Previews

Our highlight of the show for PAX East 2018 was the Messenger, a love letter to the old NES Ninja Gaiden action games. This year, we found a new gem in that same style called Cyber Shadow. A Yacht Club Games produced product, developed by the one man studio, Mechanical Head Studios, Aarne Hunziker put […]

Dicey Dungeons, the new game from VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh, was a unique game that stood out at PAX East this year. What started out as a HTML5 browser game has turned into a fleshed out roguelike dungeon crawler. With art by Marlowe Dobbe and music by Chipzel, Dicey Dungeons’ style really shines. The game […]

Wan Hazmer, Lead Game Designer on Final Fantasy XV and Daim Dziauddin, concept artist of Street Fighter V, founded their own studio and had a vision and that vision is No Straight Roads. A 3D action game in the vein of Devil May Cry and Nier: Automata where a rock/edm music motif takes center stage.

Katana Zero came out of almost nowhere dropping their trailer in a recent Nintendo Direct. This Switch console exclusive, also coming to PC, puts you in control of a ninja/samurai who is tasked with various assassination missions. With a slick neo-noir, 80s synthwave visual and audio aesthetic, Katana Zero stood out among the games presented […]

In a bold, unexpected move, the Arcade Crew is publishing the sequel to the sleeper hit Windjammers on the Neo Geo console. Dotemu is developing this game slated for a release later this year for Switch and PC. Our hands on experience was very enjoyable.

We got to play the new tower defense/twin stick shooter Sleep Tight at PAX East. From developer We Are Fuzzy comes a mix of frantic shooting and base defense all with Disney Pixar visual aesthetic. If you’ve ever made pillow forts as a kid, imaging doing so to protect your bedroom against a horde of […]