Author: Zach Barbieri

Nintendo held an Indie World showcase on April 17th, 2024 to showcase several of the smaller titles coming to their platform this year. While it was yet another chance for gamers excited for the long-awaited Hollow Knight sequel Silksong to be disappointed, for the rest of us, it was filled to the brim with cool-looking games to mark our calendars with. Best of all, most of these games are coming sooner rather than later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTjjKC9gHPM Below you can find a list of every major announcement from the event! Big Kitty, Little City For fans of Stray, which has ironically yet…

Despite being a “central event” of their year, and having attended every year in the past, Nintendo will be skipping Gamescom in 2024. Gamescom is the largest gaming convention in the world by attendance, so Nintendo’s absence will be felt. Many have looked towards the event as a potential showcase ground for the Nintendo Switch 2, having been rumored to have been shown behind closed doors to journalists during the 2023 event, this no longer seems to be the case. A Nintendo of Europe spokesperson talked to German website Games Wirtschaft, stating: Gamescom is a central event in Nintendo’s event calendar.…

Square Enix has one last act left in its Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy, which is currently in development. If series producer Yoshinori Kitase is to be believed, this final part should have a streamlined development process that will see the game release with less wait than the one between Remake and Rebirth. After its announcement, Remake took five years to fully release, though in its case we know there were several issues including a change of developer and some struggles in deciding on gameplay direction. Rebirth managed to shave a year off its development life-cycle, something Kitase has attributed…

Only a few months after Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, a Metroidvania-style reboot of the franchise was released to positive reviews, another Prince of Persia title has been announced. The Rogue Prince of Persia will feature roguelike gameplay and is being developed by one of the best when it comes to the genre, an offshoot of Dead Cells developer Motion Twin, named Evil Empire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZzOxEK7hXo Announced during the Triple-I Indie event that several smaller publishers and developers put together to focus on small titles, there is some irony that the big end cap to the event was published by…

Star Wars Outlaws finally has a release date and with it comes three versions of the game, two of which undermine said release date of August 30th with access to the game 3 days early. This has been a growing trend in the industry with all sorts of games getting this, with Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones being two of the more recent ones this year. Ubisoft themselves have loved this model, making it part of most of their recent releases. Last year, another game was released with this model, the Xbox-exclusive Starfield. While the title was hyped as…

After a massive showing last summer during both the Xbox Showcase and then the Ubisoft Showcase, with little new information following since, Ubisoft has finally dropped the story trailer for Star Wars Outlaws. The game will see players in a planet-hopping adventure across a galaxy far away and it is coming this year, from developer Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdKEy-aJ6o Players will take the role of Kay Vess, a small-time criminal aiming to become bigger in between the fifth and sixth movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi. This sees the galaxy-controlling Republic still maintaining power with…

Midori, a prominent Persona Leaker best known for their information that Persona 3 Reload would receive an FES-Style DLC now officially known as The Answer, has additional details on Persona. This time the leak concerns the next mainline game in the series which fans of the long-running franchise have long awaited. Fans of the series are undoubtedly aware that Persona has largely themed each entry around color. This started with the third game in the series which featured Blue, with 4 then featuring yellow, and 5 featuring red. The three games prior to that did not have this scheme (the…

Sony has announced through a PlayStation Blog post that both Dave The Diver and Tale of Kenzera: Zau will be coming to the PlayStation Plus catalog in April. Both titles will be day-one releases to the catalog when they do release, with Dave finally diving onto the PlayStation after having previously released on PC and switch in 2023. Dave The Diver is described on the blog as being: a unique hybrid ocean adventure that combines ocean exploration with sushi restaurant management. At the heart of the game lies the core gameplay loop, narrative, characters, and captivating mini-games.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbeb9xmOPoU While I…

There is a possibility this has been said before, but I love a good road trip game. And let’s be honest if this has come up twice in three of these articles, there is a chance this is the only thing you need to know about me. Dustborn from Red Thread Games looks to combine films like Almost Famous with one of my favorite games, Road 96, making this a trip I want to take. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wt8Y887yrc Dustborn sees the player take the role of Pax, a member of the band Dustborn. They are traveling cross-country on their latest tour through…

Stellar Blade was a title that caught my interest from the first time it was showcased, long before it became one of the biggest and most relevant titles of PlayStation’s 2024. It just feels like a ME game, from its art direction to its combat, a blend of old-school styles with new-school implementation. Despite how excited I was though, I couldn’t help feel this gnawing in the back of my head. A while that nagging will not go away, at least until the game releases, the Stellar Blade demo helped ease those fears that Eves’ journey is everything that I…