New York City, January 4, 2018 – The New York Videogame Critics Circle will host the seventh annual New York Game Awards, honoring the top in video gaming on January 24 at Manhattan’s Abrons Playhouse. From best VR game to best indie game, and best game music to best remake, the New York Game Awards nominations all build up to the Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year, all to be announced at the awards ceremony, hosted by Emmy-Award winning writers from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. (via: nygamecritics.com)

What is Tower 57?

Here's Tower 57's launch trailer, with a cool, jazzy tune:

You can grab the game here:

Game features:

• Fast-paced Arcade Gameplay - shoot everything that moves and don’t get killed in the process.
  
• Unique Weapons and Characters - choose from a roster of six particular characters with different skillsets, number of upgradable weapons and gadgets.
  
• Cooperation - Tower 57's main campaign is designed for both, single player & local/online CO-OP.
  
• Dieselpunk World - times of randomly generated levels are gone - everything in Tower 57 is carefully designed and pixel-crafted with the highest attention to detail.
  
• Destructible Environment - everything, from debris and shell casings to bloody footprints, will mark your destructive trail through the Tower.
  
• LOTS of Enemies - and you'd better learn their vulnerabilities if you don't want to end up dead very quick.
  
• DINOSAURS! - yup, we have dinosaurs.

Here's the list of changes:

• Korean language is now available in game!
  
• by popular demand we've added option to skip dialogues with space bar
  
• we've added Steam Cloud support (Windows only for now)
  
• some minor bug fixes and polishes

• Note regarding Terrance mission could not be marked as complete in notebook;
  
• Misleading information about one of the endings (day 21);
  
• Minor visual tweaks in the notebook;
  
• Additional minor tweaks;

• Kelly being stuck in a dialogue
  
• Messy font size and shape in some areas
  
• Few missing translations in various languages
  
• Wrong task descriptions for few quest
  
• Porn quest blockers
  
• Shaking NPCs
  
• Missing car “blocking” the fire hydrant
  
• Other minor stability and quality fixes

• Day 16. Fix for a situation when congratulations from the crowd were happening before the heist.
  
• Day 21: New notes and comments better explaining story related tasks.
  
• Day 21: Fixing the notes appearing in the recap after day 21.
  
• Day 19: Notes about taxis now disappear after the quest is finished.
  
• Global: Police Squad taking care of the caught robber now appears faster
  
• Global: Game balance – day length tweaks. Some days are now a bit longer to lower the tempo.
  
• Global: Dozens of minor text translation updates.
  
• Global: Few new SFX added.
  
• Global: Old notes are now deleted from the notepad after a new game is started.
  
• Global: Beat Cat Mode can’t be turned on during cutscenes anymore
  
• Global: Minor notepad user layout improvements
  
• Global: A thief in a white shirt should now be properly described by the witnesses
  
• Global: Plenty of other minor fixes.
  

New update is here!

• Alien FX support added
  
• Logitech Gaming Software support added
  
• Restarting the game during the first cutscene does not cause a bug now
  
• Car searching minigame difficulty tweaked
  
• Fixing the always expired Parking Meters
  
• Minor GUI layout tweaks
  
• Dozens of lower priority bugfixes