Author: Jonathan Bolding
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No Man’s Sky will rerun all this year’s time-limited events this December
If you skipped out on No Man’s Sky this year then now’s your chance to jump back in and see all the goodness they rolled out, as developers Hello Games are taking the holiday season to replay all the expedition events and offer up their rewards. There’s even a return of a 2021 expedition, complete…
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Put on your bunny ears and go to bullet hell in indie metroidvania Tevi
A recent indie release out of Japan is getting positive buzz. Tevi, a combination bullet hell-metroidvania-RPG, stands out among the genre with not just interesting and novel gameplay mechanics but an emphasis on a longer story and the kind of flashy character design you expect from a Japanese release. The game’s primary conceit is that…
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Furi’s creators dropped a free demake of the first boss fight as a thanks to fans
Excellent bullet hell and melee battle mashup Furi dropped back in 2016 and left a big impact crater on action genre fans, demanding attention and careful play from players with a unique control scheme emphasizing dual stick play around shooting and slashing. It’s certainly one of those games for fans of responsive controls, people who…
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Stardew Valley 1.6 is still chugging along, says creator, after a month of “self-imposed” crunch
Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has emerged from a month of silence to say that he has made “a ton of progress” on the upcoming 1.6 update for the beloved indie farm and life sim. “It’s (self-imposed) extreme crunch mode, nose to the grindstone,” said Barone in a post to Twitter/X. Barone also dropped…
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Be a frog, kill bugs, collect cool dice in the demo for dicebuilding roguelike Die in the Dungeon
A new dicebuilding game is on the way, taking the roguelite framework and applying it in an interesting-looking way by having you place your dice in a grid for synergies and effects. Plus, you’re a cute frog that’s eating bugs. Big bonus in my opinion. Die in the Dungeon is coming next year, and a…
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Gatekeeper is like an isometric Risk of Rain 2, so go ahead and try the free prologue
If you, like me, are basically always hungry for another fast-paced horde shooting roguelike with crazy items and combos to build, I’ve got great news. Upcoming roguelite shooter Gatekeeper is just that, and it has a pretty dang generous free demo slash prologue version out now that’s fully-featured enough to include cooperative gameplay. Gatekeeper casts…
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Deckbuilder fans owe themselves some time with the brilliant Cobalt Core
What might be the year’s best deckbuilding game launched last month, to little fanfare, with the release of Cobalt Core. It’s a mechanically rich and well-developed little game that brings out the best of the roguelike deckbuilding genre by combining its own twist: Tactical positioning that means every attack comes from somewhere and goes somewhere,…
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Check out this open world martial arts tactical RPG with dozens of story paths
After eight months in Early Access, Chinese martial arts RPG Hero’s Adventure: Road to Passion will release on November 16 with a full English translation. The tactical marital arts combat, combined with open world gameplay, make this an interesting and unique one for people who’re fans of the genre or who really love the world…
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Here’s a game where you’re an underpaid astronaut salvaging space trash and building an orbital factory from it
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A third-person, open world survival craft-em-up about underpaid space workers will release this week in Space Trash Scavenger. It’s an interesting looking one, with the conceit that it’s a world where every little planetoid and asteroid has its own little sphere of gravity, including your own self-directed and constructed mobile scavenging platform. The same kind…
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The return of Fortnite’s original map brings a record-setting 6M concurrent players to the battle royale island
Fortnite has set a new all-time concurrent player record, with tracker fortnite.gg reporting 6.1 million concurrent players as the game’s all-time peak yesterday, November 4 2023. That new total of 6,172,463 people online at once might be chalked up to the Fortnite Chapter 4 release, Fortnite OG, which brings back the original island and weapons,…