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No time of the week is too early to play 4D mini golf

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I couldn't sleep last night for reasons entirely of my own making, and my brain feels like that cursed garbage bag you refuse to empty because there's no way to do it that won't turn the neighborhood into Silent Hill. I need to avoid complex writing, or my brain will similarly explode and paint North London grey.

Ah, a mini golf game! I think I can almost hack the concept of minigolf on this most desperate of Mondays. Golf but mini. Bonzai golf. Digestible! Intuitive! Anyway, I managed to write 100 words without even looking at the Steam page. Let's do that now. Wait a minute, this isn't mini golf. This is Mini Mini Golf Golf. Mini Mini Golf What is Golf? “Destabilize the current situation and delve into the neon psychohistory of a strange being in danger,” the Steam page explains. “This is not a game about minigolf.” It's too late to escape now.

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Monster Hunter Wilds beta is live with an early look at new camping, wound and weather systems

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Girls and boys, march on to Uncle Capcom's garage, because it's time to strangle a cat, ride a fighting peacock, and painstakingly maul a giant, wailing teddy bear. I mean, the Monster Hunter Wilds beta is currently live on Steam until November 4th at 2:59pm ET. It's exactly 2.59 o'clock. If you're in a rush at 3 a.m. on a Monday, absolutely desperate to polish off the aesthetics of a little enslaved cat persona, you can play Dragon Age: The Veilguard instead.

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Wildly depraved Tinseltown builder Hollywood Animal launches into early access in January 2025

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I missed my chance to write about Hollywood Animals when a guy named Nic Reuben showed up like a rival showbiz talent scout and took advantage of the fact that I was stranded in an airport at the time to steal the Steam Fest summer demo from under my nose. Instead I wrote about a very crude Minesweeper “homage”. I hope this was for the best.

Anyway, I finally got a chance to take a bite at the apple, because the developers of Weappy Wholesome have announced an early access date for the old La La Land: January 16, 2025. To celebrate, they've also released a new, rather lengthy stream. trailer. Grab yourself a whiskey and a cigar and get in.

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Path Of Exile 2's early access release has been delayed until December to ensure your POE microtransactions continue

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Game director Jonathan Rogers announced in a short YouTube video that the early access version of Path Of Exile 2 has been delayed by three weeks, from November 15 to December 6, 2024. The action RPG itself looks like it will be ready in time for its original release date, but there's a lot of “server-side infrastructure work” that needs to be done.

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Windblown, the new cooperative hack-and-slash game from the developers of Dead Cells, is now out in Early Access

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It looks great blowing in the wind. It's a 1-3 player action-roguelite where you fight quickly across floating islands, and I'm extremely interested in getting a feel for the gameplay for myself. Good news! I can convey the game feels now since it's released into Early Access today.

But if you watch the launch trailer below out of context, you might be fooled into thinking that this is actually the emo second half of an Isekai anime series.

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