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HeroQuest PC ⚔️, Godot 4.8 Beta 🚀, Mafia 3 City Plan 🗺️

Games and Announcements 🎮

Modern Warfare 4 combines open-world exploration with scripted campaign encounters

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 combines a campaign about South Korean marines facing a fictional North Korean invasion with an open-world mission containing linear stories and designed combat encounters. Infinity Ward’s Alex Norris and Justin Harris told GamesBeat that Stranded, inspired by Black Ops 6, allows more time to develop the squad’s characters and relationships. Military consultants informed characterization and infantry tactics. The developers also discussed resolving character arcs, particularly Price’s, without confirming whether this is the final Modern Warfare game.

HeroQuest: Digital Edition planned for PC in 2027

Nomad Games and Balor Games have announced HeroQuest: Digital Edition, an officially licensed adaptation of the tabletop adventure game planned for PC in 2027. Players can control a party solo or play as four heroes against a fifth player taking the role of Zargon, using dice-based,…

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Godot 4.8 Beta 🧪, Raylib 6.2 🛠️, Mafia 3 City Design 🏙️

Engines and Frameworks 🛠️

Godot 4.8 enters beta and feature freeze

Godot 4.8 beta 1 is available for Linux, macOS and Windows, with development focused on regression fixes under a feature freeze. The 4.8 feature set includes mip-level texture streaming, visual shader node groups, runtime CanvasItem editing and automated Android and Java SDK setup; beta 1 adds no features beyond dev 7. macOS downloads now default to separate architecture builds, and .NET builds require .NET 10 or newer. The release remains prerelease software with known bugs and compatibility changes.

Raylib 6.2 released with redesigned image drawing API and security fixes

Raylib 6.2 is available with a redesigned CPU image drawing API aligned with the free, cross-platform C game development framework’s GPU screen and texture drawing APIs. The release standardizes file API return conventions, which may require updates to existing return-value checks, and addresses security vulnerabilities identified in an audit by…

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gamingDaily

Stream Train 🚂, Flipping Is Hard PC 🧱, HeroQuest Steam 🎮

New Releases 🎮

Half Past Yellow releases co-op horror game Stream Train on Steam

Half Past Yellow has released Stream Train on Steam following a playtest with more than 10,000 players. The co-op horror game supports up to six players exploring the Uncanny Valley by steam train, filming supernatural encounters and pranks to earn livestream donations for fuel and gear. Game director Max Wrighton said quality-of-life improvements and more items, locations and monsters are planned over the next couple of months. The game has a 35% launch discount lasting 14 days.

Flipping Is Hard released on PC through Steam

Elegant Horse Studios has released Flipping Is Hard, a physics-driven 3D platformer for PC on Steam in which players flip a Nokia-style brick phone across ten handcrafted areas. It supports up to 16 players through Steam Friends lobbies with proximity voice chat. The standard mode has no checkpoints, while Flipping Is…

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