Is it really “coming home” this time? I imagine there’s a lot of people who are tentatively hopeful, but fully recognise that England will be the underdogs of tomorrow night’s Euro 2024 final against Spain.
Plenty of time between now and then, though, and PS5 owners might want to check out the Concord open beta taking place this weekend. Can this hero shooter surpass Overwatch and push the genre forward? Let’s check that and the rest of this week’s news out in the round-up.
In the News This Week
- Xbox Game Pass gets price increases, drops day one games on Standard tier
- All PlayStation Plus subscribers can play the Concord beta this weekend
- Planet Coast 2 revealed with water parks and more coming this autumn
- Apex Legends Season 22 is doubling up on paid battle passes
- VR PvP shooter Frenzies announced for PSVR 2 & Meta Quest by nDreams
- Time-hopping VR adventure Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate delayed to late October
- Who is Emio? – Nintendo tease new Switch horror game
- Wind Rose release a new mining anthem inspired by Deep Rock Galactic
Games in Review & Featured Articles
It was another busy week for reviews, with a few standouts that you definitely want to check out.
- Anger Foot – PC – 9/10
- Infinite Inside – Quest, Pico, Vision Pro, PSVR 2, PC VR – 9/10
- Zenless Zone Zero – PS5, PC, iOS, And – 8/10
- Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 8/10
- Blacksad: Under the Skin – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 7/10
- Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC, Mac – in progress
Away from the reviews, Steve had a couple of previews to share with us all, with the amazing visual stylings of Once Human and the fun, straightforward 3D platforming of The Smurfs – Dreams.
I then got an early look at Planet Coaster 2 and all the water park features it will bring to your theme park, and I also played through a tech preview of Deliver Us Home, the successfully Kickstarted game that aims to wrap up the Deliver Us trilogy and revive KeokeN.
And Aran revisited the still excellent SteamWorld Dig games, and thoroughly enjoyed his time with them once more.
Rounding things out as always, What We Played featured RoboCop: Rogue City, Anger Foot and Zenless Zone Zero.
Trailer Park
Metaphor: ReFantazio trailer showcases why you should get excited for this RPG
Marko: Beyond Brave launches 17th September on Steam
Lidia Sobieska joins Tekken 8 from July 22nd
Who is Emio?
That’s the round up for this week. We’ll be back next week for more gaming news and more. See you then!
