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Undaunted Games to Relaunch ‘Forest Hills: The Last Year’ Later This Year [Trailer]

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Developer Undaunted Games is living up to their name, having relaunched the asymmetrical horror game Last Year last May original developer Elastic Games went defunct. The developer has now announced that they will be relaunching the game as Forest Hills: The Last Year later this year during “Prom Season”, complete with a host of new art, maps, and killers to terrorize students.

Forest Hills: The Last Year will see old characters return to join the ranks of the Displaced, which now includes new residents from the town of Forest Hills. The residents will have to team up to deal with a new graduating class of Fiends, each with a signature style. Teams will have to balance their unique skills to escape the killer before time runs out.

“When we took over the Last Year brand, we knew we wanted to make some changes, but we also wanted to stay true to the game’s spirit,” according to Mark Waterworth, Creative Director at Undaunted Games. “We’re going to improve the look and feel of the game, expand the available maps, and bring new partnerships. We hear what the fans have been asking for, and we’re bringing Last Year back – with a vengeance!”

In addition to expanding content, Undaunted Games is also expanding its creative team for Forest Hills. Veteran comic book artist and professional wrestler Andy “Bob Anger” Belanger has joined to work on game artwork, while Frank Tieri has joined to work on the game’s narrative. Sean Schemmel, who will be familiar to fans of the Dragon Ball series, will serve as Voice Over Director.

The plan is to relaunch Forest Hills: The Last Year this Summer. The game will be making an appearance at this year’s PAX East from March 21 to the 24. Meanwhile, Last Year is currently free-to-play on Steam.

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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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