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Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, the Escapist’s bitter game critic who totally is Jim Sterling’s brother / possible doppelgänger, has been known to make videogames from time to time. He’s been toiling away in Game Maker for a while and decided to show off the fruits of his labor. His newest project,Poacher, is about a shotgun-toting Englishman who wanders around aCave Story-influenced environment while blasting the holy hell out of possessed woodland critters....

With a dash of disappointment for Switch owners [Update:Since the article has gone up, Bandai Namco hasconfirmedthat the release date for Asia, which includes the version with English subtitles, will also be on March 20 for both systems. The pre-order bonuses are the same as Japan’s, with the Song & Sound version nowhere to be seen. Hooray for simultaneous release dates!] Despite the initialannouncementoccurring less than a month ago, Bandai Namco has announced the release date forSuper Robot Wars Tin Japan....

The walking dread Are you sick of zombies and battle royale in your video games? What if I told you the two were getting combined in a major upcoming release? If you wanted to play a game with the largest combination of industry buzzwords possible,Call of Duty: Black Ops 4looks to fit that bill. Game Informer got a ton of info on Activision’s take on the popular sub-genre and the details are starting to fall into place on how Treyarch hopes to differentiate itself from the pack....

Scaliness is godliness Does slapping a jetpack onto a dragon sound ridiculous to you? Are you incredulous at such a prospect? You shouldn’t be. How the hell does such a beast fly without mechanical assistance? Dragons are big, buff enough to make one wonder if they are all on steroids, and — according toSkyrim— their bones are the heaviest things in the world. They’d need wings the size of a town to even get them an inch off the ground....

XBLA tower defense hybrid jumping ship Vikings versus knights. That’s the conceit of Zen Studios’CastleStorm, which our own Ian Bonds enjoyed well enough when it original launched on XBLA. It’s a much more in-depthAngry Birdsof sorts, with real-time strategy and tower defense elements. It’s also coming to PS3 and Vita on November 5. It will be cross buy, too, so buying it on either system yields you access to both. It seems like a decent mobile alternative toAngry Birds, if you own a Vita....

The Second Sea inFischseems like it wants to overshadow everything we worked hard to obtain from the First Sea. Not only are all our old Rods nerfed in the Second Sea, but all the money we earned is useless, and we can’t even level past 1,000 in the First Sea. For all of these reasons, we need a new spot for grinding XP and a new location for money farming, which is why we made this guide....

The irony of a company named Proletariat ending up at Blizzard/Microsoft So just this past week, we caught you up to speed on the sudden development that Proletariat, the studio behindSpellbreak,would be acquired by Blizzard. It came directly after the team announced that they would be closing downSpellbreakfor good, and it seems like Blizzard is already following the same acquisition playbook as Microsoft — the company they’re about to join themselves within the next year....

Last week, Bungie announced that somechanges were coming toDestiny 2‘s new Onslaught activityto incentivize players to stick through all 50 waves. In a hilarious twist of fate, theweekly reset delivering those changesinadvertently broke Onslaught. Players couldn’t enter the portal to challenge the final boss at Wave 50 on Legend difficulty, and Bungie’s response was … a suggestion to leave the activity early. Onslaught is a new activityreleased as part of the freeInto the Lightcontent update....

Ori and the Will of the Wisps As the saying goes: Where there’s a will, there’s a wisp. And as the other saying goes: Where there’s anOri, there’s excellence. Maybe neither of those are quite household phrases, but the latter is undeniable. A full five years afterOri and the Blind Forestcaptured hearts and minds,Ori and the Will of the Wispsdid it again…just better. Will of the Wispsis everything you could want from a sequel....

TheSpace Marine 2campaigntakes players through various iconic Warhammer 40,000 locales, from Imperium temples to Adeptus Mechanicus facilities to treacherous jungles. However, one site may offer some hints as to where the game can go next. Spoilers follow for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 We already knowSpace Marine 2will continue to receive contentthrough 2025, so could it be that future Operations and updates introduce the Necrons? The Necrons are an ancient robotic civilization that quite literally conquered its own gods....

Hell is Other Bullets If you’re among the shmup-heads waiting for the release Cave’s brilliantEspgaluda IIon Nintendo Switch, then here’ a heads-up that publisher Live Wire has released a blood-pumping teaser trailer on the brand new port in action. The short video should help keep the wolf from the door until the title’s ultimate release on September 9 — just two short weeks away. Originally released to arcades in 2005, during a major shmup renaissance,Espgaluda IIfollows the trend of beautiful and ethereal anime characters married to incredibly intense bullet-hell action....

Every season ofDiablo 4has a seasonal mechanic which often changes up the fastest way to progress through the levels and reach Level 100 with your new Seasonal Character. InDiablo 4Season 5, there is the new Infernal Hordes mechanic as well as Seasonal Quest that you’ll want to do alongside leveling as well. This is the fastest way to level to 100 inDiablo 4Season 5 while completing your required seasonal quest....

Who needs the Xbox One port? Love it or hate it,Call of Duty: Advanced Warfarewas a thing that definitely happened. It was also the final version of gaming’s most popular series that had a proper last-gen port. WhileBlack Ops IIIdid see a version on PS3 and Xbox 360, it skipped the campaign and shipped with only the multiplayer. If you wanted to experience whatever happened in that craptastic story, you had to pony up for a new console....