Key Points
- Diablo 4 is getting a wave-based rogue-lite Infernal Hordes mode in Season 5 – more here.
- Klei’s Invisible Inc turns 10 this week. To celebrate, you can get the full game plus the soundtrack and Contingency Plan DLC for the practically invisible price of £2.30, , or 3€.
- A modder has turned a Hard Drive joke, about a Stardew Valley ‘Hardcore Mode’ that deletes your save if you look up guides, into a reality, via GamesRadar.
- UK retail chain GAME have denied a report that suggested they were planning to stop selling physical games, whatever they are, via VG247. Admittedly, I too occasionally feel the spectral pangs of this widespread Mandela Effect, whenever I read a shampoo bottle on the toilet and suffer vivid hallucinations of something called an ‘instruction manual’.
- Erstwhile Days Gone creative director John Garvin is back on the horn with tweets about his pitch for a sequel, which game director Jeff Ross has said will “never happen”.
Happy Monday!
Yes, I wrote that with total sincerity. We all deserve a happy Monday – perhaps video games can help with that. As you’d expect, Elden Ring’s recently released Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC remains this week’s Big Kahuna, with no obvious mega releases in the offing to break its chokehold on the discourse, but I have dipped my latex-gloved hand into the gestation pools and fished out a few promising oddities.
Monday 24th June kicks off with bone-throwing dungeon solitaire Dice & Fold. On Tuesday 25th June, we’ve got the remake of mystical 90s point-and-clicker Riven – now with real-time 3D environments, shock – together with magic realist high school visual novel Until Then and Argentinian folk horror Pomberito, in which a farmer must survive five nights while investigating a local beastie. Skipping forward to Thursday 27th June, there’s some Orpheus DLC for RPG musical Stray Gods, and the early access launch of 30 player last-person-stand ’em up Battle Crush. On Friday 28th June, there’s the early access release of tornado-chasing simulation OUTBRK, which has you monitoring rogue weather on a 625 square kilometre map.
Here at the RPS Treehouse we’ll be spending a fair bit of the week feeding the Maw freshly-hewn pieces of Erdtree, but we’ll also be running our mitts over a co-op anime shooter I won’t spoil, dredging up long-forgotten Aliens games, and possibly finding time for a stylised retro FPS or two. The Maw would typically consider this spartan fare, but there’s so much molten Elden Ring DLC running through its cyclopean veins I think we’ll get away with it. Even the Maw needs time to digest.
