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I found a thread for Spelunky 2

Spelunky 2 - Bring Your Daughter to Work day

I hate “good news” that I thought was already the news as we understood it, but in that category Derek Yu has announced Spelunky 2 is coming in 2020! Wait, what? Wasn’t that already the plan? It was supposed to come in 2019, and in August of 2019 he said it “might not make it this year” due to wanting to make sure everything was as polished and awesome as possible and that they had made the game much bigger/denser than originally anticipated. Well, that’s fine and great! But then 2020 came a…

I kinda had forgotten about it. Interestingly it doesn’t even have a Steam page. Coming to Epic?

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Risk of Rain

After seeing little bits and pieces if this quirky little platform arcade adventure game I spent a little time playing last night. I didn’t play too long before I had to head off to bed but my first impressions were pretty positive. I don’t usually like platform style games but this one seems to have enough going in to interest me. From the get go my little guy has 4 basic attacks I can only assume the other unlockable characters share this as well. The generated maps keep things fresh and the …