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11 JANUARY, 2023 – An update for Severed Steel, the intense movement shooter developed by Greylock Studios, has now been rolled out for all console versions – Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series.

The ‘Rogue Steel’ update, which first launched for the PC version in October last year, brings various new features, including a new game mode, new levels, and new weapons. In addition, the Switch, PS4, and PS5 versions have also been updated to support gyro controls.

The full list of new features included with the Rogue Steel update:

• New game mode, Rogue Steel
• Gyro controls (Switch, PS4, PS5)
• 23 new Firefight mutators unlocked through Rogue Steel
• 6 new weapons
• 5 new modified enemy types
• 8 new exclusive Rogue Steel levels
• New Cannon Mode: Cutting Beam
• 10 Character skins to unlock in Rogue Mode
• 15 Cannon skins to unlock in Rogue Mode

The new Rogue Steel mode features rogue-lite elements and challenges players to complete a run across a number of randomly chosen levels. At the end of each level, players choose a card, which applies an upgrade or effect for the rest of their run. While most cards provide a buff, some increase the score multiplier but at the expense of a negative status effect.

About the game

Severed Steel is a single-player FPS featuring a fluid stunt system, destructible voxel environments, loads of bullet time, and a unique one-armed protagonist. It’s you, your trigger finger, and a steel-toed boot against a superstructure full of bad guys. Chain together wall runs, dives, flips, and slides to take every last enemy down

Key features

• A unique fighter: Play as Steel, a nimble, one-armed sharpshooter on a mission. There is no reloading – pick your shots well and be ready to pry a loaded weapon from your enemies’ cold dead hands
• Stylish combat: Dodge bullets, leap off walls, slide kick, throw weapons – do whatever it takes to come out on top in intense and frenzied firefights
• Fully destructible environment: Pepper through plaster with sharp 4.7 mm rounds, punch through thick concrete with .50 cal slugs, or make big holes in things with your arm cannon
• Dynamic AI: No two battles are the same thanks to dynamic, unscripted, squad-based AI
• Firefight Mode: Chase high scores and fast times for leaderboard acclaim in this arcade-styled mode. Features 42 levels, each with their own sub-challenges, and over 20 unlockable, game modifying ‘Mutators’
• Campaign Mode: Blast through six compact story chapters as you battle against the forces of nefarious mega-corporation, EdenSys. Finish the campaign and want more? Try New Game + mode which mixes up the campaign for a fresh playthrough
• Rogue Mode: Severed Steel with Rogue-lite elements. Click the Rogue Steel button on the main menu to start a short, randomly generated, 10 level campaign. Features unlockable perks, skins, and more.
• Accessibility: A range of adjustable settings for features such as difficulty, visuals, audio, controls, navigation, and more
• Level Editor (with Steam Workshop support): Build levels and share them with the community

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Paris – January 9, 2023 – Microids Indie is delighted to celebrate the launch of Scrap Riders on the Nintendo eShop and Steam (PC and Mac). Prepare for a unique gameplay combination of classic Point’n Click adventure and Beat’em up action, by checking out the game’s launch trailer!

“We are very excited and proud that our game is finally coming to life, we can’t wait for players to discover it and we hope they will enjoy playing it as much as we do. The development of Scrap Riders has been a fantastic journey in which we have put all our love, expertise and the best of ourselves.”– Raúl Díaz – Game Designer / Programmer at Games For Tutti

About Scrap Riders

Scrap Riders is a pixel art beat’em up adventure game set in a cyberpunk future, developed by Spanish studio Games for Tutti. You play as Rast, a member of the outlaw bikers gang Scrap Riders, and make your way through the wastelands as well as a big metropolis controlled by corporations. Act as a smuggler with caustic humor to survive in this post-apocalyptic world.

Fight your way through this 2D beat them up using your fists and guns, but beware: the wastelands are not for the faint of heart. There, violence is always the answer, but it won’t be enough! Without your wits you won’t last long. Talk to the right people, gather clues, and kick bad guys’ butts!

Key features:

• A unique gameplay mix: Scrap Riders offers an original combination of Beat ’em up gameplay and old-school Point’n Click adventure puzzles & dialogs. Fight, point & click your way through the story!

• A retro art style: Embrace a unique retro vibe with lovely pixel art visuals and a 16-bit soundtrack!

• Crazy humor and references: Have some laughs with zany dialogs from quirky characters and try to identify all the meta jokes and pop culture references hidden throughout the game!

• A fascinating cyberpunk world to explore: Wander through the diverse environments of this post-apocalyptic universe, from wastelands to a big neo-punk metropolis controlled by corporations.

Scrap Riders is the latest game from the Microids Indie label, after Grand Mountain Adventure: Wonderlands, Fallback, Murder Mystery Machine, Lornsword Winter Chronicle and the Kingdom Majestic compilation. Microids Indie is a publishing label aimed at providing support to indie studios and developers with the creation and launch of their games.

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GrimGrimoire OnceMore is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5 on April 4, 2023!
(April 7, 2023 and April 14, 2023 in Europe and Oceania)

Preorder your Limited Edition which includes enchanting exclusive items from the NISA Online Store today!

It’s aspiring mage Lillet Blan’s first week at the prestigious Silver Star Tower, where magic and wonders abound! Watch the academy trailer to take a peek at the students and faculty you’ll meet along the way!

Prepare for your first day at the Silver Star Tower by joining the retweet contest going on now through December 23, 2022 for your chance to win a Deluxe Edition for you and a fellow magician-in-training!

Discover the magic of GrimGrimoire OnceMore by checking out the NISA Blog detailing the fantasic features and mechanics it has to offer!

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I’ve got exciting news about our beautiful sailing adventure game, Sail Forth! Our quirky, breathtaking sailing adventure game Sail Forth just released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One and Series X|S, Steam, and Epic Games Store!

After waking in the middle of the ocean with no memories, tie together debris to create a makeshift sailboat and figure out what the heck happened. Master semi-realistic wind sailing physics to chart unknown waters, welcome aboard stat-enhancing crewmates, and grow your flimsy dingy into a fully-fledged fleet throughout a charming heartfelt journey to save the world. Discover island environments and challenge landlubbers to a variety of minigames including boat racing, target shooting, card games, fishing, and photo collecting.

Features:

• Semi-realistic sailing physics designed to excite naval enthusiasts while also remaining deeply accessible to everyone.
• A world of exploration with six unique biomes bursting with their own flora, fauna, friendly folk, and fearsome foes.
• Full fleet management and modification to face off against the toughest privateers this side of the Eclipside.
• A multitude of minigames, from fishing to photo collecting, a “Blowfish” card game, target shooting, racing, and more.

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie is coming to PC, Nintendo Switch™, PS4™, and now PS5™ on July 7, 2023 in North America and Europe!
(July 14, 2023 in Oceania)

Limited Edition and merchandise preorders are available now at the NISA Online Store.

What destinies await these three fateful figures? Watch the story trailer to take a look at the fates of Rean Schwarzer, Lloyd Bannings, and the mysterious “C” in this climactic chapter of The Legend of Heroes series!

Be sure to join the retweet contest going on now through December 26, 2022 for your chance to win a Deluxe Edition!

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London, UK – Dec. 19th, 2022 — If there were ever a game that was fitting for a shadow drop, it has to be Playstack and Cold Symmetry’s dark and unrelenting action RPG, Mortal Shell. Fresh off an appearance as part of Nintendo’s Inside the House of Indies Holiday Event today, Playstack is pleased to reveal the surprise launch of Mortal Shell: Complete Edition on Nintendo Switch. This marks the first time Mortal Shell, alongside the game’s spectacularly well-received DLC—The Virtuous Cycle and Rotten Autumn—is available in one convenient package.

Originally released on Aug. 18, 2020, for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, Mortal Shell took the soulslike scene by storm as players and critics alike sang its praises in universal acclaim. Now, players who have been patiently waiting for the challenging masterpiece to make its way to Nintendo Switch can test their mettle against Mortal Shell’s fearsome adversaries for themselves.

Included in the Mortal Shell: Complete Edition, Nintendo Switch players will also gain access to the game’s two previous DLC entries, The Virtuous Cycle and Rotten Autumn.

The Virtuous Cycle, released exactly one year after launch on Aug. 18, 2021, reinvented the players’ journey through Fallgrim and beyond as adversaries cycle and shuffle upon each death in this roguelike expansion. Demanding and brutal as ever, players can never be sure what lies ahead.

Scattered across the land are pillars that will bestow new talents to inherit. With more than 100 new abilities to discover and combine together—from exotic weapon enhancements to entirely new combat maneuvers—players are free to create and develop their very own combat style.

Offering a new mini-quest, ten new skins, an alternative soundtrack, and a powerful new photo editor, Rotten Autumn was a free addition to the base game that wowed players when it was added in October 2020. Centered on Gorf, the humongous verbose amphibian whose enigmatic dialogue and mysterious intentions stirred imagination within the Mortal Shell community, players will be rewarded handsomely with up to ten new Shell shades should they satisfy his desires. From Solomon’s Dracula-inspired war paint to Eredrim’s regal yellow trim, these new skins let players demonstrate their combat mastery in a style that suits.

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Today sees the release of Ratalaika Games published and Ninja Rabbit Studio’s Panda Punch on all major platforms. Priced at just $4.99 / €4.99, this puzzle platform game is one not to be missed!

Jump, punch and puzzle solve Zeep through levels

Control Zeep and have them traverse the levels, whilst using his fist to punch enemies, move obstacles and even as a platform to access new areas! Sounds simple but this is a platformer with hazards and combat aplenty; so you’ll need to upgrade your Zeep’s abilities to progress through the various environments and levels.

Features:

• 58 levels with traps, secrets, enemies
• Platform jumping and combat
• Classic pixel-art graphics and chiptune sound
• Defeat bosses and gain new abilities

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Process of Elimination is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4 on April 11, 2023!
(April 14, 2023 in Europe and Oceania.)

Gear up for your investigation adventures by preordering the Limited Edition from the NISA Online Store today!

Hapless student Wato finds himself amidst a bewildering investigation headed by 13 skilled detectives! Who are these other detectives and what are their ultimate goals?

Prep yourself for the mysteries that lie ahead by joining the retweet contest going on now through December 21, 2022 for your chance to win a Deluxe Edition for you and a fellow detective!

Process of Elimination boast 14 unique detectives each with their own specialized skill set! See what detective you’re most like by taking the Which Detective Are You personality quiz!

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Stuttgart, December 13, 2022 – The year is 1986, and designer Ryuchi Nishizawa has an idea for a new game. Mr. Nishizawa wanted to create an action game with an added amount of pressure. The initial concept he came up with involved an automatic scrolling platformer, but it was too difficult, and even he couldn’t play it. Some of these elements transferred into the game we know and love as Wonder Boy, such as the iconic skateboard.

Today, more than 35 years after, Bliss Brain brings you a legendary Anniversary Collection of the universally-beloved Wonder Boy adventures in a downloadable version: Featuring 21 versions of six of the most iconic Wonder Boy games ever released, this incredible compilation brings the influential platformer series to today’s hardware, with precise ports and new features such as the ability to rewind your game at any moment, filter, shader, a save anytime option and many more that you’ll find while playing!

This collection will be released digitally by Bliss Brain on January 26th, 2023 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

The perfect blend of platforming and RPG action you can find throughout the Wonder Boy series has delighted generations of gamers, and now, the Anniversary Collection combines the beloved adventures with a complete package of Wonder Boy history, crisp chiptune audio, a menu in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese languages and perfect pixel art!

 

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Indie publisher Ratalaika Games, together with developer Ninja Rabbit Studio, is pleased to announce Panda Punch is set for release on the 16th December 2022. Coming on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC Steam and Nintendo Switch, priced at $4.99 / €4.99 . Billed as a puzzle platformer game in which you have to control a red panda and save the world from evil alien robots.

A delightful and addictive setting.

The main character of the Panda Punch game is called Zeep. He can jump on his fist, carry boxes, barrels, push various objects and spins like Sonic! The tasks and objectives are simple but less easy to achieve in a challenging environment, with hazardous platforming and combat to traverse through. Solve puzzles on the levels, collect coins, look for super coins, pump your abilities from the blacksmith, defeat bosses, get new abilities …these are just a few of the tasks you will undertake in the 58 levels!! with traps, secrets, enemies…

Features:

• 58 levels with traps, secrets, enemies
• Platform jumping and combat
• Classic pixel-art graphics and chiptune sound
• Defeat bosses and gain new abilities

Source: PR Email