Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week, we feel the benefits of being positive to people we've never met, we enjoy our learnt skill in a game as we hunt for its platinum trophy, and we try out a bizarre game for Steam Next Fest..png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with arena fighters. My recent (one-star) Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash review is probably a decent example of that. Although I've come to loathe it in recent years, I actually have very fond memories of the genre. Coming home from school and mashing buttons in split-screen multiplayer was the norm for me, and my friends and I unanimously agreed that Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi was the cream of the arena fighter crop.
A spiritual successor to Disco Elysium is now in development from the leads of its cancelled sequel.
While the world waits, and waits, for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, a sequel that only ever seems further away - can you believe it was once scheduled for 2020? - I'm reminded of a vampire role-playing game that nearly passed me by. One of similar size and similar tone: thoughtful, brooding, dark. A game about drinking blood to sustain yourself and fighting demons, yes, but also about deciding what kind of vampire you want to be, and what kinds of morals you, as an undead being, want to have. Are you a monster, or are you a person still?
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be playable (in beta) with Xbox Cloud Gaming on day one.
Craig Duncan, the head of Microsoft studio Rare, will become the new head of Xbox Game Studios as current boss Alan Hartman retires.
It's hard to pinpoint when I became middle-aged, but I'm pretty sure it was the moment I watched and enjoyed The Detectorists. On the surface, it's a fairly twee tale about a pair of friends who love the bond their love of metal detecting gives them, but look deeper and you'll find a treasure trove of human emotion and life. I'm hoping that's what Morgan: Metal Detective will offer. The Steam Next Fest demo, available now, is a little short, but there's promise here.
GTA Online's time-limited zombie mode is here and players cannot get enough of it.
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