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Loopers, the Visual Novel by Higurashi When They Cry’s Writer, Gets New Trailer Revealing Theme Song

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Visual Arts released a new trailer of the upcoming visual novel Loopers, developed by Key. The gamel is penned by Ryukishi07, who fans of the genre will know for popular visual novels like Higurashi When They Cry and Umineko. The character design is by Ken Mochizuki. It’s directed by Kazuma Takada who wrote Tsuki no Kanata de Aimashou and Toya Okano, who also worked on the same visual novel on top of plenty more all the way back to Air and Clannad. Read More...

Scott Cawthon’s Genre Blender The Desolate Hope Is Free on Steam

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Before Scott Cawthon created Five Nights at Freddy’s and became synonymous with the horror genre, he developed quite a few trippy titles. One of those games, The Desolate Hope, is currently free on Steam. The Desolate Hope is nothing if not unique. It blends definitively disparate art styles and game genres. Many of the game’s assets are cute at first glance, but upon further inspection they’re held together with wires, cables, and other little bits and bobs that create Giger-esque monstrosities that would be at home in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Read More...

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Devs Considered Allowing the Player to Control the Weather

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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the weather is an important factor in determining how a player can explore certain parts of the world. In a recent interview with Game Informer, the game’s director Hidemaro Fujibayashi explains that the team initially considered giving players the ability to control the weather. The weather in Breath of the Wild affects both the temperature and the world’s terrain. If you’ve played it, I’m sure a heavy downpour has spoiled your plans of climbing one of the game’s many tall mountains. Read More...