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Hannah is a new 3D puzzle platformer from the team at Spaceboy where you play as a tiny version of yourself in an attempt to save your missing doll. It looks like a cute game, but also gives me Little Nightmare vibes. Check out the trailer below and let us know if this is a game you'd be into. It's out now on PC via Steam, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.

Savant - Ascent REMIX is a shoot-em-up mixed with a platformer from the team at D-Pad Studio. It's been out on PC since 2023, but will be releasing on the Nintendo Switch sometime in December. No mention of any other consoles releases, but it could end up coming out for other consoles at some point. Anyway, check out the trailer below. Is it something you'd play?

Vengeance Hunters is a brand new beat'em'up made with Neo Geo hardware, at least from what I am seeing. It just came out late last month, for pretty much every console, including the Neo Geo console as well. Check out the trailer for it below.

Has there ever been a time where you were outright given free gaming stuff? Maybe it's an old set of games, and a console. Maybe your friend just didn't want to deal with listing it all for sale and dealing with all that nonsense. I've only ever been given games for free a couple times. It was from family, the first time it was just old PC games, nothing spectacular or worth anything. The second time was from another family member who gave me their PS1, but it didn't come with games. Though they did include some music CDs and one of those DVD towers. I was on reddit the other day and was seeing posts about how people were landing lots of free games and consoles and I reminded of the time I got some free stuff. Albeit, nothing as cool as some of those reddit posts. Anyway, what about you? Ever receive free games, consoles, peripherals, parts, etc?

The retro gaming market to me, feels like it's just getting more and more expensive. If you're a collector, it's becoming harder to find games on the cheap. You still can, but you have to go hunting for them. Not only that, but with physical media starting to die out, I think prices are going to go up even further. Do you hope prices stay low? I'm already seeing Xbox 360 and PS3 games increase in price, and I think soon enough we will be hearing about how so and so video game is going for $100+ now because of how rare it is to find now. Anyway, do you have a hard time finding retro games these days that are priced cheaply? Or has everything gone up for the most part?

Symphonia is an upcoming platformer that heavily revolves around music. You have to use your violin and help find others to take part in an orchestra that will help bring back their world of music essentially. I'm kind of getting Braid vibes a bit from the graphics. Anyway, according to Steam it's coming out in December. It looks to also be coming out for PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and the Switch. All in December.

Has anyone here played this RPG game? It's from Studio Zero, the team who made Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5. It's available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, PS4 and PS5 right now.

Did you ever put all of your disc based games into one of those CD binders? You know the ones, where you can store maybe a hundred or less discs in one binder. Did you ever use binders exclusively? As in you never stored your discs in their original case, but stored them in these binders. I did it maybe for a little while back in the day, I didn't like keeping them in a binder though as I liked to keep them in their cases, but I thought the idea was cool to have all of your discs at the ready. But, I've since only used said binders for loose discs. These days I keep my disc based games in the original box if I still have them. What about you though, did you ever do this?

Have you ever been burnt out from gaming? Like maybe you played far too much and you just can't get into the mood to game. Or you have been gaming for years, and it's not the same anymore. Have you ever been burnt out to the point you haven't played games for a while? I will say, I have been burnt out a few times when it comes to gaming. Sometimes I like to just take a break for weeks or longer. But has gaming ever burnt you out to the point you take an even longer break from gaming? What kind of stuff do you do to get back into the mood to game? Has there been any specific games that have brought you down to this point? Are there any games that have gotten you back to gaming after previously being burnt out by them?

The Coma 2B: Catacomb is a new Korean survival horror game from the team at Dvora Studios. It's a sequel to The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters. Has anyone here played that game or any in the series? Seems more like a point & click adventure with horror elements. It's out now on PC (Stram, Epic, GOG), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and the Switch.

Sulfur is an old school style fps adventure game with some roguelike elements. It's out now on PC in early access and coming to PS4 and PS5 soon. It's got a fun cartoon style look to the graphics and the gameplay looks fast and smooth. Also looks like you got a lot of customization with guns and weapons.

Source - https://www.thegamer.com/the-day-before-asking-community-to-work-on-their-new-game/ How ballsy of Fntastic team, you know, the one who was responsible for The Day Before, well they're trying their hands at yet another game. They are asking their fans to design maps for their upcoming game "ITEMS". You may be wondering though, what happened to that kickstarter campaign for their other game, Escape Factory? Well that was cancelled recently and now they are focussing their attention on another game, simply called ITEMS. That's not all though, as they are hosting a competition with fans to design maps for their new game. The winner will get to see their map added to the game, along with their name on the map and a free copy of the game on Steam when it releases. But, there's no cash prizes or anything else. To me, it just sounds like they are making the fans do all the map design work and they will probably end up remixing all of the fan made maps into their own. I wouldn't put it past a team like Fntastic to do this just to get free work on their maps. Sure they say they will select one winner, but I could see them using every map sent to them, at least if they are good enough. Anyway, what do you think about this? It doesn't scream trustworthy after The Day Before and the fact they outright cancelled their last game. I wonder if this is even going to go anywhere.

Dinocop is an upcoming mystery indie game where you play as a cop, but a Dinocop to be exact. You live in a world where Dinosaurs and humans live side by side, and you're the only Dinocop. It's from the team at Pieces Games, and this looks to be one of two of their new games. The other being A Rat's Life: The Cat Conspiracy. There is no official release date yet for Dinocop, but I'd assume 2024 or 2025 at the latest. There is a demo available on Steam if you want to take a look: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3187010/Dinocop/

Source - https://sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/an-update-from-playstation-studios/ Sony has closed the studios Neon Koi, and Firewalk Studios. You may know Firewalk Studios as the studio being the infamous Concord that became a complete failure at launch. Neon Koi seemed to be their mobile games developer, and they were working on an action mobile game that will now be cancelled as well. I don't get why Sony can't use these teams for something else. Now these guys will be eaten up by other studios or go on to start new ones. But yeah, never gets easier hearing the news of these studios being shut down because of poor choices by Sony itself.

Some of us may have been lucky growing up and received multiple consoles. I am not one of those people as I grew up with an NES first, then a genesis, snes, PS1, PS2, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and so on. I never had each console during a single console generation. But if I got to choose one generation where I had all consoles, I would probably choose the PS2, GameCube, Xbox, Dreamcast generation of gaming. Right when online gaming started. I think it's also around the time of the GBA/GBA SP as well. I'm sure there were other consoles that came out. I think the Dreamcast counts in this generation of consoles right? I don't feel it was made for the PS1/N64 generation. Anyway, what generation did you have all of the consoles released? Or is there a generation is particular that you'd like to have every console?

I may finally be getting my hands on a PS5 soon, but I don't plan to get the PS5 pro, mainly because the high costs and the fact it doesn't come with a disc drive. I want to still support physical if I can. With that being said, what are your plans if you currently don't have a PS5? Do you plan to spring for the PS5 pro when it comes out? Or will you rather save some money and buy a standard PS5 or PS5 slim? I think for me, the cost is just too much for not the biggest jump imo. But what do you guys think? What route will you be taking?

Has anyone here played the original Shadows of the Damned? Well it's getting a remastered version called Hella Remastered, and it releases on Halloween. Check out the trailer below.

Source - https://www.gamesradar.com/games/microsoft-gaming-laid-off-over-2-500-workers-this-year-but-it-still-found-enough-spare-change-to-give-its-ceo-a-usd79-million-bonus/ This is why the gaming industry is the way it is. They can lay-off thousands of workers in the industry, but these companies CEOs really need a bump of $79M in bonuses? It makes absolutely no sense that a company is losing money and have to fire their employees, only to give their CEO millions upon millions. Something needs to be done, these game studios should have have CEOs, COOs, or any big time person in charge making near that much in bonuses. Hell I don't even think they deserve to be paid near that yearly even. Anyway, this is in regards to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who got a 62% pay rise for the fiscal year. The same article also discusses how Microsoft even had a market cap of $3 trillion last year. So idk why they have to lay anyone off. You'd think with that type of money coming it, they'd be able to keep most, if not all of their employees on board and pay them all handsomely. But, lets be honest, they wouldn't ever do that, because they're all greedy over there.

Source - https://www.dualshockers.com/review-bombing-ban-ftc/ The FTC has recently released new rules on the proper way to review games going forward. It's being done as a way to stop reviewing bombing by providing legit reviews only, as in reviews by people who have played the actual media. They are enacting six (6) rules that reviewers will have to follow when leaving a review. I'll try to explain the rules, but the link above probably does a much better job. Anyway, here goes: It's prohibited to provide Fake or false consumer reviews, consumer testimonials, and celebrity testimonials. It's prohibited to buy positive or negative reviews - as in studios can't pay the publication/content creators for a good review. It's prohibited to do insider reviews and consumer testimonials - People who may have family working in a company, or people working in the company having them doing a review. Company-controlled review websites - Usually companies that own their own games, reviewing their own is what I'm getting from this. review suppression" via intimidation is now prohibited. misuse of fake social media indicators - Essentially buying and selling followers on social media for engagement That's the best I can explain the rules.

Kill the Shadow is an upcoming action adventure RPG where you play as a cop taking on cases. You also have the ability to rewind time. So far there is no official release date, but you can play a demo on the steam page here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2660230/Kill_The_Shadow/

It's Only Money is a new open world simulation RPG game with 4 player co-op from the people at Very Positive. The game just released on Steam the other day. I assume it was in early access, as the full release just dropped. If so, who here has played it during early access? Worth checking out?

Nikoderiko: The Magical World is a new platformer inspired by games like Donkey Kong Country and Crash Bandicoot. It was developed by It's definitely got the art style to match something like Rayman as well. It released last week for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S and the Swithc. A PC port is coming soon.

Edens Zero is a new action RPG from Konami based on the popular Manga of the same name by Hiro Mashima. I can't say I've ever heard of the series, but maybe there's some fans here? It's dropping sometime in 2025 for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Check out the trailer below.

Has anyone here played this game? It's from Perfectly Paranormal, the same team that brought us Meet Samuel, who happens to be in this game as well. Your purpose as an angel trapped on earth, forced to live in a timeloop until she can save Heaven. The game looks interesting. Who here has played it? Worth checking out? It's available on PC (Steam), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.

Kill Knight is a new isometric action shooter from PlaySide. It's currently available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X|S and Switch. And it's a pretty cheap price at only $15. Looks like a game I'd get into. Has anyone here played it yet?