Devolver Digital has released Devolverland Expo, a miniature first-person game that includes trailers for games shown off in today’s Devolver Direct broadcast.
Out now for free on Steam, Devolverland Expo takes you through a ruined convention hall filled with aggressive robots, and offers missions, puzzles and items to find along the way. Ultimately, your goal is to grab Devolver swag from game booths – while watching trailers for upcoming Devolver games along the way.
The trailer also looks as though it’s covered in Steam codes – it might be worth freeze-framing and grabbing one of those if you can.
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Another Devolver Direct, another opportunity to question ourselves about whether it was something we should ever have been allowed to watch.
Thankfully, we also got a raft of new gameplay and announcements, all of which you can find below:
Devolverland Expo
Described as a “first-person marketing simulator”, this free mini-game places you in abandoned conference center and has you fighting and puzzling your way to find Devolver-themed goodies, including trailers of games shown in the Direct.
Shadow Warrior 3
We got our first look at Shadow Warrior 3 gameplay, showing off the 2021 game’s gunplay, platforming, melee combat, and a range of ludicrous demons designs to disembowel.
Olija
Coming this Fall to PC and Nintendo Switch, Olija is a Prince of Persia-inspired action-adventure featuring a shipwrecked captain, and a country full of people who really don’t want him to be there.
Fall Guys
The 60-player battle royale/game show is coming to PC and PS4 on August 4, and we got a look at its many minigames and costumes – including a pre-order exclusive Half-Life outfit to grab on PC.
Carrion
The tentacle-propelled reverse-horror game is finally arriving on PC, Switch and Xbox One in just two weeks, on July 23.
Serious Sam 4
We got another peek at the absurdly action-packed FPS ahea dof its August release on PC and Stadia.
Blightbound
This online and local multiplayer dungeon brawler is coming to Steam Early Access on July 29, and we got a look at its three classes, multiple worlds, puzzles, and lots and lots of combat.
Weird West
We got a fresh look at this new, isometric immersive sim from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey, Weird West is due in 2021. Director Raphael Colantonio showed off the action-RPG, which has you playing as 5 gunslingers in a fantastical take on the Old West.
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The first gameplay footage of Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass has debuted during the Devolver Digital Direct stream, showing off upcoming game’s wild, chaotic violence. It looks a lot like previous games in the series, with a lot of enemies on screen at once, but with updated graphics.
You’ll once again be playing as Sam “Serious” Stone, the leader of the Earth Defense Force (no relation). This is a prequel, and the focus is yet again on strafing and backing away from enormous hordes while firing everything you have into enemies and watching them explode.
You can check it out for yourself in the trailer below.
The game offers up a level of fidelity that wasn’t possible in earlier entries in the series. As with all mainline Serious Sam games, it’s developed by Croteam.
The game is coming in August for PC and Stadia. A specific date has not been set yet.
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Thomas Olsson is creating a new game, Olija, all by himself. A 2D adventure platformer inspired by the swashbuckler genre, Olija casts you as a castaway named Faraday. You’re trapped in the world of Terraphage, and you’re working to find a woman named Olija.
Faraday’s main weapon is a legendary harpoon that he uses to lay waste to the strange creatures and beasts standing in his way. In a new video, GameSpot got an exclusive look at some new gameplay for Olija, and it looks really good.
Be sure to check out the full video above to see the harpoon weapon in action and get a glimpse at the intriguing world of Olija.
Olija is currently in the works for PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.
Revealed during the Devolver Showcase, Skeleton Crew Studio’s Olija is set to launch for PC and Nintendo Switch later in 2020. A demo is available now on Steam, giving you a slice of its 2D action to try ahead of its release. Before its reveal, I had the chance to dive into the game with an exclusive demo for GameSpot, learning about it’s crunchy combat, ambiguous and mysterious themes, and the cursed harpoon at the center of it all.
Olija is a 2D action platformer with equal measures of fast-paced combat and small but clever puzzles. Core to both is your main weapon, a cursed harpoon that you can throw in any cardinal direction with a button press and return to your hands with another. Your harpoon can lodge itself in the guts of enemies and certain points of the environment, letting you pull off a quick and satisfying dash to its position.
It feels great to chain together throwing and recalling the harpoon as your soar through the air, and the game encourages you to get comfortable with it. Early enemy encounters are limited to just a few foes at a time, but as you progress, they become more complex ballets where you have to balance positioning and aggression in equal measure. Groups of enemies will quickly overwhelm and kill you, but using your harpoon to fling yourself to a distant enemy–both giving you space and letting you kill them off effortlessly–feels incredibly satisfying.
Complementing your main harpoon are a handful of secondary weapons that you’re free to cycle through once unlocked. They range from a lightning-fast rapier to a crowd-controlling crossbow, letting you swap from fast close-quarters combat to ranged options with a bit more space between you and danger. You can also equip different hats after you’ve crafted them to add unique abilities to your repertoire, including resistances to hazards like acid or adding a flurry of damaging slashes to each of your dashes.
Olija’s combat makes you feel every attack, with each landing with a weighty feel and a slight pause on connection to add some emphasis. It’s effortless to swap between your weapons as you zip across the screen, making your aerial death-dealing look as stylish as it is effective. It took some time for the challenge to necessitate some of the more impressive routines I eventually got comfortable with, but once Olija struck the right balance between the two it made it difficult to not look forward to the next beg combat arena to flex my skills again.
Interspersed with combat are some small but smart puzzles, some of which are required to progress while others are optional. Many build on your understanding of the harpoon, encouraging you to think of different ways to use the tool across multiple screens. For example, one door linked to a timer required me to leave the harpoon stuck near it before venturing off to flip its switch, letting me dash towards to from another screen entirely and sneak under the falling stone slab blocking my way.
Later, the harpoon gained the ability to conduct electricity too, tying in with puzzles where you have to navigate half-flooded stages while protecting the weapon’s charge for a door switch found later in the level. None of these puzzles forced me to pause for too long in search of a solution, but executing the steps still let me zip around each screen with an enjoyable sense of momentum.
Olija features a structure that lets you play some stages in different orders, but each one contains an item required to unlock the next big portion of the map. Returning to the settlement I established near the start of my preview, it was rewarding to see how each new venture helped it grow from a dreary and hopeless abode to a bustling hive of activity, with merchants, jolly sailors, and men for hire. How this settlement will ultimately fare with the monarch who rules over it, and what becomes of it when protagonist Lord Faraday leaves back to the impoverished nation he was trying to save, are questions I found myself asking when confronted with the strange lore Olija presents, including with thematic stylings of an inescapable purgatory and a secret waiting to be unraveled at its core.
Those mysteries, complemented by the engrossing combat and puzzles, are what made me want to play more of Olija. It’s a game that might be visually difficult to pick apart from the peers it wants to hang alongside, but the pace of its action and the allure of its world differentiate it enough that it’s difficult to see it as just another one of those 2D pixel platformers. That, and the harpoon is just such a satisfying weapon to wield.
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If players wish to change their gender in World of Warcraft, they would have to purchase the $15 USD Appearance Change from the Blizzard store. With World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, Blizzard will be dropping this fee entirely.
Executive producer John Hight spoke to Eurogamer and explained the decision and how players will now be able to change their gender at a barber shop for free in Shadowlands.
“A long time ago, we had the ability for players to go in – it was actually a paid service – and change their character. Much of that is now in the barber shop in the game,” Hight said. “And as we were adding things up in Shadowlands, we realised, ‘Gosh the only way you can change your gender in World of Warcraft is to go through this paid service.’ And we felt like that’s not the right message.”
“Unfortunately we can’t fix that right now but it is our intent with Shadowlands to take that out of being a paid service thing and [put it] in the barber shop. But that’s not something we can easily hotfix – unfortunately we can’t do that right now. It is something that we’re going to have in Shadowlands itself.”
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is set to be released later in 2020 and a Beta is set to begin next week. This new expansion, which is World of Warcraft’s eighth, will take place in Warcraft’s version of the afterlife. It has five new zones, an “ever-changing dungeon” called the Tower of the Damned, and much more.
Carrion‘s release date has been revealed during the Devolver Digital Direct stream, and like a hideous monster stalking the ceiling grate above you while you monologue with tremendous hubris about how this room is the only safe area in the facility, it’s much closer than you might think.
Carrion will launch for Switch, Xbox One, and PC on July 23. A demo is available on Steam right now. A physical edition will come to Switch eventually, too.
GameSpot has an exclusive look at the first 25 minutes of the game, which you can watch in the video above. Tread with caution if you’re easily grossed out, though.
The release date trailer, below, should give you some idea of what to expect–you’re a mess of viscera and tentacles, and you’ll be causing a lot of havoc as you escape from the facility you’re trapped in.
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Announced earlier this week, the Devolver Direct has revealed our first look at gameplay for Shadow Warrior 3, the latest over-the-top first-person shooter from developer Flying Wild Hog.
The gameplay is full of what you’d expect from a Shadow Warrior sequel: lots of blood, loads of weapons, and gruesome executions. But there are also new features you can look forward to, like expanded mobility options with a grappling hook that looks like it will work extremely well with your double jumps, wall-running, and air-dashing antics.
Amongst all the blood and guts there’s bright confetti and a strangely jolly spirit to it all, which makes the excessive gore all the stranger and more enticing. There’s no confirmed release date for Shadow Warrior 3 yet, but you can expect a release sometime in 2021 for PC.
