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You may not be familiar with the name Jason Blundell, but you may know of his lead creative work: Call of Duty Zombies, a beloved mode in the first-person shooter franchise from Treyarch and Activision. He also worked on the EA-published license movie game Catwoman, but that's just random trivia for you. The ex-Treyarch co-studio head will be ru...
The Humble Games brand just showcased a lot of its new and upcoming titles (and updates on existing ones or previously-revealed games) in its March 2025 livestream. Here's a rundown on everything shown so far. Monaco 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKF0feOQcPU&pp=ygUIbW9uYWNvIDI%3D The long-awaited sequel to the retro-esque hei...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch Genre: Role-Playing Game, Rhythm, Retro Everhood 2 is what happens when you mix a 90s Japanese role-playing game with trippy graphics & aesthetics with a music rhythm game. Sorta. You play as a coloured Soul who has to go through what is known as the Everhood, a hodge-podge of strange loca...
The 1st Annual of The Days of Ramadan Festival - organized by third party curator SEAGamethetic - is live right now from 28th February 2025 until 31st March 2025. To celebrate the ninth month of Islamic calendar, SEAGamethetic invites game developers from around the world to showcase their games on Steam. The festival featured exclusive demo show...
If there’s one thing gamers love more than complaining about games, it’s getting their hands on free demos. Enter Steam Next Fest 2025—a buffet of upcoming titles, where you can sample everything from indie gems to potential flops before they launch. It’s like a fancy restaurant giving out free tasters—some are exquisite, some are questio...
Roguelike deckbuilder Monster Train is getting a part 2 according to publisher Big Fan Games and developer Shiny Shoe. The sequel, Monster Train 2, has you recruiting angels, demons, and anything in-between to take trains that embark through the Abyss to deal with threats called Titans. If you want to take a stab at this unique take, the demo is...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One Genre: Adventure, Music Rhythm, Story-Heavy, Indonesian Culture If a small-time indie band were to spend a few years toiling and creating a simple adventure game with little to no puzzle-solving and more narrative branch path-choosing and planning (with some tacked-on music rhyt...
Platform(s): PC (Version reviewed) Genre: Beat-em-up, Action, 3D, Multiplayer, Indie There's nothing quite like a co-op beat-em-up to release stress after work. With good controls and great-feeling gameplay, a simple top-down side-scrolling beat-em-up can help calm the mind, even if the game is skewed heavily in the player's favour. Big Helm...
Talk about a Metal Gear reunion! Voice actors David Hayter (of Metal Gear Solid fame), Christopher Randolph, and Jennifer Hale will be reuniting to voice the upcoming action side-scrolling title SteamDolls: Order of Chaos. The upcoming action title, published by Top Hat Studios and developed by The Shady Gentlemen, will be out in Early Access fo...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed) Genre: Rhythm, Music, Minigames The indie gaming scene is in a good place with plethora of genres seemingly lost in time, like rhythm games. The once-mainstream gaming genre popularized by Beatmania and Guitar Hero has laid dormant, with talented fans of those music games putting their small-team indie spin on...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D Metroidvania, Action, Scifi Team Ladybug's latest 2D search action game, Blade Chimera, hits all the right notes from the get-go. From the lush graphics and 2D pixel art style to its smooth controls, the game eases you in while also introducing some fresh game mechanics that all othe...
Hello again, viewers & readers. Welcome to this week's edition of Asia Gaming Beat where we will recap the best gaming news from all over Asia and the rest of the world. We also list the games that are out in the week, as well as bring up videos and feature pieces that are worth highlighting for Asian gaming audiences to tune into. This is a te...
Publishers Digital Devolver and Good Sheperd Entertainment have announced a new top-down action RPG from developer Violet Saint. It's called Moroi and it's billed as a dark fantasy hack-and-slash action adventure game. You play as a prisoner in a living nightmare, fighting for survival and escape from a twisted cosmic labyrinth while meeting the...
Back in 2021, an indie pixel role-playing game called Everhood was released and had its own slew of fans. While it looked similar to other faux-retro RPGs like Undertale, it had music rhythm-tailored combat and sequences to make it stand out. We're getting a part 2, it seems, and it'll be out in a few months. Everhood 2 will be out for PC and Ni...
Need an anime-style chain-smoking lesbian bartender straight out of a PC-88-style scifi visual novel at your side in figure form? GoodSmile Company has you covered! GoodSmile Company has announced the Pop Up Parade figure of Jill Stingray, star of the hit indie visual novel VA-11 Hall-A. This cool bartender stands at 240mm in height (L Size) and...
Bonus Stage Publishing and Rock Pocket Games have announced that Somber Echoes will launch for PC via Steam on 21 January 2025. In the Metroidvania game Somber Echoes, players take on the role of the resurrected Adrestia and embark on an epic journey to prevent their twin sister from unravelling the universe. Master acrobatic combat, explore the...
Happy New Year 2025! It's the beginning of a new year as we head into a brand new year. We're halfway into the 2020s and this upcoming year might be one of the biggest years yet for pop culture. This is especially so after the early 2020s which were plagued by problems and issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, the months-long SAG-AFTRA strike that ...
Tokyo game developer Unseen is hard at work on its new action game Kemuri, though the company has time to arrange this sweet moment while showing off bits of the game's town hub. Kemuri's lead level designer Shane Canning wanted to propose to his girlfriend in the best way possible. So he planned the idea with his team and his boss Ikumi "Best E...
2024 is a very stacked year of video games, whether you’re into the big triple-A fares or the small-time titles. And we’re close to the end of the year, meaning it’s time to dish out our retrospectives by summarizing our thoughts with our top picks and recommendations. It’s a mandatory custom in media to dish out these thinkpieces as a way ...
2024. This is the year where Kakuchopurei did well if we're being honest. From multiple special debut screenings for Deadpool & Wolverine and Sonic The Hedgehog 3 to a growing YouTube channel with loads of insightful and/or funny content to go through that's part video games and part pop culture, to the multitude of game reviews and features we...
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