Yearly Archives: 2019

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a 3D life simulation game taking place on a deserted island ripe for peaceful exploration and unbounded creativity.

Business Model: Buy-to-Play

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Everlasting Vacation: Take Tom up on his offer for a Nook Inc. Deserted Island Getaway package, then decorate the landscape with your personalized homestead.

Every Part of the Buffalo: Collect a diverse selection of resources to craft essential tools and sturdy furniture.

Good Times Are Here: Enjoy relaxing activities and the passing of the seasons as you garden, fish, and earn bells.

First Impressions: Meet and greet charming new arrivals to your town, the more the merrier!

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics is a singleplayer turn-based role-playing game featuring multi-layered tactical combat. Guide the heroic Gelfling to fulfill their prophecy and restore the light to the kingdom!

Business Model: Buy-to-Play

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Justice March: Fight back against the Skeksis in 80 unique replayable campaign battles.

Fresh Meat: Recruit allies for the cause and outfit them with new equipment, abilities, and jobs as you see fit.

Remember Remember: Dive deep into the intricate histories of the Gelfling clan as you roam their native homeland.

Captain’s Burden: Rapidly adapt or die to dynamic events randomly invoked on the battlefield.

Astral Chain

Astral Chain is a 3D action adventure role-playing game featuring stylish real-time combat. Disaster has struck and the near-future metropolis Ark is under siege from dangerous alien creatures. Combat the interdimensional threat as an elite member of the Neuron special police task force and save humanity from total destruction!

Business Model: Buy-to-Play

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Soulbound Duo: Work in tandem with your tethered living weapon to take on multiple deadly foes at once.

Audible: Deliver a crescendo of attacks and abilities by mastering the changing of Legions mid-battle.

Astral Plane: Solve police cases and environment puzzles alike to uncover the secrets of the alternate dimension.

Torn

Torn is a text-based role-playing sim set in a realistic city of all things crime. Hundreds of thousands of lawless crooks have prospered in the dark and dirty metropolis of Torn City, will you be next?

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there are optional in-game purchases available.

Key Features:

Three Core Paths: Train yourself over time to become one of several well-paying professions including street-level fighting and dealing, leading a criminal organization from the underworld as a mob boss, or pulling off white collar crimes as an executive.

Tons of Tasks: Get a job, train at the gym, take classes at college, get married, race cars, and play in the casino – at any time there are thousands of meaningful choices waiting to be made.

One Big Happy Family: Join player factions and make new friends as you go along. The more people that can help make your dream a reality the better!

Marvel Future Fight

Marvel Future Fight is a 3D action role-playing game featuring extensive hero collecting, upgrading, and team building. Unite the mightiest warriors of good and evil from every corner of the Marvel Universe for an epic battle that will decide the fate of all reality.

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there are optional in-game purchases available.

Key Features:

Across the Eras: Dive into a realm of new adventures through the use of multiverse dimensions.

Challenge Accepted: Team up with a couple of friends to defeat rivaling players in competitive team battles. May the best squad win!

We Have a Hulk: Relive iconic moments straight from the silver screen in rewarding Legendary Battles and epic World Boss raids.

Granblue Fantasy: Versus Reveals Percival During EVO 2019

Granblue Fantasy Versus - Percival

GranBlue Fantasy is giving Western players their first taste of the upcoming Percival, during EVO 2019, taking place on August 2nd and 3rd, 2019. Percival is a noble warrior who has learned statecraft, with the hopes of founding their dream country. Alongside Lancelot, he served in a knightly order. Nicknamed the “Lord of Flames”, his dazzling abilities will be more than a match for his foes. During EVO 2019, there will be ad emo that features Percival, as well as a mini-tournament highlighting Granblue Fantasy: Versus.

If this weren’t enough, there will also be a live exhibition with Cygames Beast’s team. Daigo “The Beast” Umehara, PR Balrog, GamerBee, Fuudo and the latest member of the squad, Infexious will be at the event. The actual tournament will be at the XSEED Games Twitch Stream on August 3rd, 1 PM.

Bookbound Brigade Revealed, Playable at Gamescom

Bookbound Brigade is a new take on the Metroidvania genre from Digital Tales and will be at Gamescom in Cologne (August 20th – 22nd). The focus of Bookbound Brigade is about beating up historical and literary characters through a dream team of real and fictional heroes. This 2D side-scroller will feature Dracula, King Arthur, Queen Victoria, Nikola Tesla, Dorothy Gale, Sun Wukong the Monkey King, and more. The “Book of Books” has been stolen, which is a volume that encompasses every single work of fiction/non-fiction ever.

Game Features:
– Explore, fight, backtrack, grow your skills and tackle challenging quests and puzzles, as in any Metroidvania game worthy of its name, but get ready for a twist…

– There is no single hero in Bookbound Brigade: you play as a party of unique characters, each with their own traits and skills, who move in formation and fight as one.

– All the characters, both playing and non-playing, are drawn from the pages of history and literature, so expect to meet some familiar and less familiar faces!

– The distinctive hand-drawn visuals, inspired by book illustration from all time, stray far from the pixel art dominating the Metroidvania genre.

Pilot Sports Takes Flight in July 2019

Pilot Sports is a co-op flying title from Z-Software GmbH, and it hits Steam, PC and Xbox on July 31st, 2019. Pre-orders are available on the Microsoft Store, and it’s inspired by classic flying franchise, Pilotwings. Pilot Sports released earlier on the Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4, and is ready to drop onto Xbox/PC.

“Pilot Sports is a funny flying simulation game perfect for every age, and allowing players a chance to compete with each other, makes for an even more enjoyable experience. We are proud to have developed this game, and even more excited now to be releasing our game on both Steam PC and Xbox One, allowing us to simultaneously introduce Pilot Sports to new audiences seeking retro-inspired and or family-friendly games.” – Andreas Heldt, Head of Z-Software GmbH

Disney Tsum Tsum Festival Reveals November Release Date

Disney TSUM TSUM Festival is on the way to Nintendo Switch, and it’s coming right in time for the holidays! On November 8th, 2019, the first Tsum Tsum game will hit the console, where players control their favorite Disney and Pixar characters in adorable Tsum Tsum form.  There will be a wealth of activities to enjoy,  including Spinner Battle, Tsum Curling, Bubble Hockey, and more for up to four players.