What good are consoles, PCs and handheld gaming devices if you don’t have any games to play? Just in time for the holiday and the New Year is our annual list of fun games for you to play while you’re sitting by the fire place sipping a spiked hot cocoa.
This year we were blessed with Modern Warfare II (MWII) the sequel to MW1 (2019), a huge fan-favorite game in the COD series. Not to disappoint, MWII is filled to the brim with new and cinematic gameplay in so many various play modes, that we cannot fit into this guide. For the breakdown of what IS Modern Warfare II check out the official blog here.
DO NOT take the Campaign mode for granted as it is an exciting leg of this enthralling game and picks up the 2019 storyline with an opening drone strike that takes out Al Qatal’s leader. Sadly this mission does not end the imminent threat as it is soon discovered that the terrorist group are working with a global enemy distributing US made missiles. With the return of Captain Price, Kate Laswell, Ghost, Soap Gaz and newcomer Alejandro Vargas, playing through the Campaign will be an exciting box office experience!
But let’s be serious here, everyone is in this for the MULTIPLAYER gaming and MWII does not disappoint. For multiplayer fans, MWII blesses gamers with a plethora of new maps that are immensely fun to learn with a solid arsenal of weapons to run and gun with. On a side note, gone from MWII is “hardcore” mode, which is replaced with “Tier 1” a more realistic version of what hardcore used to be.
Warzone 2.0 delivers a massive free-to-play crossplay Battle Royale experience along with the new DMZ mode which is the newest COD extraction game that kind of resembles Warzone’s Plunder mode but instead of only battling against other various teams of 3, you are now tasked with shooting it out with them AND multiple armies of VERY COMPETENT AI bot killers that do not play around when it comes to ending your life and your mission. Also returning is the Special Ops mode from MW1 but with “a little bit of spice” bringing a two-player Special Ops experience allowing players to explore large-scale hot zones with a fellow teammate.
If you are a seasoned Call of Duty gamer-veteran then MWII is definitely one that you need to buy.
Activision Blizzard has released Diablo Immortal bringing a rich and fulfilling gaming experience to any Android and iOS phone (also on PC). Immortal begins with an untold chapter in the Diablo saga where Archangel Tyrael is presumed dead and mankind is left to fend for itself. It is your quest to fight off Diablo’s minion armies who wish to steal the fragments of the Worldstone so they may open the gates for the Lord of Terror to return to the world of men.
Immortal is packed with so many features like the ability to choose to play as a Barbarian, Crusader, Demon Hunter, Monk, Necromancer or Wizard. Customization gives players a chance to make their character, their own. Game play is fun and responsive with touch screen controls where you battle strange creatures, ancient malevolent apparitions and everything else that goes bump in the night. With six different scenes like Haunted Carriage, Countess, Fahir, Baal and Glacial Colossus, Immortal promises to keep you invested for many hours!
Diablo Immortal is free to play and available on Android, iOS and PC.
Overwatch has returned with the 2nd release to an explosively huge franchise game that birthed worldwide gaming tournaments. As a fan of OW1, I have been over the moon with the new gameplay and character drops. D.VA continues to be my favorite but with so many new characters, not going to lie, it’s hard to stay true to my South Korean killer.
Free to play, Overwatch 2 is a 5v5 multiplayer gamer with a whole treasure chest filled with returning and new heroes, character skins, abilities and weapons for everyone to customize and make their own. Crossplay is made available with friends that you’ve added to your Battle.net account.
Like its older version, Overwatch 2 returns with the same objective modes but with a ton of new worlds and maps to battle within. Being free to play, there is no reason why you shouldn’t join in on the fun.
Overwatch 2 is free to play and available on PS5, Xbox X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC.
DNF Duel is a spin off of the Dungeon and Fighter (2005) series and is an action fighting game in full extreme mode. Jump right into the action in the beat em up world of Arad with your pick of your favorite character from the Dungeon and Fighter series.
Rebirthed into a 2.5D fighting game that follows in the footsteps of its RPG ancestor, players will be able to choose from 15 characters with 1 additional unlockable through in-game progression. With the season pass you will also have access to 5 additional DLC fighters.
Like the classic video game Dig Dug, Ground Divers! is an excavation action puzzle game where players guide a robot-tool named Tsuruhashi in search of rare matter. Sadly Tsuruhashi has the hardest time staying awake in order to fight off enemies that are also lurking in the depths below.
Players are tasked with guiding Tsuruhashi into the depths below to find and collect “Rare Matter”. While on your excavation you will be attacked by various enemies which require you to protect and defend yourself. As you excavate you will also need to build and modify pit relay stations so you must pick the best spots to create these stations. Gathering CHEER energy will continue to power up Tsuruhashi on your quest as well as unleash its special attack against enemies, so make sure to gather as much CHEER as you can.
Ground Divers! is only available on Nintendo Switch.
Guilty Gear – Strive – (GGS) is the latest release in the Guilty Gear fighting series. With intense and cutting-edge 2D/3D hybrid graphics, GGS brings the action with some amazing apocalyptic heavy metal action that is breathtaking and exhilarating.
The fate of the universe will be determined…
Head into the final confrontation with That Man, the person responsible for all the destruction and damage to the world and and it’s inhabitants. Join Sol Badguy, his rival Ky Kiske, and a total starting roster of 15 unique characters as they face the astonishing conclusion to a story 20 years in the making!
Guilty Gear – Strive – is available on PS5, PS4 and on PC.
River City Saga: Three Kingdoms is very loosely based on the Three Kingdoms era in China around 220-280 AD, using characters from the River City game franchise. Kunio-Kun plays the role of Guan Yu, a Chinese military general who teams up with fellow general Zhang Fei and legendary warlord Liu Bei, both portrayed by Tex and Ivan, also from River City.
Three Kingdoms is a rock’em sock’em up RPG that takes you on a many stage quest to battle armies of enemies with the hopes of standing up for the oppressed against warlords and battle hungry nations. In this light hearted game, you will battle through six chapters with your triple threat team of three, known as the Brothers of the Peach Garden as you strive to make a positive difference in what was historically one of the most bloodiest times in Chinese history.
River City Saga: Three Kingdoms is available on PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Way back in 2006, sprouting from the anime .hack//Roots, an exclusive to Playstation 2 game was released, .hack//G.U. Vol. 1//Rebirth, which follows protagonist Haseo as he plays “The World” a “massive multiplayer online role playing game” (MMORPG) where everyone in the real world battle virtual monsters. Since its release 16 years ago, .hack//G.U. has also dropped Vol. 2//Reminisce, Vol. 3//Redemption and Vol. 4//Reconnection. Finally fans can relive this fan favorite series with a high-definition remastered collection entitled “.hack//G.U. Last Recode” for Nintendo Switch only.
In Vol. 1//Rebirth, Haseo meets and befriends Shino who is killed in the game by Tri-Edge, but tragically is put into a coma in real life as a result. In an undying quest to avenge Shino, Haseo must now hunt down and destroy the murderous and evil Player Killer Tri-Edge.
.hack//G.U. Last Recode is only available for Nintendo Switch.
Last year we featured The Dark Pictures Anthology with House of Ashes, in our 2021 Holiday Game Guide (check it out here). It was one of my favorite graphic novel adventure games that allowed you to choose your own adventure and become part of the game. And yes, it was SCARY AF!
This year The Devil In Me has dropped as the season finale (last out of 4 episodes) and fans of these on-going stand-alone tales of horror will be brutally entertained! Players (single and offline 5 player “pass-the-controls”) join in the story as documentary film makers that are invited to stay at a replica “Murder Castle,” which immediately fills you with ominous tidings of what’s to come. With ridiculously rich graphics and excellent audio shaping, Devil In Me is visually and audibly alarming but in the best of ways. We HIGHLY recommend isolating gaming headsets that you can find in our holiday gear guide (here and here).
Work with teammates or play solo as you explore the Murder Castle, solving puzzles, collecting valuable intel and artifacts and escaping death from its many evil entities. Do your best to survive and check out safely before it’s too late. If you’re like me and LOVE horror movies, stories and games, then you’re in for the best scare with the Devil In Me.
The Devil In Me is available on PS5/PS4 and Xbox X/S, One and PC
Announced in 2018 and just released this year, Digimon Survive is an anime graphic novel that also integrates a tactical “role playing game” (RPG) where players have a world of exploration and battle with various monsters.
As a choose-your-own-adventure style game, your journey will introduce you to so many friends and enemies to interact with that help with valuable information, gifts and karma. Digimon will be abundant along the way to capture, cultivate and add to your growing collection. Also in your adventure, you will come across monsters that will require your battle ready skills to defeat using your collected Digimon. With its rich engaging storyline and turn based gameplay, Digimon Survive is definitely one to check out.
Digimon Survive is available on PS4, Xbox X/S & One, PC and Nintendo Switch.
Doraemon fans will be thrilled to see a new sequel in the Story of Seasons series with Friends of the Great Kingdom (DSOSFGK).
The deluxe edition of Isles last years introduced us to the first part of “Meli,” the ambient edition if you will. And halfway through this year, we were treated with the astonishingly good counterpart to the original. Something so beautiful and ethereal that belongs in a museum of sound, if there ever was one.
Bicep explained the creation and the evolution of “Meli” as follows: “Meli (I)” was a beatless track on ‘Isles Deluxe’,” they explain. “Truth be told we just couldn’t get a drum version right in the studio throughout the pandemic, there were many failed demo versions whilst we were working on ‘Isles’, it just never felt like it worked. We always knew there was room for this version though, hence naming the original “Meli (I)”. “Meli (II)” was formed slowly on the road. Each week we changed the drums a bit, the structure and generally allowed the crowd to inform the process. It was great to grow the track in this way, it felt like a very organic way of working.”
The melodic variety of Meli (II) may not follow the typical structure of today’s hard-hitting techno, but in the traditional sense, it’s 100 percent techno. In fact, the best of 2022.
In addition to his collaboration with Alan Fitzpatrick placed in the second spot for 2022, Rebūke‘s only Drumcode release this year sits right behind it. The track itself, “Dystopia” is probably his best solo-work yet and it features an alarm-like melody which ebbs and flows with enough squelching and distortion to keep your aural senses satisfied beyond belief.
“Pearls” by Scottish producer, obviouslydan was a Radio 1 staple on Fridays evenings this past Summer and reasonably so. It’s an undeniably effervescent tune and probably the happiest one you’ll find in this chart. Remember, techno can be happy too.
After appearing on an Afterlife E.P. as a remixer in 2021, Chris Avantgarde returned to the label with this collaboration for the ages with Anyma, more notably known as Matteo from Tale Of Us.
Mathew Jonson’s 2004 masterpiece, “Marionette” received three worthy updates this year including this jaw-dropping revision by none other than Stephan Bodzin!
Amelie Lens dropped this sledgehammer just a couple of weeks before the beginning of her hotly-anticipated residency at DC-10 this past Summer and it was certainly a highlight of the 2022 techno calendar.
Jam & Spoon originally penned “Storm” as Storm back in ’98 and with techno staring down ’90s trance as inspiration these days, it only makes sense that one of today’s techno stars gave it the proper update it deserved.
Estella Boersma‘s return to Dance Trax this year was explosive to say the least. All four tracks hammer away with exploding breaks that fill in the gaps including the E.P.’s prolific opener, “The Measure.”
Not only was this peak-time, heavyweight collaboration between Bart Skils & Weska at the top of our techno chart in February, it certainly was a highlight of 2022 altogether.
Patrik Berg‘s “Pushing On” was another #1 this year that also deserves a spotlight as one of the best of 2022. The Oliver $ / Jimi Jules vocal sample is quite the hook and and the syncopated groove is just undeniably infectious!
With his HI-LO alias, Oliver Heldens led the charge on an all-star remix package that also included both ANNA & Lily Palmer. Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of techno this past year thanks to not only the meaningful, spoken word message but but because of a gritty bass-line that was like nothing else in 2022.
On the third issue of their, Mutual Rytm imprint, SHDW & Obscure Shape offered up six selections all worthy of some considerable attention. The first three are a bit more straight forward and the last three are carried along with a lot more melody. “Before Sunset” is the closing tune of said E.P. and it’s featured right here as one of techno’s best of the year.
DSOSFGK is a light hearted fun filled farming simulation role playing game where you play as Nobita and take care of various farming activities like plowing fields, picking the fruits of your labor, caring for animals and so much more.
Doraemon Story of Seasons: Friends of the Great Kingdom is available on PS5, Switch and PC.
DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS is an asymmetric online action game where a team of 7 players, starting out in different situations, try to survive and escape from classic Dragon Ball rivals like Cell, Frieza or Buu who evolve after capturing survivors, making escape and victory challenging tasks. You can choose to escape as a team or try and go about it solo, keeping in mind that the chasing Raider can destroy areas to hide in, making your safe spaces, few and far between.
Or maybe you want to be the Raider with godly powers and the easy job of capturing all the survivors. As a Raider you can master their individual powers on top of evolving into a much more powerful being.
If you’re a Dragon Ball fan then you definitely want to check this out, available only on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch.
Gundam Evolution is a free-to-play team based first person shooter, online multiplayer game featuring 6v6 pairings where both squads battle each other in multiple game modes.
For the third release on her imprint, N:S:DA, Anfisa Letyago invited some of the best in the game to remix the tunes that kicked off her label in 2021. Most notably, Chris Liebing who put his own spin on “Not There” and sent it into the next dimension. Here’s what he had to say about it: “Remixing ‘Not There’ was a huge pleasure, and the production process was very organic. I tried to take it in a little less melodic direction by just hinting [at] it in the break.”
Rounding out the best of 2022 is the Stef Mendesidis remix of Ø [Phase]’s 2021 tune, “Human Error.” Though already brilliant on its own, Stef’s remix this year gave it a new pair of wings with an accelerated BPM of 142!
Pilots will be able to play in various mobile suits across the Gundam multiverse. Kind of like a Call of Duty but with flying mech suits, Gundam Evolution offers three objective based games.
Point Capture tasks one team with capturing a point on the map, while the other fights like hell to stop them. Domination is set up with three points to capture all over a map with the objective of holding the most time on captured points to obtain victory. Destruction mode is set up where a team has to try and activate or stop a weapon of mass destruction that the other team is attacking with.
Good news! Season 2 Mobius has just dropped and they released MY FAVORITE mobile suit Barbatos!!!
SD Gundam Battle Alliance is an action RPG that takes you into the fight with shrunken down deformed Gundam mobile suits tasked with battling other deformed enemies with the goal of resetting things to their normal state.
SDGBA’s story begins in the G: Universe, a world where Gundam canon twists and turns in ways no one can predict causing the world to become super deformed and mini-sized. Your mission is to lead a 3 mobile suit squad from the Gundam multiverse to battle through and fix G: Universe’s distorted history and present state.
I couldn’t help but immediately love the fact it feels like you’re playing a video game with mini Gundam Gunpla toys. If you’re a Gundam fan this is a breath of fun-air.
SD Gundam Battle Alliance is available on PS5 & PS4, Xbox X/S & One, Switch and PC.
Hirohiko Araki’s manga masterpiece was released back in 2014 as an all star fighting game exclusively on Playstation 3. Manga fans without PS3s were left wanting for years, until now. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle R (Jojo’s R) is a reborn, remastered version now available on all platforms. With the new remaster comes new added content and the addition of “R” in the title. Fans will be able to battle in this 3D fighting game using their favorite characters taken from Araki’s first eight story arcs.
Changing things up from the original release Jojo’s R no longer has the original three game modes (Story, Campaign & Versus), instead the remaster replaces Story and Campaign with All-Star Battle mode, which offers 100 battles, featuring the manga and original “what-if” battles that players can play through and unlock costumes and background music. Versus mode returns but is now 3v3 team battles with a tournament function.
Get your manga fight fest on with this remastered classic. Jojo’s R is available on PS5 & PS4, Xbox X/S & One, Switch and PC.
To celebrate Klonoa’s 25th Anniversary, Bandai Namco have released Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series which revives the original “Klonoa: Door to Phantomile” and “Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil” games. Remastered in high-definition and coupled together as one release, fans will be able to relive their favorite Klonoa adventures in 60fps and 4K on certain platforms.
Klonoa is a side-scrolling game filled with 3D graphics set on a two-dimensional vibrant world. Explore various maps and worlds as you fight and defeat your onslaught of enemies as you strive to save Phantomile.
Pac-Man’s world is turned upside down after the Pac family come together to celebrate his birthday, only to be kidnapped by the evil ghosts and taken to Ghost Island.
Pac-Man must now explore and get through six mysterious ghost worlds in order to free his family. This game is filled with so many twists and turns that literally blow the original Pac-Man into a different world of gameplay.
Pac-Man World Re-Pac is available on PS5 & PS4, Xbox X/S & One, Switch and PC.
Welcome to Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival, taking place in Omiko City. Your job is to become a Taiko (Japanese drum) Master. Be prepared to drum to the beat of your heart and faster with new found friend DON-chan as you begin an amazing music filled competitive quest to become a drumming master.
Taiko no Tatsujin can be played with solo or with up to four players in DON-chan’s Band or you can battle it out with your opponents in Great Drum Toy War mode. Filled with adorable kawaii style characters and graphics along with 76 songs in game and hundreds more online, the gameplay will be filled with visual and audio enjoyment for hours on end. Paid in-game subscriptions will grant you access to over 500 additional songs.
Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Festival is only available on Nintendo Switch.
Ever wanted to raise your own Ultra Kaiju monster? Now you can with Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher! Once you’ve discovered your Kaiju, then comes the tough part of raising that monster to be the Ultra Kaiju that it was meant to be.
Training and raising your Kaiju will be made possible by multiple modes like “Errantry” with rival Kaiju, exploring uncharted lands in “Adventure” mode, a variety of “Drills” to develop your Kaiju’s skills, “Tournaments” where you spar and battle your partner Kaiju and then combining two Kaiju to create your Ultra Kaiju!
Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher is only available on Nintendo Switch.
Ghostwire: Tokyo is a visually stunning action adventure game from Shinji Mikami and Tango Gameworks. Set in the never sleeping metropolis of Tokyo, players must defeat various supernatural and paranormal threats. After a massive paranormal event causes the disappearance of almost every single resident of Tokyo, it also opens the doors to malevolent spirits from Japanese folklore aka yōkai, allowing them to roam freely throughout the now empty streets of what once was a bustling city.
As one of the only existing humans, you must cultivate and wield newly found powers to fight the supernatural onslaught throughout your travels in Tokyo. You will encounter evil spirits who wish to prey on your soul along with lost souls filled with regret of never living a fuller richer life and youthful spirits with mischievous intentions. If you’re interested in spine tingling encounters with poltergeists and angry spirits then grab your PS5 DUALSENSE controller, pop on your surround sound headset and prepare to be scared.
In Deathverse: Let it Die, Earth as we know it experiences a global seismic disaster, known as the “Earth’s Rage,” destroying what was built and sending the planet into destruction and despair. Several hundred years later life prevails and what was destroyed has been, sort of rebuilt. Gone are the pleasantries of old, being replaced with a heavy dark cloud of the apocalypse now being the standard norm.
From the ashes of the end-of-times event arises the reality show, Death Jamboree, where players battle other players and all of the mutated creatures and plants that live on the uninhabited island where the games take place. Don’t fret though, you will be accompanied by your very own special robot that will aid you in your battles. This is a bloody gore-fest Battle Royale where the meek die fast and the violently inhumane prevail as victors.
If Mad Max Beyond: Thunderdome were to marry Steampunk genres and jump into a throuple with a land-locked BioShock while being filmed by MTV’s Real World, it would birth Deathverse: Let it Die.
Deathverse: Let It Die is available on PS5, PS4 and PC.
Football Manager 2023 drops for fans of the series and football fans that are so entrenched with the sport that they crave much more than the actual on pitch games and wish to dive deeper into the off pitch happenings of what it takes to manage a professional football team.
Ever dreamt about managing or owning your own football team? Do you find yourself crunching game stats, player statistics and more? To quench those thirsts is the newest release of a unique “management SIM” game from SEGA where you are in control with monitoring every detail that goes into a pro football team’s daily routines from recruiting hot prospects, team training intervals to individual player’s strengths and weaknesses.
Since its creation back in 2005, Football Manager has been releasing this statistical bombshell game every year with 2023 being the latest release. To further satisfy any cravings you may have to keep your teams in a row, Football Manager 2023 is available on all platforms so you can be connected at all times.
Football Manager 23 is available on Xbox X/S & One, Switch, PC, Android and iOS. PS5 and PS4 versions TBA.
Total War: Warhammer fans are in for a treat with the final conclusion to this fan favorite series. Total War: Warhammer III (TWWIII) features a captivating narrative that takes players to the Realm of Chaos and back. With multiple gameplay options ensuring that no campaigns are identical, TWWIII is a strategist’s wet dream.
Dominate TWWIII in multiplayer campaigns with up to eight players and choose your alliances to simultaneously engage in battle skirmishes while choosing from three different campaign scenarios that span a range of geographical and play-time scopes. Players can join battles initiated by other players as part of their armies as well as granting controls of any units to teammates or other players that create an alliance with you. With so many new game modes, locations, methods of war, playable factions, character customizations and 10 Legendary Lords, TWWIII will demand many hours of beloved game time.
With Two Point Campus you are in charge! It’s time to build the college campus of your dreams and make it complete by filling it with staff and students. As a management SIM based game, after building comes the management and continued cultivating of your university masterpiece.
Keep in mind that you must stay on top of your created SIM reality with you must also keep your student’s best interests in mind. Create spaces where they will study hard and play harder. The on boarding experience is excellent in teaching new players how to build and run your own college like how to hire staff, how to keep students happy and how to create weekly events to continue student culture growth.
It doesn’t stop there, once built you will need to pay attention to your aesthetics, always updating and continuing to grow as a campus along with its student body. With Two Point Campus and additional released DLCs and season drops, the fun is never-ending if you’re all about the SIM gaming life.
Two Point Campus is available on PS5 & PS4, Xbox X/S & One, Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac.
Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII – Reunion is a remastered reboot of the original CCFFVII story featuring a complete high definition graphics overhaul, remastered audio and soundtrack, redesigned and reimagined UI as well as an updated combat system.
Get ready to clap your hands and shake your booty to wurzelholz‘s “Get Busy”! This track gets funky really quickly and has a nice retro disco/funk feel without sounding dated. The song is spiced up with clever string sounds, synths, and something that sounds saxy, but is altered to create something entirely new. Find this one on Duchesse Music.
The story begins seven years before the events of FINAL FANTASY VII and follows Zack Fair, a young and ambitious Shinra SOLDIER operative. Zack is tasked with tracking down a missing SOLDIER 1st Class operative named Genesis Rhapsodos. But as his adventure unfolds, he discovers the dark secrets of Shinra’s experiments and the monsters they create. The game features a number of characters from the FINAL FANTASY VII franchise such as Cloud, Sephiroth, Aerith and others.
“Everything that lives is designed to end…” Nier:Automata is an apocalyptic saga where the human race has escaped the Earth and taken shelter on the moon for safety from alien hordes that have taken over the planet.
In a last ditch effort to try and take back their home, the humans create androids and send them back to Earth to eradicate the aliens to gain victory for humanity and to reclaim their planet. You are S2B the most advanced android from the YoRHa Division and you are tasked with liberating the planet from its captors. This action RPG is pretty amazing with game play that is fast paced as you toggle through weapons designed to destroy your enemy. Additionally there is an aerial battle experience that is pretty epic. Do you have what it takes to save our planet?
NieR:Automata – The End of YoRHa Edition is only available for Nintendo Switch.
Heralded as being one of the best in the series, Star Ocean: The Divine Force is now available for fans and newcomers. With many references from past games, this Japanese action sci-fi fantasy RPG opens with Raymond Lawrence crashing onto a planet with a mission to find his companions amidst a new and expansive world.
Along the way he meets up with Princess Laeticia Aucerius and they team up both with their own missions to resolve various conflicts on the planet that they’ve landed on. Players can choose to play as Princess Laeticia or as Raymond with different storylines and experiences so playing as both might be what you need if you’re a completionist.
Star Ocean: The Divine Force is available on PS5 & PS4, Xbox X/S & One, Switch and PC.
The DioField Chronicle is a “Real Time Tactical Battle” (RTTB) game that is a turn based role playing game set in the medieval era where you are a member of a team of mercenaries called the Blue Foxes. Employed by the dying king of Alletain, who’s only heir was murdered, you and your team work towards defending the island of DioField from enemies invading and trying to conquer its lands for its abundance of Jade, an element vital in modern magic.
With many different enemies, the Blue Foxes are tasked with fighting human enemies, assassins and various monsters and dragons. In game, your team can level up weapons and other supplies by gaining money and other items. With detailed depictions of environments on the island of DioField, coupled with unique “diorama” style visuals, you can command your forces like a general.
The DioField Chronicle is available on PS5 & PS4, Xbox X/S & One, Switch and PC.
As Nora Valkyrie you are stuck between a weakened Odin and an army of the undead bringing the end of the world, Nora with the help of allies made along her way takes on the mission to purify the these armies to allow Odin to regain control.
Valkyrie Elysium incorporates fantastic moves with elemental attacks in worlds and scenes that are quite breathtaking. With hack and slash gameplay similar to Xenoblade and Fire Emblem Warriors, Valkyrie Elysium is a solid action RPG that rewards players with satisfying slashing kills.
Back for more blood, the zombie favorite has released expansion 3, River of Blood in the continuing saga of zombie eradication. With it’s thrilling cooperative first-person shooter action, your heartbeat races as you get through each chapter of this expansion. Players will continue the ongoing war against the Ridden, humans infected with deadly parasites causing them to morph into various tiers of horrific monsters that continue to ravage all of what’s left of humanity.
With the end of human life as we know it, you and your squad must do their very best to fight the bloody good fight against the never-ending onslaught of the blood gushing Ridden.
Be on the look out for our upcoming review on this newest expansion.
Take a dip into what the future of gaming is traveling towards with Cosmonious High, a charming, lighthearted and fun virtual reality glimpse of what it’s like to be an alien in high school. Its your first day at Cosmonius High and already you’re tasked with exploring your new halls of alien academia. With powers to unlock you must try and discover various malfunctions ailing your school and keep it from barreling into full blown chaos and impending doom.
As a VR game you will literally be first-person in the actions and activities that await every corner you explore. Interaction with dynamic classmates and characters is crucial to fitting in. While jacked into Cosmonious High, the school is your oyster waiting to be cracked open!
With total interactive playgrounds unlocked, you can choose to complete experiment assignments in Chemosophy, hang with your newly made friends in the Grand Hall, expand your astrological mind with Astralgebra or unleash your creative artistic side in Visualetics. Completing various assignments get you closer to your goals. Remember, you must keep the Doom Father happy!
Cosmonious High is a virtual reality game and is available to META Quest 2 and Steam VR headset gaming systems.
And there you have it. A comprehensive guide of many of the newest releases from 2022, which will definitely keep you busy this holiday through the New Year.
From our house here at Magnetic Magazine we wish you a Happy Holiday filled with love and laughter and also a most amazing New Year in 2023.
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