To your stations, colleagues! December has ambushed us like a hideous hairy man in a red bobble hat, and time is of the essence. In just a handful of weeks, Horace the Endless Bear shall strike the brazen gong labelled "Happy holidays" and atomise the world, that it may be born anew in 2025. Before that, we must heap the Maw high with any remaining new video games or video game news from 2024. Find below a few new PC releases for the pile. I thought it was going to be a quiet week, but it's actually quite a boisterous haul.
On Monday 2nd December, it's time to Get To Work, for we are bald and have rollerskates for hands and feet. On Tuesday 3rd December, it's hammer time in Pizza Tower-esque platformer Antonblast and, er, feather boa time in 2v2 fighting game Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age. On Wednesday 4th December, it's time to be a mech-riding sharpshooter space frog in Entropy Survivors. On Thursday 5th December - well, there are many ways to spend time: being a shootyman in Delta Force, befriending amnesiac gods in Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island, acrobatically traversing a world of musical machines in Symphonia, exploring beautiful Final Fantasy dioramas in Fantasian: Neo Dimension. And on Friday 6th December, it's time to Assemble some Avengers and other caped eccentrics in Marvel Rivals.
Augh, there's a really terrific PC game I forgot to include! No, not Caves Of Qud 1.0 on the 5th, or Path Of Exile 2 on the 6th (thanks, Fachewachewa) - the other one. Only you know which game it is. Please deposit that game with all due reverence in the comments thread. Find the latest news liveblog below, and have a terrific week.
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It's a MOBA-themed pun week! Fingers crossed we don't run out of MOBAs. FEED THE MAW. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:36 am UTC One for TTRPG fans: The Witch of Drithwyn Weald is "a folk horror hex crawl through an endless forest for the adventure game of your choice", with parts releasing each day in an advent calender format. Nic Reuben 09:38 am UTCHere's the opening movie for the upcoming Suikoden I & II remasters. Be still, my heart.
『幻想水滸伝 I HDリマスター 門の紋章戦争』オープニング映像 Watch on YouTube Nic Reuben 11:49 am UTCThe launch trailer for Marvel Rivals, which has a certain Street Fighter charm. The game itself appears to be Overwatch again, but with destructible terrain and much I-Am-Grooting.
Marvel Rivals | Launch Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 11:54 am UTCSomebody has beaten Starcraft 2's epilogue mission In Utter Darkness, which was designed to be unbeatable.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 12:00 pm UTC Superbrothers, the developers of world's best hipster game Sword & Sworcery and the muddled but often mesmerising JETT, have announced via job posting that they're working on "a new 2D mystery action pixel videogame". Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 12:20 pm UTCTown-building roguelike Purgatory Dungeoneer is 50% off on Steam and Itch.io, and has just been comprehensively rebalanced.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 12:35 pm UTCNetease's open world gacha RPG Project Mugen is now called Ananta. This is the one that's like Spider-Man meets Zenless Zone Zero.
ANANTA | Teaser Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:05 am UTCLEAGUESDAY OF LEGENDS
Don't let me down at the second hurdle, MOBA week. FEED THE MAW. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:09 am UTCCall Of Duty is doing a Squid Game collaboration. Will it be a story about poverty and class war, or will it be like the scene where you have to run up on the singing doll, but everybody has a Jackal PDW?
Call of Duty x Squid Game Teaser | Call of Duty: Warzone & Black Ops 6 Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:14 am UTC GOG have announced a new policy for their game preservation programme in response to Blizzard's impending delisting of the original versions of Warcraft 1 and 2, commenting that "once the game obtains a badge, we pledge to maintain its compatibility even if it gets delisted from the store". In other words, if you pick Warcraft 1 and 2 up from GOG right now, before the delisting, they'll be supported forever. Coincidentally, GOG are running a discount. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:32 am UTC Command And Conquer composer Frank Klepacki has a new album. Nic Reuben 09:57 am UTCThe launch trailer for Indiana Johns And The Great Rhombus.
Official Launch Trailer: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:59 am UTCSeekerX says: Wednesday 12/4 sees Moon Watch launch into Early Access -- a new roguelike from the Backpack Hero developers. Vampire Survivors-ish, but more of a bullet hell game, with deck-building elements, and playing by Superhot "time only moves when you do" rules? Interesting! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2878030/Moon_Watch/
Oh yeah, I wrote about the demo for this one. It seems fun.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 10:51 am UTCTic tac toe (aka noughts and crosses) has been Balatroed in the shape of Tic Tactic, a roguelike deckbuilder where you "form combos to deal damage, defeat opponents to collect new tiles, and face stronger enemies as you push ever closer to the chicken stronghold". Yes, the baddies are chickens. Find a free browser demo here.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 08:57 am UTCHEROES OF NEWEDNESDAY
Ahhh, a MOBA from 2010, when MOBAs were still new and exciting. FEED THE MAW. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:01 am UTCUbisoft have binned off their free-to-play shooter XDefiant, closed three studios and laid off 277 people, mere months after exec producer Mark Rubin said there were no plans to shut the game down.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:09 am UTCHere are the PC specs for Indiana Jorts And The Large Oval.
Image credit: Microsoft Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:20 am UTCFallout 76's Gleaming Depths expansion is live, adding a high level raid and an especially tough boss.
Fallout 76: Gleaming Depths Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:39 am UTCX4: Foundations is getting a new flight model with help from a former senior physics programmer on Star Citizen. The update is now in public beta.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:42 am UTCSome new paid DLC for Cities Skylines 2 - the Urban Promenades and Modern Architecture Creator Packs. Also, soft rock radio.
Building with the NEW Creator Packs | Modern City Bundle | Cities: Skylines II Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 12:09 pm UTCOh look, it's Subnautica in space.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:04 am UTCTHURSDAYS OF THE STORM
MEED THE FAW. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:33 am UTCThe new Delta Force is out now. Here's a trailer for its Black Hawk Down campaign, which will be added shortly after release.
Delta Force | Official Black Hawk Down Campaign Teaser - Launch on February 21 2025 Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:34 am UTC Friday the 13th: The Game and Predator: Hunting Grounds developers IllFonic have announced an unspecified number of layoffs, via LinkedIn. They're calling it "realigning to a refined strategy". Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:35 am UTCOpen world gacha dress-up sim Infinity Nikki is out today.
Infinity Nikki: Official Release Trailer - About Wishes Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 09:41 am UTCKingdom Come: Deliverance 2's release has been brought forward a week to 4th February 2025.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 11:01 am UTCThe full trailer for Ananta, NetEase's swingy gacha thingy.
ANANTA | Announce Trailer Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 11:54 am UTC Here's a chicken drumstick-shaped Tamagotchi from Spanish KFC, via GamesRadar. Nic Reuben 15:19 pm UTCLookee here, a Steam demo for Marisa Of Liartop Mountain. It's a tabletop-inspired RPG based on the Touhou Project shoot 'em ups. You play a girl searching for a magician trapped inside a bunch of magic books.
The first ever demo for Marisa of Liartop Mountain! Watch on YouTube Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 17:47 pm UTC Here's the Steam page for Tic Tactic, the noughts-and-crosses roguelite we covered earlier in the week. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 10:42 am UTCBATTLEFRIDAY
Mawning all! I'm off today and Monday, but couldn't resist completing the MOBA pun sequence. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell Load more comments Loading
