New Games Coming Out This Week: April 17, 2023

Let’s have a look at a selection of new games coming out this week!

 

Disney Speedstorm (Early Access)

Release Date: April 18
Developer: Gameloft
Publisher: Gameloft
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Disney Speedstorm is a hero-based racing game featuring characters from Disney and Pixar worlds, such as Mulan, Mickey Mouse, Sulley, and Captain Jack Sparrow. The game offers a thrilling arcade racing experience where players must master each character’s unique skills and upgrade their stats to claim victory. The game includes single-player and multiplayer modes, and players can customize their favorite racers’ suits, karts, and wheels to their own style.

God of Rock

Release Date: April 18
Developer: Modus Studios
Publisher: Modus Games
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

God of Rock blends rhythm-based gameplay with fighting game mechanics in tense 1v1 matches. Choose from a dozen unique fighters, each with their own design, mechanics, and harmonic attacks. Soften up your opponent by executing normal moves and building meter by hitting notes to the beat of the song, then spend your meter to unleash EX and special moves do damage and add complexity to their tracks. Finally, finish them off with a devastating Super attack! As the battle progresses, the music track will continue to grow in complexity and difficulty until only one fighter is left standing!

 

Minecraft Legends

Release Date: April 18
Developer: Blackbird Interactive, Mojang Studios
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Learn the story of Minecraft Legends and explore its new, yet familiar world, while experiencing the Minecraft Universe in an exciting new way in this new action strategy game.

 

The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story

Release Date: April 18
Developer: Digital Sun Games
Publisher: Riot Forge
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Developed by Digital Sun, creators of Moonlighter, The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story is an action RPG that takes place in the League of Legends universe. In the kingdom of Demacia, the Mageseekers hold the power to oppress magic-using citizens in the name of public order–by inducting and indoctrinating them, locking them away, or driving them into hiding.

Play as Sylas, a spell-stealing mage who has just broken free of his unjust captivity at the Mageseekers’ hands. Wielding the chains that once bound you, you must liberate your homeland from tyranny, one Mageseeker at a time.

 

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection

Release Date: April 19
Developer: Tose
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch (already available on iOS and PC)

The Final Fantasy: Pixel Remaster Collection comprises of FINAL FANTASY I through FINAL FANTASY VI.

 

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

Release Date: April 19
Developer: Guerrilla Games
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platform: PlayStation 5

Travel beyond the Forbidden West as Aloy’s story continues. Encounter new machines and a compelling new story.

South of the Tenakth Clan Lands, millennia of volcanic eruptions and violent seismic activity have carved the ruins of Los Angeles into a treacherous archipelago. Experience the next chapter of Horizon Forbidden West as Aloy pursues a sinister new threat to the planet, hidden among these dangerous, untamed wilds.

 

Havendock (Early Access)

Release Date: April 20
Developer: YYZ
Publisher: Different Tales
Platform: PC

A simulation game where you build a town in the middle of the sea. Reach self-sufficiency, invite travelers to join you, then manage their needs and research new facilities to keep them happy. Build a submarine and discover islands to produce increasingly complex resources.

 

Stray Blade

Release Date: April 20
Developer: Point Blank Games
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S

You discovered the Lost Valley of Acrea. Forgotten for millenia except in the ancient legends of the world’s greatest dynasties, it was overgrown and savage but unmistakably powerful, and you found it. Then you died.

Now, mysteriously revived by a curious creature, you find the land besieged with forces, each claiming its colossal ruined temples for their empires, and warring for dominion over the seat of elemental power, hidden at the crater’s wild heart. Prepare to enter the fray in a relentless battle of wits, stealth and combat as you race to fathom the valley’s ancient powers and harness them against its would-be ravagers.

 

Super Meat Boy: Forever (Mobile Release)

Release Date: April 20
Developer: Team Meat
Publisher: Team Meat, Thunderful
Platform: iOS, Android (already available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch)

Meat Boy and Bandage Girl have grown as a couple since 2010. It seems like only yesterday the two love birds were escaping from an exploding laboratory in the sky. Now it’s the current year, and they’ve welcomed their daughter Nugget into the world. Their peaceful days enjoying life as a family came to an abrupt end when Dr. Fetus beat the snot out of them with a rusty shovel, and kidnapped Nugget! Now it’s up to Meat Boy and Bandage Girl to rescue their daughter from a lunatic fetus in a jar that can only be described as an incel version of Tony Stark.

 

Dead Island 2

Release Date: April 21
Developer: Deep Silver Dambuster Studios
Publisher: Deep Silver
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

The much-loved zombie saga is back with a unique formula of horror, dark humor and over the top zombie-slaying, spanning an epic pulp adventure.

Dead Island 2 is thrilling First-Person Action RPG, stylish, vibrant and flooded with zombie infection. Explore iconic, gore-drenched Los Angeles. Meet larger-than-life characters. Slay countless foes in exquisitely bloody detail. And evolve to become the ultimate Zombie Slayer!

 

Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp

Release Date: April 21
Developer: WayForward
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Nintendo Switch

Command an army in strategic, turn-based combat as a tactical adviser for the Orange Star Army. Your expertise is needed as you move land, air, and naval units across the battlefield. Take down enemy squads and capture towns and bases to secure victory and keep the peace. Keep an eye on the game-changing terrain and weather as you lead a variety of units across multiple maps. This remake features two campaigns that cover the events of Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising!

 

Are you picking up any of the new games coming out this week?

 

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