Nathan Wyckoff

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Do you have a ferocious desire to blow away, bludgeon, and dismember hideously deformed creatures in virtual reality? Want to grab severed limbs from the ground and beat every on-comer's face in with said limb? Then you'd be a fool not to get Tripwire Interactive's title Killing Floor: Incursion for Playstation VR, the newest entry into the Killing Floor series.

Get your revenge with cold, hard cash in Penny-Punching Princess, the new isometric brawler from NIS America, Inc! After your father is driven to death by financial stress, beat and bribe your way to a rebuilt kingdom in post-apocalyptic fantasy world where money equals physical power. Build a kingdom, get your minions to make new battle-swag, and enjoy a satirical story perfect for our post baby-boom age!

de Blob

de Blob

November 19, 2017
8

de Blob, the colorful platformer of revolution and a color-splattering ball named Blob, is back! Originally released to great acclaim late in the Wii's life cycle, THQNordic has brought this family-friendly romp to this generation of consoles with updated textures and upscaled custcenes. Grab your controller, and get ready to fight the grey, boring man with a bevvy of graffiti talents!

The classic dungeon series is back with Cladun Returns: This is Sengoku! With a new Nobunaga-era backstory and more dungeons than you can shake a pixel at, NIS's brilliant bite-sized RPG is bigger, funnier, and more loot-filled than ever! Grab your controller, laptop, or Vita, and dive into this retro-themed masterpiece that's sure to take years of your life (and you'll love it!)

Akiba's Beat
6.5

Ever have a desire to geek out on anime, games, and do absolutely NOTHING else? So does Asahi, the hero of AKIBA'S BEAT, and his lazy dreams are shattered by the pro-active Saki and her talking plush toy--er, familiar--who drag him into a monster-fighting quest to shatter people's delusions. Get pumped for some J-Pop, Idol worship, and otaku-fueled hijinks in Japan's famous "Electric Town" in this 3D action RPG!

Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy is an excellent dungeon romp through a near-future sci-fi Tokyo.Finish that high-school class quick, so you can gear up and dive headlong into a quest for missing students that'll lead you into fierce battle against bizarre enemies. Best of all, this dungeon-crawler won't make you crunch more numbers than math class! (Unless you're into that.)

The Silver Case
6.8

Suda51 fan's, unite! The Silver Case, the cult-developer's first title from the PSX era, comes to U.S. consoles for the first time in a remastered and expanded edition. A visual novel with graphic crime content and supernatural undertones, The Silver Case grants players a rare chance to see the beginnings of a great game-maker, and experience one of the strangest visual novels ever to grace the genre.

Rain World

Rain World

March 28, 2017
8.5

Rain World is indie developer Videocult's new survival platform title published by Adult Swim Games. Taking place in a world of deadly rainstorms and vicious carnivores, players take charge of a single lonely slugcat, who must evade and survive long enough to reunite with it's family. Will you be able to get back to the safety of your home, or be pounded into oblivion by a torrent of crushing water?

Exile's End

Exile's End

March 13, 2017
8

Exile's End is indie developer Magnetic Realms' homage to the CRT-monitor classics of the Amiga, and a follow-up to their first title Inescapable. While Inescapable garnered rough reviews due to it's linear nature and lackluster graphics, Exile's End boasts art design by staff from Secret of Mana and Mother 3, a soundtrack by NES legend Keiji Yamagishi (Ninja Gaiden, TecmoBowl), and gorgeously pixelated cut-scenes by OPUS (Half-Minute Hero). If that's not reason enough to grab your gamepad, than nothing is!

Tyranny

Tyranny

December 13, 2016
9

Obsidian's new opus TYRANNY dumps you into a high-fantasy dystopia, mixing its Lord of the Rings style with a healthy dosing of iron-age Mad Max. You'll be backstabbing your friends and allies alike in this classic isometric RPG, where you can carry out your evil overlord's whims, or temper his wrath in an effort to keep an empire together. Whatever path you choose, your decisions have real consequences, and blood will be spilled!