The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories wasn't 2018's best game, but it might've been 2018's darkest and most impactful game. Most everyone who spent time with Swery65's overlooked and underappreciated The Missing fo...

Cheeky scamp Suda51, well known for his stylistic and esoteric video games, rang in the new year with a little tease for his somewhat improv-conceived horror title Hotel Barcelona.Literally brainstormed during a livestream with IGN and fell...

There are basically two kinds of No More Heroes fans: people who love it and those who worship the first game that just sort of tolerate everything else. I'm in the first camp. The original game was a trendsetter that is yet to be repl...

[Update: The duo shared their ideas on an IGN Japan livestream, and the concept seems wild. Devolver Digital will publish the title, which is aiming for a million-dollar budget with inspirations from Twin Peaks and Siren. Keiichir...

Publisher Toybox has released a patch for the Nintendo Switch port of Swery's weird adventure game Deadly Premonition Origins. The fix hopes to take care of some frustrating sound issues that have plagued the port since its surprise release...

It was definitely one of the weirder reveals during last week's Direct, when Nintendo announced that the delightfully wonky mystery game Deadly Premonition was not only getting a sequel, but that the original 2010 release was re-releasing o...

Swery's next game, The Good Life, promises nocturnal feline and canine adventures. That town gets wild and adorable at nightfall. But, we'll have to wait a little longer for the sun to set. In a Kickstarter update, Swery reveals that The G...

According to Irish folklore, Samhain is the day on the calendar when doorways between the land of the living and the land of the dead and other regions of the supernatural open at their widest. Over time, the day morphed into what we now ca...

We aren't, all of us, brimming with confidence about ourselves, our choices, and the narrative we've written in our short time here on Earth. I've been here the best part of four decades and I can honestly tell you that I'm still not comple...

Next week sees the launch of The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories, the latest release from the out-there mind of designer Hidetaka Suehiro, better known to his fans as Swery.Arc System Works, who are publishing the weird an...

Hidetaka Suehiro is a very busy man. For the past several weeks, Suehiro, who we all know as Swery, has been flying across oceans promoting the first title from his White Owls studio. It’s called The Missing, though the official title...

I'm not exactly sure how much laughing is appropriate during the demo for The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories. The title, due out for PC and all major consoles this year, is the latest project from avant-garde game designe...

When Swery65's The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories was announced earlier this year, it left us kind of confused. When the first screenshots of the game debuted not too long ago, that confusion wasn't exactly cleared u...

We weren't sure what to make of The Missing, an upcoming action-adventure game from Swery's studio White Owls and publisher Arc System Works, but now it's starting to materialize. Key word: starting. A new teaser website has surfaced with t...

Whether you're familiar with Swery's new game The Good Life or you've never heard that name before, you ought to watch this story trailer. It is a strange thing of beauty and it cracked me the hell up. Deadly Premonition, D4: Dark Dreams Do...

Well, that's a relief. After trying his hand at crowdfunding The Good Life on Fig last year and coming up short, Swery brought his "debt repayment daily life RPG" to Kickstarter in March. The fund drive has been a marathon, not a sprint, an...

Hidetaka Suehiro, better known to his pals as "Swery", has released an image on his Instagram account showing a prototype build of his current project, The Good Life, running on Nintendo Switch.Swery is quick to make clear that this isn't n...

With nine days left and a few hundred thousand dollars remaining, The Good Life's Kickstarter campaign's success seems questionable. The project has all the quirks of a Swery-led project: an outlandish story, nutty characters, and if its pr...

With The Good Life's Kickstarter campaign still on-going, director Swery will be holding a Reddit AMA this Thursday to let fans get any questions in about the game. Running from 8:30 to 10:30 am PST, it won't be limited to just his upcoming...

The Good Life was an ambitious looking game helmed by Swery65 (of Deadly Premonition fame) that took to crowdfunding site Fig to get backing. It failed pretty damn hard and it seemed like the end was nigh. Swery then said he'd try again on ...

Alongside of the insightful interviews from Toshimichi Mori (Producer and BlazBlue series creator), and Daisuke Ishiwatari (Director and Designer) from this week's Arc System Works event, the Japan-based publisher threw an extra bit of...

Last fall, quirky game developer Hidetaka Suehiro, better known as Swery, launched his first Fig campaign to fund The Good Life, his first game since D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die. It did not go well. The campaign failed. I mean really fai...

Starting today, the cult classic Deadly Premonition will be playable on Xbox One. Microsoft's Larry Hryb took to Twitter earlier and announced that Swery65's bizarre send-up to Twin Peaks is available through the console's Backward Compatib...

[Update: Fig has sent us a reply to explain things from its perspective. A Fig representative says that the company advised as to the risks of such a high goal, but that Swery "unfortunately still decided to go for the $1.5 million." A...

When I interviewed Swery, director of Deadly Premonition and D4, at Tokyo Game Show he told me one last thing that I couldn't include in the interview. The big update I referred to was this: The Good Life will have a dog version. Inst...