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Heads up! Indie Videogame, Kitsune Tails is Ready to Rumble!

Following its debut at OTK Games Expo, Kitsune Tails looks ready to impress!

The first public hands-on demo of Kitsune Tails, the platformer styled after beloved classics and steeped in Japanese mythology, arrives ahead of Steam Next Fest, alongside a new gameplay trailer debuted at OTK Games Expo. Developer Kitsune Games and publisher MidBoss™ brings their platformer with queer relationships to PC, Linux and Steam Deck in Q3 2024.

From the Press Release:

Unfurl the ancient tellings of a tale revolving around human ideas of romance and love that come with the complicated relationships of mythological beings. Explore the intro world in the Steam Next Fest demo to see first-hand the fire of Yuzu’s determination to one day confront her former mentor turned antagonist and save her love interest from a sealed elemental prison.

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Bahnsen Knights is Ready to Fright!

This ain’t no ordinary road trip! Just what Bahnsen Knights offers is more than your typical X-Files frightmare!

LCB Game Studio
Chorus Worldwide

Any fan of the retro style Pixel Pulps series of interactive adventure, will be thrilled to hear Bahnsen Knights is now here! It’s available to play on multiple platforms, like the Nintendo Switch, PS4|5, X Box with support for English, Spanish, German, French, and Japanese languages. That is, if you’ve played either Mothmen 1966 (review) and Varney Lake, this next novel will be on the shopping list! This third work in the series looks promising, and for any fan of pulp fiction or that 80s digital style, this game is for you!

From the Press Release:

Follow Toni, the cult’s leader and former car salesman, to figure out what happened to Boulder’s friend and missing partner, Cupra. Learn just exactly what these “route exorcisms” are that everyone’s talking about before Boulder meets an untimely demise. Here, you’ll be driving through multiple outcomes of dark conclusions and explore a choice-based detective tale that branches into different aspects of humanity’s capacity for terror.

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Fighting in Ysbryd Game’s World of Horror Isn’t as Easy as Some Might Think!

To create a retro style game in World of Horror really means understanding how to push the limits of 2 bit technology, and being inspired by the right manga artist!

Although the graphic user interface in Ysbryd Game‘s latest product is fairly easy to figure out, I struggled with parts of the game. When fighting against the many monsters found in World of Horror to get me into the mood for Halloween, the ability to plan out my moves needs to be streamlined. Just how it’s organised in this early release demo is really wonky, and it’s like flipping through an old edition of Call of Cthulhu RPG just to consult various tables.

Even though the interface reveals what each icon represents with a word, I still struggled with wondering what actions can succeed each other. This system also calculates just how many points each move does, and it can’t go over 200. Therefore, planning what your best method of attack is important! Also, the option to run away is tucked elsewhere! It should be a primary action, rather than delegated into a submenu. Just like this pen and paper game, this electronic counterpart it depends more on solving the mystery and reciting the ritual to dispel the terror than fighting everything head on.

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G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra Continues the Ongoing Battle!

The story behind G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra will excite some fans as will this be the final showdown?

GI JOE Wrath of Cobra Poster Image Fans of long running IPs can get a dose of what being an elite special force is like with G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra, a retro-style beat ‘em up side-scroller set in the legendary Hasbro owned universe. Developed Maple Powered Games and publisher Freedom Games, videogamers have to get ready for G.I. Joe’s biggest mission yet!

This game will be available on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG as well as Nintendo Switch in Q1 2024, as revealed at The MIX Next, a showcase expo where indie developers can show off their works in progress.

From the Press Release:

This legendary franchise returns for arcade-style beat’em up action with Duke, Scarlett, Snake Eyes, Roadblock, and other beloved franchise favourites. Navigate land, air, sea, and even space through iconic locations like Cobra Island, the Pit, Cobra’s top-secret underwater base, and more as you thwart the devious Cobra Commander’s latest scheme to take over the world.

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Look Out! Space Invaders: World Defense is Taking Over the Skies!

I can’t help but be reminded of the climatic moment from Independence Day in the fancier levels in Space Invaders: World Defense.

Released July 20th, 2023
Atari and TAITO

Available on Android and iOS

Space Invaders: World Defense has the feel that players should don AR glasses while shooting down the titular pixel aliens in the real world. That’s because, to spin around and search for them means they’re after you rather than to destroy a city! Fortunately, this game limits the area where you can move around in, so you’re not running around the block in search of their entry point to our realm.

Although this game isn’t fully designed to have you witness monsters and UFOs blasting away at city buildings, I have to wonder when digital reality will replace our own. That’s assuming that we are not living in The Matrix; the more structures that are around means more work for the game to internally weave these invaders around. It’s a novel concept that will have most gamers loving this product’s mechanic as a lot of the animation and interaction is truly seamless.

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Love Retrogames and Dungeon-Crawls? Quest Master is Coming Soon!

Traditional pen and paper Dungeon Masters who want to craft in the videogame front will soon have Quest Master to challenge gamers!

Quest Master Promo Card Demo Available on Steam

After its debut at Steam Next Fest, Quest Master, is now available as a demo to play! This dungeon-designing sandbox fantasy adventure from publisher Apogee Entertainment and developer Skydevilpalm grants adventurers the keys to craft custom dungeons, and much more. To unleash this demo to the public is so far very addicting and different from other games of the past era. To be able to be Dungeon Master says it all!

It also has a lot of retro style sound design and digital aesthetics that fans of Wild Arms and also Zelda are familiar with!

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