GamersHeroes Saturday, March 2, 2024 1:03 PM Set to release in just a few short days, learn more about 11 bit studios and Fool's Theory's The Thaumaturge with the latest trailer for the title. An RPG in 1905 AD Warsaw, players can learn more about The Thaumaturge's main protagonist, the art of Thaumaturgy, the unusual family heritage, and the strange ethereal beings … The post The Thaumaturge 11 Facts Trailer Released appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
GamersHeroes Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:35 AM The Blue Bomber will make his way to Capcom's Street Fighter 6 as part of the Mega Man Gala Fighting Pass in March. As part of the Mega Man Gala Fighting Pass, players will be able to get for themselves cosmetic items like avatar gear (including the one and only Mega Buster), photo frames, emotes, … The post Street Fighter 6 Mega Man Gala Fighting Pass Coming in March appeared first on GamersHeroes. |
PCGamesN Saturday, March 2, 2024 1:14 PM  Somber Echoes is the newly announced sci-fi Metroidvania game from developers Rock Pocket Games and Lav Games. The 2.5D game incorporates many unique characteristics, which takes a bit to digest, as players board a Greco-Roman spaceship and face some truly gross David Cronenberg-type interdimensional baddies along the way. For fans of the genre, Somber Echoes represents a blending of inspiration that infuses aesthetic elements of Dead Space with modern Metroidvania design and gameplay.
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PCGamesN Saturday, March 2, 2024 12:38 PM  Civilization 6. Stellaris. XCOM 2. The best strategy games on PC all stand up fantastically on their own merits, but allow you to take it one step further with comprehensive mods that enhance, rework, or redesign entire parts of the game. Enter Europa Universalis 4: Gods and Kings, an alternate history total conversion mod for the decade-old Paradox grand strategy game that completely reimagines it like you've never seen before. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Europa Universalis IV DLC guide, The best Europa Universalis 4 mods, Play Europa Universalis 4 |
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PCGamesN Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:06 AM  Dragon's Dogma 2 is the long-awaited sequel to Capcom's original entry into the series, Dragon's Dogma. Released way back in May 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 console generation, the game gradually grew a cult-like following, boosting its sales over time and eventually proving to Capcom that it had its next big franchise hit on their hands. With the sequel still weeks out from its official release, the game is already showing up in the top Steam sales charts despite it not even being playable for quite some time. Continue reading Dragon's Dogma 2 flies up Steam's best sellers weeks before launch MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Dragon's Dogma 2 release date, Dragon's Dogma 2 vocations, Dragon's Dogma 2 system requirements |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, March 2, 2024 5:55 PM  Back in 2014, KeeperRL had a handful of alpha releases and a successful IndieGogo funding campaign, and was due to be finished that year. Then the ambitious Dwarf Fortress-lite or Dungeon Keeper-heavy made its way through the player-voted Steam Greenlgiht process, at which point its developer decided, hey, why not work on this game for longer. Ten years and several dozen more updates later, KeeperRL has just hit 1.0. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, March 2, 2024 5:27 PM  Payday 3 received its first new features this past week as part of Operation Medic Bag, Starbreeze's efforts to turnaround the fortunes of their bleeding-out bank robbery 'em up. The patch contains 300 fixes alongside support for various Nvidia graphics technology, UI improvements, and more. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, March 2, 2024 4:54 PM  Starfield's next update will arrive in beta on March 6th, bringing another suite of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. Top of the list of tweaks is the ability to change player character and compansion facial expressions during photo mode, like running your family snaps through FaceApp to create the illusion everyone had fun on their holiday to the Bonneville salt flats. |
Siliconera Saturday, March 2, 2024 3:00 PM
While the Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree manga adaptation currently running is a gag one, the comedic adventures capture the experience of playing and volume 2 exemplifies that. It's almost like now that it really is established and moving forward, the chapters captured in this book really do more to play around with things we already know to be true from the game.
Editor's Note: There are spoilers for both Elden Ring and volume 2 of the gag manga based on it below.
For those catching up, the Elden Ring manga follows a Tarnished named Aseo who behaves either like a player totally new to the game or someone going through a run and goofing around. Likewise, all of the normally stoic and serious individuals you'd encounter are a little more warped and silly than usual. With the second volume of the manga, it really feels like it is leaning more into some possibly obscure and fun elements that ordinary people might have missed.
One of the first examples involves Godrick the Grafted. Instead of a typical boss fight being shown, Godrick turns the battle against Aseo and fellow Tarnished Nepheli Loux into a grafting crafting contest. Now, to start, having Nepheli here is a fun nod. This is because she's out to defeat Godrick at her father's bidding in the game, and that carries over here too. But what really struck me while reading is how this "fight" parallels the actual battle. Once you hit the second phrase, he grafts a dragon onto himself. Well, sure enough, the dragon comes up during the first part of the grafting contest, and Godrick does attach it to himself for the second portion. It's such a clever way of preserving a concept and using it in a different, more humorous way given how it works out for him here.
It also means some small references showing that the manga is following the questlines in the same way a player would. For example, we met Rogier in the first volume. In the game, we'd meet him before Godrick at Stormveil as well. And here, he's in Roundtable Hold. Just as in the game, he's again incapable of moving, so he'll again set up camp. While Aseo doesn't end up getting his rapier, Rogier does again offer to sell useful, magical things.
This also applies to Roderika. Again, this is another case of this adaptation pulling from an optional questline as fodder for another humorous situation. She appeared ahead of Aseo arriving at Stormveil, and we see here in the manga that the action of again getting and delivering the Chrysalids' Memento means another chance to interact with her and, just as in the game, influence her decision to head to Roundtable Hold. It also involves a section that is actually one of the more heartfelt and genuine in this volume, while still being quite silly.
It all really makes the Elden Ring manga so much more fun to read. Because there are these connections, it really is calling back to events you may remember. The fact that they can resemble situations so closely, while still involving an original story, really helps take the parody and its humor to another level.
Volume 2 of Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree is available now, and volume 3 of the manga will arrive on May 21, 2024.
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