It’s football o’clock for FIFA fans, with this year’s thoroughly rebranded game out now. Oh sure, the official street date is next week, but all these publishers love a more expensive edition with early access, and that’s out now for all the football crazy and football mad.
Before you lace up your boots for those first kick abouts, though, there’s a week of games news, reviews and more to catch up on.
In the News This Week
This was a week of Xbox leaks, thanks, as with all the juicy industry insider news of the past year, thanks to another flubbed redaction effort during the Microsoft vs. FTC court cases.
- Leaked Xbox Series X ‘Brooklin’ refresh looks like a drainpipe and ditches the disc drive
- New Xbox controller leaks with haptic feedback, motion sensors & more
- Fallout 3 Remaster, Ghostwire: Tokyo 2, and Dishonored 3 listed in court documents
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer responds to huge console, controller and game leaks
- Jackbox Party Pack 10 launch date set for October
- Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss heads into open beta next week
- Netflix Onimusha series will stream from November 2nd
- Sea of Thieves is getting Safer Seas private servers in December
Games in Review
But for a doubled up 6, we’d have a pretty strong hand if we were playing poker with our review scores this week:
- Trine 5 – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 8/10
- Under the Waves – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 7/10
- Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The Teal Mask – NSW – 6/10
- Daymare 1994: Sandcastle – PC – 6/10
- NBA 2K24 – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 5/10
- Super Bomberman R 2 – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 4/10
- EA Sports FC 24 – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – Review in Progress
- Payday 3 – PS5, XSX|S, PC – Review in Progress
Featured Articles
Despite that weight of games in review, we still managed to post a good crop of previews as well. Biggest of all was my hand-on time with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, getting to check out Sephiroth gameplay, as well as explore some more open world environments on the back of a Chocobo.
I also went face-on with Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, the co-op ghost-busting game coming to PSVR 2 and Meta Quest in October, as well as checked out the new 4X strategy game Millennia, which has a particularly intriguing take on how history can unfold. And Dom got to explore the great looking blend of town building and medieval combat in Bellwright.
Rounding things out as always was What We Played, which featured Payday 3, Lies of P and FF7 Rebirth.
Trailer Park
EA Sports WRC gameplay trailer reveals authentic locations, seasons and more
Tekken 8 closed beta kicks off in October, Feng Wei confirmed
Your Achievements
Let’s check in on what you’ve been playing and doing over the past week:
- Andrewww finished playing Deathloop (not that he had too much choice since he was playing it on PS Plus), and rather enjoyed it with the riddling nature of its time loop structure. Next up he’s going to play The Quarry, which is also being removed from Plus soon.
Have a good weekend and we’ll catch you all soon!
