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IMAGE(https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/pictures/pictures/picture-13445.jpg)   Felix “The Pitfalls of Satire” Threepaper

Welcome folks, and happy “144th Anniversary of Edison’s First Demonstration of His Hand-Cranked Phonograph” week! The audience’s initial reaction—“Sorry, a hand-cranked what?” made Edison reconsider his demonstration strategy of announcing the thing before demonstrating it. So, at his second demonstration, at the Scientific American offices, Edison’s assistant said nothing at all before cranking the phonograph handle. The staff at the Scientific American were amazed and people have been freaking out about machines taking over the world ever since. You may all celebrate by playing a game with cylindrical audio logs.

The pace is picking up again this week. While there’s no heavy-hitters, there’s lots of ports, party games and Christmas-themed games. Jingle jangle!

Chorus is a 3D spaceship shooter. It’s very shiny-lookin’ and smooth-soundin’, and it requires you to pull off all sorts of barrel rolls, glides, and drifts to weave through buildings and obstacles. In space! I don’t know how folks handle that in 3D. Spaceship shooters always look more fun than they are.

Like spaceship shooters and so many other evil plans, Evil Genius 2: World Domination is a good idea, but let down on the execution. If you love the Bond-villain flair and the animations of your goons doing your evil bidding, you may overlook the wonky map UI and obtuse mechanics. I can’t imagine those issues getting better on the console versions.

Rubber Bandits is a party game, supposedly with a variety of different game types and objectives, but every match ends up as a free-for-all: players blasting each other with goofy weapons designed to hit themselves as much as the enemy. Confined maps and bouncy bullets make for a chaotic time.

The Plane Effect is a stylish, surreal, isometric adventure game with a striking indie art style. Beyond A Steel Sky is a console port of the revived, and renowned, PC cyberpunk adventure game.

Solar Ash, published by Annapurna, draws inspiration from Shadow of the Colossus. Thankfully, it was the “quiet parkour through open worlds, punctuated with occasional boss battles” part of that game and not its voice acting or colour palette.

Happy's Humble Burger Farm is like if Five Nights At Freddy’s were a fast food serving simulator. You must serve customers and do all your chores, but psychological horror lurks beneath, awaiting your every mistake.

The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos is a console port of this parody RPG. It’s like The Bard’s Tale buffed up to look like Divinity Original Sin 2. As a parody game, the humour is laid on thick and fast. Funny for a trailer, but does it hold up for a whole game?

Again, there’s no Day One Purch’ for me this week, just sale list items. From this batch, I’d take The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos. Beneath the thick layer of trope humour lurks some crunchy-lookin’, turn-based RPG systems.

Here's the list, now in release-date AND alphabetical order!

PC

  • 11-29

  • Alpha Zoo
  • Brushlings Pale Moon
  • Calmed by the Dark Leviathan
  • Candy Maker
  • Cepheus Protocol Anthology
  • Deborg Desolation
  • Eraser
  • Find The Sunbed
  • Froggerty Arcade 2
  • Future Tanks Area
  • Heroes of Egypt - The Curse of Sethos
  • Heroes of Rome - Dangerous Roads
  • Meister2
  • Metavusking
  • Renryuu: Ascension
  • ScooterFlow
  • SKULL CHAINZ
  • Snake Pit
  • Splatformer
  • Striving for Light
  • They Look Like People
  • Typing Land
  • VILLAGE THE SIBERIA
  • 11-30

  • Afterthought
  • Astonishing Baseball Manager 21
  • Attack Of UNDO Zai
  • Auction
  • BURIED STARS
  • Dirty Fighter: Hollow Point City
  • Fight Knight
  • Fruit Basket
  • Jane The Reaper
  • Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
  • Joan of Arc: The Beginning
  • Madness Beverage
  • Mugen Journey
  • MXGP 2021 - The Official Motocross Videogame
  • OplitisAV
  • Propnight
  • Quarry Simulator 2020
  • Raptor Territory
  • Space Station 51
  • Sprocket Wings
  • Stopocop
  • Super Bombinhas
  • The Divine Deception
  • They Came From Above
  • ThrustLander
  • Toad On Fire
  • Unfair Souls: Darkest Grind
  • Wednesday Basketball
  • Wizard time!
  • World's End Club
  • Xuanlongshan
  • 12-01

  • 2048 Royal Cards
  • A Visit to Friends
  • Archons of Doom
  • Askara
  • AutoCube
  • babyquick : Adventure of the Moon Dragon
  • Bean and Nothingness
  • Broken Betrayal
  • Calamity Eliminator
  • Casino Tycoon Simulator
  • Circuit City
  • Defenders Glory
  • Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2022
  • Dream In Summer Dusk
  • Echo Beach
  • Empires of the Void II
  • Exodus H
  • Forsaken Portals
  • Inner Light
  • Journey for the Crown
  • Kehra
  • Key: Maze of Illusions
  • KeyHero
  • Kyber Knights
  • Learning Life - Mysteeri 24/7
  • Marmalade box
  • Maze Art: Black
  • Maze Art: Blue
  • Maze Art: Brown
  • Maze Art: Green
  • Microwasp Seekers
  • Minesweeper NG
  • Momotype
  • Mud and Blood
  • NanoMachina
  • No Plan B
  • No Rage Quit Dude
  • Poly Memory: Cats
  • Prototype Blocks 2
  • Quest of Wizard
  • Regiment of Armour
  • Simkea
  • SnowTunes Island
  • SquareMan
  • Steel Team: Academy
  • SUL 3D - Schutze Unser Land
  • The December Effect
  • The Infecting 3
  • The Trolley Problem Game
  • The Wasteland Trucker
  • The Wheel of Fortune
  • Together My Headers
  • Wartales
  • Winter Dream
  • Wuhan Clan
  • 12-02

  • Abi and the soul
  • ANVIL
  • Archvale
  • Castle on the Coast
  • Century: Age of Ashes
  • Cubstacle
  • Dead Transmission
  • DESKTOP MONKEY
  • Examination Chambers
  • Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
  • Fire in the Beastlands
  • Guide and Throw
  • Hidden Histories: The Principality
  • Highrise Mogul
  • Hot Wheels Unleashed: Hot Wheels Pass Vol. 1 Batman
  • Hover Attack
  • Ice Station Z
  • Leenie Boog
  • Mechajammer
  • Mirror Party
  • My Universe - Interior Designer
  • Parametric Creature: Lab
  • Rubber Bandits
  • Snowstorm of despair
  • Solar Ash
  • Starbase Gunship
  • Tableau Vivant
  • Torobo Youchien
  • Unplugged
  • Virtual Hunter
  • WorldBox - God Simulator
  • 12-03

  • 6souls
  • A Christmas Story From Hell VR
  • Anti Frank's Wrath
  • Bounceables
  • CARROT
  • Chorus
  • Christmas Horror
  • Christmas With My Family - Jigsaw Puzzle
  • Crazy Athletics - Summer Sports & Games
  • Crazy Ball
  • Cursed Island
  • Elisa Dragon Hunter
  • Ephesus
  • Equinox (Open Alpha)
  • Garden of Magic Mushroom
  • Gears of Phantasm: Destiny Tailored(Act I)
  • Goddess Husk
  • Hackers in Battlefield
  • Happy's Humble Burger Farm
  • Hearts of the Dungeon List
  • Heim
  • Hitsu Gou Nama Mogi Utsuwa
  • Icing
  • jingor sudoku
  • Kingdom Traveler
  • LOOSEPO
  • Lost: Find
  • Mason and Strings
  • Maze Art: Rainbow
  • Modern Game Tycoon
  • Modest Eyes
  • Paper Bride
  • Prescription Wars
  • Press D to Die
  • Project Unirah
  • Race On Ice 2020 Pro
  • Rich Girls
  • SOTANO - Mystery Escape Room Adventure
  • The Captain
  • TOUGE RACERS
  • UDONGEIN X
  • Vampire Combat
  • Warcos
  • Warhaos
  • Who is the Criminal
  • Yui Tui
  • Yuusha Zex
  • 12-04

  • DelayedSun
  • Icarus
  • Maze Art: Orange

Xbox Series X

  • 11-30

  • Beyond A Steel Sky
  • Evil Genius 2: World Domination
  • MXGP 2021 - The Official Motocross Videogame
  • Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
  • 12-02

  • Cricket 22
  • Hot Wheels Unleashed: Hot Wheels Pass Vol. 1 Batman
  • Rubber Bandits
  • Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
  • 12-03

  • 6Souls
  • Chorus
  • Happy's Humble Burger Farm
  • Justice Chronicles
  • The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos
  • The Walking Zombie 2

Xbox One

  • 11-30

  • Beyond A Steel Sky
  • Evil Genius 2: World Domination
  • MXGP 2021 - The Official Motocross Videogame
  • 12-02

  • Hot Wheels Unleashed: Hot Wheels Pass Vol. 1 Batman
  • Rubber Bandits
  • The Plane Effect
  • Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
  • 12-03

  • 6Souls
  • Chorus
  • Grim Dawn Definitive Edition
  • Happy's Humble Burger Farm

PlayStation 5

  • 11-30

  • Angry Alligator
  • Beyond A Steel Sky
  • Evil Genius 2: World Domination
  • MXGP 2021 - The Official Motocross Videogame
  • 12-02

  • Hot Wheels Unleashed: Hot Wheels Pass Vol. 1 Batman
  • Rubber Bandits
  • Solar Ash
  • 12-03

  • 6Souls
  • Chorus
  • Happy's Humble Burger Farm
  • The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos

PlayStation 4

  • 11-30

  • Angry Alligator
  • Beyond A Steel Sky
  • Evil Genius 2: World Domination
  • MXGP 2021 - The Official Motocross Videogame
  • 12-02

  • Break Arts II
  • Hot Wheels Unleashed: Hot Wheels Pass Vol. 1 Batman
  • Rubber Bandits
  • Solar Ash
  • The Plane Effect
  • Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
  • 12-03

  • 6Souls
  • Chorus
  • Happy's Humble Burger Farm

Switch

  • 11-29

  • Guardian of Lore
  • 11-30

  • Beyond A Steel Sky
  • Cabela's The Hunt and Bass Pro Shops The Strike Combo Pack
  • Gear.Club Unlimited 2: Definitive Edition
  • Mind Scanners
  • Tank De La Muerta
  • 12-02

  • Archvale
  • Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All!
  • Autobahn Polizei Simulator 2
  • Dairoku: Agents of Sakuratani
  • Football Battle
  • Hot Wheels Unleashed: Hot Wheels Pass Vol. 1 Batman
  • Jigsaw Fun: Wonderful Nature
  • Miracle Snack Shop
  • MONOBOT
  • Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire - Blue
  • Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire - Green
  • The Kids We Were: Complete Edition
  • World Quiz
  • 12-03

  • 6Souls
  • Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp
  • Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Anniversary Edition
  • Danganronpa Decadence
  • Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
  • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - Anniversary Edition
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - Anniversary Edition
  • Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
  • Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition
  • Word Forward

Comments

I'm watching out for Chorus. It looks cool and I have my fingers crossed that it turns out to be more than just another space shooter. We shall see...

Grim Dawn on Xbox! Grim Dawn on Xbox!

Welcome folks, and happy “144th Anniversary of Edison’s First Demonstration of His Hand-Cranked Phonograph” week! The audience’s initial reaction—“Sorry, a hand-cranked what?” made Edison reconsider his demonstration strategy of announcing the thing before demonstrating it. So, at his second demonstration, at the Scientific American offices, Edison’s assistant said nothing at all before cranking the phonograph handle. The staff at the Scientific American were amazed and people have been freaking out about machines taking over the world ever since. You may all celebrate by playing a game with cylindrical audio logs.

Excellent. I learned something truly interesting here today.

Huh, I thought Solar Ash was delayed further than that and into 2022.