RPG Solasta: Crown Of The Magister is getting a sequel. Solasta II launches in early access next year, and they’re aiming to have a demo out sometime earlier. Like its predecessor, this one’s a party-based CRPG with tactical combat, featuring single player and online co-op. Here’s a trailer. Warning: it has shiny rock people in it, the worst videogame enemy.
The first Witcher 4 trailer is here, and Ciri is the star
CD Projekt have screened the first trailer for The Witcher 4, the next instalment in their fantasy monster-slaying series. It’s another single player open world RPG, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Ciri is the protagonist. In fact, she’s the protagonist for a whole new Witcher saga, though there’s a tease at the end of the footage that crusty old Geralt may return as well.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is heading to PC in January, a year after its console launch
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth launched on console back in February, and if I’d had to guess, I’d say it would arrive on PC about a year later. Hey – guess what! Square Enix just gave Rebirth a PC release date: January 23rd, 2025.
World Of Tanks creators reveal Steel Hunters, which isn’t quite World Of Mechs
World of Tanks creators Wargaming are getting into the mech-bothering business with Steel Hunters – a new free-to-play Unreal Engine multiplayer shooter, in which Transformers-style juggernauts fight for control of an energy source called “Starfall” on smashable, post-apocalyptic maps. It’s just been announced at Wrasslin’ Geoff’s Winter Hootenanny, aka the Game Awards, and there’s a 10 day PC playtest underway right now. Here’s a trailer.
Here’s the first look at The Outer Worlds 2 gameplay
The Geoffies have delivered us a first look at the gameplay for Obsidian’s spacefaring RPG sequel, The Outer Worlds 2. It looks, as you might expect, very much like the first one, but a bit nicer. The game itself was announced back in 2021, but we’ve seen nary a vaguely satirical sign nor very large gun since. Now we have both, plus some punching. Here’s that trailer.
It Takes Two devs are making a new co-op game called Split Fiction, coming March 2025
It’s the Game Awards this evening, which means another year of Josef Fares appearing on stage to performatively say “fuck” like he thinks it’s naughty. Thankfully this year he also had a game to show: Split Fiction, a new co-op action adventure. It’s about two aspiring authors, one who writes science fiction and one who writes fantasy, being sucked into and having to survive inside their own fictions.
The Long Dark 2 announced with co-op multiplayer, new urban areas and sanity system
The Long Dark creators Hinterlands have announced The Long Dark 2, another helping of open-ended wilderness survival. Actually titled Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2 – a travestying of naming conventions that is surely more harrowing than any post-apocalyptic winter – it’s out in early access in 2026, and introduces urban environments together with a “Will to Live” sanity system and co-op multiplayer. Here’s the trailer.
The makers of Yakuza are working on “Project Century”, a new third-person brawler set in 1915
I’ve lost track of how many Yakuza games are in development at any given moment, but it seems makers Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have space for more on their plate. During this evening’s Game Awards, they announced “Project Century”, a new third-person brawler set in 1915. There’s a trailer below.
Borderlands 4 looks ready to drop the hottest memes of 2011 in first-look trailer
Looter FPS Borderlands 4 has gotten its first trailer, courtesy of Medium Geoff’s Happy Hour and..wait. What you mean it’s three hours? I’m going to die tonight, aren’t I? Ah well, at least I’ll die doing what I’m ambivalent about. Here’s the trailer for Fourderlands, which is out sometime next year.
Helldivers 2’s update adds the dreaded Illuminate faction, plus city maps and bouncy jeeps
Arrowhead and Sony have released a new Helldivers 2 update that introduces the long-rumoured third faction, the Illuminate. Titled Omens of Tyranny, the update also stirs in city maps and a driveable jeep with a mounted gun that immediately reminds me of Halo’s Warthog, and is hopefully just as fragile and bouncy. Here’s a trailer.