Author: Jonathan Bolding
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Stray Gods will get a whole story DLC focused on Anthony Rapp’s Orpheus
Last year’s Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is getting story-focused DLC in the form of Stray Gods: Orpheus, which will star the titular mythical bard rather than base game protagonist Grace. Coming back to earth for a new story, Orpheus will once again be played by Anthony Rapp, the American actor and singer best known…
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Check out this gorgeous, sepia-toned apocalyptic adventure set in northern Finland
The humble point-and-click adventure game has gone through many iterations, with ups and downs year to year, but the genre has given up its relevance entirely. I know this because at least once a year I see one that’s just drop-dead interesting for some reason or other. Rauniot, out now from Finnish indie developer Act…
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Robot roguelike Cogmind outlines three free expansions for its ultra-customizable scrapbots
Modular robot roguelike Cogmind has outlined big plans for its next year or so of updates, with three big expansions coming alongside the final, proper 1.0 release after a decade in development. Turns out there’s a lot coming still for the game about a little robot rising from the scrapheap to the top of a…
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New Apex Legends trailer gets us another look at Alter, Season 21, and the return of solos
An Apex Legends trailer released this past week shows off what to expect in Season 21, Upheaval, when it drops this week on 7 May. The trailer shows off Alter, the first evil character to get added in quite a few years, and the new New Legend Alter is one of those cackling, clever, cutting…
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Check out the trailer for this big, cooperative Halo campaign mod
A just-announced Halo: The Master Chief Collection mod project is working on a full singleplayer and cooperative campaign in the style of Halo: CE and Halo 2, and has released a trailer, statement, and screenshots that are pretty promising. The trailer does some flyover shots of what might be the destroyed colony world of Reach…
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Here’s a Baldur’s Gate 3 mod so that characters can hug each other
A clear and obvious oversight in the smash hit video roleplaying game Baldur’s Gate 3 is that the big weird family of characters you build cannot give each other more hugs. One brave modder by the name of Cerberry has fixed that. The mod, appropriately named HUGS, lets your characters hijacks the already-extant Halsin and…
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All four modern Fallout games catapulted into the most-played games on Steam Deck this past month
It’s no secret that the Fallout show was a big success, with Amazon saying it was the streaming arm’s biggest hit since The Rings of Power, with 65 million viewers. It’s also no real secret that successful videogame shows make people want to play the games, but it is pretty cool to see how many…
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Here’s the launch trailer for V Rising’s 1.0 version, releasing very soon
Vampire empire survival and crafting RPG V Rising has a proper launch trailer ahead of its 1.0 launch this week on May 8—almost exactly two years from its May 17, 2022 Early Access release. The trailer goes over the experience of what V Rising is, a crafting and base-building survival RPG about vampires conquering the…
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Get your friends for some horrific tomb raiding in Forewarned, which just hit 1.0
The burgeoning cooperative survival horror genre has a lot of entries, not all of them great—but the great ones, like Phasmophobia and Lethal Company, have really taken off. What’s unexpected, then, is seeing one that did just okay in an Early Access launch become not just promising, but quite good, and then get a surprise…
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Counter-Strike 2 adds a lefty mode
After 23 years of Terrorist vs. Counter-Terrorist battles over bombs, hostages, and the like, Counter-Strike 2 developers have finally perfected a piece of technology that had eluded them: Handedness. That’s right. Where once the left hand just kind of hovered impotently around at times, or was used to reload, or support a weapon, or perhaps…