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

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, 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 ''

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'' 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 action-RPG '' The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing'' 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 Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing'', 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 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