Still no release date in sight MGS Delta was revealed last year with a very brief tease of its faithful polishing of the PlayStation 2 classic, which has so far only come to PC (officially) in the serviceable if fairly underwhelming Master Collection. We later gota fuller look at some gameplay, showing that, yes, this will indeed be aMetal Gear Solidgame with all the sneaking, shooting, choking and wriggling around on the floor that implies....

With more than a dozen jobs to perform We already knew that a lot of these jobs would be present, afterthe announcement last year, but even still there’s a surprising quantity of them. Commercial flight! Sky advertising! Crop duster! Air ambulance! Emergency rescue! VIP charter service! And on, and on. Flight Sim’s development teamclarified last year that these would not be “game-y” missions, because Flight Simulatir is “not a game”. Instead, they’re designed to be simulations in the way the rest of the game is, and Asobo are working with organisations that perform these duties around the world to make it as accurate as possible....

Choo-choo Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, Indy’s upcomingFPSadventuregame, has a new ‘Official Showcase Reveal’ trailer, officially showcasing and revealing basically nothing about the game except that it features some pretty and decently acted cutscenes, which we already knew from theprevious reveal. It does have snow nazis in however, possibly the rarest flavour of Nazi after Cookies n’ Cream and Original. You’ll find the trailer below. Be careful: it’s official. Also, it’s mainly just one very long cutscene, so if you want to save that stuff for when the game’s out, maybe don’t bother....

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No release date, alas I never played the originalPerfect Dark, but the trailer for the reboot shown during this evening’s Xbox Games Showcase instantly made it the most exciting game I’ve seen during not-E3. It’s first-person, it’s got stealth, it’s got parkour, it’s got hand-to-hand melee combat including slidekicks. It looks like a mashup ofMirror’s Edgeand something more immersive sim-y? What’s not to like. Cor, when was the last time a big new first-person game looked to have this kind of systemic flexibility....

Albion’s greatest hero (retired) holds forth The footage also treats us to what feels like a representative mix of actions from the game - wandering a castle marketplace chinwagging with less-than-courteous civilians, stabbing dryads in the mouth, using magic to launch enemies so you can pepper them with arrows. Even afterlast year’s fairly glossy trailer, I’m still quite surprised by how photoreal the new Fable looks. While some may prefer the stylised cartoon vibe of the older Lionhead games and even the rakish Arkane-esque appearance of the abandonedFable Legends, I think Playground has thrashed out an appealing visual direction that doesn’t get in the way of Fable’s parodic writing....

First trailer looks almost Daedric We’ve known for a while thatStarfieldwas getting its first expansion later this year, but tonight’sXbox Games Showcasegave us its first trailer. My main takeaway? That Bethesda are leaning into cosmic horror, as the trailer features landscapes that look like they’re on the other side of an Oblivion gate than anything I saw during my time withStarfield. “A mysterious power stirs in the city of Dazra on House Va’Ruun’s hidden homeworld,” says the blurb on theStarfield site....

Zombies still a thorn in the side of wily survivors Those undead just keep on coming back from the grave as Microsoft screen a new trailer for State Of Decay 3, your latest helping of sorrowful yet bloodthirsty zombie-bopping survivalism. I reviewed State Of Decay the first and thought it was a cool scrappy underdog next to larger zombie-botherers such asLeft 4 DeadorDayZ. State Of Decay 2, on the other hand, I found to be disappointing - the same game with more money behind it in a way that seemed to magnify its faults....

BioWare’s fourth and firmly single player Dragon Age RPG breaks cover Microsoft have published the very first trailer for EA and BioWare’sDragon Age: The Veilguard, formerly known asDragon Age: Dreadwolf, at their summer Xbox Game Showcase. It accompanies the first details of this “immersive single playerRPG” - pause for ecstatic applause from Anthem haters - “where you become the leader others believe in”. Not miles from the premise ofDragon Age: Inquisition, then....

In stark contrast to the previous trailer, this one is all action. Standard human enemies soon give way to mutated beasties, and some sort of electrical interference that I don’t know anything about crackles and bursts throughout. I’m intrigued though. Perhaps this is the work of the famous ‘Cherno Bill’ of which the game’s title speaks?

read-only Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! You likely already know that books are made from trees, but did you know that Kindles are made from discarded tree asset packs? My uncle, who is a tree, told me that. This week, it’s the one and only author and games-worder-abouter, Alice Bell!...

“Bootleg Kena”, they’re calling it on the Youtubez Microsoft have released a new trailer forSouth Of Midnight, a third-person action adventure from Compulsion Games, who created dystopian Britpop survival game We Happy Few. I thought We Happy Few had some wonderful ideas and presentation - it’s sort of Fable by way of Clockwork Orange and Bioshock - but found its mixture of pill-popping satire and survival game mechanisms self-defeating. South Of Midnight seems no less vivid, but a lot more assured in its God Of War-style action… and it’s perhaps a bit less intriguing, as a consequence....

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