Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is an upcoming action-RPG for both PC and consoles
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While Dungeons & Dragons licensed games were all over the place during the rise of PC RPGs, for some reason they have become pretty much extinct these days. A real shame given that the Dungeons & Dragons universe is a genuinely fun one to roam around in, especially when developers decide to set the action in some far-away place that's rarely ever explored.
With that in mind, I should be extremely happy to announce that Wizards of the Coast and Tuque Games have partnered up to develop a Dungeons & Dragons action-RPG called Dark Alliance, but let's just say that the trailer doesn't exactly inspire a lot of hope. Have a look, it's certainly a very... special one:
PlanetSide Arena, the Battle Royale spin-off, will be closing down its servers this January
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While I was initially optimistic about the idea behind PlanetSide Arena, the longer the development went on the more obvious it became that it simply wasn't as interesting as PlanetSide 2. And for a spin-off game that requires large amounts of players in order to launch even a single match, that wasn't exactly a good starting point.
As such, when PlanetSide Arena finally got released into beta, it did so to a rather tiny playerbase. Things only got worse from there as the already small community quickly started bleeding players until pretty much nobody remained. Since developing a game that nobody plays is in no way sustainable, it unfortunately won't come as much of a surprise to hear that PlanetSide Arena will be closing down its doors on January 10, 2020.
Physics based VR game Boneworks has now released onto Steam
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Boneworks is essentially a VR-based physics sandbox that attempts (and generally succeeds) at making the manipulation of VR objects feel both natural and realistic. What this means is that you can change and adjust your grip on weapons to swing them differently, use objects to push or move enemies and other environmental objects, as well as climb all over the levels in a variety of ways.
Rather than babble on, allow me to share with you the recently posted launch trailer. It'll give you a pretty good idea of just what Boneworks is all about, as well as how innovative some of its features truly are. Have a look:
In celebration of The Wolf Among Us 2's reveal, the original is now entirely free to grab
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While the future for The Wolf Among Us 2 was looking incredibly bleak once Telltale closed down its doors, I am happy to say that sometimes good things do happen to games that deserve it as the development on The Wolf Among Us 2 has now started once again! AdHoc Studio will be the ones developing the game following in the same traditions as Telltale, which shouldn't be all that hard as they have a fair few Telltale veterans among them.
The details for The Wolf Among Us 2 are still few and far between, to the point that AdHoc Studio haven't even given an estimate of when the first episode is supposed to launch. As such, this is the perfect opportunity to give the original another playthrough, or to start it for the very first time!
Detroit: Become Human has now landed onto PC alongside support for 4K resolutions and 60 fps
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It took a fair bit of time since the original announcement, but all three of Quantic Dream's modern, narrative-driven games have now made their way to PC. Much like its predecessors, Detroit: Become Human brings with it support for 4K resolutions and 60 fps, the ability to play with a gamepad or keyboard & mouse combo, as well as a variety of minor improvements and optimizations.
If you're wondering what all of this looks like in gameplay terms, as well as what the story might be about, allow me to share with you the launch trailer. Have a look, it's fairly short:
Telltale's The Wolf Among Us 2 is now once again in development
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Once Telltale Games closed down their doors back in 2018, the future of all of their projects was immediately thrown into disarray. Robert Kirkman's Skybound Games soon came to rescue The Walking Dead's final season and brought us all a conclusion to Clementine's story, but sadly the rest of Telltale's repertoire was not so lucky.
Quite a lot of time has gone by since then, and with no good news coming out of Telltale, I and many others rightly assumed that this was the end of the story. So you can imagine my surprise when I opened up my email earlier today only to realize that the development on The Wolf Among Us 2 has started once again!
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York visual novel has now landed onto Steam
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Not to be confused with the upcoming Bloodlines 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is a newly released visual novel that tells the tale of an age-long conflict between the traditionalist Camarilla (they uphold the masquerade) and the fiercely independent Anarchs. You, a fledgling vampire in service of one of the clans, will need to figure out just what in the world is happening, as well as how to prevent the conflict from engulfing all of New York.
You can get a bit of an idea of how all of this works, as well as what the actual gameplay is like, through one of the recent trailers down below. Have a peek: