Nazralath: The Fallen World is an atmospheric adventure with a surreal yet stunning art style
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If you're tired of exploring vaguely medieval England and you're looking for something a little bit out of the ordinary, you might want to keep an eye on the freshly announced Nazralath: The Fallen World. It's a highly atmospheric action-adventure with a surreal yet stunning art style heavily inspired by the works of Zdzisław Beksiński and H.P. Lovecraft.
Since words alone are absolutely useless at conveying just how unique Nazralath's presentation is, allow me to share with you the reveal trailer. Have a gander, it's quite the sight to behold:
Apex Legends' Season 13 is adding Bangalore's brother and sprucing up the Storm Point map
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[Update #2]: Season 13 - Saviors has now arrived alongside a whole host of balance changes.
[Update]: Apex Legends' new Season 13 preview is here to show off what Newcastle is all about, though sadly the Nemesis rifle is nowhere to be found.
If the current Apex Legends meta has started to get stale and you're looking for something new and exciting to reignite the spark, you'll be happy to hear that Season 13 - Saviors is nearly upon us! Once it arrives this May 10th it'll bring with it Bangalore's brother Newcastle as a brand new Legend, a couple of new locations to mess up in Storm Point, an assortment of new cosmetics to collect, and most likely a brand new weapon as well!
The latter has not been announced just yet, but given the recent rumors and leaks it's expected that Season 13 will bring with it the Nemesis assault rifle. If these sources are credible then the Nemesis will be a burst-fire rifle that uses energy ammo, which will then most likely result in the Havoc getting upgraded to a supply crate weapon in order to avoid them sharing the spotlight.
Sentry is an upcoming hybrid between a tower defense game and a first-person shooter
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Following in the footsteps of Sanctum and Orcs Must Die, Sentry is a freshly announced hybrid between a tower defense strategy game and a first-person shooter. As you might imagine from that description alone, Sentry is all about preparing the field with a brilliant spread of traps, turrets and environmental hazards, and then wildly running around to patch up all of the holes when your plan inevitably goes up in flames!
Should everything go awry and your poor character meet their demise, worry not as death is not the end. Sentry aims to have a push-and-pull campaign where both victories and defeats will only play a small part in the greater scheme of things. This also means that each battle will take place on a different level, which should help keep things interesting.
Sonic Origins is coming this July with four remastered classics and plenty of bonus content
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I hope you're in the mood for a whole lot of nostalgia, because Sega has just unveiled Sonic Origins. This collection of classics brings with it remastered version of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD, along with a variety of bonus content to sink your teeth into.
So besides the spruced up visuals, you can expect to see new missions that allow you to unlock special stages and challenges, as well the ability to play in either Classic or Anniversary mode that comes with unlimited lives and a fullscreen resolution. Most curiously of all, each game will also come with new opening and ending cinematics!
Martial arts roguelike Sifu is adding a much harder and much easier difficulty mode
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[Update #2]: Sifu's summer update has now arrived with 11 gameplay modifiers to tweak and 8 'cheats' to mess around with.
[Update]: The difficulty-focused update has now arrived, and unlike what I guessed from the preview, the two new options do actually change the health of your character and the enemies. A small disappointment, but hopefully one that's easy to overlook given the rest of the improvements.
The somewhat recently released Sifu is a martial arts inspired roguelike that's all about kicking and punching your way through hordes of tricky enemies. However, instead of having only one life in which you need to complete the entire game, Sifu gives you access to a whole bunch... though at a cost! Every time you die you become older and less durable than before, though also a fair bit more powerful!
While this is certainly a cool concept, it does have one very significant problem - if you're doing badly, then respawning with less health is only going to make the situation worse. So in order to address this problem, as well as give thrill-seekers something to sink their teeth into, the Sifu team has just announced two new difficulty modes.
Northgard studio's Dune: Spice Wars strategy game has now landed onto Steam Early Access
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[Update #2]: Dune: Spice Wars has now launched from Early Access alongside mixed reviews, mostly because the previously teased story-focused campaign has not been implemented.
[Update]: Funcom is now working on an open world, survival-focused MMO set in the Dune universe!
Following in the same footsteps as Northgard, Shiro Games have now released their newest strategy game Dune: Spice Wars into Steam Early Access. As you might expect from the name alone, Dune: Spice Wars is a real-time strategy game that's all about using political intrigue, espionage, and good ol' fashioned violence in order to secure your faction's future on the desert world.
You can get a little bit of a sneak peek at what this looks like in-game, as well as what the four factions are all about, through the launch trailer below. Have a look:
After remastering many classic RPGs, Beamdog has now launched a dungeon crawler of their own
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After remastering and enhancing whole bunch of classic RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Planescape: Torment, Beamdog has decided to take things in a completely different direction with their newest game. Instead of yet another CRPG, or even something inspired by them, the freshly released MythForce is a 80s cartoon themed roguelite dungeon crawler.
Unsurprisingly, this means that MythForce is all about jumping head-first into a variety of randomized adventures, be this in singleplayer or co-op multiplayer. From there you'll have to slice and dice your way through hordes of enemies, acquire a variety of fancy items and upgrades to customize your build, and slowly but surely work on getting better in order to conquer all of the challenges in one go.