Our VidBud Colm used to be a postman back in the old country, and from what he’s said it was a job he very much enjoyed. Small wonder, then, that big city slicker Meredith would want a go of it for a couple of weeks in Lake, an open world explore-a-town game due out by the end of the year (and a poor SEO optimisation if you ask me, since if I ever forget the name of it I’m going to have to Google things like “post delivery woman video game small town” to find it again).

You play as Meredith, delivering parcels and interacting with the locals of peaceful and beautiful Providence Oaks at a fairly sedate pace. Take a look at the trailer, which was highlighted at during today’s Guerrilla Collective not-E3 livestream, to see if it’s the kind of gentle, twiddling-guitar-music story you’d like – it is obviously the sort of gentle, twiddling-guitar-music story I’d> like.

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The PC Gaming Show at notE3 is done and dusted for another year, and boy howdy were there a lot of [cms-block] to inhale. From Persona 4 Golden to new trailers (and early access release dates) for Ooblets, Torchlight 3 and loads more, there’s a lot of ground to cover. If you missed the show or need a refresher of what’s coming out and when, then help is at hand, as here’s a big list of everything announced at The PC Gaming Show 2020.

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No Place For Bravery

was revealed an entire four years ago, which is a long time, as it goes. NPFB (if you’ll allow me an inelegant abbreviation) has shyly peeked around the PC Gaming Show curtain with a new trailer. Alice0 remarked on the sense of terrible scale on display when it was first announced, and though that hasn’t changed, a few other things have. In any case, this top-down, fast paced and extremely gory> action-RPG is about ready to take itself out of the oven: it’s coming Q1 2021.

Have a butcher’s at the trailer below. And butcher’s is right, since, despite being rendered in little pixels and the camera being at a fair old distance, you can somehow see the innards splashes of gore in lovely detail. Honestly, it’s like someone slaughtered a pig in here. Tch.

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Gloomwood

has done half my job for me by using the URL “ThiefWithGuns.com”. What more do you need to know? One thing, perhaps: there’s a demo of its first-person stealthing up on Steam now.

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Red Thread Games, the studio behind Dreamfall Chapters and Draugen, have announced a new action adventure game, Dustborn, with a shiny trailer.

It’s a road trip game about a sooorta queer-coded group of misfits driving a mysterious cargo across America, chased by “fanatical Puritans” and blocked by “the authoritarian Justice”. Also you’re a folk-punk band, and must practice around the campfire for a showdown at Battle of the Bands. No, really.

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Battlestate today gave a new look at Escape From Tarkov‘s next map, named Streets Of Tarkov. Escaping the woods, warehouses, villages, and industrial facilities of previous maps, it’ll head right into the big city. Battlestate say it will be the hardcore PvP first-person scavenge-o-shooter’s “biggest and most detailed location ever”. I say it has some unexpectedly stylish apartments for a game where you’re desperate to find bog roll.

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First-person horror fest Outlast is returning for The Outlast Trials. The name and key art above were announced back in December, but the first trailer landed a few moments ago during the PC Gaming Show. We now know it’s a new co-operative take on the gore-smeared running away from the previous two games. There’s a first new trailer below, involving drilling something into a person’s face.

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It’s been a bit quiet on the Twin Mirror front, but a new teaser trailer was just revealed at the PC Gaming Show. For those who don’t remember (who could blame you? It’s been so long I thought the trailer was teasing a sequel to A Way Out before I thought of Twin Mirror), Twin Mirror is a weird sort of X-Filesy adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment, which was first announced back in 2018.

And in fact, since Control has come out in the interim, I will say it’s maybe like Control meets Life Is Strange. You play a journalist, Sam Higgs, who is constantly having arguments with another version of himself who dresses like a carnival barker by way of a private schoolboy, currently known as The Double. The teaser also comes with the news that Dontnod are publishing this game themselves (the first time they’ve done a publish) and have extended development, so Twin Mirror is no longer going to be episodic. Fancy! The trailer isn’t actually half bad, which is good, ‘cos it also says Twin Mirror is ‘coming soon.’ Watch it below.

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When the trailer for Dwarfheim popped up during the PC Games Show earlier, I was underwhelmed. In fact, if anything, I was antiwhelmed. I love dwarves, as you probably know. And I love Dwarf Fortress. And when you really love something, you can get protective of it. Over the last few years, there’s been an increasing trickle of management-ish games themed on dwarves, and while some (like the promising Hammerting) seem thoughtful and original, there’s an awful lot of churned-out dross to pick through if you want to find the gems.

Dwarfheim, then, initially seemed to fall into the latter category – the trailer had a gruff Scots voiceover saying forgettable things about chieftains and clans and conquering, and the game’s visuals had that balloony, buildings-rising-out-of-the-ground quality that instantly evokes garbage mobile games with names like Clash Of Empires Mobile, King’s Conquest Online and Clans: Build Your Kingdom. The name “Dwarfheim” doesn’t do a lot to dispel the notion, does it? But my goodness, did this trailer ever bury the lede. Because the thing about Dwarfheim – and I’ve not got time to properly think this assertion through, so apologies if I’ve missed something obvious – is that I think it’s doing something entirely new with the real time strategy format. And if it does what it looks like it does, it could be amazing.

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Amazon are going all-in on the gaming scene this year. First they jumped onto the hero-shooter trend with Crucible, and now their MMORPG, New World, is next. At the PC Gaming Show today they revealed a gameplay trailer showing off some of PvP combat, and treated us to some info on its closed beta coming this July.

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