TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Day Repeat Day’

It takes some serious ingenuity to subvert a genre as entrenched as the mobile match-3 game, but somehow developer Kimmo Factor, probably most well-known for the awesome hack ‘n slash game Barbearian, has done exactly that with their new game Day Repeat Day ($4.99). It’s a commentary on the match-3 genre itself, and in some ways the state of gaming...

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From ‘Trails in the Sky’ to Writing Books and ‘Fantasian’, an Interview with Localization Specialist Jessica Chavez

When Fantasian was properly revealed with trailers and the marketing finally kicking off, I learned that Jessica Chavez was a part of the team localizing it for an international audience. I’ve been a fan of her work ever since I discovered Nihon Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky years ago and started reading up on how the Trails games...

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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Heal: Console Edition’ ‘Angry Golf’, and Today’s Other New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 16th, 2021. In today’s article, we go over the remaining new releases and sales for the week. You would have thought after yesterday that there wouldn’t be much more to go on sale this week, but there’s a healthy list to look at. The new releases on the other hand aren’t quite...

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Pre-Registrations for Psychological Thriller Visual Novel ‘Raging Loop’ Are Now Live on Google Play

Over the years Kemco has brought quite a few RPGs to mobile platforms and consoles but the one game I was hoping to see localised on mobile is Raging Loop. Raging Loop is a werewolf-like thriller visual novel that debuted in Japan on mobile before it saw console and PC ports. Only the console and PC versions of the game saw English releaes thanks to...

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Epic AR Adventure Game ‘Shrouded Citadel’ is Out Now for iOS and Android

Shrouded Citadel, the AR dungeon adventure game by Pifer Studios has just launched worldwide for iOS and Android. With Spring now in full-flow, Shrouded Citadel is arriving on the app stores at just the right time for players to take on its simple but incredibly demanding challenge – making it out of the Citadel alive! The first person adventure...

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‘Genshin Impact’ version 1.5 Beneath the Light of Jadeite releases on April 28 for iOS, Android, PS4, PS5, and PC

Following the Genshin Impact (Free) version 1.4 ‘Invitation of Windblume’ update, miHoYo just showcased Genshin Impact 1.5. The Genshin Impact 1.5 update is titled ‘Beneath the Light of Jadeite’ and it releases on April 28th worldwide on all platforms. While the game was playable on PS5 through backward compatibility, Genshin Impact 1.5 ships natively...

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Big Updates for Charrua Soccer, Towers of Everland, Hot Lava, Unleash the Light, and Patterned Are Out Now on Apple Arcade

Two weeks ago, Apple changed Apple Arcade’s scope with the introduction of new categories for the service alongside the release of anticipated games like Fantasian, Wonderbox, Clap Hanz Golf from the makers of Sony’s Hot Shot’s Golf (Everybody’s Golf) games, a new Taiko no Tatsujin game, World of Demons from PlatinumGames, and more. Last week, there...

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Following its Shutdown in 2019, ‘Payday: Crime War’ is Coming Back from the Dead in 2022

There’s rocky development timelines, and then there’s… whatever the heck you would classify Payday: Crime War’s development hell as. This built-for-mobile entry in the popular Payday heist game series was originally announced during E3 way back in June of 2015. It would be an entire year before we heard any further news on Crime War, when it was announced...

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Reno the Bounty Hunter Arrives in ‘Brawlhalla’ as the Cross-Platform Fighter’s 53rd Legend

Our old friend the cross-platform arena fighter Brawhalla has had quite the busy 2021 so far. It also had a busy 2020, and 2019, and 2018 for that matter, but let’s just focus on this current year, shall we? In January it welcomed its 52nd Legend, aka new original fighter Magyar, a haunted suit of armor. Yeah that’s right I said a haunted suit of armor....

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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘FEZ’, ‘SaGa Frontier Remastered’ and Too Many Other New Releases, Plus Too Many New Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 15th, 2021. I’ve mentioned this before, but these intro paragraphs are one of the last things I write for these articles. Let me tell you something: I am tired. I am very, very tired. I know I said I would go over what was in the Indie World Showcase today, but that was before...

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