We’re right at the start of what’s set to be an unrelenting charge of game releases through to the end of the year. Next week in particular is going to be heckin’ busy with Mario + Rabbids, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Gotham Knights, and more.
But that’s getting ahead of ourselves, isn’t it? Here’s the last week’s worth of gaming news, reviews and previews.
In the News This Week
- Silent Hill movie director confirms “several games” in development
- Blizzard offers in-game items after Overwatch 2 launch issues – but there’s still things going wrong
- SIMULACRA 3 release date confirmed as October 25th
- Final Fantasy 7: The First Soldier battle royale is shutting down in January
- Humankind console release delayed “until further notice”
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales PC release date set for November
- Forza Horizon 5: Horizon 10th anniversary update is out now
- An animatic preview of a Kingdom Hearts cartoon has been discovered after 20 years
Games in Review
It was a quiet week for the reviews, with a trio of titles under the microscope. Next week’s looking to be significantly busier, so buckle up!
- LEGO Bricktales – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 8/10
- Overwatch 2 – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 8/10
- PGA Tour 2K23 – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 7/10
Featured Articles
There were some great previews this week, with one of the real highlights being Bayonetta 3. Dom went hands on with the long-awaited PlatinumGames title, and found that it’s just as bombastic as you could want with huge demon summons and a new character to play as.
Last weekend’s Street Fighter 6 Closed Beta got our juices flowing, with Aran, Reuben and Nick P giving us three contrasting perspectives from a rookie, a casual and an expert view on the game.
Dom also played more of Evil West for our final preview, sampling a second level of the over the top action game. And Nic B got to go hands on with Wild Hearts, the big new take on the monster hunting genre from Omega Force, blending in a bunch of intriguing new ideas.
And finally, What We Played featured Lego Bricktales, Street Fighter 6 and Bayonetta 3.
Trailer Park
Dead Space Extended Gameplay Walkthrough shows 8 minutes of new footage
EA Sports PGA Tour teaser trailer shows off some golf
Need for Speed Unbound gameplay trailer is heavy on the effects – most can be disabled
Your Achievements
Here’s what you in our community have been up to this week:
- TSBonyman bought and jumped into Dishonored 2 and the standalone Death of the Outsider followup, finding a new game to sink his teeth into after a bit of Fallout 4 and Stanley Parable
- hornet1990 decided to finish off Far Cry 5 and got the canonical ending – “apparently the clues were there but easily missed which is just a massive failure of the story telling” – now he’s on the hunt for another game to play, because the collectibles grind isn’t really doing it.
Enjoy your weekend and I’ll see you again soon!
