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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 is also adding Jimmy Neutron Does that make it a good or a bad thing thatNickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2is in development, then? It’ll feature new stages and new characters, while revamping the look and layouts from the original. Among the new characters is Spongebob’s perma-frustrated neighbour Squidward, who you can see in the announcement trailer below. NASB2 will also include a singleplayer campaign about taking down Vlad Plasmius, the bad guy from Danny Phantom, and new extra-powerful movies called Supers....

Testing their servers before launch Thieving co-op revivalPayday 3is due for release in September, but it’ll enter closed beta next week. From August 2nd until August 7th, players accepted into the beta will be able to play a single heist so that developers Starbreeze can test their servers and the game’s stability. You can apply for the closed beta by pressing the ‘request access’ button at the top of thePayday 3 Steam page....

Join our brilliant guides team As Indiescovery listeners may havealsoheard by now, our guides writer Rebecca is departing RPS in a couple of weeks, which means we’re now on the hunt for a new guides writer to fill her shoes. Applications are open now, and you can find everything you need to know about it below. As a Guides Writer, you will work closely with our Guides Editor Ollie, fellow Guides Writer Hayden, as well as the rest of the editorial team to create the best original PC games guides on the internet....

Come and lead our excellent reviews section As listeners of ourIndiscovery podcastwill probably know by now, our Rachel is sadly leaving RPS this week for pastures new. There will be a separate goodbye post for her tomorrow so you can say your farewells, but as that old saying goes: where one door closes, another one opens. Reviewing the best and most interesting games on PC is still a critical part of what RPS stands for, and we’re now looking for a new Reviews Editor to carry that work forward....

Get ready to radiate the sixteen beacons or something like that That certainly looks better than the middling first game, right? The Soulslike nuts and bolts are still screwed on tight with dodge rolls, overwhelming bosses, build variety, and a heavy emphasis on reading animations. Everything just seems slightly punchier, snappier, and prettier, though we won’t know for sure until we’ve played it. I’m not sure whether to be excited or terrified about that final giant boss, though....

Outrun aliens, search for a new home, and pet a pig Next month is absolutely packed with games big and small, but hopefully your hard drive has space for another fantastic-looking one becauseJumplight Odysseyis zooming into early access on August 21st. It’s a mix between starship management and roguelike planet hopping from developer League Of Geeks, the studio behind strategy gemArmello. Check out its pretty ‘70s anime-inspired trailer below. Jumplight Odyssey puts you in control of the SDF Catalina, the colourful spaceship that’s on the run from murderous green aliens who just nuked your homeworld....

Koa And The Five Pirates Of Mara is a throwback to the Crash Bandicoots and the Super Mario 3D Worlds you might love Summer In Mara was a pleasant crafting, farming, exploring mash-up, but its follow-up is steering the ship in a slightly different direction.Koa And The Five Pirates Of Maraisn’t the snappiest name, but the trailer below might get stuck in your noggin if you’re a sucker for: high-speed collectathoning, tropical summer settings, 3Dplatformingclassics from the noughties, or any combination of those three things....

Four more episodes will roll out every two weeks Like previous Telltale outings, The Expanse is a choose-your-own-adventure game that promises plenty of tough choices and even tougher consequences. It follows fan-favourite character Camina Drummer, with actor Cara Gee reprising her role here. Drummer is the second-in-command on a space scavenging ship that promises to make everyone on board rich. Things are never that simple, though, and I can imagine that money-hungry plan gets thrown off its axis quite quickly....

When is a sequel not a sequel Having been absent for the majority of the last few pods, I’m back! At least for a bit, and just in time forSix Ages: Ride Like The Wind(a spiritual successor to King Of Dragon Pass) to to geta depressing-sounding sequelandMystto get aHumble Bundle featuring its sequels, both official and spiritual. So that got us to thinking: what in the darn heck is a spiritual successor anyway?...

A great choice for slower-paced games, media and work. Want a massive 32-inch 4K gaming monitor? Good news, because today you can pick one up for only £210 at Laptops Direct in the UK. That’s a £144 savings versus its original price, and £139 cheaper than the same model is on Amazon right now. The monitor in question is the MSI G321CUV, which uses a curved VA panel to deliver excellent contrast (3000:1), reasonable motion clarity (rated 4ms GtG) and of course a truly immersive gaming experience....

Nice. But, are there nicer options? SanDisk are well known for their Micro SD cards these days, but they’ve actually been making flash USB drives for even longer. Case in point is their SanDisk Ultra Flair, a metal-shod USB drive that’s available in capacities up to 512GB - and it’s this size that sees a nice 69% reduction on Amazon UK today. The Ultra Flair 512GB is rated for up to 150MB/s reads, making it an order of magnitude slower than a modern NVMe SSD - but considerably more portable, of course....

To me, the floor is a shelf I’m not someone who usually likes little puzzles or point-and-click games as I’m far too impatient. I’d much rather solve the puzzle by battering it with my fist so the pieces go flying everywhere, or turn my pointer into a fist so I can batter the dialogue out of the dialogue box and watch the wizard’s words spill onto the dirt like I’ve just shaken an open can of spaghettios....

Lead art director Evelyn Mansell says in a game you want a gun “that does weird things.” It’s been about an hour since Evelyn Mansell - one of the lead art directors on theSystem Shock remake- and I started talking about guns. Specifically the big, daft chunky guns that she worked on, but also about videogame guns in general - what makes them tick. What separates a good one from a bad one....