This week's Maw, quantified: one compound eye with nine hundred and two quicksilver facets. One and a half wings with the texture of freshly peeled orange. Fifty tentacles, proboscises or flagella, some slender as cheesewire, some thick as a conifer. Ten sets of amethyst dentures shared by ten thousand mouths. One utility coat of muscles. One bowler hat. And now, an accompanying inventory of this week's most eye-catching new PC games.
On Monday 23rd September, blissful masonry toybox Tiny Glade and the early access launch of top-down SimSTALKER City 20. On Tuesday 24th September, just... far too many games: zippy skybound FPS Echo Point Nova, mouse graffiti sim Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, pixelart creature-collector Beyond Galaxyland and, in early access, squalid mech bonanza The Forever Winter, simultaneous-turn 4X Ara: History Untold and period fantasy RPG Greedfall 2. On Wednesday 25th September, cheery roadster #Drive Rally. On Thursday 26th September, dogfighting deckbuilder Breachways and artsy retro horror Mouthwashing. And on Friday 27th September, the early access launch of Chinese Hades-a-like Realms Of Ink.
Are there other games deserving of mention? Probably, but look, I'm not made of hyperlinks. Please feed any games I've missed to the Maw via the comments on the right, and follow this week's frowsty and disagreeable attempts at news-gathering in the liveblog below.
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Key points- 07:58 am 09/27/2024 Bring us home, Friday
- 07:56 am 09/26/2024 Give thanks for Thursday
- 07:47 am 09/25/2024 GeT YoUr TeEtH InTo WeDnEsDaY
- 07:58 am 09/24/2024 CHEWSDAY INNIT
- 09:09 am 09/23/2024 It's Monday, so don't.
It's Monday, so don't.
Just don't okay?
Brendan Caldwell 09:13 am UTCHeart-poking RPG series To The Moon has launched a short new episode. It's called Just A To The Moon Series Beach Episode and features a lot of characters who are supposed to be dead, all mysterious enjoying a holiday at a beach resort. Hmmm.
Brendan Caldwell 09:33 am UTCNoisy shooter Selaco is getting its noisy "Randomizer mode" earlier than planned, say developers Altered Orbit Studios. The noisy mode is going to let you enable random noisy enemy spawns, allow or disallow noisy earthquakes or noisy zombie invasions, and make noisy weapons spawn randomly, among other (possibly noisy) game modifiers. Noise.
Brendan Caldwell 09:45 am UTCShirley Curry, aka the "Skyrim Grandma", is retiring from making videos about the game, she says. "It isn't fun anymore," she told viewers in an emotional video. "I'm tired of it..."
Brendan Caldwell 10:08 am UTC A new IGN report has shed more light on the Annapurna Interactive situation, after its entire staff resigned earlier this month. Nic Reuben 12:22 pm UTCBlasphemous 2 is getting a DLC named 'mea culpa', which I believe is latin for 'mmmm, calpol"
Blasphemous 2 | Mea Culpa DLC | Release Date Announcement Watch on YouTube Nic Reuben 07:58 am UTCCHEWSDAY INNIT
I think you'll find my Maw feeding loisence right here, officer. Nic Reuben 08:05 am UTC Here is a combat-free game in which you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia. It looks lovely. Nic Reuben 08:11 am UTCDinoblade is a very realistic dinosaur sim.
Dinoblade: Dilophosaurus using both sickle and fanblade
Animations by @Silver_Gin_Zero pic.twitter.com/LWR1qg7EOR
Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand is a just-revealed table-top RPG adaptation with a miniatures aesthetic, from former Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights developers. Roll a D20 - if you get an 18 or higher, watch the trailer.
Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand Kickstarter Teaser Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:15 am UTC Warham in Space: Blueman Group sounds like it's getting some DLC, via IGN. Nic Reuben 08:23 am UTCThis is not new news but I only just found out so I'm posting it. Toxic Crusaders game! Next year! Looks at bit naff but still! It's toxie!
Toxic Crusaders - Official Gameplay Trailer | Guerrilla Collective 2024 Watch on YouTube Nic Reuben 14:11 pm UTCI am making an extremely long face at the news that Darkest Dungeon devs Red Hook have been acquired by Behaviour Interactive, who have laid off over a hundred staff this year and don't seem to have much of a business plan beyond "make more Dead By Daylight".
“The way is lit. The path is clear.”
Today, we’re ecstatic to announce our acquisition of Red Hook Studios. Darkest Dungeon has long been a series we’ve admired, enjoyed (and maybe even lost a little sleep over) as fans, and the opportunity to welcome Red Hook as a fully… pic.twitter.com/3SeO6kEZWs
Black metal TTRPG MÖRK BORG is getting a game...a vidyagame!
MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme Announcement Trailer Watch on YouTube Nic Reuben 16:33 pm UTCRogue Trader's Void Shadows DLC is out now.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 16:35 pm UTCAlso out now: Remnant 2's Dark Horizon DLC, together with a free update.
Remnant 2 - Dark Horizon DLC & Boss Rush Launch Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:47 am UTCGeT YoUr TeEtH InTo WeDnEsDaY
FTM! Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:48 am UTCWitness ye the first trailer for Alan Wake 2's The Lake House DLC. It's coming "this fall". "Enter the Lake House, where monsters wear many faces, and survival is just the beginning," explains the blurb.
Alan Wake 2 – The Lake House Expansion Teaser Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:50 am UTCWell-aged dragons ahoy.
Dragon Age™: The Veilguard | Blighted Dragon Gameplay Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:53 am UTC The Puzzle Maker: Cebba’s Odyssey is a grid-based strategy affair in which you best beasties and other obstacles by means of positioning units carefully and having them act in the right order. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:56 am UTC Activision have detailed how they're going to fix Black Ops 6 multiplayer following the beta. Topline notes include making headshots more lethal but not too lethal. Picture Goldilocks taste-testing porridge, except that the porridge is a Jackal PDW. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:28 am UTC I hadn't heard of Parry Nightmare, which has just been updated with an easy mode. It's a top-down anime horror jobbie in which you parry things with your dislodged soul while your body blasts stuff with death-rays. The more you parry, the more light you cast, and the more of the level you see. Seems neat? Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:31 am UTC Sony are remastering Horizon Zero Dawn for some reason - it's out 31st October. The game's Complete Edition is barely four years old on Steam. At some point, they are going to start remastering things before they are even released. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:37 am UTCI'm moderately enthused for Hell Is Us, a blend of swordfighting and auxiliary drone combat in a world that's sort of Days Gone with a lovely view of Returnal. "If war is the closest we get to hell on earth, it's because Earth harbors the worst of demons: humankind," frets the trailer narration. The game does include some actual demons, though, because you can't combo a metaphor.
Hell is Us - Gameplay Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 13:35 pm UTCVisegunne is a very posh-looking 2D scrolling shoot 'em up with "soul-powered" mechs.
VISEGUNNE - OFFICIAL TRAILER - Mecha Shoot 'em Up - WISHLIST NOW Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 13:48 pm UTC Food Boy is like if Atari's 80s classic Paper Boy were about delivering pizza in Brazil. You can use the pizza as a weapon and there is twerking, so much twerking. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 16:01 pm UTCHere's the Steam page for All Will Rise, "a narrative deck-builder about taking the powerful to court for destroying the planet", from devs Speculative Agency with narrative design from Thirsty Suitors and 80 Days scribe Meghna Jayanth.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:56 am UTCGive thanks for Thursday
Because it's the day before Friday. FEED THE MAW. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:57 am UTCHere are the first 10 minutes of The Axis Unseen, a heavy metal horror hunter from a former Bethesda dev.
The Axis Unseen - First Ten Minutes of Gameplay and Demo Announcement Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 07:58 am UTC Star Wars Outlaws' Lando Calrissian DLC will lando on on 21st November. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:02 am UTCSlay The Princess's Pristine Cut - which adds three new chapters and other content - releases on the 24th October.
Watch on YouTube Nic Reuben 08:04 am UTCThe Metal Gear Solid Master Collection has a new patch, adding some visual bits you can find details of here.
New Features Added in MGS3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version v2.0.0 (Resolution Settings) Watch on YouTube Nic Reuben 08:08 am UTCTenet Of The Spark is a moody 3D beat 'em up set in what looks like modern-day New York, oh wait, now you're a Viking with a hammer, oh wait, now you're an Aztec warrior with a boomerang-type throwing weapon. It seems that dimension-shifting is a thing. It's all a bit Spider-Versey.
Tenet of the Spark Gameplay Reveal Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:09 am UTC "Our objective is not to endorse any specific agenda," writes Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in an internal memo obtained by Insider Gaming, in response to "the recent polarized coverage around our creative choices". I'd argue that BasedWolverineEnjoyer324 putting out a ragebait grift video complaining they can't jork it to the Star War doesn't really count as 'coverage' there, Yves. Nic Reuben 10:27 am UTCVia Polygon's Nicole Carpenter, Spectre Divide devs Mountaintop Studios have laid off 13 developers to "make sure we're set up to support Spectre and its community for the long term."
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 21:17 pm UTCThe Convergence Games Showcase took place this evening, with trailers on a couple dozen indie games you probably don't know about yet.
Convergence Games Showcase Livestream Watch on YouTube Graham Smith 21:25 pm UTCThe Finals' season four, which I wrote about earlier this week, is live now. The full details of what it contains are over on Steam.
Graham Smith 21:27 pm UTCSpace Marine 2 patch 3.0 is out, which adds support for ultrawide monitors, private lobbies in Operations mode, and makes a lot of other changes.
Graham Smith 07:58 am UTCBring us home, Friday
I had to walk through pouring rain for an hour this morning, and am now greatly appreciating the comforts of my flat. I extend these feelings of gratitude unto you, reader. Get warm, stay dry and FEED THE MAW. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:00 am UTC Via EG, a remake of 90s classic Little Big Adventure is out in November, and there's a demo of the first chapter on Steam. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:01 am UTC StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2’s campaign mode are coming to PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate on November 5th. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:04 am UTCKakehashi Games and Bandai Namco Studios Singapore have announced origami-inspired 3D action platformer Hirogami, which "invites players to a world where everything has been crafted to convey the physical, often fragile, nature of paper, amidst the backdrop of an invasion by a powerful digital force known as the Blight." Isn't this basically what video game magazines have been trying to do since 2001?
Hirogami Reveal Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:06 am UTC Here's a demo for Warside, which appears to be Advance Wars but a bit more chiselled. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:09 am UTCAnd here's a new trailer for ITER, in which you burrow up through stacks of rock to gather materials for your mobile base, with the format evolving into 3D when you venture above ground. The mining/base-defence premise has been done but this does look stylish.
ITER | Convergence Showcase Trailer - Join the Playtest Discord Today! Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:14 am UTC Midnight Murder Club is having an open beta. It's a spooky and surreptitious multiplayer FPS where you are tossed into a pitch-black mansion with a revolver and a flashlight. There are map pick-ups such as night vision goggles and kevlar vests. I suspect those goggles will decide the outcome of many matches. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:21 am UTCSome morning music - Alt J's Tessellate.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:23 am UTCThe Tetris Company has announed a new Tetris game will be coming out in partnership with Japanese publisher Arika, report Gematsu. It is described as "Tetris that makes you better at Tetris." So... Tetris?
Brendan Caldwell 08:42 am UTCValve have patched multiplayer shooter Deadlock to give players the chance to turn cheaters into frogs, as can be seen here. That's according to a Valve developer who posts the changes to the game in a tucked-away forum.
Brendan Caldwell 09:49 am UTC Mouthwashing is out! Nic Reuben 11:04 am UTCSharkmob's open world extraction shooter Exoborne is getting a closed playtest, from 10th to 24th October. You can sign up here.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 12:28 pm UTCThis year's LSDjam is underway. Prepare to trip balls.
LSDJAM is back for 2024!
Create an interactive experience based on dreams in 4 months to celebrate the release of cult-classic PS1 game LSD: Dream Emulator.
In 2023 we had over 200 amazing entries, would love to see even more this year :)
Sign up now, link below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/x4PDuZCKTv
A tactics RPG about a clown rebellion from the Keylocker devs, inspired by Disgaea? Yes, I would play that.
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