What would a video game feel like with zero sound? We asked three sound designers (@missgameaudio.bsky.social, @rubenrincon.bsky.social & @cabreracomposer.bsky.social ) whose credits include Zero Parades, Control, Gris, and Neva. The answer:

The Sound Team Behind Zero Parades on What a Game Feels Like With No Sound At All: ‘Half-made. Boring.’ - Bonus Action

Bonus Action sat down with Mirella Díez Morán, Rubén Rincón, and Fernando Cabrera to learn about the sounds that make a game.

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Big Walk is out now! - Co-op walking sim from Untitled Goose Game's House House - Proximity voice chat, 2-12 players, total chaos - The real multiplayer test was trusting your friends to find their way back

A new Spider-Man movie swung into theaters, but we only know because of Zendaya's majestic outfits. Here's 5 games out this week: 🗳️ Anomaly President, Aug 3, PC 🦢 Big Walk, Aug 4, PC/PS5/Switch 2 🔧 ReStory, Aug 6, PC 🏰 Sovereign Tower, Aug 6, PC 🐾 Montabi, Aug 6, PC/Switch

Anomaly President is out now! - Presidential rogue-like action game, Early Access - Campaign by day, cyber mage vigilante by night - Turns out the real campaign promise was violence all along

Corsair Cove by @HoodedHorseInc is out now! - Build a pirate haven straight up cliffs and hilltops - Manage fifty-plus production chains and raise a fleet against the Crown - Real pirates, it turns out, have never built on flat ground once

Leafy Corner is out now! - Grow, sell, and care for over 100 real houseplants in your own shop - Made by a two-person husband-and-wife team - The real challenge is keeping one fern alive past a week

Lunarium by Imperfect Games is out now! - Swordmaster Ave and sorceress Lune team up to save a collapsing homeland - Combat runs on timed parries, dodges, and shared Resonance Points - They insist it's not a soulslike. The parries beg to differ.

Broken Reality 2000 is out now! - A satire of internet fame - Collect Likes with a camera to unlock new corners of the internet - Somehow still less unhinged than actual social media

Comic-Con held the internet hostage last week, but now it's time to look to the future. Here's five games out this week: ⚔️ Prelude Dark Pain, July 27, PC 🌐 Broken Reality 2000, July 27, PC/Xbox 🌙 Lunarium, July 29, PC 🌿 Leafy Corner, July 30, PC/Xbox/Switch/PS5 🏴‍☠️ Corsair Cove, July 31, PC

Prelude Dark Pain is out now! - A blacksmith gets dragged back to war he thought he'd left behind - 9 heroes, 63 skills, and one dark fantasy world called Statera - Full release brings 20+ heroes

An Eggstremely Hard Game is out now! -Co-op physics game -Two geese, one increasingly cracked egg -A friendship test disguised as a video game, godspeed to you and your goose

Moonlinght Peaks NPCs when they catch you dating other people 🌹

Tears of Metal is out now! - Co-op roguelike hack and slash from Paper Cult - Early access, three heroes, one angry Scottish battalion - Basically Dynasty Warriors if Scotland had beef with a meteor

We have a love-hate relationship with farming sims, so we interviewed the devs behind Moonlight Peaks, Grave Seasons, Crop, Pao Pao, and Sunkissed City to chat about where the genre is headed next.

The Farming Sim Won't Die, and the People Making Them Told Me Why - Bonus Action

Five farming sim developers on genre saturation, horror crops, and why the post-Stardew boom isn't slowing down.

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Scarlet Deer Inn is out now! - Hand-embroidered platformer, five years in the making - Made by a husband-and-wife duo in Czechia - Cozy on the surface but quietly unhinged underneath. We respect the bait and switch!

Fading Echo is out now! - Elemental action RPG from Emeteria and New Tales - You can turn into water, vapor, or a bomb - Honestly relatable, some of us also cope by dissociating into liquid form

The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian is out now! - A new narrative RPG from Schisma Games - Same universe as Sir Brante, but a new protagonist - We already feel guilty about choices we haven't made yet

The World Cup releases us today, thank god. Here's five games coming out this week: 🔥The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian, July 20, PC 🪡 Scarlet Deer Inn, July 21, PC 💧 Fading Echo, July 21, PC/Epic ⚔️ Tears of Metal, July 22, PC/Xbox, EA 🥚 Eggstremely Hard Game, July 24, PC

Dead Weight is out now! - Into the Breach meets FFT on a flying steampunk pirate ship - 120K wishlists, $12.99, debut game from Klukva Games - "Just an hour" we'll say. Just between us, it won't be an hour.

Denshattack! is out now! - Tony Hawk but the skateboard is a gravity-defying train in dystopian Japan - From the makers of Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara - One boss is a mecha magical girl made of trains. No notes.

SpiritVale by Baikun Interactive is out now in Early Access! - Action MMO built for people who miss Ragnarok Online - 7 classes, 230 monsters - ~$15 buy-to-play, no subscription

Celestial Return is out now! - Cyberpunk noir RPG, dice are your currency and your weapon - Detective, sentient rose sidekick, city full of corpses that won't stay down - Was supposed to launch in May. It's here now. We forgive them.

Neko Station is out now! - Desktop idle game where you run a train full of cats - Decorate cars, befriend passengers, build friendships with specific breeds - Viewers can become cats on your train via chat. We didn't make the rules.

BA's Radar is up! This week's games include: - A train full of cats you can actually decorate - A completely different train game, we promise - A cyberpunk dice RPG that survived its own delay - and more What are your gaming plans this week?

Echoes of Aincrad by is out now! - An official Sword Art Online action RPG set on the lower floors of Aincrad - A series first: you play your own created hero, not Kirito - An optional Death Game Mode deletes your save if you die. We respect the commitment.

We sat down with the team behind Zozo and the Lost Dreams, the Metroidvania that plays like a Saturday morning cartoon come to life. You can find out more about this metroidvania for softies here: bonus-action.com/interview/zo...

Zozo and the Lost Dreams is a Metroidvania For People Who Bounced Off Hollow Knight - Bonus Action

Zozo and the Lost Dreams' Game Director, Wafi Harowa, sits down with Bonus Action to shed light on a charming, creative adventure.

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Cat Mail Co. is out now! - A cozy post office sim where you sort and stamp parcels as a cat, no timers or penalties - At night, the moon reveals hidden truths about your packages - A debut studio, a 96% demo, 130,000 wishlists for a game about admin. We get it.

We talked to Meadgard CEO Linda Davidsson about her chaotic Viking tavern game: Overcooked meets Stardew, with frying-pan combat and Norse gods crashing your bar. Full interview live now! bonus-action.com/interview/me...

Meadgard Dev Talks Cozy Co-op, Viking Brawls, and Frying-Pan Combat - Bonus Action

Bonus Action sat down to chat with Meadgard's CEO, Linda Davidsson, to learn more about this adorable brawling combat game.

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Moonlight Peaks is out now! - A cozy life-sim where you play a vampire farming magic crops among werewolves, witches and mermaids - Do your growing by moonlight, back in the coffin before sunrise - A farming game, at last, for those of us who aren't morning people

BA's Radar is up! This week's releases: - A cozy post office run by cats, with a mystery in the night shift - A Sword Art Online RPG where death permanently erases your save - A two-hour game about photographing moths Which one are you playing first?