Shy Guys Weekly #1844
Game Releases
Notable game releases this week include:
30th October
- Call of Cthulu (PC, Xbox One, PS4)
1st November
- The Quiet Man (PC, PS4)
2nd November
- Football Manager 2019 (PC)
- LEGO Harry Potter Collection (Switch, Xbox One)
Release Date Announcements
November
February
- Jump Force (15th Feb: PC, Xbox One, PS4) [link]
Upcoming Games
All locations revealed in new Hitman 2 trailer [link]
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is official and it’s out next year [link]
Deadhaus Sonata announced from Denis Dyack, creator of Eternal Darkness and Legacy of Kain [link]
Former Torchlight devs have teamed up for a new co-op game [link]
Layers of Fear 2 announced with reveal trailer [link]
Bethesda reiterates there’ll probably be “a different console generation” out before The Elder Scrolls 6 is released [link]
Re-Releases
Alan Wake is back on steam and it’s on sale, coming to xbox “soon” [link]
Vampyr is coming to Switch [link]
Resident Evil 4 headed to Switch [link]
Turn-based strategy game Farabel is heading from desktop to mobile this week [link]
DLC and Updates
Darkest Dungeon: Tablet Edition finally gets the ‘Color of Madness’ DLC [link]
Forza Horizon 4 received a route creator and a new horizon story in last week’s patch [link]
No Man’s Sky is getting an ‘eerie’ free update this week called ‘The Abyss’ [link]
Battlefield V gets its Battle Royale mode in March 2019 [link]
Stellaris: Megacorp DLC announced [link]
Ni No Kuni 2 DLC detailed [link]
Sea of Thieves is getting its next expansion, ‘Shrouded Spoils’, in November [link]
Two Point Hospital will receive a sandbox mode soon [link]
Shutdowns
Sony goes back on 11-year-old promise to keep Warhawk servers up [link]
Leaks & Rumours
Steam Halloween, Autumn, and Winter sale dates leak [link]
Red Dead Redemption 2 companion app points to PC version of the game along with Oculus support [link]
Microsoft is prototyping Xbox controllers for phones and tablets [link]
Hardware
Nvidia adds GDDR5X to its popular GTX 1060 line [link]
Oculus disputes reports that Rift 2 has been canceled [link]
Software
PS4 firmware 6.10 beta disclaimers make PSN name changes sound very unappealing [link]
AMD releases new 64-bit only GPU drivers optimized for the Fallout 76 beta [link]
Business
Fortnite’s ‘Save the World’ mode will no longer go free-to-play this year [link]
Drake now co-owns gaming brand 100 Thieves [link]
Xbox hardware sales up 95%, gaming revenue up 44% to $2.7 billion [link]
Microsoft announces plans to expand Game Pass to PC [link]
Epic Games secures $1.25 billion from multiple investors [link]
Politics
Proposed law in Pennsylvania would tax mature video games [link]
Cool Shit
Nintendo announces Nintendo Labo classroom program [link]
Red Dead Redemption 2 app lets you put the game hud on your phone rather than your telly [link]
What You Missed On Shy Guys
Streams
You can follow us on Twitch as Orendil_ and ShyGuysTheDod. We play various games on our individual streams but also do some Rocket League and co-op streaming together every week.
Outlast
- Will Ben’s pants Outlast the night!? [link]
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
- PUBG Duos [link]
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
- Evil Party. Testing WebCam Portrait Mod. [link]
And Finally…
Nerf is making Fortnite guns [link]
Battlefield V dev reckons he got banned from Black Ops 4 for being so good it looked like he used an aimbot [link]
Reviewer who gave Red Dead Redemption 2 score of 97% charged at special Hague tribunal [link]
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