The latest UK charts are here and Call of Duty WWII hasn’t budged. Can it maintain this dominance all the way up to Christmas?
Latest UK Game Charts
The rest of the UK charts see Star Wars: Battlefront II take second place, with FIFA 18 now in third, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon in fourth and fifth respectively, and the remastered L.A. Noire in eighth.
Here’s the full Top 20 list:
The Sims 4 finally released on consoles this month and made a solid entry on the list as well. Clearly you can never have enough of The Sims in your life.
Dead by Daylight’s Special Edition has been released digitally across Asian territories, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
First released in 2016 for PC, the asymmetric survival horror game has since sold more than 3 million copies across all platforms and formats. An impressive figure.
In Dead by Daylight, players take on the role of both killer and survivors in an online and deadly version of hide-and-seek.
The most recent update to the title, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, released last month and featured a certain iconic character called Freddy Krueger. He joined another nice guy called Michael Myers.
Dead by Daylight is out now and available on Steam, PS4 and Xbox One.
The Xbox One X hasn’t done all that well in Japan upon its launch – unsurprisingly. In fact, it may well be the lowest debut for a console in Japan in its history.
It’s Not Xbox-land
So what are the results, or should we say ‘damage?’ Well, the Xbox One X debuted with just 1,344 units sold in Japan. A paltry figure, even more so when compared to other consoles in the same week: 20,021 for the PS4 and 79,958 for the Nintendo Switch.
(Don’t forget those 36 people who bought a Wii U!).
It’s true that anyone could predict a bad launch for an Xbox console in Japan, they just don’t sell well over there. However, the above figure is even worse than most would expect. It’s in complete contrast to UK and US sales.
The question is: should Microsoft continue to release consoles in Japan or save the energy?
Indie developer Oxymoron Games has revealed Project Hospital – yes, I know what you’re thinking… To be fair, the developer isn’t really denying it either, Bullfrog Productions’ Theme Hospital is a clear inspiration:
“Do you remember when building a hospital was the hottest thing on PC? Watching your patients get cured, trying to avoid the inevitable crisis and making your name in the world of medicine.
We believe that the hospital theme deserves a proper fresh take and we’re working hard to make an accessible hospital management game with a lot of depth. Will Project Hospital cure our nostalgia?”
So yeah, Project Hospital allows you to “become an aspiring architect, a successful manager and an ace doctor all at the same time.” Just take a look at this trailer:
While we’re not that sure of the art style ourselves, this looks to be very faithful to Theme Hospital – while hopefully adding a few new tricks in there too. One to watch out for. It’s due next year on PC via Steam.
2D puzzler Fearful Symmetry and The Cursed Prince will be making its way to the Xbox One store, Steam and Windows 10 next month on the 12th December.
Fearful Symmetry: The Light and Dark Side
It’s a puzzle game with a nifty twist: players control two characters at the same time, each in a different dimension; one representing good and the other representing the evil side of things. This concept is not only reflected in the visual style of the game, but also in the gameplay.
You see, the characters each move in the opposite direction through levels filled with lots of nasty traps. It’s up to you to find a safe path in both dimensions and guide the characters safely through each of them.
It looks and sounds potentially infuriating and fun at the same time. Like Dark Souls. Here’s a trailer:
Factotum 90 was released last year for the Wii U, Xbox One and PC but, strangely, was absent from PlayStation systems – until now, that is.
Factotum 90 – Stuck In Deep Space
The indie puzzler has finally landed on the PS4 and PS Vita with added Cross-Buy support. Here’s a trailer to celebrate that exciting fact, complete with a catchy song:
That song really is catchy… Anyway, Factotum 90 sees you stuck in deep space – wait, it gets better – and something has collided with your ship. The main power is offline and, basically, you’re trapped. Ready to die cold and alone. Not good.
Luckily there’s a terminal you can use. With the help of two robots and some smart moves, you’ll need to get the power back online by solving 30 tricky levels that only get harder as you progress – naturally.
Doing so will restore power and reactivate your life support. Sounds like a tempting challenge to me. Puzzle fans, you can find the game on the PS Store, on PS4 and PS Vita, right now.
Created by Hong Kong-based Paperbox Creations, we get to see the one and only Bayek launch himself into battle and kick some arse, quite frankly:
The animation was originally used as a launch trailer for the new game which has received acclaim upon its release, along with some solid sales as well.
Sorry, James, a text-based puzzle game, is one of the more curious releases on Steam this week.
Sorry, James – Weird Conversations?
In Sorry, James your job is to decrypt a conversation between Thomas Beker, a ‘genius’, AI creator, and his girlfriend, Elisa, called ‘generic girl’.
The idea is that you’ll be hacking a love story that is based on conversations with real people – quite a bit of psychological research has been thrown in there too.
The overall task is to decrypt company files – these files contain bizarre conversations. The question the game is asking is: what can be hidden in a conversation such as these? It’s an interesting discussion point in itself.
There are 50 levels to keep you occupied with around 3-6 hours of gameplay.
It’s certainly different. You can check out the trailer, complete with its unsettling music, below:
Chaos Souls is a 2.5D side-scrolling action game and it’s coming to PC via Steam tomorrow. We’ve always got time for this type of romp here at D-pad Joy.
Anyway, you play as Eris, who must fight her way through monsters across several different zones to save her sister from demons. The music, at times, sounds a little like Castlevania…
Trailer – Master Eris’s Powers
In the game, you must master Eris’s powers across 3 zones as you advance deep into the demons’ territory by absorbing the mysterious energy known as, you guessed it, Chaos Souls. No, that’s not Demon Souls.
It’s not long now until Horizon Zero Dawn’s expansion, The Frozen Wilds, comes out to add to the already overflowing quality on display this gaming holiday season. Just where do you begin?
The new trailer shows a selection of creatures that await Aloy as she heads out into the vast and angry cold:
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is out on the 7th November for PS4, including the PS4 Pro for extra shininess – if you’re into all of that. I told you it wasn’t long, didn’t I?
The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 will be arriving exclusively on the PS4 in 2018. But what’s it about exactly, I hear you ask?
You play as the Hundred Knight on their journey through a witch-ravaged world. Young girls are contracting a strange illness and awakening as witches, causing some problems across the region of “Kevala”.
Luckily, on the Hundred Knight’s side are two sisters: Amalie, an agent of an organization who opposes witches; and Chelka, the witch who awakened in Amalie’s younger sister, Milm. Stil with me?
It’s an action RPG where you have to delve through dungeons and landscapes covered with fiends and monsters. It’s also important to chain attacks together with the weapon system that welcomes weapon-change mid-combat.
Japan is well-known for its eccentric commercials and their love for lycra and spandex on their tokusatsu superheroes; and they have taken their idiosyncrasy a step further and fashioned a lycra-donning superhero, whose duty is to quench the citizens’ thirst with Pepsi—Pepsiman! And yes, they made a video game based on this soda superhero.
Like Tony the Tiger from Frosted Flakes, Pepsiman serves as Japan’s official licensed mascot. It’s a shame Pepsiman never reached the other side of the world, or even expanded beyond the Pacific side of Japan because the West is losing out on a worthwhile advertisement.
And there have been countless console games based on licensed advertisements and, almost all of them, do not compare to Pepsiman’s unyielding explosion of unconditional satisfaction. Take, for example, Burger King’s Sneak King, I did not even bother to invest 5 minutes into it before I popped it out of the disc tray; and now, it is probably shoved beneath broken controllers, collecting dust.
Japanese Pepsi commercial hosting Pepsiman.
Just a little backstory between me and Pepsiman: my adventures with this Japanese mascot started when I was still a padawan in video games and my fingers lacked the dexterity I have now. Walking into the living room, I remember my older brother wide-eyed and slightly perspiring, standing in front of the television playing none other than Pepsiman. I kept my eyes glued to Pepsiman and five seconds later, I collapsed on the ground laughing. The amount of absurdity happening in the video game crucified me into a non-stop chain of choking cackles and pig-snorting giggles.
C’mon, whoever is not tickled by the occasional soprano-pitch wailing, “Pepsiman! Pepsiman!” must not have a soul—well, that’s not for me to judge. I digress. Overall, Pepsiman’s cheesy quirks and easy-to-follow mechanics definitely deserves a high-five for a licensed advertisement game.
Almost similar to Sonic the Hedgehog, Pepsiman’s objective is to run from Point A to Point B whilst avoiding obstacles and collecting treasure points, except the obstacles are flying sofas, banana peels, and angry drivers, and instead of rings, Pepsiman gathers Pepsi cans.
Pepsiman passing through the neighbourhood.
All in total, there are 8 stages in the game; totalling a collection of 800 Pepsi cans. For each can Pepsiman collects his health bar increases along with the countdown timer; giving Pepsiman more leverage.
In most stages of the game, the perspective is played behind-the-back of Pepsiman. Take note, Pepsiman does not stop running and he is constantly on the move. Have you ever played Crash Bandicoot: Warped where Coco Bandicoot is riding her pet tiger on the Great Wall of China? Yeah. Pepsiman is very much identical to that.
The ’90s truly loved their platform games and Pepsiman rightfully belongs in that sphere of love.
With that said, if you grew up in the ’90s and missed out on this, it’s never too late to quench that gap with Pepsiman!
