New week, same old terror of that cyclopean glutton known as the Maw emerging from its cosmic bolthole and swallowing the entirety of Devon. As ever, we have a way of thwarting the Maw’s advance, and it’s… pasta sauce? Graham, why is their pasta sauce in the Trello? Have Ziff Davis subfranchised us to Dolmio? Oh, I’m sorry! That’s just my shopping list. What I meant to say was: new video games! Video games (PC games, specifically) are the only thing that can preoccupy the Maw, the only thing newsworthy enough to distract it from the tempting clifftop maisonettes of Torquay. Let’s see what the week has in store for us, eh.
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I write this week’s list of new PC games in a spirit of terror, for a strange man is at my window with a ladder. Has Santa Claus come early? Have Sony’s goons found me at last, after swearing vengeance for that 8/10 I handed God Of War 3 as a cub reporter? Does the motion detector on the light over the apartment block door need fixing? There is no time to enquire and certainly no time to flee, for there are video games we must discuss.
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There are times when I think each week’s most intriguing new PC releases are being organised behind the scenes by a fiendishly plotting, Left 4 Dead-style “AI Director”. Mostly, the games approach in small groups distributed evenly among the weekdays – a steady assault. But every now and then, they treacherously mass and pounce on one particular day. This week, it’s the latter.
