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It may have taken a little while to get here, but the latest Fall Guys' season has now brought in a whole bunch of new content to mess around with. First and foremost, there is now a Squad Mode that allow you to team up with either friends or random players in order to share progress and score across the various challenges, thus ensuring none of you get randomly knocked out just because you got unlucky that one time. That said, this does also mean that a particularly clumsy team can drag you down with them, though at least you'll be able to have a good laugh about it afterwards.
As for the maps, Season 4 has brought in seven highly futuristic ones to explore, many of which offer a combination of new and old elements to keep things fresh and interesting. Speaking of which, victories with your squad and Daily Challenges will now yield a bunch of Crown Shards - a resource that you can eventually combine into a proper Crown and thus unlock some of the numerous cosmetics at a nice and steady pace.
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If you're in the mood for an oldschool action-adventure with some Metroidvania elements thrown in for good measure, you might want to check out the newly launched Narita Boy. As you might expect from that brief description alone, Narita Boy is all about slicing and dicing your way through hordes of enemies, collecting upgrades and unearthing secrets as you explore the world, and naturally, beating up an assortment of bosses along the way.
What all of this looks like in actual gameplay, however, that you can find out through the recently posted launch trailer. Have a gander, it's a fairly long one:
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After a rather productive year in Steam Early Access, the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night inspired Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth has now been released in full. The launch version brings with it two brand new Stages with their own bosses, secrets and items to collect, as well as a whole bunch of quality-of-life improvements based on recent feedback.
What that looks like in actual gameplay, however, you can find out through the freshly posted launch trailer. Have a gander as the Castlevania comparison will make a whole lot more sense afterwards:
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[Update #2]: Among Us VR has now been unleashed onto Steam VR, Meta Quest and Rift/Rift S.
[Update]: The Airship has now arrived, and it really is a massive map!
It may have taken a little while for the Innersloth team to get used to their new circumstances and the immense popularity of Among Us, but it seems that the difficulties have now been sorted out and new content will flow more regularly. In other words, we'll be getting a brand new map this March 31, 2021 - the Airship!
The Airship will not only be the biggest map in Among Us, but it will also be the very first one to allow you to pick which room you start in. Combine this with new navigation options like ladders and mobile platforms, both of which are perfect for a bit of sneaky-stabby action, and I have a feeling the Airship will be quite an action-packed map, especially once people get familiar with it.
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[Update]: Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth has now been released from Steam Early Access and, unsurprisingly, it's pretty fun.
After spending about a year in Steam Early Access, the Symphony of the Night inspired Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth is now nearly ready for its full release. So if you're in the mood for some good ol' fashioned Metroidvania action, you might want to mark March 27th on your calendar.
Much like the last major update, the full release will bring with it two fairly chunky new stages to explore. The first of these will be the Hall of Knights and will follow directly after the end of Stage 4, while the finale is still shrouded in mystery, for obvious reasons.
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[Update]: Amnesia: Rebirth's new Adventure Mode replaces otherworldly horror with puzzles.
Over the past few years Apple has made it increasingly more challenging to port games over to macOS. Even long-standing series that once had simultaneous launches across all three PC platforms started having trouble with their macOS versions, with the end result usually being lengthy delays or outright cancellations. Unfortunately, due to insurmountable technical problems, Amnesia: Rebirth and SOMA have now been forced to go with the rather unappealing second option.
"We’ve always prided ourselves with being able to supply our games on PC, Linux and Mac, but we have now encountered some serious problems with the latest versions of MacOS," reads the brief update. "Even though we’ve put in tons of effort trying to fix the issues – so that SOMA and Rebirth supports MacOS – we have finally had to give up. We simply cannot manage it."
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Even though Factorio is now technically finished and quite enjoyable as it is, the developers have already started looking towards expanding the concept even further. However, instead of focusing on a bunch of smaller updates or even DLC packs, the Wube Software team has chosen to go with the oldschool 'big expansion pack' plan.
That plan, as you might expect, will be to introduce a whole bunch of new mechanics that will greatly shake up the usual gameplay formula and make Factorio feel completely fresh again. I would love to give you some actual details or examples, but the expansion is still in early development and as such everything is currently in a state of flux.
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[Update]: Deep Rock Galactic's April update is bringing mod support, major weapon rebalance and even nastier space-bugs.
Update 33 has been in the works for quite a while now, but I'm happy to say that the long wait was well worth it. The final version has brought with it two expansive new biomes to explore, an assortment of fun new mini-bosses and enemies to tackle, and even improved versions of Elimination, Salvage and Point Extraction modes.
You can also expect to see an overhaul of the Mineral Trade system that makes it more intuitive and less fiddly to work with, along with a fresh load of cosmetics and dances in both paid and free variants. And just to spice things up even further, there's also a brand new batch of bug fixes and balance changes, the most exciting of which are the ones that have made the original Dreadnought a lot more challenging of a boss!
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[Update]: Steam's April festival is all about First-person Shooter games of every variety.
If you're looking to expand your horizons and check out a bunch of strange and interesting games, you're in luck as the Steam Game Festival has just returned. To put it simply, the Steam Game Festival is a way for indie developers to showcase new and upcoming games, as well as interact with the Steam community through streams that are running pretty much constantly.
Best of all, the vast majority of these games have free demos available. So if you're even remotely interested in any of them, you don't have to just look at gameplay trailers to judge whether you'll like them or not - you can simply try them out yourself and see how it goes.
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The Medium was originally supposed to release back in December, but due to Cyberpunk 2077 throwing a wrench into everyone's plans, Bloober Team chose to postpone their psychological horror game until January. A fair bit of time has gone by since then, but I'm happy to say that the long wait is now finally over as The Medium has just been unleashed onto both PC and Xbox!
Since The Medium is one of those games that relies heavily on atmosphere and immersion, allow me to cut to the chase and share with you the recently posted trailer. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what you'd be getting yourself into. Have a gander: