paxwest2019

We're rested and recovered from PAX West 2019, and we're ready to get our talk on. Nick and Edie review our best (and worst) of what we saw and played in Seattle last week.

Edie and Nick talk monster Hunter World Iceborne, Predator: Hunting Grounds, Phantom Brigade, Psychonauts 2, and the rest of the games we touched on our final day of PAX.

Finally! A digital DnD campaign game that feels like playing a real campaign! We got some time with Lennon Lange of Reverb Communications and spokesperson for Solasta: The Crown of the Magister to talk about how this game was designed to keep the spirit of DnD while playing solo and about the Kickstarter that will allow it to expand past its already-promising base game.

Nick talks to Ryan Clark, CEO of Brace Yourself Games, about the turn-based mech action game Phantom Brigade.

Edie and Nick get some hands-in time with Cosmoteer, spaceship construction and battle simulator. Think Sim City, if your cities were in space and could battle each other. They speak with designer Walt Destler of Walternate Realities about the title, due out in 2020 but with a pre-alpha build on Steam now.

Nick talks to Michael Daubert, CEO of Phaser Lock Interactive, about the VR RTS game Final Assault.

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!

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.

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

Early leader for Edie’s PAX GOTY. Edie and Nick speak with Rodrigue Duperron of developer Thunder Lotus about Spiritfarer, a death management game that leaves you feeling surprisingly joyful. Bringing gorgeous graphics, silky animations, and charm up to its eyeballs, Spiritfarer is due out late 2020.

We’ve been mispronouncing it all wrong! Edie and Nick get schooled by Douglas Wilson of developer Die Gute Fabrik about the right way to say it (myu-TAZ-eee-oh-nay) and gives details on this musical story game about a young girl finding family on an island of friendly mutants. Due out in late September.

Edie and Nick talk to Chris Jarvis, developer from Cinq-Mars Media about The Devil’s Calculator, a highly addictive mobile math-puzzle game and the non-profit studio (yep, the developer is NON-PROFIT!) that’s creating a host of educational games for good.

We pulled out of the floor for our our impressions on Death Stranding and Borderlands 3.