Steam's cut prices on two small games today, and GOG's had a run of new releases. The trailer feed out of PlayStation, Xbox and GameTrailers didn't let up either.
Deals and sales
On sale on Steam: Booster Pack Heroes and Never Sort By Color
Booster Pack Heroes is 30% off, down to A$9.90 from A$14.15, until Wed, 25 Nov. It's an incremental game where you rip open booster packs to pull heroes and spells, then use them to defend a tower against waves of monsters across chapters and realms.
Never Sort By Color is 20% off, down to A$11.32 from A$14.15, until Wed, 18 Nov. It's a casual sim where you sort a huge pile of plastic bricks into labelled drawers by part type, then watch build instructions put themselves together brick by brick.
Source: Steam specials
News
Football Manager 27 is out now with Game Pass
Football Manager 27 and FM27 Console are both out now, and both are on Game Pass. The PC version adds Tactical Tweaks for mid match changes, new box attacking instructions for strikers and a time of day match system with dynamic lighting. There's also a tactical effectiveness system tying training to how your team plays, and a new Shuffle Draft multiplayer mode for 2 to 32 players.
Source: Xbox Wire
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for November
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Atomfall and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake are the headline additions to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog this month, alongside Trepang2, MotoGP 26, Hell Let Loose and Cricket 26. Most land on 17 November, though Like a Dragon and Trepang2 arrive later in some regions. Premium subscribers also get Soul Reaver 2 and Freedom Wars Remastered.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Marathon's Symbiosis update launches December 8
Marathon's Symbiosis update launches on 8 December, adding new PvE and PvP modes, weapons, a Runner shell and more map space to explore on Tau Ceti IV. The Perimeter zone gets reworked with new underground and underwater sections. New additions include an Expedition mode for solo or co-op play, a 3v3 deathmatch beta, a social space called Limbo, two new weapons and a Bishop Runner shell.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Warhammer Survivors is out now on GOG
Warhammer Survivors has launched on GOG. It's a bullet heaven game with more than 40 playable champions pulled from the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes, made by the team behind Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun.
Source: GOG
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 adds the Halo Pelican for Halo's 25th anniversary
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has added the Halo Pelican, the D77-TC Pelican dropship from the Halo series, to mark the franchise's 25th anniversary. It's flyable in the sim now.
Source: Xbox Wire
The Adventures of Tango Rio is out now on GOG
The Adventures of Tango Rio is a hand-drawn point and click adventure, out now on GOG. It follows Tango Rio hunting for his father, missing for two years, through a mystery packed with jokes and odd characters.
Source: GOG
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Fog of War is out now on GOG
Fog of War, a new DLC for Diplomacy is Not an Option, has launched on GOG. It drops a king who's been trying to keep the peace into a war on two fronts from his neighbours.
Source: GOG
Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes is out now on GOG
Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes has launched on GOG. You play Alice, sent into Berlin's vampire underworld by the Camarilla to destabilise the rival factions fighting over the city.
Source: GOG
Bandai Namco is shutting down Reflector Entertainment
Bandai Namco is liquidating Reflector Entertainment, the Montreal studio behind 2024's Unknown 9: Awakening. It's the latest in a run of layoffs at the studio since that game launched.
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
GTA 6 will target 30fps on consoles
Rockstar's confirmed GTA 6 is targeting 30 frames per second on both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, saying the game's been built "to provide the best possible experience for the current generation of consoles... while pushing both platforms to their absolute limits." The news came alongside GTA 6 going up for pre-load ahead of its 19 November release.
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths and Ashes is out now on Steam
Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths and Ashes, a visual novel from Polish studio Revive the Spark, is out now on Steam. It's set in Berlin with two playable vampires from different factions, and your choices shift the city's politics.
Source: PCGamesN
Big Walk's developer says it barely used generative AI
House House, the studio behind Big Walk, says it used generative AI "sparingly" making the game, with well under 0.1% of its code written with the help of an LLM. The rest of the game was made the old fashioned way.
Source: PC Gamer
Trailers
The Outer Worlds 2 gets its Side Effects Guaranteed DLC trailer
The Outer Worlds 2's first DLC, Side Effects Guaranteed, arrives December 2. A distress signal pulls your crew to a derelict ship where everyone's been infected with something that causes explosive cell death, and the hunt for a cure heads to a new area called Elysium Valley.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers (YouTube), Xbox (YouTube), PlayStation Blog and Xbox Wire.
Australia Did It launches with a trailer
Australia Did It, a bullet hell roguelike set on a train, is out now on Steam. It's made by Rami Ismail and Aesthetician Labs, and has you fighting turn based battles against waves of enemies to keep the train and its cargo moving.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
Shrek 2 Remastered launches on PS5
DreamWorks Shrek 2 Remastered is out now on PS5. It's the old button mashing co-op adventure, back with the same cast and sharper graphics, taking you from Shrek's swamp to Fiona's castle in Far Far Away.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Xbox (YouTube) and GameTrailers (YouTube).
Raccoin: Chaos Max Edition launches on PS5
Raccoin: Chaos Max Edition, a chaotic coin pusher roguelike, is out now on PS5.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Xbox (YouTube) and GameTrailers (YouTube).
Warhammer Survivors launches on PS5
Warhammer Survivors, the bullet heaven game built on Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar lore, is out now on PS5 too.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by Xbox Wire and GameTrailers (YouTube).
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy gets a release date
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, a narrative RPG from Owlcat Games, is launching 28 January for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It's built around tactical combat, tough calls and investigations as you uncover a conspiracy in the name of the God-Emperor.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube), also reported by Xbox (YouTube).
Gears of War: E-Day marks 20 years of the series
Gears of War: E-Day, out now, has a new trailer looking back over 20 years of the series, from the original Gears of War in 2006 through to E-Day itself. It's made by The Coalition.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube)
Sea of Remnants shows a Dawnbreaker closed beta trailer
Sea of Remnants, a pirate action adventure from Joker Studio, has a new trailer for its Dawnbreaker closed beta, due soon. It's built around sailing the seas of Orbtopia, fighting monsters and building a fleet.
Source: GameTrailers (YouTube), also reported by Xbox (YouTube).
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