It seems that every other day, another survival RPG pops up on Steam Greenlight or Kickstarter, which tasks players with surviving impossible odds whilst crafting weapons and all that jazz. You expect the usual song and dance when one of these gets revealed and with the survival RPG genre being…

On a site simply called Sword or Whip, Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi seems to be teasing that his long rumoured spiritual successor to the series may be resurfacing very soon. The site has someone resembling Iga-san, dressed as Dracula from Symphony of the Night, sitting on a throne and asking…

The 3d, third person brawler is an under-represented genre, having its day with the Power Stone series back on the Dreamcast before fading into obscurity, along with Sega's relevance in the console market. However, this genre which has been dormant for many years is planning to make a comeback with…

Due to the tremendous success of Yooka Laylee’s Kickstarter campaign, Playtonic Games are well and truly set to begin the development of their first 3D platformer. Although they have had the good fortune to have worked on some of the industry’s most popular titles in its history, experience does not…

The game development studio Playtonic Games, comprised of five former employees of Rare, have finally revealed the main characters of their first game. Like it's spiritual successor, the game is named after the stars of this brand new adventure formerly known as Project Ukulele. The classic double act formula has…

At the time of writing this, Crowfall - Throne War has surpassed the 50% mark on it's Kickstarter goal of $800,000. A video on said Kickstarter page explains the ideas behind Crowfall, with it's decaying worlds, fully destructible environments and player built "Eternal Kingdoms" As this Kickstarter was only just…

Zombie Survival Craft game, Survive The Nights, is now ready to be pre-ordered through Paypal. After kicking its Kickstarters goal way out of the field, Survive the Nights made itself known with interesting content and hugely promising ideas. Now fully funded, Greenlit on steam and under development by a2z(interactive), Survive…

New and promising Zombie Survival title, Survive The Nights is having a blow out competition. After a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, a2z(Interactive), developers of Survive The Nights, have decided to relinquish the packages left over from their Kickstarter campaign in a huge competition. With prizes ranging from chances to name…

Pathologic the survival adventure game by Russian based studio Ice Pick Lodge which is being developed for PS4 and Xbox One is in the middle of its Kickstarter Campaign. With 14 days to go, Pathologic needs another $20,000 from their $250,000 goal for the game to be successfully funded. So what…

After two and a half years, as well as $2.9M+ in crowdfunding, Wasteland 2 is officially out on PC. Continuing on from Larian Studios with Divinity: Original Sin, inXile Entertainment have created a sequel that mixes both modern graphical power and older CRPG design. The original was known for eventually spawning the Fallout series, as well…

Free is a good price - a statement Divinity: Original Sin developer, Larian Studios, seems to agree with. The Belgium based indie devs have released a completely free DLC pack for their recent crowd-funded RPG. Titled "The Bear and The Burglar", it includes two new companions to explore Cyseal with. Both…

Thanks to a hefty pledge of nearly eighteen thousand Australian dollars, Super Indie Kart Grand Prix has made across the finish line and been funded by Kickstarter. After an unsuccessful first lap, OneLeggedSeagull reworked the game and made it more appealing by adding indie characters from various games to broaden…

As the old saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, try again. This is certainly the case with One Legged Seagull's kart racer Super World Karts Grand Prix, which has reappeared on Kickstarter with a new name, and a roster of characters that will be slightly familiar to anyone…

Survive The Nights is a Zombie Survival Crafting Sandbox game that has recently reached it Kickstarter goal, and made it on to the Steam Greenlit page. In the ever expanding sea of zombie survival crafting games, it is easy to miss out on the more promising titles. A lot of…

inXile don't seem to be taking Wasteland 2 opening minutes too seriously. Every other line sounds ripped from a low-budget 80's action romp, delivered with just enough substance to keep it from derailing itself into full blown parody. First revealed at MCM London, the intro movie was later posted on Wasteland 2's…

MechRunner is a new title coming from Spark Plug Games. As it is currently going through its Kickstarter campaign, we had an interview with President and Lead Engineer John O'Niell & Vice-President and Art Director Ben Lichius. Find out some information about the game as well as the developers behind…

Planets³ the adventure, RPG, dungeon crawler and building mix of a game has reached its target of $250,000. Michel Thomazeau, Planets³ Project Director says, 'We are incredibly grateful to every backer we have for believing in our dreams of a Cubical world. The kind words, encouraging each other and helping us to…

#UPDATE - The funding for this project has unfortunately been cancelled for reasons unknown.# It is very rare in the mainstream video games industry that a game is based entirely around a character who has an affliction that is hard to understand. While we see many psychological horror games facing…

Retro inspired platformer Freedom Planet took KickStarter by storm last winter, fetching more than twelve times it's original funding goal of $2,000. The release date for the side scrolling adventure was revealed last month, to the joy of those of us who missed the chance to buy the game when…

A new open world adventure environment has appeared for fans of the free building and crafting genre. My Dream features an emphasis on free form building, exploring, and cooperative play, with those three tasks having their own leveling progress. With the ability to terraform the environment around you, the options…

Divinity: Original Sin, the next instalment of the Divine Divinity series created by Larian Studios, will be coming out of beta some point this spring. This is odd news as the game is actually still in alpha, at least according to the last Steam update made February 17. The news comes…