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Tyro is a gorgeous spell based first person puzzle adventure in which you must concoct spells to change your mentor from a chicken back into his human form!

You play a magicians apprentice who’s mentor has been transformed into a chicken after an unfortunate accident. To save your mentor from a lifetime of laying eggs, you must learn a variety of spells by combining the ingredients that are alluded to in a variety of cryptic notes scattered around the workshop. Some of these ingredients are easy to find, but others you’ll have to search high and low for.

With it’s gorgeous visuals and innovative spell based puzzles, Tyro is shaping up very nicely nicely. We can’t wait to see more of this spellbinding puzzle adventure.

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World of Tanks Generals - A great looking new Collectable Card Game set in the World of Tanks Universe, featuring strategic turn based combat that features combat units from World War II and beyond.

With the full might of Wargaming.net behind it, World of Tanks Generals is going to be a very slick experience, and the war-themed setting makes a refreshing change from the regular fantasy tropes of Collectable Card Games.

War – what is it good for? Collectable Card Games apparently!

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Bad Ass Babes - Digitised strippers vs aliens and drooling brain-dead men in this B-movie inspired old school side scrolling beat-em up

Based on the Beats of Rage engine, Bad Ass Babes uses the same digitising techniques that were used in the original Mortal Kombat games to capture the likenesses of the ass-kicking exotic dancers and import them into this entertaining side scrólling beat-em up.

Featuring a paper thin B-movie inspired plot involving invading aliens enslaving mankind, you progress through the game, beating up enslaved mutant men and unlocking new characters. The gameplay is shallow, but remarkably fun, offering up old school beat-em up gameplay, with some very exotic special moves.

Needless to say some people may (understandably) be a little offended by Bad Ass Babes, but it’s all meant in good fun, and is just riffing on the direct to DVD movies that it’s inspired by. Also, it’s telling that all the men in the game are depicted as shuffling, brain-dead mutants who can’t tell the difference between a real (digitised) woman and an inflatable doll.

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Assassin - a super tough Megaman-esque action platformer with 360 degree gun control, in which you have to hunt down and kill the leader of China: Kong Suku, in order to start a massive war.

This game does get very hard, but much like Megaman, when you fail you only have yourself to blame. The controls are tight, the shooting mechanics are very satisfying, and the soundtrack is killer.

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Evolve Beta Weekend! Join in the monster mash on PS4, Xbox One and Steam. Includes access to Evolve’s “Hunt” game mode, two monsters (Goliath and Kraken), eight hunters (Markov, Maggie, Val, Hank, Hyde, Griffin, Lazarus, and Bucket), and 12 maps.

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Block N Load is a chaotic multiplayer shooter where everything you build, destroy, construct or shoot in the fully transformable battle maps has devastating impact on the entire game.

With it’s voxel based maps offering tons of destructible terrain and building options, every match is different from the last. Multiplayer battles are wonderfully chaotic events full of destruction and block-based carnage. The fully transformable maps cater to a variety of play styles, with players able to build defences, tunnel under the map, or catapult over it, and be sneaky, devious, or destructive as they see fit.

Block N Load offers an great mix of Minecraft creativity and fun Team Fortress-style FPS teamwork. Blocky bombastic first person building & blasting.

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Total War Battles: Kingdom is a free-to-play Total War-spinoff with a persistent-world, set during the turn of the 10th century.

With cross-platform play between PC and mobile devices, developers Creative Assembly are keen to make Total War Battles: Kingdom a strategy game that is accessible and accommodating to all players. Fans of the franchise will know what to expect, with it likely to be similar to Total War Battles: Shogun, but with extra bells and whistles and a different setting.

Even in Beta form, Total War Battles: Kingdom looks very impressive - both on Mobile devices and PC, showing no signs of being dumbed down for mobile markets. War! Huh! What is it good for? Well as it turns out it’s remarkably good for tactical real time strategy games!

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Ionic Surge is a fast, futuristic arcade racer with tough procedurally generated tracks, full of speed-sapping walls and traps you have to avoid if you don’t want your time to run out.

The twitchy nature of the gameplay make's Ionic Surge pretty hard initially, but after some time you’ll get familiar with the gameplay to really enjoy racing in it.

Once you’ve mastered the game’s twitchy control scheme and fine tuned your turns and dodges you can get some pretty high scores, blasting along the neon-filled procedurally generated track while listening to some excellent tunes. It’s a fun, challenging and super fast arcade racer that looks like something straight out of Tron.

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Trove is an excellent action focused voxel-based sandbox massively multiplayer RPG that allows you to explore, fight and build, in a vibrant world that encourages exploration and feeds creativity.

As you travel the huge, ever changing worlds of Trove you’ll build, craft, mine and battle a variety of colourful enemies and bosses. Comparisons will no doubt be made to the mighty Minecraft due to it’s voxel based world and extensive (and impressive) building and crafting options. However, Trove is far more action/combat orientated and features a full RPG-style progression system, with classes (such as Gunslingers, Ninjas & Knights), loot, pets, XP, levelling, tons of customisation options and some very cool mounts (including some adorable little voxel-based ponies!).

There are new character classes released for Trove on a regular basis, usually accompanied by a new biome. It features an impressive sense of community, with almost every piece of gear, dungeon, and lair in the game created by Trove players, and feedback on the Reddit group helping to shape the game. It’s also a very welcoming place, with players happy to assist newbies with any questions.

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Even The Stars is a space exploration game with no objectives, quests or story-lines. You simply wander through space without a purpose, exploring alien planets, discovering strange landmarks, getting lost, getting old and eventually passing away.

You control the movement of your ship with the mouse and keyboard but other actions require you to type commands, such as ‘warp’ or ‘disembark’. When you come across an interesting landmark on a planet (from fun-fairs to Monoliths), you can explore or ‘stay’, allowing you to write a short log about your journey and making you grow a little older. You’ll eventually die of old age and be treated to picture of the universe, with your last route mapped out, accompanied with your logs describing your voyage.

It’s a short, sweet and simple game that encourages exploration for explorations sake. In Even the Stars there’s no levelling up, high scores or objectives, simply the joy of discovering weird stuff in space, writing about it and building your own story – Space Blogging.

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