Stellar Blade finally launches in a packed week for gaming.
This week is pretty exciting as far as new game releases go, with the action adventure game Stellar Blade, a spiritual successor to Suikoden and a Bantu mythology-inspired Metroidvania all coming out over the next seven days. That gives you plenty of options on how to spend your payday allowance next week unless you’re still busy binge-watching Amazon’s Fallout series. Who can blame you? It’s pretty great.
What we’re playing this week
If you loved Konami’s old Suikoden games, good news! Series creator Yoshitaka Muramaya is directing and producing a spiritual successor called Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, launching on April 23. The game is described as a modern take on a classic JRPG experience, where players lead more than a hundred playable characters in a quest to save the world.
Abubakar Salim, the actor who played Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins is also releasing a game he directed on the same day - Tales of Kenzera: ZAU. Players will traverse the lands of Kenzera as a shaman named Zau, who seeks to bargain with the god of death to bring his Baba back. Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s manga Sand Land is also getting a game adaptation launching on April 26, and Fallout 4’s next-gen update drops on April 25.
Finally, there’s Stellar Blade launching on April 26 - an action game that follows a woman named Eve as she fights against alien invaders on Earth.
What we’re watching this week
This week in movies and television: vampires, echidnas and dead people - pick your poison! The vampire horror movie Abigail is out in most regions this week, following a group of people locked in a mansion with a bloodthirsty monster. This comes from the directors of Scream and Scream 6, which happen to be two of the better instalments in one of the best horror franchises in existence, so I’m looking forward to it quite a bit.
Before Sonic the Hedgehog 3 hits theatres later this year, Knuckles the Echidna is getting his own spin-off series on Paramount+ on April 26, where he adjusts to life on Earth with the help of the bumbling deputy sheriff Wade Whipple. If you’re into supernatural mystery series, Netflix’s spin-off of the Sandman, Dead Boy Detectives, also arrives on April 25. As the title suggests, the series follows two teenagers who opt out of entering the afterlife to stay on earth and investigate supernatural crimes.
