Out this week: Mecha BREAK, Anger Foot, Rally Arcade Classics, Irem Collection 3, Dead of Darkness, more

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July is upon us. Throughout the course of the month, we can look forward to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 and Patapon 1 + 2 Replay – out the same day, oddly enough – the £24.99 (approx.) RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business, Bandai Namco’s peculiar Pac-Man starring Metroidvania Shadow Labyrinth, the Soulslike RPG WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers, and the long time coming online shooter Killing Floor 3. The Switch 2 is also due six games this month, including the highly anticiapted Donkey Kong Bananza, hunting RPG WILD HEARTS S, and the expanded version of Super Mario Party Jamboree. Not a bad month at all.

This week sees a handful of promising games. The slick looking Mecha BREAK is making its debut as a free to play release, offering aerial and ground based mech combat, along with 3v3 deathmatches and a 6v6 hero shooter style mode. That’s joined by the four-player tower defence roguelike No Heroes Here 2, and a PS5 release of the Revolver Digital’s stylish first-person ass kicker Anger Foot – which gained very positive reviews on PC.

Rally Arcade Classics

Then for retro fans there’s Irem Collection Volume 3 – featuring shoot’em ups Mr. Heli (Battle Chopper), Mystic Riders, and Dragon Breed – the polished looking and content packed racer Rally Arcade Classics, body poppin’ rhythm game Beat of Life, PS1 era inspired urban car combat shooter Music Drive: Chase the Beat, and eastasiasoft’s 1985 set pixel art survival horror Dead of Darkness.

It seems there are no Switch releases due at retail this week – which is something that doesn’t happen often – but we can expect pretty much every game mentioned above on the eShop, minus Mecha BREAK and Anger Foot.

Then on the Xbox there are belated releases of Kemco’s card-based RPG Novel Rogue, and the cooking based SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off Extra Krusty Edition, which was originally a mobile game. The Switch version was apparently a hard sell (48% Metacritic) so don’t expect much from this Xbox iteration. Krusty indeed.

[Update] This week’s Arcade Archives re-release is Namco’s AIR COMBAT 22, coming to all formats including Xbox Series and Switch 2.

New release trailers

Mecha BREAK 

Anger Foot

Irem Collection Volume 3

Arcade Archives AIR COMBAT 22

No Heroes Here 2 

Dead of Darkness 

Rally Arcade Classics

Novel Rogue 

Music Drive: Chase the Beat

Beat of Life 

Mystic Thief – Elemental Conquest 

New multiformat releases

  • Mecha BREAK
  • Irem Collection Volume 3
  • Arcade Archives AIR COMBAT 22
  • No Heroes Here 2
  • Dead of Darkness
  • Rally Arcade Classics
  • Music Drive: Chase the Beat
  • All The Words She Wrote
  • Golf Guys

New on PSN

  • Anger Foot
  • GRAPPIN

New on Xbox Store

  • SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off Extra Krusty Edition
  • Beat of Life
  • Farm Together 2
  • Frozen Axe
  • Novel Rogue
  • Arena Renovation
  • Mystic Thief – Elemental Conquest 
  • Aery: Titans of the Future
  • Hexa Road

Next week: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4, Patapon 1 + 2 Replay, Missile Command Delta, Bendy and the Dark Revival, EA Sports College Football 26, Somber Echoes, Holdfast: Nations At War, Tiny Pixels Vol. 2 – Stormy Knights, The Last Camp, Choice of Life: Wild Islands, ISLANDERS: New Shores, Greedland, and BAD END THEATER.