The Maw - 2nd-6th January 2024
Happy new year all. What's the weather like where you are? We've got Amber and Yellow warnings in London - I do not understand what these terms mean, but I'm going to add a Sapphire warning for escalating Maw activity. The creature was pretty lively over the Xmas weekend, but Graham managed to soothe it with posts about gaming-related new year resolutions and, of all things, the Spike Video Game Awards. We can expect the Maw's petulance to mount during January, a lean month for announcements and revelations, but there are a few tasty morsels in the offing - a new Prince of Persia and Tekken 8, for instance. Fingers crossed we can build up some kind of momentum.
Some new game releases we are pointing our telescopes at this week: Skeleton Rebellion (4th Jan), a scrappy offbeat RPG with claymation elements in which you are a skeleton trying to overthrow some mages, and The Night Is Grey (5th Jan), a point-and-click adventure about a beardy bloke and a little girl stuck in the woods with some weirdo wolves. If you like, you can also play a free drinking game I've just invented in which you do a shot for every time I accidentally write 2023 instead of 2024.
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Another heads-up from Alice0: there's now a demo for The Majestic, in which you are a fancy bird exploring a world of floating islands and non-floating forests. The blurb is a bit of a rich brew - "delve through time and find yourself in a cozy narrative woven with love, friendship, and family" - but the flying bits are appealing. No, it doesn't have Jim Carrey in it.
As passed on by Alice0, Volition's former lead video editor spent Xmas finalising a mod that makes Cloud's sword in the Final Fantasy 7
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