Steam News10 June 202626d ago

MAJOR Content Update Announcement v2.0.0 coming out JUNE 30TH!!

We are thrilled to officially announce v2.0.0 will release on JUNE 30TH! ːianjoyːːianjoyːːianjoyː We're making the game easier.... AND HARDER.

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Full Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands update

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addedEASY MODEOn the flip side, there were many who felt the game was too challenging and were perhaps locked out of experiencing over half of the game due to that. WE FEEL FOR YOU TOO; we want everybody to at least experience the story, so we added an EASY MODE! It can be freely turned on or off at any time by talking to Modpod. It reduces all damage taken from both hits and measure effects by 66%, making the game quite a bit easier to survive!

addedNEW MEASURE EFFECTSThese are exclusively used by the new bosses, they will be throwing some NASTY new measure effects at you!

addedNEW MEASURE EFFECTSFlashy new measure effect graphics! Not saying what they do yet...

addedNEW ITEMSWe've also sprinkled in a few new MERCH & BEATS for you all to enjoy! One of them was retroactively added to Eezer's EVIL GOODS Shop in Hoho, and the others are obtained as rewards from the aforementioned new boss fights. (Achievements NOTE: if you already popped the collection achievements they will never unpop, but if you HAVEN'T just yet, you'll now need to gather ALL of these new items as well to pop them!!)

changedHEADBANGING TO CONSOLESGot any console-only pals?? This one's for them. Ecstatic to announce Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands will release on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Microsoft Store (PC) on the same day JUNE 30TH!!!! ːianjoyːːianjoyːːianjoyː

addedHEADBANGING TO CONSOLESSHINY NEW TRAILER made for that as well:

Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands changes

addedOn the flip side, there were many who felt the game was too challenging and were perhaps locked out of experiencing over half of the game due to that. WE FEEL FOR YOU TOO; we want everybody to at least experience the story, so we added an EASY MODE! It can be freely turned on or off at any time by talking to Modpod. It reduces all damage taken from both hits and measure effects by 66%, making the game quite a bit easier to survive!

addedThese are exclusively used by the new bosses, they will be throwing some NASTY new measure effects at you!

addedFlashy new measure effect graphics! Not saying what they do yet...

addedWe've also sprinkled in a few new MERCH & BEATS for you all to enjoy! One of them was retroactively added to Eezer's EVIL GOODS Shop in Hoho, and the others are obtained as rewards from the aforementioned new boss fights. (Achievements NOTE: if you already popped the collection achievements they will never unpop, but if you HAVEN'T just yet, you'll now need to gather ALL of these new items as well to pop them!!)

changedGot any console-only pals?? This one's for them. Ecstatic to announce Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands will release on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Microsoft Store (PC) on the same day JUNE 30TH!!!! ːianjoyːːianjoyːːianjoyː

We are thrilled to officially announce v2.0.0 will release on JUNE 30TH! ːianjoyːːianjoyːːianjoyː

We're making the game easier.... AND HARDER. ːkeefmadːːkeefmadːːkeefmadː

Here is what you can expect to see in this FREE:barryhappy::barryhappy::barryhappy: content update:

MAD BOSSES

For those who were BREEZIN' through the game's bosses and wanted somethin' with a bit more bite, this one's for you. We have prepared some OPTIONAL brutally hard variants of the game's boss fights that will definitely have you kitting your band out to prepare for! These battles are NOT for the faint of heart, SO DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YA!

Steam post image Don't feel too bad if you see this screen a few times...

EASY MODE

On the flip side, there were many who felt the game was too challenging and were perhaps locked out of experiencing over half of the game due to that. WE FEEL FOR YOU TOO; we want everybody to at least experience the story, so we added an EASY MODE! It can be freely turned on or off at any time by talking to Modpod. It reduces all damage taken from both hits and measure effects by 66%, making the game quite a bit easier to survive!

Beware however, if you ever turn it on it permanently STAINS your file as an "easy mode" save!! MUAHAHAH

NEW MEASURE EFFECTS

These are exclusively used by the new bosses, they will be throwing some NASTY new measure effects at you!

Flashy new measure effect graphics! Not saying what they do yet...

NEW ITEMS

We've also sprinkled in a few new MERCH & BEATS for you all to enjoy! One of them was retroactively added to Eezer's EVIL GOODS Shop in Hoho, and the others are obtained as rewards from the aforementioned new boss fights. (Achievements NOTE: if you already popped the collection achievements they will never unpop, but if you HAVEN'T just yet, you'll now need to gather ALL of these new items as well to pop them!!)

Oxymorons R Us

HEADBANGING TO CONSOLES

Got any console-only pals?? This one's for them. Ecstatic to announce Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands will release on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Microsoft Store (PC) on the same day JUNE 30TH!!!! ːianjoyːːianjoyːːianjoyː

SHINY NEW TRAILER made for that as well:

Besides all this, as usual a plethora of optimizations and bugfixes mostly made for the benefit of the console release, but they will make the game run better on Steam too! Oh, almost forgot, the version of FMOD (the audio engine) will be upgraded which promises native Linux support, meaning hopefully Proton is no longer needed as a workaround on some flavors of Linux like it is now.

See you guys on JUNE 30TH!

-Deathbulge dev team

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Steam News / 10 June 2026

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