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!
Rocksmith+, Ubisoft's game about learning how to play the guitar, is launching on September 6th
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Rocksmith+, much like the original Rocksmith, is both a rhythm game and a tool to help you learn how to play the guitar or bass. It's similar in many ways to the Guitar Hero series, though the big difference is that Rocksmith actually wants you to use a proper guitar in order to play along.
For the upcoming Rocksmith+ this can be done with either a cable, or more conveniently, a free app that will essentially track your accuracy by transforming your phone into a microphone. While this whole thing is certainly a fun and potentially handy idea, there is unfortunately a bit of a catch - the price.
Moonbreaker is Subnautica studio's upcoming miniature-based tactics game
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[Update #2]: With its very first major update, Moonbreaker has removed all of its monetization!
[Update]: Moonbreaker has now arrived alongside mostly positive reviews on Steam.
After experimenting with both a multiplayer shooter (Natural Selection 2) and a nearly combat-free exploration game (Subnautica), Unknown Worlds Entertainment are looking to try something a little bit different with the upcoming Moonbreaker. As such, Moonbreaker is going to be a turn-based strategy game heavily influenced by tabletop tactics games.
The most obvious comparison here is the simple fact that all of your units in Moonbreaker will be adorable little miniatures in action poses. And in true tabletop fashion, you'll also be able to paint literally every single part of your miniatures in order to have them look exactly as awesome (or as garish) as you like!
Colorful co-op beat 'em up River City Girls 2 is coming to PC and consoles later this year
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Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, River City Girls 2 will be a colorful and co-op focused beat 'em up that will see you smash your way through hordes upon hordes of enemies with a variety of unique characters. However, as befitting a sequel, River City Girls 2 will expand on pretty much every aspect of the original.
As such, you can expect to see four player co-op instead of simply two-player, all of the previous characters alongside two new additions, as well as an assortment of new moves, combos and character-specific abilities. River City itself will also feature a day and night cycle alongside more complex terrain, more shops, hazards and hidden areas, and most importantly of all, a lot more destructible objects to mess around with!
After nearly a year of frequent updates, Vampire Survivors will soon be leaving Early Access
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[Update #2]: Vampire Survivors has now been unleashed from Early Access alongside a sizable content update.
[Update]: In preparation for the upcoming launch, the Vampire Survivors team has now increased the price tag. Don't worry, it's still going to be dirt cheap!
When it comes to both quality and quantity, Vampire Survivors' updates have been genuinely impressive. Every couple of weeks the developers would unleash even more characters, maps, items and secrets to mess around with, as well as a whole host of quality-of-life improvements based on community requests. For a game that is still €2, that really is quite something!
After about a year of doing this, the Vampire Survivors team is now slowly getting ready to make the final step and fully launch from Early Access. As such, the recent Update 0.11.0 will be the last major content patch before Vampire Survivors' release, though there will still be smaller updates with tweaks, bug fixes and tiny bits of content to help flesh everything out for the big day.
Halo Infinite's co-op campaign, Forge editor and Season 3 have been delayed until November
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[Update]: The latest developer update has detailed some of the fundamentals behind the Forge editor.
If you were hoping Halo Infinite would get itself into shape any time soon, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I say this because the September developer update has now arrived, and it has mostly brought with it a whole bunch of delays.
As such, the co-op campaign has now been pushed further back, this time around until the Winter Update period that starts on November 8th. On the other hand, split-screen co-op has been canceled entirely as 343 Industries are needing to spend the time and resources elsewhere.