Publisher AkSys Games is feeling the 1990s with the announcement of its brand new fighting title, Blazing Strike. Taking the genre back to its roots, Blazing Strike promises heavy-hitting, 2D, pixel-based throwdowns when it launches on PC a...

Aksys Games is one of the more unpredictable publishers to take part in the New Game+ Expo. You never know quite what you're going to get from it. Over the past few years, it's published everything from Little Dragon's Café to&n...

With no E3 this year, the gaming community has had to make do with a hodgepodge of different streams, surprise reveals, and sudden announcements that have kept the writing staff of Destructoid on its toes. Some shows have been worth the wai...

The summer of gaming streams is going full steam as we head toward the back half of June. There are still many big presentations to come, including shows from Ubisoft, EA, CD Projekt Red, and more. Of course, the one I'm most looking forwar...

With E3 calling in sick for 2020, developers and publishers around the world are scrambling to find ways to get the word out about their upcoming games. Some, like Ubisoft, are prepping their own individual events. Others, like Nintendo, se...

Blooming Japanese developer Mikage LLC has announced that it has signed with publisher Aksys Games to work on a mystery project for the upcoming PlayStation 5 platform, along with ports for PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch and VR.Mikage is the deve...

AkSys Games has announced a release date for Ghost Parade, a spooky-cute metroidvania adventure from Indonesian studio Lentara. Fittingly, this tale of a haunted woodland will arrive on PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch on October 31, Halloween.G...

AkSys Games has announced that culinary adventure game Little Dragons Cafe will be making its way to PC on November 15, following on from its release on PS4 and Nintendo Switch back in August this year.Little Dragons Cafe tells the sweet st...

Aksys Games has announced that they are donating $10,000 from the profits of adventure game Little Dragons Café to children's charity Extra Life."In Little Dragons Café, the twins are working with a ragtag group of friends to ...

If you're anything like me, you've noticed your life has an alarming dearth of charming, heartfelt games where intimate stories play out over the backdrop of a tiny cafe that you're in charge of running. Also, if you're anything like me, yo...

Very recently, a co-worker of mine passed away. His death was sudden. Though he struggled with his health in the past, he recovered and was looking forward to his retirement at the end of the year. I’ve only been at my current job for...

“Personally, I love fighting games, and shooters, and violent games in general.”  That wasn’t exactly what I thought I’d hear from Yasuhiro Wada when I asked him what types of games he enjoys playing. Friday aft...

Publishers PQube have announced that anime-up-the-ass fighting game Under Night In-Birth Late[st] will be launching in Europe and North America in February 2018, coming to PS4, PS3 and PS Vita.The niche but beloved fighting franchise will a...

This is a game that knows exactly what it is. Even the title doesn’t leave a hell of a lot to the imagination. You’ve got school girls, and you’ve got zombies. These high school ladies don’t appear to be too worried ...

I’ve never played any “sexy" Japanese games before, so School Girl/Zombie Hunter signifies the very first time that I’ve dipped my toes into the genre. Needless to say, these impressions, as well as the inevitable fol...

When Paranormal Activity became an international blockbuster it ushered in a highly profitable era of B horror films. Since then cineplexes have been inundated with cheaply produced, easily marketable and quickly forgotten horror films. Blu...

Corpse-killing blast-a-thon School Girl / Zombie Hunter, which was released for the PS4 in Japan last January, will be resurrected in the United States on November 17, courtesy of Aksys Games.The "Zombie Panic shooting Action" title sees fi...

Set in the Onechanbara universe, School Girl/Zombie Hunter is exactly what its name says it is: a game where you hunt zombies as a school girl. It's got sexual aspects that are more amusing than they are arousing, such as having a...

The Vita is still kicking and so are the anime girl transformers, Drive Girls. However, while the game was originally slated for an August 11 release in the United States, it has been pushed back nearly a month and will now release on Sept...

Yep, just next month on August 11, 2017 North Americans will be able to purchase a copy of Drive Girls without any filthy U's in words like color., announced at Anime Expo 2017. If you already imported a European copy since its release on ...

Is it weird I'm not surprised School Girl/Zombie Hunter is coming to North America late 2017? To be honest I thought it already did, but then the announcement at the Anime Expo in LA reminded me that oh yeah these sorts of things don't...

Following the conga line of localization news, Aksys Games announced during Anime Expo 2017 that the PlayStation 4 version of Zero Time Dilemma will launch in North America on August 18.  The game will launch on August 17, In Japan, bu...

In 1980, while dancing around what can only be described as the second gayest roller rink ever caught on film, Kira – aka Terpsichore, aka one of the nine Muses, aka the goddess of dance and music – sang of a place nobody dared ...

When Aksys games had announced the Nonary Games compilation for PS4, PC and Vita, I wondered why they left out the final game in the trilogy, Zero Time Dilemma. While it made sense on Vita and PC (seeing as how the third game was already av...

I have been in love with the Zero Escape series since former Destructoid editor Tony Ponce reviewed the first game in the franchise, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, seven years ago. He gave it a well deserved 10/10 and after reading t...