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The world can always do with more cute-’em-ups. Shmups are all well and good, but trade the spaceships and gritty sci-fi for adorable characters and bright, playful colours and you get magic—as the TwinBees and Cottons of this world have proven time and again. It’s that tradition that Hazelnut Hex …

Update: We’ve now got a full list of the tracks in the base game! Original post: It feels like a new Theatrhythm has been a long time coming. It’s been eight years since Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call landed on 3DS in 2014, and while the series has had some …

Even without any personal nostalgia to draw from, there’s always something enchanting about rural Japanese settings in games. From Persona 4 to Root Letter, Boku no Natsuyasumi to The Kids We Were, it’s not an uncommon backdrop, but one that always comes with its own unique magic. It’s that same …

There were plenty of exciting announcements in this morning’s Future Games Show at Gamescom: a shadow drop of an English update for the Steam version of Wizardry: The Five Ordeals; an intriguing-looking climate change-themed city builder in Floodland; the release of a demo for character action game Soulstice; among many …

A new dungeon crawler is always good news. A new game that channels a sumi-e art style is always good news. A new game revolving around yōkai is always good news. So one that hits all three of those targets? Well that’s very good news indeed. Enter Labyrinth of Zangetsu, …

Start getting those leave requests in, friends: you’re going to want to make sure you have September 20 free to play games all day, because that’s the release date Studio Drydock announced today for the Switch and Steam versions of cozy magical farm life sim Wylde Flowers. A quick, back-of-the-envelope …

Disclaimer: This post is a shared in partnership with PriceSpy. It’s not always the latest new game releases that attract the eye of gamers, with the latest popularity data from PriceSpy, the fully impartial price and product comparison site, revealing the top-ranking game PriceSpy-ers were scoping out to buy most …