Tempest Rising's campaign preview shows off a ton of Command & Conquer inspired RTS gameplay
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Inspired by the strategy games of old, and especially the Command & Conquer series, the upcoming Tempest Rising is a base-building RTS about three asymmetrical factions vying for dominance in a dying world. Each one brings with them a unique roster of units and abilities, potential playstyles, as well as economies to manage.
If you're curious how all of this looks like in actual gameplay, you'll be pleased to hear that the Tempest Rising team has now released a lengthy, developer-guided preview. It contains the entirety of the first Global Defense Forces' campaign mission along with explanations for most of the core mechanics, so it should be quite enlightening. Have a gander, starting with a bit of lore:
Terraria's quality-of-life focused Labor of Love update is aiming to launch in late September
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[Update #2]: Terraria's likely final update "Labor of Love" has now arrived with a bunch of improvements.
[Update]: After many months of teasers, Terraria's Labor of Love update will be launching on September 28th.
After many, many years of quality updates, in 2020 the Re-Logic team decided it is time to bring Terraria's long and storied journey to an end. Rather than let it simply fade away, they released an absurdly massive expansion that added 800 new items to find or craft, a whole host of new enemies and bosses to throw yourself against, a greatly improved world generation system, and the list goes on for a while. As far as final updates go, it doesn't get much better than that!
So naturally, two years later, Re-Logic is now getting ready to unleash yet another chunky new update - "Labor of Love". While this one will also bring with it a variety of new content to mess around with, most if it will be focused on quality-of-life improvements, balance tweaks, as well as general fixes to make the whole experience a much more pleasant one.
1992 action-platformer Flashback will be getting a modern sequel in 2023 for PC and consoles
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Continuing with the recent trend of bringing back ancient classics, the 1992 action-platformer Flashback is currently in the process of getting a modern sequel. While no exact release has been given just yet, Flashback 2 will be launching onto PC and consoles at some point in 2023, most likely within the first half of the year.
Much like its predecessor, Flashback 2 will be a sci-fi action-platformer that will task you with exploring complex levels while doing whatever you can to avoid and outwit your enemies rather than simply run at them with guns blazing. Unfortunately, instead of sticking with the original's iconic rotoscoped look, Flashback 2 will be going for a much more standardized 2.5D art style.
Diablo 4's August developer update has detailed the post-launch plans, seasons and in-game shop
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[Update #2]: Diablo 4 will be launching on June 6th, 2023 with five classes: Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue and Sorceress.
[Update]: Diablo 4's endgame focused Closed Beta will be launching in the near future, possibly in mid-to-late October 2022.
In order to help pass the time until Diablo 4 finally arrives, and to keep the community in the loop, Blizzard has been releasing quarterly updates discussing everything from gameplay details to the finer points of monster design. This months' update, however, is a bit different.
Instead of showcasing the main campaign and its contents, the recently released August update is all about Diablo 4's post-launch plans, seasons, as well as how Blizzard is aiming to monetize all of it. If you've been playing Diablo 3 a lot of this should be familiar, but there's a few new details you'll want to keep an eye out for. Here's a brief rundown of what to expect:
Martial arts roguelike Sifu is adding numerous gameplay and difficulty modifiers to explore
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[Update #2]: Sifu will be coming to Steam in March 2023 alongside a new Arena Mode.
[Update]: Sifu's summer update has now arrived with 11 gameplay modifiers to tweak and 8 'cheats' to mess around with.
During the last big update the martial arts roguelike Sifu added added two new difficulty modes, one for each extreme. With the upcoming August 31st update, the Sifu team will be taking the idea of customizing your own experience even further by giving you a wide assortment of gameplay and difficulty modifiers to explore!
With the new tools you'll be able to attempt completely insane challenge runs where everything possible is stacked against you, smash through hordes of enemies as if you were a superhero, or just embrace chaos and make everything an unpredictable yet hilarious mess. Combine this with the previously implemented difficulty modes, and you should be able to create exactly the type of gameplay you enjoy, which for a fighting game really is quite the boon!
Dungeon Keeper inspired city-building strategy game Dungeons 4 will be coming in 2023
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Given how well received Dungeons 3 ended up being, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to hear that the team is now working on a brand new sequel. Dungeons 4 will once again task you with constructing the ultimate evil lair, raising an army of the most despicable creatures you can possibly find so you can raid the unsuspecting overworld, as well as trapping every nook and cranny in order to ensure any pesky do-gooders don't liberate the contents of your vault.
As is befitting a sequel, Dungeons 4 is aiming to be bigger, better and more dynamic than its predecessors. Expect to see a fully narrated campaign with 20 missions, support for both singleplayer and co-op multiplayer, as well as a variety of new enemies and allies to mess around with.
Diablo 3's Season 27 has introduced an awesome array of new powers
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With Diablo 4 slowly getting closer and closer, the Diablo 3 team has decided to get a bit experimental and really push the limits of player power. As such, the Season 27 update has now brought with it a brand new type of consumable called Angelic Crucibles.
These heavenly artifacts can be used to sanctify Legendary items, thus giving them perfect Ancient-level stats on all affixes while also preserving their Legendary Power. That alone would be strong enough to make you want to hunt these Angelic Crucibles whenever they might reside, but using them also gives you an additional new power to play around with!