Highly popular board game Munchkin is getting a video game adaptation for PC and mobile
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If you're in the mood for exploring a dungeon, kicking monsters in the shins and getting unreasonably angry with your friends, you'll be happy to hear that the highly popular board game Munchkin is getting a video game adaptation. While no exact release date has been announced just yet, you can expect Munchkin Digital to arrive at some point this Fall for PC, Android and iOS.
Besides an accurate recreation of the original game, Munchkin Digital will also bring with it a handy tutorial to teach you the ropes, as well as a variety of singleplayer challenges to mess around with. If you don't like the idea of playing board games alone, worry not as Munchkin Digital will also feature cross-platform multiplayer, so finding people to backstab play with should be a breeze.
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn preview shows off a fun mixture of Souls-like enemies, axes and gunpowder
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Coming to us from the studio behind the Souls-like Ashen, the upcoming Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is an open-world action-RPG with a heavy focus on combat. However, instead of going with the usual medieval setting, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is all about smashing through enemies with the combined power of your mighty axe, classy-looking gun and a magical canine companion that really is quite adorable... while it's not munching on someone's face anyway.
What all of this nonsense looks like in action, as well as how closely Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn follows the whole Souls-like formula, that you can check out through the freshly posted gameplay preview. Have a gander:
Rivals of Aether's dungeon crawler spin-off Dungeons of Aether has been pushed back to February 2023
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Set in the same universe as the platform fighter Rivals of Aether and its upcoming sequel, Dungeons of Aether is a roguelite dungeon crawler that will have you explore the world and battle hordes of enemies as one of four unique characters. Each one brings with them their own special skills, playstyle and storyline, so messing around with all of them is going to be highly encouraged, and hopefully highly entertaining as well.
If all of that sounds like it's right up your alley, I'm afraid I have a bit of bad news to deliver. Instead of launching this October 25th as previously announced, Dungeons of Aether has now been pushed back to February 28th, 2023.
Company of Heroes 3's developer preview showcases everything the World War 2 RTS has to offer
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[Update]: After some rough previews, Company of Heroes 3 has now been delayed to February 23rd, 2023.
Following in the footsteps of its incredibly popular predecessor, Company of Heroes 3 will be a large-scale, World War 2 themed strategy game where you'll need to combine infantry, armor, navy and air forces in order outwit and overwhelm your opponents. If you're mostly in it for the singleplayer experience, the most interesting parts of Company of Heroes 3 will be the two different campaigns.
The first one, set in Italy, will be a highly dynamic sandbox where you alone will have to decide everything from where to move your forces to how to protect your supply lines or even which troops to upgrade and when. As for the second campaign set in Africa, that one will be a fairly linear, story-focused affair that's here to get you accustomed to the gameplay mechanics and their intricacies.
Sandwalkers is a highly stylized and atmospheric roguelike exploration and party-based RPG
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Instead of simply trying to build a single godlike character over the course of an adventure, the upcoming Sandwalkers will have you guide an entire caravan of misfits through an ever-changing roguelike world. Along the way you'll have to survive all sorts of hostile weather, tame bizarre creatures and seek unlikely allies to bolster your forces, and naturally, square off against hordes of enemies in turn-based battles.
When thing inevitably goes awry and your entire caravan ends up on the wrong side of some rampaging abomination, worry not as nobody expected your humble crew to accomplish everything all on their own. Their knowledge will be preserved and passed on to future caravans which will then be able to push deeper and deeper into the wastelands in an effort to a repair the broken climate and bring an end to centuries of wandering.
Cities: Skylines' Plazas & Promenades DLC will allow you to make pedestrian-friendly cities
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[Update]: The Plazas & Promenades DLC has now arrived alongside a small yet very focused free update.
Even though Cities: Skylines allows you to create some terrific locations, it always struck me as a bit odd how you can only ever make cities designed primarily with vehicles in mind. It doesn't matter if we're talking about a historical city center or a small community in the middle of nowhere - everything simply has to be encircled by roads.
Well, it may have taken us nearly a decade to get here, but I'm happy to say that Cities: Skylines's upcoming Plazas & Promenades DLC will finally sort this problem out! Once it goes live, the Plazas & Promenades expansion will bring with it pedestrian-only streets, the ability to designate pedestrian areas and special policies for it, a variety of new city service buildings to help decorate your city, as well as three new district specializations to push those customization options even further by letting you spawn only buildings of a certain type and appearance.
Monomyth is first-person dungeon crawler inspired by oldschool classics like Ultima Underworld
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With boomer shooters enjoying a bit of a renaissance right now, it was only a matter of time before other long-forgotten genres would start popping back up as well. In today's case, the upcoming Monomyth will attempt to evoke the sense of wonder and exploration found in oldschool first-person dungeon crawlers like Ultima Underworld or even the Souls-series predecessor King's Field.
What this means in actual gameplay terms is that Monomyth will task you with scouring every corner of a highly interactive environment for enemies to clobber, items to plunder, puzzles to wrack your brain over, and NPCs to accidentally insult. Along the way you'll be able to advance your character in a variety of different ways, everything from being a sneaky assassin to a mage or a half-crazed barbarian. And just in case you want to be 'that guy', you'll also be able to bake and then subsequently chuck fresh bread at people!