Keepsake game designer Jeeyon Shim — who we profiled earlier this year — has teased her next project, a fascinating game called Catfish. It’s a solo experience “about a human who uses their charm to bait unsuspecting victims for their monster friend. Use your own real life dating app messages to lure in your friend’s next meal.” Her Patreon subscribers can check it out some time next year.
According to Microsoft, the comedy shooter High on Life is the biggest release of the year on Game Pass, the Xbox subscription service.
The company says that it’s also the biggest third-party release on the service to date — though how big that actually is remains unclear, since Microsoft didn’t release any real numbers. (The company says the ranking is “measured in terms of engagement, based on the number of hours played in the first five days of release.”)
And while I haven’t officially confirmed this, I think it’s safe to say it’s also the top-ranked game in terms of jokes-per-minute.
The big release this week is a wet one: Avatar is back with The Way of Water, which is pretty much everything that was good and bad about the original film in an updated package.
If you’re looking for something a little more lighthearted, Netflix has a goofy series about the lazy egg Gudetama and a holiday special for the improv show Murderville, while the comedic shooter High on Life is out now on Xbox and PC.
Well, actually Nintendo can now, thanks to the latest update for Switch Online subscribers, which brings four more Sega games to the service: Golden Axe II, Alien Storm, Columns, and a not-especially-great version of Virtua Fighter 2.
The second season of Yellowjackets doesn’t kick off until March, but Showtime has already confirmed that season 3 is on the way. That’s a good thing, because the show has a lot of mysteries to wrap up, teenage cannibalism being just one of them.
There are lots of questions about which big-name actors might return for the just-announced film adaptation of Death Stranding. I’d definitely love to see Norman Reedus, Léa Seydoux, and Mads Mikkelsen reprise their roles, but I also have a much more pressing concern: who will play the ghost hunting baby-in-a-jar known as BB?
