Game Releases

There are no notable game releases this week (or next week).

Release Date Announcements

January

  • At The Gates (23rd Jan: PC) [link]

Upcoming Games

John Romero announces Doom spiritual successor; Sigil [link]

Planetside Arena is another battle royale from Daybreak [link]

Children of Morta, the roguelike about a mystical mountain family, is delayed until next year [link]

Re-Releases

Panzer Dragoon 1 & 2 are getting the remake treatment [link]

Stylish supernatural stealth game Aragami is heading to Switch next year [link]

Early Access Graduations

Fallout and Wasteland-inspired RPG Atom leaves early access this week [link]

DLC and Updates

Viscera Cleanup Detail gets a v1.1 update and “The Vulcan Affair” DLC [link]

Jurassic World Evolution has a new update with additions to the challenge mode [link]

Play as Geralt in Monster Hunter: World with 2019’s The Witcher 3 collaboration [link]

Stardew Valley’s multiplayer update has finally arrived on Switch [link]

DOOM on Switch gets anniversary update with better performance [link]

Grand Theft Auto Online’s new DLC brings vehicular combat to Los Santos [link]

Black Ops 4’s new zombies mode stars Kiefer Sutherland and Helena Bonham Carter [link]

Bethesda has one more Fallout 76 patch planned in 2018 before focusing on 2019 updates [link]

Software

Nvidia’s latest GPU driver lets you enable deep learning super sampling in Final Fantasy 15 [link]

AMD’s adrenalin 2019 edition update brings performance boosts, in-home streaming, and one-click overclocking [link]

Developers

Epic offering services to further cross-platforming gaming [link]

Business

End of an era: the Infinity Blade trilogy is no longer available for purchase on the App Store [link]

Razer will give you store credit for mining cryptocurrency (that you don’t get to keep) [link]

Discord store to allow developers to keep 90 percent of revenue [link]

Stellaris director is moving on to a new “secret project” at paradox (Ben: better be incendiary pigs in Imperator: Rome) [link]

Stardew Valley creator puts his new game on hold to make more Stardew Valley[link]

Rapper Soulja Boy to launch esports franchise [link]

Cool Shit

Metal Gear Solid tabletop game announced [link]

The forgotten Nintendo tech that makes GameCube HDMI possible [link]

Macaulay Culkin and Angry Video Game Nerd diss Home Alone games together [link]

What You Missed On Shy Guys

Streams

You can follow us on Twitch as Orendil and The_Plainswalker. We play various games on our individual streams but also do some Rocket League and co-op streaming together every week.

Hollow Knight

  • Chill Runthrough [link]

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

  • Giving zero Dux. [link]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker

  • Testing Twitch Chat Mod - Come throw spells at me! [link]

And Finally…

The first Sonic The Hedgehog live action movie poster is creepy as hell [link]

Metro 2033 film has been cancelled because the scripter wanted to “Americanize” it [link]

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