Hear Ye: ‘Dungeons Of Dredmor’ Free DLC Emerges On June 5th

Gaslamp Games have announced the date upon which all of you Dungeons of Dredmor lovers can get hold of the upcoming free DLC which also adds Steam Workshop support.

What a difference a few days make, eh? Gaslamp got us all excited about just the other day about some free DLC which was apparently on the way soon for their stellar dungeon crawler, Dungeons of Dredmor. Now we return once again with a parchment in one hand and a bell in the other shouting “HEAR YE!” at the top of our lungs. The reason for such a commotion is that we now know just how soon that FREE DLC is arriving in indie town.

Well, it was via this humble blog post that the news was deliver – June 5th – that’s the date you should mark in those make believe calendars of yours as that is when the “You Have To Name The Expansion Pack” will be delivered. Though there is a lot of goodness to be had in this DLC, the best part is that Dungeons of Dredmor will be supported by the Steam Workshop which means, yes you guessed it, all mods will be integrated with Steam for ease. How exciting!

Let’s remind ourselves of those glorious and lovely features of said DLC, shall we? Quite:

• Steam Workshop; mod integration with Steam! We’re turning it on! It’s Steamy!
• Battle Geology, a wizard-like warrior skill with earth-shattering consequences by the terribly mysterious Null (how mysterious? terribly.)
• Clockwork Knight and Rogue Scientist, a pair of crafty steampunk skill lines by the too-clever-by-half Ruigi
• Warlockery, the wizard skill for wizards who would rather by warriors, by the utterly mad Essence — he wrote over 500 lines of xml for one spell.
• A mess of twisty little rooms, all different, created by the deranged architect our mortal speech renders “Bergstrom“; The geometry is all wrong.
• And to inhabit the renovated Dungeons of Dredmor we’ve summoned a pack of new monster variations dug up by one FaxCelestis, from the existentially troubling Poorly Cloned Hero to the lofty Diggle Rocketeer.
• Naturally there are some new items and other such nonsense happening which you’ll have to discover on your own.

More information on Dungeons of Dredmor can be found on the game’s official website.

Frozenbyte are teasing a new campaign expansion for their puzzle platformer Trine 2. It’s known only as the AAAA expansion at the moment – sorry, what?!

It’s not often that I open up an email that causes me to double take but on this occasion, upon opening up an email from Frozenbyte, that WTF moment hit me. “AAAA expansion, what the eff?” is what I said before continuing to read the rest of the information.

So, what we have here is Frozenbyte putting up the middle finger to all of the presumptions of the word DLC, mostly that it’s a rip-off, and making up their own name to describe what they have in store. They say that they don’t want to deliver something shoddy, but something that is no less than the quality of AAAA. Fair enough.

The actual name of the expansion, along with the release date and price will be announced later in Spring. They mention that they hope to be relaxing come the summer so presumably it’s going to around mid-2012.

“The yet-to-be-named AAAA expansion for Trine 2 will include a six level campaign with new enemies and skills. The skills will also be playable with the original Trine 2 campaign, giving it more renewed playability. Also included are some small updates and a new difficulty level, for a very reasonable price. All of this in a brand new adventure where our heroes embark on a new journey more menacing than ever. This is why we are calling it the “expansion” and not a DLC, and it will deliver an AAAA experience to fans of Trine 2.”

More information on Trine 2 can be found on the official website. Trine 2 is available now for $15 on XBLA, PSN, PC (Steam), Mac, and soon Linux.

Krell1983 Games has released their dungeon crawler, Rogue Dungeons, unto you for free, be careful though – it’s slightly addictive despite the initial impressions of it being simple.Attesting to my fondness of gathering gear, increasing stats and bumping into bad guys; Rogue Dungeons has been playing on my mind for the last few hours. You see, being one for a quick RPG, I find myself flicking the window up and getting a cheeky five minutes with Rogue Dungeons as soon as no one is looking. It’s a terrible habit and one I am never going to be quelled of. If you share a similar passion then I certainly recommend giving the game a quick bash!Rogue Dungeons is simple really, it works as many dungeons crawlers before it – there’s a town map from which you can purchase and sell equipment, a training hall for experience upgrades and a portal to the dungeons.

Original Source: Freebie: ‘Rogue Dungeons’

This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Chris Priestman.