Nothing says ’90s throwback like a hashtag I don’t know why it’s throwback racing game Christmas, but it is.Parking Garage Rally Circuitcame out September 20th, Golden Lap is out tomorrow,Victory Heat Rallyisout October 3rd, and today - today brings the Steam Early Access release of#Drive Rally, an unfortunately hashtagged arcade racer trying to recapture the “spirit of the 90s”. Ed enjoyed thedemo earlier this year, and having briefly played this Early Access release I second his comments about the handling....

Someone’s been huffing turps again Last year we reported horror gameAlan Wake 2would be getting a couple of expansions. We’ve already had one of these in the form ofNight Springs. And Edwin noted that the other wouldprobably be a crossoverwith Remedy’s other big game,Control, featuring secret government agency, the Federal Bureau of Control. He was right, judging by the trailer shown at yesterday’s PlayStation Showcase. The Lake House DLC is due out in October, and does indeed feature a facility run by the shady organisation whose job it is to keep powerful “altered items” from running amok....

Will now launch day one on Steam, with no season pass “While the game is feature complete, the learnings from the Star Wars Outlaws release led us to provide additional time to further polish the title,” the statement reads. “This will enable the biggest entry in the franchise to fully deliver on its ambition, notably by fulfilling the promise of our dual protagonist adventure, with Naoe and Yasuke bringing two very different gameplay styles....

Amongst other tweaks and tucks following the multiplayer beta There is an absolute carkfest of a headline to be written here involving the words “head” “not” “enough” and “giving”, but I am a journalist of grace and discretion, and will resist. Treyarch, Raven Software and Activision have popped up a note-to-players covering a range of improvements they’re making toCall Of Duty: Black Ops 6in the aftermath of August’s beta. Specifically, they’re tweaking the damage from bullets to the cranium, while trying to ensure that bullets to the cranium don’t “significantly affect the consistency of time to kill”....

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Yoteiking the piss by not confirming a PC version When you stare into the PlayStation Showcase, it stares also into you. Open world samurai action gameGhost Of Tsushimais getting a follow-up calledGhost Of Yotei, developers Sucker Punch haveannounced(or Ghost Of Yōtei, to include the technically-correct-but-annoying-to-reproduce-on-UK-keyboards diacritic that I will hereby drop to secure our sanity). It looks very picturesque and, like its predecessor, inspired by the Kurosawa showdowns of old. You can see for yourself in the trailer that acted as the finale of Sony’s marketing show....

MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme is a “side-scrolling, semi-procedural grimdark fantasy world” We don’t usually cover Kickstarter projects here at chez Shotgun. Horace got burnt by a dodgy coffee maker once, had to regrow a few limbs, it’s a whole thing, the bear doesn’t like talking about it, etc. Anyway, rules are like Horace’s arms: they’re meant to be stretched, and also made of bear.MÖRK BORG Heresy Supremeis a grotty cheese dream of a 2Daction gamebased on the popular tabletopRPGMÖRK BORG- a book so nice to just have on your shelf that I’m not even mad I accidentally bought a copy in Swedish....

Gormenghasp Initially,Lorn’s Lurefeels like an escape. A first-person spelunking sim, it takes place in a colossal, mournful extent of pipes and silos, ancient turbines and concrete cliffs, where emergency lighting and broken gantries form scrappyplatformingroutes into darkness. I came to it with treasured memories of similarly enveloping spaces in other artworks: the immensities ofGormenghastandFeersum Endjinn, the fractal pitfalls ofYedoma Globula, the living geography of Xenoblade Chronicles. I looked at the climbing axes in my hands, listened to the imperishable clatter of my android feet, and thought: here is another playground....

Progress carries over to the full game Metaphor: ReFantaziois either a high-fantasy Persona or a Shin Megami Tensei with cool fonts and a warm heart. Edwin dug itshybrid combat system, while James was moved by itsmad libs monster design. It has an October 11th release date, but you don’t have to wait until then to begin plotting it and you along these various axes. There’s a demo you can play out now....

Palico world Something magical occurred to me this morning: fit-flayingRPGMonster Hunter Wildswill be the first time I get to play aMonster Huntergame while also being a cat dad. It’s going to great! “What’s that, eh?!” I’ll say, pointing to a Doshaguma in a manner that might foolishly suggest I expect her to give a damn. “Mraow”, she’ll reply, knock over my coffee, then go back to sleep. “It’s you!” I’ll exclaim, pointing to the Palico I’ve spent six hours making look just like her....

Might want to bring a matchstick Hey, rememberLost In Random? Ireviewed itway back when and thought its Burtonesque setting and story were top notch, but it felt a bit reliant on samey fights. Moonhood Studios, founded by the creators of LIR, just announcedThe Midnight Walkat last night’s PlayStation State Of Play showcase. And it looks to continue their appreciation of the dark and the strange. Case in point: it’s a first-personadventurewhere you play as The Burnt One, who must steer a hideous pot creature through a twisted universe....

The lesser loved of the original trilogy Resident Evil’s awkward middle child,Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, is now available via GOG. It follows in the leaking, shambling footsteps of Residents Evil 1 and 2, which likewise oozed onto the platformin Juneandin Augustrespectively. The release of Resi 3 has the same treatment as the previous two games: full compatibility with Windows 10 and 11, new graphics controls, a slightly better UI, and support for modern controllers....

Lead in the clouds Not technically anIndiescovery-type deal, this, as Edwin already called attention to breathless FPSEcho Point Novaback when the demo came out. The full game has just released, though, and as someone with such chronicTitanfallwithdrawal that I’ll ingest anything with a decent wallrun, I’ve bought it, played it, and am here to tell you why it rocks. Echo Point Nova, which is set atop a vast, freely roamable patch of floating islands, does as good a job as any game of recreating the feel of TF’s nimble-yet-intuitive parkour....