Psychological Horror ADV 'Am I Nima' Debuts at BitSummit PUNCH
The game's word-combination dialogue system and layered mother-daughter horror distinguish it from other psychological adventure titles at the festival.
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Urban Open-World RPG Wangyue Shows New Gameplay Footage
The shift from anime-style to photorealistic graphics, driven by beta test feedback, marks a deliberate design pivot for a Chinese open-world pet-capture RPG that otherwise follows the genre's established conventions.
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Darksiders Warmastered Edition Launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
The release gives new players a polished entry point into the series ahead of the next mainline title.
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Cheap Car Repair Launches on Steam, Draws Praise for 1990s Polish Setting
The game's strong reception, especially from Polish players who say it reminds them of home, shows that hyper-local, culturally specific settings can resonate globally in the simulation genre.
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Everything Is Gun! Announced, a 90s-Style Roguelike FPS That Embraces Broken Balance
The announcement signals a deliberate turn away from modern FPS design conventions, leaning into chaotic, unbalanced mechanics and a dark premise.
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Quiz RPG Black Cat No Wiz Teams Up With Mega Man Battle Network
The crossover brings a 25-year-old Capcom franchise into a mobile quiz RPG that has run its own long-running event series, creating a limited-time mashup of two very different game lineages.
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Sukeban Games Details .45 Parabellum Bloodhound Development and Design
The interview provides the first detailed look at the creative decisions behind Sukeban Games' follow-up to VA-11 Hall-A, including a development cycle that involved two reboots and a shift to PS1-style visuals.
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Card Shop Management Sim 'You're a Scalper, Right?' Steam Page Goes Live
The game directly gamifies a real-world retail dilemma-whether to prioritize short-term revenue or long-term trust-by making scalper identification a core mechanic rather than a punishment system.
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Infinity Nikki Ver2.6 End of the Tide Launches May 29
The update closes the great spiritual tide arc with a new quest and costume set, while offering a substantial free currency bundle to keep players engaged through the event period.
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MenaRD Joins ZETA DIVISION Geekly for SFL 2026, Jajii Named Coach
The addition of MenaRD, a two-time Capcom Cup winner and EVO Japan champion, to an already strong roster of Momochi, Higuchi, and Yamaguchi positions ZETA DIVISION Geekly as the clear favorite for the SFL 2026 title.
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Terraria: Design Works Book Announced for Q2 2027 Release
The book offers a rare, developer-led look at Terraria's design process and longevity, packaged as a premium physical release by a publisher known for game art books.
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Tiger Team Drops New Ironwing Valiant Trailer, Demo Coming Soon
The trailer and demo announcement signal the project is moving toward a public release window, with the second closed alpha test suggesting development is entering a final tuning phase.
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Fractured Blooms Hands-On Shows a Peaceful Life Sim Turning Into Horror
The game stands out at BitSummit for using the familiar structure of a cozy life sim as a vehicle for psychological horror, rather than relying on jump scares or monster encounters.
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Parco Games to Publish Turkish Psychedelic Horror 'Deperson'
Parco Games, known for publishing curated indie titles, has picked up a Turkish-developed horror game that prioritizes psychological instability over jump scares, signaling continued international expansion for the publisher.
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CD Projekt Expands Development Teams for The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2
The headcount figures confirm that CD Projekt is actively ramping production on its two next-generation projects, with The Witcher 4 receiving the bulk of the studio's workforce.
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Crimson Desert Adds Controller Customization, 30 New Pets in Latest Patch
The update continues Pearl Abyss's post-launch support cycle, adding requested controller customization and expanding the pet system significantly while addressing a long list of player-reported issues.
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Winning Post 10 2026 Adds Breeding Simulation in New Update
The Breeding Simulation feature and relaxed lineage promotion conditions lower the barrier to the endgame content, making the simulation more accessible outside the breeding season.
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GBC-Style Zelda-Like Soulslike Tearscape Gets Japanese Localization
The Japanese localization opens the game to a wider audience in Japan, where the Zelda-like aesthetic and Soulslike difficulty have a strong following.
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Skyrim Mod 'Heart of the Mountain' Launches as Official Paid DLC
The release shows Bethesda continuing to treat high-quality community mods as official paid content, bringing a fan project with DLC-scale ambition to the storefront more than a decade after Skyrim's launch.
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Free-to-Play ADV Iris Odyssey: Pandora's Girl Launches on Steam
The free-to-play model for a visual novel, with a paid DLC unlocking the full story, represents a notable shift from the traditional all-at-once purchase structure common in the genre.
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ZeroSpace Early Access Launches July 20
ZeroSpace enters a crowded RTS field with a pedigree of genre veterans and pro players, and its July Early Access date gives a concrete timeline for a project that has been in development.
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Enter the Chronosphere Launches to 99% Positive Steam Rating
The near-perfect early reception signals that the game's unusual turn-based bullet hell formula has found an audience, giving Effort Star a strong foundation for the planned content updates before full release.
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Aggro Crab's Forklift Chaos Game Crashout Crew Launches on PC and Xbox
The release gives Aggro Crab a second title this year, shifting from single-player action to a chaotic co-op experience built around forklift logistics and physics.
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Mina the Hollower Hits Metacritic 92, Tops 2026 Games List
The high review scores and provisional number-one Metacritic ranking signal that a small studio known for a single franchise can deliver a genre-shift hit, but the studio has publicly framed the game as a make-or-break financial challenge, making sales the next critical test.
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