It definitely feels like spring has sprung… again this week. It’s been nice and sunny to cut through some of the chill, there’s been a little bit of mizzle, and now the clocks are going to jump forward this week, much to the delight of cats and dogs around the country that are going to get fed an hour early tomorrow (or more realistically, on Monday).
In the News This Week
A surprise Nintendo Direct brought some announcements for the original Switch, while we all wait for next week’s big Nintendo Switch 2 stream, but there were also some significant shifts and announcements from around the rest of the industry.
Games in Review & Featured Articles
This week saw the release of Atomfall, Rebellion’s very British post-nuclear disaster sci-fi mystery, and the anime action adventure of The First Berserker: Khazan. Both have distinct appeal, for very different reasons.
Away from the reviews, Ade gave us a little look at the tactical action coming up in Commandos: Origins, and Dom went hands on with the gorgeous turn-based RPG of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
I got my hands on with a bunch of different games as well. Steel Hunters is about to pop into Early Access, and brings plenty of fun mech battling action, while practice will make perfect in Forestrike’s martial arts brawling, and I played split-screen co-op with the upcoming Revenge of the Savage Planet.
Dom checked out a bunch of charging tech from the UGREEN x Genshin Impact branding collab, which will keep all your electronics topped up when you need them.
We’re Finishing up for the week, What We Played featured Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Atomfall and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Trailer Park
Metroid Prime 4 Beyond gets a new gameplay trailer
Pokémon Legends: Z-A gets more dangerous after dark with the Z-A Royale battles
No Man’s Sky Relics update out now
Your Achievements
What have you been playing this week?
TSBonyman’s is jumping into Atomfall this weekend, but while twiddling thumbs through the last few days before its release, he played a ton of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and sees many more hours ahead with the game – he upgraded it to Afterbirth as well – and played a bit of The Tainted Grail : Fall of Avalon demo, which he says it “a promising Skyrim-alike old-school RPG with some janky combat but great atmosphere.”
That’s the round up for this week. Hope you have a great weekend ahead, even if it’s only 47 hours long!
