Shovel Knight devs are working on a new 8-bit action-adventure - Mina the Hollower
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[Update]: Shovel Knight's dungeon-digging roguelite spin-off Shovel Knight Dig is set to arrive on September 23rd, 2022.
After finally finishing up all of the extra content planned for Shovel Knight, the Yacht Club Games team has now set their sights on their next big action-adventure - Mina the Hollower. According to the already-funded Kickstarter, Mina the Hollower will be an 8-bit trip down memory lane inspired by classics like Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and apparently even Bloodborne!
What all of this might look like in actual gameplay, that you can find out through the freshly posted announcement trailer. Have a gander, it's just as charming as Shovel Knight:
Project Haven is an upcoming turn-based tactics game inspired by Jagged Alliance
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Much like Jagged Alliance from which it draws a great deal of inspiration, the upcoming Project Haven is a turn-based tactics game where you control a squad of highly customizable mercs sent on a variety of nearly suicidal missions. In order to succeed you'll need to utilize an assortment of different tools and weapons, carefully plan your approach, and then solve each problem with a combination of stealth, strategy and vast quantities of explosives.
Where Project Haven differs greatly from Jagged Alliance is in the aiming. All of it is done from a 3rd person view, giving you the option to aim exactly where you want to. Headshots grant bonus damage, shots to an enemy's weapon can potentially disarm them or at least mess up their aim, while hits to the legs will obviously slow them down. You'll still have to rely on good ol' fashioned percentages in order to actually score a hit, but being able to personally choose what you're shooting at is certainly a nifty idea.
Apex Legends' Season 12 preview shows off the new Control game mode and Olympus map changes
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[Update #2]: Apex Legends' Warriors update is adding a new Arena map and bringing back the Control mode on March 29th, 2022.
[Update]: Season 12 - Defiance has now arrived, and so far the new Control game mode is looking remarkably fun!
If you're itching for a bit of a shakeup, mark February 8th on your calendar as that's when Apex Legends' Season 12 - Defiance will finally arrive. And naturally, it won't do so empty-handed! You can expect to see Mad Maggie as a brand new Legend, a significant rework of the Olympus map, a surprisingly fleshed out limited time game mode by the name of Control, a new PvP season, as well as an assortment of new cosmetics to collect.
What all of this looks like in action, that you can get a pretty good idea of through the recently posted gameplay trailer. Have a gander, it's quite an informative one:
Life is Strange Remastered Collection has now landed onto both PC and consoles
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After suffering a rather lengthy delay due to the pandemic messing everything up, the Life is Strange Remastered Collection has now finally made its way to both PC and consoles. The freshly remastered version brings with it improved visuals for both characters and environments, greatly enhanced character animations, lighting and engine tweaks, and most importantly, all of the content from Life is Strange and Before the Storm in one convenient package!
Since words alone aren't exactly the best at trying to describe visual improvements, allow me to stop babbling and instead share the newest gameplay preview. It should give you a pretty solid idea of just what the Remastered Collection has to offer. Have a look:
Total War: Warhammer 3's lengthy gameplay preview shows off the Chaos Undivided faction in action
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[Update #2]: Total War: Warhammer 3 has now finally arrived, though not without some technical trouble.
[Update]: Creative Assembly has now detailed the rather massive changes to Chaos corruption.
As a part of the most recent announcement, Creative Assembly revealed Total War: Warhammer 3's final and most unique launch faction - Chaos Undivided led by a Daemon Prince of your own creation! By doing a variety of tasks to honor the Chaos gods your Daemon Prince will be given thematic new body parts and weapons, daemonic units to play around with, as well as ridiculously powerful abilities to go along with his newfound status as a demigod.
If you're curious what all of this madness looks like in actual gameplay, allow me to share with you two of the previews. The first one is a brief cinematic showing off some of the customization options, while the second one is a pure gameplay preview giving you a close up look at what Daniel the Daemon can do with the Chaos Undivided faction. Have a peek:
Guild Wars 2's massive End of Dragons expansion will be launching on February 28th
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[Update]: After the success of the new expansion, Guild Wars 2 devs have now announced their plans for the future.
After a whole bunch of beta tests and even more previews, ArenaNet has now finally come out to announce that Guild Wars 2's next big expansion End of Dragons will be launching on February 28th. Besides the chunky new continent of Cantha, End of Dragons will also bring with it nine new elite specializations, the mighty Siege Turtle mount, the fishing profession and a variety of boats, as well as a whole assortment of new items to collect, endgame content to conquer, and cosmetics to bling yourself out with.
You can get a pretty good idea of what all of this looks like in action through the recently posted gameplay trailer. Have a peek, it's a rather lovely one:
CDPR is working on a new singleplayer-focused card game adventure based on The Witcher 3's Gwent
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[Update #3]: CDPR has finally unleashed the roguelike singleplayer expansion for Gwent - Rogue Mage.
[Update #2]: It looks like CD Projekt Red has kept them selves quite busy! In addition to the new Witcher and Gwent games, they have now announced a new Cyberpunk 2077 expansion, as well as a spin-off game.
[Update]: CD Projekt Red has announced that The Witcher 4 is currently being made in Unreal Engine 5!
While it never did become highly popular, mostly because it was delayed over and over again, Gwent's singleplayer spin-off Thronebreaker was a remarkably fun game. Perhaps a bit too easy on the gameplay side of things, but the ability to dive deep into the Witcher universe and learn about all sorts of fascinating characters more than made up for it.
A fair bit of time has gone by since then, and it seems that CDPR has now finally decided to give the concept another chance with project Golden Nekker. The details are still shrouded in mystery, but according to IGN's brief reveal CDPR is looking to provide a “captivating single-player for players who prefer it over competitive multiplayer Gwent.”