The Video Game Librarian Pick of the Week is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One), the final game in Hideo Kojima’s sprawling Metal Gear saga. Metal Gear Solid pushed the stealth action genre to new heights of popularity when it was released in 1998, and this sequel takes the genre even further with a massive world and a wild story.
Also of note this week is Mad Max (PC, PS4, Xbox One), an open world adaptation of the famed film franchise. It’s not a direct remake of any one film, but a new story that takes place within the same world as Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and Mad Max: Fury Road (which was also released on DVD/Blu-ray earlier this month). A complete list of this week’s new releases can be found here:
Other New Retail Releases
PC
- Act of Aggression
- Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces
- Mad Max
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Might & Magic Heroes VII
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Far Cry 4: Complete Edition
- Mad Max
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence
Vita
Xbox 360
Xbox One
New Release Round-Up For Downloadable Games
- Nintendo Download: Vs, Excitebike, Gunman Clive HD Collection, Mario Golf, more
- PlayStation Store: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Mad Max, Disney Infinity: Star Wars, more
- Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Mad Max, Disney Infinity: Star Wars, more
- Xbox Games Store (Friday): Evolve Free Weekend, Rugby World Cup 2015, Super Toy Cars, more
Every year, Germany’s Digital Gaming Culture Foundation (Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur) supervises the Gamescom Committee, a small group of journalists who choose the best games that were present at the Gamescom expo. The Gamescom expo is held in the Summer, and serves as the European equivalent to the Los Angeles-based E3 Expo.