I’ve spent a while enjoying Diablo IV, initially with the intention of giving it a full assessment. However to be trustworthy, I’m having an excessive amount of enjoyable muddling by means of it at a leisurely tempo. By the point I’m review-ready, it’ll be time to get caught into Baldur’s Gate 3 (and talking of, having Closing Fantasy XVI on my PS5 doesn’t do wonders for my consideration span both). As a substitute, I’ve been following the continuing saga of Diablo IV’s newest patch — and it’s been a wild journey.

First patch 1.1.0 got here out and obliterated any sense of oomph gamers had, after which got here a number of days of Blizzard apologies and guarantees of a repair. Blizzard lastly introduced patch 1.1.1 right now, which launches on August 8. I doubt that will likely be an finish to the drama, but it surely’s not less than been enjoyable watching the journey to get so far.

In different information, Sony has introduced that PlayStation 5 has offered over 40 million items, which is fairly spectacular when you think about the pandemic-era provide chain points it had throughout the pandemic. I’d be all for seeing how the software program gross sales shake out within the subsequent monetary report, because the earlier one confirmed that these have been a bit of cool in contrast with the {hardware} facet of issues. It appears Xbox is having an inverted downside, the place its {hardware} gross sales are down however its video games and Sport Cross numbers are up.

I’m nonetheless enjoying catch-up with Closing Fantasy XVI, however I’m hoping to take a crack at Disney Phantasm Island this weekend. This 12 months has been a humiliation of riches, actually. I’m having to confront the likelihood that I can’t play all the brand new video games that I need to play, as I lack each the time and financial assets to get to every part. However I promise to not less than give the large RPGs — Diablo IV, Closing Fantasy XVI and Baldur’s Gate 3, to call the newest ones — sufficient time to get the complete expertise.

What to play this week

What’s new:

• Remnant II
• Disney Phantasm Island
• The Expanse: A Telltale Collection
• Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons
• Mr. Run and Soar
• Koa and the 5 Pirates of Mara
• Good day Kitty Island Journey
• Arcadian Atlas
• Let’s College
• Grand Emprise: Time Journey Survival
• The Queen’s Gambit Chess

New on subscription providers:

• Critical Sam: Siberian Mayhem (Xbox Sport Cross)
• Lunar Axe (Prime Gaming)
• MotoGP23 (GeForce Now)
• OCTOPATH TRAVELER (GeForce Now)
• Professional Biking Supervisor 2023 (GeForce Now)
• Riders Republic (GeForce Now)
• Starship Troopers: Extermination (GeForce Now)
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (Nintendo Swap On-line)
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Nintendo Swap On-line)