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Top New Game Releases This Week On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC — April 8-14

It’s a great week for traveling between dimensions. Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality is coming to PlayStation VR, while Super Daryl Deluxe opens up portals inside a seemingly normal high school. Meanwhile, you can save the world from giant ogres in Extinction or from a diseased meteor in Dark Rose Valkyrie. If you’d rather build something new, you can do just that with Robocraft Infinity.

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality — April 10

Available on: PS4

The Adult Swim antics of Rick and his grandson Morty seem pretty perfect for a VR game, especially one designed by the same silly team that built Job Simulator. Now making its way to PSVR, the adventure lets you jump across dimensions, push big red buttons, and solve all sorts of far-out puzzles.

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Super Daryl Deluxe — April 10

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

Daryl is the new kid at Water Falls High School, and he has to prove his place by journeying across a bunch of crazy environments, learning new combat skills, and facing a bunch of weird monsters. What else do you expect from a Metroidvania with a sketchbook art style?

Extinction — April 10

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Speaking of fighting monsters, that’s exactly what you’ll do in Extinction. In this case, the monsters are enormous ogres threatening your city. Cue the epic battles to topple the giants. You can also design your own extra-large encounters in Skirmish Mode.

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Dark Rose Valkyire — April 10

Available on: PC

Dark Rose Valkyrie is also about saving the world, but the threat this time is a meteor spreading a disease across 1920s Japan. This RPG tasks you with more than just winning battles, as you also have to interrogate your own party and look for traitors, comparing their statements Phoenix Wright-style.

Robocraft Infinity — April 11

Available on: Xbox One, PC

Let’s finish with something more constructive–literally. Robocraft Infinity is all about building your own bot to fly, fight, drive, or whatever else you can think of, then taking it online to battle other players’ creations. You can share your own designs and download others’ too. It’s also launching day-and-date on Xbox Game Pass, so subscribers can jump right in.

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LawBreakers Dev Reveals Battle Royale Game Radical Heights

LawBreakers developer Boss Key Productions’ new project is a free-to-play battle royale shooter called Radical Heights.

As detailed on the game’s official website, Radical Heights will be available on Steam Early Access tomorrow, April 10. Radical Heights mixes the battle royale formula with a colorful ’80s aesthetic and a live game show element that takes place in the year 2023.

Players will battle using a variety of vehicles and weapons, including confetti bombs, inflatable decoys, and BMX bikes. You can keep the cash you earn during matches, regardless if you win or lose, and then use those earnings on customization, new weapons, and more. Check out the reveal trailer below:

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Overwatch Not Ready for Player Role Queues Yet, Says Jeff Kaplan

Overwatch players might be clamoring for role queues and it might solve a lot of problems in an ideal world, but game director Jeff Kaplan says the game’s just not ready for it yet.

“There’s two versions the community has proposed, and neither is fully satisfactory to me,” said Kaplan in an interview with Kotaku. “One is the honor system version where I queue up as a tank, but actually I want to play McCree, and the game lets me do that since Overwatch is very much about fluidly responding to the enemy team’s composition. The other version is that it locks you in. I think that also hurts the spirit of the game.”

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GTA 5 Has Made More Money Than Any Film, Book or Game, Says Analyst

Industry analyst Doug Creutz says Grand Theft Auto 5 has made money than any other form of media in history, with over 90 million units sold and $6 billion in revenue.

Creutz, managing director and senior research analyst covering the media and entertainment sector at Cowen, told MarketWatch that the game has made more than blockbuster movies like Star Wars, and Gone With The Wind, which both brought in around $3 billion in theaters when adjusted for inflation. Creutz estimates that even with home entertainment sales, which he puts in the ballpark of $1 billion, the films don’t come close to Rockstar’s 2013 title.

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Revisiting Night in the Woods as an Allegory for the Millennial Condition

It’s not often that you stare into the deep well of video games and find your own reflection staring back at you, but the first time I played Night in the Woods, I saw myself in Mae Borowski’s nightmare eyes. From her snarky cynicism to her steadfast rejection of the world, I saw flaws in Mae that mirrored my own, but on a much larger scale, mirrored the overall sense of nihilism and defeat that characterises the millennial worldview. Mae, to me, became a representation of a generation of silenced voices, and of uncertain futures.

Ostensibly, Night in the Woods is a game about the intriguingly odd Mae Borowski returning to her hometown of Possum Springs after dropping out of college, but beneath its charming surface, it represents all the horrors of the postmodern millennial condition. It is a game unafraid of exploring the context of the world in which it takes place, drawing parallels between Mae’s circumstances, and the financial and emotional struggles of the current generation of young people.

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Solo Trailer Breakdown – Details You Might Have Missed

Han, Chewie and Lando are back alongside a larger focus on new faces in the latest trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, so IGN got a ragtag crew together to break down all the details frame by frame.

There’s a lot to get excited about, so watch the full breakdown in the video above or scroll through the slideshow below for our personal highlights.

That’s everything we found in the new Solo trailer. But there’s more where that came from…

Where will Solo debut? At Cannes! Solo’s major reshoots reportedly used the same script! And finally, here’s why Donald Glover thinks Solo is like a “fun, Summer film!”

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