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Battle a Monstrous Version of Steamboat Willie and Other Urban Legends in ‘Infestation: Origins’ [Trailer]

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Remember last year when Winnie The Pooh entered public domain, and we not only got Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey, but also the announcement of the Lovecraftian FPS Hundred Acre Wood? Nightmare Forge Games are taking the same approach with Steamboat Willie entering public domain in their co-op horror game, Infestation: Origins.

In case you weren’t aware, Steamboat Willie is the earliest version of Mickey Mouse, and has entered public domain as of today after 95 years. So what better way to celebrate than revealing an episodic 1-4 player FPS about an exterminator clearing out infestations caused by twisted versions of classic characters and urban legends?

Slated to release into Early Access on Steam later this year, Infestation: Origins sees you (or you and your friends) visiting various locations to uncover the story behind each infestation, and exterminating it at the source. That involves you searching each location to access and unlock new areas, but also using cameras to keep an eye on each infestation’s activity. You’ll also need to maintain power to make sure each of your systems remains online.

Players will have a variety of gear at their disposal to combat each outbreak, but they’ll also have to contend with the monstrous fiends lurking throughout each area. As a team, do you split up to tackle the infestation faster, or do you stick together to maintain safety in numbers? Each episode will culminate in you having to face and eliminate the horrific entity inspired by the previously-mentioned classic characters and urban legends responsible for the respective infestation.

As you play, you’ll gain experience, allowing you to unlock new skins, perks, items, and other unlockables. To ensure replayability, Infestation: Origins will have randomized item layouts, unpredictable AI, as well as a variety of custom settings to tweak your experience.

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‘Vampire Survivors’ Receives “Laborratory” Update Ahead of ‘Operations Guns’ Next Week [Trailer]

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Ahead of Contra arriving in Vampire Survivors with Operation Guns, developer Poncle has released a new free 1.10 update for the roguelike entitled the “Laborratory” update. The update adds new achievements for those of you who love that sort of thing, as well as a new character, new stages and new weapons.

“Since the early days of VS, people have been asking important questions like ‘Why is it called Santa Water?’,” reads the update. The Laborratory update aims to address that, introducing the Santa Ladonna character to Vampire Survivors, who starts out with nothing but a temporary cooldown bonus, and automatically triggers a Rosary when reaching critically low HP.

For weapons, you have the new Santa Javelin, which evolves into Seraphic Cry. Starting out, the Santa Javelin aims for random enemies, can critically hit and turn the Duration stat into additional Amount for itself. In order to evolve it into the Seaphic Cry, players will need a maxed out Clover. The evolution uses Luck to deal additional damage. Picking up Rosaries while it is equipped turns them into a quadruple screen clearing explosion that will turn enemies into XP gems.

In addition to the new patch, Poncle has dropped some progress updates on a couple of topics. Cross-saves are currently in beta branches on Steam, while progress on online co-op is going well, but it’s “still too early for more details”. The developer is also working on a new feature which will allow for new Adventures, which are standalone campaigns that were introduced in previous updates. “We had planned to make new Adventures more often, but then realized that while they work very well to isolate new DLC content, the base-game ones are missing something. So we’ve been working on adding a new feature to the game (that will remain a little secret for now) after which we’ll be back releasing new adventures.”

Meanwhile, Vampire Survivors:Operation Guns will launch May 9 across PC and consoles, and will head to the PlayStation version once it’s been released.

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