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Nine Dots Studio, the developer behind cult classics Outward and Outward 2, has announced that its next title, a roguelike called Lost in Prayer, will be released in Steam Early Access in Q1 2025. It’s a brutal game in which every decision carries weight, where one wrong move could have dire consequences.

The main twist in Lost in Prayer is that every enemy that kills you becomes a playable character you can use in future runs. This is where you can differentiate your play style because every character has unique abilities that will spice up gameplay and open up new opportunities for victory. I quite like the idea of hitting insurmountable roadblocks, only to use the enemies that hassled me along the way to overcome them.

Lost in Prayer is a love letter to classic roguelikes like Caves of Qud

In its first developer diary video, Nine Dots studio makes it clear this isn’t a game like Hades 2, where death is a mechanic, and the systems are just as intricate. Lost in Prayer is a turn and grid-based roguelike inspired by the classics like Caves of Qud and NetHack: Legacy. Games that allow you to discover new things even after 100 hours of play time.

The developer is trying to balance the depth, variety, and complexity in Lost in Prayer, working to make the game more approachable to newcomers without sacrificing what makes the genre so engrossing. In the game, players are souls stuck in purgatory, attempting to find their way out of heaven or hell. It looks simple enough, but there’s complexity in how each route has an entire bestiary of enemies to die to and gain control of, all of which have their own skill trees to upgrade too.

This is the baseline for Lost in Prayer, the content on offer that you’ll have access to in early 2025. The developer is keen to stay true to the roots of the genre while iterating on it just enough to make something unique that can stand the test of time, just like the games that inspired it.

As is always the case with early access, the initial version of the game will be updated over time to include new features Nine Dots Studio wants to include. However, feedback from the community will also be a critical part of development. It’ll be interesting to see where early access takes the title’s development and what players ask for after sinking their teeth into it for a few dozen hours.

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Aspyr has announced that they’ve been hard at work on a remaster of 2002’s Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. It will be released on PC and consoles on August 1st.

When it comes to video games, Star Wars has historically been very hit-and-miss. Actually, that could be said about everything Star Wars, not just the video games. However, the early ‘00s were perhaps the most inconsistent time for the brand. We got Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (and probably some others I’m forgetting), but between those, we got some of the okay-est Star Wars games, such as Star Wars: Obi-Wan or, well, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

It’s not that Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is bad. I’ve heard that some people dig it. However, it kind of played like just about everything of that period and stars professional action figure, Jango Fett, and his jetpack.

It takes place before Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones and follows the bounty hunter as he hunts bounties. The remaster will feature “visual enhancements, improved environmental textures, new dynamic lighting effects, and a new flashlight tool for navigating dark places.” That last feature is kind of hilarious.

Speaking of hit-and-miss, Aspyr has been that with their remasters of the Star Wars series. They haven’t always been bad, but if what I heard is correct, their recent ports of the Star Wars: Battlefront series are so bad they threaten the fabric of reality. I liked when they did Star Wars: Episode I: Racer.

The Star Wars: Bounty Hunter remaster arrives on Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on August 1, 2024.

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Looking good is the real endgame in a Soulborne game, and Elden Ring is no different. For my money, the Armor of Night set worn by Jolan is one of the best-looking sets in the game and really puts me in mind of a heavily armored Nazgul from Lord of the Rings.

How to get the Night Armor set in Elden Ring

The Night Armor set is located in the Bonny Village Gaol dungeon. You can get to Bonny Village by following the directions in our O Mother gesture location guide. Once you get there, continue heading south, across a wooden bridge and past a bunch of broken cages. You should be careful, as two large enemies will attempt to ambush you. Get past them, and you will arrive at a cave on the right, and this is the start of the Bonny Gaol Dungeon.

Walk down into the dungeon until you arrive at a large room with some posts hanging from the roof and a ledge on the right side. Follow the ledge to the far end, take out the Innard, and go in the door there.

In the back of the room, you will find a door you can open. Go inside and grab any items that you can see and take out the enemies. In the back right, you will see a wooden structure that acts as a chute to the level below. Jump down there, but be careful, as this area is filled with corpse slimes.

Make your way west, down the tunnels, and when you get to the next big room, take a hard left and go up the new tunnel. Be careful doing this, as lots of corpse slimes will drop down from the roof and will try to ambush you. These guys get eaten up by fire damage, so use it if you have it.

Keep heading south down the new tunnel, and you will come to a break in the wall that lets you drop down into a blue-lit room filled with pots. There will be all sorts of enemies here, from Innards, to small pots and the more dangerous large pots. Just keep moving forward through all these rooms. There are some random items in these rooms, but nothing that we are focusing on in this guide, and nothing too important that we won’t come back to before the end.

You will eventually come out into a large, cavernous room with a ledge running along the left side. Follow this and go in the open door, cross the room, and open the locked door there. Just keep moving forward through these rooms.

You will come out to a pot moving up and down between levels. Hop on it and go down, then hop off and back on and ride it all the way to the top. If you get stuck at the bottom, there is a small disc you can stand on to restart the circuit. The main thing you wan to worry about here is getting to the very top.

At the top, you will see an item on a guillotine table surrounded by enemies. Take them out, then grab the items, and you officially have the Night Armor set. Follow the ledge around to the left and go up and grab the item off the corpse at the top of the incline. This will also give you the Shield of Knight. If you want to complete the entire cosplay, then you will also need the Sword of Knight. To get this, finish the Ymir Questline, make sure you have an Iris of Occultation, and then give it to Jolan, who will give you the Sword of Night.

Now, it doesn’t seem like the corpse here is actually Jolan, so have no fear, it is likley just some other Knight who fell afoul of the dungeon and never made it out.

Night Armor stats

• Dtrike – 15.3 negation
• Slash – 17.2 negation
• Pierce – 17.2 negation
• Magic – 27 negation
• Fire – 20.6 negation
• Lightning – 20.6 negation
• Holy – 27.4 negation

In-game description: Bottomless black (armor piece name), cool to the touch. Flowing lines in the seeming shape of a fingerprint adorn the surface. Imprisons the wearer in utterly lightless dark. Bestowed upon those born deep underground, ordaining them as Swordhands of Night.

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In Palworld, gone are the days of each base being dedicated to mining a specific resource. With the Sakurajima update, two new mines are coming to make life easier — Coal Mines and Sulfur Mines. In this guide, I’ll go through how to get a Coal Mine. 

If you’ve got a dedicated Coal base set up in the Dessicated Desert or anywhere else, I’m happy to tell you that you don’t necessarily need it any more. You can now place a Coal Mine next to your Ore Mine, assign a mining Pal, and get endless amounts of Coal for all of your Carbon Fiber or Refined Ingots. 

Requirements for getting a Coal Mine in Palworld

To get a Coal Mine, you’ll need to reach at least level 53, and then the Coal Mine can be unlocked via the Technology Ladder for 5 Ancient Technology Points. You’ll need the following resources to craft it:

• 70 Stone

  • Mined from regular rocks or obtained from a Mining Site

• 100 Coal

  • Obtained by mining black rocks

• 30 Paldium Fragments

  • Obtained by mining Paldium rocks, or otherwise from putting stone in a crusher

After building the Coal Mine, you’ll need a strong mining Pal. My personal choice is always Astegon, but Blazamut also shares a level 4 mining skill. You’ll also need a few transporting Pals to transfer mined resources from the Mine itself into storage, as any stocked up resources in the Mine won’t be counted when it comes to being available for crafting. 

The Coal Mine is pretty large, being the same size as a regular Mine or Ore Mine, so I’d recommend setting up an area solely used for mining. Whether this is an entirely different base, or just a section of your home base, is up to you.

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The days of dedicated mining bases for specific resources are a thing of the past in Palworld, thanks to some new things added in the Sakurajima update. In this guide, I’m going to focus on just one of them — Sulfur Mines. 

If you can remember how much of a game changer Ore Mines were, then you’re going to love the Sulfur Mine (as well as the Coal Mine, which was also added as part of Sakurajima). These sites make getting these precious resources a breeze. 

Requirements for getting a Sulfur Mine in Palworld

The Sulfur Mine is particularly useful, as Sulfur is used to create Gunpowder. This is one thing that is always in constant demand, as it’s a part of the recipe for most ammunition. 

Before you can unlock the Sulfur Mine, you’ll need to reach at least 52. After that, you can unlock the recipe from the Technology Ladder for 5 Ancient Technology Points. 

You’ll need the following resources to build a Sulfur Mine:

• 70 Stone
• 100 Sulfur
• 30 Paldium Fragments

After building the Sulfur Mine, you’ll need a strong mining Pal. My personal choice is always Astegon, but Blazamut also shares a level 4 mining skill. You’ll also need a few transporting Pals to transfer mined resources from the Mine itself into storage, as any stocked up resources in the Mine won’t be counted when it comes to being available for crafting. 

The Sulfur Mine is pretty large, being the same size as a regular Mine or Ore Mine, so I’d recommend setting up an area solely used for mining. Whether this is an entirely different base, or just a section of your home base, is up to you.

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