With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- See it on Amazon for $24 (3DS) with Prime; $30 Without
Yacht Club Games (the creators of Shovel Knight) are leaping into the world of game publishing for the first time by bringing this combo pack of 2014's Azure Striker Gunvolt and its all-new sequel, Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, to retail store shelves. In addition to getting those two Mega Man-esque action/platformers together in the same pack, you'll also get to encounter a special boss battle against Shovel Knight himself, if you tap in the Shovel Knight amiibo while playing Gunvolt 2.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- See it on Amazon for $48 (PS4) with Prime; $60 Without
From our Review of the Original Version: From the plastic-instrument-littered graveyard of the rhythm game genre rose the original Rocksmith, a game that took the familiar note-highway interface of the Guitar Hero series and applied it to the full scale-length of a proper guitar. Using that same impressive note-recognition technology, Rocksmith 2014 makes for a much smoother learning and practicing experience thanks to its effortless presentation and more flexible approach to player progression. It’s always going to be a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll, but Rocksmith 2014 makes it a heck of a lot easier to sit back and enjoy the ride.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- See it on Amazon for $20 (Blu-ray)
From our Review: The year is 1983 and Charles Xavier, wearing a fetching mauve sweater and looking as if he’s been watching too much Miami Vice, is busy tutoring a new generation of gifted children. And that’s what X-Men: Apocalypse is really all about – building for the future, ensuring several more X-Men movies can be made. Approached squarely on those terms, it’s a lot of fun, and new cast are likeable and take well to their iconic roles. But if you’re expecting a more direct continuation of First Class and Days of Future Past, like I was, you might be a touch disappointed.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- See it on Amazon for $14.99 (Blu-ray)
From our Review: Final Fantasy may be one of the most successful gaming franchises in history, but it hasn't had much luck as a film series. Both Advent Children and Spirits Within failed to resonate with audiences despite Square Enix spending millions on cutting edge visuals and big Hollywood names. Blame it on convoluted stories that alienated the audience from whatever message was supposed to be conveyed. Fast forward to 2016, when you'd think the studio would do things differently by making their latest film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV cohesive. Alas, it too ends up being a beautiful head scratcher that never quite connects during its nearly two hour runtime.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- See it on Amazon for $20 (Blu-ray)
From our Review: The original Purge movie offered up a middling tale with a great concept. For the sequel, The Purge: Anarchy, writer/director James DeMonaco took that original concept and expanded it, making a superior film. Now, with The Purge: Election Year, he does it again, taking the dystopian world we've come to know from the first two movies and truly exploring its ins and outs. Again, the change works, and we're left with the best Purge yet.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- See it on Steam
- Also downloadable on PS4, PS3 & Vita
From our Preview: Outrunning the end of the world isn't easy. Maybe that's why Shu, the main character in the upcoming half-platformer, half-endless runner from Secret Lunch, grabs as many friends as he can to get ahead of evil clouds of doom. I quickly ran through one level of the game recently, and met up with a few of Shu's allies.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- See it on Steam
- Also downloadable on PS4
You, a once mighty warrior, have been summoned back from the dead by Yamiko, a noble girl from the sacred citadel of Kyûryu. How you were once defeated or any clear memories to your past are all fragmented. Make your way through the heavily guarded city with Yamiko by your side as you uncover memories from your past life and ultimately decipher your connection with your summoner.
Aragami is a third-person stealth game in which you control the shadows. Play as Aragami, an undead assassin with supernatural abilities.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- Downloadable on PS4 & Xbox One
From our Review of the PC Version: If you're going to steal, steal from the best. That's certainly developer Fat Shark's approach with Warhammer: The End Times -- Vermintide as it takes the Left 4 Dead formula of four-player co-op first-person slaughter and translates it from a zombie apocalypse to the Warhammer fantasy universe. But if you're going to steal from the best, and you can’t quite match the best in execution, you have to add something special. Other than its decent loot system, Vermintide never quite makes a case for itself as something more than a reskin, and while it's always an enjoyably hectic and bloody time, it's very much the student, not the master.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
- Downloadable on PS4
Viking Squad is a side-scrolling brawler where you and your friends fight your way out from under the maniacal rule of the village Jarl. Along the way you will encounter strange new foes, gather powerful weapons and liberate strange new gods in an ever-expanding pantheon of plunder!
Each play session consists of a new run through a procedurally generated game world. Players are given a command to take all the treasures of neighbouring civilizations. Upon sailing to each location players fight the locals for their wealth. Players control one of 4 different Vikings, each with their own move set and personality. The Vikings and their trusty longship can be equipped with items along their journey, drastically affecting their voyage.
Release Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 [Early Access]
Endless Space 2 is a turn-based, 4X space-strategy game that launches players into the role of the leader of one of the many intelligent beings of the Endless universe at the beginning of the space colonization age. This sequel will elevate the genre with a finely balanced mix of character-deep factions with their own stories, a senate for political intrigue, a new battle plan system for strategic confrontations, new streamlined interfaces with Amplified Reality, and much more!
Release Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016
- See it on Steam
- Also downloadable on PS4 & Xbox One
Syndrome is a survival horror game set in the future, where the player controls a character who wakes up in a spaceship, with no memory of what happened. The spaceship is adrift in space, and most of the crew is dead or insane. The rest is changed ... You’ll need to survive and find out what’s going on and what happened to the crew. Sometimes the hostiles can be taken out, but most of the times the best strategy is to run and hide.
Played in first person view, Syndrome lets explorers pick up and interact with objects like doors, keypads, computer consoles, drawers, machinery, etc and use weapons (both melee and long range). The enemy units are powerful and numerous, which means that the player must be stealthy and evade combat when possible. There are weapons aboard the ship, but ammo is very limited.
Release Date: Friday, October 7, 2016
- See it on Amazon for $48 (Wii U) with Prime; $60 Without
A mystery is afoot on Prism Island -- and only Paper Mario can solve it by restoring the island's vanishing colors with his new Paint Hammer and the powerful Battle Cards up his sleeve. These fresh layers of strategy, along with the hilarious action adventure gameplay the series is known for, make Paper Mario: Color Splash one of the most colorful Paper Mario action-adventure games ever.
Release Date: Friday, October 7, 2016
- See it on Amazon for $48 (PS4, Xbox One & PC) with Prime; $60 Without
Mafia III combines cinematic storytelling with a dynamic narrative structure that responds to player choices. Set in a reimagined New Orleans in 1968 -- one of the most tumultuous years in American history -- Mafia III follows the story of Lincoln Clay, a disenfranchised Vietnam veteran, returning from combat and looking for a home and a place to belong. Orphaned as a child, Lincoln at last achieves a semblance of family with the city’s black mob, finding the surrogate father and brother he has longed for. But when Lincoln’s new family is betrayed and slaughtered by the Italian mob, he becomes fixated on revenge and wages a brutal war against the Italians, disrupting the balance of power in the seedy underworld of New Orleans.
Throughout the riveting story of Mafia III, players choose their path to revenge and build their own crime empire using cunning, stalking and deception, or through overwhelming force and firepower. Mafia III combines cinematic storytelling with a dynamic narrative structure that responds to player choices, set in a vibrant city that responds to Lincoln’s actions. As the story progresses, Lincoln allies himself with other criminals and builds an empire and a new family of his own that transforms the city.
Lucas M. Thomas assembles Out This Week every week, and when he's not doing that, he's assembling magazine pages as the Editor-in-Chief of Nintendo Force Magazine. New subscriptions available now through Patreon! You can follow him on Twitter, @NintendoForce.
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