Something for the Weekend – 15/02/25

It’s one of many largest Februaries of video games that I can bear in mind, with a clutch of main RPGs and one of many most-anticipated 4X video games in virtually a decade now in our fingers. All of that’s set to be eclipsed on the finish of the month by Monster Hunter Wilds, however might you think about if Murderer’s Creed Shadows hadn’t been nudged back to March?

Within the Information This Week

This week’s State of Play introduced an entire host of latest trailers, and whereas there was just one main first celebration Sony announcement, there have been some spectacular wanting video games and vital bulletins. Let’s compensate for the massive information:

Giveaways!

Video games in Evaluation & Featured Articles

Let’s get on with the opinions of the week, with Obsidian’s new RPG proving to be completely improbable. You actually ought to test it out in case you can!

• Avowed – XSX|S, PC – 9/10 (Video Review)
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes – PS5, NSW, PC – 9/10
• Robobeat – PS5, XSX|S, NSW, PC – 8/10
• Civilization 7 – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 7/10

We joined this with a pair opinions that may perk your thumbs and ears up:

Trying to the remainder of the options, and the week began off with Steve testing the trendy bullet heaven motion of Jotunnslayer, whereas I went fingers on with the wave-based zombie shooter sequel Killing Ground 3.

Dom then had a comfy gaming two-fer with the charming shield-bashing journey of The Knightling, after which the chair-based puzzling of Is This Seat Taken? Each have PC demos accessible by way of Steam, so examine them out for yourselves!

Oh, and one final preview of that Monster Hunter Wilds video games as effectively earlier than it launches on the finish of the month. Looks as if it’s going to be a doozy!

Rounding out the week, What We Played featured Avowed, Elden Ring: Nightreign & Killing Ground 3.

Trailer Park

Check out the Saros announcement trailer

See the first trailer for Onimusha: Way of the Sword

Directive 8020 takes Supermassive’s horror to space in October

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is coming out in August

Your Achievements

What have you ever been enjoying this week? Properly…

• TSBonyman popped his head into the feedback to regale us with tales of No Man’s Sky’s Worlds 2 replace, which has finished great stuff for the panorama selection and underwater – “I’ve explored my first gasoline large and skilled storms that lifted me fairly actually and threw me round like a kite.”

That’s the spherical up for this week. Hope you’ve an excellent weekend forward!