But allegations still unaddressed Unfortunately the release date comes just weeks after a lengthy reportby IGNinto numerous sexist comments made by the founders of Chinese development studio Game Science. Game Science have not responded to those reports. “Why is there always suffering and why do the bad folks always win?” asks a child in the trailer above. “Because goodness without teeth punishes not,” comes the reply. Fitting, perhaps. I’m unlikely to play a third-person action game about well-timed parries anyway, because my tired old bones can’t abide them, but I do still like the look of Wukong’s man-headed birds, lantern-headed men, big cats and bigger beetles....

Moving ‘single-player co-op’ adventure gets a second lease of life A Tale of Two Sons is notable for having a split control scheme. You steer each brother with a different analog stick, weaving their movements together to bypass obstacles and puzzles. It’s also notable for being a sad ‘un: your goal in the game is to find a remedy for your sick father, which involves a journey up a mountain to a magical tree....

According to itsSteam page, Windblown promises to “bring a whole new level of speed to the action roguelike genre”. You’ll be dashing between and around “vast, ever-changing islands in the sky”, pitting sword and magic attacks against a selection of funky ghostly mechas. As a “Leaper”, you can absorb the memories of dead warriors and master their fighting styles while collecting ever-stronger weapons. The game is billed as pretty punishing, with an emphasis on memorising enemy attack patterns and “learning from your countless deaths” – not a big surprise, if you’ve played Dead Cells....

Studio founder describes genre as “the perfect encapsulation” of sorrow EA have announced Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a side-scrollingmetroidvaniafrom Surgent Studios, the developer founded by voice actor Abubakar Salim. It’s being published under the EA Originals label, and is inspired by the myths of African Bantu cultures. It’s also something of a memorial project, shaped by Salim’s own experiences of grief, though you might not get that impression from the trailer, which is a blaze of magical battles and aerial stunts....

In case you don’t have the time to sit through the entire multi-hour livestream, we’ve done the hard work and put together a list of every noteworthy trailer and announcement that was shown at this year’s The Game Awards. You can get started reading; I’m just gonna… shut my eyes for a bit. Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons Remake The sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol trades pixel art for a more painterly style, but judging by the trailer’s tangled string map connecting a series of mysterious clues,The Rise of the Golden Idolwill very much keep the focus on puzzle-solving and brain-straining....

Head to a new galaxy, smack up some Celestials I hope you’re not sick of third-person sci-fishooterswith slick angular décor yet, because we have incoming. Archetype Entertainment and Blur Studio have announcedExodus, an action-adventure role-playing game featuring Matthew McConaughey, which deals with the theme of time dilation during space travel, much as in McConaughey movie Interstellar. Here’s some blurb fromthe official site. “40,000 years ago, humanity was forced to abandon a dying Earth....

Shang-Chi actor Simu Liu will also voice the Infernal Host faction leader We first got a glimpse of some of theunits on the Infernal Hostside of the Stormgate fence back in August during Geoff’s Gamescom Opening Night Live show. Warz is their leader, and he’ll be a recurring playable character in Stormgate’s campaign. It’s been just over a year since Stormgate wasfirst announced, and developers Frost Giant Studios have been running various closed alphas in the intervening months....

Overland and Canabalt’s Adam Saltsman is leading development Finji, the publishers behind Tunic and Night In The Woods, have revealed their next internal development project at tonight’s Game Awards.Usual Juneis a new action adventure game where you play as the eponymous June, a college student who happens to be able to talk to ghosts. Hang on a second, has someone been readingAlice Bee’s very good book? Sounds quite familiar if you ask me....

Rockstar likely focussed on “pushing the limits” on console hardware. Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer has resulted in an M-class star’s worth of reaction videos from YouTubers across the globe, but one that stands out from the army of gurning thumbnails is the response of Mike York. York is a professional animator who worked at Rockstar for 6 years, designing animations for both Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2....

Former animator praises artists for pushing “hardware to the limits” If you were impressed by how good the firstGTA 6trailer looked, you were far from alone: even developers who previously worked at Rockstar were blown away by the level of detail shown. Ex-Rockstar dev Mike York, who worked at Rockstar New England for nearly six years across bothGrand Theft Auto VandRed Dead Redemption 2, offered his own take on theGTA 6 trailerfrom the perspective of someone who has inside knowledge of being at the studio....

News from Geoff Keighley’s Advert Extravaganza Following the fascinating and horrifying co-op shooterGTFO, developers 10 Chambers today announced their second game, a cooperative sci-fi heist ‘em up namedDen Of Wolves. Expect corporate espionage, sabotage, assassinations, and more in a futuristic island city. Oh, and meat computers? Lovely. Learn more in the announcement trailer, below. “Coming from having worked on heist games in the past, much focusing on the classic bank robbery themes, the sci-fi aspect will let us elevate what a heist can be,” said game director Ulf Andersson, who was designer of the first two Payday games before founding 10 Chambers....

And the co-op FPS is free to try this weekend The final chapter of horrifying cooperative FPSGTFOis out now, sending it off with a scream as the developers look forward to their newly announced next game. The update, Rundown 8.0 Duality includes new expeditions, new awful beings to murder you, and new weapons to attempt to stop them. It looks awful in a lovely way. Maybe I’ll finally pluck up the courage to give GTFO a proper go, especially as a free trial weekend is running on Steam and the game’s discounted too....

Senua’s Saga continues next year The two and a half minute trailer looks pretty darn stunning if you ask me, starting with Senua struggling across a rain-swept beach, before whisking us away to other rather gorgeous looking vistas. For 60 seconds, it’s all calm and quite beautiful, but then BLAM. Combat time. And with some pretty hefty looking meat sacks, too. Like the firstHellblade, Senua must fight her way forward using just her sword, axe and her wits, dodging fire-breathing creepos and shoulder-bashing skull-wearing weirdos....