Digital Extremes promises a year of "big swings" for Soulframe as it aims to flesh out the new RPG into a fully fledged fantasy counterpart to Warframe. Soulframe Preludes 13: Virtues is almost upon us, and the developer is making some dramatic core changes to the fundamentals of character building and combat in an attempt to set the foundation for the future. In its latest dev chat, the team also details its overhauled customization system, tools for clearer progression, and a new game mode.

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But a few creatives weren’t afraid to take the sentiment of “once more with feeling” seriously. Fresh off the success of their 2010 animated film Tangled, screenwriter Dan Fogelman, legendary Disney composer Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin), and lyricist Glenn Slater pitched and produced their own fantasy show — something with a little more cheer than a dark fantasy. Enter ABC’s 2015-2016 comedy-musical series Galavant. The show's final episode aired 10 years ago. on Jan. 31, 2016.

I'm playing it in bed. I'm accidentally missing meetings. I'm squeezing a round before social occasions, in the bathroom, and God help me, right after I wake up. My girlfriend has informed me that she's starting to hate the sound of the same music constantly blasting from my Steam Deck. But instead of playing it less, I'm just sitting down at my computer more. My new Steam obsession is StarVaders, a shockingly excellent reinvention of the retro game, Space Invaders.

For gamers, January is a holy season of rest and relaxation. The release cadence slows to a crawl, the news cycle cools, and all that spare energy goes straight to the backlog. I’ve spent the month digging into one that’s been on mine for a few years: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. It’s been said before (many, many, many times), but holy shit you guys, this game absolutely rules.

A new statement from the head of Rust developer Facepunch Studios has once again sparked hopes that canceled Amazon MMO New World could have a route to salvation. After jokingly making an offer for the rights to the MMORPG, Alistair McFarlane has now revealed that he's signing a non-disclosure agreement with an "unnamed company" and won't be talking about "anything related" to the party in question for the foreseeable future. New World players are convinced their game is the most likely possible candidate, although McFarlane cautions that it's "just conversations" and that people should "have low expectations" for now.

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Millions of new Epstein files have been released and in them, a message from Microsoft that he had been banned from Xbox Live. Yes, for real.