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Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault Review – A Pleasant Bout Of Number Go Up That’s Most Remarkable For How Much Of An Improvement It Is featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from Rock Paper Shotgun
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Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault Review – A Pleasant Bout Of Number Go Up That’s Most Remarkable For How Much Of An Improvement It Is

In a review of Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault, Rock Paper Shotgun highlights how the sequel dramatically improves upon its predecessor. Combining dungeon-crawling combat with shop management, the game tasks players with maximizing item values through clever inventory placement and store upgrades. The reviewer praises its relaxed pacing, satisfying progression loops, and smart quality-of-life enhancements.

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Playing Mass Effect-Inspired RPG Exodus Was An Uncomfortably Familiar Space Trip, Despite Some Brilliant Zero-G Fights featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from Rock Paper Shotgun
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Playing Mass Effect-Inspired RPG Exodus Was An Uncomfortably Familiar Space Trip, Despite Some Brilliant Zero-G Fights

Full disclosure: I did not get to play Exodus with the grumpy mecha octopus sniper . "Where’s the octopus sniper?", I whispered, confusion melting into sadness as the two other members of my space station infiltration team stepped forward under the support of their dull, seen-it-all-before vertebrae. No, it’s fine. It’s fine . I’d like to say that the demo’s shooting and roleplaying moments made up for the lack of squidmates. In some places, particularly when venturing back out into...

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Next Week, For The First Time Ever, Nintendo Is Hosting Two Directs Back-To-Back - And The First One Is Dedicated To The Legend Of Zelda's 40th... featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from Eurogamer
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Next Week, For The First Time Ever, Nintendo Is Hosting Two Directs Back-To-Back - And The First One Is Dedicated To The Legend Of Zelda's 40th...

Back in June, we learned that we're officially getting a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake , which is supposedly coming to Switch 2 later this year (and we first heard rumours about it back in Marc h). But, as we approach the latter quarter of the year, we still don't know much about this remake, what it looks like, how it plays, or... well, anything really.

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Playing Mass Effect Spiritual Successor Exodus Was The Best Kind Of Surprise featured image for Haven gaming news, sourced from Eurogamer
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Playing Mass Effect Spiritual Successor Exodus Was The Best Kind Of Surprise

My relationship with Mass Effect begins and ends with the first game (let's just blame the M35 Mako and leave it at that), and so Exodus - which is making no bones about being something of a Mass Effect spiritual successor, born from some of the same creative team - isn't a game that's been anywhere close to my radar. But the Gamescom gods contrived to put Exodus on my appointment schedule, and while the 45 minutes or so I played wasn't what I was expecting when I first sat down, I've come away both intrigued and...

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