Yearly Archives: 2019

Freedom Finger

Freedom Finger is a 2D side-scrolling shooter featuring crazy cartoon action driven by the music. Dive into a world of spicy hot-button topics including sriracha sauce, communism, and the gall to include crafting in a videogame.

Business Model: Buy-to-Play

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Can You Feel It: Move to the groove just as your enemies do. Listen to the soundtrack and predict their movements!

Za Hando: Going full shmup isn’t your only option, you also happen to be a gigantic fist. Capture enemies in your pincer grip to steal their weapon, use them as a shield, or simply toss them right back at their comrades.

Up to No Good: Smash and crash your way through 12 worlds and over 36 handcrafted levels bumping into new foes, challenges, and power-ups all along the way.

Eastward

Eastward is a 2D charismatic-adventure role-playing game featuring beautifully detailed retro pixel-art. Follow an unlikely duo through a series of trials and tribulations across a post-apocalyptic world on the verge of total ruin.

Business Model: Buy-to-Play

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Through Thick and Thin: Swap between John and Sam on the fly to make the most out of their specific strengths and weaknesses such as fighting through tough encounters, solving tricky puzzles, or uncovering helpful hidden paths.

Armed and Dangerous: Scavenge for weapons like guns, flamethrowers, or frying pans to fend off particularly deadly enemies.

On the Road Again: Meet all manner of memorable and quirky characters as you explore towns, campsites, forests, and more on a cross-country railway.

Hegemony

Hegemony is a medieval-themed classic MMORPG utilizing an unmodded Minecraft client as its core game engine. You are not a hero! Make a humble living in a comprehensive world filled with other players just trying to do the same thing.

Business Model: Free-to-Play

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

Key Features:

Loaded: Mix and match from thousands of custom items found through crafting recipes, treasure clue mini-activities, scattered across the environment, or bought in the player-run economy.

All in This Together: Effortlessly intermingle with fellow adventurers as a result of the contiguous nature of the realm designed to integrate both low and high level players across towns, villages, burgs, and hamlets.

Read Between the Lines: Discover dozens of hand-made quests requiring you to think critically and explore your surroundings for beneath-the-surface answers.

A New Dream: Train over thirty skills across multiple jobs as you make a name for yourself in a sandbox-environment of limitless opportunity.

Jumanji: The Video Game Launches Today

Jumanji: The Video Game, based on the successful Sony Pictures franchise is now available on PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC today. Players can control Jumanji’s heroes: Dr. Smolder Bravestone, Ruby Roundhouse, Franklin “Mouse” Finbar, and Professor Shelly Oberon. Waves of deadly marauders and exotic creatures await for the brave.

You can team up with friends online, and split-screen modes to find the Jewels of Jumanji. The ultimate goal is to save the world and find a way home. You’ll be hunting for Jumanji board pieces, dodging traps, and fighting dangerous foes every step of the way.

Outright Games CEO Terry Malham had this to say about the launch:

“The day has finally come to release Jumanji: The Video Game into the wild and we couldn’t be more excited. Since the beginning of the project we’ve been dedicated to bringing the fun filled, epic adventure from these iconic films to our video game and can’t wait for the world to be part of the action.”

Death Stranding Confirms Simultaneous Steam and Epic Launch

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We know how it goes by now: If it’s not on X platform, we riot. Don’t worry, 505 Games has the Death Stranding fans covered no matter what. Today, we learned that Kojima Productions epic Death Stranding is going to launch on Epic and Steam stores simultaneously. We still have to wait until Summer 2020, but both audiences will receive the game without exclusivity. It can be pre-ordered on Steam and Epic Games.

Project Boundary

Project Boundary is a competitive multiplayer moba-style first-person shooter set in space.

Business Model: Currently Unknown

Microtransactions: Currently Unknown

0-G: Execute on ruthless do-or-die operations in zero gravity firefights with the help of EVA packs that can be modified for offensive and defensive capabilities.

Chiseled to Perfection: Tweak your foundational skills and weapon loadouts over time through the complex progression system. For example, you’ll steadily gain access to new guns and gadgets including sniper rifles, machine pistols, percussion hammers, guided rocket systems, and a suite of weapon customization options.

Safety Off: Engage in fast-paced 5v5 matches featuring game modes like Free-for-All, Facility Capture, Orbital Purge, and traditional Deathmatch.

Classes: Experiment with the light, medium, and heavy roles each designed to fulfill a particular niche in firefights.

Syberia: The World Before

Syberia: The World Before is a 3D point-and-click adventure game featuring classic RPG gameplay. Follow Kate Walker on her latest investigation across both time and space to uncover the darkness and depth of the modern century.

Business Model: Buy-to-Play

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Something a Little Bit Different: Discover a world of lovely poetry, heartfelt emotion, and befuddling mysteries.

Simmering Resolve: Traverse through snowy dream-like landscapes brought to life with unforgettable characters and enigmatic automatons.

Private Investigator: Solve all manner of brain-teasing puzzles and other conundrums along your journey to illuminate the path of truth.

Killsquad Releases Third Update, PLAGUE

Killsquad offered its third major update today, known as PLAGUE.  PLAGUE is presently in Early Access on Steam, and brings a new Spec Ops contract and much more. There are of course new cosmetics to pick up, as well as five new “cursed” contracts.  The “cursed” contracts bring high-risk-high-reward gameplay to Killsquad.

These contracts begin when Omen of the Plague offers a curse to one of the players in a party. Everyone will vote on whether they will take on the great challenge being revealed. Eight curses are currently available, damning players with all sorts of limitations, including reduced health or speed and stronger enemies.

Today’s video is the latest “Gathering of Bounty Hunters” initiative. This was made to connect with their community in a more personal manner. Killsquad players were given a chance to ask questions for the Novarama team to answer. They also reveal plans for the future, such as new bosses, a new quest system, and more.