This Week In Video Games

This week I've been playing Animal Crossing and I also caught up on the Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo. I was lucky enough to sit down with Rami Ismail, game developer, consultant and advocate of indie games all over the world. I've also been stuck inside, like many of us, so I took a look at some of the best social games out there to keep us social during these interesting times.

GameDevWorld

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GDC Relief Fund 

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

02:50 Animal Crossing: New Horizons First Impressions

08:48 Interview with Rami Ismail 

1:02:10 The best games to help keep you social

1:09:58 Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo First Impressions 

1:16:22 Charts 

1:17:14 Coming up soon

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This week I've been playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the beautiful follow up from Moon Studios. I've also been playing The Longing, a new idle indie game. Destiny 2 released their new season of content and with it returns Trials of Osiris, so I'll have a look at that and I have an interview with Anselm Pyta, creator of The Longing.

THE LONGING STEAM PAGE 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/893850/THE_LONGING/

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This week we’ve had new details from the next-generation Xbox courtesy of Phil Spencer and I run down my favourite games on Xbox Game Pass for PC. The Coronavirus is spreading around the world and also effecting the video games industry too. Finally, we’ve got an exciting new game called Valorant coming from Riot games, a new tactical-hero first-person shooter coming in summer 2020 and I look forward to that.

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This week I've been playing Bleeding Edge, a new 4v4 hero brawler coming soon from Ninja Theory. I also picked up Dead Cells The Bad Seed the new DLC. I've also been playing LUNA: The Shadow Dust - a new point and click game from indie developer Lantern Studio and I got to speak to one of the creators of the game Beidi Guo in the build-up to launch.

LUNA The Shadow Dust 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/465100/LUNA_The_Shadow_Dust/

The House of Small Cubes by Kato Kunio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YSFvPTm2A

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This week I've been playing a few games in early access including Temtem and Scourgebringer. Temtem is a new rival to Pokemon and Scourgebringer is nice new fast-paced, action rouge-lite. Also, I've been playing A Short Hike, an awesome little game. I've been looking forward to a new looter-slasher called Godfall, which is going to be a PS5 launch title. Finally, I got to sit down and chat to Thomas Altenburger from Flying Oak Games and we talked about Scourgebringer.

Scourgebringer on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1037020/ScourgeBringer/

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This week I've been looking ahead to some of the most anticipated games of 2020 as well as playing through Control, one of 2019's best games I missed. I've also been playing a new indie game called Lenna's Inception, a top-down RPG Zelda-like from Bytten Studio. I also got the chance to catch up with Jay Bayliss from Bytten Studio to talk about the release of Lenna's Inception.

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This week it’s a new year, and a new decade! Happy New Year! With it being the first episode of the new year it’s time to make some predictions for 2020. I’ve also been catching up on my backlog including Ape Out, one of 2019’s best games. I've also got a best of compilation of interviews from industry experts (Jon Ingold - 80 Days/Heaven’s Vault, Francisco Gonzalez - Lamplight City, Jennifer Schneidereit - Astrologaster, Sam Partridge - Over the Alps) talking about streaming services in videos games... A hot topic for 2020.

Hyrule Historia

https://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Hyrule-Historia/dp/1616550414

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This week it's nearly Christmas so I've been looking back at the Games of 2019 - the best, worst and also compiling my Top 10 games of the year list. We also had the Game Awards and some surprises including the reveal of the new Xbox console plus some specs.

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This week I've been playing Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and Lamplight City. I've also been playing around with some PSVR titles and getting ready for the Season of Dawn, which drops in Destiny 2 this coming Tuesday. I also have an interview with Francisco Gonzalez from Grundislav Games, creator of Lamplight City.

Peckin' Pixels

https://wavingwalrus.itch.io/peckin-pixels

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Let's Play

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This week I've been playing Pokemon Shield, Astrologaster and Bubble Bubble 4 Friends. I’ve also been looking into how video games deliver sequels in a live service world and I was also lucky enough to sit down with Jennifer Schneidereit from Nyamyam and talk about Astrologaster amongst many other things.

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