The Waylanders, a party-based RPG drawing its inspirations from Celtic myth and legend, got a release date of November 16, 2021 at today's Awesome Indies showcase at Gamescom.

The Waylanders has been in our consciousnesses for some time now, having gotten a Steam Early Access release last year with about 10-12 hours of content from the planned 40-hour game.

Kickstarter-funded and written by Emily Grace Buck and Gavin Jurgens-Fyrhie, The Waylanders is inspired by games like Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights, and Baldur's Gate.

The game has you guiding a part of adventurers composed of characters from six base classes as they explore a Celtic-Spanish wilderness ridden with warring factions, monsters, and magic corruptions. You'll build alliances, pursue romances, and follow a story of cultural shift and conflict.

Since the early access launch, we've seen new components added and teased including character origin stories, a photo mode, tons of new locations. and pets.

There are plenty more games to check out in IGN’s Gamescom coverage including news, trailers, new game reveals, and plenty more.

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Terror of Hemasaurus is stomping its way to console next year, indie publisher Digerati announced today.

Sporting lovely pixel graphics and a particularly huge sloth, Terror of Hemasaurus is a co-op "smash 'em up" that supports local play for up to four players. Its characters include two dinosaur-like lizards, the aforementioned sloth, and a robotic beast called the "Autonomous Hemasaurus."

Arcade aficionados will note the similarity that Terror of Hemasaurus bears to Rampage — the smash 'em up stalwart that was later turned into a summer movie starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. While not especially deep, Rampage does elicit plenty of fond memories of summers spent at the local pizza place smashing up buildings with friends.

Terror of Hemasaurus has been making the rounds since at least 2019 with a beta on PC. It's being developed by solo developer Loren Lemcke, who previously worked on Super Blood Hockey.

Terror of Hemasaurus is slated for release on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch in early 2022. This announcement is part of IGN's coverage of Gamescom. For lots more info about this week's show, head to our Gamescom 2021 hub.

Are you thinking about Christmas yet? You might want to, because Funko has its line of 2021 advent calendars up for preorder right now. Gaming fans can grab one featuring Pokemon or Five Nights at Freddy's. Fans of TV and film can pick up a Harry Potter calendar or one based on The Office. All of them come with 24 tiny Funko figures to enjoy throughout December.

Preorder Funko Advent Calendars 2021

The Funkos included here are Pocket Pops, which, depending on the figure, stand roughly 1.25 inches to 2.15 inches tall. The Pokemon Funko advent calendar at Amazon shows all 24 figures you'll get. The Walmart ones keep things a little more under wraps, revealing only four or five of the figures hidden in the compartments.

For those who didn't grow up with the tradition, advent calendars are deployed in December to count down to Christmas. Each day, you (or your child) opens a door on the calendar to reveal that day's present. Traditional advent calendars are filled with pieces of chocolate, but these are filled with Funkos.

LEGO also releases new advent calendars each year, but they're not available quite yet. I expect them before too much longer now that the proverbial advent calendar seal has been broken. In any case, if you wouldn't mind opening a new Funko figure each day of December, now's a good time to place your preorder. Only a limited number of these will be made, and they tend to sell out before December begins.

They also make good gifts, so if someone in your life is a fan of Harry Potter, The Office, Pokemon, or Five Nights at Freddy's, consider grabbing one for them.

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If you're not familiar with the steampunk subgenre of 'brinepunk,' just imagine steampunk but with a cool aquatic aesthetic. Or, alternatively, just take a good look at Abyssus, a new roguelike FPS just announced at Gamescom's Awesome Indies showcase.

Abyssus puts you in the diving boots of a 19th-century mercenary, hired to explore some subaquatic ruins inhabited by rather hostile locals. You'll use increasingly absurd watery guns and weaponry to fend them off, as well as gain mysterious new powers and skills as you try, over and over, to gain more ground into the ruins.

Developed by Swedish studio DoubleMoose (made up of veterans from Coffee Stain and Ubisoft) and published by Big Sugar, Abyssus is planned for release on PC sometime in 2023.

In the meantime, there are plenty more games to check out in IGN’s full Awesome Indies showcase, as well as the rest of our Gamescom coverage including news, trailers, new game reveals, and plenty more.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

If you're a JRPG diehard, like me, you're undoubtedly familiar with the works of Hironobu Sakaguchi. The Final Fantasy series has stood alongside the Dragon Quest series as one of gaming's most influential and powerful on-going series. Sakaguchi's latest work, Fantasia, is now available on Apple Arcade, and we've teamed up with Mistwalker, the studio behind it, to bring exclusive apparel to the IGN Store.

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Fantasian is a classic Sakaguchi JRPG, but it stands apart from its contemporaries through its hand-crafted diorama-style backgrounds. Rather than rendering 3D backgrounds, the areas and worlds of Fantasia were built as tiny, scale models on which the characters interact and battle in the game.

The sequel to Fantasian released earlier this month, also on Apple Arcade, and is apparently "twice as large" as the original game.

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