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• Annapurna narrative puzzler Storyteller launches next week

  18-03-2023 20:06
  
  Described as "a unique and creative spin on the puzzle genre", the award-winning Storyteller will launch on March 23 on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch."You’re given a variety of iconic characters, settings, and emotions to build tales of love, betrayal, and revenge," teases publisher Annapurna Interactive, which is publishing Daniel Benmergui's game."You’ll create everything from supernatural fantasies and Shakespearean tragedies to myths of creation and much more!""Play with a lib
  
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• This weekend's Diablo 4 beta will have long queues too, and Blizzard says that's intentional

  24-03-2023 00:40
  
  This weekend's Diablo 4 open beta will have long queues just like last weekend's test, Blizzard has confirmed.In case you weren't around for Diablo 4's early access beta, there were very long queues - often an hour or more - players had to wait through to get into the game. The long wait times were coupled with connection issues that would disconnect players from the game after they'd waited an agonizingly long time to play, although it's worth noting that Blizzard was very quick to have the iss
  
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• Paranormal Tales brings Blair Witch vibes with a splash of Resident Evil and P.T. in new trailer

  24-03-2023 00:24
  
  Paranormal Tales, the body-cam horror game from Digital Cybercherries that wears its P.T. inspirations firmly on its bloodied sleeve, has a new, typically terrifying trailer. After setting the tone with its first trailer a few days before Halloween last year, our latest glimpse at Paranormal Tales swaps its signature so-called "found footage" of a hapless protagonist stumbling around shadowy woods with similarly unsettling shenanigans inside a suburban home. You can watch the latest tr
  
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• Viewfinder is basically Portal with photos and finally releases this year

  24-03-2023 00:22
  
  Prepare to finally to have your brain broken with Viewfinder's reality warping gameplay confirming a 2023 release window at the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro. That means you'll be able to shape the world around you and solve puzzles using pictures, cameras and all sort of image-related magic, by the end of the year. 
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  As you can see from the trailer, the idea is... sort of simple? Viewfinder lets you use images in a way that conjur
  
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• Dying Light 2 gets overhauled combat and transmog gear system this April

  24-03-2023 00:20
  
  Dying Light 2 is set to receive a massive game update on April 20, where Techland will roll out an improved combat system and new gear transmogrification options. Dying Light franchise director Tymon Smektala shared this news at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, where he also teased the next DLC content and promised that more support for mods and mod maps will be coming to the community later this year. 
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• Go-Go Town is an adorable new Animal Crossing-like that absolutely needs to be on your radar

  24-03-2023 00:17
  
  Go-Go Town is the adorable new title from the makers of Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles. Prideful Sloth, a studio made up of former Activision and Rocksteady veterans, is trying its hand at an Animal Crossing-esque title with its latest game. It was just announced at the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, and ho boy, it looks cute as heck. You'll be taking on the job of mayor in Go-Go Town, with the task of taking the pastel-hued town from a sleepy settleme
  
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• Check out an exclusive new trailer for Ghibli-inspired courier sim Mika and The Witch's Mountain

  24-03-2023 00:15
  
  If you're excited about the Zelda meets Kiki's Delivery Service courier sim, Mika and The Witch's Mountain, you need to watch this brand new trailer. Dropping as part of the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, it gives us a fantastic, fresh look at the games broom delivery mechanics, vibrant world, and just a few of the neighbors you'll be delivering to. There's even a little slither of a mystery teased at the end too, seemingly involving that titular witch. It's
  
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• Critically-acclaimed city-builder Ixion shows off a new trailer at the Future Games Show

  24-03-2023 00:14
  
  Acclaimed indie city-builder Ixion just dropped its latest trailer at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro.Ixion, which launched in December 2022, takes the relentless harshness of moral city builders like Frostpunk to the stars, putting you in the captain's chair of a prototype space station in the twilight of humanity's time on Earth. You'll serve as Administrator of the Tiqqun, sent out into the stars by the DOLOS corporation, in an attempt to keep hum
  
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• Open-world RPG Wartales is asking you to survive and thrive in Medieval times this April

  24-03-2023 00:13
  
  Wartales is getting its full launch next month, as revealed by the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro.This open-world RPG from Shiro Games has been in Early Access since December 2021, but will be getting its full 1.0 launch on April 12. It's been an exciting time for Wartales, as the team has been working with its community to develop the game, pushing out various updates and patches during its Early Access period. But now, it's ready to fully launch.
  
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• Go Fight Fantastic! will release in 2023, features an adorable space-dog called Captain Bowie

  24-03-2023 00:11
  
  Go Fight Fantastic! has an easy sell. This co-operative hack 'n' slash game has a beautiful visual style for starters, the adventure is set across a wonderfully weird Bird Planet – which is, you know, a planet inhabited by giant talking birds – and the leader of your crew of interstellar smugglers is a space-dog called Captain Bowie. And yes, Captain Bowie is wearing an adorable little captain's uniform. Like we said, an easy sell, and we're eager to learn more about the mission
  
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• The Great War: Western Front showcases its theatre of war like you've never seen before

  24-03-2023 00:10
  
  With its March 30 release date now coming sharply into focus, The Great War: Western Front has launched an explosive new and never before seen gameplay trailer.  Showcasing trench warfare, aerial attacks, ballistics, bombs, and bad weather among many other war-torn features that players will face in the coming days, our latest look at Petroglyph Games and Frontier Foundry's "definitive" World War 1 strategy game is action-packed from start to finish. The latest trailer debuted as part
  
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• Go play the Voodolls open beta on Steam right now

  24-03-2023 00:09
  
  Don't say we don't spoil you, because we're happy to reveal there's a Voodolls open beta launching right now, just in time for us to announce it at the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro.Available right now on Steam, the open beta gives you a great look at what's on offer with this tower defense title ahead of the game's launch on April 13 on PC. If you dive in, you'll also have the chance to win some exclusive Corrupted Skins to use in the full release too. 
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• Base-building tower-defense game Castle Craft gets its smashing world premiere

  24-03-2023 00:06
  
  Castle Craft has debuted with a world premiere that shows all the thought and complex consideration that goes into building a great fortress - and just satisfying it is to see hordes of enemies fail to break their way inside.As revealed in the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, Castle Craft is the upcoming base-building game wherein players are tasked by the local king to build the kinds of fortified defences that Lord of the Rings would get envious over - and with good r
  
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• Cosmic horror fishing game Dredge gets a new developer deep dive

  24-03-2023 00:03
  
  Get a closer look at cosmic horror fishing game Dredge, thanks to a new developer presentation from the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro.Arriving at a remote island community to replace their missing fisherman, Dredge tasks you with keeping the islanders fed. The more fish you catch, the more money you have to upgrade your ship, and the further from shore you can venture, searching for ever more valuable cargo in a race against the darkness and a battle a
  
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• Spectacular storytelling survival sim Stranded: Alien Dawn sets release date

  24-03-2023 00:01
  
  Planet survival and settlement sim Stranded: Alien Dawn now has a full release date of April 25, 2023.Having taken its first strides into Steam's Early Access initiative back on October 12, 2022, Haemimont Games and Frontier Foundry's interstellar colony builder has spent the last several months fine-tuning its systems and mechanics while gearing up for launch. As revealed at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, Stranded: Alien Dawn is also now available
  
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• Become the robot you were meant to be in Battle Shapers, a new FPS roguelite revealed at the Future Games Show

  24-03-2023 00:00
  
  Just announced at the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, Battle Shapers is a new roguelike sci-fi FPS where you fight enemy machines to advance your powers, and defeat the Overlords that have corrupted your world.
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  Playing as Ada, you need to battle through the world of New Elysium to save it from the domineering Overlords. As you can see from the exclusive reveal trailer, that involves fast paced first person battles against against ro
  
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• Survival: Fountain of Youth uncovers Early Access release date

  23-03-2023 23:59
  
  Single-player open-world survival sim Survival: Fountain of Youth will launch on Steam's Early Access program on April 19, 2023. As revealed at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, Odinsoft Inc. and Twin Sails Interactive's incoming (mis)adventure will transport us to the Caribbean islands as we fill the sea-sodden shoes of a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer. And as if that wasn't exhausting enough, our new surroundings are apparently brimming with
  
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• The most underrated strategy game of 2022 is free to play this weekend

  23-03-2023 23:58
  
  Marvel's Midnight Suns, far and away the most underrated strategy game - and possible just the most underappreciated game of 2022 more broadly - is free to play from now until Sunday, March 26 at midnight PDT.
  There’s no better time than NOW to try Marvel’s Midnight Suns! 🎮Play the game at no cost to you this weekend on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, from now until Mar 26 at 11:59 PT pic.twitter.com/T0ARVNlilyMarch 23, 2023See more
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• Explore mysterious deep-sea depths while running a sushi restaurant with your catches in Dave the Diver

  23-03-2023 23:57
  
  What do you do when you discover a mysterious area of the ocean known as the Blue Hole, which has a different ecosystem every time you visit it? You go diving to explore the depths and hunt for rare sea creatures to keep the customers of your nearby sushi restaurant fed, naturally – and as seen in the trailer at the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, that's exactly what you'll be doing when Dave the Diver leaves Early Access this June.
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• Men of War 2's latest trailer shows off atmospheric landscapes and explosive battles

  23-03-2023 23:56
  
  Anticipated real-time strategy game Men of War 2 revealed an atmospheric new trailer at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro.The trailer opens with shots of Men of War 2's detailed landscapes, troops amassing ahead of an array of different battles, across different environments and conditions, before chaos ensues as the fighting begins. Shattering the temporary tranquility, chaotic firefights send explosives and bullets firing in all directions.
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• Primordials Legends: Hollow Hero is a game about a combat wombat

  23-03-2023 23:53
  
  Primordials Legends: Hollow Hero is a game where you play as an anthropomorphic wombat with special powers. Need we say more?Well, handily enough, we can say more because it just got a new trailer as part of the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro. In this new footage, we get a look at Brunt - the combat wombat - in action, specifically her ultimate ability, which is known as Ruberoite Rage.  
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• Combat Champions marks world premier with a relentless carnival of chaos

  23-03-2023 23:51
  
  Mayhem is how you might describe the action in Combat Champions – the debut venture of C77 Entertainment, a multiplayer FPS that's as cool as it is chaotic. Making its world premiere at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, the game's first trailer showcases a world in the not-too-distant future where lawyers have been abolished, and grievances once reserved for the courtroom now take place on a bloody, war-torn battlefield. 
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• Fort Solis is coming this summer to PS5 and PC and still looks excellent

  23-03-2023 23:50
  
  Fort Solis quickly became one of our most anticipated upcoming PS5 games following its reveal last year, thanks to its creepy atmosphere and all-star cast of actors helping to bring this third-person thriller to life. That hype hasn't subsided after a new trailer debuted at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, which reaffirmed a summer release window. 
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• AK-xolotl is a chaotic roguelite where you play as an axolotl with a gun - and you can try the irresistible demo today

  23-03-2023 23:48
  
  AK-xolotl, a top-down roguelite featuring a very angry amphibian, just got its official world premiere at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro - and, better yet, you can play the demo right now.The name alone is a serious selling point, but when I first saw AK-xolotl, I was quickly drawn to its top-down shooting, immediately reminiscent of the likes of Nuclear Throne and Enter the Gungeon. Just a few seconds after that, I was entirely sold - the scowl tha
  
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• Use your body to solve mind-bending VR puzzles in Another Fisherman's Tale

  23-03-2023 23:46
  
  The tales Bob the Fisherman told his granddaughter Nina have left a lasting impression, and now it's up to her to discover the truth about Bob's past. Another Fisherman's Tale will see you reenacting those adventures, with the aid of puppets and models discovered in her mother's basement. As seen during the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, you'll be in for quite a ride once you slide on your diving helmet (VR headset) to set sail and undertake this journey on PC VR
  
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• Kill It With Fire VR brings hairy legged NOPE to Quest 2, SteamVR, and PSVR 1 & 2 next month

  23-03-2023 23:45
  
  Kill It With Fire VR is bringing its manic spider killing chaos to MetaQuest 2, SteamVR, and PlayStation VR 1 & 2 on April 13. Finally, the chance to literally go face to face with an army of house spiders and show them who's boss. Or scream and rip the headset off, it all depends on how you deal with all those scratchy, hairy little legs. 
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  As demonstrated in the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro gameplay reveal, the ent
  
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• Shape the state of the nation with Not For Broadcast VR, and go hands-on with live TV

  23-03-2023 23:44
  
  Not for Broadcast VR releases today on Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and SteamVR. To celebrate, developer NotGames has given the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro a demonstration of how its award-winning gameplay has been adapted for VR. The original non-VR game is also making its debut on Xbox and PlayStation consoles today, but here we're just focusing on all that world-changing button pushing in virtual reality. 
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• Hello Neighbour VR: Search & Rescue sneaks onto PlayStation VR this May

  23-03-2023 23:41
  
  If you ever wanted to dry run a reverse home invasion to save kidnaped friends - you know, just in case - then Hello Neighbour VR: Search & Rescue will let you do that when it releases on PSVR 1 and PSVR 2 on May 25, with a Quest and SteamVR release also planned. 
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  As the new gameplay revealed in the Future Games Show Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro demonstrates, the premise is simple: sneak into your creepy neigh
  
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• News Tower lets you become a media mogul and dig out the best 1930s scoops

  23-03-2023 23:39
  
  Imagine what it would be like to arrive at the most pivotal events of the 1930s, a press pass tucked into your fedora, so you can catch some of the biggest scoops of the era. Well with News Tower, you can make that a reality when it launches into Early Access this Fall.
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  Before you can chase down those Pulitzer prize-winning stories, you need to start building and managing your tower, as seen during the Twin Sails Interactive montage at the Future Games Show Powered b
  
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• Heavy metal horror game The Axis Unseen gets a new trailer and tentative release date

  23-03-2023 23:39
  
  So-called "heavy metal" horror game The Axis Unseen has a new trailer and a vague release window of some time in 2024. Nate Purkeypile's in-development project first caught our attention last year, when the creator said he was crafting his "heavy metal open world horror hunting game" in the back of a camper van because, well, why not? Equally intriguing is the fact that Purkeypile's prior experience extends to the likes of the Fallout series, Metroid Prime 3, and Starfield, and the game's f
  
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