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Following Last Year’s Failed Kickstarter, Piko Is Back With Another Retro Platform Bearing The Bleem Name

The “Netflix-style service” Bleemcast! is available now as a beta. If you cast your mind back to last year, you may remember Piko Interactive launching a failed Kickstarter for a project called Bleem.net, named after the famous PS1 emulator from the early 2000s for the Sega Dreamcast. Pitched as “the ultimate retro platform”, the idea…

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword review

Miyamoto Musashi, the legend goes, defeated his rival Sasaki Ganryu with a single blow to the head using nothing but a crude wooden sword carved from an oar. Need to Know What is it? The art of swordplay, revolutionized after the discovery of physicsRelease date September 3, 2026Expect to pay $70/£60Developer CapcomPublisher CapcomReviewed on Radeon…

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The Blood of Dawnwalker review

Need to know What is it? A Witchery vampire RPG with a dark heartRelease date September 3, 2026Expect to pay $70 / £60Developer Rebel WolvesPublisher Bandai NamcoReviewed on RTX 3060 (laptop), Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB RAMSteam Deck TBC, but unlikely to be a good experienceLink Steam 35 hours into The Blood of Dawnwalker I’d already…

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Fable’s story will be ’15-20 hours’ long, according to its game director, although the game’s life systems are ‘limitless’

Throughout all of Fable‘s showcases and demonstrations this year, one aspect of it has proved difficult to figure out—how big it’s going to be. The original Fable games were decently-sized, but not massive, and monster roleplaying games like Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3 have dramatically shifted expectations on what an RPG’s scope should be….

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Review: Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault (Switch 2) – Shopkeeping Dungeon Crawler Returns With Big Changes, But The Same Addictive Loop

Just one more shift. 2018’s Moonlighter was one of the life-sim hybrids released in the wake of notorious time thief, Stardew Valley. The core loop of a day/night cycle and an ever-expanding list of activities to tick off is an age-old formula for getting oneself buried in an experience. Digital Sun added a compelling hook…

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A 38-year-old NES platformer is getting a Steam remake by its original husband-and-wife team, as the pair’s ‘final major game product’

Games get remade for all sorts of reasons, but I think you’d struggle to find one with as heartwarming a basis as this. The Battle of Olympus—a side-scrolling platformer originally released on the NES in 1988, is getting a remake early next year created by its original husband-and-wife team. Admittedly, that statement is slightly misleading….

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