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Our weekly news liveblog, with this week's freshest videogame releases
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Time for another sorry week of heaving news-fuel into the Maw's thousand-and-one gullets and urgh, what's that brooding stench? It reeks of embargoes in here. The air is foul with it. This week is the week of the inaugural Triple-I Initiative showcase, aka the IIIIs, aka a 45-minute dollop of trailers and announcements from such studios as Slay The Spire creators MegaCrit and Darkest Dungeon developers Red Hook. We know of a couple of the announcements in advance; others, we'll learn about alongside you on 10th April.
There won't just be game announcements this week, of course. In a shocking twist with unforeseeable implications, people are actually releasing games too. Here are a few we think might be OK-to-brilliant: "Lofi Girl: The Game" Spirit City: Lofi Sessions (8th April); arty sniper fest Children Of The Sun (9th April); Lovecraftian Freelancer homage Underspace (early access, 10th April); third-person stealth fantasy Ereban: Shadow Legacy (10th April); isometric Mad Max-alot Broken Roads (10th April); swoopy cosy MMO Sky: Children of the Light (early access, 10th April); mythological Chinese roguelike Lotus Lantern: Rescue Mother (12th April).
As ever, our servitude to the Maw often produces catastrophic tunnel-vision, and there may be a few more potentially great videogames out this week that should have been mentioned above. Please, please tell us about them in the comments. I am not made of eyes! The Maw is made of eyes, of course - together with suckers, motorised mandibles, assorted quantum superpositions, bits of medieval poetry and pieces of cosmic whalebone - but it has never left us a comment. Which is probably for the best.
09:16 am UTC
Recently released MiniMatt favourite Captain Of Industry has also been updated. The additions include a new map called Armageddon that has a massive crater in it. Scenic! Full patch notes here - it's a biggie.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:15 am UTC
More in railway news: they've added nuclear power to Railgrade, together with a minimap for sandbox mode, different zeppelin docks, and the ability to automatically adjust train behaviour when they stop at stations.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:08 am UTC
Speaking to The Gamer, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has thrown a bone to Final Fantasy Tactics fans. "It’s probably about time that we do a new one."
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:03 am UTC
Sonic co-creator and recently convicted inside-trader Yuji Naka had some warm words for out-going Dragon Quest producer Yu Miyake over the weekend, accusing him of lying to a court (caveat that I'm going by a machine translation of the below tweet).
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:59 am UTC
Incline ～Railway of devil's valley～ is... a game where you exorcise demons using a sloping railway, set in "the retro-romantic world of Japan in the late Meiji era." I have no prior experience to bring to bear on this. Does exorcism feature anywhere in Railroad Tycoon?
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
08:55 am UTC
Project Arroyo, the overhaul mod that aims to recreate Fallout 2 in Fallout 4, has a new comparison teaser. It's looking both faithful and impressive, destestable intro temple ants included.
– Nic Reuben
08:49 am UTC
From Glory to Goo, a delightfully complex looking and retro styled sci-fi Survival RTS launched in Steam early access last week, and people seem to be enjoying it! It's supposed to be a bit like They Are Billions.
– Nic Reuben
08:32 am UTC
Obsidian's spacefaring RPG The Outer Worlds and all its DLC are free to keep on Epic this week until Thursday, April 11. That's WORLDS. Outer Worlds. Worlds.
– Nic Reuben
08:25 am UTC
BLUE MONDAY
The air is literally crackling with suspense! All news writers gain +10 conductivity. Chase the weasels out of the centrifuge and FEED THE MAW.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
