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Mightreya is a crunchy, meaty, complicated anime-superhero fusion of Devil May Cry and Gravity Rush

Mightreya is a crunchy, meaty, complicated anime-superhero fusion of Devil May Cry and Gravity Rush

I've had my eye on Mightreya since long before it had its name, when it was just clips of a somewhat generic anime girl doing sick tricks and beatdowns in levels without assets. But now it looks like a genuine (the -uine pronounced like wine, so you've got the right intonation) action video game, with a slightly less generic looking anime girl continuing to do sick tricks and beatdowns, albeit with a bit more context.

While you wait for a release date announcement, have a gander at Nivalis' opening moments

While you wait for a release date announcement, have a gander at Nivalis' opening moments

Nivalis is a game that whenever I see it I just think "oh, that can't be right, games like this don't actually exist do they?" Arguable, until it's actually out, its existence is neither here nor there. But at the very least for the month of February, instead of talking at us lot in their monthly devlogs, developer Ion Lands opted to show off a little snippet of the game's opening moments to tide us over until release.

Steam Deck OLED prices will rise in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan next week, but it's tough to tell whether that's a harbinger of wider hikes

Steam Deck OLED prices will rise in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan next week, but it's tough to tell whether that's a harbinger of wider hikes

The ongoing headache of RAMnarök has seen hardware prices rise and Valve's Steam Decks go out of stock in certain regions of the world. So, today's announcement that Steam Deck OLED prices in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are set to rise next month is the sort than might have you clutching your wallet.

New Frostrail video delivers more survival train horror shooting plus weird underground Tomb Raider temples

New Frostrail video delivers more survival train horror shooting plus weird underground Tomb Raider temples

I’ve felt surprisingly mixed so far about Frostrail , the new first-person co-op horror survival game from the folks behind Barotrauma . As a rule, I’m keen on stories about awful apocalypse trains – see Metro Exodus , RailGods, and recent Julian favourite Fogpiercer – but Frostrail has hitherto seemed a bit generic.

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