I’m writing this week’s new PC games list in terror because there’s a strange man with a ladder at my window. Did Santa come early? Did Sony’s hitmen finally find me after vowing revenge for the 8/10 I gave God Of War 3 as a rookie reporter? Does the motion detector in the light above the apartment block door need fixing? There’s no time to investigate, and certainly no time to run away, because we have video games to discuss.
Monday 5 August: a soft launch in RPG life sim Fields Of Mistria. Tuesday 6 August: another glass of Norse mayhem in Volgarr The Viking 2, followed by the lo-fi madness of One Btn Bosses and the early access launch of green-skinned kart racer Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks. Wednesday 7 August: piper sim Creatures Of Ava. Thursday 8 August: the slow-moving city-building of Mini Settlers, the eco-puzzles of Preserve, the wardrobe-swapping Soulsliking of Deathbound and the trapping of Balatro in Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers, leaving just enough room in the pot for Steamworld Heist 2. And Friday 9 August, we're celebrating the weekend by filming college dropouts in the toilet at The Crush House.
As always, all of this is powered by the original Man in the Window, the Maw – a lurking and esurient entity from the realms beyond Ken, always hungry for one more video game tidbit, always threatening an interdimensional invasion if left unfed for too long. You can follow and despise our desperate attempts to appease him in the live blog below. Have a great week.
Keep it under wraps, but Saber's horror adaptation Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is hitting theaters on October 17th.
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(Not actually a witch sim, but, you know, witches.)
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Small open-world witch sim Caravan Sandwitch is set to launch in September.
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For those who like big sound effects on small data packages, the annual Finnish Assembly demoscene festival is underway on Twitch.
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Flying bus stops, and therefore fast travel, are coming to LEGO Fortnite.
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KRVeale says: **Fate Stay/Night** is getting its first PC remaster and official release in twenty years this week? (Also on Switch, but it's not really RPS related)
Trailer below! After randomly watching Fate Zero on Netflix, I've been binge-watching the Fate anime. FYI, this T-rated remake doesn't have the sex scenes from the original and they've cut out some of the gorier parts.
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Bleak Faith: Forsaken has received a major update. I had my eye on this one. A Souls-inspired action-RPG with Blame!-like high-rise environments. Early player reviews have been mixed, but it looks promising.
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Shadow Of The Ninja – Reborn's demo, which came to Steam, looks pretty tasty among the retro versions.
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The unannounced next game from Layers Of Fear and Silent Hill 2 developer Bloober Team is “a much bigger game in terms of gameplay and action than our previous games, which focused more on story and environment,” CEO and creative director Piotr Babieno told Rolling Stone in an interview.
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Star Wars Outlaws' story DLC will feature Lando Calrissian and Hondo Ohnaka. Lando is in the Wild Card pack, while Hondo is in A Pirate's Fortune.
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TUESDAY'S BOX
Feed the damn Maw!
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Super Dungeon Muncher, which comes out today, looks like a piece of snackable nonsense.
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Over lunch I discovered a game-mixing Sonic mod that I found very entertaining.
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Ubisoft is working hard to stop cheating and toxic behavior in Rainbow Six: Siege, and it appears that cheating has increased during the game's ninth year, Season 2.
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Uboat came out of early access on Friday. Anyone playing it? It looks pretty lively. “A survival sandbox with crew management mechanics, the main theme is the life of German sailors,” the developers write. “The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any moment.”
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A new Frostpunk 2 video explaining how to pass laws.
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Capcom has released new videos that take a deep dive into the mechanics and weapons for Monster Hunter Wilds.
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A limited-access beta test is underway for Mecha Break, where you'll be tearing mechs apart like wild stallions (hitting them repeatedly while flying through the air). Sign up on Steam and learn more about moving parts on Discord.
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We're saying goodbye to Game Informer, GameStop's 33-year-old video game magazine, which suddenly shut down last week.
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The developers of Bõ: Path of the Teal Lotus have started a Patreon account to make up for the lack of post-launch support for the game following the sudden closure of its publisher, Humble Games.
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SEGA has registered the 'Yakuza Wars' trademark in Japan, via Gematsu.
– Nick Reuben
Windows Central claims that Microsoft and Activision have formed a new team within Blizzard, mostly made up of King employees, and that this team is working on smaller “AA” projects based on Blizzard's existing worlds.
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THQ Nordic is teasing a new Darksiders game.
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Via VGC, the developer build of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has leaked online. Images of the multiplayer maps, perks, and WIP weapon customization menu are circulating on social media.
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The Gamer, Starfield, and Call Of Duty voice actress Natasha Chandel recently worked on a Valve project called “White Sands.” Some Reddit users are interpreting this as a Half-Life reference, as White Sands is also the name of a US Army testing ground in New Mexico, which is also where Half-Life's Black Mesa facility is located. What a story, Cotton!
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THE STATUS OF MONDAY
CONNECT WITH YOUR PHONE. So, FEED YOUR MOUTH.
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