Noisy Pixel reviewed Lunar Remastered Collection:

Lunar Remastered Collection Review – Two Classic JRPGs That Still Hold Up in 2025

Step into a world of nostalgia as we dive deep into the Lunar Remastered Collection, featuring two iconic JRPGs: Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar: Eternal Blue. In this review, I explore what makes these games stand the test of time - from timeless anime cutscenes and character-driven storytelling to simplified yet satisfying gameplay. Whether you're a long-time fan or a newcomer to the series, find out if Lunar is worth your time in 2025.

Noisy Pixel reviewed Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree:

Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree Review – A Soulslike Masterpiece We Didn’t See Coming

In this review of Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree, we dive deep into one of 2025’s most intriguing action RPGs. Set in the bleak world of Faeldumm, Mandragora delivers a haunting blend of 2.5D exploration, punishing soulslike combat, and dark fantasy storytelling. From the immersive world-building to unique class customization and light metroidvania elements, here's everything you need to know before stepping into this unforgiving realm.

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Demonschool will launch this summer - here's a new trailer:

Demonschool - Minigames Trailer

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Couchpotato spotted a new dev-blog for Glasshouse:

[DEV-BLOG #9] Visual Upgrades

Post-Process and Graphics overhaul

Hello flatmates,

I'm Andrea Marinelli, Lead Technical Artist at FLAT28, and I am temporarily ousting Giacomo to create my first devblog. A techno-junkie one.

Over the past few months, we’ve been focusing heavily on improving the visual side of Glasshouse. Our goal has been twofold: to define a clear visual identity and to set a benchmark for visual quality—a standard we aim to hit with every environment in the game.

To achieve that, we’ve been moving forward on multiple fronts. On one side, we kept working on new assets and building out the Dormitory 73B scenarios to maintain production momentum. On the other, we explored new pipelines to speed up development while increasing overall visual fidelity.

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Wccftech reports that launching Atomfall on Game Pass was a success:

Game Pass Launch of Atomfall Was a Huge Success, Says Rebellion CEO

Atomfall surpassed Rebellion's expectations by far, reaching over two million players in just one month, and its presence on Game Pass was definitely helpful toward that goal. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley heaped praise on Microsoft and their subscription service:

It's been a huge success. Microsoft has been a fantastic partner to work with, they've really leaned in to helping us. They brought their skills and their scale to bear on our small project, and it's done really, really well for them, so they got a good deal, we got a good deal out of it as well.

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Wccftech reports that Lords of the Fallen version 2.0 has been released:

Lords of the Fallen 2.0 Out Now with Enhanced Combat+Movement and Free Friend’s Pass

CI Games said that there will be a small delay to the release of Lords of the Fallen 2.0 on Steam due to a technical issue. The Epic Games Store, Windows Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X versions are unaffected.

Today, CI Games launches Lords of the Fallen 2.0, a 'definitive' update to the Soulslike game that seeks to address several of the community's requests. Marek Tyminski, CEO of CI Games, said in a statement:

Version 2.0 is the definitive edition of Lords of the Fallen and contains 50+ post-launch updates. The Free Friend’s Pass, shared progression co-op, and more are our way of saying thank you to our community. Honestly, the game has grown way beyond what we first imagined when we launched in 2023 – now is the perfect time for new players to join our franchise and current fans to experience Lords in an exciting new light.

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DSOGaming reports that Sqare Enix removed Denuvo from Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven.

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Couchpotato spotted a new trailer for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Official Trailer | Galaxies Gaming Showcase 2025

C4G checked out Gothic 3 again:

This is Why Gothic 3 is The BEST Unfinished RPG Ever!

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Mortismal Gaming checked out the recent Kingdom Come: Deliverance II update:

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: Hardcore Mode & Other Updates

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Couchpotato spotted a new Q&A video for Exodus:

EXODUS Founders Q&A Video | April 2025

The Lunar Remastered Collection has been released:

Lunar Remastered Collection - Official Features Trailer

Dive into the enchanting worlds of LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete and LUNAR 2: Eternal Blue Complete! Tag along on Alex and Hiro's quests and challenge enemies like the Magic Emperor and God of Destruction to save the world from dire peril in two adventures set 1000 years apart from each other!

Mortismal Gaming checked out patch 8 for Baldur's Gate 3:

Baldur's Gate 3: Patch 8 Highlights

Couchpotato spotted some gameplay of Kriegsfront Tactics:

Kriegsfront Tactics - Gameplay Overview Trailer

MinnMax checked out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33:

Join The Deepest Dive On Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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Couchpotato spotted a final update for Colony Ship.

GameSpot reports that Bethesda is working on another remaster:

Fallout 3 Remaster IN THE WORKS - But Not Any Time Soon…

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Nolan North and Jennifer English interviewed each other at the FGS:

Shadowheart meets Nathan Drake | Nolan North and Jennifer English interview each other

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The tactical RPG Augmented Empire has been released:

Augmented Empire | PC Edition | Launch Trailer

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IGN checked out The Outer Worlds 2:

The Outer Worlds 2: A Look at Its Expansive Worlds – IGN First

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The action RPG Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree has been released:

Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree - Launch Trailer - Available Now!

Eurogamer found some Eater Eggs in Atomfall - SPOILER ALERT:

11 Extra Brilliantly British Atomfall Easter Eggs And Where To Find Them - Rick Astley, The Avengers

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GaminBolt checked out Chains of Freedom:

CHAINS OF FREEDOM – A Grim Eastern European Tactical Game With An XCOM-Like Twist

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Learn more about the Sylvan faction of Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era:

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era — Sylvan Faction Teaser Trailer

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Couchpotato spotted a new devlog for Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades:

Devlog #3 - Discovering the World of Pathbreakers

Your Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades adventure takes place on the Stormtossed Isle. The island hosts several cities and settlements allied with numerous different factions.

Pathbreakers has two basic game modes: the first is the Story Mode, in which you select a character with their own origin story and play out their campaign on the Stormtossed Isle. The island is a large map with much to explore. It's a sandbox, with each character’s story determining your goal and victory condition.

The other mode is a Scenario Map, where you'll select the map size (small to huge) and several generating options. It's a vast open-world experience with no characters’ stories involved. Adding new scenarios is fairly easy, and modders can create new factions, enemy units, events, contracts, and other elements to customize and create new gameplay experiences.

Cities & Factions

Since Scenario Mode allows you to customize the whole world when you start your adventure and, therefore, always have a different experience, we'll be focusing on the Story Mode for this devlog.

The world map is a large, generated, playable area, although it has a few constant features tied to the story. It will have a large number of factions that are tied to the world’s events.
The Stormtossed Isle will have many cities, dungeons, enemy lairs, and unique spots to discover and explore. The island has varied climate zones that include snowlands, volcanic wastes, dry brushlands, lush plains, and coastal scenery. Different enemies, factions, biomes, and cities can be found in each of these different landscapes, making the Isle an ever-changing environment for mercenaries to operate in, full of opportunities to gather information and experience from different cultures across the land.

Towns are an essential hub for mercenaries: it's where they can pick up new contracts, bolster their numbers, purchase much-needed gear, rest up, and train. The world will have many cities, each offering different services and goods. Many will be easy to find and access from the Isle's roads, but remote and isolated settlements will require you to gather your party and begin an exploration.

Each metropolis is part of a faction, which controls several burgs. You'll be able to join one of the coalitions of your choice and get access to special perks and contracts reserved for faction members only.

Each city offers numerous contracts of varying difficulty - the more dangerous the job, the higher the reward.

The dangerous lairs and dungeons

Lairs are smaller pieces of land controlled by bandits, beasts, and various monstrosities as bases of operations. Usually, they are situated far enough away from cities that local militias won't find them, but close enough for raiding parties to make a nuisance of themselves. Dismantling them might well yield some rewards. However, there’s also plenty of risk in dealing with this danger.

Dungeons are bigger structures, like cave networks, mines, and ruins. Dungeons typically feature creatures that do not explore beyond the threshold of the dungeon itself, meaning some rather unique beasts can be found within. This uniqueness implies that dungeons are far more dangerous than simple lairs. Secret rooms, traps, puzzles, and multiple enemy encounters await you. The way will be treacherous, but there's almost always a big prize to be found at the end of it. Legendary equipment, ancient wonders, powerful and magical artifacts, you name it.

As you explore the world, you'll discover many such locations and even more wonders. Charting and exploring the Isle and its locations is a good way to earn coin, as many cartographers will pay well for such information.

Quickfiregames will start a Kickstarter campaign for Prelude Dark Pain on April 29:

PRELUDE DARK PAIN - FIRST TRAILER - KICKSTARTER APRIL 29

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Learn more about the voice recording of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Behind the Voices

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Couchpotato spotted a new trailer for Elden Ring: Nightreign:

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | Raider Character Trailer

Dune Awakening will be released on June 10.

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Couchpotato spotted dev update #11 for Solasta II:

Dev Update #11 - Class Spotlight: The Cleric (& March Contest Results!)

We have some winners to announce!

Hey there you wonderful folks!

Today we’ll be diving into the powerful Cleric class - very likely THE most versatile class when it comes to rounding off a team. Don’t make the assumption that they are just healers; depending on their domain and spell selection, Clerics can become stalwart frontliners, devastating spell slingers, high value supports or all of the above. But before we jump into that… We have some winners to announce!

And a warm welcome to Emji, the newest member of the Tactical Adventures team! May his barks be sonorous and his meals plentiful.

Of Quills & Ink - Let’s Meet our Winners!
It took us quite some time to sort through all your submissions as we did not exactly expect the amount of participants to be this high. To give you an idea, the amount of words we had to read through added up to several novels in length…

But enough stalling, who won? Now as there were a LOT of very good entries (and because it was our first Community Contest), we decided to select a lot more winners than we initially intended to. Here is the list of all 20 winners of the “Of Quills & Ink” Community Contest!

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Couchpotato spotted a new patch for Low Magic Age:

v0.91.78 Patch Notes - Alchemy Workshop, Fighting School

New Business Type: Alchemy Workshop
A small business with Craft (alchemy) as its primary skill, producing a variety of potions.

New Business Type: Fighting School
The fighting school represents any establishment built to train aspirants in a specific method of combat, whether that method is unarmed combat, cavalry, archery, or melee weaponry.

Unlike other businesses, the fighting school’s “primary skill” is not a skill at all. Rather, the owner uses her base attack bonus as the primary skill when running a fighting school. The owner can include any bonuses from Weapon Focus or Greater Weapon Focus, etc. to the profit check.

Gladiatorial arenas are a particularly popular form of fighting school. Fighters, monks, paladins, and rangers make good owners of fighting schools.

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Mortismal Gaming checked out Lunacid:

Check Out | Lunacid: Tears Of The Moon

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Couchpotato spotted an an animated short:

Baldur’s Gate 3: The Final Patch - An Animated Short

The dark fantasy RPG Blood Sword has been announced:

Blood Sword | Tactical Narrative RPG | Official Announcement Trailer

An ancient evil returns. A sword lost to legend. A party bound by fate. Forge your legacy in a story-rich RPG of turn-based combat and branching choices, inspired by the classic Blood Sword saga.

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The Lovecraftian fishing adventure Dreadmoor has been announced:

Dreadmoor - Official Reveal Trailer

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A comparison between the old and new version of Gothic:

Gothic 1 Remake | Making Of #02: Old vs. New

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RPG Site reviewed the Lunar Remastered Collection:

Lunar Remastered Collection Review

What does it mean for something to 'age well'? People toss the phrase around when talking about almost anything - food, the physical appearance of celebrities & politicians, and especially when discussing the arts. We're constantly re-evaluating the impact and legacy of older games, particularly when debating the merits of remasters presented to a new generation of gamers.

It can be a gambit to bring something back around for a second (or third) round, especially when advancements in technology and design can impact cultural and commercial reception. The Lunar Remastered Collection - a remaster of two PlayStation remakes of Sega CD games from 1992 and 1994 - brings a handful of tweaks to the beloved series without meddling too much with an established flavor. It seems to know that some things do get better with age, even if it has more wrinkles than we remember.

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These games are great, breezy, and iconic representations of anime-styled fantasy JRPGs in the 1990s. To that end, this is a great compilation, and I am grateful to finally have Eternal Blue released from its prison. However, the lack of options included in the iOS version of Silver Star Story holds this collection back, even if slightly. That said, the love for the series is evident by the care taken to preserve them with these slight updates that still hew to the memory of the PSX classics.

Score: 8/10

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Learn more about the Algox of Frosthaven:

Monsters of Frosthaven – Meet the Algox

The Algox call the valley north of the Imperial Mountains their home, and they have adapted to the frigid conditions.
In Frosthaven, you’ll be testing your skills against an array of menacing enemies. It’s time to shine the spotlight on them, so you can learn more about them and increase your chances of survival out there in the cold!

Meet the Algox
Frosthaven is the story of a small, struggling outpost far to the north of the capital city of White Oak. Completely isolated from the rest of the empire for half the year by towering, unbreachable snowdrifts, this settlement barely clings to survival against the relentless elements. Yet long before the first desperate Imperial settlers arrived, the Algox had already called the valley north of the Imperial Mountains their home. Perfectly adapted to the frigid conditions, these imposing beings possess thick white fur that shields them from the cold, as well as immense strength and intelligence that place them at the top of the food chain. With three spiraling horns atop their heads, they share a distant lineage with the Inox, but their way of life is uniquely their own.

For years, the villagers of Frosthaven and the Algox coexisted on a live-and-let-live basis. However, everything changed when the Merchant Guild took a sudden interest in the outpost. One of their expeditions, an Imperial garrison, unknowingly or not desecrated an ancient Algox burial ground. Outraged, the Algox launched an assault on Frosthaven, demanding retribution. The guild’s representatives quickly abandoned the settlement, leaving behind only a small force of soldiers to defend against the Algox onslaught.

Now, as you take command of a band of mercenaries hired to aid Frosthaven in its time of need, the Algox will be among the first enemies you encounter on the battlefield. Their forces are diverse, each member playing a crucial role in their ranks. For those of you who have had your fair share of adventures in Gloomhaven and the lands around the city, the tactics of the Algox Archers will be well familiar - though that doesn’t mean they won’t be a challenge.

Algox Archers
If you spot Algox Archers on the battlefield, make them a priority target! These swift combatants strike with deadly efficiency, delivering the kind of blow you'd expect from a well-armed melee opponent - only from a safe distance. Very fast (initiative-wise), they act early in combat, making them hard to counter. Be wary of their signature tactic - firing an "arrow to the knee" to keep you immobilized while strategically placing traps around their positions to keep enemies at bay. If left unchecked, these sharpshooters can quickly turn the tide of battle against you.

The Algox Archers are just a fraction of the forces the Algox will throw at you. Stay tuned as we unveil more - both of their ways of living and the structure of their forces.

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A hardcore mode for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is now available:

Hardcore Mode arrives April 15

A tougher, deeper, more immersive Bohemia awaits.

Ready to suffer? Good. Hardcore Mode lands in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on April 15.

This isn’t just a difficulty spike - it’s a whole new way to play. Your position is no longer shown on the map, fast travel is gone, and the compass? Useless. You’ll need to navigate the world by sight and local gossip alone.

At the start, you’ll pick at least three negative perks to carry for your entire journey. It’s not just harder. It’s more immersive, more brutal, and more Bohemia. Whether you’re chasing a challenge or looking for a new way to lose yourself in 15th-century Europe, Hardcore Mode is your next test. Ready?

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Couchpotato spotted a new patch for Within the Cosmos:

New Patch - v1.0.8

Fixes, Tweaks, and Visual Improvements in v1.0.8

Hey again everyone! Thank you so much for all the feedback and support you’ve been sharing on the community forums and on Discord, it’s been incredibly helpful. This update addresses a number of bugs, mission issues, and visual problems that many of you spotted, along with some tweaks to gameplay balance and UI. There’s still more to come, but this patch should help smooth out a lot of the rougher edges. Here’s what’s included in patch v1.0.8:

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The action adventure Eternal Strands got a free DLC called Stargazer:

Eternal Strands: Stargazer | Free DLC Trailer

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Gematsu reports that the turn-based strategy game Star Wars Zero Company has been announced - EA will give more info on April 19:

Single-player turn-based tactics game Star Wars Zero Company announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC