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Floppy Knights is Free on Epic

A busy week for news, this one. Monday, press X to doubt rumors swirling around former Team Bondi devs, and Critter Crops got a release date. Tuesday, Piranha Bytes was reportedly shuttered and a new studio rose from its ashes, there’s a…

Summer 2024 Romcom Anime Slate Part 2

Another season, another long list of anime to watch. In the world of romcoms, there’s no shortage of viewing, as usual – several adaptations are hitting the silver screen in both sub and dub form, with July looking like one of the…

Neo Harbor Rescue Squad Releasing Later This Year

Cook, Serve, Delicious! has a lot to answer for when it comes to adding some quick-time events/mini-games to many indie games, and how they are implemented. Toronto-based developer BancyCo has had moderate success with a number of visual novels/graphic adventures of varying…

Stern Announces Godzilla 70th Anniversary Pinball Machine

Godzilla is honestly worth celebrating every single day, but seeing as the monster turns 70 this year, 2024 is a particularly great year to recognize the impact of the kaiju icon. To celebrate, Stern Pinball, Inc., has announced a new Godzilla 70th Anniversary…

Deathbound to Release in August

Featured in this year’s Faux-E3 Latin American Games Showcase, Trialforge Studio’s “one-of-a-kind party-based Souls-like set in a callous world where Faith and Science clash” has some interesting ideas. Well, the studio announced yesterday morning that Deathbound will be hitting that Q3 2024…

New Update Coming to Total War: PHARAOH

I’ve been a casual fan of the Total War series since Shogun 2. As a result, I was excited this week to learn that the latest entry in the historical grand strategy series, Total War: PHARAOH will launch a big free expansion…

Cities: Skylines 2 Given Indefinite Console Delay

To say the release and post-release of Cities: Skylines 2 has been troubled would be an understatement. I’ve even written an editorial on the nonsense argument that it was fine that the game doesn’t aim for 60FPS, which is still nonsense. Really,…

Bandai Namco Announces New Bleach Game

Recently, Bandai Namco announced during a company event that a new game is in development, based on the popular manga and anime series, Bleach. Though the series has had multiple mobile game releases over the past few years, this new title will…

Piranha Bytes Reportedly Closed by Embracer

I actually do feel bad when I feel smug after people have lost their jobs, but I can’t help it sometimes. It was only a couple of months ago I was sitting here talking about the sale of Gearbox to 2K and…

Critter Crops Gets New Release Date

Indie farming and life-sim games are always a good time. From Stardew Valley to Coral Island, the genre has expanded significantly in the last few years. Now, Skyreach Studio has released details for Critter Crops, a new entry in the genre. Critter…