Brendan “Plunk” Greene today announced his next game after the battle royale ladfest of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, a mysterious game named Prologue. It is… a video game? About… something? But it’s not a battle royale, and apparently not even connected to Plunkbat. This is the first game from Playerunknown Productions, the new research-y division Greene left the Plunkteam to lead earlier this year. Here, have a look at some wet trees in the announcement trailer below.

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Microsoft tonight announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, a sequel to 2017’s striking and spooky Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. The trailer looks real chuffing spiffy, which is probably because it’s running on Microsoft’s next console, the ha-ha-hilariously-named Xbox Series X. Apparently Senua is a big enough deal for Microsoft to make it the game announced alongside their next system’s (daft) name. Neat. Here, have a look in the trailer below.

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After muttering about Godfall for over a year, Duelyst developers Counterplay Games today opened up a little about their upcoming “looter-slasher” action-RPG with a wee trailer at The Game Awards. Godfall has also drawn the attention of Borderlands gang Gearbox, no strangers to looter-thingers themselves. Their publishing arm, Gearbox Publishing, today announced that they’ve picked this one up and will be helping it towards a late-2020 launch. Come watch this cinematic for shiny armour and talk of “a thousand-year war, just to the start the apocalypse.”

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What if the studio behind Endless Space and Endless Legend took a crack at Civilization? It’s an exciting thought and looking to be an exciting game: Humankind, due to launch next year. Following the announcement in August, Amplitude Studios showed more of the historical 4X strategy game in motion with its first “gameplay trailer” tonight at The Game Awards. The video is mostly shots panning over cities but coo, those are some big cities. The video also shows some of the leaders we play as, though you’ll not recognise them from history books.

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been planning on playing Sayonara Wild Hearts since it launched on Nintendo Switch and Apple Arcade earlier this year. Now you can feel slightly worse about continuing to not find time for it, as developers Simogo and publishers Annapurna Interactive have just released the game on PC via Steam. This comes just over a week after it was named Apple Arcade Game Of The Year, and it’s also a part of The Game Awards’ Steam sale. Come watch a trailer to see what the fuss is about.

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Total War: Warhammer 2 seems terrifyingly vast already, but Creative Assembly keep adding to it. The latest of their smaller Legendary Lords DLC packs is out as of today, adding two new factions with unique leaders: Deathmaster Snikch of the Skaven’s Clan Eshin and Malus Darkblade of the Dark Elf faction Hag Graef. It’ll cost you seven of your pounds and there’s an introductory trailer below.

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You know what are underrated? Nouns. The new trailer for “noir spaceship life sim” Ostranauts introduces the game’s scifi world in which you design a ship, captain its crew, and tinker with control panels, and its full of excellent fictional nouns, both proper and common. “I’ve smuggled contraband Lusca out of Atlantis,” says the narrator, and I instantly want to do the same.

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One of the most popular genres on Roblox is the roleplay game. By roleplay, I don t mean RPG. Many of these games won t even seem like real games, since they often don t have rules or mechanics.

Roblox s roleplay games are places for playing make-believe. They re themed free-roam worlds filled with minigames and interactive bits and pieces, plus wardrobes of clothes and other cosmetics that let you look the way you want. Most give players certain roles to perform. Some are focused on certain activities which bring in more traditional game mechanics, such as running a pizza restaurant or breaking out of jail. Others are almost completely freeform, acting as glorified chatrooms, imaginative alternative worlds, or places to show off and be seen.

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The Game Awards may be a pointless set of trophies thrown like bath bombs into a big tub of adverts, but one nice thing to come from them is a big blast of demos for upcoming games. For the next 48 hours, The Game Festival on Steam will offer demos of thirteen games including System Shock remake, gutsy platformer Carrion, and the self-explanatory Skatebird. This is meant to be some sort of equivalent to a games show, a brief coming-together then a parting, so these are only temporary. If your connection is decent enough, you can get a good few plays in.

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The writing was on the wall when the Diamond Casino & Resort opened in GTA Online in July. A casino in a city of thieves was always going to be a target, and Rockstar have just crafted a new heist for players to rob the place. From today, you can take part in the Diamond Casino Heist, which Rockstar are claiming is their “biggest, most audacious, most complex criminal operation ever.”

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