Our weekly dose of hot takes, occasionally well formed opinions, and fevered outbursts is back; yup, it’s the Question of the Week! Last week was E3 so of course this weeks question deals with the massive gaming show : What E3 2016 game or reveal has you the most…
It’s that time of year again, summer video game sales! GOG was first out of the gate with their sale, and they started things off strong with some amazing deals. In the interest of showing off the large number of great Kickstarter funded games available, as well…
Stretch goals are usually added to a crowdfunding campaign in order for a game to earn more funding beyond the “base game”. Usually these are sweet enough to hopefully unlock as time goes on. Unfortunately, not all stretch goals for every campaign are met and there…
Red Cloak games released a new update for their very promising sci-fi adventure, Wanderer. Red Cloak, as usual, provides a ton of substance to its updates. There’s a ton of new details on how production of the game is going and insight into the game design. Ambient dialogue…
Although Kickstarter produces lots of great (and often massive) projects, smaller games on the platform with teams of one or two people often have it hard when it comes to gaining early publicity and coverage. Aik is such an example – digging itself into quite the impressive niche…
In a previous Kickstarter Primer feature I talked about add-ons and how they work. But, I didn’t tackle the reward tiers themselves. These are essentially the “base” pledge levels where everyone who picks it gets what’s listed in that level. Usually everything at the tiers…
In a visual novel you usually play as a young girl or boy as they go about their daily business and are thrust into usually strange, or at least romantic, events. While this is still certainly the case in Elisa – The Innkeeper, there are…
I love a game that deals with dark and morbid subject matter. When I saw that City of Rain was essentially touted as an action adventure set in a utopia that has degenerated into a city of sin and vice I had to check it…
For those of us unable to attend E3 and to see all the cool new games coming out, 100 Stones Interactive has released in the latest update for The Eyes of Ara the teaser trailer being shown off at the show. I have to say…
Defenders of Naxia seems to have a pretty dedicated team behind it. This action-RPG has clearly been in development for a while and it really shows. The pre-alpha, while still definitely an alpha, is worth playing, but let’s push that aside for a moment. What…
It’s always sad to see a project not make funding on Kickstarter, but it’s even more depressing to see a creator have to make the tough decision to refund backers due to development taking too long or some other issue. In the case of Necromancer,…
Distress may not have been due to be released until the end of the month but developer Light Machine have made the sensible decision to announce in advance that the sci-fi/horror visual novel will be delayed from June to autumn/winter of 2016. The three-man team…
After four years of development, the modding focused sandbox game Crea has been released. Crea takes a lot of cues from, and even looks a lot like, games like Terraria and Starbound. However, additional rpg elements such as the inclusion of over 80 different skills, as well…
I’m a big card game nut. I’ve been a fan of CCGs ever since I cracked open my first starter deck of Magic: the Gathering (and subsequently Decipher’s Star Trek CCG) and I still enjoy a good match every now and then. When it comes…
Perhaps the most disappointing Kickstarter failure ever is Blackmore. To me at least, which by extension should include everyone. It was a point and click adventure game set in a steampunk world, written by the guy who translated Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill 2,…
I always find it a bit sad whenever I see a project that I back not make funding by the time the clock ticks down to zero. In the case of Nadia Was Here they managed to get just under halfway to their goal before…
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