There's a lot of shooting in battle royale games isn't there? I mean, I'm all for it given how much I play all Of Duty: Warzone but I've wondered how cool it would be if games like Sekiro or Nioh received last-man-standing, PVP modes. And it seems like my wish has been granted, as a trailer for Naraka: Bladepoint shows off an East Asian-themed battle royale with grappling hooks, slick melee combat, and big monsters.
Mimimi have announced a surprise standalone expansion to Shadow Tactics: Blades Of Their Shotgun, their excellent real-time squad tactics game from 2016. Named Aiko's Choice, the expandalone tells a new story focused on the game's disguise expert. I hadn't expected them to return to Shadow Tactics, so this is great news.
For those poor pitiable souls who haven't yet played the wonderful Codenames, I present to you the below puzzle. Take a look, and if you like, come up with your best answer in the comments. If you enjoy the puzzle, you'll enjoy Codenames.
I first played Sub Rosa around nine years ago, but it's only today reached Steam Early Access. Publisher Devolver Digital marked the occasion with a new cinematic trailer that introduces the multiplayer first-person shooter's slapstick deals and double-crosses.
Axiom Verge 2 was announced as coming to PC exclusively via the Epic Games Store last month. Now the developer of the pixelly metroidvania has shown more of the game in a narrated video - while still remaining steadfastly spoiler free.
Saviour is one of those games that's been looking fabulous on Twitter for years, with GIFs that show off its 2D pixel art parkour and precise dodges in melee combat. Now there's a developer-narrated trailer that shows more and explains how it looks.
It's always a pleasure to stumble across an indie game you've not heard of before, especially one that looks big and polished, like it's going to toe-to-toe with much bigger games. That's how it feels to look at Thymesia, an action-RPG with a grim setting and zippy melee combat against plague-infested brutes.
Monster Train was one of our favourite games of 2020, a deckbuilder about battling monsters on a multi-storey train through hell. Our review even dared to say it was as good as Slay The Spire.
It's therefore v. good news that the first big chunk of DLC is out now. The Last Divinity adds a new clan, called the Wurmkin, and an even-harder final boss.
After fighting on the Western Front of World War 1 in Verdun then the Eastern Front in Tannenberg, the first-person shooter series will continue on the Italian Front in Isonzo later this year. Blackmill Games and M2H today announced their latest game will rumble across the mountains, valleys, and towns of northern Italy. Watching the announcement trailer, oof yeah I don't think the lovely weather makes up for the hellish battlefield terrain.
Valheim is a survival game in which you grub around in forests for wood and leather scraps and steadily build your base into a towering castle. It’s also> a game in which you’re a Viking who goes on epic voyages to distant islands for fortune and enough glory to ascend to Valhalla. Why not both, right? Well, one reason why not is that these two ideals sometimes rub up against each other the wrong way.
Developer Iron Gate Studio found a particular pressure point when they came to design its portals, which instantly teleport players across the game world. “We redesigned them several times because we didn’t want people to use them too much,” co-founder Henrik Törnqvist tells me. But why would you put something in a game that you don’t want players to use?