Early access and a new animated trailer.

Alright, so it may not be exactly like Mega Man, but 30XX is damn close. So close, in fact, that their marketing materials calls it a "Megaroguelike" action platformer. I mean, c'mon. Whatever you want to call it, you can now pick it up on Steam Early Access today for Windows PC. This game follows up on the success of 20XX, which sold over 200,000 copies.

30XX offers a "variety of ways to shoot, jump, and dash across...

When is it the best time to jump into an Early Access game?

Often when people hear the term "Early Access" they think about games that are incomplete or filled with bugs. Sometimes they may worry that these games will be abandoned by the developers and never see a "complete" release of the title. While this fear may come true in a few cases, is it really worth missing out on some real gems of games while they're the current hotness?

Take the case of...

Yes, the ?! are part of the title.

America. 2042. War has devastated the nation. All hope is not lost, however. Thanks to the power of cooking food, at least the nation won't go hungry. That seems to be the basic idea behind Cook, Serve, Delicious 3?! that was just announced as entering into Early Access on January 29.

Players will become a participant in the Iron Cook National Foodtruck Championships. You won't be going in to the competition alone though. Players will...

A horror game slated for release in December.

Xaviant just announced that their upcoming horror title, Don't Die, Minerva!, will be released into Early Access on Steam and Xbox Game Preview in December. The game places you in the shoes of an 11-year-old named Minerva. Armed just with a flashlight and a backpack full of stuffed animals, you will try to survive in a haunted house.

Minerva has somehow found her way into a haunted mansion packed with all sorts of evil spirits....

It's not Skate 4, but it might as well be.

A new gameplay video for the upcoming skateboarding game, Session, was released today. Developer crea-ture Studios released this new video that shows off some of the free-flowing nature of the game. Just like another popular skateboarding franchise, this game utilizes the analog sticks on controllers to control each foot.

Check out a sample "line" shown off at the Brooklyn Banks location. A "line" being a string...

It's only been 18 years, but who's counting?

The Comanche franchise is back from the dead. A new trailer for Comanche was shown off this evening at Gamescom 2019 from developer NUKKLEAR. The first entry in this franchise dates back to 1992 with the release of Comanche: Maximum Overkill for the PC. The most recent game was 2001's Comanche 4. Yeah, it's not much of a stretch to say that this franchise is very much back from the dead when the last release was over 18 years ago.
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More open-world space shooting coming in 2021.

Rockfish Games debuted a world premiere trailer for Everspace 2 this evening at Gamescom: Opening Night Live. This sequel will once again deliver open-world space shooting and classic RPG elements in the sequel. There is also persistent player progression, a larger number of player ships, and "significantly enhanced storytelling."

Everspace 2 is coming to Steam Early Access in the second half of 2020. The full version...

Pulls into the station on September 9.

If you ever wanted to build your own railroad, but didn't want to do it alone, you should take a look at Unrailed!. This is an upcoming co-op railroad-building game that will enter into Steam Early Access on September 9, 2019.

You will get procedurally generated landscapes to work with. You will also have to contend with weird inhabitants and hostile terrain. Your mission is to bring an unstoppable train safely to the station through...

Classic 90s FPS has a new name.

Ion Maiden billed itself as an "old-school FPS" similar in style to the classic games from the 90s. It entered into Early Access a little while back and it plans to exit Early Access on Thursday, August 15. On that date, the game will toss round after round on the PC, with console releases on the Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One coming later.

The game is being developed by Voidpoint and published by 3D Realms and 1C Entertainment....

When I think of the police, I think of guns.

Ahem, moving on.

In the latest update for Flashing Lights, the police department in the game now has some new weapons and updated missions to work their way through. Developer Nils Jakrins dropped a content update for the game that adds in a new handgun and shotgun to the police force. There are also new building interiors to explore in the game's open world.

Flashing Lights is a title where you can play...

QC Games, the development studio that released Breach just this past January into Steam Early Access, is now shutting down. The announcement came earlier today via a developer update on the Breach website.

Breach was a 4v1 action-RPG. Players could make and customize their own characters with a variety of customizable abilities. These characters would face off against a "Veil Demon" that was either controlled by the AI or by other players. The game was going to transition...

During Gearbox's PAX East presentation, a small segment was devoted to showing off what Gearbox Publishing is up to. One of the reveals today was for Risk of Rain 2. Obviously, we already knew about Risk of Rain 2. That wasn't the big surprise today.

No, the big surprise today was the fact that Risk of Rain 2 is available right now on Steam Early Access. This Early Access release allows players to go in alone or with up to three additional friends for four player co-op action....