GameHounds

Reigns, the popular mobile game that employs cards, has evolved into a tabletop card game. Does it keep the spirit of the game while providing a satisfying IRL experience? Edie and Nick speak with Thomas Bidaux of Nerial Games to talk about the process of how the company moved the title from digital to card game.

Edie and nick chat with Samuel McCully of Blowfish Studios about upcoming action sports fighting game Kungfu Kickball, where you kick more that just the ball.

Possibly tour winner of the “I can’t believe you did this” award. Infliction is a classic first person horror game that evokes The Grudge and Silent Hill. Edie and Nick speak to Clinton McCleary, the one-man show who designed the entire game by himself. The art, story, design, sound, coding — it’s all him! The result: taught, disturbing, and fantastic!

Nick and Edie speak with Karen Chalmers, marketing director for Big Blue Bubble (Burn the Rope, My Singing Monsters) about their upcoming action sidescroller Foregone, which offers the combat of Dead Cells without the roguelike elements.

Edie and nick speak with Dennis Opel, creative director of Craftshop Arts about their upcoming physics-heavy bare-knuckle brawler Madstreets.

Edie and Nick offered up our impressions of Roller Champions, Ubisoft’s upcoming competitive arena game that some people say is the next Rocket League.

Edie and Nick speak with Jacob Bukała, designer from Serious Sim Studio, about Radio Commander, a war simulation game set during the Vietnam War in which you must direct troops and strategize only by way of a radio.

Looking for a great competitive couch co-op rumbler? Boomerang Fu ma just be your jam. Edie and Nick speak with Julian Wilson of developer and publisher Cranky Watermelon about this winner-take-all food fighter that supports up to six (six!) players.

Nick and Edie talk with the development team from Egg Nut Studios about Backbone, a gorgeous noir gumshoe sidescroller adventure game where you play a raccoon detective in a world of anthropomorphic animals. Though is nearly two years out from release and from a group of talented professionals who have never worked in a game before, this title is absolutely one to watch.

Visually delicious pixel graphics with a tight story and dialogue, Backbone already feels far more polished than a game so far from finish date.

Nick and Edie recap the games scene and played at PAX West day two.