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There are some games where you can tell almost immediately that the developers understand what made the original games special. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is one of those games. Set in 1499 Paris, 23 years after the events of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, Belmont’s Curse…
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Gawd, everyone’s doing an XCOM these days. Star Wars is doing an XCOM. Rainbow Six is doing an XCOM. Warhammer 40K has done, like, four XCOMs. Those squeaky wiggletubes of Worms are at it too, with Worms: Galactic Tactics, a turn-based grid battler coming sometime in 2027.…
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CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory might have used Gamescom to make clear that they've got a Witcher thing in the pipeline for this year and the next two, but they've also had to put one of their previously cat-eyed projects on hold for the time being. The remake of the first…
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On my final day of Gamescom, strolling (running) around the indie area to make sure I don't miss anything good, I stumble upon Wrong Organ’s upcoming Carcass Clad. Set in a wartorn Soviet city, empty of people but littered with tanks wearing coats of Frankensteined cattle…
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Why the rush, The Blood of Dawnwalker? Your protagonist Coen's family have only been kidnapped by a vampiric dictator who's slowly draining them of blood. Let the kid take his sweet time in finding a way to deliver them from the castle dungeon. After all, he's got a tonne of…
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The Serious Sam series has always been wonderfully silly and absurd violent. It’s a brain-off, guns-up, explosion-heavy slice of pure gameplay that, even with its original game in 2001, was seen as a throwback. Theoretically, it should work incredibly well as a roguelite,…
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When Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma developers Frictional announced Ontos, their philosophical horror game set in a mad science hotel on the moon, the internet's jimmies were rustled by the presence of an AI server made out of rats. I have several questions for Frictional…
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The sneaky skittering rats of the Skaven are a mysterious bunch. Their cruelty and treachery is hardly reserved for the other races of the Warhammer world, but turn it inward as well, with no semblance of pity for the weak amongst their own ranks. It’s from a slurry of…
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Yep. I know. GTA 6 is still on the list of storied crime games without a PC release date. GTA 5, though, is out on PC and has long been the place folks who love Rockstar's crime sandboxes so much they want to pretend they live in them go for a spot of GTA roleplaying. Rockstar…
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As I stand on the lee side of the wrecked haz lab, all I can hear is the rain pelt its metal roof and the feral wind howl about me. Planet LV-921 may have a breathable atmosphere, but it's not a safe planet. And that's before the xenomorph enters the scene and starts hunting the…
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How has nobody made a LEGO city building game before now? LEGO Skylines is one of those ideas that’s so obvious in retrospect, combining the iconic construction toy with what is now the top city building game of the past decade. This isn’t just a plasticky, bricky…
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Long-running game series often go in cycles, needing to reinvent themselves for newer generations and audiences, and then trying to wind back the clock to rediscover what made them popular in the first place. With its 30th anniversary in just a few months, it’s no surprise…
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The owners of Nexus Mods have acquired community-run backend database SteamDB from its founders, the two sides in the deal have announced. The folks behind the former, who've held its keys for 13 years, said their decision to step back is rooted in burnout and a desire to find a…
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The first time I lost my whole party in Dungeon Settlers, it was to a swarm of rats. I think we can all agree that getting killed by rats in anything remotely fantasy RPG-ish is an enormous faux pas. It's like spelling your own name wrong on your CV. It's like accidentally…
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Not content with just adding to the questlines and interactivity of Baldur's Gate 3's established gang of companions or working on their own for custom campaigns, modders have even started turning other characters from the game into recruitable buddies. The latest to get this…
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Unionised Bethesda Games Studios staff embroiled in Microsoft's latest round of mass layoffs have expressed further doubts about the company's ability to create games at the "quality level" of the very bestest Elder Scrolls and Fallout projects, as they continue to haggle with…
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The Blood of Dawnwalker, Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG with more than a touch of Witcher 3 running through its veins, is about to claw-slide down a wall into release street. Depending on where in the world you live, it'll either arrive late on September 2nd or first thing on…
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Nintendo has released a surprise update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to take advantage of the Nintendo Switch 2 with update 4.0.0 There’s now both support for 8-player split-screen racing, player faces with camera support, and general loading speed improvements for the newer…
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