Help, I’m drowning in crowdfunded visual novels! Actually, don’t help because this is completely awesome. Starlight Vega is a brand new game in the genre focused on a girl named Aria. She was just snooping around her grandpa’s old house when she stumbles upon a…
It’s quite a week for visual novel fans on Kickstarter. This week marks the launch of Tales of Valiance: First Light, which is an upcoming game in the genre by Talen James and Darian Bower. Their funding video doesn’t actually explain much about the game,…
[dropcap size=big]B[/dropcap]rilliant Shadows is a fantasy visual novel featuring two very opposite schools of magic. Necromancy is known for its practition of the dark arts, usually in the form of raising the dead and casting curses on others. The purity of the paladins are typically…
Kickstarter is a huge gambit for project creators. Sometimes, astonishingly cool games fail to meet their funding goals while other campaigns make it. It’s downright impossible to predict, but luckily it’s always possible to run a second campaign. Three very recent campaigns have done exactly…
The local multiplayer Renaissance is upon us. In the past two years we have seen a tremendous amount of indie games come about with a focus on couch co-op. Ultimate Chicken Horse is the newest in this trend (although it’s not exclusively a multiplayer game)….
If there’s one genre that’s likely to never go out of style it is that of the card game. Heck, just look at Magic the Gathering which has been going strong now since the early 90s. Many card games have come and gone, and folks…
[dropcap size=big]K[/dropcap]ickstarter is a popular site to get ideas and projects funded without the need for a publisher. Unfortunately, not all campaigns make it. For most, the success or failure rests in the first try. It’s either you get funding or you don’t. For those…
[dropcap size=big]B[/dropcap]efore we go any further, if you haven’t beaten Book of Unwritten Tales 2 yet, then I recommend doing so before reading onward as there are spoilers ahead. I’ll add some space so that no one accidentally reads anything… Book of Unwritten Tales 2 takes a lot from fantasy…
“Boss Monster 2: The Next Level is a full-sized, 160 card set that returns you to the world of Arcadia where the bad are good and the good are dinner.” You’ll take on the role of the boss at the end of a retro-style video game…
Although many modern games are likely unaware of the name, The Bitmap Brothers were effectively iconic game developers from the late 80s to early 90s. Their library of titles was vast, spanning from Speedball to Gods to The Chaos Engine. Each title featured gorgeous pixel…
It’s always been something of a “thing” with me to gravitate toward darker sorts of games. Anything with a mature, or even just grisly theme tends to draw my attention more than bright, happy-go-lucky titles. That’s why Lunatic’s Bane immediately caught my attention. This game…
Visual novel fans have had it amazingly good over these past few years. Not only have they gained more mainstream attention and release on consoles, but the PC space is absolutely booming with more indie developers than ever before. The genre has seen particular attention…
It was around the early 2000s when extreme sports games started cropping up left and right. Not only was there the massively successful Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, but tons of others tried to make their mark. BMX, surfing, and even scooters got in on the…
For the past few years, World of Podcasts has been an annual event in Anaheim, California which coincides with Activison Blizzard’s Blizzcon convention. As the name implies, it served as a fantastic way to get podcasters (and everyone else) in the gaming scene together while…
[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]urrently running on Kickstarter with only a couple weeks left is a science-fiction point-and-click adventure game with a unique art style called Ira. In it, you’ll play as the titular character through three different time periods in order to solve a mystery surrounding Ira…
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap] game of infernal proportions has been brought to the forefront of Kickstarter! Today I bring to your attention, Requiem: Vampire Knight; a game of strategy and combat based on the comic from Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit. This alternate twisted universe of Resurrection is…
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