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Top New Games Releasing On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC This Week — November 17-23, 2019

New Releases breaks down the hottest games launching each week, and this episode is all over the globe. It starts in the east, where Shenmue 3 continues Ryo Hazuki’s story in China and Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts drops you into Siberia. Meanwhile, Civilization 6 is coming to PS4 and Xbox One, letting you conquer the rest of the world. There are also some fantasy and sci-fi adventures to be had, thanks to Munchkin: Quacked Quest and Black Future ’88.

Shenmue 3 — November 19

Available on: PS4, PC

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Shenmue 3 isn’t the end of Ryo Hazuki’s story, but fans of the Sega Dreamcast classic have been waiting a long time for the next chapter nonetheless. The third game picks up in a small fishing village in China, where Ryo continues to track down his father’s killer. Expect the usual dose of mini-games and intriguing characters as you explore the open world.

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Munchkin: Quacked Quest — November 19

Available on: PC, Switch

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Quacked Quest is based on the Munchkin card game, which is not just about fighting monsters and scoring loot–backstabbing your friends is just as important. This procedurally generated dungeon-crawler operates the same way. You can fight your way through castles and caverns in co-op, but there are lots of opportunities to turn on the party and steal all the gold for yourself.

Black Future ’88 — November 21

Available on: PC, Switch

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Munchkin isn’t the only procedurally generated adventure dropping this week. Black Future ’88 is set in a tower, and the layout changes each time you take another run to the top. Along the way, you’ll dodge lasers and fight bosses until you reach the architect on the highest floor. You can make a vertical run in local co-op too.

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Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts — November 22

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC

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The latest in the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series drops you in Siberia, where you’ll have to take out targets in the concrete cities, snowy mountains, and deep forests. You can carry out your missions in a variety of ways, and the new AR mask opens up even more possibilities. You can use it to scan the environment, identifying weak points and objects of interest.

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Civilization 6 — November 22

Available on: PS4, Xbox One

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Civ 6 has already made its way to mobile and Nintendo Switch, but now PS4 and Xbox One players are getting a chance to lead their nation to military, technological, and cultural victories. PS4 players even get three Scenario Packs thrown in for free. That’s on top of the 18 nations you can choose in the base game.

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November isn’t over yet, and there are still more video games on the way. Next week, we’ll talk about the Five Nights at Freddy’s series and the narrative indie title Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, both coming to Switch.

Rage 2’s Second And Final Major DLC Pack, TerrorMania, Is Out Now

Rage 2 has received its second major expansion, TerrorMania, which transports you to the “twisted and cursed alternate reality” of the Deadlands to battle a skeleton army. This DLC brings new lands to explore, new enemies, and a sword weapon, the Sword of Transitus. Protagonist Ranger Walker must head into this alternate dimension and look for a way to close the gateway into it before the skeleton armies encroach on the Wasteland from the main game to mess it up even more. The pack will take areas from the main game, like Wellspring and Overgrown City, and present new, warped versions of them, but it’ll also feature entirely new areas, such as the Floating Islands and a hospital location.

This is the second of the two major expansions promised for Rage 2, following on from Rise of the Ghosts and a major free update that added New Game+. No further DLC has been announced at this time. This DLC can only be accessed through the in-game store, and costs 500 RAGE coins ($5). There’s also a deluxe edition, which comes with the Cult of the Death God mission, the Reaper Assault Rifle weapon skin, the Wasteland Celebrity Phoenix vehicle skin, and the Mutant Monster Truck vehicle skin. This costs 1750 RAGE coins ($17.50). Rage 2 recently came to Xbox Game Pass, meaning that it’s now in the hands of many more Xbox players.

We gave Rage 2 a 6/10 in our review. Reviewer Michael Higham wrote: “Rage 2 is at its best when you’re given the chance to keep up a gratifying momentum in combat, but struggles to setup the scenarios its combat deserves. It’s satisfying in the way clearing out an open-world checklist is, especially because powers are such a joy to use. The disappointment comes from the fact that those activities are rudimentary in nature and the decent ones end well before you get your fill.”

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HBO’s Watchmen: 11 Easter Eggs And References From Episode 5

HBO's Watchmen TV show continues to impress. What Easter Eggs and references to the comics were you able to catch?

HBO’s Watchmen TV show continues to impress. What Easter Eggs and references to the comics were you able to catch?

This week’s episode of HBO’s Watchmen focuses on a character who’s been here from the start–Wade Tilman, AKA Looking Glass, the Tulsa PD’s very own interrogator. And, as it turns out, there’s a lot more to “mirror guy” than meets the eye. In Little Fear Of Lightning, we learn that LG was directly affected by the squid attack back in 1985, not because he was a cop or a detective in New York, but because he was a Jehovah’s Witness attempting to convert the “sinners” in New Jersey. As you can probably guess, his fear of the end of the world was in no way helped or cured when he found himself stumbling naked out of a funhouse, bleeding from the ears, into a sea of dead bodies.

But there’s more to Wade’s trauma than just the unrelenting fear of armageddon. Like everyone in Watchmen, his life is a carefully constructed series of masks, both literal and proverbial. And naturally, with that many layers of trauma and delusion in play, Little Fear Of Lightning wound up being just as dense and complicated as we’ve come to expect this show to be.

We’ve dug up 11 Easter Eggs and references hidden in Wade’s tragic life for you to enjoy and speculate about as we round the corner passed the halfway point. Only four more episodes to go. Tick, tock.

Google Stadia Adds 10 New Games for Launch

Google Stadia has added 10 new launch games and has revealed that Samurai Shodown will be available for free for Stadia Pro members alongside Destiny 2: The Collection.

Google’s Phil Harrison announced the news that the original list of 12 games for Google Stadia’s launch on November 19, 2019, has now increased to 22. Geoff Keighley broke down the list on Twitter, and the full launch lineup of games are as follows;

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