August 2021

Fire Emblem Switch Fans, Here's Your Next Tactics RPG Obsession

2 years 6 months ago

When I saw Dark Deity pop up during the ceaseless outpouring of Gamescom streams, I wrote it off as a competent-looking if somewhat uninspired turn-based RPG. Well, here’s a cool thing I learned today: Dark Deity is actually a tactics game. And based on the latest trailers, it looks perfect for the Switch. See for…

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Ari Notis

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Tactical Shooter Nine To Five Heads To PC Early Access

2 years 6 months ago

Redhill Games’ Nine To Five is now available on Steam Early Access if you’re looking to try out the tactical shooter that shakes up the formula with small, scrappy team fights. If you’re looking for something that feels a lot like the common core of Counterstrike but with smaller teams, more teams in each match, and considerably more intel available before taking action, Nine To Five might be one to take a look at. 

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Instead of the popular 5v5 or 6v6 formats that make up the standard in most shooter maps, Nine To Five centers on 3v3v3 gameplay, meaning if you’re the last left alive on a team, you can make a quick exit and hope the other two teams tear each other to pieces, leaving you to clean house on a final target. Of course, everything is objective-based, so securing the position fast and taking a critical point can mean a quick win, while the opponents hope that you get into a skirmish first before acting. Decisions, decisions!

Gun modding is a huge part of Nine To Five, and you can tweak the dials on damage, accuracy, range, and a host of other numbers on weapons, letting you play around with bizarre and powerful takes on the core weapons you expect in a tactical shooter. Shotguns, automatic rifles, sniper rifles, and the rest of the standard fare are all available for tweaking and tuning.

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Daniel Tack

Ghostrunner’s Neon Pack Adds Assist Options And Roguelike Wave Mode

2 years 6 months ago

Ghostrunner is a thrilling but brutally difficult action platformer that requires pixel-perfect timing and quick reflexes to survive. Thankfully, things will be a bit easier for those who want to enjoy the ride with a lower skill ceiling, thanks to the arrival of the Neon Pack DLC. The new content bundle, which is available to purchase now for $4.49, adds flashy new swords and two additional gameplay modes, one of which adds some handy assist options to make your ninja parkour adventure less maddening. 

Assist Mode adds handy accessibility options such as shorter cooldown times for special skills, the ability to take one extra hit before dying, and, perhaps the biggest boon, gameplay slowdown. This option decreases the speed of the action by two degrees, “slow” or “slower.” This allows players who have trouble keeping up with Ghostrunner due to physical disability, age, or otherwise to engage with the game at a pace better suited to them.

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For hardcore players, the roguelike Wave Mode pits them against 20 randomized waves of increasingly challenging enemies. With every wave you complete, you’ll unlock another upgrade to equip to help keep you in the fight. A special prize awaits anyone who can slice their way through all 20 waves. 

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Marcus Stewart

Hearthstone Unveils New Mercenaries Mode

2 years 6 months ago

We first heard about Mercenaries all the way back in February, but today Blizzard has taken a much deeper dive into specifics about the upcoming Hearthstone mode. Mercenaries is essentially a different game but located within the Hearthstone client and universe, living separately in the same space – similar to how the auto battler Battlegrounds shares space with the core digital collectible card game. Hearthstone Mercenaries arrives on October 12.

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Daniel Tack

Dead Space Early Build Shows Better Lighting, VFX, And Alien Dismemberment

2 years 6 months ago

I remember playing Dead Space when it dropped in 2008 and putting my playthrough on pause multiple times because of crippling fear. Necromorph gurgling and low-frequency vespers would fill my ears even when walking down an unoccupied hallway. That level of dread is hard to match and even harder to recreate. And yet Dead Space is back in the spotlight once again. Motive Studios is helming the remake and showcased an early build during today’s livestream event: better lighting, new VFX, and updated necromorph dismemberment technology. 

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Jason Guisao

Windows 11 With Gaming Enhancements Launches October 5

2 years 6 months ago

PC users are no longer left wondering when the next big Windows platform is going to launch. Confirmed today in a blog post, Microsoft will be releasing Windows 11 on October 5. New computers loaded with the redesigned operating system will be released on that day as well, though a free update to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to existing Windows 10 users starting on launch day. But getting your upgrade could take a while.

Microsoft is looking to their last big OS release for guidance on this rollout for existing devices. “The free upgrade to Windows 11 starts on October 5 and will be phased and measured with a focus on quality. Following the tremendous learnings from Windows 10, we want to make sure we’re providing you with the best possible experience,” says Aaron Woodman in his post on the Windows blog. Newer products running Windows 10 will be prioritized, as they are more likely to hit the preferred specifications, which won't be a stretch for recently purchased computers. 

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John Carson

Dead Space's remake stream invited viewers inside the "dismemberment gym"

2 years 6 months ago

Tonight's Dead Space remake stream made clear ahead of time that what EA Motive would be showing wasn't polished gameplay, but "an early prototype." And so it was. But if you're interested in where EA are taking the survival horror series, it's still worth a watch - particularly once they started showing the "dismemberment gym."

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Graham Smith

The Big Con review: a rags to riches coming of age tale

2 years 6 months ago

If Hypnospace Outlaw was the perfect distillation of 90s internet culture, then Mighty Yell's debut game The Big Con is a similarly concentrated dose of 90s pop culture. Pastel swirls, bum bags and rad catch phrases abound in this coming of age thrift adventure, in which teenager Ali must loot her way across America to save her mum's video rental store from debt collectors. With just a fistful of dollars to her name at the start of her four-odd hour road trip, Ali will need to bag 97,000 of them by the end of it to come home victorious, and she'll do it via that most tried and tested of video game tropes: the swing meter mini-game.

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Katharine Castle

Square Enix JRPG Gate of Nightmares by Fairy Tail Creator Gets New Trailers Showing Merle & Oliver

2 years 6 months ago

Square Enix released two new trailers of Gate of Nightmares, a new mobile JRPG that carries the name of Hiro Hiro Mashima.

The trailers showcase two of the main characters of the game, Merle and Oliver. We get to see their gameplay and attack animations.

These follow the release of recent trailers for Azel and Emma.

You can check them out below.

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Giuseppe Nelva

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Gods Will Fall Valley of the Dormant Gods DLC 3 Brings the Chaos

2 years 6 months ago

Clever Beans has just revealed the brand new trailer for their third and final challenge for Valley of the Dormant Gods DLC in Gods Will Fall.

In this DLC, Anord Rith, the greatworm God of Chaos, arrives. This ancient beast is made up of three monstrous greatworm, bringing multi-pronged attacks and plenty of unpredictability to the battle in Gods Will Fall. Alongside the new enemy and realm, the third update adds three new items and three new skills.

For anyone who has never played Gods Will Fall, here is an official description of the game, taken from the PlayStation store.

You Are The Last Hope For Humanity
The gods’ torturous rule over humanity has lasted for millennia. Bent on cruelty and suffering, they demand to be served with blind worship through an oath of fealty pledged from every man, woman and child. To those who don’t submit to the gods’ will; a slow and merciless death awaits.

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Andrew McMahon

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AI Gives Street Fighter Characters Human Faces

2 years 6 months ago

While Street Fighter V’s character roster is (mostly) supposed to look human, the game has never attempted anything like photorealism, instead opting for a cartoonish look. Let’s imagine just for a moment, though, that Capcom was trying to make everyone look real.

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Luke Plunkett

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Deathloop Touches On Immersive Features In New Trailer

2 years 6 months ago

As we move into the current generation, new features have come into focus that help make games more immersive. Deathloop, slated to arrive on September 14, boasts a number of these aspects. To take advantage of these features requires new hardware, and sadly multiple factors have gone into making current-gen systems difficult to acquire, something that could hopefully be rectified as we head into the next year. That said, a new trailer for Deathloop shows off some of the perks of playing games in this era. Oh, you should also check out our guide to everything Deathloop right here. Why keep talking about it? You can check out the trailer below!

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Daniel Tack

It's 2021 And VVVVVV Is Still Getting Updates

2 years 6 months ago

Yes. You read the headline right. Terry Cavanaugh’s 2010 game VVVVVV has received a new update in 2021. It’s been over seven years since the game saw a patch, so why now?

Early last year, Cavanaugh made the source code for VVVVVV public and let people mess around with the game. As a result of opening up the game, update 2.3 features many changes, all of which are linked in Cavanaugh’s blog about the release. While this is an official release for the game, its creator didn’t do most of the work on the newest version but was the gatekeeper for what made it in.

“I’ve personally added very, very little to this update – which is something that I feel maybe a little anxious about! But I’ve been very careful to make sure that every change is something I was happy with, and that none of the changes to the game were doing anything other than making this the best version of the 2010 game,” said Cavanaugh about the project.

While there are a bunch of changes to the game, here’s what stands out to Cavanaugh as key changes:

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John Carson

Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Heads To PC

2 years 6 months ago

Have you ever wanted to play Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town but didn’t have a Switch? On September 15, you’re in luck, as the farming simulation game is headed to Steam on PC. If you can’t get enough of planting crops and taking care of adorable cow-looking things (that may or may not actually be cows), then Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town might satiate that farming desire.

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Daniel Tack

Chinese mega hit Tale Of Immortal now has an English language version

2 years 6 months ago

It's always exciting to me when a Chinese game suddenly becomes popular on Steam. It creates the sensation of having my face pressed against a window, staring at a potentially delicious buffet on the other side which I'm not able to eat.

That's how it was with Tale Of Immortal, a seemingly vast open-world, 2D action RPG which, overnight, seemed to have 90,000 positive Steam reviews after it launched back in January. Well, now the buffet window has been smashed, and Tale Of Immortal just added an English version.

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Graham Smith

Colony builder Surviving Mars gets underground-focused expansion next week

2 years 6 months ago

Paradox Interactive's colony builder Surviving Mars, which officially resumed development earlier this year under the watchful eye of Abstraction Games, is getting a brand-new "premium" expansion, titled Below and Beyond, next Tuesday 7th September.

Surviving Mars - which challenges players to rejuvenate the wastes of the red planet, transforming it into a thriving colony of shimmering domes - was well-received when it launched in 2018. A selection of DLC followed, but Below and Beyond will be the game's first major expansion since 2019's Green Planet. A free tourism update released earlier this year.

Below and Beyond, as its name implies, takes the colony builder to new locales, going below Mars' surface and beyond its horizon so that players may turn their attention to building underground bases, mining asteroids, and gathering rare resources.

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Matt Wales

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Metal Gear Solid V’s Servers to Go Offline Early Next Year

2 years 6 months ago

It’s been a good number of years since the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. The game was fairly controversial, especially in regards to its ending, but it still cultivated a pretty strong following and player base. The online components were unique, allowing players to work together to disarm nukes and aim for true peace.

However, it looks like Konami’s finally ready to pull the plug on those online services. On March 1, 2022, the game will be pulled from all digital storefronts. Then, on May 31, the servers will go offline. In addition to that, in-game purchases and microtransactions have already been disabled.

The game will still be playable offline, of course, and it’s still very much an enjoyable experience as a solo adventure. Metal Gear Solid V is now available on PC and consoles.

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Zhiqing Wan

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No Time to Die’s Final Trailer Promises a Grand Finale for Daniel Craig’s James Bond

2 years 6 months ago

After a series of delays and tons of rumors swirling around its release date, it looks like No Time to Die really is set to premiere this October. A final movie trailer has just been released, and you can check it out for yourself down below:

Starring Daniel Craig in the leading role, the trailer opens with a quick recap of iconic moments from the past few movies that Craig’s been in, chronicling his journey as the famous secret agent. We also get a glimpse of the rest of the cast, including Rami Malek (who’s appeared in Mr Robot, and of course, Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn), who seems primed to play the main villain this time around.

No Time to Die will mark the end of Craig’s stint as 007, before we move on to the next era and get a new James Bond. The movie is set to debut in theaters on Oct. 8.

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Zhiqing Wan

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Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town Coming to Steam this Month

2 years 6 months ago

Pioneers of Olive Town is the latest entry in the Story of Seasons franchise, and it was released for the Nintendo Switch earlier this year. XSEED has just announced that the game will be getting ported over to PC via Steam later this month, giving even more people an opportunity to check it out if they haven’t already.

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Zhiqing Wan

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Genshin Impact Celebrates the Coming of the Raiden Shogun With Extensive Gameplay Trailer

2 years 6 months ago

With the release of version 2.1 of Genshin Impact, MiHoYo launched a new trailer introducing one of the new characters coming today.

We get another look at the Raiden Shogun, this time around including an extensive look at her gameplay following the previous trailer and the second.

You can check her out below in both the English and Japanese trailers depending on your language preference.

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Giuseppe Nelva

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Spiritfarer’s Free Update Adds New Spirit Beverly, Buildings, and Quality of Life Improvements

2 years 6 months ago

Spiritfarer was one of our surprise indie hits of last year, providing players with the opportunity to ferry various spirit animals across the ocean as they get ready to pass away. It sounds morbid, but it’s actually a rather heartwarming and chill game that’s great for relaxing to.

Developing studio Thunder Lotus Games is releasing a new free update that adds even more content to the game, if you still can’t get enough of this world. Titled the Beverly update, you can check out the features trailer down below:

This update adds a new spirit named Beverly, as well as various new buildings you can construct on your boat. This should help to add to the game’s overall longevity, and Thunder Lotus also promises various quality of life improvements that should help to improve the gameplay experience, too.

Spiritfarer is now available on PC and consoles, and the update is now available for download.

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Zhiqing Wan

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Demon Gaze Extra Announced for the West for PS4 & Nintendo Switch

2 years 6 months ago

Today Clouded Leopard Entertainment announced that it will release Kadokawa Games’ Demon Gaze Extra in North America, Europe, and Asia (excluding Japan).

This release will come for PS4 and Nintendo Switch on December 9, 2021, and it’ll include Japanese and English audio with English, Korean, and Chinese subtitles.

The alliance between Kadokawa Games and Clouded Leopard Entertainment seems to be going strong, as CLE will also publish Relayer in the west.

Below you can check out a trailer and a batch of images, including the bow art for both platforms.

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Giuseppe Nelva

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