NeocoreGames is a Hungarian

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that focuses on creating and publishing

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s. The company has their own development studio that is headquartered in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, and the video games developed at NeocoreGames are created using their custom-built

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named Coretech. The company is best known for their '' King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame'' series.

History

NeocoreGames was founded in 2005 and began working as a small game development studio.NeocoreGames Developer Blog
/ref> The studio is known for their work in the

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genre exemplified by their '' King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame'' series. The sequel, '' King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame'', was developed using Coretech 2, NeocoreGames's new

. In 2012 with the announcement of the

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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing ''The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing'' is an action role-playing video game developed and published by NeocoreGames. It was released on 22 May 2013. Based on the novel '' Dracula'' by Bram Stoker, the game focuses on the trials of young Va ...

'' and the party-based

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''Broken Sea'', NeocoreGames has returned to

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.Broken Sea Announced at E3
/ref> In May 2012 the company announced the development of a role-playing game based on Bram Stoker's ''

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''. Titled ''

'', the game follows

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's son as he travels to the eastern-European kingdom of Borgovia to slay the monsters that are overrunning the land. The game was to be the start of a new

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for NeocoreGames. In June 2012 at the

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, NeocoreGames announced a second new game they were developing: ''Broken Sea'' is a fantasy

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developed for the PC. In August 2014, NeocoreGames announced their first

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game, titled '' Deathtrap''. In February 2017, NeocoreGames launched the Founding for their upcoming Action-RPG titled ''Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr.''

Games developed

References

External links

{{Commons category, NeocoreGames
NeocoreGames Official website
Video game companies established in 2005 Video game development companies Video game companies of Hungary Companies based in Budapest Hungarian companies established in 2005