This week in PC gaming: Cliff Bleszinski’s LawBreakers defies gravity, XCOM 2 defies release - sandersfrethe

I'm at PAX, thusly our weekly gaming round-up this week is more like a gaming goblet-shaped-up in progress. That I'll ne'er, e'er update operating theatre finish.

This week: Cliff Bleszinski's new shooter has a nominate and trailer, Double Fine's making a back astir moving heads, and Square Enix is giving off an island. This is gaming news for August 24-28.

The aliens won

November just got one midget minute less crowded—2K announced Friday that XCOM 2 is now delayed until February of 2022. I guess humanity needs a trifle Thomas More time to prepare its uprising or any.

The shattering

Cliff Bleszinski's new PC shooter lastly has a real nominate and a trailer(s). As an alternative of "Project Bluestreak," Bleszinski and Co. announced this workweek that the game is titled LawBreakers. Check it out below:

And a little of the game itself:

"Not on Steam"

Want a surefire way to sink interest in your Microcomputer game before it's even discharged? Announce you're not bringing information technology to Steamer.

Microsoft is ballsy enough to cause IT, though. This calendar week Lionhead's social media coordinator specified on Twitter that upcoming free-to-frolic game Fable Legends "bequeath get on Windows 10 but non Steam, sorry!" Or else you lavatory pay off it through and through everyone's favorite Windows 10 Store—you know, the one that won't let you change where apps/games are installed.

Hour angle.

A round of applause

Just a truncated note Here: The Witcher 3 has sold 6 meg copies, and that's both fantastic and absolutely well-deserved.

Compact disk Projekt's Adam Badowski had few words:

"One could think we have hexa zillion reasons to make up golden and that's it. We do, but that number is also a big duty and I want everyone to know that we, as a studio, realize that. For us, all your high praise, all the positive reviews, are also an obligation—we've made a rattling good halting but thither's still a long road forward of USA."

The well, replenished

In other great RPG news, Divinity: Original Sin II met its Kickstarter goal of $500,000 in fewer than cardinal hours. Now, fingers crossed Larian put up meet its own (exceedingly high) ambitions.

Learning to fly ball

Okay Double Very well: How do you plan to follow up Broken Age? Manifestly with a game where you play as a jetpack-head that flies around and takes over other people's bodies and shoots things OR now and then dances disco. Yeah.

D.O.A.

…And the 2022 Uwe Boll Achievement Award goes to that new Hitman movie, which patently made only $8.2 million last hebdomad and is aside all reports abyssal. Congratulations!

It honorable keeps going

Speaking of Hollywood adapting video games to film, we got our first look at Michael Fassbender garmented arsenic an Assassin's Creed assassin this week, good manners of Yahoo.

Thumb twiddling

We also got a real release date for Assassin's Creed Consortium along PC, after Ubisoft's to begin with "Ohio hell, it's delayed this year" proclamation. While the consoles will know Victorian-era London in October, you'll undergo to waiting until November 19 for the PC version.

At least the consoles can play beta tester this year.

On an island in the Sunday

While no in-halt competition bequeath (hopefully) ever top of the inning Advent Rising's stupid million-dollar offer, Square Enix did announce a competition for Just Cause 3 this week that will award the winner an whole damn island.

With about a million caveats, of course—like the winner is responsible for all legitimate fees, the island may not beryllium inhabitable, is probably not getatable past anything but boat, et cetera. The winner could as wel just take $50,000 in cash, which seems same a much better deal though obviously without the same bragging rights.

More recital

GOG's Coltsfoot client lets you roll back broken patches now. Huzzah!
Move ended, Twitch: YouTube Play is finally here.
Divinity: Pilot Sinfulness was large.Immortal: Primary Sin II is even more huge.
Pillars of Eternity's newWhite March expansion is fine and all, but you in all probability won't want to play it if you've already beaten the game.
Thinking of picking up a Steam Machine? Valve'll toss in a free copy ofRocket League to dulcify the pot.
HTC's SteamVR-powered Vive VR headset has been abeyant until 2022. Mostly.
AMD took the wraps off its deadly small, super almighty Radeon Nano graphics card. It also launched the Radeon R9 370X—but only in Republic of China.