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Even though Yacht Club Games are currently hard at work on Mina the Hollower, an 8-bit tribute to action-adventure games of old, you'll be happy to hear that good ol' Shovel Knight has not been forgotten. However, instead of a brand new expansion, Yacht Club Games and Nitrome have partnered up to release a dungeon-digging roguelite spin-off!
The freshly unleashed Shovel Knight Dig brings with it a mixture of hand-crafted areas and randomized elements to help encourage multiple playthroughs, along with a very familiar gameplay formula that's focused around jumping, slashing, and unsurprisingly, digging! What all of this looks like in action, however, that you can check out through the launch trailer. Have a gander:
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[Update #2]: Continuing with the whole crossover theme, the Terraria team is now working on Dead Cells inspired content!
[Update]: Terraria's Labor of Love update has now arrived, and with it the crossover update is live on both games.
Terraria has done a few crossovers before, so it should come as little surprise to hear that they have announced a brand new one will be coming with the chunky Labor of Love update on September 28th. The crossover this time around will be with Core Keeper - an exploration focused adventure that shares a lot of the same gameplay ideas as Terraria.
On the Core Keeper side you can expect to see the gelatinous and ginormous King Slime as a brand new boss. Besides having to best the big ol' slime in combat, part of the challenge will also be to figure out how to summon him in the first place. Whatever the process might entail, it'll be well worth it at the end as King Slime will drop some pretty interesting loot "that will make you the envy of your fellow explorers."
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Much like the original, Slime Rancher 2 is an open world exploration game that will task you with uncovering and raising a whole assortment of cute and colorful slimes. Along the way you'll be able to research ancient technologies, mess around with new types of resources, build new gadgets to help you move around and wrangle bigger and meaner slimes, and naturally, expand your conservatory so you can properly house your growing army.
Since all of this sounds like complete and utter nonsense on paper, allow me to share with you the launch trailer. It should give you a pretty good idea of just what Slime Rancher 2 is trying to do and how adorable the little slimes truly are. Have a gander:
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[Update #2]: Terraria's likely final update "Labor of Love" has now arrived with a bunch of improvements.
[Update]: Terraria and Core Keeper are doing a small crossover to celebrate the upcoming Labor of Love update.
Continuing on with their streak of 'this is totally, definitely, absolutely the final update,' the Terraria team is now getting ready to release the chunky and quality-of-life focused Labor of Love patch. If everything goes according to plan, you can expect to see the Labor of Love update land onto all platforms on September 28th, 2022!
The Labor of Love update will bring with it a couple of new challenges to overcome, a whole assortment of new items and furniture to mess around with, and even a couple of adorable new pets. As the name might suggest, there's also going to be a bunch of quality-of-life improvements, balance tweaks and bug fixes to help round everything out.
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[Update #2]: Vampire Survivors' Legacy of the Moonspell expansion has now arrived with a massive new map, 8 characters and 13 weapons.
[Update]: Vampire Survivors has now been unleashed from Early Access alongside a sizable content update.
After adding a massive array of new characters, weapons and maps to mess around with, Vampire Survivors is now finally getting ready to leave Early Access. As a part of this process, and in order to better represent the sheer amount of content on offer, the Vampire Survivors team has now increased the game's price tag.
Don't worry, however, as Vampire Survivors is still going to be dirt cheap. Instead of $3 as it was all throughout Early Access, Vampire Survivors will now set you back a grand total of $5. Either way, it's still well worth it.
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Despite their popularity, and not to mention their qualifications, there's a surprisingly small amount of games starring dinosaurs as the main antagonists. Thankfully, the upcoming survival horror Compound Fracture will be looking to remedy that problem by pitting you against a plethora of prehistoric lizards within the confines of a ruined research facility.
While there will be a variety of guns for you to defend yourself with, ammo will be limited and hard to acquire - something best reserved for only the most desperate of situations. Instead you'll need to focus on outwitting the roaming dinosaurs, escaping conflict whenever possible, and doing whatever you can to hopefully save the hundreds of scientists still trapped inside.
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[Update #2]: And some bad news too! Broken Roads has been delayed until early 2024 in order to ensure it launches as well polished as it can be.
[Update]: Good news! Broken Roads will be heading over to PC and Xbox on November 14, 2023!
Inspired by oldschool classics like Fallout and Baldur's Gate, as well as more modern games like Disco Elysium, the upcoming Broken Roads is a heavily story-focused RPG set in a post-apocalyptic version of Australia. As you might imagine given its influences, Broken Roads will have you chat up a variety of unique characters, undertake quests that can be solved in different ways depending on your character's philosophical leanings, explore a hand-crafted world in search of secrets or good ol' fashioned loot, and naturally, fight against all sorts of enemies in turn-based combat.
What all of this looks like in action, as well as what sort of atmosphere Broken Roads is going for, that you can find out through the recent gameplay trailer. Have a gander:
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If the idea of building and tinkering with more and more elaborate robots sounds like a pleasant way to spend an evening, you might want to keep an eye on the upcoming Plasma. It's an engineering sandbox game that's all about carefully constructing machines out of a variety of customizable parts, and then using very basic 'programming' tools to control their behavior in order to do silly things.
What this looks like in actual gameplay, as well as what kind of robot you'll even be able to create, that you can find out through the freshly posted reveal trailer. Have a gander:
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3D Realms have just announced a whole bunch of new games, and the one that caught my eye the most is Combustion. To put it simply, if such a thing is even possible, Combustion is a noir action-RPG starring a hard-boiled cat detective in a world heavily reminiscent of the original PlayStation classics. Yeah... there's a lot to unwrap here!
Rather than babble on, allow me to share with you the recently posted trailer. It'll hopefully give you a much clearer picture of just what Combustion is trying to do. Have a peek:
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In sheer defiance of the very concept of common sense, the humble townsfolk in The Wandering Village have decided that the best place to begin their life anew was atop a gigantic dinosaur casually stomping its way across the world. In order to ensure this venture doesn't end in disaster you'll need to grow and gather a variety of resources, send expeditions out into the wilderness in search of long-lost technology and other goodies, as well as figure out how to communicate and coexist with the colossal beast.
What all of this madness looks like in action, that you can get a pretty good impression of through the recently posted launch trailer. Have a gander, it's quite a charming one:
