This week in games: Revolver steering wheels and a game built around RTFM - brownthinger

I was hoping for more news out of Tokyo Secret plan Demonstrate this week but apparently IT's not to be. Other than the unpunctual check of The Last Guardian (again) and a mediocre Watch Dogs 2 house trailer (downstairs), things have been quiet out of Japan.

But hey, Zachtronics is delivery out a spiritual successor to TIS-100, American Truck Simulator is selling custom steering wheels, Ken Levine gave a cracking audience along BioShock's nude dude, and Mafia III put out an amazing PC specification requirements bill poster. Seriously.

This is gaming intelligence for September 12 direct 16.

Freebies

In addition to all Battlefield 4's DLC being given away for free this weekend, information technology's besides time for Ubisoft's following Anniversary pun. This time away it's The Crew, Ubisoft's mediocre-ish open-world racer. Non quite the same caliber as last month's giveaway, Rayman Origins, but hey—still free. As always, you'll need Uplay to capitalize.

The betterment of the international

How do you have it away who the villain is in Watch Dogs 2? I guess it's because he wears a man-bun and talks about "the amelioration of the world." Clearly a force for evil. Prompt main character crashing a helicopter into downtown San Francisco.

Needs more fiber

Wrapping leading this week's Ubisoft news, South Parking lot: The Fractured Only Whole is getting pushed back from its planned December 6 release date straight into 2017. Ah well. Ubisoft claims IT's because "The development team wants to make positive the courageous experience meets the high expectations of fans," though I'd also warrant The Sunset Guardian moving to a December 6 release didn't help matters.

Down the rabbit burrow

I'm a huge winnow of Zachtronics's Thomas More abstract games, SpaceChem and Infinifactory. But I'll admit: I was completely baffled with last class's TIS-100, a game that entreated you to print out a manual for its in-game computer and learn how to program IT.

And now Zachtronics is back with another. Shenzhen I/O launches into Early Access on October 6, features a cardinal-page extremity, and has you non just piece of writing in assembly but also edifice circuits. Check out the trailer:

Outsiders

Bethesda's ramping up that Dishonored 2 hype machine so I guess it's a trailer weekly or two from here on out. This united features Corvo, every bit advisable as some typically-mysterious musings from the lead singer of The Therapeutic. Business enterprise as usual.

Would you kindly?

The PC versions ofBioShock Remastered and its continuation are apparently not great, but the atomic number 75-release did give rise to an excellent Glixel interview with Ken Levine this week, which contained the following humorous exchange:

I recommend reading the all affair. IT's got some pretty great insights into game development and BioShock in uncommon.

Well, derriere information technology?

Organization requirement announcements are typically the tush-barrel of pre-liberate hype—more of a PSA than anything else. But maybe developers just aren't putting enough creativity into the wiliness, because this faux-retrospective Maffia III ad is implausible:

Wheel armor

To close out with this week's most ridiculous news: Terra firma Truck Simulator is getting or s cosmetic DLC…for its steering wheels. And one of them, the wheel is made impermissible of guns. Thanks, Rock Composition Scattergun for alertness me to this must-have package.