Out This Week is a roundup of new games that are out this week. These listings don’t constitute an endorsement or a review of any sort. We also don’t pretend that this is an exhaustive list. If there’s a game on the horizon that interests you, share it in the comments.
End Of Nations
PC—March 31
End Of Nations is pretty much the game I wanted SimCity to be. Who needs to worry about water supply or sewage treatment when dozens of players are all throwing their armies at one another in an all-out real-time strategy donnybrook? But if SimCity has taught us anything, it’s that we need to be on the lookout for lies and inconsistencies from publishers. Maybe the game’s A-10 Warthog won’t come equipped with armor-piercing depleted uranium shells (its real-life ordinance). Maybe it will instead be firing werewolf-killing silver bullets at tanks or something. Do they think we’re total fools? Tanks aren’t werewolves. Fuck it, this game is broken.
Defiance
PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360—April 2
If I was going to base a game on a Syfy original production, it would come to either Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus or Sharktopus. And, in a tale of the tape between these two champions, I’m giving Sharktopus the nod every time, if only because it’s supported by Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts’s thespianic heft.
Cities In Motion II
PC—April 2
This is embarrassing. I’ve already used my SimCity joke. Um. Is it hot in here? How about that college basketball tournament?
