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Sony's first State of Play stream of the year included an update on Mina the Hollower, the latest title from Shovel Knight studio Yacht Club Games.

As I bookmark games from PlayStation's State of Play to try later, one game that immediately shot to the top of my wishlist was Yakoh Shinobi Ops.

The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements "one of VR's darkest weeks." There's talk of a VR winter, and multiple VR studios have conducted significant layoffs of their own. For Gorilla Tag maker Another Axiom, however, it's monkey - or monke, as they'd say - business as usual.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II delivered a standout quarter as the release of the third expansion Mysteria Ecclesiae, combined with marketing, influencers and seasonal promotions converted high demand into strong sales,

The original The Long Dark was first released in its earliest form in 2014, following a successful Kickstarter the previous year. One of the rare examples of a truly purposeful early access development, the shiver-inducing first-person survival sim then released regular significant updates, each developing its core ideas in new and interesting directions, until its splendid 2017 final version. And all of them ensured you were always likely to be eaten by a wolf.

Management sims are all about decisions; in News Tower, my first decision was the name of my newspaper. This being Nieman Lab, I decided to call my newspaper The Experiment. Some things about the game are all too familiar to anyone who's paid any attention to the state of journalism lately. When you first start the game, the paper is struggling: You have a few options for getting out of the hole.

Oceanhorn 3: Legend of the Shadow Sea will be available exclusively on Apple Arcade beginning next month, the company announced on Tuesday. Developed by Cornfox & Brothers, it is the highly anticipated new chapter in the popular action-RPG-adventure franchise, set nearly a thousand years after the events of Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm. Apple has highlighted the title as one of the key additions to Apple Arcade's March lineup, positioning it as a flagship RPG experience for the platform.

The woods in Reanimal are full of surprises. You will encounter human cadavers that slither like snakes, gigantic talking pigs, and, at one point, a forlorn, supersized whale who seems resigned to an agonizingly slow death. These variously monstrous beings inhabit a realm that, though it looks like our own, seems to defy spatial logic: the forest leads to an oceanic expanse, which segues into a decrepit, towering city. It's like Aesop's Fables meets the nightmare visions of both Lars von Trier and J.G. Ballard.

For the first time in years, I had a full five-stack in . Friends who had dropped Blizzard's hero shooter years before and hadn't given the game so much as a glance were finally back after the company added five new heroes , restructured its seasonal rollout to incorporate story, and from the title. They weren't the only ones, either. reached a new all-time peak on Steam last night with over 165,000 concurrent players logging in on the launcher. Not bad considering it was, at one point, one of the lowest-reviewed games on the platform .

The story focuses on the crew of a spaceship that has crash landed onto another world. The survivors have to contend with an alien lifeform that's hunting them and can mimic its prey (no prizes for guessing that Supermassive took inspiration from The Thing here). If these astronauts want to stay alive, though, they'll put the lives of everyone on a dying Earth at risk.

From parodying the banality of open-world games with 2007's No More Heroes to collaborating with James Gunn for 2012's pulpy Lollipop Chainsaw, his games often offer a welcome reprieve from soulless, half-a-billion-dollar-budget gaming blockbusters. It was with considerable excitement that I fired up Suda's first new game in 10 years. The game kicks off with a slick cartoon that shows our hero, Romeo Stargazer, being eaten by a zombie.

"You don't need to put music into words right away, you just listen. Cinema is a lot like music. It can be very abstract, but people have a yearning to make intellectual sense of it, to put it right into words. And when they can't do that, it feels frustrating. But they can come up with an explanation from within, if they just allow it."

He very much understands our wildly unique vision and the value of the Remedy Connected Universe.

I ranked it as the best Switch 2 controller you can buy, thanks to its satisfying rumble sensation in games, support for motion controls as well as Nintendo's amiibo NFC figures, plus the ability to remotely wake your console. Not to mention, it has durable TMR joysticks that are designed to last a lot longer than the hardware used by Nintendo in its controller.

Nintendo and Xbox each had their turn, and now PlayStation is up. Sony just announced its next big State of Play showcase, which will stream on February 12th at 5PM ET. There aren't many details on what to expect, but Sony says that the event will be more than an hour long and include "eye-catching third-party and indie games headed to PS5, along with the latest from teams at PlayStation Studios."