Darkwood brings roguelike survival horror to Steam Early Access
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, developer Acid Wizard Studio has announced plans to bring its unorthodox survival horror game Darkwood to Steam Early Access. As Richard mentioned, Darkwood differentiates itself from the legions of other spooky games via procedurally generated horror. Each time you step into the gloomy, Soviet Bloc...
Endless Legend available now on Steam Early Access
Endless Space developer Amplitude has released its newest game, Endless Legend, on Steam Early Access today. The two games occupy the same universe, but Legend is a 4X fantasy strategy game, whereas its sibling is built around creating a space colony. Since it is an early access game, it features...
Minecraft Realms subscription service now available
Mojang has launched its Minecraft Realms subscription service in North America, offering hosting and setup for multiplayer Minecraft worlds starting at $13 per month. Mojang notes that the service holds particular value for parents, as Minecraft Realms makes it easy to set up a child’s individual sandbox world and restrict...
Humble Weekly Sale: Dustforce, VVVVVV, Cave Story+, Limbo
The Humble Weekly Sale is bursting with a dozen of games this time around, and five of them are available for whatever price you want: Thomas Was Alone, Puzzle Bots, Dustforce, VVVVVV and Cave Story+. Add six games for $6: Reus, Limbo, Cthulhu Saves the World, Mutant Mudds Deluxe, Lone...
The Girl and the Robot to deliver automaton friendship to PS4
Developer Flying Carpet Games has revealed plans to bring its charming action-adventure game The Girl and the Robot to the PlayStation 4. As Jess explained last October, Flying Carpet Games is a developer composed of former EA and Gameloft employees. The Girl and the Robot is the studio’s first project,...
Omni VR treadmill gets $3 million in seed funding
Following Virtuix’s announcement earlier this month that its virtual reality treadmill will arrive in July for its early adopters, the company revealed this morning that it received seed funding. Virtuix received $3 million to “expand production and distribution of the Omni,” the $500 platform that has players strapping in to...
Goat Simulator to rampage across the UK in boxed release
The only thing more fun than a barrel full of monkeys is a box full of goats, and that’s exactly what Coffee Stain Studios has planned for the citizens of the UK. Koch Media, Goat Simulator’s UK publisher, broke the news this morning, saying that the physical version of the...
Joystiq Streams: Giveaways and The Wolf Among Us [UPDATE: Relive the stream!]
Joystiq Streams is already the stuff of legend, so it’s no wonder we’re drawn to Bill Willingham’s long running Fables comic book series. Like its supernatural stars Snow White, Bigby Wolf, and Cinderella, we, too, are nigh-on immortal and...
Take an Expedition into Titanfall’s War Games map
Following an initial reveal earlier this month, developer Respawn Entertainment has now graced us with a handful of screenshots and solid information on the War Games map included in Titanfall’s upcoming “Expedition” DLC pack. Unlike the game’s other maps, War Games isn’t real. That is, it’s even less real than...
Bloodrayne Betrayal coming to PC next week, Japanese tease was port
Last week’s tease by Arc System Works for something BloodRayne related was simply a razz for the Japanese localization of BloodRayne: Betrayal. The “BRCS” from the teaser site stood for BloodRayne: Crimson Slayer, which will be the game’s name for the region. The solid action game from WayForward will...