New Video Game Releases For The Week Of October 26, 2014
From the archive: published Oct 26, 2014, 12 years ago. Details may have changed since.
If you thought you were drowning last week, the amount of new video game releases this week will make you feel like you have finally succumbed to the Q4 deluge. Sony once again emerges as the winner in quantity of releases this week with a total of 16 new releases, as opposed to the eight for the Xbox platform. The Wii U is also getting a few new games, and even the old Nintendo DS is seeing what is probably its last release with Big Hero 6.
The most anticipate new video game release for the week is arguably Sunset Overdrive from Insomniac Games. Insomniac is known to most gamers for their work on the PlayStation platform, particularly for the Ratchet & Clank franchise, which was part of the trio of action platformer games in the PlayStation 2 era that also included Sly Cooper from Sucker Punch and Jak & Daxter from Naughty Dog. Sunset Overdrive is already being called the game that makes the next-gen feel like it has well and truly arrived, much in the same way Gears of War or Crackdown did for the Xbox 360.
The open world action platformer sets the player in a world where an energy drink has turned the population into mutants, and it is up to the gamer to battle the mutants with Insomniac’s trademark crazy weapons and smooth acrobatic jumping and shooting. Sunset Overdrive releases on October 28 exclusively for the Xbox One.
Nintendo gamers will also be receiving a good showing of indie titles, as Cosmophony, Pixel Paint, and Stealth Inc. 2 make their Wii U debuts.
You can read our complete list of new video game releases below.
New Video Game Releases for the Week of October 28, 2014
Battle Islands Digital PlayStation 4
Bayonetta 2 Retail | Digital Wii U
Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay Retail Nintendo 3DS | DS
Blood of the Werewolf Digital PlayStation 3
Cosmophony Digital Wii U
Costume Quest 2 Digital PlayStation 4 | PlayStation 3 | Xbox One | Xbox 360
Deadfall Adventures: Heart of Atlantis Digital PlayStation 3
Freedom Wars Digital PlayStation 3
Home Digital PlayStation 4
#killallzombies Digital PlayStation 4
The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins Retail | Digital 3DS
Lords of the Fallen Retail | Digital PlayStation 4 | Xbox One
Monopoly Plus Digital Xbox 360
MX vs. ATV: Supercross Retail | Digital PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
NBA Live 15 Retail | Digital PlayStation 4 | Xbox One
Pixel Paint Digital Wii U
Poltergeist : A Pixelated Horror Digital PS Vita
Rock Zombie Digital Wii U
SingStar Digital PlayStation 4
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones Digital Wii U
Sunset Overdrive Retail | Digital Xbox One
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze Retail | Digital PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
Tetrobot and Co. Digital Wii U
Tiny Troopers Joint Ops Digital (Cross Buy) PlayStation 3 | PS Vita
The Unfinished Swan Digital (Cross Buy) PlayStation 4 | PS Vita
WWE 2K15 Retail | Digital PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX Digital 3DS
Image Source | Insomniac Games