Taking players to an alternate 1984 filled with secrets, betrayal and deception, the game will follow Daniel McGovern, an agent working for the omnipresent Leviathan Corporation in East Germany.

A post-apocalyptic action-RPG that takes place in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, the game will have you step into the boots of a parallel world-hopping planewalker trying to survive the nightmarish dangers of the Zone after it’s been altered by the mysterious, high-energy material known as Chernobylite.

And while the main meat of the game does involve mopping up bloodstained floors and cleaning up a multitude of messy rooms at the behest of the mob, the single father protagonist of Crime Scene Cleaner is doing all this shady work for a good reason – to help with his severely ill daughter’s medical costs.

Set in a land where the gods and their people have mysteriously vanished, players will follow the journey of Juno, the Chosen Outcast, as she attempts to rebuild the world and bring back all that was lost.

In it, players will take on the role of seasoned paranormal investigator Alan Rebels as he takes on a case that promises to be something different – this time, you see, Alan travels to the mysterious island of GodStone in search of his missing father.

Inspired by Studio Ghibli films, Slavic folklore and medieval Europe, Scarlet Deer Inn will have you follow the adventures of Elise, a mother of two who, despite being a completely ordinary person, will end up experiencing situations both unusual and potentially terrifying.

No new release date has been set for the Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth developer’s latest project, but needless to say, the delay has been announced for a good – and fairly obvious – reason: the game needs further polishing and quality improvements.

Arriving later this summer – on August 2 – as a free update to everyone who already owns the base game on PC or Switch, the Definitive Edition is going to include a so-called endless embalming mode that does exactly what it says on the tin: it lets you embalm an unlimited amount of bodies.

Taking place in a world being invaded by The Meat, a hostile biomass of flesh that devours anything and everything in its path, the game will have you take up arms and – hopefully – blast this intergalactic threat off the face of the galaxy.

Taking place in a dying, abandoned world enveloped by fleshy abominations, the game will have you discover fragments of your own troubled past while trying to avoid the nightmarish monstrosities that haunt the pitch-dark landscapes surrounding you.

That’s a surprising title, I know, but hear me out – what if the giraffe at the local zoo mutated into a nightmarish spider creature? I know, right?

Very clearly inspired by survival horror greats such as the earlier Silent Hill and Resident Evil installments, the game introduces an interesting twist with its setting: it takes place in 1916, during the First World War, and stars a lone French soldier in search of his brother.

Now, you may be wondering what I meant by “deflection-focused”, so let’s go over that real quick: Deviator will have you traverse many diverse landscapes and tackle countless dangerous foes, but the way to victory isn’t necessarily through endless button mashing – instead, you’ll want to avoid getting hit and skillfully parry/deflect all your enemies’ attacks.

Taking place in the vibrant, bio-magical world of Nauris, inspired by Avatar and Stranger Things, the story will have you explore the inherent darkness of this otherworldly universe as you peer into its madness-infested depths from the parallel viewpoints of multiple characters.

NIGHTMARE OPERATOR takes place in the ruins of Tokyo (in 2036, to be precise) as it’s being haunted by eldritch monstrosities, that is, youkai inspired by urban legends and Japanese folklore.

Set years after the events of INDUSTRIA, the sequel will follow the adventures of Nora, a scientist from East Berlin, 1989, who ended up stuck in a parallel dimension while trying to find her missing colleague.

Taking place on the now-abandoned tourist paradise of the titular Dimhaven, the game will follow protagonist Emily Ravenstone on her journey of discovery as she attempts to unravel the mysteries behind the scenic island’s fate – while also trying to find her missing uncle.

It’s a point we have to make far more often than we should: trademark law is not designed to allow anyone or any company to simply lock up common language as their own. There are lots of ways the confusion around that expresses itself, but one of the most common concerns generic terms for goods and services. Yes, you can trademark Coca-Cola. No, you cannot trademark “soda.” Yes, you can trademark “Apple” for computers. No, you cannot trademark “apples” for your apple-farming company. See? Not too hard!

For us, at least. For the folks at Snap, however, the point seems to elude them. Snap has a line of augmented reality glasses and has unhelpfully decided to name the product “Spectacles.” When Snap applied for a trademark on the name of the product, the USPTO managed to actually get it right and denied the application over the generic nature of the term.

But rather than slinking away with a sly smile at the failed attempt to get one over on the USPTO, Snap has now sued the USPTO instead.

The USPTO rejected Snap’s trademark application for the name in 2020, finding it trademark-ineligible because it was either generic or descriptive. A USPTO tribunal affirmed the decision later that year. Snap asked the California court in 2022 to force the USPTO to grant the trademark, and said that potential buyers think of “Spectacles” as a Snap brand instead of a generic term for smart glasses.

The USPTO asked the court last year to grant it a win without a trial.

And the court just recently denied the USPTO’s request and is allowing the trial to move forward. Why? I have no real idea. The U.S. Magistrate Judge cited “competing evidence” that needed to be sorted out in an actual trial, but I truly can’t understand what in the world that competing evidence would be. The only specifics in the judge’s order reference surveys and expert testimony as to whether the public associates the term “spectacles” with glasses in general, or with Snap’s product. And I suspect the court is allowing this to go to trial mostly as a procedural result, since the burden at this stage would be on the USPTO to demonstrate that the evidence in the case is one-sided to get a judgement without trial.

And the judge apparently thinks it’s not one-sided enough. So now this goes to trial, where one would hope it ultimately becomes a win for the USPTO.