One trend I really don't mind seeing is game genres taking place in outer space. Once the sole property of sci-fi releases, just about any title can relocate to the middle of the black without having to slap a science fiction label on the cover. Rogue Continuum keeps the tradition going with a cooperative roguelike planet-crawler shmup that just hit Steam Early Access.

All of the 80's sci-fi cheese is here with an upcoming top-down shooter title, Space Sluggers. We've received a new trailer detailing some new content, including a robotic character (not you, Billy).

For centuries, mankind has often turned its gaze to the stars and embraced its desire to gun down every living organism that wasn't born on terra firma. Hoping to capitalize on this uniquely alien-oriented bloodlust, the minds down at Rocktastic Games and Surprise Attack Games have banded together create Space Sluggers. No, Space Sluggers does not detail the hilarious misadventures of a galaxy faring baseball team. It's actually about a bunch of heavily armed humans with a grudge against extraterrestrials rampaging in top-down shmup fashion.