Something for the Easter Weekend – 19/04/25

I hope you’re all effectively stocked up in your fridges and cabinets with sufficient sizzling cross buns, chocolate eggs and all the opposite necessities for the lengthy weekend. It’s at all times a contact complicated attempting to determine if Easter will imply that all the things’s fully shutting down or simply on Sunday hours… so why threat it? Not less than right now is an everyday day the place you may seize any further ins and outs. In any case, utilizing as a lot of the free time as doable to play video games is tough work and also you want some snacks!

Within the Information This Week

Let’s verify in with the information, the place the Nintendo Swap 2 has taken the again seat (exterior of the Mario Kart World Direct which you’ll discover down within the Trailer Park part).

Video games in Overview & Featured Articles

The video games in for evaluation this week weren’t the cream of the carrot crop, however can nonetheless provide enjoyment:

Within the {hardware} part, Dom would possibly effectively be a convert to the stickless arcade battle… stick?

With Indiana Jones and the Great Circle now out on PS5, we checked in on the sport with PS5 Professional in our sights to see if it’s an enormous step up over different consoles. In the meantime, Ade dug by means of the archives to hunt for some of the inspirations for Indy’s archeological adventuring.

Elsewhere, I went hands on with Crimson Desert, which introduced a surprisingly deep and diverse fashion of fight to the desk as we battled 4 of its bosses. Nic, in the meantime, had a preview of Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World Switch 2 Edition, which isn’t fairly essentially the most ridiculous sport identify that’s coming to Swap 2…

And Aran handed in his homework essay on tyranny & oppression through the lens of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.

Ending up for the week, What We Played featured Atomfall, South of Midnight and My Buddy Peppa Pig!

Trailer Park

See 15 minutes of new Mario Kart World details from the Nintendo Direct – Battle mode confirmed

Cronos: The New Dawn gameplay trailer released by Bloober Team

See some of the Hazards of the Job in FBC: Firebreak

Your Achievements

What have you ever been enjoying this week?

• TSBonyman accomplished the primary planet in My Little Universe, however has now turn out to be obsessive about Blue Prince. The room drafting and puzzles have even infested his goals!
• Andrewww is ready to play Blue Prince together with his daughter, and has been struggling as soon as extra with the fleeting nature of time and the PlayStation Plus library, having fun with the beginning of Disco Elysium till it vanished from the library earlier than he may end it. One more one to purchase from a sale someday…

That’s the spherical up for this week. Hope you might have a terrific weekend forward and we’ll see you again right here on Tuesday!