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What a time to announce all 4 horseman of the apocalypse (Is that now GenAI, Climate Change, Genocide and Technofacism?) are coming in the close future.

From the companies press release:

_“The legendary saga of the Four Horsemen continues in Darksiders 4, an all-new action-adventure set in an apocalyptic version of earth and continues where the original Darksiders game left off.

Darksiders 4 is a 3rd person action adventure game featuring combat, traversal and puzzle solving in a lore rich post apocalyptic world.”_

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Editorial

I have some level of excitement for this. Darksiders ability to never fully die is a sign of industry health to me. I have made multiple attempts to jump in to the first 2 from PS3 to PC to the remasters on X Series, PS4 and Switch (also stadia in keeping with my post history). The most recent switch attempt lasted the longest.

Not exactly sure what my completion percent was when I finally wandered off to something else that sparkled and caught my eye (probably a stressful day at work and whatever CoD was on the Xbox front page) but I remember feeling like it had finally clicked. The puzzles seemed engaging enough, I was vibing with the upgrade grind and the whole thing was ridiculous enough I’d give it a recommend finally.

Darksiders is a video game ass video game and it sort of knows it. It also has a side that feels like someone had a vhs of the Dolph Lundgren Masters of the Universe movie they watched a little too much growing up and that was their embodiment of dark fantasy. Mike Mignolas artwork was great as always and it just kind of worked. The series is straight B grade gaming and that’s my sweet spot. I also had a problem with the Beastmaster and the USA channel growing up so take my opinion with that context.

All that aside, it’s a goddamn miracle we’re getting the (hopefully) final game in a series that never really stood a chance of a 3rd mainline release not far after it was initially launched.

Best of luck Gunfire, let’s hope you can fight the tide of the live service, post game content, line goes up dev cycle and put out something you’re all proud of.

Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy.

We are fighting back.

Some games vanish. Not because they broke the law but because someone decided they shouldn’t exist.

For 48 hours, these games are free, because if a game is legal, you should be free to buy it.

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Boycott Steam.

They were not even willing to fight back with the power of 5% of their annual revenue.

cross-posted from: https://retrolemmy.com/post/22759740

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I've enjoyed Matthewmatosis on youtube for years and was a little bit skeptical when he announced he was going into gamedev a few years ago. Nevertheless this first game is reasonably priced and I've enjoyed the first 7 or 8 puzzles - they've taken me a couple hours.

Most interesting thing imo is seeing a critic put something of their own out for criticisms. Have noted a few junior matthewmatosis's in the making in the steam reviews lol.

Cross-posted from "[SPOILERS] A big meta secret hidden in the terminal" by @catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone in !ufo50@lemmy.blahaj.zone

For the most part, terminal is never used in UFO 50. There are some cool codes that change games somewhat but they are fairly insignificant I'd say. Just a fun gimmick.

But there's more to it, of course!
If you watch the Night Manor's credits til the end, you will be rewarded with a code: GREG-MILK! But, entering it in the terminal doesn't launch any game - instead the usually incomprehensible text to the right forms an obscure message.

Congratulations! You're stepping into a big meta puzzle encompassing almost every UFO 50 game. But beware - to solve it you need to have some basic understanding of every game included in the puzzle (and, since you can't know beforehand what games will be included, you really need to play every one of them a little bit...).

Good luck on your journey through this mystery if you wish to embark on it.

Partners with Flameborn Games A New Montreal-Based Game Studio to Announce Heavy Gear III – An Immersive Sci-Fi Action-RPG with Mech Combat and Open World Exploration Powered by Unreal Engine 5

Trailer link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXCx1IjM39A

R-Type Delta: HD Boosted will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam on November 20 in Japan, publisher City Connection announced

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Strategy in Practice:

Future? No Thanks! was meant to be announced weeks ago but the Steam page didn't pass the first review because a screenshot marked as "Suitable for all ages" had suggestive themes. The screenshot? This one

Source.

Steam reviewers under pressure from anti-porn bigots:

Source.

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