A tactics RPG about a clown rebellion from the Keylocker devs, inspired by Disgaea? Yes, I would play that.

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This year’s LSDjam is underway. Prepare to trip balls.

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Sharkmob’s open world extraction shooter Exoborne is getting a closed playtest, from 10th to 24th October. You can sign up here.

Valve have patched multiplayer shooter Deadlock to give players the chance to turn cheaters into frogs, as can be seen here. That’s according to a Valve developer who posts the changes to the game in a tucked-away forum.

The Tetris Company has announed a new Tetris game will be coming out in partnership with Japanese publisher Arika, report Gematsu. It is described as “Tetris that makes you better at Tetris.” So… Tetris?

Some morning music – Alt J’s Tessellate.

Midnight Murder Club is having an open beta. It’s a spooky and surreptitious multiplayer FPS where you are tossed into a pitch-black mansion with a revolver and a flashlight. There are map pick-ups such as night vision goggles and kevlar vests. I suspect those goggles will decide the outcome of many matches.

And here’s a new trailer for ITER, in which you burrow up through stacks of rock to gather materials for your mobile base, with the format evolving into 3D when you venture above ground. The mining/base-defence premise has been done but this does look stylish.

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Here’s a demo for Warside, which appears to be Advance Wars but a bit more chiselled.

Kakehashi Games and Bandai Namco Studios Singapore have announced origami-inspired 3D action platformer Hirogami, which “invites players to a world where everything has been crafted to convey the physical, often fragile, nature of paper, amidst the backdrop of an invasion by a powerful digital force known as the Blight.” Isn’t this basically what video game magazines have been trying to do since 2001?

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Via EG, a remake of 90s classic Little Big Adventure is out in November, and there’s a demo of the first chapter on Steam.

Bring us home, Friday

I had to walk through pouring rain for an hour this morning, and am now greatly appreciating the comforts of my flat. I extend these feelings of gratitude unto you, reader. Get warm, stay dry and FEED THE MAW.

Space Marine 2 patch 3.0 is out, which adds support for ultrawide monitors, private lobbies in Operations mode, and makes a lot of other changes.

The Finals’ season four, which I wrote about earlier this week, is live now. The full details of what it contains are over on Steam.

The Convergence Games Showcase took place this evening, with trailers on a couple dozen indie games you probably don’t know about yet.

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Via Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter, Spectre Divide devs Mountaintop Studios have laid off 13 developers to “make sure we’re set up to support Spectre and its community for the long term.”

“Our objective is not to endorse any specific agenda,” writes Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in an internal memo obtained by Insider Gaming, in response to “the recent polarized coverage around our creative choices”. I’d argue that BasedWolverineEnjoyer324 putting out a ragebait grift video complaining they can’t jork it to the Star War doesn’t really count as ‘coverage’ there, Yves.

Tenet Of The Spark is a moody 3D beat ’em up set in what looks like modern-day New York, oh wait, now you’re a Viking with a hammer, oh wait, now you’re an Aztec warrior with a boomerang-type throwing weapon. It seems that dimension-shifting is a thing. It’s all a bit Spider-Versey.

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The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection has a new patch, adding some visual bits you can find details of here.

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Slay The Princess’s Pristine Cut – which adds three new chapters and other content – releases on the 24th October.

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Here are the first 10 minutes of The Axis Unseen, a heavy metal horror hunter from a former Bethesda dev.

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Give thanks for Thursday

Because it’s the day before Friday. FEED THE MAW.

Here’s the Steam page for All Will Rise, “a narrative deck-builder about taking the powerful to court for destroying the planet”, from devs Speculative Agency with narrative design from Thirsty Suitors and 80 Days scribe Meghna Jayanth.

Food Boy is like if Atari’s 80s classic Paper Boy were about delivering pizza in Brazil. You can use the pizza as a weapon and there is twerking, so much twerking.

Visegunne is a very posh-looking 2D scrolling shoot ’em up with “soul-powered” mechs.

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I’m moderately enthused for Hell Is Us, a blend of swordfighting and auxiliary drone combat in a world that’s sort of Days Gone with a lovely view of Returnal. “If war is the closest we get to hell on earth, it’s because Earth harbors the worst of demons: humankind,” frets the trailer narration. The game does include some actual demons, though, because you can’t combo a metaphor.

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I hadn’t heard of Parry Nightmare, which has just been updated with an easy mode. It’s a top-down anime horror jobbie in which you parry things with your dislodged soul while your body blasts stuff with death-rays. The more you parry, the more light you cast, and the more of the level you see. Seems neat?

Activision have detailed how they’re going to fix Black Ops 6 multiplayer following the beta. Topline notes include making headshots more lethal but not too lethal. Picture Goldilocks taste-testing porridge, except that the porridge is a Jackal PDW.

The Puzzle Maker: Cebba’s Odyssey is a grid-based strategy affair in which you best beasties and other obstacles by means of positioning units carefully and having them act in the right order.

Well-aged dragons ahoy.

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Witness ye the first trailer for Alan Wake 2’s The Lake House DLC. It’s coming “this fall”. “Enter the Lake House, where monsters wear many faces, and survival is just the beginning,” explains the blurb.

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GeT YoUr TeEtH InTo WeDnEsDaY

FTM!

Also out now: Remnant 2’s Dark Horizon DLC, together with a free update.

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Rogue Trader’s Void Shadows DLC is out now.

Black metal TTRPG MÖRK BORG is getting a game…a vidyagame!

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I am making an extremely long face at the news that Darkest Dungeon devs Red Hook have been acquired by Behaviour Interactive, who have laid off over a hundred staff this year and don’t seem to have much of a business plan beyond “make more Dead By Daylight”.

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This is not new news but I only just found out so I’m posting it. Toxic Crusaders game! Next year! Looks at bit naff but still! It’s toxie!

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Warham in Space: Blueman Group sounds like it’s getting some DLC, via IGN.

Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is a just-revealed table-top RPG adaptation with a miniatures aesthetic, from former Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights developers. Roll a D20 – if you get an 18 or higher, watch the trailer.

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Dinoblade is a very realistic dinosaur sim.

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Here is a combat-free game in which you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia. It looks lovely.

CHEWSDAY INNIT

I think you’ll find my Maw feeding loisence right here, officer.

Blasphemous 2 is getting a DLC named ‘mea culpa’, which I believe is latin for ‘mmmm, calpol”

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A new IGN report has shed more light on the Annapurna Interactive situation, after its entire staff resigned earlier this month.

Shirley Curry, aka the “Skyrim Grandma”, is retiring from making videos about the game, she says. “It isn’t fun anymore,” she told viewers in an emotional video. “I’m tired of it…”

Noisy shooter Selaco is getting its noisy “Randomizer mode” earlier than planned, say developers Altered Orbit Studios. The noisy mode is going to let you enable random noisy enemy spawns, allow or disallow noisy earthquakes or noisy zombie invasions, and make noisy weapons spawn randomly, among other (possibly noisy) game modifiers. Noise.

Heart-poking RPG series To The Moon has launched a short new episode. It’s called Just A To The Moon Series Beach Episode and features a lot of characters who are supposed to be dead, all mysterious enjoying a holiday at a beach resort. Hmmm.

It’s Monday, so don’t.

Just don’t okay?