The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
Black Myth: Wukong, Concord and Tactical Breach Wizards are the bigguns
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New week, same old terror of that cyclopean glutton known as the Maw emerging from its cosmic bolthole and swallowing the entirety of Devon. As ever, we have a way of thwarting the Maw's advance, and it's... pasta sauce? Graham, why is there pasta sauce in the Trello? Have Ziff Davis subfranchised us to Dolmio? Oh, I'm sorry! That's just my shopping list. What I meant to say was: new video games! Video games (PC games, specifically) are the only thing that can preoccupy the Maw, the only thing newsworthy enough to distract it from the tempting clifftop maisonettes of Torquay. Let's see what the week has in store for us, eh.
Monday 19th August is a quieter one, but my eye is drawn to the early access launch of Cybercorp, a top-down looter-shooter that might amuse fans of The Ascent. Tuesday 20th August is Black Myth Wukong Day, but you might also be keen on misfit words-are-weapons roadtrip Dustborn. On Wednesday 21st August, a balance of the airily winsome, the sorrowfully puzzling and the seductively monstrous in the shape of Mika And The Witch's Mountain, Sunset Hills and My Lovely Empress. On Thursday 22nd August, it's all about spells of defenestration in Tactical Breach Wizards. And on Friday 23rd August, it's all about heroes shooting heroes in Sony's Concord.
You can read of yet more video games and related happenings in our weekly news liveblog, below. And now, the traditional Mawpost ending ceremony of stating that there are probably a bunch of cool PC games out this week that I've left out of the round-up, which you should sneeringly mention in the comments so that I can spend the day feeling bad about myself, questioning my life choices, and downing the Dolmio by the flagon. Have a jolly week.
FISH TANK HOLIDAY MONDAY
Silence, MawHere's an extended gameplay look at classic survival horror homage Tormented Souls 2.
Somebody's making an open world medieval zombie survival game called God Save Birmingham. Anybody here from Birmingham?
Journey To A Savage Planet hath spawned a sequel, Revenge Of The Savage Planet. Is this one of those "mountain coming to Muhammad" scenarios?
Squirrel With A Gun got a new release trailer. I'm rooting for it, but I have my doubts.
The Callisto Protocol series is back as roguelike [REDACTED]. Yes, that's what they're calling it.
FRYDAY
Spent half-an-hour this morning trying to make a Friday pun out of "Freiberg's Peacock Cichlid". Fish Week was a terrible mistake. Thank goodness it's almost over. FEED THE MAW.A new trailer for "creepypasta-inspired co-op anomaly-hunting game" Phantom Line.
Here's a new trailer for The Stone Of Madness from The Blasphemous devs - a real-time tactical stealth game set in a 16th century Jesuit monastery. "Five prisoners - plagued by cruel punishment, madness, and despair - pool their skills and resources to face their phobias, stave off insanity, uncover the mysteries of the Monastery, and find a way to escape." Yes please. It's now being published by Tripwire.
If I was to live a thousand years, I still would not have predicted a Mars Attacks themepark manager called Mars Attracts. And yet...
LASIOGNATHUS AMPHIRHAMPHURSDAY
The Lasiognathus amphirhamphus is a ray-finned fish from the wolftrap angler family, known only from a single Holotype specimen collected from the Madeira Abyssal Plain. The name comes from the Greek for "double hook". See, I told you Fish Week would be fun. FEED THE MAW.Oh hey, a piratey CRPG! I'm sure there are others but I'm struggling to think of one. I suppose Deadfire was reasonably piratey. Yar!
Missed this one last night. Supermassive's Little Nightmares 3 got another trailer. The new custodians of the series are going in a co-op direction with this one.
Looking For Fael is about being stuck in an infinite maze of flats, but on the upside, you do get a Game Boy Advance SP.
Tribe Nine is a free-to-play cyberpunky party-based RPG from some of the people behind Danganronpa. It's got a mix of 3D and sprite-based graphics, and seems quite swanky- but ware ye, ware ye the prospect of in-game purchases.
A PC version of Stellar Blade is coming "in the near future", according to a Shift Up financial report passed on by Genki_JPN (and machine translation). The devs have yet to formally announce it, however.
ANENOMEDNESDAY
I didn't start this fish pun arms race, but I will gladly indugle. FEED ITIf it seems quiet on RPS right now, that's because we're all lying in trenches wearing ultraviolet goggles, waiting for the Gamescom Opening Night Live stream at 7pm UK, 8pm CET, 11am PT and 2pm ET. Here's the embed. Beware the Coming of News.
Pearl Abyss's open world action-adventure Crimson Desert seems a bit Witchery. Here's a new video of a boss battle.
If you miss Skies Of Arcadia, you might like the vibe of Sky Oceans: Wings For Hire, out 10th October on Steam, EGS and GOG.
BLUE FIN TUESDAY
That one's from Nic. I have stolen his catch. Plenty more fish in the sea tho. FEED THE MAW.Here's a new trailer for the Commandos Origins reboot.
Activision sent a cease and desist order to the makers of the H2M because they didn’t want it messing with Black Ops 6 sales, reckons the mod's maker
The final Dead Cells update is out.
Yesterday's Dual Blades showcase marks all 14 of Monster Hunter Wilds' weapons now having previews on the game's official channel. I am once again reminding you that ranged weapons are for traitors and cowards.
"Liminalcore" is a term now, apparently, and it comes with ballpits.
Star Wars Outlaws has a new PC trailer with some settings bits in it, plus some PC specs info here.
A new story trailer for Silent Hill 2's remake. I should have a full preview of that up later today.
Forbes and VideoGamesSI report that Black Myth: Wukong co-publishers Hero Games sent streamers a mail with some "Do’s & Dont’s", asking them not to include "feminist propaganda", discussion of the Chinese government or "trigger words" such as "Covid-19". Hoo boy. The document isn't an NDA and we haven't received anything like that ourselves.
I snuck in early and wrote up a quick piece on why oh why Bloober aren't remaking Silent Hill 1 before remaking Silent Hill 2.
SALMONDAY
Yes, this week the days are fish-themed. It will all make sense in hindsight, I hope. FEED THE MAW.