This week in PC games: a MGS3 remake, new Blumhouse horror and some freshly peeled spaceships

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Well, it happened again: the Maw devoured a Monday. My recent, highly suspicious quality nonfiction astir a abrupt "bank holiday" was, of course, a hasty PR smokescreen to avert a banal marketplace crash. In Horace's name, we person present forced the Maw to sick up the missing Monday, but locating the gag reflex of a cosmic monster has its risks, and determination person been a fewer casualties.

Mark has theoretically been "on holiday" since past Wednesday, returning tomorrow, but that's different portion of disinfo - he's really stranded determination successful the Cretaceous period. James, meanwhile, has travel down with a lawsuit of the Schrödingers, neither distant astatine Gamescom nor backmost astatine his desk. I americium going to email him soon - fingers crossed the quantum binary collapses successful a mode conducive to preview write-ups. As for this week's caller PC games - present you are. I've included the regurgitated Monday, but delight grip with attraction arsenic it's inactive alternatively radioactive and, er, talkative.

Monday 25th August

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• Pizza Bandit is simply a Gearsy goof shooter successful which you effort to whip up a bully margherita portion fending disconnected aliens.
• Watertight is simply a escaped fearfulness crippled successful which your submarine gets into difficulties portion investigating the wreck of the Titanic. For clarity, this doesn't look to beryllium astir Oceangate.
• good is simply a minigame bundle astir an American teen trying to debar learning anything. It reminds maine powerfully of Homestar Runner.

Tuesday 26th August

• Let's proceed the taxable from Pizza Bandit with constituent and clicker The Supper: New Blood, which is astir having radical for meal but hah hah, not similar that. Gosh you definite look delicious erstwhile you're anxious.

Wednesday 27th August

• By eck, I emotion the cutaway spaceships of Pixel Starships 2, "an FTL-esque crippled successful a MMO setting" with programmable crewmate behaviour.
• Blumhouse-published Eyes Of Hellfire (pictured) is Among Us but acceptable successful a handsomely furnished, orthographic haunted house. I deliberation this is "orthographic", anyway. It's the benignant of elevated diagonal viewpoint that mostly gets handwaved arsenic "isometric". Any pointers, geometry fiends?

Thursday 28th August

• It's clip for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake? Snake. SNAAAAAAAAKE Eater, the Unreal Engine MGS3 remake for a post-Kojima era.
• The Knightling is simply a giddy and gif-friendly, trick-driven unfastened satellite crippled successful which you surf astir connected a magic shield.

Friday 29th August

• This week's sacrifice upon the altar of Hybridisation is Neon Village, a match-3 town/deck builder with roguelike elements.
• Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance marks the bloody revival of different past Sega side-scroller, I think, though it's juuuust imaginable that it's really a coating sim.

As always, fto america cognize if there's immoderate must-plays we've missed. My plans for this week see making consciousness of a big, tangly interview-driven diagnostic and possibly penning thing astir liminality that would secretly beryllium a emotion missive to a peculiar videogame level. Providing the superposition resolves successful our favour, I ideate James volition beryllium Jamescomming it up with sundry impressions articles and interviewage. Assuming helium overcomes the elephantine Venus flytraps and makes it past the Ankylosauri to the clip portal, Mark should beryllium connected regular quality and perchance a review. I look to retrieve him bagsying thing successful the spreadsheet earlier helium disappeared into the vortex. What are you up to this week?