This week’s most magnetic game releases, plus our weekly newsblog
New week, new videogames!
When will it end, etc.
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
AARGH MONDAY
Why do they vex us so?
Oh well, time to hand-crank the power armour again and buff that chainsword.
Here’s a newHelldivers 2 patch.
Greg the Manor Lords dev is working on the game’s first proper patches.
I really liked Returnal.
Pls let it not be a f2p mobile port.
Folks, we’re nowhere near done with No Rest for the Wicked.
IT IS TUESDAY
Sunny blue skies in London today - we stand on the cusp of spring.
The Maw gains +5 Photosynthesis and +10 Nostalgia.
Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion launches in the fall, as reported byKinda FunnyviaVGC.
New Pals for the Palgods!
They’re coming in Palworld’s summer update.
The demo isstill up on Steamif anyone’s curious.
What the hell is path-tracing?
(Not available for free to Super Citizens.
It’s now coming in summer 2024.
There’s stilla demo on the Steam page.
Big fan of the demon catphone in the just-trailered Centum.
Beyond Galaxylandis a lavishly pixel-arted sci-fi RPG.
One of your party members is a hamster.
Here’s a tray-tray (trying out ‘tray-tray’ for trailers lmk if you like it.)
Cower before me, peasants!
It has the highest concurrent user counts ever on a city builder.
Deliver Us Mars developers Keoken Interactive have laid off the majority of their staff, as reported byGamesIndustry.biz.
Here’s a trailer.
Its founders vow to rebuild the company.
It is unknown what if any in-development projects might have been impacted by this change.
WEDNESDAY IS HERE
What fell deeds await?
Things still to do: localisation, Easter eggs, various visual tune-ups, and Steam Deck testing.
Diggergun “is an atmospheric life-sim, platformer with a rich narrative featuring player choice and multiple endings”.
I’ve had my eye on it mostly for the monochrome dungeony aesthetic.
Here’s a dev postabout how it handles upgrades.
Were you expecting over-the-shoulder shooting?
I was not expecting over-the-shoulder shooting.
Here’sa free prologue version of minimalist city-builder Mini Settlers.
A “spiritual successor to SSX”, you say.
Asreported by Eurogamer, it’s possible that the latter’s Kerbal Space Program 2 has been cancelled.
Looks like they might have laid off the entire KSP 2 dev team.
Intercept Games are the only team in the Take-Two offices in Seattle and they had around 70 employees.
Lots of LinkedIn profiles saying looking for work.
As per the trailer shared earlier by Edwin, it looks… surprisingly fun?
Starfields biggest update yet fixes its rubbish maps, adds custom difficulty and expands ship decoration.
It’s live via Steam beta now, with a full rollout on May 15th.
Well well, it’s"the firsty meaty balance patch"for Balatro.
Bizarro-nun adventure Indika is out today.
Here’s the launch trailer.
Here’s an overview trailer for new stuff coming in season 12 of piratical chillaxer Sea Of Thieves.
you’re able to read morein this Steam post.
Very good abstract actioner Death Of A Wish has aRandomizer updatethat scrambles enemy and item distributions.
There’s a closed beta coming this summer.
As Nic mentioned earlier, nunventure Indika is out now - andhere’s a fuller post declaring so.
It’s not enough to make me pay real money for it, mind.
Announced last year with a cinematic trailer, co-op survival shooter The Forever Winter nowhas its first gameplay reveal.
FRIDAY AGAIN
Why is London giving off so much lens flare today?
Ugh, somebody’s been making the Maw eat old Mass Effect games again.
Ubisoft’s 6v6 tactical headpopper XDefiant has been given a release date - 21st May.
Or at least, that’s when thepreseasonbegins, with 14 maps, five factions and five modes.
A new lease of life for the Tony Hawk makers?
#THPSpic.twitter.com/7omyVNjGBQ
Smite 2 is having an alpha this weekend - here’s an overview trailer.
Carceriis kind of a first-person Short Hike featuring a magic camera and imprisoned sentient computer programs.
I quite like the looks of it.
A deep dive trailer for Steamworld Heist 2, including an overview of its new job system.
Bloodstaineds final update arrives next week, adding Chaos and Versus modes originally planned for 2020.
TheUK government has responded to a petitionasking them to regulate publishers who shut down games.
The petition was prompted by the closure of The Crew, Ubisoft’s racing game, back in March.
Fall Guys is getting a bunch of Star Wars skins this week, alongsidemajor changes to bean physics.
Perhaps it will stop being the most frustrating game ever made?
I hope so; my keyboard has precious few uncracked keycaps left.
