Play Your Cards Right And Build Bustling Settlements In Kingdoms Reborn

When Kingdoms Reborn washed ashore on Steam last November, it didn’t look like an Early Access title. The medieval city builder by Thai-studio Earthshine evokes a production value unheard of for many games still in early development. The feature list is already quite expansive and shows interesting additions to shake up the genre’s usual gameplay. We’ve taken a thorough look at the game’s current state and what to expect from it in the future.

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Abusive Working Conditions Reported At Malaysian & Indonesian Outsourcing Studios

“Crunch” or “crunch culture” describes a form of work culture in companies which relies on the massive use of (mostly unpaid) overtime during a period of several months to achieve the company’s goals. Employees often also work late into the night or the early hours of the morning and at weekends. Psychological pressure, unrealistic deadlines, or false promises are considered cultural practices, which can lead to burnout and other symptoms among employees in combination with emotional and physical stress.

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Uncover The Mystery And Escape From Desolation In Shadows: Cradle Island

Ever since the rise of independent developers, 2D games have been resurrected to their former glory and beyond. Previously synonymous with platforming games, 2D mediums have been used in a wider variety of genres lately, including horror. Games like Limbo, Inside, Detention, and Lone Survivor have proven that 2D games can be terrifying too. Now, Philippines-based studio Colideas Games tries to take on the genre with their debut game Shadows: Cradle Island.

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Labyrinth Of Legendary Loot Is A Maze To Die For

The most exciting thing about Labyrinth of Legendary Loot, a roguelike dungeon crawler from Dominaxis Games, is how agile the gameplay feels despite being turn-based. You’ll be zipping around, fire and poison spewing from your hands as arrows and energy waves and on the tile you were just at, before finally sticking your Brutal Axe into the skull of the wizard who’s been hiding behind a wall of spiders and bears since you entered the room. It feels fast (despite being, you know, turn-based), it feels intuitive, and like all the best roguelikes, RNG granting you an absolutely busted combination of loot feels amazing.

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Prepare To Be Amusingly Shocked In Gloom And Doom

“You can run, but you can’t hide” is probably good advice when you meet a wraith. Instead, how about if you befriend it by asking it to play video games together? Meet Gloom, an ex-angel who turned into a lone ghost living alone in an abandoned house. He has only two friends in the beginning, one of them is 2D games from retro console “Sega Genesis” and the other one is a human who claims himself as a time-shaman. On the other side, meet Wynona, an ordinary high-school girl who may look like a harmless teenager but is destined to be the “Doom Bringer,” *insert evil laugh here*. Thus, their fateful meeting is about to start.

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Is ‘I Am Hero’ The Next Global Mobile Hit From Vietnam?

In January 2021, US publisher N3TWORK announced the addition of AutoChess mobile game “I Am Hero” to their user acquisition program called Scale. This can only mean that the Vietnamese studio Imba Games is targeting the global market with their latest title.

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