Month: September 2024

The world of cooperative horde shooter Deep Rock Galactic is getting adapted to a new setting: A survivors-style auto-horde-shooter where a single dwarf takes on the buggy hordes all on their own. The trailer for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor dropped today alongside a Steam page and a loose Early Access release date of “2023.”

The spinoff will release into Early Access, where it promises to have four characters, 30-some guns, 10 or so enemies, 1-3 bosses, and 3-5 biomes to explore in the same mission-based extraction gameplay that has you escape with your loot to buy permanent upgrades for future missions. Perhaps the most intriguing bit is that you’ll still be mining stuff and that it’ll still have the same kind of procedural cave generation that Deep Rock Galactic is known for. 

“Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter,” says the very excited game description. “Wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic, take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades. It’s one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!”

(As a brief aside, can we… not call them “survivor-likes?” We’ve already got survival as a gen…

In case we needed more evidence that the world cannot get enough Stardew Valley, creator Eric Barone shared a piece of early community center concept art on Twitter, and fans immediately began clamoring for more photos.

“Was going through some things and found my old notebook w/ the original community center concept,” Barone tweeted nonchalantly while sharing the image—which, for the record, is pretty great.

Followers almost immediately asked for more, and Barone delivered:

“I always spill everything I’m holding,” Barone tweeted, explaining the stains (probably green tea) on the mine concepts.

Others began picking out their favorite bits and pieces from the images Barone shared:

Some followers want more than just a few tweets, and are calling for a full-on art book to be published.

It doesn’t seem like the sort of thing that would be out of the question. Stardew Valley is an unparalleled indie game phenomenon, selling more than 20 million copies across just about every platform imaginable and inspiring spinoffs including a hit board game, soundtracks, food, a very impressive boxed edition, and at least one real-life marriage. In light of…

An image purportedly leaked from a pre-release build of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has revealed that the game will feature both a battle pass and an in-game store, and some followers of the game are not happy about it.

The image, which initially appeared on 4chan, clearly shows “Battle Pass” and “Store” dropdown menus, as well as what appears to be multiple types of in-game currencies. That’s fairly standard stuff for competitive free-to-play games, but Suicide Squad is a solo joint, with support for drop-in/drop-out co-op play. Pricing hasn’t been officially announced yet, but it’s expected to be in line with conventional premium game releases: UK retailer Game, for instance, is currently offering Suicide Squad for preorder for £70.

What appears to be contributing to some of the furor is the lack of information about how Suicide Squad will play. No substantial gameplay footage has been released; for players who were expecting a singleplayer campaign in the style of Arkham City, having a monetization scheme announced via leak has challenged expectations.

“It’s not a PvP game, right? How are they planning to keep players in to capitalize from t…

In a recent interview, Star Wars: Outlaws game director Mathias Karlson and narrative director Navid Khavari sat down with GameSpot to dish out some more details on the upcoming open world Star Wars game. They give the impression of new character Kay Vess as an up-and-coming, Han Solo-style character diving into the galaxy’s underworld at one of the darkest points in the movie timeline.

If Vess’ snappy space jacket, quirky nonhuman companion, and chunky junker of a starship didn’t clue you in, Outlaws is trying to be the Star Wars scoundrel game, much like how 1313 (RIP) was supposed to be the definitive bounty hunter send-up. “We got excited about this ‘scoundrel fantasy,'” Khavari told Gamespot. “And when you think of scoundrels and what era this could fit in between, well, in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, there’s this civil war consuming the galaxy.

“To enter into the underworld within that window felt like a perfect starting point for someone like Kay and for the Player.”

Kay contrasts with scruffy nerf herders of yore, however, in how new she is to the whole scoundrel business. Khavari and Karlson characterize her as a rookie diving …