Sunday, May 11th 2025

This Week in Gaming (Week 20)

Welcome to the 20th week of 2025 and this week's AAA release is a prequel of what might be one of the most famous PC first person shooter games out there. This is followed by a weird cowboy game, cops and gangs in the 1980s, another minecraft clone, but with more weapons, some old school fighting and finally a bit of limbo, no not the dance, the other kind. There's also a couple of extra games that look pretty good this week.

DOOM: The Dark Ages / This week's AAA release / Thursday 15 May
As the super weapon of gods and kings, shred enemies with devastating favorites like the Super Shotgun while also wielding a variety of new bone-chewing weapons, including the versatile Shield Saw. Players will stand and fight on the demon-infested battlefields in the vicious, grounded combat the original DOOM is famous for. Take flight atop the new fierce Mecha Dragon, stand tall in a massive Atlan mech, and beat demons to a pulp with the newly enhanced glory kill system. Only the Slayer has the power to wield these devastating tools of mayhem. Steam link, Our Performance Review
Chambers / Monday 12 May
Welcome to revolverpunk. Chambers is a comedic RPG shooter set in the Weird Wild West! Cook the boomstick, fingercatch some bullets and wrangle that fella into your pocket. Steam link
The Precinct / Tuesday 13 May
You are Officer Nick Cordell Jr. As a rookie beat cop fresh out of the Academy, you're on the front line of defence for Averno's citizens. Dive into a world of thrilling car chases, sandbox crimes, and a healthy dose of 1980s noir as you protect the populace and solve the mystery of your father's murder in the line of duty. Steam link
Cubic Odyssey / Wednesday 14 May
Step into a boundless open world where every planet, every system, and every moment is yours to shape. Explore a universe rich with life, ancient mysteries, and untamed beauty. Fight back the Red Darkness menace as you mine resources, craft tools, weapons, and build vehicles that are essential for your odyssey. Collaborate with friends to battle colossal threats and bring hope to the galaxy. Adventure, creation, and survival await. Steam link
Capcom Fighting Collection 2 / Thursday 15 May
Capcom's new fighting collection hits the stage! Choose from fan-favorite games like Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 and Project Justice to 3D action games like Power Stone and Power Stone 2 in this collection of eight classic fighting games. Steam link
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo / Friday 16 May
As Kulebra you'll explore Limbo, a vibrant, Latin American flavored afterlife full of danger, intrigue, humor, sneakery, and deep, dark mystery. You'll be using many tricks and skills to help the colourful (literally) residents of Limbo accept and embrace their issues of loss, trauma, and the consequences of not letting go as they repeat their days again, and again. Steam link
Also launching this week: Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade and Blacksmith Master







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29 Comments on This Week in Gaming (Week 20)

#26
Ripcord
£70 in the UK, i think ill give it a miss
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#27
cfenton
AGlezBBy your question I can tell you (a) don't understand legalese and also (b) don't know what "content" means. I'm not inclined to explain so you'll have to do your own research or, like I said, ask your lawyer. Just beware legalese is the language of the devil and my soul is already cursed from whatevery little I've had to learn and lawyers are half-angels and half-demons that both protect us from legalese and bind us with it. Persue this matter at your own risk. :laugh:
It sounds like they are saying they can use any videos or images of the game you make and share for the promotion of the game. I can't imagine that matters much for the vast majority of people playing the game.
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#28
AGlezB
cfentonIt sounds like they are saying they can use any videos or images of the game you make and share for the promotion of the game.
This is what you pay for (Section 3. License):
"a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, revocable license to access or use the Game solely on the device (which for the purposes of this agreement may be a PC, game console or tablet, as the case may be) for which it was supplied by Kwalee for your personal, non-commercial purposes, subject to the terms of this Agreement (the “End User License”)"
This is what they get for free (Section 5. Your Content):
[...] a transferrable, sublicensable, royalty free perpetual worldwide right and license to use, host, copy, reproduce, distribute, display, perform including perform in public, communicate to the public including making available to the public, transmit, broadcast, publish, adapt, modify and create new or derivative works of or using Your Content. [...]
What that means is you have to pay them but they don't have to pay you. You do something they don't like they can screw you. They do something you don't like: you're already screwed the moment you accepted the EULA. Google "legally binding" and "predatory practices".
cfentonI can't imagine that matters much for the vast majority of people playing the game.
It doesn't. 90% of players don't even know what an EULA is. From the rest, 8% doesn't understand it (remember: legalese) and 1% understands but doesn't care. I'm in the final 1% where I understand enough and I don't like predatory practices so I just don't accept the EULA and go spend my money somewhere else. Note that I consider normal for most players to not understand EULAs because they simply aren't lawyers, in fact most are underage children which these companies are taking advantage of. You're not going to see those terms in AutoCad or other production software because those are used by adults that can hire lawyers. Imagine you tell an arquitect that AutoDesk (the company that makes AutoCad) will have "royalty free perpetual worldwide right and license" to his/her building designs. Five minutes later AutoDesk is burning down at the hands of lawyers with torches. Children, on the other hand, don't understand what they're accepting, which is where "predatory practices" comes in. TBH I don't know how publishers can still get away with that. My guess is most parents also don't understand so they sit tight and get screwed instead of doing something to better protect the children against this kind of practice.
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#29
mechtech
DarbyOGillThere's no way I'm going to start paying €79.99 for games.

Sorry Doom The Dark Ages... see you on a future STEAM sale.
Think I paid about $80CAD for this when it came out.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI
But you did get a box a manual with artwork and a cartridge though.
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