Synthetic Dawn, a machine-focused story pack for Stellaris, has now arrived
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As you might imagine from the name alone, the Synthetic Dawn story pack is entirely focused on the various robotic factions. It allows you to fully customize your robotic civilization and follow a new chain of story events to transform your mechanical race into an intergalactic AI dominion, oppressed synths can now rebel against their masters and form new empires, and there's even a fallen synthetic civilization just waiting to be discovered in the cold depths of space.
If you're interested in seeing what all of this might look like in game, you'll find the recently posted launch trailer right below. Its not very long, but it should give you a pretty damn good idea of what to expect from Synthetic Dawn. Have a look:
Outlast and its DLC are free to grab for the next 24 hours on Humble Bundle
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The Humble Store is currently holding an End of Summer Sale, and in order to get a few more eyes onto the storefront they are now giving away the horror game Outlast and its DLC. This offer will only last for another 25 hours, so I would recommend you go and grab Outlast as soon as possible. You don't even need to install it, once its in your Steam account you will own it forever.
If you're wondering whether Outlast is even worth your time, however, I would say that it depends on whether you're a fan of horror games or not. From a purely gameplay standpoint its a bit repetitive as all you really do is run away, but that is easily counteracted by a great atmosphere and some pants-wettingly terrifying scenes. So if you're looking for a survival horror game where you blast away hordes of zombies with a giant shotgun, I'm afraid you won't find that here, but if you're into slow, brooding horror then Outlast is definitely worth playing.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 devs have released a tutorial for the DnD inspired Game Master mode
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Besides being a pretty damn good game, Divinity: Original Sin 2 has one very important feature that sets it apart from the rest of the genre - a DnD inspired Game Master mode! As you might imagine from its name alone, Game Master mode allows you to create and run your very own campaigns, as well as modify them on the go to better tailor the story to your players. Its a little bit complex, but well worth the trouble.
If you would like to see the Game Master mode in action, or learn how to mess around with all of the available tools, I would recommend you check out the recently posted developer tutorial. The video is fairly lengthy, but thankfully very little of it is pointless fluff. Have a look, its quite interesting:
Project Nimbus is an anime-inspired mecha shoot 'em up set in a post-apocalyptic world
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Project Nimbus is a fast-paced mech action/shooter game that draws heavy inspiration from anime series like Gundam. What this means in gameplay terms is that you will pilot giant mechs with a ridiculous array of weapons and missiles, battle against even larger opponents or swarms of smaller ones, and naturally, team up with other pilots in order to unleash even greater devastation.
Since Project Nimbus is an anime-inspired game its only fitting that its most recent trailer is completely over-the-top and cheesy to the point of ridiculousness. Have a look, its quite interesting despite the somewhat meek voice acting:
Sea of Thieves devs have released a video detailing some of the most important things you need to know
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Sea of Thieves is a multiplayer focused pirate adventure and exploration game where you'll need to search for hidden treasure, pillage ships piloted by other players, and hopefully make it back to port in one piece in order to cash in your booty. In theory its everything one could hope for from a multiplayer pirate game, so hopefully it'll end up being just as good as it sounds.
While its release date is still far off, Sea of Thieves devs have recently posted a video detailing the 10 most important things you should know about before jumping into the fray. So if you're even remotely interested in a pirate adventure you should probably check out the video right below. Have a look:
Hollow Knight will be getting a massive free update this Halloween - The Grimm Troupe
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Hollow Knight's very first free content update arrived last month, and already the developers are announcing the second wave. The upcoming Grimm Troupe patch will add a brand new major quest and accompanying boss fights, 4 new charms that grant unique new skills and abilities, a whole bunch of new enemies to fight and friends to chat up, as well as a variety of general improvements and quality-of-life changes.
While the recently posted teaser trailer won't exactly give you a good look at all of the new features, it will at least get you into the right mood. Have a look, its quite a short video:
Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite has now arrived on PC and consoles
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The latest in the Marvel vs Capcom series has now arrived on PC and consoles, though I'm afraid the public reception isn't exactly stellar. I haven't played it myself as I'm not much of a fighting game fan, but according to the Steam user reviews Infinite suffers from a fairly boring roster, dated visuals, and an abysmal singleplayer story. So if you consider any of that a dealbreaker you should probably wait a few months and see what happens when Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite gets all of the planned updates and DLCs.
If you need a small example that showcases all of these problems in action, as well as what the general gameplay is all about, you should check out the recently posted launch trailer down below. Its cheesy to the point of hilarity, though that's par for the course with fighting games. Have a look: