2022’s going to be a great year for fans of bank holidays – which, let’s face it, should be pretty much everyone – and we’re right in the middle of the first of three four-day weekends. In and around all the gaming and holidaying that people are getting done, I’ve no doubt that the weather is just nice enough in most parts of the country that everyone’s going to get in a barbecue or two.
But before we get to the sausages and burgers, let’s check back on the past week of video games news, reviews and previews!
In the News This Week
There wasn’t the biggest amount of gaming news this week, but here’s some of the more interesting headlines:
- Hideo Kojima says he will stay independent, despite PlayStation Studios acquisition speculation
- Cyberpunk 2077’s first DLC expansion won’t release until 2023
- The next Need for Speed will blend “anime elements” with photo-realism
- PlayStation Plus deal proved “devastating” for Oddworld Soulstorm
- No More Heroes 3 is heading to PC, Xbox, and PlayStation
- Meta wants almost half the profits from Horizon Worlds content creators
- Deep Rock Galactic Season 2 release date and free new content confirmed
Games in Review & Features
Having WASD at the end of last week has flipped the script on the featured content we’ve released. There’s just one review, and it’s a hardware review:
Moving on to the glut of previews, I kicked off the week with a look at Nintendo Switch Sports, a revival of the classic Wii Sports waggle-fest:
From WASD, I previewed the extra crazy golf shenanigans of Golf Gang, co-op walkie-talkie puzzler We Were Here Forever, and the gorgeous construction puzzling of LEGO Bricktales.
Nic joined me at WASD and dropped in to play the Kurosawa-inspired Trek to Yomi, the one hit, one kill fighting game Die by the Blade, and the dark management roguelike Cult of the Lamb.
Think that’s all the previews we’ve got? Oh, no! Dom checked out the two-sided management game Arcade Paradise, Nick P had some thoughts about the spooky prop hunt Midnight Ghost Hunt, and Jim went hands on with Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters.
Ade got some speculation in about where Hellblade II: Senua’s Sacrifice might take the highly anticipated sequel, and What We Played featured LEGO Star Wars, Elden Ring, Ghostwire: Tokyo and some early Easter holidaying.
Trailer Park
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes new lead character is called Shez
Bugsnax free Isle of Bigsnax DLC drops 28th April – coming to Xbox Game Pass & Switch
Kingdom Hearts 4 announced with a little gameplay teaser
Your Achievements
Here’s what you in our community has been up to this week:
- Having played it on and off since March 2018, Andrewww finished the main storyline of Bloodborne! He’s now getting in another attempt at enjoying Prey, also snuck in some Rocket League with his son.
- TSBonyman discovered Siofra River Well in Elden Ring, opening up another vast tract of the map to explore. His life’s being made a bit trickier by having accidentally aggro’d an NPC, so that needs sorting out as well…
- willbuchanan got in a smidgeon of EA Active Sports 2 on PS3 and Everybody’s Golf on PS4 (he needs to get the fishing and condors done before the servers shut down), and plans a couple hours of Mercenaries 2 online this weekend.
- And MrYd has mainly played GT7, had some fun with PS+ game Hood: Outlaws & Legends, and decided to take his first steps into Elden Ring.
Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you again soon!
MrYd
Worrying that you called that my first steps into Elden Ring. I’m 20 hours into it already. If that’s just first steps, I’m in trouble.