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Enter the Medieval Fantasy World of The Serpent Rogue Today on Xbox Series X|S

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It is with the warmest of salutations and greatest urgency that I welcome you, weary traveller, to The Serpent Rogue . What awaits you in this desperate and failing land is an alchemy driven sandbox action adventure, with roguelike elements and a focus on crafting and exploration – and most importantly, animals to befriend — launching for Xbox Series X|S today! Mount Morbus has been struck down by a terrible and all-consuming evil — the Serpent Rogue — and it is in your capable hands that I must leave the fate of this once vibrant and vivacious land. Your quest will not be an easy one, and it will require you to think on your feet, using every tool at your disposal to disperse the lurking darkness. Potions can be crafted from ingredients foraged from the blooming landscape, from fish bones to mandrakes. Everything you unearth on your travels can be researched and repurposed into potions with varying results — some will heal, some will harm, and some will even change the user’s app...

Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases Famous Flyer #2, the Granville Brothers Gee Bee Model Z and Model R-2

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Thompson Trophy-winning classic racing planes of the Golden Age of Air Racing, now available in the Microsoft Flight Simulator marketplace. The Microsoft Flight Simulator team is excited to announce their latest release in the Famous Flyers series of aircraft, the Gee Bee Model Z and Model R-2 Super Sportster, single-engine, single-seat racing monoplanes designed and built by Granville Brothers Aircraft of the United States. The company (“Gee Bee” is a phonetic representation of the initials GB) produced a few different iterations of the design, notably the Model Z and the Model R-2. Each is one-of-a-kind, and each is regarded as a historic great of the Golden Age of Flight due to its unique looks and blazingly fast performance.  Urged on by early successes with their “Sportster” race aircraft of the late 1920s, the Granville Brothers created their first Super Sportster, the Model Z, to race at the Thompson Trophy pylon race at the National Air Races at Cleveland, Ohio, in ...

NeonLore: To Read or Not to Read…in a Video Game?

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Just after wrapping all sorts of certification tests and getting excited for the release of NeonLore , the usual sense of anxiety wave hit me: What if gamers don’t understand what we are trying to achieve here? I would classify ourselves as real indie developers. Allow and excuse me to make a bit of pun here by adding the word “real”. We are not in financial debt to anyone and we are really a studio of less than ten working people during all times.  And we have not received any external investment up to date, while we have released a dozen titles in the last three years. Indie developers likes us have a different kind of anxiety when we launch a game: “Will the game sell enough to cover costs?” is usually replaced by a more tangled question: “Will the gamers understand us”? Nothing will happen to our indie studio if NeonLore financially tanks. We’ll continue to make and release indie projects. We have grown a thick enough skin to ignore most gaming journalists who look at our...

This Week on Xbox: Upcoming Indie Games, Updates, and Events

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Mokoko X Revives the Old Beloved Arcade Genre Today

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Hello! I am Göksan, founder of NAISU, and the main developer In Mokoko X , we want to resurrect the specific arcade genre while adding a modern touch. The game play is simple: capturing the bigger portion of the game screen by drawing lines. The graphical style of our game is a combination of retro-arcade/anime. We’ve made it colorful and lively as possible. In each level, you fight against absurd bosses who are a nuisance to our eight girls. All the bosses and girls have their own short stories and connections with each other. Talking about the stories, I wrote all the short stories and inspired from my elementary school times’ imagination. So, you will probably find them quite absurd and childish from time to time.  I want to give some examples of the short stories from which you will learn the answers to the following questions: How do you stop a heartless but not soulless emperor? Can someone be a gyroscope and a guard dog at the same time?- Can ducks organize a Ponzi s...

Keeping Storytelling Alive: Localization and Legacy in Vampire the Masquerade

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It’s been more than two years since the release of Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York and almost one-and-a-half years since Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York premiered. As far as single-player, story-driven, self-contained games go, an obvious assumption to make is that once a title like that ships, the work is done and the project is complete, right? Well, not quite! Vampire: The Masquerade and World of Darkness in general are properties beloved all around the world. The fan community spans the globe, and especially for games that rely on written content as much as Coteries and Shadows do, localization is extremely important. Back in late 2019 Draw Distance was just under 20 people strong (we’re somewhat bigger these days), and the team responsible for the standalone follow-up to Coteries , Shadows of New York , was roughly the same size. As you can imagine, when it comes to translations – which are crucial to let as many players as possible enjoy the st...

Spring Brings a Whole New Closet to A Gummy’s Life!

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Summary Spring cleaning comes to A Gummy’s Life! New cosmetics available for your favorite gummies! Show off with your coolest new combinations! We have a new reason to party! After bringing the sweetest addition to the game – the ability to customize your gummies with cosmetics – A Gummy’s Life has also given players a couple of interesting updates, including a new map, the ability to ping your character, and online multiplayer customization. Players have also been getting exclusive new cosmetics following special events and holidays.  Now, you can rejoice in the newest addition brought to the game: a whole new closet! A complete new set of cosmetics will be ready for you as a reward for your efforts. The already unlocked hats and glasses will remain in your inventory, but there’s a catch! That past season is over and those cosmetics won’t be available to unlock for other gummies anymore (or will they?). So, time to show off your old collection and start collecting as m...