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Vila-real, Spain – March 8, 2023 – Independent publisher BlitWorks Games is proud to announce that Pirates Outlaws is launching on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on the 29 of March. Developed by Fabled Studio, Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card battler acclaimed by critics and players in which you navigate dangerous seas in order to defeat every outlaw and their masters in tense combats. The game offers plenty of content and unlockables, diverse game modes and a beautiful papercraft artstyle. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and challenges, so get ready, build your card deck and plan deadly combos to become the most reputed pirate!

Pirates Outlaws offers 3 game modes and 16 heroes with unique abilities and pre-made decks. There are more than 500 cards and 160 relics to collect! Play your cards and manage your ammo to deliver the best combo. Defeat 150 outlaws and more than 50 unique bosses in a turn-based combat system.

MAIN FEATURES

• 3 Game Modes with unique rules – Start a roguelike expedition in NAVIGATE, face the most powerful foes in the ARENA or test your strength and knowledge over a drink in the TAVERN BRAWL.
• 16 Heroes – Each Pirate has unique abilities and mechanics! Read the future with the Fortune Teller, command a beast with the Bear Tamer or go full berserker with the Chicken.
• More than 700 Cards and 200 Relics – Level up your game with new cards that you will unlock as you progress through the different maps.
• 150+ Outlaws and 60+ unique bosses – Build better decks with deadly combos and prepare yourself to face the toughest challenges.
• Tons of unlockables – Start your next run as a steampunk legend or find the spookiest look with unlockable skins!
• All updates included – Maelstrom, Lost in Jungle, Great Bazaar, Lost Islands, Northern Lands, Eastern Seas, Port Elysia, and more!

3 GAME MODES

• In Navigate mode you manage your expedition across varied horizons to discover and battle pirates and outlaws that stand on your path. You can unlock up to seven maps and chapters with their own difficulty and secrets. Once your repute reaches 9999, a Hard Mode will auto-unlock where you’ll find harsher environments and stronger enemies. Each chapter also has a unique challenge in Hard Mode.

• In the dust of the Arena, you will face a powerful Champion every ten battles. To reach the top, you must choose among the cards and relics from all seven chapters. A place for all pirates in need of a challenge.

• Test your strength and knowledge over a drink at the Tavern Brawl. Choose pre-made packages before each battle and defeat waves of outlaws. After two battles, you’ll have to defeat the imposing Tavern Keeper.

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08 MARCH, 2023 – If you have a slightly warped sense of humour and are partial to some puzzle-platforming fun that isn’t too demanding, then you’ll be delighted to hear Overloop is making its way to consoles later this month.

The clone-based puzzle-platformer will launch 24th March on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S priced $14.99. It’ll be available with a 20% launch discount for a limited time.

Created by Charge Games – a development duo of George Kobyakov (programmer, game design, artist) and Charles Bardin (narrative design, sound design), Overloop made its debut on PC last year. It currently has a ‘Very Positive’ rating on Steam, with 92% positive user reviews.

Overloop is a light-hearted adventure set in a dark-hearted future where scientists create a cloning gun – the Quantum Matter Replication Device – and their profit-hungry paymasters sell it to the masses, with disastrous consequences. It’s up to you – the handsomely mustachoied protagonist – to navigate a crumbling dystopia and attempt to save humanity by bravely sacrificing clones of yourself in all manner of icky ways.

The Overloop soundtrack, composed by Charles Bardin (A Musical Story), is available here: https://charlesbardin.bandcamp.com/album/overloop-soundtrack

About the game

Overloop is a puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world. Step into an ethically compromised future where cloning technology has wreaked havoc on humanity – and it’s sort of all YOUR fault! As an employee of nefarious megacorp, Infinity Inc., and the inventor of its Quantic Matter Replication Device (aka the QMRD, aka the cause of the world going to hell in a handbasket), it’s up to you to sort out the mess you helped create.

Grab your cloning gun and hot-foot it through a world descending into clone-induced chaos. Create clones of yourself and use them to solve puzzles and save humanity. Get to it genius!

Key Features

• Create clones! Make endless copies of yourself with the cloning gun and use your perfectly formed doppelgangers – up to four at once – to overcome obstacles and solve puzzles
• Sacrifice clones! Dystopias are very dangerous places, and many clones will suffer hilariously gruesome deaths along the way. Fried! Crushed! Mangled! Minced! RIP clones 🙁
• Explore a world of weirdness! From suspiciously friendly AI and cultish crackpots, to modified corn and cloned panda bears. This freaky future has (almost) everything!
• Think about ethics! Is it better that a clone should die, rather than the real you? Consider the morality of human cloning as you condemn countless versions of yourself to death
• Have a mustache! Play as a hero with sweet facial hair. Purely cosmetic. Totally badass

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Experience the magic of the Silver Star Tower by playing the GrimGrimoire OnceMore Demo! Available now on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PS5!

Experience the week (and part of the second) of life as an academy student, and try your hand at real-time-strategy during your magic lessons.
Be sure to save your progress, as save data from the demo will carry over to the main game!

GrimGrimoire OnceMore is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PS5 on April 4, 2023.

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Gothenburg, Sweden – March 7th, 2023 – Developer GameAtomic and publisher Elden Pixels are excited to announce that the ghoul-filled retro action platformer Kraino Origins will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop on March 28th for $11.99 / €11.99 / £10.79. Kraino Origins will test players with its fast-paced melee combat, magic abilities, and hidden power-ups!

This eerie adventure takes place in a world inhabited by ghouls, ghosts, skeletons, and all manner of monsters. Kraino was created to aid the forces of evil, but all the dark magic and malice used to create him could not change who Kraino was – a force of good. Now it’s up to Kraino to use all the powers of evil to fight fire with fire. He will journey across the land to destroy the nefarious lords, uncover hidden weapons, and get his revenge on his maker, Dr. Batcula.

Slash your way through swarms of enemies to overcome eight dark and dangerous levels, filled to the brim with well-kept secrets. Unlock a host of powerful weapons and upgrades to wreak havoc on your foes, but beware of hazards and treacherous traps along the way in order to make it to the epic final battle.

“We are super excited to bring our much loved retro action platformer, Kraino Origins, to Nintendo Switch,” said Mikael, CEO & Creative Director of publisher Elden Pixels. “Fans of our existing games (Alwa’s Awakening, Alwa’s Legacy and Cathedral) will definitely like this challenging retro title, jam-packed with creepy crawlies, monsters and ghouls.”

Kraino Origins is available to purchase now on Steam.

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Stuttgart, Germany – 2 March 2023 – Strictly Limited Games, in partnership with MY.GAMES are delighted to announce the pre-order start for exclusive and highly limited boxed editions of Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread. This exciting release of the upcoming retro indie platformer is scheduled to launch in autumn 2023 and eager collectors can already pre-order their exclusive Limited Edition, starting on Sunday the 5th of March!

These editions will only be available at Strictly Limited Games and will be the only physical version of the game.

About Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread:

Blast Brigade is a unique blend of Metroidvania and twin-stick run and gun, with a shot of Megaman elements, featuring 4 playable characters with unique abilities and personalities, between which the player can swap at any time. This being a Metroidvania, these abilities are naturally necessary to progress through the interconnected world, as well as discover secrets and materials to upgrade your workshop. And you really want to, because this game won’t be a walk in the park. Even normal enemies can kill you if you are not careful, and for the bosses, pattern memorization is key. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Speaking about the world, Blast Brigade manages to stand out here as well, leaning heavily into 80s spy movie tropes with its archetypal characters and the classic setting of a tropical island housing the super villain’s base. Combined with its bright Saturday morning cartoon style graphics and fourth-wall breaking humor, Blast Brigade really manages to stand out in the sea of samey action-platformers.

Features:

• ASSEMBLE THE TEAM! Switch between four playable heroes with unique abilities and weapons!
• AMAZING ABILITIES! Use a grenade launcher, grappling hook, and сhakram-teleporter to beat foes and challenges!
• CRUSH BOSSES! Take down hybrid monstrosities, giant robots, ninjas, and other evil minions!
• METROIDVANIA WORLD! Explore, backtrack, and trailblaze non-linear routes through gorgeous, interconnected biomes!

Limited Editions:

Blast Brigade gets physical, powered by Strictly Limited Games. The Limited Editions for Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation® 4 (PS4) and PlayStation® 5 (PS5) can only be found there.

The Limited Edition is limited to 3,000 individually numbered copies for Nintendo Switch, 1,000 for PS4 and 1,000 for PS5 at a price of 29.99€ / $29.99.

The Special Limited Edition is limited to 1,500 individually numbered copies for Nintendo Switch, 500 for PS4 and 500 for PS5 at a price of 49.99€ / $49.99

Both editions will be available for pre-order on Sunday the 26th of February, at 8 AM PST / 11 AM EST / 5 PM CET and shipping is expected for autumn 2023.

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Tokyo, Japan: 2nd March 2023 – Japan indie publisher / developer Odencat Inc. is excited today to release their retro inspired JRPG, Meg’s Monster in the west that is creating great vibes in their homeland! In development for over two years, the wait is well worth their focused effort to ensure something that is an extra bit special and different!

Japan’s top gaming media – “Weekly Famitsu”

“The story is excellently told, and there’s a rollercoaster of emotions throughout the experience.”

“The days of the monsters and the girl, Meg, are not only heart-warming scenes, but also show a glimpse of the horror of the world.”

“…the heart-stirring storyline is fascinating, and I played the game all the way to the end.”

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CRYMACHINA is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and PC in fall 2023!

In a world where humans went extinct thousands of years ago, synthetic beings known as Dei ex Machina have been tasked to bring mankind back. Join three E.V.E, the recreated psyches of deceased humans instilled in synthetic bodies, as they seek their full-fledged humanity and explore Eden to discover the secrets hidden within.

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Venture the wastelands of void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 2 with Robbie the Robot and search for clues to help find a cure to Toriko’s mysterious illness! Explore dungeons to gather materials and craft items to keep your terrarium hospitibable, and be sure to take good care of the world’s last surviving human.

Help your human survive in this desolate wasteland! void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 2 is available now for Nintendo Switch and PS4!

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Based on Ken Follett’s world-bestseller, ‘The Pillars of the Earth’ retells the story of the village of Kingsbridge in a whole new interactive way. Play as Jack, Aliena and Philip and change the events of the book through exploration, decision-making and dialogues.

12th century, England: In a time of great poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and security for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Philip the monk becomes prior of the small abbey of Kingsbridge. At the same time, a boy called Jack is raised in the woods by his outlawed mother. His apprenticeship as a stonemason paves his way to become a gifted master builder. Together with the disgraced noblewoman Aliena, Jack and Philip begin the construction of one of the greatest cathedrals England will ever see.

• One of the most successful novels of all time, now adapted as a three-part videogame series
• Change events from the novel and influence the fates of its characters
• Follow an epic of war, conspiracies and romance spanning over 30 years
• Three different playable characters: Jack the outsider, Aliena the noblewoman and Philip the monk
• Brings the 12th century to life with over 200 handpainted backgrounds
• Fully animated in a unique 2D style
• Optimized for use with controller and mouse
• Orchestral Soundtrack by the FILMharmonic Orchestra, Prague
• Full voice over in English and German, featuring Glen McCready as Philip, Naomi Sheldon as Aliena and Cody Molko and Alex Jordan as the young and adult Jack
• With a special appearance by Ken Follett as the voice of the Cantor

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Indie publisher Ratalaika Games, together with developer Conradical Games, is delighted to announce Lootbox Lyfe+ a cross genre – Metroidvania/Hardcore Platformer experience is out today 24th February for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.

Nice ‘in game’ features include:

• A shadowy cave housing a lootbox addiction experimentation site.
• A pink fungal wasteland
• Interdimensional structures housing powerful lootbox rewards
• A snowy mining outpost based around extracting materials to make lootboxes
• Goodies to fine.
• Challenges to solve.
• Moves to learn.
• Speedrun mode
• Nonlinear World.
• Customizations.
• Different Ways to play.
• Much much more…

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