Layers of Fears was announced in 2022 as “a psychological horror chronicle built upon the foundations of the original Layers of Fear.” The title was kind of a play on words: The ‘new’ game is actually an updated and expanded compilation of Layers of Fear, the Inheritance DLC, Layers of Fear 2, and a new Final Note DLC—four Layers of Fear, thus Layers of Fears. 

That was my assumption, anyway, but it doesn’t matter now because Bloober Team announced over the weekend that it has changed the name back to Layers of Fear, and that it will be out in June.

Why the name change? We described the Layers of Fears title not long after it was revealed as “ridiculous and good but not very search friendly,” and it seems that we were onto something—it was maybe just a bit too clever for its own good.

“By adding the ‘s’ we wanted to emphasize that this game is based on the original games but also contains new storylines that bonds every thread from the series,” Blo…

Strategy autobattler Mechabellum has hit its full release after 16 months in early access, with developers Game River declaring the PvP or PvE robot battling to be, finally, complete—though development will continue. With large-scale battles taking place over multiple rounds, Mechabellum has you draft, place, and refine your force of attackers to defeat your opponent’s choices and claim final victory.

It’s defined by how it places a deeper emphasis on real time strategy-style tactics and unit placement over the more hero-character RPG combat of autobattlers like Teamfight Tactics or Dota Underlords. Sometimes in Mechabellum the best choice is a swarm of hundreds of robotic infantry, other times it’s a handful of extremely powerful, thoroughly-upgraded single units.