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Just in time for December 10th Oh, and newIndiana Jones And The Great Circletrailer! Great. I’ve been looking forward to a nice, juicy chunk of extended gameplay. You know, something to really convey the flow of the game, rather than the admittedly impressive but nonetheless very fragmented snippets we’ve gotten so far. Now to sit back and…oh, wait. Hang on. It’s just actor Troy Baker telling me about all the great acting he’ll be doing....

“That cathartic experience of going through something awful together” Little NightmaresDNA runs strong in Tarsier Studios’ new game. So much so, in fact, that I’d assumed the trailer I watched during an online preview event last week was for a new entry in thehorrorcinematic-platformerseries, right up until the nameReanimalappeared on the screen - shortly followed by a snippet of voiced dialogue. It’s not just the horror setting, but the Grimm’s fairytale threat, the distorted adults-made-monsters through the trauma-tinged lens of a child’s imagination....

The oranges of lemons Here’s the news: there’s a new Mafia game, it’s calledMafia: The Old Country, and it’s set in 20th century Sicily rather than in America as per the previous three games in the series. That’s about all we know, but hop below and you’ll find a trailer. This new Mafia was revealed tonight at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, with a brief coda from Hangar 13’s president Nick Baynes, who said that The Old Country would go “back to the roots” of what people liked about the seires and would have a “deep, linear narrative....

Not that long of a path, as paths go Grinding Gear Games have been set on a November window for a while now, but this is the first time they’ve nailed down a date, and possibly clicked on it a bunch of times to show how serious they are. Do a game related verb I can’t accurately name because I never played past that beach at the beginning of the first game, and do it in the general direction of the trailer below....

No cubes or acorns so far, just breadswords “The story of Albion is one of power and consequence, a rich and deep narrative set in a world full of quests and moral choices,” explains the announcement blurb. “Navigate your way through intrigue and plot - kings come and go, lords shake you by the hand then stab you in the back, and the people work like dogs and are treated no better....

Restore industrial sites across the globe with the power of cranes and pavers Announced at this year’s Geoffcom,RoadCraftis a new game courtesy of the vehicular bods behind MudRunner andSnowRunner. This means it’s very much a simulation game where you’re fighting terrain with tyres, except this time you aren’t just driving about, but managing a fleet of machines to carry out heavy construction work. Think a mixture of logistics, cars, cranes, and paving some lovely new roads from a once dilapidated junk heap....

Find out if your PC is good enough to meet the minimum or recommended Star Wars Outlaws requirements Looking for the minimum and recommended PC requirements for Star Wars Outlaws?Star Wars Outlawsis set to launch on30th Augustand promises to put players into the rogueish boots of Kay Vess, an outlaw within the Star Wars universe, joined by faithful furry companion Nix and the enforcer droid ND-5. If you’re gung-ho to try the new adventure for yourself and settle contracts with your favourite crimelords in the galaxy, you’ll need to know if your PC can handle the game smoothly....

Copycat killer “Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time,” explains a press release. “12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realise they are far from being alone… As they battle to survive, they are confronted with the hardest choice of all: to save themselves, they must risk the lives of everyone on Earth....

Paradox be Paradoxin' Paradox announced the news with a video featuring Alex Skidmore, creative director at The Chinese Room, and Mattias Lilja, deputy CEO at Paradox. “Earlier this year, Paradox reaffirmed our commitment to delivering high-quality games to our players, and the launch update is a proactive decision derived from this commitment,” saida statement accompanying the delay. “Though the game is in a good enough place that we could have maintained our planned release window, Paradox and The Chinese Room collaboratively decided to prioritize polish....

Howl’s moving garbage truck Our unlucky planet inWasteland Waste Disposalhas suffered not just one apocalypse but all of them. Turns out the “megapocalypse” was an unhealthy combination of “every worst-case apocalyptic scenario imaginable”. Luckily, in this upcoming sandbox adventure, you have a giant metal fortress that walks above the pools of toxic sludge on huge spidery legs and chomps up all the trash you bring it. If you are not intrigued by that, perhaps the little janitor with a sci-fi vacuum cleaner (or the feel-good music reminiscent ofAdventure Timesongs) will convince you....

very enthusiastic voice yippee Do we love it back? Who knows. But it does exist, and it isn’t using a subtitle. That’s got to count for something, right?

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Also skunk monks As much as I’m a sucker for the grimmest and darkest of grimdark fantasy settings, the try-hardness of it all can get a bit grating at times. You could make the same argument at the opposite end of spectrum, of course. Cosy games seem locked in a perpetual arms-race to twee each other into the dirt, chopping their rival’s dog-petting hands off and taking a sparkly tinkle on their pastel corpses....