Tag: Skybound Games
Review Before Your Eyes (PSVR2) - Eye Tracked Tearjerker Will Move You
Blink and you'll miss it
There will be no dry PSVR2 headsets among those who choose to try Before Your Eyes. This truly unique 90 minute narrative experience asks you to set aside your DualSense, and relies on the headset’s eye tracking as its primary form of engagement. Rather than using the controller, you’ll instead blink to interact with...
News WrestleQuest Splits Sides and Cracks Skulls in Over-the-Top Turn-Based Gameplay
No notes, perfection
We got another peek at the immaculate WrestleQuest, this time courtesy of IGN Fan Fest 2023, and saw the humour, pixel aesthetic and tactical turn-based combat that makes this title so intriguing on display. Look forward to diving off the top rope onto this one in May, 2023, on PS5 and PS4. While it could easily ride on the...
News Go Down Memory Lane in the Award-Winning Before Your Eyes on PSVR2
Control things with your eyes
After winning multiple awards on other platforms, Before Your Eyes has been announced as a new PSVR2 game releasing during the headset's launch window. To be precise, it'll be available from 10th March 2023. An emotional journey that reflects on memories both good and bad, it's said to be a heartfelt tale as "your whole...
News Wrestling RPG WrestleQuest Brings the Smackdown to PS5, PS4 in May 2023
Nice one, brother
Turn-based wrestling RPG WrestleQuest has finally been given a release window, and you can plan your pile drivers accordingly. Despite the Switch focus in the trailer above, this outrageous adventure has also been confirmed for release on PS5 and PS4 and will launch in May 2023. Featuring the likes of legendary wrestlers such as...
News Pro Wrestling Grapples with Turn-Based RPGs in WrestleQuest on PS5, PS4
New trailer highlights combat
WrestleQuest looks to be an entirely different take on the world of pro wrestling. This upcoming title from developer Mega Cat Studios is like a traditional RPG, but it swaps out monsters, armour, and swords for wrestlers, colourful outfits, and folding chairs. You play a classic zero to hero role, starting as a rookie...
News Escape Academy Brings the Escape Room Experience to PS5, PS4 on 28th June
Get your puzzle diploma
The concept of an escape room is already very video game-like, so it's no wonder one studio spotted the potential to bring that popular experience to the living room. Escape Academy is being developed by Coin Crew Games, a small team that comes from a background of creating real-life escape rooms. Putting you in the shoes of...
News Cartoonish Co-Op Shooter Glitch Busters: Stuck On You Looks Like Magnetic Fun
Coming to PS4 later this year
This looks like a breath of fresh air. Glitch Busters: Stuck On You might not have the most eye-catching name, but as you can see in the reveal trailer, this co-op shooter certainly has style, and it looks like it's trying some interesting new things, too. You and up to three others control little characters that are...
News Escape Academy Captures the Puzzling Co-Op Fun of Escape Rooms on PS5, PS4
Get outta there
Escape rooms are popular the world over, and while there are one or two similar video game experiences, Escape Academy seems like the first one inspired by the real-world puzzles. This new game from iam8bit Presents (the company's brand new publishing label), Skybound Games, and Coin Crew Games is all about solving environmental...
Review Baldurs Gate: Enhanced Edition Pack - Old School RPGs Have Still Got It
Baldur's Great
After being stranded on PC along with Minesweeper and PowerPoint for the best part of two decades, classic role-playing game Baldur's Gate is finally heading to PlayStation so it can be played while you're sat on your couch in your pyjamas, controller in hand, just like God intended. A young orphan who witnesses the death of their...
News The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Patch 1.02 Fixes Game-Breaking Bug
Back from the dead
Update (12th September 2019): Skybound Games has released a patch, taking the game to version 1.02. This new update fixes the issue, so you should now be able to get stuck into the action. Phew! Original Story: You'd be forgiven for letting this release slip your mind (we did), but Skybound Games
News The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Brings Everything Together This September
All seasons in one package, plus more
Just when you thought it was safe to take the wooden boards off the windows, The Walking Dead has risen from its grave once again. This time, Skybound Games is bringing the entire episodic adventure together. The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series puts all four seasons and associated DLC in one box, so...
Be seein' you, Sweetpea
Telltale’s horrific and very public implosion spelled disaster for the end of Clementine’s story. Halfway through the Final Season of The Walking Dead, we all got to witness the plug be unceremoniously pulled, only to have publisher Skybound swoop in and essentially rehire the entire Telltale team working on the final...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season's Last Episode Gets an Emotional New Trailer
Take Us Back
The grand finale of The Walking Dead: The Final Season is right around the corner. Episode 4 releases on 26th March, and to mark the occasion, a new trailer has been released, showing off the cast of characters as they struggle against an encroaching horde of zombies. It's all set to a sombre lullaby, of course. It'll be interesting to...
Blasts from the past
Well this is a news article that we never saw coming. Today, Skybound Games and Beamdog have announced that they're teaming up to publish a bunch of old school role-playing games on PS4 in 2019. The list includes Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season Concludes on 26th March
Physical edition slumping into stores
Considering there was a time when Clementine’s story wasn’t going to be concluded at all, it’s good to know that The Walking Dead: The Final Season will wrap up on 26th March, with the release of Episode 4: Take Us Back. Publisher Skybound Games – who picked up the project from the now-defunct Telltale...
News Episode 4 of The Walking Dead: The Final Season Releases at the End of March
Release date spotted in-game
The third episode of The Walking Dead's turbulent last season has finally arrived. This chapter, produced by Skybound Games after the sudden breakdown of Telltale Games, took some time to launch, with nearly a four month wait since Episode 2 released. Still, it's good that the game is back on track. What's more, it...
News The Walking Dead: Final Season Makes Miraculous Return Next Week
Broken toys
Telltale’s collapse was dramatic, fast, and put the final episodes of Clementine’s story in peril. Amazingly, though, The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s third episode, Broken Toys, will debut on 15th January – courtesy of Skybound Games. The fact that this is launching at all is a miracle, so count your blessings if you wanted...
News The Walking Dead Final Season Continues with Episode 3 in January 2019
Broken Toys
The final season of The Walking Dead has been in trouble since the dramatic shutdown of Telltale Games earlier in the year. Fortunately, the rest of the episodes will be released, as many of the original developers have joined forces with Skybound Ga
Original development team hopefully to be kept in tact
After rumours surfaced earlier in the week of the possibility of a new company stepping in and finishing up work on Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season, it has now been confirmed by Robert Kirkman, co-creator of The Walking Dead, that his team at Skybound Games will finish the project...
News Indie Metroidvania Hollow Knight Burrows Its Way to PS4 with Physical Edition
Launches next year
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have heard about Hollow Knight, Team Cherry's debut game that's been championed since its initial PC release last year. There has been a big fat question mark over whether the game would eventually make its way to PS4, and fortunately, it's bagged a physical version launching in...
