MINTROCKET announces top-down team battle action game Wakerunners for PC

Publisher TBS Games and developer Three Rings have announced I am Adventure Boy: Ultimate Escape Island for Switch. It will launch in March in Japan.

Dungeonborne is an upcoming first person PvPvE dungeon crawler developed in Unreal Engine 5 that thrusts players into a dark fantasy world, where you get to feel every sword swing as you slay monsters with might and magics. Dungeonborne combines dungeon crawling with the realms of extraction and battle royale gameplay to spice things up and create a unique spin on the genre.

The first month of 2024 isn’t over yet, but it’s already been a brutal year for the games industry, with thousands of people having lost their jobs in a barrage of industry-wide layoffs. Microsoft recently added a significant chunk to that number when it announced that it would be cutting 1,900 jobs across its entire gaming division, and it seems those layoffs are also going to come at the cost of the company’s physical distribution.

Bleach: Brave Souls developer KLab and Palworld developer Pocket Pair will jointly develop and operate a hybrid-casual game for smartphone, the companies announced.

As part of major changes to Apple’s App Store policies to comply with EU regulations, the company has also announced that game streaming apps are now to be accepted on the App Store for the first time. This opens the door for Xbox Game Pass, GeForce Now, PlayStation Plus, Amazon Luna and other game streaming subscriptions to have dedicated apps on iPhone and iPad – they were previously only accessible via built-in web browsers.

According to a new leak, classic PlayStation 4 exclusive horror game Until Dawn could be making its way to PC and PS5. Until Dawn was developed by Supermassive Games and first released in 2015. Mixing classic survival-horror gameplay with an interactive movie set-up, Until Dawn put a huge emphasis on player choice. Depending on one's actions, all the main characters could survive the ordeal, or they could get killed off in gruesome ways.

Mintrocket, the studio behind Dave the Diver, has announced its newest project, a sci-fi MOBA called Wakerunners.

“Parry-and-buddy action” game Parry Nightmare will launch for PC via Steam on March 1, publisher Phoenixx and developer KAUKAKU GAMES announced.

Wakerunners is a brand new fast paced top down team PvP game, featuring 4v4 and 5v5 matches coming from developer Mintrocket. The game was previously under the name Project TB. The game is set in a post apocalyptic Earth where different factions face off against each other in arenas. The trailer shows some of the gameplay with characters moving quickly around the arena, and getting into close quarter combat.

Wakerunners is the next game from Mintrocket, the studio behind Dave the Diver.

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Thunderful Group has announced a restructuring programme to decrease costs, which will include both "significant staff reductions" and potential divestments, the company said.