After last weekend’s sporting extravaganza, it’s quite nice to have a slightly more relaxing weekend on the table – I think my heart-rate has only just returned to normal after the Super Over in the Cricket!
Still, the W-Series is on later today for racing fans, so I think I’ll tune into that, especially as the weather seems to have taken a turn for the worse!
In the News This Week
- Sony: PlayStation 5 is a “niche product” aimed at hardcore gamers
- Rebellion CEO: Epic Games “paying through the nose” for exclusivity deals
- Tropico 6 is heading to PS4 and Xbox One in September
- Ubisoft confirms list of over 100 games for Uplay+ subscription service
- Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 shuffle to Switch this October
- Latest Xbox Game Pass update adds Metal Gear Solid V to the service
- Google Stadia Pro is not “Netflix for Games” and more like PlayStation Plus or Games with Gold
- Nintendo confirm a new Switch model with up to nine hours battery life
- The Ubisoft Experience is coming to Birmingham, UK, this August
- Thatgamecompany’s Sky: Children of the Light can now be downloaded on iOS devices
- Bethesda want you to get your meat out and help with a spit-roast in Fallout 76
- The Xbox Games Store Super Sale is now on, over 500 games with discounts of up to 75%
Games in Review
It was quite a varied week for the review scores:
- Kill La Kill -IF- – PS4, PC, Switch – 9/10
- Outer Wilds – XBO, PC – 9/10
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order – Switch – 8/10
- Super Mutant Alien Assault – PS4, XBO, Switch, PC, Vita – 7/10
- Cytus α – Switch – 7/10
- Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble – Switch, PC – 6/10
- Etherborn – PS4, XBO, Switch, PC – 6/10
- Muse Dash – Switch, PC, Android, iOS – 6/10
- Swords of Gargantua – Rift, Quest, Vive, WMR – 4/10
- Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle DLC – PS4, XBO, PC, Switch, Vita – DLC, No Score
(Reviewed platform in bold)
This Week’s Features
The previews had a more subdued week, with Stefan kicking things off with a look at Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, which was released yesterday and quickly followed up by Nick’s review.
Elsewhere, Aran looked at the ‘part travelogue and part choose your own adventure’ Wanderlust: Travel Stories, while Ade visited Vietnam in Playing with History: Radio Commander.
Last up, What We Played included Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Tiny Metal & Spider-Man
Trailer Park
FIFA 20 gameplay trailer shows off 1v1 ball skills and more
Check out this 4K footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
The Witcher Netflix series teaser trailer has landed
The new trippy Borderlands 3 trailer shows why everyone is So Happy Together
The Week Ahead
No one posted in What We Played, so we’ll wrap up with a look to the week ahead:
- Beyond: Two Souls – PC – 22/07
- Tetris Effect – PC – 23/07
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Switch – 26/07
- Kill La Kill -IF- – PS4, PC, Switch – 26/07
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood – PS4, XBO, PC, Switch – 26/07
- Wolfenstein: Cyber Pilot – PSVR, Vive – 26/07
That’s it for this week, I’ll see you again soon!
ron_mcphatty
That Super Over was utterly bonkers, maybe the most exciting bit of sport I’ve ever watched in my life, and minutes earlier my wife and I were reminiscing those two years of bonkers long Wimbledon finals where Federerer and Nadal seemed to play forever so the bar was set high! Cricket will never be so exciting ever again.