Game Releases

Notable game releases this week include:

12th February

  • Jump Force (PC, Xbox One, PS4)

14th February

  • Enderal: Forgotten Stories

15th February

  • Crackdown 3 (PC, Xbox One)
  • Far Cry: New Dawn (PC, Xbox One, PS4)
  • Metro Exodus (PC, Xbox One, PS4)

Apex Legends is available now (but you surely already know that) [link]

Release Date Announcements

April

  • Imperator: Rome (Apr 25th: PC) [link]

Upcoming Games

Titanfall 3 is not in development [link]

Asgard’s Wrath brings fantasy melee dismemberment to VR [link]

Industrial revolution city-builder Anno 1800 sets its open beta for April [link]

EA confirms new Plants Vs. Zombies shooter, probably Garden Warfare 3 [link]

Re-Releases

Lego Marvel Collection announced [link]

Assassin’s Creed 3 remastered launches on 29th March [link]

Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and more PC classics coming to consoles in 2019 [link]

DLC and Updates

Two Point Hospital interior designer has arrived with Steam Workshop support [link]

Oculus Rift VR support will come to Dirt Rally 2.0 later this year [link]

Hardware

Xbox announces new Sport Series wireless controller [link]

HP is working on a VR headset with a higher resolution than HTC’s Vive Pro [link]

Software

Nvidia’s latest GPU driver enables DLSS in 3DMark for big performance gains [link]

AMD’s 19.2.1 driver preps your pc for Apex Legends and The Division 2 [link]

Business

Microsoft planning Xbox Live for Switch & Mobile [link]

Apex Legends drew in 1 million players in less than 8 hours… [link]

… and then 10m players with 1m concurrents in 72 hours [link]

Microsoft Studios name changed to Xbox Game Studios [link]

Nintendo has unannounced games it plans to release this year [link]

Activision Blizzard reportedly laying off “hundreds” of staff on Tuesday [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

  • Nearing the end of Hollow Knight [link]

Stellaris

  • Playing with Chums and testing my Overlay Mod. [link]

And Finally…

“Respawn have cleverly turned the whole thing 90 degrees and made the walls into floors. This is a game-changer.” [link]

Axiom verge crashed on epic store due to missing “steam” file [link]

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