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Ambitious roguelite Unexplored 2 coming to Epic Games Store in 2021, gets new trailer

Development extended as Ludomotion pushes the boundaries
of radical content generation for its action-RPG

13 June, 2020 – Upcoming Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is coming to PC by way of the Epic Games Store, its development extended into next year, with a launch targeted for Q1 2021. A new trailer, showcased at the PC Gaming Show, offers another tantalising look at Unexplored 2‘s wondrous world.

Unexplored 2 is an ambitious roguelite action-RPG, featuring advanced world, level and quest generation, a gorgeous graphical style and a beautiful, orchestral soundtrack.

Publisher Big Sugar and Epic Games have agreed upon a one year exclusivity deal for Unexplored 2. This has enabled the extended development trajectory, allowing developer Ludomotion to explore the design implications of ‘radical content generation’ – an approach that pushes the boundaries far beyond traditional level generation.

Game Director, Joris Dormans, explains: “We’re taking a radical approach to procedural content generation. We’re creating complete worlds, and little worlds within those worlds: stories, quests, competing tribes. When all of these systems come together, they will create a game which is almost infinitely replayable.”

An Unexplored 2 closed beta will begin later this summer. Anyone wishing to participate can sign-up here: https://www.bigsugar.games/beta

To celebrate the extension of Unexplored 2’s development, Ludomotion and Big Sugar have released the new ‘One Quest. Unlimited Adventure’ trailer

Epic Games Store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/product/unexplored-2/home

About the game

One quest. Unlimited adventure. Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is a roguelite action-RPG and prodigious sequel to the critically acclaimed indie gem, Unexplored. Leave the Dungeon of Doom behind and venture into a vast, wondrous world as you embark on a heroic quest to destroy the mysterious Staff of Yendor.

Explore beautiful landscapes and discover hidden marvels. Encounter magical creatures and dangerous foes. Make brave choices and put your faith in good fortune. Featuring a unique legacy system, advanced procedural generation technology, and rich, generative storytelling, Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is an adventure like no other.

Key features

  • Legacy system: the actions of past heroes impact the fortunes of those that follow in their footsteps. Use your legacy wisely to give successive adventurers greater hopes of completing their quest
  • Permadeath in a persistent world: when a hero dies, they stay dead. But you can choose to return to the same world with a new adventurer, forearmed with knowledge of what lies ahead. Or, if you prefer, begin a new adventure in a completely uncharted world
  • Generative storytelling: there is no premeditated script in Unexplored 2. Every adventurer’s ultimate goal may be the same – to destroy the Staff of Yendor – but every hero will have their own unique story of the events and encounters that happened along the way
  • Procedural generation: Ludomotion’s proprietary technology generates content that feels designed by humans, not algorithms, and can create a near infinite number of new lands, new places, new stories, and new challenges to discover
  • Orchestral adaptive soundtrack: an intricate system allows Unexplored 2‘s music to be arranged reactively, making subtle changes to the score at appropriate times, whether a moment of high emotion, or to provide foreshadowing

About Big Sugar
Big Sugar is a new publisher that does what it wants. And what it wants is to work with talented independent developers and to publish the unique, fun, compelling, entertaining, memorable, and all-round high-quality games that they create. https://bigsugargames.com/

About Ludomotion
Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Ludomotion is an independent 
developer aiming to advance gameplay technology and create all kinds of new 
gameplay experiences. https://twitter.com/PlayUnexplored

Copyright © 2020 Big Sugar, All rights reserved.

EVIL GENIUS 2 UNVEILS WORLD FIRST GAMEPLAY TRAILER

LOCATION REDACTED (June 13, 2020) – Bask in the inexorable glory of the first ever gameplay trailer for EVIL GENIUS 2: WORLD DOMINATION! MUAHAHAHA!

In Evil Genius 2 you can live out your supervillain dreams. Create your own island lair, amass a force of loyal miscreants, take on secret agents and, finally, execute your nefarious plot to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Debuted during the PC Gaming Show, today’s world first gameplay footage brims with never-before-seen tyranny and treachery. From menacing new henchmen and minions to sinister traps and powerful contraptions… and is that a fleeting tease of Max’s new Doomsday Device? Well, we do love to be cruel!

The tantalizing reveals don’t stop there, though. We’ll be spilling more of the beans – evil beans – in a special ‘Evil Genius 2 Development Update’ during tomorrow’s Guerrilla Collective showcase.

And we’re hosting our own behind the scenes stream with Evil Genius 2 developers: Tune in at twitch.tv/rebellion_official on Wednesday June 17 at 10 AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM BST / 7PM CEST.

Evil Genius 2: World Domination is coming to Steam later this year.

For more details please visit EvilGeniusGame.com

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KEY FACTS
GAME: EVIL GENIUS 2: WORLD DOMINATION
DEVELOPER: REBELLION
PUBLISHER: REBELLION
GENRE: WORLD DOMINATION SIM
PLATFORMS: PC
PLAYERS: 1
RELEASE DATE: 2020

About Rebellion

Founded in 1992, Rebellion is one of Europe’s biggest independent studios. Its flagship Sniper Elite series is renowned for its authentic stealth and sniping gameplay with more than 20 million players worldwide. 2000 AD is synonymous with the absolute finest in British comic book art. With the acquisition of a $100m film studio and the world’s largest archive of English language comics, Rebellion continues to grow from strength to strength.

Rebellion now operates across books, comics, TV and film, but at its core it’s still a leading developer and publisher of games. Whether it’s the breathtaking intensity of Sniper Elite 4, the face-hugging terror of Aliens vs. Predator or the grindhouse frenzy of the Zombie Army series, the Oxford-based studio is revered for creating stand-out games designed to thrill.COPYRIGHT ©2020 REBELLION. THE REBELLION NAME AND LOGO AND THE EVIL GENIUS NAME AND LOGO ARE TRADEMARKS OF REBELLION AND MAY BE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Limited Collector’s Edition Announced

Stockholm & Munich – June 13th, 2020 – Koch Media and Paradox Interactive today announced a limited Collector’s Edition for the upcoming Action RPG Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. This unique edition is now available via the Paradox Store for pre-order at a suggested retail price of $169.99 USD / 169.99 €.

Pre-Order is available here: https://merch.paradoxplaza.com/bloodlines2-ce#emotion–1

https://youtu.be/SzVmOGS3w0U

Strictly limited to 3000 pieces, the Collector’s Edition contains a 7” vinyl featuring some of the iconic music players can expect when roaming the streets of Seattle at night. Additionally, a 28 cm tall detailed figurine of Elif – one of the main story characters players will encounter in their personal digital afterlife – a precise map of the game world and streets of Seattle, and a beautiful Steelbook make for an amazing package for true fans.

To allow fans an even deeper dive into the world behind Bloodlines 2 the Collector’s Edition will also feature the 5th edition of the Vampire: The Masquerade rule book as a digital bonus.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Collector’s Edition Content:

  • Main Game
  • Detailed Map of Seattle
  • 7” Vinyl featuring in-game soundtrack
  • 28 cm Elif Figurine
  • Steelbook 
  • Bloodlines 5th edition core book (Digital)
  • DLCs
    • First blood pre-order pack
    • Unsanctioned Blood pack
    • Season of the Wolf pass

The Collector’s Edition will be available with and without the main game and DLC content to allow fans who pre-ordered any digital version access to the physical collectibles without needing to buy the game twice. The non-game collector’s edition comes at a suggested retail price of $109.99 USD / 109,99 €.

Paradox Interactive also revealed that Damsel, the fan favorite Brujah from the original Bloodlines, will return in Bloodlines 2. Damsel’s original voice actress, Courtenay Taylor, is reprising her role as the iconic character.

https://youtu.be/ge2sztE3mHM

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is a vampire RPG featuring memorable characters and deep, reactive storytelling. Set in Seattle, players will make tough moral choices that will shape the world around them.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Key Features:

  • What Monster Will You Be? Choose to be brutal and unflinching or cultured and seductive. Use charm, cunning, terror and sheer will to rise through vampire society. 
  • Descend into Seattle’s Dark Heart: Seattle has always been run by vampires; hunt your prey across locations faithfully re-imagined in the World of Darkness.
  • Enter into Uneasy Alliances: Choose a side among the competing vampire factions in the war for Seattle’s blood trade. Everyone has hidden agendas, so choose your allies wisely
  • Experience the Story: Written by the creative mind behind the original Bloodlines, live out your vampire fantasy in a city filled with intriguing characters that react to your choices.

To learn more about Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, please visit www.bloodlines2.com.

About Paradox Interactive:
Paradox Interactive is a leading global publisher of strategy games for PC and console. The company has developed and published a world-renowned catalog stretching back to 1999, with players hailing from all around the world.

The publisher’s steadily-growing portfolio includes firmly established franchises such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, and Stellaris series created by Paradox Development Studio, the Age of Wonders series created by Triumph Studios, as well as award-winning titles such as Cities: Skylines, Pillars of Eternity, and more from a network of partner studios. Paradox is the owner of the World of Darkness IPs and is publishing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Today, over four million people play a Paradox game each month, and the number of registered Paradox users is over twelve million.

Paradox’s head offices are located in Stockholm, Sweden. Our development studios are located in Stockholm, Malmö and Umeå, Sweden, in Delft, The Netherlands, in Seattle, Washington, and in Berkeley, California. We share a passion for gaming and gamers, and our goal is to provide deep and challenging games with hours of gameplay and endless variety to our ever-growing community.

For more information, please visit our forums and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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About Hardsuit Labs
Established in 2015, Hardsuit Labs is an independent game development studio located in Seattle, WA. Leveraging their engineering and game development experience, the studio’s mission is to create great games and experiences across all gaming platforms. Hardsuit Labs is currently developing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.

About Koch Media
Koch Media is a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products (games, films and software). The company’s own publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe, North America and Australia. The Koch Media group has more than 20 years of experience in the digital media business, and has risen to become the number one publishing partner in Europe. It has also formed strategic alliances with numerous games and software publishers: Bethesda, Capcom, Codemasters, Kaspersky Labs, Konami, Koei Tecmo, Milestone, Sega, Square Enix, etc. in various European countries. With headquarters in Höfen, Austria Koch Media owns branches in Germany, England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Nordic regions, Benelux, Australia, Czech Republic and the United States.

All product titles, publisher names, trademarks, artwork and associated imagery are trademarks, registered trademarks and/or copyright material of the respective owners. All rights reserved.

ScourgeBringer is coming to Nintendo Switch

The hit roguelite action game officially announces Switch port with a new trailer 

Montpellier, France (July 13, 2020) – French developer Flying Oak Games, composer Joonas Turner (Nuclear Throne, Downwell) and publisher Dear Villagers are proud to announce that the fast-paced rogue-platformer ScourgeBringer is coming to Nintendo Switch.

The game is currently available on PC via Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Pass for PC and will see a full launch in 2020.

ScourgeBringer aims to channel the mystery and rawness of an early rogue-platformer, with fluid control, aerial combat, pixel graphics and a punchy soundtrack. The story follows hero Kyhra, who is sent away to uncover the secrets of an Eldritch monolith which is threatening to destroy her world. Armed with her trusty combat drone, she must shoot and slash her way through the infinite depths of an ever-changing dungeon, wherein gigantic bosses, ancient machines, strange ghosts and untold secrets from previous explorers await. 

There is no backtracking, as the game’s structure follows a procedural combination of pre-built challenge rooms, not unlike the Binding of Isaac.

Features

  • Dive into fast-paced rogue-platforming gameplay described by Eurogamer as “Dead Cells meets Celeste”
  • Slash and shoot your way smoothly with super fluid platforming controls
  • Sharpen your skills with a frantic combat system focused on attacks only
  • Dash forward to the otherworldly adaptive sounds of Joonas Turner (Nuclear Throne, Downwell, Broforce…)
  • Defy hordes of unspeakable enemies and giant bosses holding the secrets of the Scourge
  • Explore the infinite depths of an ever-changing dungeon
  • Uncover mysteries and find mementos of previous explorers to unlock reality defining secrets

The game is in open development, with an in-game feedback system gathering feedback from players, and regular looks behind the curtain courtesy of regular development updates from Flying Oak Games, who you can follow on Twitter here.

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About Flying Oak Games

Made of wood and pixels, Flying Oak Games (FOG) is an independent video game studio in a secret forest of the North East of France (in Metz). Born from many game jam collaborations over several years, the team still dedicate themselves to the community by organizing local events, as well as being part of the Global Game Jam organizers family. Its main motivation is to make games that are accessible, instantly fun and addictive.

About Dear Villagers Dear Villagers is Plug In Digital’s publishing label. It’s a warm-hearted invitation to join us in the little unusual neighborhood we are building within the gaming industry, a place where talented studios can unleash their creativity and where players enjoy distinctive and audacious games on PC and consoles, such as Edge of Eternity, ScourgeBringer, and Recompile.

Guerrilla Collective Day 1: Raw Fury Reveals GONNER2, Coming This Year to PC, PlayStation®4, Xbox One & Nintendo Switch

West of Dead Launches June 18 on PC & Xbox One,
Night Call Arrives June 24 on Nintendo Switch & Xbox One

STOCKHOLM June 13, 2020Raw Fury has brought a full day of video game news and reveals to the first day of the Guerrilla Collective showcase, leading with the world premiere of GONNER2. This sequel to developer Art in Heart’s award-winning roguelike action platformer is coming later this year to PC, PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Ikk is back, and this time Death needs his help! Journey through nonlinear, procedurally generated levels in a surreal world featuring intense and unimaginable boss fights, visuals and mysteries!

“But wait! There’s more!”

West of Dead Launches June 18 on PC & Xbox One! Upstream Arcade’s fast-paced, twin-stick, rogue-lite shooter featuring the voice of Ron Perlman takes you to a gritty gothic underworld of brimstone, gun smoke and darkness. Take cover and test your skills in the open beta now on Xbox One and Steam (Steam users who play the beta will get a bonus discount if they buy the game at launch). West of Dead is also in development for PlayStation®4 and Nintendo Switch.

Night Call Comes to Nintendo Switch & Xbox One on June 24. The award-winning neo-noir murder mystery game from Monkey Moon and BlackMuffin puts you behind the wheel of a Paris taxi cab on the night shift. Talk to your riders to learn more about their secret lives and try to uncover the identity of the serial killer stalking the streets. Night Call arrives on consoles with all the content included in the new “Long Way Home” update on PC, including new stories, free roam mode and more.

The Guerrilla Collective is going on now through June 15, featuring news, reveals, trailers and more from gaming’s top studios, publishers and companies. Raw Fury will be back on tomorrow’s broadcast with even more surprises, starting at 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET at twitch.tv/GuerrillaCollective.

Catch all of the news coming from Raw Fury this weekend on our Guerrilla Collective landing page: rawfury.com/raw-fury-guerilla-collective-games.

Give us a shout!

Official Site: rawfury.com
Discord: discord.gg/rawfury
Twitter: @RawFury

Frostpunk: The Board Game Will Soon Unleash Everlasting Frost on Tabletops!

The Kickstarter campaign for this new board game will launch this fall.

Warsaw, Poland – June 13th, 2020Frostpunk, the bestselling survival city-builder game, is officially going unplugged! Frostpunk: The Board Game will provide tough moral choices, challenging and strategic gameplay, emotion-driven narrative, and snow. Lots of snow. The core features of this popular 11 bit studios title will be transported to your table next year!

Frostpunk: The Board Game is coming to fruition thanks to the combined efforts of 11 bit studios and Glass Cannon Unplugged, a new tabletop game studio formed by a group of industry veterans, including Jakub Wiśniewski, creator of the highly acclaimed This War of Mine: The Board Game and Michał Ozon, former COO of board game publisher Phalanx, both accompanied by an independent author Adam Kwapiński, a world-class board game designer who has worked on titles such as Nemesis and Lords of Hellas.

Frostpunk, a BAFTA-nominee that originally launched in 2018, tells a story of a frozen Earth in an alternative XIX century. In Frostpunk: The Board Game, up to four players will take on the role of leaders of a small colony of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world that was hit by a severe ice age. Their duty is to effectively manage both its infrastructure and citizens. The core gameplay will be brutal, challenging, and complex, but easy to learn. The Glass Cannon Unplugged team understands how important emotions and moods are in Frostpunk’s gameplay, and their goal is to integrate this core mechanic into this version of the game. The citizens won’t just be speechless pieces on the board. Society members will issue demands and react accordingly to the current mood, so every decision and action bears consequences.

The players will decide the fate of their people. Will you treat them like another resource? Are you going to be an inspiring builder, a fearless explorer, or a bright scientist? Is your rule going to be a sting of tyranny or an era of law and equality?

Follow social media for more details about Frostpunk: The Board Game and get ready for the start of the game’s campaign on Kickstarter this fall!

Find out more at:

About Frostpunk
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and its infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society’s survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

About 11 bit studios
11 bit studios is a Warsaw-based Polish game development studio known for This War of Mine and Frostpunk as well as a publisher teaming up with indies to bring their gems to life, lately with Moonlighter by Digital Sun Games and Dead Mage’s Children of Morta.

FIRST OFFICIAL BALDUR’S GATE 3 TRAILER ANNOUNCES THE GAME’S EARLY ACCESS RELEASE DATE ALONGSIDE A RUNDOWN OF BRAND NEW FEATURES AND CHANGES

See more of Baldur’s Gate 3 on June 18th as Larian kicks off the D&D Live show, as Early Access content gets locked in.

DUBLIN, Ireland (13th June 2020) – Larian Studios has today announced that Early Access for Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch this August, maybe.

Announced back in June 2019 before the final E3 conference, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a sequel to CRPG staples Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, bringing the IP into the modern era, with AAA production values, including fully cinematic dialogues, authentic gameplay based on 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons and cooperative multiplayer.

Today’s trailer is indicative of the mood and tone of Baldur’s Gate 3, a game that pushes Larian’s lauded RPG depth into an entirely new level of production value and ambition. Between the original announcement a year ago, and what will be shown prior to D&D Live, Baldur’s Gate 3 is starting to take shape, and that shape will continue to evolve as Larian works directly with the community during its Early Access campaign.

Covid-19 has affected Larian as it has affected many people around the world, but the shift to work-from-home has been a successful one, allowing Larian to continue working towards the Early Access period of (maybe) August. We’re happy to announce that we’re now able to resume performance capture, to put the final pieces in place for the Early Access release.

The mood, depth, and tone of Baldur’s Gate 3 are extremely important aspects of the experience, and Larian is now able to continue to work to create what will be the initial Early Access release build.

Larian will be announcing the specific Early Access content closer to the August (maybe) release date.

About Larian Studios
Larian Studios is an independent RPG developer founded in 1996 in Ghent, Belgium. Over 200 people work between the five worldwide studios in Ghent, St Petersburg, Quebec, Dublin and Malaysia. Larian is best known for the Divinity universe, which they introduced to the world with Divine Divinity in 2002. In 2014, Larian launched Divinity: Original Sin, a classic CRPG that won over 150 awards and nominations. The company released its critically acclaimed sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 on September 14, 2017, followed by the Definitive Edition in August 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to a 93 Metacritic rating. The Nintendo Switch version released in September 2019 featuring cross save progression between Nintendo Switch and Steam. Divinity:Original Sin 2 won a Bafta for Best Multiplayer Game. In June 2019, Larian Studios announced the development of Baldur’s Gate 3.

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WEST OF DEAD SET TO LAUNCH ON JUNE 18TH ON XBOX ONE & STEAM

Get ready to raise hell in this cover-based, twin-stick, action game

WEST OF DEAD’s launch date has been revealed at the Guerilla Collective event tonight. The cover-based, twin-stick, action game with roguelike elements is set to release on Xbox One and Steam on the 18th of June.

Awaken, trapped in the underworld, surrounded by evil souls bent on hunting you down. To escape your grim and gritty Purgatory, make sure to take the tactical approach and vary your playstyle, weapons, and abilities for each new threat.
 

GET READY TO RAISE HELL – PLAY WEST OF DEAD’S OPEN BETA:
The Open Beta is live until launch day, the 18th of June.

[There is a 15% bonus discount on Steam at launch for everyone that played the Beta]

WEST OF DEAD stars the vivid voicework of Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy) as the protagonist William Mason, a dead man who awakens in purgatory.

Your path will lead through the procedurally generated maze of the underworld which will change every time you enter. The deeper you get in your run, the more intense the danger will become.

Find your flow and sharpen your reflexes to dodge bullets, slide behind cover and take out undead outlaws and monsters that threaten you while piecing together the mystery of your own past. Think and act fast to catch your enemies by surprise before pandemonium breaks loose. Ignite light to shatter the darkness and thereby stun your enemies.

WEST OF DEAD, created by developer Upstream Arcade and publisher Raw Fury, is releasing on the 18th of June on Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass and PC, coming in August to PlayStation 4 and Switch.

For more info, enter: https://westofdead.com

ABOUT UPSTREAM ARCADE 
Upstream Arcade is a small team of four veteran Indie developers based in Godalming, UK. They all met while at Lionhead (the studio is a bit of a reunion), and have individually contributed to loads of games including Black and White 2, Max Payne 3, as well as multiple titles in the Fable Franchise. Having left AAA to go Indie, the studio is bound by a desire to use everything they’ve learned toward developing action games with something different to offer. They sure hope that shows in their upcoming game West of Dead.

Webpage: www.upstreamarcade.com
Twitter: twitter.com/UpstreamArcade 

Noir Mystery, Night Call, Coming to Consoles on June 24th

Stay one step ahead of a mysterious serial killer as you drive the streets of a tumultuous Paris in Night Call. Coming to Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on June 24th. 

Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. 

As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to many different people. You’ll need to play these roles well in NIGHT CALL, if you want to catch a serial killer who once found you on the end of his knife… 

Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do. You are no detective, but your gift with words will find you in that role. Around you, people feel more at ease. They talk. They share their thoughts, their emotions, their stories… their secrets.  NIGHT CALL is coming to Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on June 24th. 

Night Call strength lies in its narrative experience accompanied by light resource management and investigation mechanics. With a potential of 90+ passengers that may hail down your cab, you’ll encounter whimsical and lighthearted moments, intriguing stories, and tackle thought-provoking themes not often seen in games.

Night Call is not a single story, but a collective narrative seen through the eyes of your fares who may have something to share and contribute to the greater investigation to save your life.

**WARNING: Night Call is intended for mature audiences. Text references to violence, sexual acts, and use of alcohol. Potentially triggering dialogue with themes including tragedy, politics, religion and violence. Use of profanity and potentially offensive language. 

Features:

  • GORGEOUS GAME NOIRE STYLE: Every character and location are lovingly hand-drawn in stunning black & white, evoking the pure tension of the noire style of art. 
  • A VIVID AND ORIGINAL CAST: Meet dozens of original, surprising, realistic characters and share their lives for a few brief moments. Listen and help they might have something useful for you. 
  • NON-LINEAR NARRATIVE GAME: Encounters are random. Every run is different. 
  • INVESTIGATION VS. SURVIVAL: Will you forsake information for more money, or sacrifice your income to get the info you need? Make your choices quickly time is running out! 
  • MULTIPLE ENDINGS, MULTIPLE KILLERS: Can you uncover the identity of the killer each time? Be careful: a guilty suspect in one playthrough may be completely innocent in the next. 
  • FREE ROAMING MODE: Sometimes you just want to roam the dark city streets and enjoy some interesting conversations. Free Roaming lets you do just that — this highly requested fan feature is perfect for drivers looking to relax and fill up their Passidex! 

Potionomics Announced for PC Release by XSEED Games

A new shop simulator/potion brewing game is on the way for PC as XSEED Games has announced that they will be publishing Voracious Games’ Potionomics sometime in the future. Players will take on the role of Sylvia, a penniless young witch, who must save her shop from the clutches of a debt collector, but she can’t do it alone. With the help of fellow merchants, fledgling adventurers, and an overbearing owl, Sylvia will master the art of potion brewing and the nuance of salesmanship to rescue her shop.

After using magical ingredients to brew up a bevy of potent wares, the budding entrepreneur will wheel and deal to make sales with a colorful cast of fickle customers, all while tackling fierce competition and an ever-changing economy. The announcement trailer showing a bit of what players can expect from Potionomics can be found below.