Always Sometimes Monsters Now Available on PS4

Always Sometimes Monsters by Vagabond Dog is now available on PS4.  This is their first console release and it's available for only $9.99.

Always Sometimes Monsters is a story where you are on a mission to win back the love of your life.  It's a unique RPG game where you could play through several stories and have different paths each time.  You begin by choosing the race, gender, and sexual orientation of your character which can affect which pathways are available to you in the game, based on how NPCs treat you.

Always Sometimes Monsters was previously released on Steam with great reviews.  It won Best Indie Game at the Canadian Videogame Awards in 2014 as well as Best Writing.

Available Now via Steam, GOG, and Humble http://www.alwayssometimesmonsters.com Always Sometimes Monsters is the story of life, love, and the things we will go through to find happiness in both. Set out on a journey through the modern human experience as you overcome the heartbreak of lost love, and the hardship of making choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Cally's Cave 4 Coming To iOS Next Month

We now have a release month, and platform for Cally's Cave 4. The developer announced via Twitter that the platformer shooter will be coming to iOS next month. The previous game can be picked up on Steam and iOS.

Cally’s Caves 4 picks up three years after the end of Cally’s Caves 3, with Cally and her friends searching for a cure for Rupert’s Curse.  Cally will set out on a worldwide journey to find “The Amulet of Valerius,” an artifact that she believes can cure Rupert and give him a normal life.  As the story unfolds, Team Cally will uncover the origins of a secret society that controls the world, and meet a new nemesis that threatens to destroy everything that Cally loves.

It's time for Cally's biggest adventure yet! Cally and her team of friends set out on a global journey to find a cure for Rupert's Curse. In the process, they stumble across a secret society with a maniacal leader, Ivan Magnus. Can Team Cally take down Ivan Magnus and recover the cure for Rupert's Curse?

Digital Extremes Opening Up New Office In Toronto Next Month

Digital Extremes, the London based developer of Warframe, will be moving east next month, having announced they are opening up a second studio here in Toronto. The studio will be focused around the development side of their business.

"Toronto has become a hub of impressive game development over the past 7-8 years. Being only two hours down the road from our headquarters in London, expanding to Toronto is a logical choice to continue growth plans for Digital Extremes and keep up with the pace of our growing stable of games,” said Meredith Braun, Digital Extremes VP of publishing."

Urgent: Video Games I International Business Development

Interested in going to Game Connection Europe and/or Paris Games Week? CEIM got your back, and you only have a few days to apply for the chance. You can check all the details here, including how to apply, but a summary is found below.  The deadline is October 11th.

Be one of 10 Canadian independent developers to qualify for this program that will help you participate in GCE and Paris Game Week 2017
and increase your chances of success!

 Game Connection Europe (GCE) I Paris Game Week (PGW) Program

  • Registration to the event and meeting rooms

  • Qualified « B2B » meetings

  • Individual coaching, prior to the event, with an expert from CEIM

  • Business support and coaching on location, by two experts from CEIM

  • Up to $2,040 total reimbursement of your registration fees and documented living expenses(hotel, meals, transportation) 

 Admissibility Criteria

  • Video game developer established in Canada, majority Canadian ownership

  • Strong export potential to the U.S.A

  • At early commercialization stage

  • With annual revenues of less than 5 million dollars

Way Of The Passive Fist Gets Steam Page - Aimed For Early 2018 Release

Here's something we missed, but Way of the Passive Fist now has a Steam page in which you can add the game to your wishlist. On the page as well, it says it will be available early 2018. The game is also expected to hit PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

A mysterious figure known only as the Wanderer travels across the distant planet of Zircon V, a once prosperous mining colony that is now on the brink of destruction in the face of its dying star. By using the Passive Fist technique, the Wanderer can outlast any foe by deflecting their attacks and draining their stamina. With colonists disappearing and maniacs running wild, the Wanderer must stand firm, stay calm and fight for answers in this unique modern brawler!

Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime Out Now On Switch

As recently announced, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is now out on Nintendo Switch. You can pick up the game for $16.99 on the e-shop right now.

Shwip Steam Page Up From Jamhammer Games

Jamhammer Games launched their Steam page for their upcoming twin-stick shooter, which suggests we'll hear more about the game soon. You can also check them out on Twitter as well.

Satisfy your daily pixel-induced fix by blowing up your enemies with an arsenal of weapons and abilities the military would be jealous of. Outmaneuver your enemies with tight controls that make setting traps, disabling and boosting your way to safety light and responsive. Go brute force in arcade or show off your new skills in style, then; gear up for a tense checkpoint romp though an active minefield. Did we mention Shwip has global leader-boards and local multi-player? Compete against friends or random internet strangers and reach for the top, soldier.

Metanet Software Bringing N++ To Xbox One October 4th

We got the PlayStation 4 release, then it came to Steam. They then announced an Xbox One version and now we know when it's happening, and it's soon! N++ is coming to Xbox One this Wednesday. 

You can check out the trailer below, and follow the gang on Twitter, and read our review from Devon.

Out now on Steam and PS4, and coming to Xbox One October 4, 2017! N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Cuphead Out Now For Xbox One and PC

It's finally here. After being announced at Microsoft's E3 conference in 2014, and suffering a few delays - Cuphead is available for the masses on Xbox One and PC. You can check out the launch trailer below, and pick it up on Steam, or on the Xbox store.

The all-cartoon Magical Wondergame! Cuphead is available now for Xbox One, Windows 10 , Steam and GOG!

Reptoid Games Successful On Kickstarter - Fossil Hunters Coming To Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and Steam

We did it! At the time of writing, there is 24 hours left in the Kickstarter for Fossil Hunters and they have gotten to $35199 of their $35000 goal. Reptoid Games also announced that their game will be coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One along with the original Steam release. The Kickstarter has an "estimated delivery date" of March 2018.

Death Positive Game 'A Mortician's Tale' Coming To Steam Next Month

We've known about A Mortician's Tale for a while, in fact, half of Laundry Bear Games Gabby DaRienzo was on the podcast at one point. Now it looks like the death positive game will be released next month on October 18th.

You can check out a sympnosis below, as well as a trailer and screenshots. Make sure to add the game to your wishlist on Steam and see you October 18th!

A Mortician's Tale is a narrative-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home. Take on the role of recent funeral direction graduate Charlie as she learns the ropes of the business and industry. Prepare the cadavers of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attend their funerals and listen to their loved ones' stories, and interact with Charlie's coworkers, clients, and bosses. A Mortician's Tale is an informative, honest, and sometimes humorous look at the current state of and the future of the western death industry.

A Mortician's Tale is coming OCTOBER 18, 2017 for PC/Mac (Steam, Humble, itch.io)! 🖤 About the Game: A Mortician's Tale is a narrative-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home. Take on the role of recent funeral direction graduate Charlie as she learns the ropes of the business and industry.

22 Minutes of Plains of Eidolon Gameplay - Warframe

Digital Extremes recently announced a huge expansion to their free-to-play game Warframe, and they recently shown 22 minutes of new gameplay from The Plains of Eidolon which you can check out below.

Watch as we battle a MASSIVE Eidolon and take down Grineer encampments in 22 minutes of NEW Plains of Eidolon footage! The Plains of Eidolon update arrives in Warframe in 2017. https://www.warframe.com

Phantom Compass Launches Auto Age: Standoff

Phantom Compass, the creators behind Rollers of the Realm have released their latest game, Auto Age: Standoff, on Steam this past week. Auto Age is a car combat game taking place in the future, but with a 1980's style to it:

"Choose your side and speed full throttle into a deadly game of ruthless car combat soaked in '80s Saturday morning cartoon style. Will you rally behind SAIGE and Val Vega to fight for a better future, or seek total domination with the evil Dark Jaw and his ragtag Jawlings?

Hurl headlong into the chaos of twelve-player online combat, buckle up for classic couch co-op, or even do both. With Auto Age: Standoff's versatile split-screen play, you and three other friends can skirmish privately or team up together in online battles."

You can pick up Auto Age: Standoff on Steam right now, which has a 20% launch discount as well.

The retro-future world of AUTO AGE: STANDOFF comes to life in this animated, voice-acted story trailer. Team up, gear up, roll out! http://store.steampowered.com/app/458680/Auto_Age_Standoff/

Arrow Heads Launches On Steam

Our good friends at Oddbird Studios have released their first title, Arrow Heads on Steam. Arrow Heads is a multiplayer arrow shooting game, where you can play locally or online - and right now it's enjoying a 20% launch discount. So check it out on Steam.

Now available for purchase on Steam! http://store.steampowered.com/app/580890/Arrow_Heads/ Grab your friends, neighbors, extended family and that handsome cashier from the grocery store and get ready for some sweet, award-winning, couch and online multiplayer. With your trusty bow, shoot, dodge and deflect arrows in this zany isometric archery game.

Asteroid Base Bringing Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime To Switch

It sort of got leaked before, but now it's official - Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime will be coming to Nintendo Switch October 3rd, 2017.

Coming to Nintendo Switch on October 3, 2017 Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a frantic 1-4 player couch co-op action game. Explore a colourful galaxy in a massive neon battleship that you control together by manning turrets, lasers, shields and thrusters.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is currently avaliable on Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One - but the developers said in a tweet: "Since the #NintendoSwitch reveal we knew it was the perfect platform for LOVERS. We're super excited to finally share it with you all!"

Based on the trailer and gif, it does appear it will contain the 4-player update. It will be out on October 3rd.