All the big new games coming out in April
April’s calendar of major video game releases is bookended by two major Electronic Arts releases: the return of EA Sports PGA Tourafter a decade, and Respawn Entertainment’s Star WarsJedi: Survivor, the second chapter extending the story of the disbanded and dispersed Jedi Knights, on the run and hunted down “one by one,” as Obi-Wan Kenobi told us almost 50 years ago.
Players also finally get Advance Wars1+2 Re-Boot Camp, originally due to launch last year at this time but shelved because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing conflict there. MinecraftLegends, an “action-strategy” adaptation of Mojang’s franchise, also highlights the month’s launches. Here are April’s major releases for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
(Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5)
(PlayStation VR 2)
(PlayStation VR 2)
(PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X)
Yes, it’s golf, yes, this is a country club sport, yes, it reminds everyone of their grandfathers, plaid pants, and Rodney Dangerfield. But it’s still A Tradition Unlike Any Other. The Masters, returning to video games for the first time since 2013.
(Nintendo Switch, Windows PC)
The video game-inspired realm of Disney’s Tron franchise still delivers new adaptations to consoles and PC 40 years after the first film’s release. Tron: Identity, by Bithell Games (Mike Bithell, best known for Thomas Was Alone) is a visual novel with puzzle-solving mechanics, in which players are a computer program investigating a mystery inside an all-new Grid.
(Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC)
(Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
Though it resembles a real-time strategy simulator, Mojang is hoping that Minecraft’s format
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