It’s creeping ever closer to Halloween, so we are ramping up our coverage of games with a spooky twist. The Darkest Tales falls into that category perfectly as a Metroid-like hack-and-slasher title featuring dark takes on popular fairy tales and a teddy bear hero with attitude.
Winter Games 2023 from Wild River Games is available now in North America for PC, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch and on November 11 for Playstation 4 and Playstation 5. Developed by Independent Arts based in Hamm, Germany and published by Wild River Games, Winter Games 2023 offers players a wonderland of winter sports and activities ahead of the winter season. Winter sports fans can hit the virtual snow from home and compete on slopes all over the world. Winter Games 2023 includes ten well-known winter sports disciplines from ski jumping to Biathlon to Skeleton, in an exciting and action-packed sports … Continue reading Winter Games 2023 Launches For North America
Just in time for the fall season, the cozy and relaxing visual novel/witchcraft simulator Witchy Life Story has arrived on Steam. A young witch has been exiled to a town by her grandmother, and you as the player must help her make the town’s harvest festival a success in order for her to be allowed to continue with her witch’s training.
Flush with the success of the Edgerunners anime series, the Cyberpunk 2077 game is experiencing a resurgence in popularity, with millions of players diving back into Night City’s dark utopia. And thankfully, the developers have released another patch that adds a bit more single player content and quite a few nods to Edgerunners.
C.A.R.L., a game created by well-known YouTube personality Andrew Kenady and co-developed by Matt Bitner of Morningstar Game Studio (developer of A Robot Named Fight!), is launching today on all major consoles and Steam. Inspired by PC classics such as Cave Story, Speedy Eggbert, and Jazz Jackrabbit, C.A.R.L. blends classic platformer action with quirky RPG and story elements to deliver a clever, humorous, infinitely satisfying retro romp. Get in the shiny metal shoes of C.A.R.L. (Computer Automated Resource Locator) – a small but daring automaton lost within the sprawling Kent Industries. Brave each perilous factory floor to collect Tech Units … Continue reading Retro Platformer C.A.R.L. Launches to Consoles and Steam
This week our Save State columnist, Vincent Mahoney, takes a break from all the retro gaming he has done over the past few weeks to play a much more modern game, the visually stunning and unique Soul Hackers 2.
After fine-tuning, polishing, and improving the game thanks to player feedback over the course of two years of beta, developer Novaquark has announced that genre-redefining, multi-planetary MMORPG Dual Universe is now available on PC via the title’s official website and for the first time on Steam. Players can also enjoy the game on almost any computer via NVIDIA’s cloud-based platform GeForce NOW. A free Steam trial for Dual Universe, which runs separately from the game’s main persistent server, is also available. The trial is designed to give curious sci-fi fans a comprehensive overview through accelerated gameplay. Ten thousand years after … Continue reading Massive Dual Universe MMORPG Launches on PC and Steam
Darkflow Software and Gaijin Entertainment announce the release of the “Pacific Ocean” major content update for the online shooter Enlisted. The new campaign carefully recreates battles that took place in the Pacific theater of World War II: risky island landings with the use of amphibious tanks and air support from aircraft carriers, fierce battles of infantry and armored vehicles in a lush tropical jungle with a large number of water barriers. The Japanese Army is featured in Enlisted for the first time, and players are able to use a lot of unique weapons and vehicles from its arsenal, ranging from … Continue reading Enlisted’s New Update Features the Pacific War Campaign
Call of Duty players made the Modern Warfare II Open Beta the biggest Beta in Call of Duty history — the most players, most hours played, and most matches played across PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X|S, and PC platforms combined. This was only a slice of all the new content coming in Modern Warfare II when it launches this fall. In the weeks ahead, players who pre-order Modern Warfare II will get up to one week of Early Campaign access before its global launch on Oct. 28th. Soon after comes the launch of the all-new, free-to-play … Continue reading Call of Duty Modern Warfare II Beta Breaks Franchise Records
The latest installment of the popular Construction Simulator series from astragon Entertainment and Weltenbauer software Entwicklung is now available for PC and consoles in retail and digital stores – including a co-op multiplayer for up to four players, the largest fleet of vehicles in the history of the series and numerous new and once again significantly expanded features in a completely revised, modern look. To date, more than 30 million simulator fans have already created their own empire in the Construction Simulator series. True to the tagline “GET TO WORK.” in Construction Simulator, anyone can work their way up from … Continue reading Construction Simulator Now Available for PC and Consoles
