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Brutal Throwback FPS ‘Hellbound’ Out Now [Trailer]

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If you’ve got retro shooters on the brain (and be honest, who doesn’t these days?), you’ll be pleased to know that Saibot Studios’ Hellbound has finally arrived, and is on Steam for $14.99 USD. As an extra special treat, in celebration of its launch, the game will be discounted 20% for an entire week after release (that’s $11.99, in case you’re wondering).

On top of that, the team has released the now-customary launch trailer, which is full of the gloriously brutal gore and action you’d expect from something that involves diving into Hell and smashing demons as Hellgore (voiced by Artie Widgery). Coupled with an amazing soundtrack by David Levill, Federico Ágreda “Zardonic” and Christian Fernando Perucchi, this is definitely your nostalgia fix.

Writer/Artist/Gamer from the Great White North. I try not to be boring.

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“Blood in the Water” Update Brings New Content and Difficulty Settings to ‘Barotrauma’

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FakeFish and Undertow Games have given veteran Barotrauma players a run for their money with the new “Blood in the Water” update. Available now, the update brings with it a new difficulty settings, alongside new content and customization options for the underwater co-op title.

For starters, Blood in the Water adds two new monsters to Barotrauma—the Viperling and a new Spineling variant—which employ poison attacks. Not only that, but the devs have brought back the cave-dwelling Mantis, a monster that used to exist in early Barotrauma builds. Existing monsters have also been tweaked, with Abyss monsters now better at targeting characters inside the submarine for added danger.

New campaign difficulty settings have also been added, with the ability to adjust the campaign difficulty to your liking using one of four presets, or by fine-tuning various parameters yourself. There have also been improvements to the respawning system in multiplayer, which involves the removal of the Reaper’s Tax and replacing it with customizable respawning skill loss penalty. New wrecks and beacon stations have also been added, as well as a new kind of wreck mission.

Other changes with the update include a rebalancing of the diving suits for clearer use cases, as well as reducing the flooding speed to give players more time to react during a hull breach. This is in addition to the various other tweaks to animations and station events.

Barotrauma is available now in full after exiting from Early Access last year.

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