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• Determine The Fate Of Humanity's Remnants In The Descendant

  28-02-2016 19:22
  The Descendant, an episodic sci-fi adventure that casts you as two characters in two different timelines, tasks you with keeping the few remaining humans still alive after the end of the world. The game is being developed by Swedish game studio Gaming Corps and looks to be pretty spooky.Gaming Corps has released a teaser for the game that you watch right here:
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  The first episode of the game will be available on Steam on March 24.
  
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• 343 and Microsoft Give The Rundown On The Arbiter In Killer Instinct

  28-02-2016 18:42
  A little bit ago Iron Galaxy was dropping teases and trailers left and right that the Arbiter was on the way to Killer Instinct. Those who have been wanting more details are about to get them as the official Halo site just put up a massive post revealing customization options, combat styles, and the design philosophy behind this particular incarnation of the popular Halo character.The key points revealed in the post are as follows:
  A list of 8 different armor customization options for the
  
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• Failbetter Dives Deep And Shows Off Gameplay From Upcoming Sunless Sea Expansion

  28-02-2016 18:10
  Failbetter Games just released a two minute video showcasing some of the new gameplay that will be coming to Sunless Sea with the game's Zubmariner expansion.In Zubmariner, instead of sailing on the Zee you're diving beneath it, exploring the floor and bottoms of islands.
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  The expansion has no release date yet. Editor Daniel Tack reviewed Sunless Sea and gave it an 8.0, saying "Sunless Sea is an interesting game that’
  
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• Killer Instinct's Arbiter Is an 'Amalgam of Arbiters Past'

  28-02-2016 17:31
  
  The Arbiter coming to Killer Instinct's third season is not based on a singular Arbiter, but is instead an "amalgam of Arbiters past," 343 Industries said in its latest Halo Waypoint update.
  Arbiter will come with multiple looks, all of which were revealed in yesterday's post.
  All Arbiters will use the T-51 Carbine for ranged attacks, and either the energy sword or Prophets' Bane for close encounters. Arbiter will also have sticky grenades on hand. The different armors and costumes are pulled fr
  
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• Dark Souls 3 Publisher Launching Slashy Souls Tomorrow

  28-02-2016 01:42
  
  Bandai Namco and GameStop are releasing their Dark Souls-inspired mobile game Slashy Souls on iOS and Android. Though it's not a continuation of Darks Souls—and not entirely connected, either—it does follow similar themes.
  Slashy Souls reimagines From Software's super hard role-playing games with "epic 16-bit gameplay." Players will face a world riddled with "devious traps and obstacles," fighting "monstrous bosses" as they travel along the way. Special "weapons and master spell
  
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• Puzzler 101 Ways To Die Demands You Kill With Style

  28-02-2016 00:30
  101 Ways To Die tasks you with killing creatures in creative and devious ways for the sake of science.The physics-based puzzler casts you as an assistant to one Professor Ernst Splattunfuder with the goal of rebuilding the professor's destroyed manuscript after it's been destroyed.This means reproducing and solving every single puzzle by sending tons of little critters to meet their deaths. You can watch a cartoonishly gory video of the game in action here: 
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