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Belated Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! It’s been an interesting, if not particularly exciting week, with some financial earnings reports giving us a behind-the-scenes look at some games companies. One of them is Embracer, which has apparently decided to launch all of the games in the coming years. If this means I get a new Tomb Raider, that’s one thing. If it means I’m getting a new Deus Ex game then Embracer, you better shut up.
Firaxis also gave me an end of week surprise today by announcing a new Civilization game. Not sure when that will come out, but that’s good news. Unfortunately, it also included news of Jake Solomon’s departure, but at least he gave us Marvel’s Midnight Suns, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
While writing this column, I also realized that I missed the reveal of the latest PS Plus Extra game titles earlier this week. These include relatively recent releases such as Horizon Forbidden West and The Quarry. I sometimes think about the question: will PlayStation ever get to the point where it’s willing to put its games on PS Plus at launch, if only to compete with Game Pass? My gut says “No”, but my head says it’s inevitable. So far the question is hypothetical, but it comes to mind every time I see the list of PS Plus launches in my news feed.
This week I can finally reveal that I have both Octopath Traveler II and Like a Dragon: Ishin! While I don’t want to comment on either one, the juxtaposition between the two has made for one terribly crazy week. At this rate, I’m never going to finish the Dead Space remake, but I can’t complain at all. To make things even weirder, Slime Rancher 2 just launched a new update. That means taking a break from my fantasy RPG and taking a trip with my Samurai-Kiryu to rejoin my wobbly kids. (Pretty sure I’ve never written that sentence before.)
What to play this week
What’s new:
- Wild hearts
- Blank
- Stories from Symphonia remastered
- Fabric & Neon
- Wild death
- The settlers: new allies
- Elder
- Tomb Raider reloaded
- Wild West dynasty
- Souls of Chronos
- Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society
New on subscription services:
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (Xbox Game Pass)
- Cities: Skylines – Remastered (Xbox Game Pass)
- Shadow Warrior 3: Definitive Edition (Xbox Game Pass)
- Guts N Goals (Xbox games with gold)
- About the Obelisk (GeForce Now)
- Industry Captain (GeForce Now)
- Cartel tycoon (GeForce Now)
- SimRail — The Railroad Simulator (GeForce Now)
- Warpips (GeForce Now)
- Farm (Apple Arcade)
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