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Watch the announcement trailer for 33 Immortals MMO raids can be some of the most satisfying experiences in multiplayer gaming, so it’s a shame that they’re so often one of the last things you gain access to after a whole lot of time and grinding. That makes me very interested in33 Immortals, the newly announced next game fromJotunandSpiritfarerstudio Thunder Lotus. It’s a 33-player cooperative action roguelikelike which they say offers “ultra-fast runs through a streamlined distillation of the MMO raid experience,” with “pick-up and raid” matchmaking....

All a growing girl needs What’s a captain without a crew? At the combinedXbox Games ShowcaseslashStarfieldDirect tonight, Bethesda did a deep dive on a few aspects of their upcoming space RPGStarfield- including thecompanion system. Although, given that you assign them to different tasks on your ship and various outposts, it might be more appropriate to call them “employees”. Although again, you canromance some of them, which is definitely an HR issue....

Those beards are looking a bit iffy, mind As promised, Bethesda gave us an extended look atStarfieldthis evening as part of a dedicated presentation attatched toMicrosoft’s larger not-E3 showcase. Alongside a fresh look at the game’s 1000 planets, combat and skill trees, we were given a closer peek at arguably the most important part of the whole game: itscharacter creator. Described as the “simplest character creator” the team have ever made, Starfield will let you dig into the finer details of your space captain’s face, right down to their teeth for reasons I can’t quite work out yet....

You can also be a sneaky-sneaky space ninja If you’re like me and thought thatStarfieldwas just gonna be a shooty shooty space cowboy game, then think again. Revealed during the Starfield Direct that happened just after theXbox Games Showcase, Bethesda highlighted a number of different playstyles that Starfield will be able to facilitate when it launches this September, including everything from being gung-ho all lasers blazing to a stealthy assassin....

Freedom, but freedom to what? “So why go this big withStarfield?” asks Bethesda Softworks' lead landscape artist Matt Carofano at the beginning of a segment in tonight’s Starfield Direct. “Because we want to give you freedom on a galactic level,” is the unsatisfying response. Starfieldfeatures over 1000 planets to visit, each procedurally generated upon your approach but populated with handcrafted elements. Your “freedom” upon landing on these planets - many of which seem near-barren - is whether you spend your time doing some quests, ‘surveying’ the local flora and fauna, or shooting rocks with your space laser....

Bang bang boom boom I’d rather just saunter around space looking at pretty planets inStarfield, but I guess in a game as big as Bethesda’s sci-fi behemoth they want fighty fighty spaceship battles. During the Starfield Direct that ran just after tonight’sXbox Game Showcase, the folks over at Bethesda explained just how ship combat works, and it’s more than just holding down the trigger and aiming in the right direction....

Flight of fugly Of the manyStarfieldelements deep-dove into during theXbox Games Showcase’sStarfieldDirect, the ship building was one that we’d previously seen a decent amount of. Yet it also cemented, in quite gleeful fashion, the design tool’s potential as a foundry for some truly wretched space boats. Just, awful. Consider my interest renewed as a result. Like the personal background options inStarfield’s character creator, there is a utility slant to hammering together your ship: adding or extending different modules will add or extend its capabilities, like making room for more crew members or installing a modding bay....

Slay monsters in light-hearted co-op adventure Towerborne Looks like I won’t be regretting every in-game decision I’ve ever made with Stoic’s new gameTowerborne. It’s an action RPG that looks much more light-hearted than the studio’s previous Viking-ish trilogyThe Banner Saga, where I killed every character I loved and made a host of bad choices. Announced during theXbox Game Showcaseat this year’snot-E3, Towerborne looks much more family-friendly. Which is lucky because you’ll be wanting to grab family members, as it’s also a co-op adventure....

Sounds potentially very good maybe Frank Herbert’s weirdo sci-fi epic is a great shout for a survival game and an MMO in many ways. You’ve got warring factions, you’ve got a hostile desert planet, you’ve got canonical giant monsters that can form regular events for players. You got yourself a video game, baybeeeee! Or at least, Funcom do, them being the devs what are makingDune Awakening. In a little spotlight feature at thePC Gaming Showthey talked a bit more about the game, and boy, sure seems like a lot of cool stuff ispossible in theory....

Earthless is entering early access next year Okay, so you’re not being chased by an army of murderous robots that are only seconds behind you, but you’re still jumping around trying to find a new home for the last of humanity who managed to escape a doomed planet.Earthlessis a roguelike deckbuilder from Blackbird Interactive, although you wouldn’t know it from the cinematic teaser trailer shown at thePC Gaming Showtonight, which was heavy on the dramatic yet hopeful voiceover....

Don’t Nod are really out here publishing games aren’t they? They’ve already got their ghost-hunting RPGBanishers: Ghosts Of New Edenon the go, and there’s also the recently releasedHarmony: The Fall Of Reverie, and now they’ve announced dizzying climbing adventureJusant. You can watch the trailer below, but if you’re scared of heights then maybe give this one a miss. Hey, I’m just looking out for you. The opening shot is enough to make me wheeze with fear, but it also looks incredibly pretty at the same time....

Some of the folks making Stormgate were once at Blizzard What happens when some folks who previously worked at Blizzard on games including Warcraft 3 andStarCraft2 go independent with a new studio to make a new real-time strategy game? They make a game which looks quite a lot like ‘Warcraft 3 meets StarCraft 2’. That’sStormgate, and you can see that for yourself in the first gameplay trailer, below. Along with various competitive multiplayer modes, Stormgate will cooperative play, including on campaign missions....

But first, a new trailer for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin If owning forty thousand hammers sounds ludicrous to you, come have a peek at the new trailer forWarhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin. This accompanies news that the fantasy RTS will run a multiplayer open beta test over the weekend of July 7-10. That will let every orrible scrote in to play 1v1 matches as either the Orruk Kruleboyz or Stormcast Eternals....