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Jurassic Park Meets Alien In This Childhood Dream Turned Horror Game
The Lost Wild, a first-person horror game combining dinosaur encounters with survival horror elements, has been a 20-year passion project for Great Ape Games CEO Nick Gregory. Initially a mod for Crysis, the game evolved with a volunteer team before securing a partnership with Annapurna Interactive, allowing it to become the studio's full-time focus. Gregory emphasizes portraying dinosaurs as realistic animals rather than monsters, drawing inspiration from films like Jurassic Park and Alien: Isolation, and aims for a genuinely frightening experience that balances fear with awe and fascination.
Dive Beneath the Surface in Grounded 2’s Biggest Update Yet: Into the Abyss
Grounded 2 has released its largest content update to date, titled 'Into the Abyss,' introducing a vast underwater adventure with new diving gear, underwater base building, and dangerous new creatures. The update also marks the game's launch on PlayStation 5, expanding its community during the Early Access development period. Players can now explore new areas beneath Skunk Pond, including underwater caverns and the mysterious Abyss, with new traversal options like the amphibious Toe Biter Buggy.
Grounded 2 (PS5) Early Access Review: Second Time’s (Still) The Charm
This review discusses Grounded 2, an early access title on PlayStation 5 that builds upon the original survival game. It highlights new features like the all-in-one Omni-Tool and rideable buggies for faster traversal and combat, while noting that the game is best experienced with friends.
Fancy Some Far Cry-Style Survival At A Cheaper Price? Meet Iridio
Iridio is a new open-world action and survival game from KR Games, available on Xbox Series X|S and PC. It features familiar elements from the Far Cry series, such as an island setting, hostile criminals, crafting, and wildlife that can be turned against enemies. The game emphasizes exploration, survival mechanics, dynamic weather, and a versatile crossbow for combat, offering a more budget-friendly take on the open-world formula.
Dynasty of the Sands – Beta Sign Up | Alpha Beta Gamer
Dynasty of the Sands is an upcoming survival city builder set in ancient Egypt, where players will guide a civilization along the Nile. The game features deep simulations of seasons, day/night cycles, weather, and individual villager needs. Players can sign up for a beta playtest to experience building their legacy.
Blocky zombie survival sim Unturned releases its source code so players can build a 'lasting legacy' for the…
Smartly Dressed Games has released the source code for its zombie survival game Unturned for non-commercial use via GitHub. This move aims to empower the community to build upon the game and create a lasting legacy. While the code is freely available for modification, all derived content must remain free to access and play, and certain third-party code elements have been excluded.
Next Week on XBOX: New Games for August 10 to 14
This weekly feature highlights new games arriving on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Game Pass between August 10 and 14. Titles include EA Sports Madden NFL 27, Sandustry, Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, and many more across various genres.
Chop Chop Inc. review: Success is the best revenge
Chop Chop Inc. is an incremental crafting game where players chop wood, build facilities, and compete against a logging corporation. Despite its silly premise and charming characters, the game suffers from janky mechanics and tedium, particularly in its crafting system. It is available on PC.
Narrative Eco-Apocalyptic Adventure The Swamp Daughter Launches Steam Demo
Argentine indie studio Bicho Raro Games has released a free demo for their narrative-driven, 2.5D eco-apocalyptic adventure game, The Swamp Daughter, on Steam. The game, inspired by the novel La Hija del Delta, explores themes of identity, memory, and survival in a post-pandemic world set in Argentina's Paraná River Delta.
"Believable and consistent up close": What the dinosaurs of The Lost Wild share with Microsoft’s cancelled Everwild, according to the designer who worked on both
Gary Napper, who worked on both the cancelled Microsoft title Everwild and the upcoming dinosaur survival game The Lost Wild, discusses the design similarities between the two. He notes that both games aim to portray creatures realistically and with believable behaviors, a challenge he found more complex than designing the alien in Alien: Isolation. Napper emphasizes that The Lost Wild focuses on 'animals, not monsters,' encouraging players to respect and coexist with the dinosaurs rather than simply hunt them.
13th century Mongolian courier sim The Legend of Khiimori becomes a battle against supernatural "poison of the earth spirit" with its Corruption Update
The Legend of Khiimori, a 13th-century Mongolian courier simulation game, has received a 'Corruption Update' introducing supernatural elements. Players now battle a force called 'Savdag-un khor' (poison of the earth spirit) that corrupts wildlife and the environment, requiring new crafting tools and survival mechanics to restore balance. The update also adds new enemies and a larger horse breed.
Coming to XBOX Game Pass: Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta, Cricket 26, Date Everything!, and More
Xbox Game Pass is adding several new titles throughout August, including an Early Access Open Beta for Gears of War: E-Day, Beast of Reincarnation, Bounty Star, and Cricket 26. Several games are also leaving the service on August 15, including Atlas Fallen and Firewatch. Additionally, classic original Xbox games are now available on PC and handheld devices.
The Looter – Beta Sign Up | Alpha Beta Gamer
The Looter is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game where players scavenge through a decaying world, fighting mutated creatures and hostile strangers. The game features firearms, melee combat, exploration for secrets and lore, and a crafting system to customize gear. Beta sign-ups are currently open.
Everwind plots creative mode, bandit faction, and initial support for mods in its next update
Developer Enjoy Studio is preparing a major update for its survival game Everwind, introducing a creative mode, initial mod support, and a new bandit faction. The update, expected in late August, will also add a device to locate points of interest and new creatures.
Uh oh, Conan Exiles added an ominous swirling tear in the sky in its most recent patch
A recent patch for Conan Exiles has introduced a mysterious swirling anomaly in the sky, noticed by YouTuber Eradicati0n. This visual change is theorized to be a rift connected to the game's main questline and the 'Legacy of the Giant-Kings' dungeon, potentially hinting at the next major story development.
Project Zomboid Build 42.20 takes its player count to a new all-time peak
Project Zomboid's latest update, Build 42.20, has propelled the game to a new all-time player count peak of over 121,000 concurrent players. This surge is attributed to significant additions in building content and a revamped map featuring detailed environmental storytelling and unique locations. The update enhances the survival simulation experience, offering more opportunities for multiplayer interactions and community engagement.
Game Demos
Milo is a survival roguelike game available on Steam for Windows and macOS. Players must survive waves of cultists alone or with others, with gameplay mechanics that reward longer survival times.
Forever Skies Review | TheXboxHub
Forever Skies is a survival adventure game where players pilot an airship above an ecologically ruined Earth, scavenging for resources and blueprints to expand their base. The game emphasizes exploration, crafting, and managing survival meters like hunger and thirst, which are made more manageable with cooperative play. While the game offers hours of engaging content, some players may find the survival mechanics and combat encounters tedious at times.
Need more Palworld in your life? Good, because it’s becoming a mobile MMORPG with Palworld Online
Garena is developing Palworld Online, an officially licensed mobile MMORPG based on Pocketpair's survival game, set to launch worldwide in 2026. The game will retain core mechanics like creature collecting, survival, crafting, and base-building, but within a seamless shared open world featuring cooperative and competitive multiplayer activities. Garena emphasizes that Palworld Online is being built specifically for mobile devices with a touch-friendly interface.
Palworld is officially getting an MMO spin-off that introduces "original story elements," but it'll only…
Palworld is officially getting an MMORPG spin-off titled Palworld Online, developed and published by Garena for mobile platforms including iOS and Android. This officially licensed title will introduce new narrative elements and expand the creature-collecting survival experience into a massively multiplayer online ecosystem. Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe expressed confidence in Garena's mobile game expertise for the global launch, which is slated for release sometime this year.
