Out this Week: August 14th - 17th

 

14th: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – The Final Season, Episode 1

Xbox One X Enhanced - After years on the road facing threats both living and dead, a secluded school might finally be Clementine and AJ’s chance for a home. But protecting it will mean sacrifice. In this gripping, emotional final season, your choices define your relationships, shape your world, and determine how Clementine’s story ends.

 

14th: Fall of Light

Fall of Light is a story-driven action RPG set within a world consumed by darkness. You are Nyx, an old warrior who has embarked on a dangerous journey with his daughter, Aether, who radiates luminescence. Only together will they be strong enough to complete their quest: reach the last place on Earth still touched by sunlight.

 

15th: State of Mind

August 15, 2018

The world is on the brink. With a lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, and governments promise remedies through technological progress. As Richard Nolan, one of the few journalists openly criticizing this development, find that his family has vanished, you’ll experience an alarmingly realistic vision of the near future in this sci-fi thriller where dystopian reality and digital utopia are intertwined.

 

 

15th: Coffee Crisis

August 15, 2018

The alien Smurglian have come to Earth and they're not leaving until they steal our four most prized commodities: metal music, coffee, cat videos, and WiFi. In this arcade-style beat 'em up that pays homage to the 90s era of classic arcade & 16-bit brawlers, take control of Black Forge Coffeehouse baristas Nick and Ashley, two galaxy gladiators called to arms to stop this madness.

 

15thWailing Heights

Inspired by classic adventure games, you’ll find yourself lost in ghostly town of Wailing Heights where you’ll need to talk to the locals, collect lyrics to songs, listen to clues, and steal things from other songs. Add these ingredients to your musical possession wheel and sing your soul right into a monster’s body, gaining their supernatural abilities and moving one step closer to escaping Wailing Heights.

 

15th: Hero Defense

To destroy the world’s most powerful vampire, your team of slayers must impale, slash, tear and burn through legions of undead hell-bent on world domination. Take charge of five unique heroes that battle their way through various arenas to defeat Count Necrosis. Fans of RTS, RPGs, and Tower Defense games will find a lot to like here.

 

15th: Fernz Gate

After waking in unfamiliar woods, Alex, an ordinary high schooler living an ordinary life, learns he has somehow ended up in Fernland, a world dominated by conflict and destruction, he will have to travel to the other side of the world and beyond to find his way back home in this fantasy RPG full of monsters and colorful characters.

 

17th: Polygod

Describing itself as “blending a fast-paced, Quake-esque feel with the randomness, difficulty and power-up system of The Binding of Isaac,” Polygod is designed for speedrunners, inviting only the most skilled and strategic players to defeat the Trial of the Gods. As a one-armed, gun-wielding assassin of legend, the seven deities of Polygod will test your skill with randomly generated arenas of hostile minions.

 

17th: Treadnauts

Pilot your tank through competitive, gorgeous arenas to land a deadly shot on your opponents in Treadnauts. With a ton of useful tricks at your disposal, including treads that stick to any wall, boosters for midair hops, zero-friction slides, and rocket jumps for soaring into the sky, it's all about moving with style to come out on top across four playable zones, each with unique mechanics and physics objects.

 

17th: Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters

Xbox One X Enhanced - Master physics-defying drunk-fu techniques by controlling your character’s stumbling direction and unleashing powerful attacks with each individual limb. Team up with your friends to beat AI controlled bullies in the swarm-like mode or challenge each other in free for all or last man standing modes to see who the true Wasted Master is.

 

17th: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Xbox One X Enhanced - In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, one player is trapped in a room with a ticking time bomb they must defuse. The other players are the experts who must give the instructions to defuse the bomb by deciphering the information found in the Bomb Defusal Manual. But there’s a catch: the experts can’t see the bomb, so everyone will need to talk it out – fast! Test the limits of your communication skills and friendships in this co-op party game.

17th: Persian Nights: Sands of Wonders

In the absence of a mortally ill king, the Grand Vizier Zaved rules the kingdom with an iron fist, while a mysterious plague casts a dark shadow on the people of Persia. The young apothecary Tara decides to conduct her own investigation and discover the cause of the illness before it's too late in this puzzle game.

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#Wargames Review

 

#Wargames is my first review on Guilty Spark and the main reason why I decided to do reviews on the site, as I've seen no reviews on this game.

I use the term game loosely when talking about interactive video series #Wargames and yes it is called that, from Her Story creator Sam Barlow.

Which was the main draw for me the connection to Her Story and why I paid my money for the title.

Much like Her Story, #Wargames is an FMV game unlike Her Story it isn't very good.

I get what it's trying to do and that's to get you to make choices in how you react whilst face timing, the problem is unlike a Telltale game or even fellow FMV game The Late Shift (I recently played via Game Pass) you know when to make a choice and what it may even do, yet in #Wargames you really have no idea and honestly I could see someone playing from the start to finish without switching who you face time and getting an-okay acted 6 episode web series.

I appreciate #Wargames is trying to push the medium forward by doing something different along with having some more mature themes and they are the sort thing that now has a place in gaming like they do in TV and Film, just what's on offer isn't very good. 

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What touches down this week August 7th - 10th

 

Dead Cells

August 07, 2018

Dead Cells puts you in control of a failed alchemic experiment trying to figure out what's happening on a sprawling, ever-changing, and seemingly cursed Island. Describing itself as possessing tough but fair combat, responsive controls, challenging foes, permadeath, and of course, the emergency panic roll to get you out of trouble, Dead Cells seems to have all the ingredients for makes for an intense action game.

 

Defenders of Ekron

August 07, 2018

In this adventure/shmup game with features like 360° shooting range, unique scenarios to discover, exploration modes to analyze the environment, a powerful shield, and different upgradable combat modes, you must defeat The Renegades and stop the bursting civil war threatening Ekron.

 

Flipping Death

August 07, 2018

Possess the living, aid the dead, and flip between the worlds of Flipping Death, a puzzling adventure platformer where you find yourself filling in for Death itself. Maybe your new powers will help you solve the mystery of your own demise?

 

Hyper Universe

August 07, 2018

Xbox One X Enhanced - Choose from a diverse cast of colourful characters, each with their own unique abilities. Leap into intense 4v4 MOBA combat on every level of the battlefield as you and your teammates work together to destroy the enemy base.

 

Overcooked! 2

August 07, 2018

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons; it’s time to save the world again!

 

Megaton Rainfall

August 08, 2018

Become an indestructible interdimensional superbeing in this first-person superhero game and save Earth from an alien invasion. With unprecedented freedom of movement as you fly through buildings, break the sound barrier, and accelerate to extraordinary speeds. Then rise above the atmosphere, circumnavigate the Earth in seconds, and get ready for your next battle.

 

Tetra’s Escape

August 08, 2018

A platforming puzzle-game that’s all about blocks named Tetras and it’s up to you to save them and make the most out of their special ability -- shape-shifting. Tetras can turn into different Tetrominos and used to fill holes and master puzzles in order to reach the portal on the other side of the level.

 

City of the Shroud

August 09, 2018

Your choices and the choices of every player will drive a living story and determine the fate of the city of Iskenderun. Paired with an explosive real-time, combo-based battle system, your decisions will change the story forever in City of the Shroud.

Madden NFL 19

August 10, 2018

Xbox One X Enhanced - Madden NFL 19 gives you game-changing control on and off the field, with Real Player Motion (RPM) transforming the way you play Madden, giving you precision player control.  Create and share custom draft classes, design your game strategy, progress your players, and execute your game plan with all new positional archetypes in Franchise mode. Then in Madden NFL 19 Ultimate Team, train your favourite players to fit your roster and lead them to glory.

 

We Happy Few

Xbox One X Enhanced - We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial in the city of Wellington Wells. In this alternative 1960s England, conformity is key. You’ll have to fight or blend in with the drug-addled inhabitants, most of whom don’t take kindly to people who won’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.

 

TerraTech

August 10, 2018

Explore, build, craft, and battle across alien worlds in this physics-based construction sandbox adventure. Design cars, tanks and planes from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive, and become the ultimate planetary prospector. Or jump into a 16-player PvP battle to grab and build as you fight.

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Summer Spotlight Starts

This week saw the start of Xboxes Summer Spotlight which runs for the next 6 weeks

The store will get over 60 new games, including the most anticipated titles of the Summer like:

No Man’s Sky (Available Now) -Inspired by the adventure and imagination that we love from classic science-fiction, No Man’s Sky presents you with a galaxy to explore, filled with unique planets and lifeforms, and constant danger and action. In No Man’s Sky, every star is the light of a distant sun, each orbited by planets filled with life, and you can go to any of them you choose. Fly from deep space to planetary surfaces, with no loading screens, and no limits in this procedurally generated universe.

Vigor (Available Now) –1991. The nuclear war is over. Central Europe is devastated and Norway has become the last stand. You start as a nameless outlander, but who will you become? No time for uncertainty. Turn a shelter into your home. Fight, run or hide. Take risks, claim rewards, and survive this cut-throat experience.

Overcooked 2 (August 7) – Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons … it’s time to save the world (again!)

Realm Royale (Coming Soon) – Be the last champion standing in Realm Royale! Choose a class, then loot deadly weapons and powerful abilities to create your own champion. Explore a fantasy world from horseback, and craft game-changing legendary gear. Can you survive the first 100-person fantasy battle royale?

But that’s not all! From now through September 10, you can earn 4,000 Microsoft Rewards points for diving into some of the best games of the season. Earn 100 points per pound spent on games featured in the Summer Spotlight.

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