A new Marvel Netflix show, a new NBC comedy and a really promising couch co-op game are just some of the few releases this week. Hope there is something that excites you, have a fantastic week and check back here for reviews.
GAMES
Picks of the Week
Death Squared – Out on Tuesday on PS4 & Xbox One (Digital Stores)
Get together with a loved one, a group of friends or even the whole family and guide teams of two or four robots through increasingly-complex levels to their color-coded goals. But beware! The path through each level is littered with cunning death traps that quickly send the automatons to the big scrapyard in the sky.
Kona – Out Friday on PS4 & Xbox One (Digital Stores)
A sudden blizzard has swept through a small down bringing with it a series of surreal events to this small eerie village. Take on the role of a detective who’s tasked with exploring Atamipek Lake to unravel a growing, chilly mystery. Part one of an eventual four-part installment.
Other Games Out This Week:
Blue-Collar Astronaut – Out Friday on PS4, PS3, PSV & Xbox One (Digital Stores)
Fly across the cosmos delivering pizza, pulling freight, and paying off your student loans! This easy to play but hard to master 2D spaceflight genre-buster will have you literally and figuratively exploring upwards mobility on your way to fulfilling the space-dream!
NeuroVoider – Out Friday on PS4 & Xbox One (Digital Stores)
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a futuristic world about brains shooting evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims and defeat the master NeuroVoider to end this eternal war.
Styx: Shard of Darkness – Out Tuesday on PS4 & Xbox One (Digital & Retail Stores)
Hired for a critical mission, explore and master huge open environments as Styx, alone or in co-op with a friend. Assassinate or sneak past enemies — Humans, Elves, and Dwarfs — but also much more fearsome, colossal creatures, and experiment with a new array of lethal abilities and weapons in your goblin assassin’s arsenal.
Also Available this week is the free trial for Mass Effect: Andromeda if you have an Xbox One and an EA Access subscription, you get to play the first 10 hours of the game before it is released next week.
FILMS
A Cure for Wellness – Out Thursday
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious “wellness center” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa’s treatments are not what they seem.
Loving – Out Thursday
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
The Boss Baby – Out Thursday
A suit-wearing briefcase-carrying baby pairs up with his seven-year old brother to stop the dastardly plot of the CEO of Puppy Co.
TELEVISION
Iron Fist – Out Friday on Netflix
Iron Fist, the final member of Marvel’s Defenders which will be out later this year. Danny Rand returns to New York City after being missing for years, trying to reconnect with his past and his family legacy. He fights against the criminal element corrupting his world around him with his incredible kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist.
Trial & Error – Out Wednesday
A spoof of crime documentaries about the arrest and trial of a beloved poetry professor from a small town in South Carolina, who is accused of brutally murdering his wife, and the young Northeastern lawyer hired to defend him. If you like Parks & Recreation and the US version of The Office then this is the new show for you.