Weekly Games Patch 12/11/19

Now that we’ve all had time to either engross ourselves in or avoid the world of Death Stranding, it’s time for another round-up of this week’s video game news! Hideo Kojima broke records, not with his most recent release, but due to his Twitter following. He took to the platform to announce that he’d been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the most followers on Twitter for a video game director. He didn’t stop there, also picking up a second record for his Instagram following. The awards were presented on Death Stranding’s promotional tour, showing the cult of Kojima has no sign of slowing.

Hideo Kojima receives the Guinness World Records, for the most followed Game director on Twitter and Instagram! #DeathStranding#TomorrowIsInYourHand#WorldStrandTour2019 pic.twitter.com/9NNAPtLz91

— Kojima Productions (@KojiPro2015_EN) November 10, 2019

In international news, China have implemented a law to control microtransaction spending and will ban young people from playing games after a 10pm curfew. The ban means that no one under the age of 18 is able to game between the hours of 10pm to 8am. This also extends to an overall time limit ban of no longer than 90 minutes each day, or 3 hours on weekends. We put the question to you if this was a good idea by the Chinese government, and the results were self-explanatory really…

https://twitter.com/AardvarkSwift/status/1192431524999770112

CONTROL, the sleeper hit by Remedy and 505 Games, has been shortlisted for Game of the Year by Official Playstation Magazine. At the time of writing, the supernatural narrative hit is winning!

NEWS!! We're thrilled to see #ControlRemedy shortlisted on the Official PlayStation Magazine GOTY poll! Please consider voting for us, it only takes a few seconds… #505Games

Thank you! ➡️ https://t.co/b8a8OzCiSW

— 505 Games (@505_Games) November 9, 2019

That rounds up the news for this week, here are the latest releases, including the much anticipated Pokemon Sword & Shield as well as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (which I’m particularly excited for).

RELEASING THIS WEEK

Monday, November 11

• Truck Driver (PC)
• The Mims Beginning (Switch)

Tuesday, November 12

• Bee Simulator (PS4, Xbox One and Switch)
• Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time (PS4, PC)
• DRAW CHILLY (Switch and PC)

Wednesday, November 13

• Last Labyrinth (PS4 and PC)
• Mercenaries Wings: The False Phoenix (PS4)

Thursday, November 14

• Paranoia: Happiness Is Mandatory (PC)
• Sparklite (PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC)
• Fractured Minds (PS4, Xbox One and PC)
• Age Of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC)
• Kingdom Under Fire II (PC)

Friday, November 15

• Pokemon Shield (Switch)
• Pokemon Sword (Switch)
• Woven The Game (PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC and Mac)
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (PS4, Xbox One and PC)
• Terminator: Resistance (PC)
• Astroneer (PS4)
• Tokyo Ghoul: re Call to Exist (PS4 and PC)
• Go! Fish! Go! (Switch)

Saturday, November 16

• Favo!+ (PC and Mac)