If you’ve got the hang of not starving with your pals in multiplayer survival sandbox Don’t Starve Together, it’s time for a new challenge: not getting kicked to bits in a gladiatorial arena together. Don’t Starve Together has launched the first of its new time-limited events, a trip into a fiery world to fight the Battlemaster’s army. Still, maybe you’ll get to drink your own spilt blood, eat your own smashed-off limbs, and die sated.

Klei Entertainment are holding a big sale this weekend too, including their own (Invisible Inc, Mark of the Ninja…) as well as those they’ve published (Darkest Dungeon, Crypt of the NecroDancer…). Good video games.

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I was about to boot up Don’t Starve Together [official site] to poke at the update A New Reign which went live yesterday. Then I remembered that I am bad at Don’t Starve AND any and all of its iterations from vanilla onward. I die to bees a LOT when left to my own devices so Don’t Starve Together is likely to be dying to bees in front of at least one other person, right? And A New Reign adds a Queen Bee so… my in-game life is likely to be one long My Girl re-enactment, yes? Yes. … [visit site to read more]

After a journey spanning close to a year and a half, Klei’s buddy-boasting survival ‘em up Don’t Starve Together [official site] has dragged itself from the icy grips of Early Access, and has now crawled into the barren plains of full release. As Klei’s longest-dwelling Early Access-er, the co-op standalone ships with the Reign of Giants expansion in tow, as well as a handful of new features – not least the debut of a long-awaited character.

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