Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out review: a fascinating story-generator with a wealth of possibilities

It's hard to know where to start with Six Ages 2 Colon Lights Going Out. The initial uncertainty and esoteric nature of its world has always been the series' biggest problem, as it appears to demand a lot of foreknowledge to play. But rather than memorising facts and (ugh) "lore", it's a series that encourages a different mindset to pretty much any other game. These games are about culture and myth, and how both interact and change over time.

It's harder, though, to write about this entry without just repeating myself. It is a Part Two of a planned three, thus much the same as before, yet different in some interesting, but esoteric ways. Do I try to convince the unfamiliar, detail those differences for fans, or try to cover both and succeed in neither?

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Fight Crab 2 adds playable humans for a Titanfall-esque twist

Explaining the concept of Fight Crab feels redundant because, well, it’s all right there in the name. It’s a fighting game… with crabs. The kaiju crustaceans left such a good impression that developer Calappa Games went fishing for more maybe-not-voluntary battlers and announced a follow-up: Fight Crab 2. Just in case you’re uncomfortable with imposing a combat sport on sea creatures, the sequel adds humans to the mix, so you can enjoy the zany announcement trailer with a clear conscience.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for rolling a critical success. Before you reach toss the dice, let's read this week's best writing about games (and game related things).

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'90s internet animation Killer Bean is getting a video game, and it looks like procedural Just Cause

If someone were to write the history of internet video, I think they'd need to mention Killer Bean. Released in 1996, just a year after Toy Story, it was a two-minute, 3D animated short about gun-toting beans, and almost entirely the work of one person. A slightly longer and much improved sequel, Killer Bean 2: The Party, was released in 2000.

Now it's getting a video game from original creator Jeff Lew, and it's an open world, first- and third-person roguelike shooter with the same acrobatic, John Woo-inspired combat as the nearly thirty-year-old animations. There's a first trailer below.

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No Man's Sky is seven years old and its next update is called Echoes

It has now been seven years since No Man's Sky released, which means there have been seven years of post-release updates. In a trailer released to celebrate the anniversary, Hello Games teased the next update by giving it a name: Echoes.

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Dave The Diver's button mashing is now optional - among many other improvements

Dave The Diver teased its coming update a couple of weeks ago, and it's here now. It focuses on resolving quality-of-life issues in the sushi restaurant 'em up, such as making the UI larger and allowing players to eliminate button-mashing.

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Wayfinder's developers apologise for rough launch as it receives 'mostly negative' reviews on Steam

Wayfinder will be free-to-play when it reaches 1.0, but it costs money if you want to get involved with the early access version which launched earlier this week. That didn't dissuade players, it seems. Its launch was popular enough for its servers to fall over, leaving players unable to login, a fact for which its developers have now apologised.

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