We shan't live The Good Life until 2020

After he directed the delightful Deadly Premonition, I’d follow Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro into Hull and back for a new game about the characters, curiosities, and killings of rural life. Thankfully, all I must do for The Good Life is wait a while longer. Swery’s new studio, White Owls, have announced they’re delaying The Good Life so they can, y’know, finish it and make it proper good. After the jank of Deadly Premonition, there is no developer in the world I would give more time for refinement.

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Rambling adventure A Short Hike soars out today

Correct me if I’m wrong, but flying seems to be missing the point of hiking. Where’s the challenge? Where’s the adventure? Where’s the knee-breaking burden of scaling a mountain when you can just flip-flap all the way to the top? Seems like cheating to me, really.

I guess it’s not really about the stress, is it? It’s not like I’m in any physical shape to judge. A Short Hike is about the pleasant side of going for a nice long walk: finding wee nooks and crannies, chatting with your fellow walkers (and swimmers, and flappers). And would you look at that, it’s out today.

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Mutant Year Zero's Seed Of Evil expansion has set a moose loose

Not enough games are sold on the premise of a good moose. A hypothetical listicle on “gaming’s best meese” would probably just land you some insufferable hunting games, and Skyrim. They’re proper giants in person. Absolute units. If I were to put together some sort of animal kingdom adventuring party, a moose would be right up there in the tank spot.

Mutant Year Zero‘s new expansion, Seed Of Evil, drops a corker of a moose in Big Khan. Oof, what a name. What a lad. What a moose.

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Hitman 2 gets cold toes in new Siberian sniper DLC mission

A wise Australian once said: “Sniping’s a good job, mate.” When playing a lethal game of dress-up gets stale, sometimes a good assassin just wants to put a bullet in someone’s skull. When your job is murder, it must feel like the easy shift: Sit back, relax, point, click. Job’s done, get that invoice sent and wait for the blood money to roll in.

Agent 47’s latest paid point-and-click adventure DLC for Hitman 2 takes the bald murderer close to negative 47 degrees Celsius. Gosh, I hope he packed a scarf.

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Premature Evaluation: Palmyra Orphanage

Dota Underlords builds [Mid-Season Update] – 9 best builds for winning matches

So, you’ve played your first few Dota Underlords matches, you’ve a sense of the heroes and alliances and items and all that good stuff – and now all you’re missing is how to apply and combine all that knowledge into a game-winning Dota Underlords build. Our Dota Underlords builds guide looks to solve this problem by exploring nine of the very best builds (yes, this number does keep increasing as I think of more cool new builds) in the current Dota Underlords meta. From Knights and Trolls to Scrappy Mages to souped up Demon Hunters, these are the team comps to beat.

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Doom Eternal release date, Battlemode, trailers

Quakecon brought more Doom Eternal information, specifically about “Battlemode” – the new 2v1 multiplayer mode. While we never got clarification if the “invading players games” was a thing or something that was removed, we did get a very good look at the new multiplayer from their presentation. The following contains all the information you want for Doom Eternal, from the multiple trailers to the all-important release date. (more…)

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