I write this week's list of new PC games in a spirit of terror, for a strange man is at my window with a ladder. Has Santa Claus come early? Have Sony's goons found me at last, after swearing vengeance for that 8/10 I handed God Of War 3 as a cub reporter? Does the motion detector on the light over the apartment block door need fixing? There is no time to enquire and certainly no time to flee, for there are video games we must discuss.
On Monday 5th August, a gentle start in the shape of RPG life sim Fields Of Mistria. On Tuesday 6th August: another goblet of Norse mayhem in Volgarr The Viking 2, followed by the lo-fi frenzy of One Btn Bosses and the early access launch of greenskin kart racer Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks. On Wednesday 7th August, pied piper simulator Creatures Of Ava. On Thursday 8th August, the simmered-down city-building of Mini Settlers, the eco-puzzling of Preserve, the wardrobe-switching Soulsliking of Deathbound, and the Balatro-baiting of Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers, with just enough room left in the cookpot for Steamworld Heist 2. And on Friday 9th August, we celebrate the weekend by filming college drop-outs on the toilet in The Crush House.
As ever, all of this is sponsored by the original Man in the Window, the Maw - an enveloping and esurient entity from realms beyond ken, always hungry for another helping of video game news, always threatening an interdimensional invasion if left unfed for too long. You can track and belittle our desperate attempts to appease it in the liveblog below. Have a good week.
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Key points- 08:06 am August 09 2024 CHARGE OF THE FRIDAYS
- 07:46 am August 08 2024 RISE OF THE THURSDAYS
- 08:01 am August 07 2024 FLIGHT OF THE WEDNESDAYS
- 08:02 am August 06 2024 BOX OF THE TUESDAYS
- 08:56 am August 05 2024 CASE OF THE MONDAYS
CASE OF THE MONDAYS
PHONE IT IN. I mean, FEED THE MAW.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:08 am UTC Via The Gamer, Starfield and Call Of Duty voice actress Natasha Chandel has recently worked on a Valve project called "White Sands". Certain Redditors interpret this as a Half-Life reference, because White Sands is also the name of a US army testing area in New Mexico, which is also the location of Half-Life's Black Mesa facility. What a story, Cotton!– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:09 am UTC Via VGC, a dev build of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has leaked online. There's footage of multiplayer maps, perks and a WIP gun customisation menu doing the rounds on the socials.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:11 am UTCTHQ Nordic are teasing a new Darksiders game.
Darksiders Teaser Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:14 am UTC Windows Central claims that Microsoft and Activision have set up a new team within Blizzard, comprised mostly of King employees, to work on smaller "AA" projects based on Blizzard's existing worlds.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:23 am UTC SEGA have trademarked ‘Yakuza Wars’ in Japan, via Gematsu.– Nic Reuben
09:37 am UTCThe Bõ: Path of the Teal Lotus devs have launched a Patreon to make up for a lack of post-launch support following the sudden closure of their publisher, Humble Games.
Many people have been asking us for ways to support our studio in these uncertain times.
We have decided to create a Patreon where we will share behind the scenes looks at future content from us⚔️🪞💎
Please consider checking it out below👇 pic.twitter.com/EXYMErxwTT
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:48 am UTC Farewell to Game Informer, GameStop's 33-year-old video games magazine, who were suddenly shut down last week.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:54 am UTC A limited access beta test is underway for Mecha Break, in which you'll break mechs like wild stallions (shoot them repeatedly while flying through the air). Sign up on Steam and find out more about the moving parts on the Discord.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
10:46 am UTCCapcom just put some new videos for Monster Hunter Wilds, diving into mechanics and weapons.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Basic Mechanics Overview Watch on YouTube– Nic Reuben
11:06 am UTCA new Frostpunk 2 video. This one's about how you pass laws.
Frostpunk 2 | City Unbound Ep. 4 - The Perils of Human Nature Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
11:12 am UTC Uboat left early access on Friday. Anyone playing? Seems pretty lively. "It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors," the devs write. "The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time."– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
11:13 am UTC Ubisoft are doing a lot of work to stop cheating and toxic behaviour in Rainbow Six: Siege. Apparently, the game's year nine season 2 has seen an uptick in cheating.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
13:32 pm UTC I discovered a game-shuffling Sonic mod over lunch which I thought was a lot of fun.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
15:56 pm UTCOut today, Super Dungeon Muncher seems like a snackable slice of silliness.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:02 am UTCBOX OF THE TUESDAYS
Feed the dang Maw!– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:05 am UTCStar Wars Outlaws's story DLC will feature Lando Calrissian and Hondo Ohnaka. Lando is coming in the Wild Card pack while Hondo shows up in A Pirate's Fortune.
Image credit: Ubisoft– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:10 am UTC Layers Of Fear and Silent Hill 2 developer Bloober Team's unannounced next game is "a much bigger game in terms of gameplay, action than our previous games that were focusing more on narrative and environment." So sayeth CEO and creative lead Piotr Babieno in an interview with Rolling Stone.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:14 am UTCA demo is on the way to Steam for Shadow Of The Ninja - Reborn, which looks pretty tasty as retro revives go.
Shadow of the Ninja Reborn - Demo Dates! Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:19 am UTCBleak Faith: Forsaken has received a major update. I've been eyeing this one up. It's a Souls-inspired action-RPG with towering Blame!-esque environments. Initial player verdicts have been mixed, but it feels like it has promise.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:29 am UTCKRVeale says: **Fate Stay/Night** gets a remaster and official availability on the PC for the first time in twenty years this week? (Also on switch, but less relevant to RPS)
Trailer below! I binged the Fate animes after randomly watching Fate Zero on Netflix. FYI, this T-rated remaster doesn't have the original's sex scenes and they've taken out some of the gorier bits too.
「Fate/stay night REMASTERED」Release Announcement PV Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:40 am UTCLEGO Fortnite is getting flying bus stations and thereby, fast travel.
Image credit: Epic– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
10:55 am UTC The annual Finnish Assembly demoscene festival is underway on Twitch, for those who like big SFX in small data packages.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
13:11 pm UTCDinky open world hag simulator Caravan Sandwitch will release in September.
CARAVAN SANDWITCH - Release Window Trailer Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
13:13 pm UTC (It's not actually a hag simulator, but y'know, witches.)– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
14:17 pm UTCKeep it hush-hush, but Saber's horror adaptation Quiet Place: The Road Ahead launches on 17th October.
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead - Release Date Trailer Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:01 am UTCFLIGHT OF THE WEDNESDAYS
Some agent of the Maw has unstrung the trebuchets overnight! Fetch the spare elastic, load up a fresh salvo of hotfix changelogs and FEED IT, FEED IT.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:03 am UTCHark, a cinematic trailer for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6's Zombies mode. There's a longer breakdown coming on Thursday, 8th August.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Zombies Terminus Cinematic Trailer Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:07 am UTCNo More Robots have announced Descenders Next, which expands upon the original 2019 downhill biking sim with other extreme sports, including snowboarding and mountain-boarding. Trailer below.
What's Next for Descenders? Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:12 am UTCWeird West devs Wolfeye are teasing their next game - and comparing it to the co-founders' previous first-person creations at Arkane. It's not impossible that I know more about this than I can currently share.
We’ll reveal a bit more about our next game in a few days… Fans of the previous 1st person games I was involved with (Dishonored and Prey) will be happy.
— Raphael Colantonio (@rafcolantonio) August 6, 2024 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:15 am UTCDevelopment of Black Myth: Wukong is complete - look out for a celebratory trailer tomorrow.
Dear Destined Ones,
Thank you for your patience! We're thrilled to announce that the full development of #BlackMythWukong is complete, and the game will be released as scheduled.😉
Right now, our entire team is working hard on the final stages of experiencing, testing, and… pic.twitter.com/KOpj6F6xtJ
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:26 am UTCThe cake is a lie.
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08:38 am UTCIf you have room in your heart for another civilization-builder, Earth of Oryn seems to have a fair bit going on.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
11:09 am UTCThe Puzzle Maker: Cebba’s Odyssey turns genre fantasy battles into match-three puzzles.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
11:39 am UTC You won’t be seeing a version of Balatro in casinos or used by gambling companies - the developer has vowed to rise from the dead to smite any who try, assuming that's how wills work.– Nic Reuben
11:41 am UTC They'll totally be morehammer Total War: Warhammer later this month, says Creative Assembly.– Nic Reuben
11:42 am UTC In a shocking turn of events, the Borderlands film is apparently wank.– Nic Reuben
11:48 am UTC Glenn Schofield "wanted about three and a half more months" on the disapopinting Callisto Protocol. “I was led to believe that that was the way it was going to be," the Dead Space lead told Dan Allen Gaming.– Nic Reuben
07:46 am UTCRISE OF THE THURSDAYS
The beast surfaces, and top-heavy is the ship as a dinnerless news writer with all Activision in his head. FEED THE MAW.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:48 am UTC According to Android Central, Lone Echo developers Ready at Dawn have been shut down by parent company Meta.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:51 am UTC The hardest part of making Red Dead Redemption 2 was all the crouch-running, Arthur Morgan actor Roger Clark recently told Gamology. "We crouch-ran for, I think, a couple of days. You have to crouch run, walk, stealth, run with one gun, run with two guns, then you have to crouch-run with a rifle. Like, three days later, my thighs were absolutely killing me.”– Nic Reuben
07:54 am UTC Artists have published a bunch of previously unseen screenshots from cancelled Paradox sim Life By You, collated here for your mourning pleasure.– Nic Reuben
07:56 am UTC Handmancers is a first-person roguelike deckbuilder with some very good goblins.– Nic Reuben
08:10 am UTCCharming albeit clunky Tolkien tunneling sim The Lord Of The Rings: Return to Moria is coming to Steam on 27th August.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:12 am UTC Recently announced body-swapping 3v3 FPS Spectre Divide will have a closed beta from August 13th to August 21st.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:15 am UTCCrytek's Hunt: Showdown 1896 - a big expando-update for Hunt: Showdown - will release on 15th August. It overhauls the tech and takes players to Mammon's Gulch, a new map in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Mammon's Gulch Map Reveal | Cinematic Trailer | Hunt: Showdown 1896 Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:31 am UTCElite Dangerous has added a new spaceship as paid DLC. The Type-8 Transporter is a hauling vessel that players can pay to unlock for about £10. It looks pretty. The trailer for it also oozes "US truck advert" which is rad, actually.
Elite Dangerous: Type-8 | Available Now Watch on YouTube
– Brendan Caldwell
09:55 am UTCRebel Roar is a glitch punk roguelike deckbuilder where you play digitised animals, including a hacker possum, fighting against human corporations.
REBEL ROAR - Launch Trailer Watch on YouTube– Nic Reuben
10:09 am UTCMy Lovely Empress seems winningly nasty.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
12:59 pm UTC Swashbuckling paw-venture Cat Quest 3 is out now.– Nic Reuben
13:05 pm UTC Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is out in a few hours. Here's what I thought of it, in review form.– Nic Reuben
14:26 pm UTCThis is WolfEye's new thing: a retro-futurist first-person RPG modelled on Prey and Dishonored. Catch screens and extended thoughts from the studio co-founders through the jump.
Image credit: WolfEye– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:06 am UTCCHARGE OF THE FRIDAYS
Congratulations, you made it. Let's blow this joint! But first, FEED THE MAW.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:12 am UTCThere's yet another new version of Doom on Steam. Announced to mark the beginning of QuakeCon, it's an enhanced Doom 1 & 2 bundle with a bunch of bonus features and a new episode contributed by id, Nightdive Studios and MachineGames. Here's the trazzer.
DOOM + DOOM II | Official Trailer Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:13 am UTCHere's a niche but cool one: A fan community for '97 JRPG Grandia have got together with some of the original voice actors to produce a voiced version of an important scene from the game. Much of the original was voice acted, but this scene wasn't, which I gather was a bit of a sore point for the fanbase. I've forgot most of Grandia save remembering I enjoyed it, once upon a time, but this is still lovely.
Farewell To Sue: Voiced by the original English cast! Watch on YouTube– Nic Reuben
08:14 am UTCHere's the trailer for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6's new Zombies mode, featuring the first of two maps, Terminus Island. There's a lot more detail over on the official site.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Round-Based Zombies Terminus Reveal Trailer | New Gameplay Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:15 am UTC Here's the PC requirements for God Of War: Ragnarok, which is due out on Steam and Epic Septemeber 19th.– Nic Reuben
08:17 am UTC Depersonalization is out today. It's a pixel-art investigation game based on the Call Of Cthulu tabletop RPG, with a demo.– Nic Reuben
08:21 am UTCCapcom have started a Making Of series for Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess - I didn't realise its maps were based on real-life miniatures.
Making of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess - #1 Setting Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:26 am UTC Flintlock: Siege Of Dawn has been patched to support PS5 controllers, amongst other things.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:39 am UTCI continue to have mixed feelings about Frostpunk 2. It sounds like I'm not alone - 11 bit are making changes based on beta feedback, including new hubs, workforce management and a new type of construction resource.
Frostpunk 2 | City Unbound Ep. 5 - The People Have Been Heard Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:48 am UTCNightingale is getting a big overhaul in the shape of the Realms Rebuilt patch - it's due this summer, and spans progression revamps, new tilesets and weapons, and increased building limits. It also requires you to start a new character.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
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