Something For The Easter Weekend – 15/04/17

Behind all of the chocolate egg hunting and time spent with family this Easter weekend, there’s also the religious fanaticism of Star Wars fans surrounding the reveals at the Star Wars Celebration being held in Florida.

What did you think of the Star Wars: The Last Jedi teaser trailer? Are you looking for to tonight’s Star Wars Battlefront II announcement?

Oh wait…

In the News This Week

• EA accidentally leaked their own Star Wars Battlefront II trailer
  It looks and sounds great, though, spanning the entire film franchise and with an intriguing taste of where the single player might be heading…
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is out in August
• Remedy’s next game looks like it’s going multiplatform
  Having been a Microsoft and Xbox stalwart for the last decade, most recently releasing the ambitious Quantum Break, Remedy are bringing their game engine to PlayStation 4.
• Porsche cars are coming to GT Sport
  And as the beta hits the EU this weekend, camdaz passed on that there’s “Three new tracks announced too: Sardegna Windmills, Blue Moon Bay and Dragontrail Seaside.”
• You can demo the opening hour of Prey on 27th April
• ARMS is hitting a 16th June release date for Switch
• Splatoon 2 runs onto Switch on 21st June with a new horde mode
• Check the other announcements for Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch from the Direct held this week
• The Switch set a new record for first month sales in the US
  And Breath of the Wild managed to have a 102% attach rate…
• Microsoft detail their supercharged Xbox Project Scorpio dev kit
• There’s now a “self service” refund policy on the Xbox One and Windows 10 stores

Games in Review

It’s been another busy week of releases, though this crop of game reviews is on the smaller end of the scale. The Sexy Brutale and Aaero are our two picks:

• The Sexy Brutale – PS4, XBO, PC – 9/10
• Aaero – PS4, XBO, PC – 8/10
• Chaos Code: New Sign of Catastrophe – PS4, PC – 8/10
• Blackwood Crossing – PS4, XBO, PC – 7/10
• Fated: The Silent Oath – PSVR, Oculus, Vive – 7/10
• Dark Souls III: The Ringed City – PS4, XBO, PC – DLC, no score

This Week’s Features

What with Good Friday yesterday, we only had four days to fill with features, and fill them we did! On the proto-review side of things, Miguel dove back into the fantastical world of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix, while we skirted around the issue of having to review Drawn To Death with Tuffcub waxing lyrical about how terrible it is, calling it the Nicki Minaj of video games.

We continued to round up previews and hands on times from EGX Rezzed, with a trio of Nongunz, See You on the Other Side and Minesheeper in Kris’ preview periscope. Dave also got to go hands on with Sonic Mania, looking at its wonderful retro nuance as well as their new found fan focussed attitude.

I also had a busy week. I got to go hands on with the second hour of Prey, digging into the early Typhon abilities and turning myself into a pair of scissors. If you’re curious about how the game plays, we highlight ten things to know about it in our video.

We also returned to Watch Dogs 2 this week, going hands on with the new content being added to the game next week. All players will be getting their hands on two new multiplayer modes and a paintball gun, while if you’ve got the season pass or pick up the No Compromise DLC, you’ll get hands on with a new single player story and a pair of premium non-lethal weapons.

After thirteen years, Kate Walker is back and on another adventure across Siberia in Syberia 3. We went hands on with a new instalment in the classic adventure game series.

We were also party to an event that Sony hosted to showcase some of their upcoming PSVR games, demonstrating some of the innovative new ideas on the system. Farpoint made for an excellent demo, highlighting its co-op action shooter credentials, despite having a case of peripheral-itis, but it was the boxy puzzles of Tarsier Studios’ Statik that really captured my imagination.

And finally, What We Played, where everyone played and hated Drawn to Death, while Yooka-Laylee divided opinions, and we all looked forward to Easter

Trailer Park

Check out a new scene from Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Check out the ARMS video from the Nintendo Direct

Splatoon 2 gets a new horde mode

The latest Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 trailer is all sorts of dangerous

Your Achievements

Crazy_Del’s put a shift in on For Honor, getting the Active Duty Trophy that ensures he’ll earn the platinum once the current season of the game’s multiplayer is over. He also completed Mass Effect Andromeda and is just embarking on a new game plus play through to grab another platinum.

Ron_mcphatty has been getting all sorts of racy in Driveclub Bikes, nabbing the platinum trophy there after levelling up all the bikes, while Andrewww found time in a busy week to finish off Rise of the Tomb Raider. Finally, it’s not often that Bunimomike pops up in this section, but here he is having finished Horizon Zero Dawn

The Week Ahead

What do we have to look forward to next week? Well, let me give you some of the highlights:

• Full Throttle Remastered – PS4, XBO, PC – 18/04
• Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – PS4, XBO, PC, iOS, Android – 18/04
• Late Shift – PS4, XBO, PC – 18/04
• The Disney Afternoon Collection – PS4, XBO, PC – 18/04
• Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom – PS4, XBO, PC – 18/04
• Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap – PS4, XBO, PC, Switch – 18/04
• The Silver Case – PS4 – 21/04

So with that, enjoy the rest of your weekends, and we’ll see you next time!