Silent Hill Style Perspectives With Resident Evil Combat in Upcoming Agni: Village of Calamity
By Adele Wilson
An unauthorised investigation leads to something sinister.Face Ghosts To Collect Cards In Schoolbound
There's something strange about this place.90s Gloomy Survival Horror, Holstin, Switches Between Isometric and Third-Person
By Adele Wilson
An upcoming psychological survival horror.
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Disco Zoo + RPG = Tales of the Adventure Company
By Jim Squires
When it launched earlier this year, Disco Zoo managed to hit on a certain something - but it was an incredibly simple something, and it was begging for something more. Tales of the Adventure Company, an upcoming mobile game from Slothwerks, give it that something: violence!Well… turn-based swords and magic violence, anyway.The game offers up the same "tap to uncover creatures in different configurations" puzzles that you'll find in Disco Zoo, but tasks players to do battle with those creatures as they uncover them. You'll also new party members and other goodies along the way.Tales of the Adventure Company will be hitting iOS, Android and Windows Phone for $1.99 this June, but if you don't want to wait, you can check out a browser-based version of the game right now at gamejolt.com.Deity Quest puts a religious spin on Pokemon
By Jim Squires
There's long been a debate about the ethics of Pokemon. Are you collecting or capturing those creatures? Are you their loving master, or the digital equivalent to Michael Vick? If you're looking for a comparable experience that solves this ethical dilemma (while introducing a whole new one), you may want to check out Deity Quest - the "gotta convert'em all!" of the role-playing world.Players will fill the heavenly shoes of "an ambitious young god, recently assigned to a world to convert followers and gain power," says the game's official site. "Your goal is to become the Overgod, the highest position among the many gods of Aberos."The followers you'll collect are the equivalent of Pokemon's monsters, but at least this time you'll know they're fighting for you willingly; even if it is a tad theistically tongue-in-cheek.The game features 6-vs-6 battles, which sounds fairly epic. If that sounds up your godly alley, you can pick this one up for PC, Mac, Linux and Android at fancyfishgames.com.DragonVale Wings is more DragonVale, but not really
By Jim Squires
When it first launched back in 2011, DragonVale was a phenomenon. Yet despite an army of copycats (my daughter is currently nursing a Dragon City addiction, so I'm speaking from experience), Backflip Studios didn't seem too keen on revisiting the IP.At least not until now.DragonVale Wings hit the App Store this week, but it's not quite the DragonVale follow-up that fans might be expecting. Rather than a dragon breeding city builder, Wings is a Flappy Bird-alike, and not a terribly good one at that.Alaska Natives Tell Their Tales in Never Alone
By Jim Squires
The stories of our fathers are rarely written down. What we know of our family, our past, and to a certain extent our culture has survived because of the tradition of oral storytelling. In some cultures this is more valued than others. For the Indigenous People of the Americas, telling stories is essential to the preservation of their culture and heritage.So why not share these stories through a more modern medium?Never Alone will be the debut release from Upper One Games, a studio founded by the Cook Inlet Tribal Counsel in Anchorage, Alaska. They're the first indigenous-owned studio in the US, and that's a title they wear proudly. "Video games are powerful tools for making the history, tradition and culture of indigenous peoples relevant to both the next generation of Native people and the rest of the world," said CEO Gloria O'Neill in a prepared statement.App Annie Adds Advertising Analytics, App Store Optimization
By Nick Tylwalk
"It's crazy. It's a real Wild West out there, and it's a problem that we're trying to figure out."That description of the situation facing developers and publishers of mobile games and apps of all kinds comes from Marcos Sanchez, the vice president of global corporate communications at App Annie. Bringing order to the chaos surrounding user acquisition and discoverability is his company's primary mission; one that got two new tools this week.App Annie announced two new additions to its free product offerings, both designed to give mobile publishers more insight into how they spend their time and money promoting their games and apps. The first is Advertising Analytics, an upgrade to the company's existing Analytics platform that tracks advertising revenue and ad spend across the iOS, Google Play and Amazon app stores.Sanchez says that App Annie recognized the need for publishers to have easy access to that kind of information after discovering how much effort they were going to just to keep track of their advertising dollars.You Fumed, Valve Listened – Earth: Year 2066 Pulled from Steam
By Steven Strom
Here at Gamezebo, we've been pretty open about our desire for better quality control on Steam. Early Access has helped turn the service into a figurative (and sometimes literal) trash dump for hacked together scams, inferior clones and just some downright awful products.Earth: Year 2066 was one such train wreck. Until a few hours ago, you could snag what Steam users described as an ugly, broken mess for $19.99. That's no longer possible, however, as Valve has removed the game from the Steam storefront.Of course it's possible you bought the game before realizing what a pile it was - especially since users are accusing the game's developer, Killing Day Studios, of deleting negative feedback on their Steam page and propping it up with lies written by puppet accounts. If that's the case, you can and should get your money back.Kentucky Route Zero Act III available now
By Jim Squires
Remember Kentucky Route Zero? I sure hope so. It was our pick for 2013 Game of the Year, and not without good reason. That said, only the first two acts of five have been released, and considering the "it'll be ready when it's ready" response the studio has given for questions about Act III, it seemed like we might be waiting a while longer.Good news… we're not! Kentucky Route Zero Act III has now been released into the wild. If you already own the game on a season pass (and if you own the game, you absolutely do) you should be able to grab the game now. Steam buyers will receive it as an automatic update, while those who purchased through the Humble Store will need to tackle their download manually.But enough chatter - it's time to get a David Lynch kinda weird up in here.Rovio-published RETRY Is More Flappy Bird than Angry Birds
By Jim Squires
When Flappy Bird took the world by storm earlier this year and the App Store was flooded with clones ranging from Flappy Bee to Flappy Miley Cyrus, it wasn't hard to see this as a fad that would eventually reach its breaking point. But still - even through that fog of copycats, I couldn't help but think that there was something ingenious about Flappy Bird's simple gameplay mechanic. Nolan Bushnell compared it to grunge rock; gaming stripped down to its most basic.It was only a matter of time until we saw that mechanic employed in more polished ways.Flappy Golf was really the first instance of "hey, you can do something neat with this!", but the Rovio-published RETRY - now live in Canada, Finland and Poland - is the best we've seen so far.