What's TheGamer Staff Playing This Weekend?
The Queen has died. She was 96 years old, which means that she was 46 when Pong was released and lived long enough to get her hands on Elden Ring. Truly, she was a gaming icon.
Of course, we can’t let something small like the death of a monarch who ruled an empire that once colonized most of the known world get in the way of our gaming time. And, this weekend, we’ve got a wide range of stuff to play. Splatoon 3 is this week’s big new release, so some of us are taking a dip in the ink. Plus, a certain someone is still playing Yakuza, I’m dipping into a new stealth game, and Cyberpunk 2077’s Edgerunners update is bringing players back to Night City.
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I started playing Gloomwood, New Blood Interactive's Thief-inspired immersive sim that entered Early Access this week, and now all I want to do is play more Gloomwood. I've been looking forward to this game for years, and REALLY looking forward to it since I played a demo back in 2020. Now that it's here, I can't get enough of holding my sword back until the point sparkles and thrusting it into the backs of unsuspecting guards. I'm a big fan of Arkane's Dishonored games, and Gloomwood is the closest thing we've had to one of those since Death of the Outsider. I might even like it better?
Yep, Yakuza 6. Shock and awe.
In a month with so many great releases, I have deigned to return to an underloved classic: Final Fantasy Tactics A2. Yes, it’s not as good as Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, which itself wasn’t as good as Final Fantasy Tactics. All that said, I can’t help but find myself sinking around 50 hours into this game whenever I come back to it. There’s something utterly compelling about the way the game delivers content to
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