Something for the Weekend – 13/07/19

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It’s one hell of a weekend for sports fans, as it always seems to be on the second weekend of July. We’ve got the finals for all of the various Wimbledon categories, there’s the ever-popular British Grand Prix, and the final of the Cricket World Cup with England facing off against New Zealand.

So yeah, you might not get much gaming done tomorrow with the TV flicking back and forth between BBC and Channel 4…. unless you’ve got a Switch to play during the downtime or don’t care about sports and just want to play games instead.

In the News This Week

Games in Review

We had some polar opposites with our crop of reviews this week:

Dragon Quest Builders 2 – PS4, Switch – 9/10
Senran Kagura Peach Ball – Switch, PC – 8/10
They Are Billions – PS4, XBO, PC – 7/10
Blazing Chrome – PS4, XBO, Switch, PC – 5/10
Don’t Even Think – PS4 – 2/10
Nacon Asymmetric PS4 Controller – PS4, PC – 6/10

(Reviewed platform in bold)

This Week’s Features

Elsewhere, we had a good look at a wide range of upcoming games. Jim got to go hands on with Supermassive Games’ Man of Medan and its surprise multiplayer mode, while Dom hacked away at The Surge 2 for a few hours to deliver his thoughts on this Souls-like sequel. He’s also got some early thoughts from the highly anticipated Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

I went to visit Codemasters to go hands on with their GRID series reboot and how they’re trying to recapture the magic of the first game. It’s a surprising game, in a lot of ways, and I picked out 8 surprising things for a video:

Meanwhile, Miguel chipped in with a preview of Dying Light 2 and its branching narrative, Jim returned to cyber ninja VR game Sairento as it came to PSVR, and dipped a toe into Rainbow Six Siege’s Showdown event and I put my noggin to playing the tycooning Transport Fever 2.

Finally, What We Played featured The Surge 2, Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Trailer Park

The first gameplay trailer for GRID is full of close encounters and crashes

Minecraft Earth gameplay revealed, mixes Pokémon GO with Minecraft Hololens

StarCraft: Cartooned goes all the way in making the classic RTS look adorable

Your Achievements

It’s another pretty quiet week in the What We Played comments section.

tactical20 was initially optimistic about the Breaking Bad mobile game, but soon found himself butting up against microtransactions and pay walls. 3/10.
MrYd has been on a gaming spree. He’s enjoyed Detroit: Become Human (even if it’s a bit on the nose), dabbled with Lego City and Abzu, and grabbed Trials Rising from the sales. Finally, a little bit of VR with Arca’s Path, which was £4 in the sale.
Crazy_Del has finally grabbed the World War Z platinum and moved on to Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and The Sinking City.
Finally, ron_mcphatty has been feeling a bit poorly this past week, to the point that playing games was tricky for his cloudy thinking. So, Spider-Man got put to one side and so he’s been playing Flood It 2 on his phone and watching Final Space on Netflix.