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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor launched into early access last week, taking the bug blasting and space mining of the original cooperative experience and reworking it into a Vampire Survivors-style autoshooter. It's proved to be a winning combination, with the game selling half a million copies in its first week.
Bohemia Interactive released its first stable update of the year for its long-running zombie survival game DayZ yesterday. Update 1.24 brings several new features to the game, including a new weapon, the Vikhr rifle, more camouflage skins for the ballistic helmet, and an array of new sounds and animations to further liven up the game's fictional country of Chernarus.
It seems Palworld has triggered a reckoning for cute video game animals. Mere weeks after Pocketpair's survival sim saw stratospheric success by letting players murder and enslave legally distinct Pokémon knockoffs, the creators of creature-battling MMO Temtem have decided they've had enough of all that collecting and training nonsense. Instead, they'll let players unleash unbridled wrath on its adorable menagerie of creatures in the «bullet heaven» spinoff Temtem Swarm.
Remember Little Devil Inside? It's a survival-y open world action adventure with impeccable black comedy vibes, developed by South Korean studio Neostream. It's also been in development for absolutely ages. The game's Kickstarter campaign took place when Steam Greenlight was still a thing, and there have been no updates about its progress since its last trailer dropped in 2021.
I was excited about Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader when I previewed it in 2022, but the final product left a lot to be desired, according to Jody's review. The game's sweeping sci-fi drama was undermined by tedious combat in which «there's never one interesting tactical battle when there could be three samey ones to grind down your resources,» he lamented, while the experience was further hobbled by an infestation of bugs.
Permadeath modes are all the rage right now. Baldur's Gate 3 added its terrifying Honour Mode earlier this year, while games like Amnesia: The Bunker and Against the Storm included the option to play without a safety net toward the end of 2023. Now Assassin's Creed Mirage is getting in on the high-stakes action, with Ubisoft adding a brand new mode that doubles down on the perils of professional murder.
Today is apparently Bruce Wayne's birthday, but I'm ashamed to say I've neglected to send him a gift. It'd be hard enough thinking about what to get a real billionaire for their anniversary, let alone one that doesn't exist. Fortunately, Warner Bros and Valve have found another way to mark this special occasion that I definitely knew about before this morning, by slashing the prices of a whole bunch of Batman games on Steam.
Beer has often made me feel like I've been twisted into some wretched new form, but it's never been anything a couple of Panadol and a bacon sandwich couldn't solve. I fear the dwarves of Deep Rock Galactic will soon need a more radical hangover cure than paracetamol and protein, however, as developer Ghost Ship Games has just introduced a brand new bevvy to its cooperative shooter that transforms them into new objects.