Deep Rock Galactic's Season 4 will bring with it a scorpion-like enemy, and an arcade cabinet
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[Update]: Deep Rock Galactic's Season 4 has arrived with new enemies, boss, jet boots, and an arcade cabinet.
In order to get everyone excited for the upcoming Season 4, Ghost Ship Games have started releasing small teasers showing off some of the new additions. While they may be brief and lacking in detail, the stuff shown so far does look quite intriguing!
The first teaser is a fairly lighthearted one as it shows the Space Rig getting an arcade machine! What exactly we'll be able to play on it, I have no idea, but I can only imagine it has something to do with copious amounts of drinking and/or mining.
Don't Starve is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a massive bugfixing and quality-of-life focused update
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While Klei Entertainment's focus is mostly on Don't Starve Together these days, they still decided to give Don't Starve a nice little treat for its tenth anniversary. That said, 'little' might not be the best description for it as the freshly released and quality-of-life focused update is absolutely massive!
The highlights include a couple of fancy new items, the ability to utilize materials in chests while crafting, an optional integrated backpack layout, as well as a complete redesign of the Ancient Guardian fight. You can also look forward to more sensible cave world generation, Deerclops attacks that actually match their visual effects, adorable baby water beefalo, and the list goes on for a very, very long time.
Story-focused cooking sim Cook Serve Forever is heading into Early Access on May 8th
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[Update]: Cook, Serve, Forever has unfortunately been delayed, though thankfully only for a week!
To say that the Cook, Serve, Delicious! series is a strange one would be quite an understatement. While it all started with a humble cooking and restaurant management sim, somehow Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3 ended up being a road trip across war-torn America where you'd get frequently assaulted by rival cooking gangs!
After experimenting with these types ideas for quite a few years, developer Vertigo has now finally decided to give a proper story-based game a try. As such, the upcoming Cook Serve Forever is not only going to feature plenty of cooking action, but also a lengthy storyline that will offer dozens of hours of gameplay, a variety of fully voiced and realized characters to annoy, as well as a bunch of side quests to mess around with.
Frozenbyte's stylish and co-op focused puzzle-platformer series Trine is getting a fifth entry
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[Update #2]: Trine 5 has now added crossplay between all the different versions.
[Update]: I have some good news to share! Trine 5 will be launching onto PC and consoles on August 31st, 2023!
After taking a few years off to work on a couple of different genres through Boreal Blade and Starbase, Frozenbyte have announced that their next game will be a new installment of their classic Trine series. Needless to say, the recently revealed Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy is once again going to be a gorgeous 2.5D puzzle-platformer with a heavy emphasis on co-op and all of the chaos that brings with it.
In order to help it stand out from its predecessors, Trine 5 will bring with it a new combat system and tricky boss encounters, a character-specific skill quest system that should add a lot more depth and variety than before, as well as an adaptive difficulty system for both the combat and puzzles. How exactly that last part will work, I'm afraid I have no idea, but if done well I can definitely see the extra challenges adding a fair bit of replay value.
After eight years of updates, city-building sim Cities: Skylines will be getting an ambitious sequel in 2023
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[Update]: Cities: Skylines 2 will be launching on October 24th alongside a bunch of technological improvements, new features and quality-of-life updates.
After a seemingly endless tide of expansions and accompanying free updates, it looks like the Cities: Skylines team is finally getting ready to move onto something new. They won't be going all that far, however, as their next game will be a bigger, bolder and more technologically advanced Cities: Skylines sequel!
According to the brief announcement, Cities: Skylines 2 will come with fully realized transport and economy systems, a wide variety of construction and customization options to mess around with, as well as a focus on creating an open-ended sandbox for players to build whatever city they want in. Most importantly of all, Cities: Skylines 2 will be following in its predecessor's footsteps and bringing in a suite of modding tools for players to add all-important things like Thomas the Tank Engine!
Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has landed onto PC alongside some dreadful performance problems
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[Update]: Thanks to a couple of updates, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now looking a whole lot better! More problems still remain, however, so you might want to give Respawn another week or so before finally diving in.
If you loved 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and were looking forward to its ambitious new sequel, I'm afraid I have some good and bad news to deliver. The good news is that not only has Star Wars Jedi: Survivor just been unleashed onto PC and consoles, but it's also a notable improvement over the original!
Unfortunately, the bad news is really bad because the PC version is currently suffering from a wide array of performance problems. These range from constant stuttering to endless loading screens and even hard crashes, so it's mostly stuff that's going to be hard to turn a blind eye to even if you're excited to dive in.
The Mageseeker is a League of Legends themed hack & slash from the team behind Moonlighter
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In an effort to expand the League of Legends universe, as well as to branch into other genres, Riot Games opened up their own publishing platform back in 2019 - Riot Forge. So far this has resulted in a fast-paced rhythm runner, a turn-based RPG, and thanks to the freshly released The Mageseeker, a hack & slash RPG as well.
Set within the kingdom of Demacia, The Mageseeker will task you with the very simple job of organizing a full-blown rebellion against the tyrannical Mageseekers and those that serve them. In order to do so you'll need to recruit various mages from across the land, build up your base and unlock a variety of new abilities, and since this is a hack & slash we're talking about, beat up a whole bunch of enemies through stylish combos, including characters from League of Legends itself.