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Blightbound, a new multiplayer dungeon-crawler from Awesomenauts developer Ronimo Games, is heading to Steam Early Access on July 29. The game, which will be showcased as part of the Devolver Digital Direct on July 11, will let you and two friends venture into the Blight and face the horrible monsters within.

The Blight is a mysterious fog that has spread over the game world, and as you might expect, various abominations have emerged from it. It can be played with local or online multiplayer, and there will be plenty of loot to acquire and new heroes to find and add to your roster of 20 playable characters. There will be puzzles to solve, too.

You can check out a video with a developer walkthrough below.

Over time you’ll be able to build up your mountaintop refuge, and there will be item crafting to enjoy too. There will be three different lands to conquer, each with unique dungeons: they’re called Gravemark, Underhold, and Blood Ridge.

The game will encourage working together and figuring out how classes compliment each other, and you’ll need to be smart to overcome some of the game’s bosses.

A release date for the final version has not been announced yet. The game is, for now, exclusive to PC.

In early 2019, Annapurna Interactive released Outer Wilds, an action-adventure game about exploring a strange solar system. Months later, Obsidian Entertainment came out with The Outer Worlds, an action RPG about exploring a strange solar system. Both had mechanics that played with time, were released with Epic Games Store exclusivity, were featured on GameSpot’s best games of 2019, and have Wikipedia pages that start with “Not to be confused with [the other game].”

Even their logos had some degree of similarity, though the Game Maker’s Toolkit’s Twitter account has just confused that issue even more with these mind-bendingly flipped logos.

The similarity between the two games was one of last year’s biggest gaming inside jokes, especially as both of them were critically acclaimed and well-recommended. Gaming sites like Polygon even published guides for distinguishing the two games. Outer Wilds narrative designer Kelsey Beachum confused matters even more this year by announcing that she was leaving the Outer Wilds studio for a job with The Outer Worlds’ Obsidian.

If you’re still confused, here’s a quick rundown: The Outer Worlds leans much more heavily on Fallout-style RPG elements, with a customizable main character exploring a colonized solar system and making friends and enemies along the way. The game’s style is more detailed and photorealistic. Outer Wilds, on the other hand explores a mysterious solar system stuck in a 22-minute time loop, with the gameplay focusing on exploration over combat, and boasting a more stylized visual signature.

Both of them are worth playing, however–you can get The Outer Worlds on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, while Outer Wilds is on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Crysis, Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 are now all available to Xbox One players with an EA Access subscription, as announced in a tweet that referenced the classic 2007-era “can it run Crysis?” meme.

EA Access is a paid subscription service that brings a collection of EA games to players on PS4 and Xbox One, though the Crysis trilogy is currently only available for Xbox players. A subscription for EA Access costs $4.99 a month, or $29.99 annually.

This year Crytek announced it would be releasing Crysis: Remastered in 2020, with the game set to come to PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch–making it the first time a Crysis game will be playable on a Nintendo console.

However, the remaster has not been smooth sailing for Crytek. After a number of screenshots and a trailer leaked ahead of a scheduled July 1 reveal, the developer rescheduled both the reveal and the remaster’s release date due to negative feedback to the leaks.

Upon its original release in 2007, Crysis was known for its cutting edge graphics–to the point where the computing power needed to run it became an ongoing meme. With Crysis’ history as a graphically intensive game, the leaked footage of the remaster just wasn’t up to standard for many fans.

This release does not include the Remastered version of Crysis, though–rather it is the Xbox 360 port of the original.

A statement released on Twitter by Crytek acknowledged the feedback, saying “we’ve seen all the reactions – the good and the bad – and we’re listening!”

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The release of Halo 3 on PC on July 14 also marks the start of Halo: The Master Chief Collection‘s Season 2–and there’s a lot of new stuff coming to the game very soon. Developer 343 Industries spoke at length about the Season 2 update and Halo 3 on PC as part of a lengthy developer livestream today.

Starting off, Season 2 will usher in a lovely looking new main menu screen for MCC. It shows off some iconic weaponry and vehicles from Halo 3, and it scrolls through different images if you hover over the page. You can see a still from the new menu screen below.

For Season 2, MCC is getting over 100 new items, and these include things like weapon skins, visors, vehicle skins, and nameplates to customize your look in the game. Vehicle skins will be available in Halo CE, which is notable because it’s the first time the game has ever had vehicle skins in its 19-year history.

343 has also introduced an update in Season 2 that allows you to spend Season Points to unlock new items right away, instead of needing to grind for XP to get them. Additionally, MCC’s Season 1 content will remain available to purchase with Season Points. To be clear, MCC’s various cosmetic items are only available to purchase with Season Points, and not microtransactions.

Character customization is also getting some attention for Halo 3 specifically. With the Season 2 update, 343 is introducing much more customization options and depth, including the ability to see your emblem on your shoulder plate. You can also select specific armor pieces individually, whereas in the past you could only change your full armor set.

The Forge mode is also coming to Halo: Reach, Halo 2, and Halo 3 on PC with the Season 2 update. Additionally, Halo 3’s Forge mode specifically will get new features like “phased” physics, a bigger spend budget, and new pieces like vehicles including the gigantic Elephant.

Be sure to check out the full developer livestream above to see what’s new in MCC Season 2.

With the launch of Season 2, all competitive player skill rankings will be reset, though players will still be able to see their “lifetime highest rank” in each ranked playlist to know how they performed in previous seasons.

343 has a separate team working on Halo Infinite, and it’s preparing to showcase the next-generation Halo game during the Xbox 20/20 event on July 23. Just recently, 343 confirmed that it will show off the game’s campaign, not multiplayer, as part of the reveal.

After years of waiting, Microsoft will finally show off Halo Infinite during the Xbox Series X first-party showcase on July 23. Now, developer 343 Industries has begun to set expectations for the event.

In a blog post, 343 said fans can look forward to the “first look’ at Halo Infinite’s campaign. “We’re excited to share what the team’s been working on–the first look at Halo Infinite’s campaign is coming on July 23!” the developer explained.

The wording here seems to suggest that the July 23 event will focus on Halo Infinite’s campaign as opposed to its multiplayer component. That’s probably a bummer for some part of the fanbase, but it makes sense that Microsoft would want to hone in one on component of the game at the start. Presumably the multiplayer reveal is being saved for a later date.

Microsoft showed off a first glimpse of Halo Infinite’s campaign at E3 2019 with a cinematic trailer that you can re-watch in the video above.

Back at E3 2018, game director Chris Lee said 343 is “making changes to how we approach things” with Halo: Infinite. This could mean a number of things, but the quote stands out in regards to rumors. Reports claim Halo Infinite will be two separate releases, with single-player and multiplayer launching separately. Lee said he looks forward to taking players in “new and unexpected directions” with the new Halo game, though whether this pertains to a delivery model, the story, or something else remains to be seen.

Halo Infinite is a launch title for the Xbox Series X, and there will be multiple betas for the game held prior to release. The game will also be released on Xbox One and PC.

Remothered: Broken Porcelain, one of 2020’s big upcoming horror games, has been delayed. The game, which showed off debut gameplay footage and announced an August release date just last month, will now arrive on October 20 instead.

In an update on publisher Modus Games’ website, community manager Luke Croft has announced that developer Stormind Games is delaying the release to “deliver the experience you deserve.” As with many recent delays, COVID-19 is to blame: “Having additional time for polish and to accommodate unanticipated longer timeframes due to the current global situation will help us do exactly that.”

As Croft points out, this means the game will now launch closer to Halloween, which is fitting. It will now launch on the same day as Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga–a game it shares little in common with.

This is good news for horror fans who might have been expecting a less spooky Halloween than usual–after all, the movie Halloween Kills has been delayed into next year due to the pandemic.

Broken Porcelain is a sequel to 2017 title Remothered: Tormented Fathers, which reviewed well. If you’re hungry for more horror, it’s also worth checking out the trailer for the next Resident Evil title, Resident Evil: Village, which is coming in 2021.

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