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11Apr

By StuartNo Comments

For The King Ventures Out Of Early Access Next Week

Multi-award winning publisher Curve Digital, is pleased to announce that IronOak Games’ For the King will leave Steam Early Access on 19th April 2018. For the King is a rogue-like RPG adventure for which sees players journey into procedurally generated levels to avenge their recently murdered King. Mixing up a challenging blend of strategy, tabletop RPG, and rogue-like elements, For The King features both a single player experience as well as the ability for three heroes to play cooperatively both online and locally. Taking place in the gorgeous, hexagonal kingdom of Fahrul, players must strategically explore and battle their way through the fairytale, stylized landscape in a bid to discover and survive, lest they succumb to death. The game’s short run in Early Access allowed for...

6Mar

By JohnNo Comments

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SupaRetroN HD by Hyperkin – Coming Soon

Given the recent surge in Retro gaming we have seen a number of consoles and emulation devices arrive from both Official and 3rd party companies (I think it’s safe to say with mixed results). Even the SNES Mini Classic which is kind of where the bar has been set recently has its drawbacks (Limited number of games). Well, Hyperkin have announced their latest entry into the SNES Retro Market with the SupaRetroN HD: With the SNES being without a doubt the best-selling console of its era (Sorry Sega!). It’s hardly surprising that a large number of people (myself included) have been salivating over the idea of being able to play their back catalogue in HD on our nice new flat screen TV’s. The first thing that I notice when seeing the picture for this console is that it has the stylish...

Abandon Ship Lowers Sails and Launches Tomorrow

20Feb

By TC Staff Writer1 Comment

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Abandon Ship Lowers Sails and Launches Tomorrow

Abandon Ship may not be about pirates, but it is about sailing, and this year we've already got Sea of Thieves, and Skull & Bones arriving to keep our inner pirates happy. However those two are both Online. What about if you want a single-player experience? That's where Abandon Ship seems to be coming in. Developed by Fireblade Software, the game brings a top-down, FTL style management system with the added exploration system inspired by Sunless Seas. It's also unique looking with an art style inspired by naval oil paintings from ye' olde days. The announcement trailer shows dramatic images accompanied by a dramatic, deep booming voice of a Captain. The developer has also launched gameplay trailers on their YouTube channel and allowed players to sign up to a newsletter on the mai...

Multiplayer Being Planted and Sowed for Stardew Valley as Developer Shares Progress

18Feb

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Multiplayer Being Planted and Sowed for Stardew Valley as Developer Shares Progress

Stardew Valley is the popular, top-down farming simulator with exploration elements added in, and the title is now due to get multiplayer. Originally Stardew Valley was exclusively single-player, but an update from developer, ConcernedApe explained his progression with the multi-player implementation. One of the updates was that ConcernedApe was no longer working as a solo developer, and as such has had some help from the games Publisher, Chucklefish's as Tom Coxon jumps on board to help port Stardew Valley to multi-player. It's expecting to get a beta this Spring to test the multi-player systems, and more information will be released at a later date. Additionally the game is getting some bug fixes, translated text, and new features along with the multi-player. ConcernedApe ended the...

Sea of Thieves Scale Test This Weekend, Merch Available from Merchoid

16Feb

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Sea of Thieves Scale Test This Weekend, Merch Available from Merchoid

Rare have pushed another playable beta live for this weekend for Sea of Thieves as they perform a scale test. The Scale Test began on Friday the 16th of February 2018 and will be playable until Sunday the 18th February at 10am GMT. The scale test is essentially a way to see whether or not Sea of Thieves handles a large influx of players sailing along in their big boats and digging holes in the beaches that populate the world. Executive Producer, Joe Neate made a video which can be viewed below in which he explains, "Everyone that was invited to the Closed Beta will also have access to this, but we're not really interested in learning about the features themselves, or the gameplay and stuff from the beta here. So purposefully we're kind of keeping a very similar feature set, so it will ...

Get Closer to Horror as The Evil Within 2 Adds First Person Perspective

15Feb

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Get Closer to Horror as The Evil Within 2 Adds First Person Perspective

The Evil Within 2 has now got a first-person perspective that allows players to complete the game entirely in first person. Tango Gameworks and Bethesda have announced that a first-person perspective is now available for the horror game, The Evil Within 2, and it will allow the player to complete the game entirely in first-person. A trailer was also released which can be found below. The perspective mode can be changed by finding it within the games menu according to Bethesda, and can be changed at any time whenever the player picks and chooses. The Evil Within 2 is the sequel to the horror title, The Evil Within and follows the story of a Detective who has lost everything when his Daughter dies, but he's given a chance to pull her back from the clutches of death by venturing into th...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Launching at 25GB New Trailer Launched

13Feb

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance Launching at 25GB New Trailer Launched

Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be launching on the 13th of February 2018 and gained a launch trailer on the 12th, a day before launch. The trailer can be found below and the Kickstarter success is to launch on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Martin Klima also issued a statement on Reddit regarding a hefty size, stating that rather than designing DLC they made the choice to go back to the version to be released and make significant improvements to it. We could have used these three months to get some rest, or we could use it to create some additional content and sell it to you as DLC, but we went back to the version-to-be-released and worked on it and tweaked it and polished it and the results are obvious The drawback, of course, is that most of the data in the old build were replaced and had ...

Hello Neighbor, Party Hard, and More Announced for Nintendo Switch

12Feb

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Hello Neighbor, Party Hard, and More Announced for Nintendo Switch

Publisher, tinyBuild have announced six of their titles are heading to the Nintendo Switch this year, and there's apparently more to come. Following on from the news that tinyBuild were to announce six titles heading to the Nintendo Switch, the live stream event that was held over the weekend saw the names of the titles officially announced. https://youtu.be/_jE4nzMvTU8 The Final Station is one of those titles announced, a side-scrolling shooter in which the player wanders around a train in a post-apocalyptic world trying to uncover what happened to the world. The Final Station is looking at a February release date and will include The Final Traitor DLC at launch. https://youtu.be/WBSFQcMJuY4 Clustertruck is a wonderfully simple first-person jumping platformer in which the play...

Kingdom Hearts III Trailer Lands And Worlds Shown in Action

10Feb

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Kingdom Hearts III Trailer Lands And Worlds Shown in Action

Kingdom Hearts III has throw out a brand new trailer that shows three worlds from the Disney Pixar worlds in action. The latest gameplay trailer from Kingdom Hearts III developer, Square Enix shows off three worlds in the Disney universe that are coming to the action-packed hack-n-slash title. Main characters, Sore, Donald Duck, and Goofy will be fighting against the enemy Heartless in a bid to free the world from the darkness that has overrun them. The trailer shows the trio heading to Monstropolis, the home of Mike, Sully, and Boo, taking battles to the streets, and also the large storage centre where the doors are stored. Another world that's heavily featured if Andy's room from, Toy Story, in which Woody, Buzz, and other toys battle against swarms of Heartless. There's a thir...

tinyBuild to Announce Six Titles Heading to the Switch during #HelloSwitch Event Tomorrow

9Feb

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tinyBuild to Announce Six Titles Heading to the Switch during #HelloSwitch Event Tomorrow

tinyBuild are announcing six Nintendo Switch titles that are heading to the console tomorrow in a live stream. Publisher, tinyBuild have announced that tomorrow, at 6pm GMT (10am PST) they are going to be holding a live stream to hold their first #HelloSwitch event. The event is being streamed across three platforms, Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook. Any trailers that are featured in the event are going to be available to view on the official publishers YouTube channel. The #HelloSwitch event will see them announcing six of their titles that are going to be heading to the Switch. The publisher have 27 published titles under their belt, including Hello Neighbor, Dungelot, Road to Ballhalla, Party Hard Tycoon, and more. The links to the various platforms that they'll be announcing the...