SNK’s new trend of bringing classic NeoGeo Pocket games to Nintendo Switch continues, with King of Fighters R-2 and Samurai Shodown! 2 being the latest games to join the NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection range. Both games released last Friday, priced at NZD $13.20 / AUD $12.00 each. They offer “perfectly …
Yesterday, 8 August, marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of Momodora. To celebrate, developer Bombservice (aka rdein) shared a few things on Twitter—chief among them, a teaser trailer for a new Momodora game that’s in the works. The emphasis is on “teaser”. The trailer shows a red pixel-art moon …
The full release of metal rhythm shoot-’em-up Double Kick Heroes is just around the corner—it’s coming to Switch and leaving Steam Early Access on August 13, with an Xbox One and Windows 10 release to follow on August 28. To help get you ready for launch day, developer Headbang Club …
Röki is something beautiful. It’s a tale of grand adventure through a stunning Scandinavian wilderness home to trolls and giants, but also an intimate, personal story of coping with grief. It’s an enchanting original fairy tale that wouldn’t feel at all out of place alongside the works of Hans Christian …
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from my time with the early access for GolfTopia, it’s this: designing a golf course is easy, but designing a good golf course is hard. Building a course that people actually want to play, that’s challenging without being too hard, while also retaining whatever …
I’ve never been able to get into Fairy Tail, despite giving both the manga and anime a few goes over the years. On paper, it seems like my kind of thing, but the characters and storylines never grabbed me, and there’s something about the art style—I still can’t quite put …
We finally know more about the mysterious swordsman who showed up at the end of the very first trailer for Guilty Gear Strive: his name is Nagoriyuki, and he’s a vampire. During today’s Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable, Arc System Works shared the latest character reveal trailer for Strive, confirming …
Koei Tecmo and Gust have shared the first English trailer for Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends and the Secret Fairy, alongside the launch of the game’s official website. Taking place three years after the previous game, Atelier Ryza 2 opens the door to a new adventure for Reisalin Stout (aka …
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Update: With the release of the Episode 4 update, Phantasy Star Online 2 is now available in an additional 33 regions, including Australia and New Zealand. It’s not limited to the Steam version—the Xbox One and Windows 10 versions are also officially available in the same territories now. It’s possible …
I honestly think the RPG spinoffs are the Mario franchise at its best. Games like Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi have long used the more dialogue-heavy format of the genre to dial the series’ humour up to another level, while creatively blending platform and RPG elements. …
