Something For The Weekend – 22/04/17

Even though it was only a four day week, it seemed to drag on a bit didn’t it? I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend, did any of you get up to anything nice?

Although it was a shorter week, TSA was still jam-packed with content, so let’s get started!

In the News This Week

• Call Of Duty WWII Confirmed, Reveal Coming Next Wednesday
  “Excellent news!” said Lyts1985, “First COD game I’ve looked forward to in years!”
• Star Wars Battlefront II Releases On November 17th
  Ron_mcphatty said, “Looks absolutely wonderful. Great idea to expand the history that has always been this way (oh yes it has and these are not the droids you are looking for) with what I’m guessing is the First Order origin story.”
• GTA Online: Tiny Racers Brings Back The Classic Top Down Camera
• Everybody’s Golf Tees Off On PS4 This August
  With some new additions including fishing, buggy racing and treasure hunting!
• Fifteen Essential Games Added To PlayStation Now
  It’s great to see Sony listening to it’s fans, right?
• Holograms You Can Touch Are Being Developed For Video Games
• May’s Games With Gold Include Twisted Dreams, Lara Croft & Lots Of Star Wars
  What are your thoughts on this month’s selection?
• Nier: Automata’s 3C3C1D119440927 DLC Will Add Three Colosseums
• Nintendo Discontinue The NES Mini
  Everybody seemed to want one, and yet Nintendo have canned it already. On the other hand…
• Rumour: A SNES Mini Console Is On The Way

Games in Review

A strong showing for the reviews this week, venturing into double figures!

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 10/10
• Full Throttle Remastered – PS4, PC, Vita – 9/10
• Dawn of War III – PC – 8/10
• Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Episode One – PS4, XBO, PC, Android, iOS – 8/10
• Odyssey – The Next Generation Science Game – PC – 8/10
• The Disney Afternoon Collection – PS4, XBO, PC – 8/10
• StarBlood Arena – PSVR – 7/10
• Flinthook – PS4, XBO, PC – 7/10
• Late Shift – PS4, XBO, PC, iOS – 6/10
• Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom – PS4, XBO, PC – 4/10
• Stellaris: Utopia – PC, Mac – DLC, No Score

This Week’s Features

Starting with the Previews, Jim looked at The Town of Light, which blurs “the line between horror game, simulation, and documentary”, while Kris had a look at City Of The Shroud.

There’s a lot of racing fans here at TSA, most of whom would probably be interested in Tef’s look at Project Cars 2 and the introduction of Rallycross. He also tried his hand at GT3 and IndyCar, perhaps Fernando Alonso could practice with it?

Last up from the previews, long time TSA reader Yogdog shared his experiences from Playerunknown’s Battle Royal which sees 100 players foraging for weapons and surviving to see who is the last man standing, a genre that’s very popular right now with the likes of Day-Z, H1Z1 and so on.

Following the recent rumours of the SNES Mini, Dom picked his top 10 games that the console needs to feature – do you agree with his list or want to see some other gems in there?

Sticking with the Nintendo theme, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is out next week, and alongside our review, Tef made a video detailing the main changes and improvements to the game (they’ve done more than just add Deluxe to the title).

And a quick graphical comparison video:

Finally, What We Played included all of the gaming the gang got up to over the Easter break.

Trailer Park

Assassin’s Creed Creator Shows Trailer For Upcoming Game

PSVR Title Farpoint Receives A New Story Trailer

Dawn Of War III’s Launch Trailer Heralds The Start Of Its Open Beta Weekend

Bandit Six: Combined Arms For PSVR Gets A Launch Trailer

Your Achievements

TSBonyman completed Mass Effect Andromeda, clocking in at just over 100 hours for an impressive 95% completion, while Andrewww ticked a few games off of his backlog over the long weekend.

Elsewhere, JR. was rather cruelly denied the platinum for Yooka-Laylee by a glitched trophy, which after gathering  5,000 collectables must have resulted in some colourful language!

Destroy All Humans was DividSmythe’s 101st platinum, meanwhile it looks like ron_mcphatty, Avenger and Jambo_GT have all been battling it out for the fastest lap times in the Gran Turismo Sport beta.

The Week Ahead

Here’s some of the highlights for next week’s releases:

• Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 – PS4, XBO, PC – 25/04
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III – PC – 27/04
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 28/04
• Outlast 2 – PS4, XBO, PC – 28/04
• Dragon Quest Heroes II – PS4 – 28/04

Have a good weekend, and I’ll be back soon!