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Star Wars, Supermoves, Visions Of Mana, many such cases
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If you live in the UK, you may have noticed that this week is shy a working day. Credulous fools attribute this to the existence of a "bank holiday" on Monday 26th, but true initiates like ourselves know the sobering truth: the Maw has eaten one of our weekdays. We have dispatched our finest gastronauts equipped with extremely long pairs of tweezers to retrieve the missing Monday from the Maw's bowels. We can only hope it hasn't been digested yet - imagine living in a world with a four-day working week? The horror. Anyway, here are this week's PC game releases of note.
On Tuesday 27th August, an unholy gnashing of teeth and the early access release of mytho-MOBA Smite 2. Also, the launch of cat-in-hell metroidvania Crypt Custodian, together with sitar-playing Middle Eastern action-platformer The Land Of The Magnates. On Wednesday 28th August, a ribald smacking of lips and the release of Supermoves, aka multiplayer Mirror's Edge, aka first-person parkour royale. Also, immersive first-person-melee RPG Corpus Edax and apocalyptic anime girl rhythm game Kamitsubaki City Ensemble. On Thursday 29th August, a mighty sneezing and the launch of Square Enix's latest RPG Visions Of Mana. Also, the retro side-scrolling of Shadow Of The Ninja - Reborn, the deck-building base defence of Warcana, the defensively-inclined action of Bloodless, and the self-explanatory Squirrel With A Gun. And on Friday 30th August, an uncontrollable giggling and the release of Star Wars Outlaws. Also, office-based RPG Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies, billed as "a covert battle of productivity versus procrastination". My goodness, they made a game just for me.
As ever, these are just the PC games that jump out as noteworthy while my brain spins up to its standard operating threshold of 15 RPM. There are probably some decent ones I've missed - please sing out about it in the comments. You can keep track of what we fondly call "our journalism" in the news liveblog below. Have a fun week! And yes, cross your fingers for the safe return of Mondays.
08:55 am UTC
This risks teetering into journo navel-gazing, but Remedy's comms director Thomas Puha has been thinking about why it's useful to send review codes early enough for reviewers to play through without going nuts. I suspect the elephant in the room here is Star Wars Outlaws, a fairly large game for which we received review code last week with a Monday embargo. Sadly, that's far from the worst I've seen as a reviewer.
Review codes. Whenever we got a game in production, I tell production I want two weeks for the review code, always knowing I'll get less. It depends on the game of course, a week is a lot of time, IF you have time to dedicate that to review, but most press are swamped with work…
— Thomas Puha (@RiotRMD) August 28, 2024– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:16 am UTC
"Simultaneous-turn-based competitive" Mecha Simultactics has mechs and parrying. I'd say "for a change" but I still can't get enough of either of these things.
– Nic Reuben
08:14 am UTC
City builder Carpark Capital will either fill you with instant revulsion or nostalgic intrigue.
– Nic Reuben
08:05 am UTC
A heads-up that GOG are set to delist The Suffering and its sequel on 1st September, these being a pair of decent, grimy noughties horror games.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:58 am UTC
Balatro is getting a free update that lets you swap regular face cards for faces from well-known games, such as The Witcher. Sadly, it's a cosmetic flourish - you don't get to see how Geralt actually works in a poker hand.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:54 am UTC
Black Ops 6 system requirements have been unredacted. Find them on the official site.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:50 am UTC
WEDGE ANTILLES WEDNESDAY
Look at the size of that thing! FEED THE MAW.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
15:41 pm UTC
– Nic Reuben
13:44 pm UTC
Keanu Reeves is indeed Shadow The Hedgehog in the next Sonic movie.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
13:35 pm UTC
I apologise for my UK-means-England bias. You have to remember that we're all a bit dim south of the border.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
13:33 pm UTC
This House Eats People is a short, PSX-inspired, browser-based horror game in which you take photos of a nice house which I'm sure won't eat you.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
12:49 pm UTC
Adult Swim-ified resource management Debtor's Club launched yesterday. I'm not 100% sold on the humour, but the crude, vibrant art drew me in big time.
– Nic Reuben
09:27 am UTC
Post-apoc city builder Endzone 2 launched in early access yesterday. Ugh, if only Monday hadn't been eaten by the Maw, we'd have written about that.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:26 am UTC
BioWare have blogged at length about Dragon Age: The Veilguard's combat system, with a focus on the Warrior.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:23 am UTC
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:20 am UTC
World of Warcraft's latest expansion/reworking The War Within is now live, adding a new flight system, a new continent, new "bite-sized" Delves for groups of up to five, and a new campfire character select screen, amongst other things.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:15 am UTC
Speaking to PCGamesN, former Tango boss and Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has said he'd like to "stay away from survival horror for a while".
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:12 am UTC
Supermassive and Behaviour Interactive's horror collaboration The Casting of Frank Stone has a demo on Steam.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:02 am UTC
IGN has a great, if very disturbing report about an accessibility advocate who may have faked the existence of several disabled people for clout.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:00 am UTC
A Nintendo Direct broadcast will air today at 3pm UK time. "What's a Nintendo," you scoff, but look, they're promising third-party announcements. Probably, some of the games concerned are also coming to PC.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:54 am UTC
TUSKAN TUESDAY
See if you can guess this week's theme. Shouldn't take too long. FEED THE MAW.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
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