Something for the Weekend – 25/01/25

Nicely…. it’s been fairly the tumultuous week in the actual world, however gaming has offered a pleasing escape. Oh positive, it hasn’t all been tremendous rosy within the video games business at giant, however there’s loads pleasure after a few nice new recreation bulletins and updates on a few of the largest video games coming to Xbox (and PS5) later this 12 months.

Within the Information This Week

Microsoft led the best way this week with their Xbox Developer Direct stream:

Video games in Evaluate & Featured Articles

We had a superb batch of critiques on this week, and a uncommon 10/10 appeared!

Heroes of Hammerwatch 2 – PC – 10/10
Synduality: Echo of Ada – PS5, XSX|S, PC – 9/10
IDUN – Frontline Survival – PC – 8/10
Dead of Darkness – PC – 8/10
Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero – PS5, PS4, NSW, PC – 8/10
Freedom Wars Remastered – PS5, PS4, NSW, PC – 6/10
Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 5/10

Away from the critiques, I bought to go hands on with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, soaking within the new method that the world has been constructed, the shinobi and samurai playstyles, and simply what it’s like be again in an Murderer’s Creed recreation. See it in motion right here:

Ade checked out Stories from Sol: The Gun Dog, a recreation he thinks goes to be value settling in for, whereas Dom marvelled at how far cell gaming has include Game of Thrones Kingsroad, and noticed the promise of the initially flawed launch of Hyper Light Breaker.

Rounding out the week, What We Played featured Hyper Gentle Breaker, Heroes of Hammerwatch 2 and Orcs Should Die: Deathtrap!