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Monaco 2! Coral Island! David Gaider’s musical game gets a new name! Plus loads more Monaco 2 is official Formerly known asChorus: An Adventure Musical, the next game fromDragon Agewriter David Gaider has now been re-named as Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, probably so it won’t get confused with last year’sChorus(aka: Chorvs), the space combat shooter that came out at the beginning of December. Also note that switch from Adventure to Roleplaying in the subtitle....

Self portrait The folks over at Eastshade Studios sure do have a brand, don’t they? Cozy, rustic, slow-going living with a touch of the magical has a certain appeal all its own, and as the recent announcement ofSongs Of Glimmerwickproves, EastStud don’t intend on shaking up that brand any time soon. This is a wonderful thing for me because their previous outing and namesake,Eastshade, is not only one of my favourite games of all time, but also such an important kind of game in the terrifying, nightmare world we find ourselves in today....

Learn how to upgrade your stats, including max health and damage, in Tunic Want to know how to level up in Tunic?As you explore the world ofTunic, you’ll find plenty of currency that you can use to level up your fox protagonist. However, it isn’t immediately clear how to level up in Tunic, which can leave you slightly underleveled when facing tough bosses like theGarden KnightandSiege Engine. In this guide, we’ll explain how to level up in Tunic, so that you can upgrade your character and get even stronger....

This time, it’s about mysterious movies A new trailer for Sam Barlow’sImmortalityreveals more of theHer Storyand Telling Lies creator’s latest FMV game about watching videos of a pretty woman. This time, she’s a movie star and we’re trying to figure out why she vanished and why her movies were never released. Barlow has explained we’ll be playing with a big ol' movie-editing machine and exploring through match cuts, which looks interesting....

Pay-what-you-want with a minimum of only $10 Last week, hundreds of indie developers came together to launch a huge bundle raising money for charities helping relief efforts following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. With a pay-what-you-want minimum of only $10, the Bundle For Ukraine offers almost 600 indie video games as well as tabletop games, comics, and more. It is ridiculously good and for a good cause. But time’s almost up, and you only have a few hours left to nab it....

Meet this weird gangly toe Clash: Artifacts Of Chaosisn’t an enormously popular mobile game, I swear. Instead, it’s a sequel to Zeno Clash, the first-person brawler from ACE Team set in a surreal fantasy world. There’s a new video below which introduces this successors new characters and systems, including the dice game you can play before fights to change their rules. Zeno Clash 1 and 2 told a continuing story, but Clash has a new protagonist....

Lots of exciting hints Here’s the video, featuring game director Todd Howard, design director Emil Pagliarulo, lead quest designer Will Shen, and lead artist Istvan Pely. Starfield is Bethesda’s first new universe in forever, but a lot of the chat in the video is about returning to some older ideas. “A lot of us have been doing this for a long time together,” says Howard. “It’s nice with Starfield to go back to some things we didn’t do:the backgrounds,the traits, the defining your character, all those stats....

May make being subjugated more fun, too Scifi grand strategyStellarisis getting a new expansion. CalledOverlord, it’ll expand the role of vassals, add new megastructures, and expand the diplomatic relationships between you and the empires you subjugate while moving to control the galaxy. Here’s the trailer: “Overlord’s thematic focus is on exerting your will across the galaxy, the projection of power, and the expansion of civilization under your glorious banner,” says Paradox’sdev diary announcing the expansion....

Looks more like Until Dawn than Dark Pictures? Good! Supermassive Games, the makers ofUntil DawnandThe Dark PicturesAnthology, today announced an all-new interactive horror story. The Quarry is a whole separate story telling the tale of teenaged summer camp counsellors who find themselves on the receiving end of mysterious megamurder. Getting slashed is a real hazard with that job. Impressively, the game’s cast includes horror veterans like David Arquette, Lance Henriksen, and Ted Raimi....

Once XCOM a time in the West Apparently Hard West 2’s protagonist has robbed a ghost train, and who’d athunk that would turn out to be a bad idea. Now you must chase the Devil across a bleak, supernatural wild west to reclaim your soul. That offers an excuse for some interesting level settings, including those that play out on horseback and on moving trains. The most interesting feature to me is a new “Bravado State”, which rewards you for playing aggressively by replenishing your action points for chaining together kills....

Best laid plans This week the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastis talking about our favourite heists. Although we start with a bit of confusion because I changed the topic too late and Matthew didn’t notice. Yes: I successfully pulled off a truth heist! As well as talking a lot about heists in games, we discuss whether or not most crimes are heists. For example, theft in general is just spicy picking up, and murder is a soul heist....

Learn how to defeat the Librarian in Tunic Want to know how to defeat the Librarian in Tunic?The Librarian is an incredibly tough boss inTunic. If you’ve already faced theGarden KnightandSiege Engine, this is a huge step up that’ll prove to be an incredible challenge. Fortunately, we’re here to help. In this guide, we’ll break down how to defeat the Librarian in Tunic, so that you canget the green key and complete the Ruined Atoll....

They’ll talk about individual games across the year instead Who knows what the hell is happening with E3 this year. An official E3 reportedly will happen as an online-only event, but the vast scattering of unaffiliated not-E3 summer games events… ah, no idea. One thing is now clear: EA will not be holding their traditional ‘EA Play Live’ showcase to market their whole upcoming lineup, instead planning to talk about individual games across the year “when the time is right for each of them”....