The Week In Pictures – Games Asylum

Out this week: Minecraft Dungeons, Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, Shantae and the Seven Sirens, Bug Fables, Atomicrops, more

Hot on the heels of last week’s surprise Mafia Trilogy come another bunch of 2K re-releases, this time for Switch. BioShock: The Collection, XCOM 2 Collection, and Borderlands Legendary Collection make for a busy week for Nintendo’s handheld hybrid, and that’s before taking Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition and Minecraft Dungeons into account. Minecraft Dungeons is, …

Out this week: Predator: Hunting Grounds, Trials of Mana, MotoGP 20, Stranded Deep, more

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Alien Isolation managed to live up its potential, delivering an experience worthy of the license. It’s hoped the Sony-published Predator: Hunting Grounds will also stick close to its source material to provide an authentic experience. It certainly can’t be any worse than Predator 2 on Mega Drive. It’s heading into a somewhat crowded field, being …

Spider-Man skulking and learning with Nintendo – it’s the week in pictures

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It’s gamescom! But I’m sure we’ve all seen enough photos of people intently playing games at booths, and excitable crowds baying at something going on on a stage. So here’s Spider-Man skulking around while people play boardgames, and some ball grabbing on the paysafecard stage. gamescom photos: Koelnmesse / Thomas Klerx; Koelnmesse / Oliver Wachenfeld; …

Hi there Alec Baldwin! It’s the week in pictures

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News hit this week that Alec Baldwin is going to be promoting the ten year anniversary of Words With Friends from this autumn. The accompanying photo of him playing a definitely-real game against Bernard Kim, Zynga’s President of Publishing, is enjoyably basic. But the photo of Bernard Kim? Brace yourself. His profile on the Zynga …

Wario Joy-Cons and the Summer of Buttons – it’s the week in pictures

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Much excitement this week as Nintendo of America announced a couple of new Joy-Con colours: Neon Purple/Neon Orange and Blue/Neon Yellow. Excitement particularly because – and surely this can’t be accidental – they’re a bit Wario-y: the orange and purple obviously, but you could argue that the blue and yellow recalls the W symbol on …

Augmented reality shenanigans – it’s the week in pictures

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Reality Gaming Group this week set about promoting their augmented reality mobile combat game Reality Clash by revealing the top ten locations for playing the game. It’s mostly popular places in London – Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Westfield Stratford, that sort of thing – so not exactly news. But it’s a great excuse to dig …

Cavill’s behind! It’s the week in pictures

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Henry Cavill’s behind was the big picture news this week, as Netflix started to tease their adaptation of The Witcher. Cue much productive* online discourse: fans of the games complaining about the lack of a second sword; fans of the books patiently* pointing out that it’s true to the book – which the series is …

Jean Todt, Oculus Rift and polished concrete – it’s the week in pictures

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The big picture news of the week was the partnership between motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, and Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital. As you can see, FIA President Jean Todt amused Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi no end at the press conference. There it was announced that four tracks in Gran Turismo 6 have been certified …

Yoshi and youngsters, BAFTAs and Vorderman – it’s the week in pictures

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It’s a giant egg, but there’s no Billy Hatcher in sight. This was a Nintendo of America PR event for Yoshi’s New Island, where they got young celebrities to throw what look like paint bombs at a giant egg. The end result was actually quite effective, don’t you think? A good PR event, then, but …

Sir Clive Sinclair watch – it’s the week in pictures

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Where was Sir Clive Sinclair last weekend? He was at The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, making an impromptu visit to their Sinclair Celebration Weekend Event. Albeit an impromptu visit with a few days notice. He was there with his brother Ian. More Sir Clive Sinclair Watch next week. Unless he’s not photographed somewhere …

From Shilton to kilt on – it’s the week in pictures

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It was Toy Fair 2014 at London’s Kensington Olympia this week. Video games didn’t exactly feature prominently, but Sonic was there. You can see him above, loitering in the background of a photo of event manager Simon Pilling. Sega weren’t exhibiting, so it’s hard to say exactly what Sonic was up to. Apart from loitering. …

All aboard the Luigi train – the week in pictures

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North America is still waiting for the boxed release of New Super Luigi U – we in Europe got it last month. Still, at least they’ve got this Luigi branded train to make up for it. It celebrates the curiously late launch of the game later this month, and the wider Year of Luigi. That …