AAA games flee before The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and L.A. Noire, fearful to release in the same week as these two much-anticipated games. Smaller, cheaper, downloadable titles and downloadable content are unphased by this, though. On that front, we're getting Sega Rally Online Arcade, the Honest Hearts DLC for Fallout: New Vegas, and Terraria, which I shall lazily describe as "kind of a bit like an action-oriented 2D Minecraft."
If you're somehow not interested in any of those, there's a a colouring-in game on DSiWare and some Wii titles that'll teach you how to read.
Don't get your hopes up over anything downloadable on PlayStation 3. The PlayStation Network is still down following the hack, Sony isn't sure when it'll be be back up, and it's unclear what will happen to new releases when it does return, considering the ever-growing backlog.
Here's the list of next week's releases:
PC
- Detour (digital download)
- Fable III
- Final Fantasy XI Ultimate Collection Abyssea Edition (digital download - $19.99)
- Terraria
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
- Two Worlds II Castle Defense (digital download)
- Crysis 2 - Retaliation Pack (downloadable content)
- Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts (downloadable content)
Xbox 360
- L.A. Noire
- Sega Rally Online Arcade (XBLA download - $10)
- Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts (downloadable content)
- Shift 2 Unleashed - Speed Hunters (downloadable content - $10)
PlayStation 3
- Gatling Gears (PSN download)*
- L.A. Noire
- Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts (downloadable content)*
- Shift 2 Unleashed - Speed Hunters (downloadable content - $10)*
Wii
- Chrono Trigger (Wii Virtual Console - $8)
- ExerBeat
- Gabrielle's Ghostly Groove: Monster Mix (WiiWare download - $5)
- Reader Rabbit: 1st Grade
- Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade
- Reader Rabbit: Kindergarten
- Reader Rabbit: Preschool
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo DS
- Big Bass Arcade (DSiWare download - $5)
- Cake Mania Main Street
- Hellokids - Vol. 1: Coloring and Painting (DSiWare download - $2)
- Murder in Venice
- Word Searcher 3 (DSiWare download - $5)
*At the time of publishing, the PlayStation Network is still offline.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, The video game release list of 5/16-5/22.
Next week's new releases include superstars L.A. Noire and The Witcher 2, plus Fable 3 on PC, Chrono Trigger on Wii, and more.-
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From what i've heard with that game is bugs where ironed ~2 weeks ago, main wait was legal stuff to put it out, only watched ~2 vids from it but my uncle keeps talking about it a lot how great it's gonna be and apparently the guys who made the game have great tutorials on their youtube page
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I'm apprehensively excited for L.A. Noire. I wish they had removed the 'e', but even more I am afraid that it will be more Mafia 2 than GTA. Mafia just didn't feel right to me. Maybe that won't matter if the game really does play more like a Heavy Rain/interactive story. Fingers crossed for this one!
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LA Noire is the only must have for me next week.
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Witcher 2 is gonna be the best rpg game ever. i called it.
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