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Welcome to another instalment of the Maw, our weekly live round-up of all things New and videogame-flavoured, as we continue our eternal efforts to appease the festering dark god of gossip and reportage. I asked the Maw if it had any 2024 resolutions last Friday, and it responded with the brain-splitting clamour of a million fell voices crying out in anguish. I have run this through our Chthonic Translator and the short version is that it wants to get down the gym now and then.
Some new game releases we are tip-toeing towards with our shields raised this week, in case they turn out to be Mimics: Allison Road-inspired horror Supernormal (8th Jan), free turn-based dungeon crawler Buriedbornes2 (10th Jan), medical management sim War Hospital (11th Jan), feudal Chinese spin-off Reigns: Three Kingdoms (11th Jan), pleasingly nonsensically-named retro RPG Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk (13th Jan).
10:11 am January 08 2024 UTC
Shotgun King developers Punkcake Delicieux are gearing up to reveal their next game soon, which was originally born out of one of the devs making a pixel art maths game to help their daughter get better at adding and multiplication. I'm intrigued! And the clip below looks absolutely wonderful.
In November I made a game to train my 7yo daughter in doing additions and multiplications. I finally decided to make it a full punkcake, and the result is very interesting. It's almost finished now and we will release it soon. #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev Stay tuned ! pic.twitter.com/HOCY0ODmMO
— Benjamin Soule (@benjamin_soule_) January 7, 2024– Katharine Castle
07:42 am January 08 2024 UTC
Here's the full trailer for Final Fantasy 14's next expansion, Dawntrail.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:38 am January 08 2024 UTC
According to the WSJ (via VG247), Netflix are thinking about putting ads and in-app purchases in certain games.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:20 am January 08 2024 UTC
Morning music? Well, the GTA 6 trailer has made everybody fall in love with Tom Petty, so here's another one of his tunes.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
07:19 am January 08 2024 UTC
IT IS MONDAY. I am up far too early (I have an appointment to get to on the other side of London). FEED THE MAW.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
