Twinworld Game Reviews

October 13th – Victoria, BC – A dizzy dungeon crawling adventure is bouncing onto Steam & Nintendo Switch soon with the impending release of Frosty Pop’s The Pinball Wizard.

A pleasingly upbeat mix of dungeon delving progression and bite-sized arcade pinball action, The Pinball Wizard is a perfect introduction to the mystic arte of the silver ball. Slay some slimes, bend physics to your will with magical abilities, and work those flippers as fine as you can to conquer the tower and set the world right.

The Pinball Wizard will be available on October 27th for both Windows & Mac via Steam and Nintendo Switch for $7.99 USD. Add it to your Steam Wishlist to keep up to date with the game, or you can even preorder the Nintendo Switch version starting today!

About The Pinball Wizard
Oh, young Apprentice! Atop the Mountain of Shadow, at the foot of the castle tower, the wisdom bestowed upon you shall come to pass. A pinball dungeon crawler awaits to test your skill!

Ascend the castle tower. Level up your skills. Fulfill your destiny. Become the wizard you were born to be!

The Pinball Wizard is a dungeon crawler pinball hybrid, and an arcade adventure game, where the main character is propelled into action by a set of flippers, like the ball in a pinball machine. Each level (dungeon) of the game is a contained area inside a tower. The goal of the game is to survive and get to the top of the tower alive.

Key Features:

• Tower Mode: Climb a tower with twenty-one levels and defeat the big, bad, boss.
• Dungeon Mode: Survive as long as you can in a giant dungeon.
• Two Daily Dungeons: A randomized new dungeon, every day.
• Upgrade Skills: Unlock and maximize all 16 skills including Dash and Magic Orb.

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Hamburg, Germany, October 12th, 2022 – Publisher Daedalic Entertainment and developer Skirmish Mode Games mobilize the troops to bring Warpips to consoles today. The fast-paced strategy game already successfully launched on PC and is now also available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

Warpips is an easy-to-learn RTS game where you deploy various combat units against your AI-controlled opponents. The aim: destroy their base before they get to yours! Manage your resources and use your infantry, ground, and aerial units to claim victory in this pixelated tug-of-war mayhem.

Warpips is set apart by its approachability, as it is easy to pick up and understand, yet the intricacies of its systems will give players more than enough to spend hours finding optimal plans of engagement and become master strategists. Unlock branching skill trees and find the perfect synergy between units in a series of ever-changing battles in beautifully rendered 2.5D environments.

Key Features:

• Fast streamlined combat. Focus on the big picture; no complex micromanaging. Each round lasts between 10-20 minutes. Easy to learn, hard to master.
• Randomized battles. Randomly generated battles. Different each time you play. Lots of replayability.
• Deep strategy. Choose complementary unit synergies. Infinite strategic combinations. Fully unlockable upgrade tree.
• Tight combat. Spawn infantry, vehicles, airplanes, and helicopters. Call down airstrikes, missile attacks, and artillery. Units take cover and respond intelligently to their situation. Everything explodes!

Warpips is now available for Windows PC  PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

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Gothenburg, Sweden – October 12th, 2022: It’s time to unleash your imagination as highly anticipated brick-building adventure LEGO® Bricktales launches today on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch for $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99. Featuring lovingly crafted LEGO brick dioramas built entirely with authentic LEGO elements and a creative brick-by-brick building mechanic, LEGO Bricktales is perfectly crafted to delight generations of LEGO fans across the globe.

LEGO Bricktales sees you journeying across 5 beautiful LEGO brick-themed biomes, taking you to the green foliage of the deepest jungles, the scorching sand of sun-drenched deserts, the hustle and bustle of a city corner, the epic sight of a towering medieval castle and the paradise of tropical Caribbean islands. An intuitive new brick-by-brick building mechanic will help you solve the many fun puzzles you encounter on this adventure and bring your creative solutions to life.

As you search for inspiration to help your grandfather reinvigorate his rundown amusement park and meet a host of colourful characters that you can help with your LEGO-building skills, you’ll be tasked with putting together cool aesthetic creations, such as market stands and music boxes, and have your building skills tested with functional physics-based puzzles like building cranes and gyrocopters, delivered by the team behind the Bridge Constructor series.

Every location in the game offers a variety of construction spots with their own sets of LEGO bricks. Each of these challenges is designed to unlock the power of your imagination, leaving it up to the player to figure out a unique build that will work, created via a brick-by-brick building mechanic that replicates the real experience of building with LEGO bricks. Whether you’re being asked to put on your designer hat and build a throne fit for a king or testing your engineering skills to build a bridge that will get heavy machinery across a river, how you construct your builds and meet the challenges you’re being offered is up to you!

“We’re thrilled to finally release LEGO Bricktales on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC today,” said Dieter Schoeller, Vice-President of Production at Thunderful. “We can’t wait to see what creative builds our players will come up with and I know I’ll be checking out social media to see what our players have been putting together using the game’s brick-by-brick building mechanic!”

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Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief is available now for PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC!

The Limited Edition is available on the NISA Online Store!

Check out the launch trailer to watch as Ebizo goes from doting father to master thief!

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October 11th, 2022 – Lightwood Games is thrilled to announce details of their latest word game, Letterbox by POWGI.

Letterbox is a game of anagrams and logical reasoning. The letters from a nine-letter word must be rearranged and placed into the middle of a 5×5 grid so that it forms six five-letter words. There’s just one correct answer that spells valid English words in all directions.

Letterbox by POWGI features 120 unique puzzles and, as always, the puzzles are hand-crafted and checked to ensure a pleasant and satisfying solving experience.

In typical POWGI style, the “reward” for solving each puzzle is a terrible “dad joke”.

The game will be released on Tuesday 11th October on PlayStation, Thursday 13th October on Switch and Friday 14th October on Xbox.

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06 OCTOBER, 2022 – Get ready to rampage with monster-sized arcade action –  Terror of Hemasaurus is coming soon to PC and consoles, publisher Digerati is thrilled to announce. The city smashing, human squishing, apocalyptic fun kicks off 17th October on PC (Steam, Epic, GOG, and other storefronts), priced $12.99 and with a 20% discount for a limited time.

Console versions will follow in December, arriving 5th Dec for PlayStation, 6th Dec for Nintendo Switch, and 7th Dec for Xbox.

Combining awesome pixel devastation and stupidly big explosions, Terror of Hemasaurus is the next game from Super Blood Hockey developer, Loren Lemcke.

Players take the role of one of four carnage-causing kaiju as they embark on a devastating, and darkly funny, trail of destruction that takes them across the USA as part of a dubious last ditch plan by The Church of the Holy Lizard to save humanity from its own reckless disregard of the planet. Your mission: destroy everything!

About the game

Play as a giant monster and wreak havoc on humanity in this retro city smash ‘em up! Punch buildings, slap helicopters, eat humans, kick cars – enjoy multiple ways to cause carnage! Satisfying arcade action and mindless destruction for up to 4-players!

Key Features

• MONSTERS! Hemasaurus! Clocksloth! Salamandrah! Autonomous Hemasaurus! Four terrifying (but also kind of adorable) beasts, each with their own killer moves!
• DESTRUCTION! Explosive pixel devastation and mayhem on a monstrous scale! Reduce buildings to dust. Topple skyscrapers. Destroy everything!
• DEATH! Hurl humans into helicopter blades! Butt slam into crowds of terrified citizens! Eat people for nourishment! Smoosh them all to save the planet!
• STAGES! Do what the game tells you across a variety of levels! Kick cars into buildings! Rescue the cats and dogs! Total a tower in record time!
• FRIENDS! Got buddies? Good for you! Put them to use by getting them to join you for some local co-op carnage! Up to four friends can cause terror together!

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Paris, October 4th 2022 – Video game publisher Microids is thrilled to announce the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch retail versions of F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch are now available in North America.

The Limited Edition now available includes:

• The full game on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 or Nintendo Switch
• An exclusive official SteelBook
• The game’s original soundtrack (digital format)
• 3 lithographs
• A stickers sheet

About F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

Six years ago, the Legion invaded and colonized the Torch City, which was originally inhabited by animals. Rayton, the former soldier in the resistance war, has been living in seclusion since then. After his friend is arrested, Rayton reclaims his mechanical fist and decides to fight back. Little did he know he would be involved in a much bigger scheme between the Gang, the Resistance, and the Legion.

Developed by TiGames in Shanghai, F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a 3D Metroidvania action game with a rabbit protagonist wielding a giant mechanical Fist in an original dieselpunk world. A great number of puzzles and challenges are hidden in a sophisticated and interconnected game map worth exploring. F.I.S.T. features multiple weapons, magnificent combos, upgradable skills and provides a hardcore arcade-style experience. Unreal Engine 4 offers top-class visual quality with physically-based rendering and extremely detailed textures. The game met critical acclaim when the digital versions came out, with a current PC and PS5 score of 80 on Metacritic.

Key features

• An interconnected Metroidvania world-map with more than a dozen areas with distinguishing vision themes and level design

• An in-depth storytelling focusing on the inevitable conflict between animals and machines

• A unique dieselpunk aesthetic fusing with early 20th century Shanghai landscape

• An arcade-style combat system with stunning combos and executions thanks to three multi-function weapons with distinct designs on appearance and advantages

• An engaging upgrade system for the character and skill chain to perform magnificent combos

• Countless puzzles, challenges and collectibles hidden in a fascinating vast world

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Guide your soul-infused puppets into the depths of darkness in Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society, coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 and PC on February 14, 2023!

Watch the newest trailer to meet your allies and learn more about the quest at hand, and check out the official website for further information. Don’t forget to preorder your copy of the Limited Edition as well as a beautiful acrylic glitter standee by visiting our Online Store!

Meet the magical miscreants who dare to challenge the labyrinth! Watch our newest character clips to learn more about Fantie and Eureka.

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Paris, October 3rd, 2022 – Today, Microids is pleased to announce the game’s release date as well as a new demo for Arkanoid Eternal Battle, now available on Steam during Steam Next Fest (October 3 – 10). This demo will allow fans to get their hands on the Battle Royale mode and engage in thrilling competitions for up to 25 players! Those excited to (re)experience the classic block-breaker franchise will only have a few weeks to wait as Arkanoid Eternal Battle will launch October 27 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One consoles, Xbox Series X|S and PC. In North America, the retail versions will be available November 8th.

Developed by talented studio Pastagames, Arkanoid Eternal Battle will invite players to discover or rediscover the iconic block breaker in a fully modernized and revamped version and compete online with up to 25 players in its unique cross-play Eternal Battle mode.

Steam Next Fest Demo

From today, October 3rd, to October 10th, players will be able to try out the Battle Royale mode thanks to a new demo available during Steam Next Fest. Those eager to play with the Neo, Retro and Versus modes, will have to wait a few weeks when the game launches on October 27!

Check out the demo here!

Arkanoid Eternal Battle marks the return of the emblematic block breaker game in a surprising, renewed version with 4 game modes:

• Retro: Teleport yourself in an old-school arcade parlor back in 1986 and enjoy the original game as if you were there!
• Neo: This solo mode expands on the classic gameplay with brand-new levels, a modern and stylish art direction & sounds as well as new unique blocks, bonuses and effects!
• Versus: Play locally with 2 to 4 players on the same screen!
• Eternal Battle: For the very first time, 25 players can challenge each other online in an exclusive Battle Royale mode! Use your power ups to gain advantage and aim at the top score to be the last one standing and win the game!

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September 30th, 2022 – Indie publisher Ratalaika Games, together with Indie developer Kikai Digital, join forces to celebrate today’s (30th Sept) Caffeine: Victoria’s Legacy, a choice rich, fantasy visual novel, set in a steampunk Victorian alternative reality, where coffee is all that matters! Released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch, priced at €17.99 / $17.99, this is one to check out!

Features, facts and fantasy!

• Appealing and engaging story!
• Beautiful graphics.
• Over 25 hours of gameplay
• Four romanceable routes with one true ending.
• Voices characters.
• 450,000 word visual novel.
• Hundreds of choices.
• Original Music
• Animated CG scenes.
• A rollercoaster of romance
• Plus more

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