indie strategy RPG to try and channel its greatness into something familiar but new,...
10 Engrossing Action-RPG Games To Play Like Diablo IV
5.6.2023
You’re in one of a number of pickles. You’ve somehow already hit level 100 in Diablo IV; you’re waiting for it to drop in price; or just not convinced that enough has changed to make it worth buying after Diablo III. Whatever you reason for needing more loot, we’ve got you covered, with...
Prequel To Cult Japanese RPG Is Doing Very Nicely On Kickstarter
19.5.2023
While the Golden Age of video games making bank on Kickstarter is long gone, that isn’t to say there aren’t still success stories on the platform. And a big one this month is Elin, a roguelike RPG out of Japan that’s trying to deliver on dreams that fans have been harbouring for 15 years...
Rainbow Six Kickstarter Asks For More Money From People Who Already Backed
4.5.2023
In 2021 Mythic Games, with the backing of Ubisoft, announced a Kickstarter campaign for an officially-licensed board game adaptation of Rainbow Six: Siege. Two years later, Mythic are asking people who already paid for the game to pay a bit—and in some cases a lot—more.Read more
The Fierce Microsoft Battle That Led To One Of The Biggest Video Games Of All Time
24.2.2023
The sixth season of Boss Fight Books is currently funding on Kickstarter. Among the books in this season’s offerings is Kyle Orland’s tome on Minesweeper. A gripping read that tells the wild story of how Minesweeper became one of the most ubiquitous games in history—a tale that saw Microsoft...
Kickstarter Suspends AI-Generated Image (Well, Porn) Project
22.12.2022
Until today, there had been an active Kickstarter campaign running for Unstable Diffusion, a project describing themselves as “a group born out of a grassroots community effort to reject the limiting rules of corporate AI companies”.Read more
Artist Turns Down $3,000 Fortnite Job Offer, Calls It 'Hilarious'
6.12.2022
While Epic Games continues to position itself as a pro-game developer company, the same can’t be said for how it treats artists and their copyrights. The Fortnite developer recently offered $3,000 to an artist for an illustration and the copyright—which meant that they wouldn’t be able to sell...
Kickstarter Cancelled In The Most Brutal Way Possible
29.11.2022
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is a fictional project by Trevor Roberts, who having started on Reddit has for the past few years has been posting stories and artwork to his website, fleshing (sorry) out the tale of a huge creature that is discovered underground in Texas and...turned into a tourist...
Scorn Is True To Giger’s Work, But Needs More Dicks
15.10.2022
Scorn is a rough game so far. It’s slow, send you down winding labyrinths with little guidance, offers zero narrative comforts (at least early on), and is set in a dramatically uncomfortable and grotesque world clearly inspired by the works of Swiss artist HR Giger. I’ve found it to be an unfun...
Star Citizen Has Now Raised Over Half A Billion Dollars
21.9.2022
Star Citizen, a video game that exists as a Forever Promise, was first revealed to the world back in 2012 via a Kickstarter campaign that raised $2.1 million. In the decade since, through the announcements of spin-offs, modules, in-game economies and countless other features and half-baked ideas...
Elden Ring Is Being Turned Into A Board Game
20.9.2022
Presumptive GOTY Elden Ring is, in perhaps the least surprising piece of news that I’ll write for this site today, getting a board game adaptation.Read more
Menyr Lets You Build A Whole Damn World For Your RPG Campaigns
20.9.2022
Menyr, which pitches itslef as a “story-telling engine”, is a toolbox that lets players create an entire digital world for their role-playing games, from landscapes to settlements, then play through them. Launched on Kickstarter earlier this month, it has already blown past its funding goal.Read...