Baldur's Gate III, you are the only exception You are the only exception this August

1st
Barony eShop

3rd
A Guidebook of Babel eShop
Baldur's Gate III STEAM, GOG
GigaBash eShop

4th
Astralojia: Season 1 XBN
Sword of the Vagrant PS4, NS
X-Force Under Attack eShop

8th
Tower of Fantasy PSN

9th
Zombie Soup eShop

10th
Atlas Fallen PS5, XSX
Wild Legion eShop

11th
Charade Maniacs NS
Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Edition PS5, PS4, NS
Ghost Song PS5, PS4, NS
Gran Turismo Cinema
MADDEN NFL 24 PS5, PS4, XB
Nuclear Blaze PS4, NS
Piko Arcade Collection 1 EC
The Sydney Hunter Collection EC
TUNIC PS4, NS

15th
Black Skylands: Founders Edition PSN
EVERSPACE 2 PSN, XBN (XGP)
Moving Out 2 PS5, PS4, XB, NS

17th
Die After Sunset PS5, NS (CIB)
Gord PS5, XSX

18th
Asterigos: Curse of the Stars PS5, XB
Blue Beetle Cinema
Human: Fall Flat - Dream Collection PS5, PS4, NS
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre PS5, PS4, XB (XGP)

22nd
Immortals of Aveum PS5, XSX
Smurfs Kart PS5, PS4, XB

24th
Blasphemous 2 PS5, XSX, NS
Ride 5 PS5, XSX

25th
Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon PS5, PS4, XB, PC
Chronicles of 2 Heroes: Amaterasu's Wrath PS5, PS4, NS
Hitman World of Assassination PS5
House Flipper - Pets Edition PS4, NS
Loop Hero NS
Metal Tales: Overkill PS4
Runner Heroes PS5
Spells and Secrets PS5, NS

26th
Seed of Life PS5, PS4, NS

29th
Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot, The London Case PS5, PS4, XB, NS
Samba de Amigo - Party Central NS, Quest
Sea of Stars XBN (XGP)
Under The Waves PS4, PS4, XB

30th
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle PS5, PS4, XB
Tenebris Pictura XBN

31st
Akka Arrh Special Edition PS5, PS4, NS
F1 Manager 2023 PS5, PS4, XB
Norn9: Last Era NS
OU eShop
TAITO MILESTONES 2 NS

My Thoughts:

Baldur's Gate III, I am actually keen on (was even thinking about making a thread for it) like I even nearly bought it on Stadia but was put off the £50 price tag for a cloud/digital game and when BGIII comes to PS5 next month that does put me off again. I would like to hear Andy (why a thread) and whoever does pick it up on PC (you could be playing Act One right now) thoughts on it, as you may tempt me to play as the that Drow Ranger in September.

I've pre-ordered both the Evercade carts which the Piko one might be fun and I'll do some content around them. Die After Sunset, I did see on the eShop before I saw a physical was coming, looks vaguely interesting from the screenshots.

Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon is the big game this month in my opinion and looks cool as all heck, thing is I've not played a console AC game since AC2 back in 2001 and I respect FROM as a developer, yet the games in recent years haven't been for me (I still need to start ER) that this is one I do want to see some reviews for before diving in.

That's it two Evercade games, wait for reviews in ACVI and maybe some neat indies come out for me.

What about you guys?

It's my birthday month, which makes it all the more of a shame that there's nothing coming out I'm remotely interested in.  No easy present suggestions here. In fact the game I'm most interested in is Baldur's Gate III!  Not for me, natch.  The Lady's a big BG fan: she's currently replaying 1 sat at her PC behind me.  (Meaning that I hear a lot of 'I've done had enough of this' and 'WHAT IS IT NOW!?')  So I have a vested interest in it suiting her tastes.  There's genuinely naff-all for me there though.

Thought Sea of Stars might have been your thing, I only got listed for Xbox as only store it is up on but sure Switch same time.

Ah, I only pay attention really to the games you have down as NS/eShop.

Sea of Stars... mmm. I think that's more likely to be a wishlist thing. From what I've seen the game looks lovely but plays quite slow. I'll probably get around to it at some point, then complain about the pacing before finishing it anyway and giving it a 6/10.

There's a few that interest me that I'm not gonna rush out to get but probably will down the line like Sea of Stars and Tunic, the one that I will be rushing out to get is actually my counter pick for the Fantasy league Moving Out 2.

The original is the first game me and Lyla have actually played through together and it was so much fun I went on to Platinum it and 100% the DLC too, which if I'd played before the draft I would have never counter picked MO2 as it's a huge step up as it also looks like the sequel will be.

I'm tempted to try out Armored Core but Sekiro is above it on my list.

Barbie and Transformers release in Japanese theaters. Still no date on Oppenheimer, and John Wick isn't until September!

Treesmurf wrote:

I would have never counter picked MO2 as it's a huge step up as it also looks like the sequel will be.

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I’ll get the Evercade cartridges but they’ll sit on my shelf for a while probably, they’re releasing them quicker than I’m making the time to play them. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and Taito Milestones Vol. 2 can wait for price drops. I was going to do the same for Samba de Amigo Party Central but Amazon are already selling it for under £27. I really hope that Samba de Amigo turns out to be good, equally I really hope that pre-launch price drop isn’t an indicator that it’ll bomb on it’s arse.

I'm more sold on it than I was at the start of the week, after hearing some of the classics that'll be including and seeing its not that expensive I'm now well up for it.

I was just thinking the other day, 'You know what GNamer needs? More watermarked Alex Salmond.' Thank goodness for Cappa.

I'm jealous of Smurf rushing out for Moving Out 2. The original was one of many games The Lady and I played to try and recapture the magic of Overcooked, but we found actually dumping stuff in the truck needlessly fiddly. In any case we'll be spending quite a lot of August and September actually moving out, so we don't need the game for now.

As I was playing with a 4 year old I put all the easy setting on which included items disappearing when you put them in the van so I never had that issue. Why not practice for the game by flinging your possessions through the nearest window when you're in the moving process?

Seen there's two games sort like MO and OC but Car Mechanic instead, not sure if either be good.

Ohh and where's @Crumpy Andy who wanted BGIII included?

BG3! BG3! BG3!

I'll also wait for reviews on the Core

What class etc will you be playing as?

Also not on my list as I only use whats up for preorder etc but onSaturday on PoW, went through games of August from a Game Informers list.

Which I'm keen for Stray Gods, Goodbye Volcano High and watching NLife video was a indie called Shape of Things (think it called that) & OU looked like it might be my thing.

Love some indies

I'm going in pretty blind, so I'll just play it by ear on the day, but I think I'll go with a custom origin as it sounds like the character origins are more interesting once you know the game.

Yeah if I get on PS5, can't see me doing the origins as would want my own adventure.