Monday, Venba is getting free DLC soon. Tuesday, you’ll be able to “Dine Out” in House Flipper (1), EA continues to cancel stuff, apparently, and Xbox had a Partner Preview on Thursday. Wednesday, Hairdresser Simulator was released with amazing facial expressions (see the article header), while WBD addresses the “volatile” console market with live service titles. Thursday, Frostpunk 2 was given a release date at the Xbox Partner Preview, and Puzzles for Clef was released for PC.

Moving on to the Epic Games Store this week, we’ll be talking about Wild Rooster’s game that I was only offered a key for yesterday morning, Astro Duel II. “Pilot an elite Nano Fighter and fight among the stars in a high-flying hybrid experience,” says the press release. “Seamlessly switch from warp-speed dogfighting action to gravity-bound platform fighting. Journey across the chaotic Echo System, home to interstellar battlefields from skyscraper-packed cities to rural wastelands and futuristic factories.” See PR people, I can be somewhat nice even when I don’t know or care much for the game you represent.

Wild Rooster’s founder, Rusty Moyher, said, “Ever since the launch of the original Astro Duel, we’ve hoped to launch a worthy successor with even more exhilarating battles for pilots. Now that Astro Duel 2 has landed, we believe we’ve completed the mission successfully, especially with the introduction of the action-packed co-op Bounty mode and team-based Cash Grab mode.” Aside from Epic, you can pick up Astro Duel 2 on Steam and Nintendo Switch for $19.99, which will be the price following this free week on Epic.

All this week, you can pick up Astro Duel 2 on the Epic Games Store until Thursday morning, the 14th of March. Moving on to next week it is a monochromatic platformer that we’ve already covered, The Bridge, and one of my favorite RPGs to highlight racism with a simple allegory, Deus Ex – Mankind Divided. Now, if only Mankind Divided had divided itself from the microtransactions within it, it might have been given higher praise. Or better yet, had the complexity of one of the Deus Ex‘s that sits behind me in my office, sadly on a PS2 disk.

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