We’re less than a month away now from two of the biggest moments of the gaming calendar for 2025, with Nintendo Switch 2’s launch coming just before Summer Game Fest and the E3-like bonanza of press conferences, trailers, announcements and more.
But don’t let that fool you into thinking that May’s going to be a quiet month. Oh Hell no, as we’re about to see in this week’s round-up!
In the News This Week
The biggest news story of the week was the new Grand Theft Auto VI trailer dropping alongside a big batch of new screenshots, but there’s plenty other impactful news to trawl through as well:
- Grand Theft Auto VI gets a second trailer, and a huge drop of screenshot
- Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate expansion revealed, and there’s a Star Wars expansion too?!
- Gears of War: Reloaded announced for PC, Xbox Series X|S and PS5
- Sony founds new studio teamLFG from former Bungie incubation project
- Pocketpair confirms Palword changes are in response to Pokémon Company lawsuit
- Paradox Interactive reveal Europa Universalis V
- Ecco the Dolphin remasters and brand new game announced
- Alien: Rogue Incursion is getting a non-VR Evolved Edition port
- Starbreeze acquires rights to self-publish Payday 3 from Plaion
- EA confirms next Battlefield reveal will come this summer, still on target for release before GTA 6
- Nintendo forecasts 15 million Switch 2 sales in first year
Games in Review & Featured Articles
Heavy metal blasting and humorous adventuring dominated the reviews this week, but we also handed in our verdict on the simply stellar Clair Obscur and a bunch of other games, too!
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – PS5, XSX|S, PC – 10/10
- Spiritfall – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 9/10
- DOOM: The Dark Ages – PS5, XSX|S, PC – 8/10 (Video Review)
- Revenge of the Savage Planet – PS5, XSX|S, PC – 8/10
- Drop Duchy – PC – 8/10
- Moroi – PC – 7/10
- Captain Blood – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 6/10
- Kiborg – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 5/10
With such a review heavy week, there was just the one preview to go alongside, as I went hands on with Europa Universalis V, the big new entry in the grand strategy franchise that’s coming over 12 years on from the last!
And What We Played featured DOOM: The Dark Ages and Revenge of the Savage Planet.
Trailer Park
Mafia: The Old Country launches August 8th, check out the new trailer
Killing Floor 3 has a new release date of July 24th
And here’s that GTA 6 trailer
That’s the round up for this week. Hope you have a great weekend ahead and we’ll see you back here on Monday!
