Something for the Weekend – 06/12/25

It’s the grand finale of the F1 championship this weekend, and I can’t fairly imagine how shut it’s managed to finish up. It ought to nonetheless be in Lando’s management, however as we’ve seen from the final two months of racing, with McLaren DNFs, DSQs and retrospective technique bungles, it’s saved issues nearly attainable for Max and Oscar. Tomorrow’s race will both find yourself being terribly boring or massively thrilling.

However for video video games, we’re nicely into trailers and awards season for the ultimate month of the yr, with a giant glut of 2026 recreation trailers (and a few closing 2025 ones) already dropping this week, and a metric ton of them set to come back subsequent week as nicely at The Recreation Awards.

Within the Information This Week

Right here’s our information from this week, that includes a bunch of the bulletins and trailers from the PC Gaming Present.

Video games in Assessment & Featured Articles

It was heavy on the critiques as soon as once more, as we come to the tip of the vacation recreation launch window with a giant first occasion unique.

Metroid Prime 4 – NSW2, NSW – 8/10 (video review)
Octopath Traveler 0 – PS5, XSX|S, NSW2, PS4, NSW, PC – 8/10
Duskpunk – PC – 8/10
Destiny 2: Renegades – PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 7/10
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Switch 2 – NSW2 – 7/10
Marvel Cosmic Invasion – PS5, XSX|S, NSW2, PS4, NSW, PC – 5/10

We additionally had a pair of {hardware} critiques from Dom for the spectacular Netgear Nighthawk RS700S Wi-Fi 7 router, and the attractive retro gaming of the GRG34XXSP retro handheld.

And we had a preview for Outward 2 and its uncompromising survival RPG sequel motion.

Rounding out the week, What We Played featured Routine, Loss of life Howl and Metroid Prime 4!