Enforcer: Police Crime Action is a full-blooded police simulator. Yet it’s hilarious
Enforcer: Police Crime Action puts you behind the badge of a Mountain Valley Police Officer. It’s your duty to keep the peace, be that by setting up roadblocks to check for drunk drivers, ticketing illegally parked cars, or hunting down escaped murderers in the woods.
Too few games let you play as the police and, when they do, it’s often as an undercover cop so you end up committing crimes anyway. Enforcer’s not like that. It’s an authentic police simulator and it allows for a lot more fun than you’d expect.
I just wasn’t expecting people to fly into the air when I tased them.
Expect the Inquisition: Dragon Age Keep open beta begins
Dragon Age Keep has entered open beta letting you prepare for the release of Dragon Age: Inquisition. Keep lets you import your save files and make edits to the decisions you made in previous games. These can then be exported to Inquisition where the world will be changed to account for those decisions.
The Long Dark update doubles world size with new Coastal Highway
The Long Dark just added a long road which made the game twice as large (and twice as long). The new Coastal Highway area’s not the only thing to come in the v.152 update, there’s also been changes to starvation, wolves will hunt you more the closer you are to death, and there are now rabbits.
Cute little rabbits you can devour.
Shadow of Mordor DLC Lord of the Hunt detailed. Lead a ghul horde
Shadow of Mordor’s set to get its first major piece of DLC and it’s focused on the open world’s beasts. Lord of the Hunt adds mounted uruk captains to the fray as well as two new beasts to be ridden - the stealthy caragath and a new kind of graug which can vomit toxin on its enemies.
It also marks the return of Torvin the dwarf in a set of new story missions.
The Swindle is Spelunky meets Deus Ex, a stealth roguelike in a steampunk top hat
Having deannounced it a while back, Size Five Games have just reannounced The Swindle. It's a sort of side-scrolling Deus Ex in which you break into heavily guarded buildings, hack money out of computers, swipe bags of cash from vaults and then run away.
The old Swindle didn't really work, admits developer Dan Marshall, but this Swindle does. It's been overhauled, refurbished, gutted and rebuilt into something that's infinitely more compelling and fun to play: a smart, steampunk roguelike, a stealth RPG with permadeath and procedurally generated levels and scoops of Victorian charm and character.
I've been playing it and, well, it's remarkable. It's Spelunky in a top hat.
Assassin’s Creed Unity trailer transports our French Revolution assassin to WW2
Well, this came out of nowhere. Assassin’s Creed Unity isn’t just set during the French Revolution, you also fight Germans during the Nazi occupation of Paris.
The trailer has you shooting down planes, climbing the Eiffel Tower, and dodging speeding trains.
Alone in the Dark: Illumination and Haunted House: Cryptic Graves appear on Steam in time for Halloween
We haven’t heard all that much about Atari’s Alone in the Dark and Haunted House reboots, both due out in Holiday 2014, as the Americans say. This doesn’t mean you can’t throw caution to the wind and pre-order both of them now, but caution is good, so maybe you shouldn’t.
Both games have appeared on Steam, and Haunted House has a new trailer that you can slap your eyes on below.
Techland's brought in a special kind of expert to help with Dying Light
Techland are probably pretty familiar with zombies by now, but for Dying Light, the studio decided that there was still a lot to learn, and did the only thing a sane video game developer could do: they hired Steve, a zombie. Or should that be a Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferer?
The best of the Steam Halloween Sale
If you’ve nearly emptied your bank account to pay for the materials required to make your completely authentic xenomorph costume for Halloween, but still fancy grabbing some appropriately themed games, then not to worry - Valve has you covered.
And by has you covered, I mean that Valve wants to bleed that bank account dry with the Steam Halloween Sale. Lock up that wallet.
With 21 pages of discounted sales, I’m not going to be listing them all, but I've found a few choice spooky games to keep you feeling uneasy this Halloween. And they’re dead cheap.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's live action trailer is leaking testosterone all over the carpet
Call of Duty live trailers sure are big, loud and expensive. Advanced Warfare isn’t bucking the trend, with its brotacular, first-person perspective advert. Live action is a bit of a misnomer, though as it’s so filled with CGI that it’s about as live action as the game itself.
It’s a race through Advanced Warfare’s vision of 20159 Lagos, with your best bro, that dude who was, I think, in that awful Battleship movie. The lassie from the fairly creepy Blurred Lines music video is also in it because... no, I honestly don’t know. Watch it for yourself, below.
Hone your testicle shooting skills in Sniper Elite 3's free Shooting Range update
If you’ve not picked up your sniper rifle and caused a few heads to explode in Sniper Elite 3 in a while, you might want to take it for another spin. Rebellion’s chucked in nine free content updates since launch, adding a new multiplayer mode, new missions and a bunch of multiplayer maps.
The ninth one arrived today: the Shooting Range. As the name suggests, you’ll find yourself facing a bunch of shooting range challenges across three ranges, with over 30 weapons, including ones from DLC.
Survival management game This War of Mine gets a November release date and a gloomy trailer
I don’t expect to have much fun in This War of Mine. War’s not really a great source of fun, especially not for civilians caught in the middle of one, and these are the protagonists and, sometimes, antagonists of 11 Bit Studios’ grim survival management game. Not fun, then, but potentially very compelling.
It’s due out in only two weeks, on November 14th.
Far Cry 4's PvP will let you duke it out using armoured vehicles, magic animals and teleportation
Along with single-player and co-op shenanigans, Far Cry 4 also bring PvP back to the series after a good long while. Fancy villain Pagan Min’s magical Rakshasha face off against the rebellious Golden Path faction in fights that rage across three modes and 10 maps. And it doesn’t look half bad.
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